Mufti Menk – Boost – Have You Given This Importance
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The speaker discusses the importance of the Quran and how it is used to protect and motivate individuals. They emphasize the importance of memorizing the Quran and learning from it to improve one's life. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of learning from the Quran and embracing the opportunity to make it easy for everyone.
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Assalamu alaykumu Rahmatullahi wabarakatuhu BismillahirRahmanir
Rahimin the name of Allah, the most gracious,
the most merciful.
Indeed, the greatest word
in existence is the word of Allah.
There is nothing more powerful than the word
of Allah
The Quran.
Indeed, we have revealed this Quran, this reminder,
and we will protect it. That's what Allah
says. So Allah will protect this book from
change. He will protect it from
all sorts of negativity, from harm, from those
who intended to desecrate it, etcetera.
Allah will protect this book in every way.
So
when Allah says I will protect this book,
any human being who has made an effort
to protect the book
will be looked after by Allah as a
person who is looking after the book. So
if you've memorized the Quran and put it
in your heart,
you will be a hafil. A
hafil means a person who
has memorized the Quran, but hafeelah
means to protect.
Okay.
Initially hafee'ah
means to protect, to look after.
So you have protected or looked after the
Quran. As a result, Allah will protect you
because he has to protect you. The Quran
is inside of you. Subhanallah, it's in your
heart and your mind.
May Allah grant us an understanding. So I
want to call on 1 and all to
make a little effort to try to memorize
this Quran,
even if it means chapter by chapter,
verse by verse, page by page, whatever it
may be.
Let's listen to the recital repeatedly
so that we can actually
memorize
the verses. The Quran is so beautiful. You
listen to it a few times and you've
already memorized. Even little children, instead of getting
them used to all the songs on earth
that might be immoral and, you know, void
of values and morals,
we'd rather replace that from a very early
age with melodious recitation of the Quran. You
don't know how long the child is gonna
live and you don't know how long you're
gonna live. So we'd rather pack away good
rewards for ourselves and for our children
by teaching them the right thing, steering and
guiding them towards the right thing from a
very early age.
This is the word of Allah. So when
your child is young and as the child
is growing, instead of playing,
like I just said now, that the songs
and the musical items that perhaps are of
low morals and values, which the children pick
up and they begin to sing from a
very early age. In fact, even the movements
of their bodies, they learn them from a
very young age. Wouldn't it be befitting
for the word of Allah that we started
with something like the word of Allah in
a way that their whole life will be
steered in the right direction?
So consider what I've just said. It's very
important.
It's a very strong point. If you can
make it a habit to replace all that
that, which is not in the pleasure of
Allah with the Quran, the Quranic recital, something
good, maybe a good speech, a good lecture.
Trust me, your children from a very early
age of even below the age of 1,
you know, even below 1, they will start
picking up some of these words and at
a time they will pick up the verses
and the surahs and they will memorize pages
and pages. I did it when I was
little. And SubhanAllah, here we are telling the
same thing to us,
reminding us in my age group, for example,
those who have children, those who have responsibilities,
let's do the right thing.
The importance of the Quran. This is the
month of the Quran.
The month of Ramadan
in which the Quran was revealed. Masha Allah.
Masha Allah. My brothers and sisters, these are
a few words I thought I'd share with
you during this month of Ramadan regarding
the importance of the memorization of the Quran
and how to be able to achieve it.
I've just mentioned one point about memorizing,
Allah will protect you as a result of
you having made an effort to protect his
word. SubhanAllah. Isn't that enough? And then on
the day of judgment, you're called out, you
know,
where are the people of the Quran? A
lulahi wakha sattuhu,
the VIPs of Allah, the special guests of
Allah
on that day, You looked after the Quran,
you read it, you recited it melodiously, you
corrected the recitation, you looked into the meanings,
you learned the meanings, you understood,
you meaning you made an effort to understand,
you put into practice as best as you
could, and guess what? You taught it to
others. And when you teach others, it's a
sadaqa jarya.
So I taught someone who taught someone who
taught someone who taught someone.
Every single person in the whole line, including
the one who taught me and the one
who taught that person and the one who
taught the one who taught me would all
get a full complete reward. It is so
tremendous. It's difficult to even perceive, but Allah
knows, he says, I'll keep it for you
and you watch, you will never regret it.
So in the same way you teach someone
bad and they continue teaching others bad and
bad because you were a source of it,
you get a sin for all of their
sins
when you do good. It's the opposite. Alhamdulillah.
May Allah protect us all and grant us
from that goodness. May Allah open our doors.
My brothers and sisters. Similarly, the Quran Al
Quran.
Quran
will come and bear witness for you or
against you. When you read it beautifully and
you have a good relationship with it, it
will bear witness for you. When you have
a terrible relationship with the Quran,
it will bear witness against you. So my
brothers and sisters, we need to change that.
We need to make sure that we have
utilized the short lifespan that we have to
do the right things. It's enough.
Enough of the bad, Enough of evil. Quit
it. Leave it. May Allah grant us a
sense of responsibility.
My brothers and sisters,
it really pains us to see what's going
on across the globe. But what we do
know is, let's seize this opportunity to get
closer to Allah. You never regret that. You
can never regret
abandoning the bad
and adopting the good. Allah make it easy
for all of us.