Muhammad West – Ramadan 2019 – Episode 01

			wilhemina shaytani rajim Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa salatu salam
ala
		

			Sayyidina Muhammad wa he was
		

			a beloved brothers and sisters in Islam Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
		

			hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah we made that your Allah bless us and Siobhan and grant us
to reach Ramadan and Allah subhanho wa Taala accepted the DA from each and every one of us. I mean
while hamdulillah and Subhan Allah really we should feel that sense of honor you know, like the
judge, we may get the names that pops up the soundless when they get to alpha, they really feel
selected and chosen. And we should feel the same way because how many that we know are not here for
this Ramadan how many are here in this Ramadan but are not obeying Allah subhana wa Tada. So truly,
truly you have been selected, I have been selected and honored to be to reach this Ramadan. And we
		

			should take every Ramadan as if it's our last Ramadan. So Allah grant us the full Baraka, the full
blessing of this Ramadan, we'll talk about in detail but remember, one Ramadan, these 30 days, these
50 nights, if we can capture the goodness in it, then your agenda can be secure. Before we get into
the lecture, a few people would like to thank a lot of work has to happen to reach this point. First
you would like to thank the jemar for choosing this Masjid and hamdulillah to to be with us and
there's a lot of people that follow these lectures as well and thoroughly we just say just accolade
that you choose to share your data with us. And the a lot of work has been done on the machine and I
		

			I'll be wrong Not to mention that the humbler the maintenance team painted the masjid inside and
inshallah the outside will be painted with a camera there as well. So don't look back, you know,
don't worry about that. Behave yourselves as I always say, and the Torah we serve and hamdulillah is
out is in the Muslim views and hamdulillah a lot of work by this committee to put together that
tarawih survey. And of course we'd like to book a treat as well. And then of course alpha five will
lead us in Sala we welcome back half with wafak leader of the team and half of the machine that is
with us and with a couple of new faces if someone is with us, man and with mine Isaac's and of
		

			course we very very privileged and honored to have caught in an email with with us he sees for a few
selected nights as best he can but he shall have the window that it's the whole month as
		

			we really honored to have Claudia.
		

			So all the base of the Father and all of them are working people and they all have side. You know,
it's not just that they can do the therapy. So we make do I am alone makes it easy for them. It's a
big, big burden on the shoulders, and we thank them and their families for allowing this inshallah
as for the post therapy lecture, tonight inshallah, we will begin the introduction to the sutra use
of surah Yusuf, this will be out of seal for the for the month. So last year we did sort of half the
year before that we did use a mouth which is ama, and this year in sha Allah will take on Surah
Surah, Yusuf surah Yusuf on insha Allah and this surah vahana life we begin as an introduction that
		

			surah Yousuf is Surah number 12 out of 114 surah number 12. And even though there's no clear Hadith
about the speciality, if you write so besides what are you so many times you'll get so many
headlines, so Hadith like that, but there is something special about the surah it is unique, in that
it is the whole sutra was revealed in one go usually like Surah Baqarah, for example, it was
revealed in pieces, one part in this year, in fact, Surah Baqarah. Over for five years, the
terracotta get revealed ikura, five verses at the beginning. And in many, many years later, the list
of suitable this sort of attack was revealed with sudo Yousuf is unique that Allah revealed from the
		

			beginning until the end in one sitting, and it is the only surah in the whole Quran. That the entire
surah is one big story. And it is a story from the beginning to the end. Allah does not merit any
story any other story in the Quran of any Navy in one go from the beginning to the end. So you look
at the story of Navy Moosa one pieces in surah baqarah and other pieces with ambia. I mean, you have
same with syllabi, Ebrahim bits and pieces and why because the story Allah just takes out the
important bits for that lesson. Whereas the surah the story itself is the Listen, start to finish.
And in fact, never Yusuf Ali salam, if you look throughout the Quran, he's just mentioned by name,
		

			you won't find the story anywhere else. So it's also unique. You won't find any nebby whose story is
mentioned in one go start to finish. And then throughout the Quran is not mentioned at all, just
finding one one or two places Allah mentions never Yusuf by name. So this is a very, very unique
story. And on top of that, Allah says that Allah reveals the best stories, and this story is a
synopsis. It is the best of the best. That is the best story that has ever been told. And the best
story that was revealed. And of course, all the stories of a lot of stories are fiction, you know,
even those things called movies, they will begin they'll say based on a true story. And when it is a
		

			true story. Now, this actually
		

			interest in it. This is based on basically it is factual a the life story of an abusive and all the
stories of Allah are truth. They're not. They're not fiction. So Allah subhana wa Taala says this is
the very big story of the entire Quran. So why don't reveal the story why Allah reveals sooner, the
sutra or other two nations as to why they were revealed. Then first one, and usually we look at when
the sutra was revealed to understand fully. So what was happening when Allah revealed the sutra to
NaVi Mohammed solo Salaam. The sutra was revealed around two three years before he made hegira which
was the most difficult time of his life. So I shot many many years later I shall Austin Elisa Lam.
		

			Was the any day worse in the Battle of boyhood. Now the Battle of hood was very bad. Why because the
NaVi system almost died and he was stuck in his face two times, he almost died. So she asked was the
any day worse than him? And he says yesterday, I have thought definitively that year was a terrible
year called the year of sadness. In that year, I will totally predicted him passed away. And in that
year, the love of his life, Khadija rolana passed away. So both these external protector and his
internal protector was gone, and things became so bad and he was so low libido is in such a low
place emotionally, that he looked to leave Mecca and he went to the city next door. So for example,
		

			he leaves Cape Town, and he goes to Paul Wooster, whatever to look for, will you people listen to my
message. And when he got to talk if they almost stoned him to death, and he said that was the worst
point of the liftoff. If the NaVi system sits between Mecca and Medina, Mecca, anti affinity Allah,
we do from here, we should I go, should I go for my people who almost killed me to my own people who
rejected me, I don't know where to go from him, maybe so sometimes completely felt like he was lost.
And so Allah revealed surah Yusuf, because it is a story of someone we know this, we know bits of
the story of someone whose own people in fact, his own family throws him in a well, and he's
		

			completely lost and alone in a distant land. But of course, these are happily ever after the end. So
Allah is revealing the story to say, this is the way of the Gambia that they go down and they teach
it to a level when they hit rock bottom. And that's the case we never use. We literally hit rock
bottom. And then Allah subhana wa tada takes you out. So put your faith in Allah. And the other
reason for revelation, the Quran, she wanted to challenge the resource alum. And so these went to
the People of the Book of Allah Kitab, the Jews, from Medina. And they said, Give us a question we
can ask Mohammed Salim so that we know if he's telling the truth or not. So they said, Ask him about
		

			Yusuf. We don't have a lot of details in our book. But let's see what he has. And if it matches up,
so Allah says you asked me about Yusuf, I will tell you his story in detail. And voila, you have the
miracles of the surah is an older Surah compe what Allah has revealed in Surah Yusuf versus the
stories of Joseph in the in the in the Torah and the Injeel. In the what is the least of it, you'd
find it's vanilla, these two stories, there's no comparison, that Allah subhanho wa Taala has given
such detail that is perfect onpoint so this is of the miracles of Allah to show that this is not
from Hamas, and he wasn't he never knew who Yusuf was, but the details were given. So we begin I
		

			will be Lahaina shaytani r rajim Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Allah which is called the SDR of Allah, I
seek protection with Allah from the occures shape on our Whoo, I seek protection below with Allah
from the accussed from the shaytani r rajim. shavon. Is anyone that is for or anyone that is in this
obedience to Allah. And we know in the month of Ramadan, Allah has locked up the shell Deen locked
up the shell to have the gene. But even Allah says that they are human shell team, they are not
locked up. So be we any sense that we do any sins, we see any fighting and backbiting. And this is
from our own selves. We can't blame the police. We can't blame the gym. This is our own selves to be
		

			weighed in the month of Ramadan, the sins that are done are even worse. And Allah Subhana Allah sees
that he's regime regime in his curse is away from the aroma of Allah that everyone is in Allah's
mercy except the one who Allah rejects. So any of the shale team occurs and that's why they rejected
Why do we begin with our machines on the regimes finally you start the Quran you The sooner we know
in fact it's in the Quran Allah says we're either if you recite the Quran for a liquid Quran, Allah
then ask Allah for protection from shaytaan why why Allah when I read the Quran I need to be first
thing prediction from straight on. And in fact when you begin sada and when you enter the masjid,
		

			it's not to say I would be lying to you Why? Because she
		

			plays with you and disturbs you so much more when you evaluate. Now we all know Subhan Allah, you
can binge watch CDs for hours and days and months and weeks and you won't feel tired. But so behind
Allah if the taraweeh those 10 minutes too long, we get hate mail. It was too long. The journal Juma
		

			But when five minutes too long, why? Because shaitan makes it very difficult on us to do make it
better. And if we begin by saying I wouldn't be loved because he is playing with us and forcing us
to stop also as a beautiful thing that Allah mentioned, that if Subhanallah when you do acts of
worship, you say I want to be less than whatever things list in worship way shaytaan is easier to
corrupt you when you should be mindful of Allah subhanho wa Taala. When you begin Nevada, what about
other things that can easily become sinful. And lastly, we say I want to be law, because this is
from the Latif This is the beautiful things of the scholars they said, Allah wants to place us in a
		

			in a home in agenda with Islam straight on. So our challenge in life is to expel him from our hearts
so that we can get to Jenna, when we begin with so whenever you recite the Quran, you say how do we
let him know straight on the regime? Okay, whenever you open the Quran and recite from it, as you're
going to go through the month, but you say Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem at the beginning of a surah
that's why you'll find when the party begins in the middle of the Jews, he will say, you know softly
out the electrical energy and then he will begin to recite that article, whatever it might be, he
will continue from the middle. Now Bismillah R Rahman Rahim we begin In the name of Allah Rahman and
		

			Rahim we said this many times the difference between Ar Rahman AR Rahim Rahman is the one whose
mercy encompasses everything even shape on the one who has mercy for every single creature in
creation. He's our man and our him is a special kind of mercy for the believers, Rahim. So one is
passive, meaning Allah in His default state is a man. And when he acts he acts with with Rama. And
Rama mentioned something beautiful, that when you begin something with Bismillah, you're about to
eat you about sleep, you're about to enter the house. It makes that an act of worship, you get
rewarded for that. The minute you went to eat, you say Bismillah R Rahman Rahim, you actually get
		

			rewarded with that. And if you want to know if this thing is a good thing, one litmus test is can
you say Bismillah? You're not gonna say Bismillah before you roll the dice at casino the casino.
Right? You won't do that. So if you can't say Bismillah before it, then chances are it's a sin. You
won't do it in the name of Allah. Okay? So it's just simple thing before you go sleep with him or
whatever. And you get rewarded for that it becomes an act of worship because you did it in the name
of Allah Subhana Allah, you just if you don't slaughter the animals Bismillah that meat is haram.
You just put a last name upon it. And now this blessing in that is a very powerful statement. We
		

			begin with the first verse and we'll end up with the first of us. So Allah says Allah Valencia,
Tonga, rajim Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Allah
		

			ma tilaka. To Nikita bill moving, Allah begins the surah like Allah begins with a Baccarat with
these hooroo from
		

			Surah Baqarah begins with an E flat mean, the surah begins le flam ra surah Sr. See, what are these
words What are these letters? They are called the disconnected or the disjointed letters they aren't
words. If you open the dictionary in the Arabic language we all find Alif Lam Meem and these are of
the mysteries of the Quran. These are of the mysteries the Amato today, we are thinking and
struggling What is this? No one knows the meaning besides a lot, but just some things for us what we
do know let me explain some things we do know. So of the 114 surah in the Quran. 29 of them begin
with these
		

			29 surah start with it. So Baccarat surah, Yusuf Surya seen Soraka they begin with these these
disconnected letters, you know these and as I said, these are letters for you to understand. They're
not words, it's like saying, x y, Zed l m y, it doesn't exist liters, right? They don't even have
there's no tequila Lima, it's not like that. It's just liters without tequila on them. 29 of the
suitors of the Quran begins with these letters, and four of that 29 actually take the name from the
scene, because it begins with the scene. Soraka Soraka Soraka. And, again, for interest sake, if you
look at these macaque the art if you add up all these letters from meme raw cinsault, you add them
		

			all up. It's exactly 14 of the Arabic alphabet, which is 28, meaning half of the Arabic alphabets is
used for these Macaca half of the Arabic alphabet alphabet is used for this Macaca and they always
begin the surah you won't find in the middle of a Surah Al Islami inside the surah with the end of
the surah always the first idea is that any flare meme except Surah Surah Surah number 42 was first
and second verse is a Macaca Surah Surah begins for scene I in scene. First is our scene and the
second is in scene. What is the reason y'all laugh with us? Now we know Allah does not put gibberish
in the Quran. We believe that Allah has put things everything in there has meaning and purpose.
		

			What's the purpose here Allah because we don't know the meanings of these of these words. And there
are many many scholarly discussions but we won't go into that we just doing proceed one on one, you
would find 99% of the time. The next I are off to this part speaks of the Quran. Yes seen. And then
		

			well Quran Hakeem Alif, laam Meem Delhi, Calcutta this book. So the next is following these words is
got to do with the Quran. So there is a link between the majesty of the Quran and the Sunnah. And
it's a challenge. So one of the scholars have said, this is these words to challenge the Arabs, that
I it's sort of a way when you hear these are the flaming, what does this mean? He listens, and now
he's paying attention to the Quran. So Allah sees being something like it's being something like the
Quran.
		

			Right? So, these, these macatawa, as we said, we don't know but the reason for that, so this sort of
begins with le flam RA and then the next ayah we expect it to be about the Quran and so it is, Allah
says, tilaka will be moving, le flam Ra. These are the verses of the clear book, that's what it
means. Allah says this is these are the verses the clearbrook, but let's take them one by one.
Tikka.
		

			Tikka is actually in Arabic, those so the eyes actually say, those are the verses of the clear book.
Now why does Allah say those are not these? Even Surah Baqarah Allah says, Valley, Calcutta that
book is no doubt in it. Why does Allah point to faraway and not near? If you look at Subhana Allah,
if you look at an analysis in this, when Allah speaks about the Quran has Al Quran, this Quran but
when it speaks about the book follows a vet book, why Quran is a dissertation and it's in fact the
only religious scripture in the world with its actual name is in the old find the word Bible in the
Bible, you won't find
		

			the gospel you know, inside those holy scriptures, you won't find the name. Allah has put the name
of the Quran itself in the Quran and the book. Now the Quran means very cetacean and Al Kitab means
the book these are the two names of the Quran. Now the Quran is something which we decide here with
an abyssal Salaam received revelation, he didn't get a book. He got words from God from Allah, we as
the book itself is we aloha my foods. remember Allah says that I sent down the whole book in later
to cover what is this book, these a scripture with a law in the library in the summer. So in the
lowest Heaven, Allah subhanho wa Taala, sent down the book in a tablet form. And jabril then took
		

			the words and related it to the Beatles album, right? So that's why the book is exalted. Hi,
motherfu akimoto hora, Allah says this book is high, it's not on this earth. It's exalted up there.
Also, some scholars have said, this is for the book that will come meaning the Quran has not yet
been written in the time going to be so seldom, these verses will eventually come in a book form a
book that has no doubt, meaning it's a book that has no ambiguity in allocatable movie in the clear
book, no book on Earth, has is so clear and precise, and has zero ambiguity and has sold no doubt in
its in its authenticity. Like this book. Allah says, this book, or that book that will come will
		

			have zero doubt in its vanilla. This is of the miracles of the book. So Allah begins this verse. In
fact, the first three verses of the surah is all about the Quran. And that's why Allah says these
are the ayat I admins vs. But in the Quran, when Allah speaks about Isaiah, he speaks about
miracles. So Allah says prepare yourself these are the miracles of that book that has come down to
the lower center. We'll talk inshallah more about these if tomorrow inshallah We will also as we as
soon as Ronald Islam, we have our our quiz. I think the cards have been distributed. So easy
question for you tonight. The simple question, what is the theme of this year's Ramadan talks? What
		

			are you know, surah Yusuf surah Yaseen? Surah ambia you just take the correct, fill in the correct
one, put it in the box and inshallah there are prizes to be had at the end of the month. For any
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