Mustafa Khattab – Living The Quran

Mustafa Khattab
AI: Summary ©
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Muslims in multiple countries, including Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Yemen. The Quran is not meant to be read or written on the wall, but individuals can be recited and applied to their daily lives. The message of the Quran is to keep in mind behavior and reflect on the Bible. It is important to read and apply the Quran to achieve success, and cultural differences between the Arabic and non-B carriers are discussed.
AI: Transcript ©
00:02:33 --> 00:02:34

And Alhamdulillah

00:03:48 --> 00:03:50

I bear witness that there is none worthy

00:03:50 --> 00:03:51

of our worship except Allah

00:03:52 --> 00:03:54

And I bear witness that Muhammad

00:03:55 --> 00:03:57

is the Seal of the Prophets and the

00:03:57 --> 00:03:59

Final Messenger to all of humanity.

00:03:59 --> 00:04:02

Whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala guides, there is

00:04:02 --> 00:04:04

none to misguide, and whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa

00:04:04 --> 00:04:06

Ta'ala leads astray, there is none to guide

00:04:06 --> 00:04:07

the right.

00:04:58 --> 00:05:00

So over the last few years, Alhamdulillah, I

00:05:00 --> 00:05:01

got the chance

00:05:01 --> 00:05:04

to study most of the existing translations of

00:05:04 --> 00:05:07

the Quran, and and also the different tafasir

00:05:07 --> 00:05:09

of the Quran, because we have been working

00:05:09 --> 00:05:11

on a new translation of the Quran, it's

00:05:11 --> 00:05:13

called the Clear Quran So I was able

00:05:13 --> 00:05:14

to study the Quran,

00:05:15 --> 00:05:16

more closely

00:05:17 --> 00:05:18

For those of you who follow the news,

00:05:18 --> 00:05:21

they, they see the misery in the news.

00:05:21 --> 00:05:24

You see the pictures of Syrian kids. See

00:05:24 --> 00:05:26

the one that has been over the news

00:05:26 --> 00:05:28

over the last couple of days, Adnan?

00:05:30 --> 00:05:33

Sorry. And before that, the brother was drowned

00:05:33 --> 00:05:35

over the coast of Turkey, and so on

00:05:35 --> 00:05:38

and so forth. These are miserable situations, and

00:05:38 --> 00:05:38

you see, subhanAllah,

00:05:39 --> 00:05:41

like, in the case of a lot of

00:05:41 --> 00:05:43

Muslims in the world, the most refugees in

00:05:43 --> 00:05:45

the world are Muslim,

00:05:45 --> 00:05:48

orphans are Muslims, widows are Muslims. The cheapest

00:05:48 --> 00:05:50

blood on earth is the blood of Muslims.

00:05:51 --> 00:05:53

And you see the misery and the suffering.

00:05:53 --> 00:05:55

Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan,

00:05:56 --> 00:05:58

Yemen, Egypt, Libya,

00:05:58 --> 00:05:59

almost all of them.

00:06:00 --> 00:06:02

And SubhanAllah, when you read in the Quran,

00:06:03 --> 00:06:04

there is something,

00:06:04 --> 00:06:07

the Surah Al Quran called Rabdulillah Sadr Al

00:06:07 --> 00:06:07

A'z,

00:06:08 --> 00:06:10

connecting the beginning of the Surah with the

00:06:10 --> 00:06:12

ending, and this is something unique in the

00:06:12 --> 00:06:15

Quran. The Surah of the Quran begins by

00:06:15 --> 00:06:16

talking about something,

00:06:16 --> 00:06:19

and it concludes by talking about the same

00:06:19 --> 00:06:20

thing. I'll give you one example.

00:06:21 --> 00:06:23

So for example, when you read at the

00:06:23 --> 00:06:25

beginning of Surah Ta'ah, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

00:06:25 --> 00:06:26

says Taaha,

00:06:26 --> 00:06:27

Ma'anzamna'alaykum

00:06:28 --> 00:06:28

Quranalitashqah

00:06:29 --> 00:06:31

You Muhammad is talking to the Prophet

00:06:32 --> 00:06:34

We have not revealed this Quran to cause

00:06:34 --> 00:06:36

you misery and distress.

00:06:36 --> 00:06:39

This Quran was revealed to you to give

00:06:39 --> 00:06:41

you happiness and joy in this dunya and

00:06:41 --> 00:06:42

in Afar.

00:06:42 --> 00:06:44

And at the end of the Surah, it

00:06:44 --> 00:06:46

talks about, of course, it talks about the

00:06:46 --> 00:06:47

story of Musa,

00:06:47 --> 00:06:49

many pages, and so on and so forth.

00:06:49 --> 00:06:52

It talks about the story of Adam. Then

00:06:52 --> 00:06:54

at the end of the Surah, it says,

00:06:57 --> 00:06:59

Those who turn their back to the Quran

00:07:00 --> 00:07:02

will live a miserable life. So the beginning

00:07:02 --> 00:07:04

of the Surah says, those who follow the

00:07:04 --> 00:07:06

Quran will be happy, will have a decent

00:07:06 --> 00:07:08

life, and at the end of the Surah

00:07:08 --> 00:07:10

it says, those who turn their back to

00:07:10 --> 00:07:12

the Quran will live a miserable life.

00:07:12 --> 00:07:14

You read that you read at the beginning

00:07:14 --> 00:07:17

of Surah Muminun, kadaflahal muminun al ladinahunfil salatiem

00:07:17 --> 00:07:18

khajarun

00:07:18 --> 00:07:21

The believers are successful. And at the end

00:07:21 --> 00:07:23

of Surah Muminun says, In Nahulayuflifal

00:07:24 --> 00:07:28

kafirun. Indeed, the Kuffar will never succeed. So

00:07:28 --> 00:07:30

it gives you the opposite that connects the

00:07:30 --> 00:07:31

beginning of the Surah with the end, and

00:07:31 --> 00:07:33

this is very common in the Quran. This

00:07:33 --> 00:07:35

is from the the ajaz of the Quran.

00:07:36 --> 00:07:37

So those of you

00:07:38 --> 00:07:40

who follow the news, and they see the

00:07:40 --> 00:07:41

suffering and the misery,

00:07:42 --> 00:07:42

SubhanAllah!

00:07:43 --> 00:07:46

Now, the advancement of science and technology and

00:07:46 --> 00:07:48

medicines, you see how many hospitals all over

00:07:48 --> 00:07:50

the world, and more and more people are

00:07:50 --> 00:07:51

getting sick.

00:07:52 --> 00:07:53

The means of entertainment,

00:07:53 --> 00:07:55

how many theaters,

00:07:56 --> 00:07:57

movie channels,

00:07:57 --> 00:08:00

Netflix, and all these things, but still more

00:08:00 --> 00:08:02

and more people are getting stressed out.

00:08:02 --> 00:08:04

You see, the world is coming closer because

00:08:04 --> 00:08:07

of the Internet and because of Facebook,

00:08:07 --> 00:08:09

but still now, more and more people are

00:08:09 --> 00:08:10

living in raccoons.

00:08:11 --> 00:08:12

When you if you go visit someone, you

00:08:12 --> 00:08:14

look at their kids, each one of them

00:08:14 --> 00:08:16

has a tablet, has an iPhone, or an

00:08:16 --> 00:08:19

iPad, and they are just they're stuck, they're

00:08:19 --> 00:08:21

glued to their their iPhone or their iPad,

00:08:21 --> 00:08:23

they don't talk to each other anymore.

00:08:24 --> 00:08:26

Even if they want to ask each other

00:08:26 --> 00:08:28

about something, they will just text each other

00:08:28 --> 00:08:31

on Facebook. Of all, they are living, they're

00:08:31 --> 00:08:32

staying on the same room.

00:08:33 --> 00:08:35

So this is how miserable people have become.

00:08:37 --> 00:08:39

The United Nations has been established, or was

00:08:39 --> 00:08:42

established many years back, but you see more

00:08:42 --> 00:08:44

people are getting killed, and more wars now

00:08:44 --> 00:08:46

than before the United Nations,

00:08:47 --> 00:08:48

peace, whatever. Right?

00:08:49 --> 00:08:51

So, people do things, and it goes to

00:08:51 --> 00:08:53

the opposite because, what?

00:08:53 --> 00:08:55

Because of what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is

00:08:55 --> 00:08:56

telling us in the Quran.

00:08:57 --> 00:08:59

Those who turn away from the Quran, they

00:08:59 --> 00:09:00

turn their backs to the Quran, they will

00:09:00 --> 00:09:03

live a miserable life. I don't find

00:09:03 --> 00:09:06

any better term to describe the situation in

00:09:06 --> 00:09:08

the Muslim world, or the world in general

00:09:08 --> 00:09:11

now, than the word bank. Banki in the

00:09:11 --> 00:09:11

Quran.

00:09:15 --> 00:09:17

Those who turn their back to the reminder,

00:09:17 --> 00:09:19

which is the Quran, they will live a

00:09:19 --> 00:09:20

miserable life.

00:09:21 --> 00:09:22

For a lot of Muslims,

00:09:23 --> 00:09:24

Quran is something

00:09:24 --> 00:09:27

that is used for Barakah only. It is

00:09:27 --> 00:09:29

not a book of life, it's a book

00:09:29 --> 00:09:29

of Barakah.

00:09:30 --> 00:09:32

So they read it, for example,

00:09:32 --> 00:09:34

or they put it, like, on the wall,

00:09:34 --> 00:09:36

something like this, they put it on the

00:09:36 --> 00:09:38

wall in their house, just for Barakah.

00:09:38 --> 00:09:40

They put a copy of the Quran,

00:09:41 --> 00:09:43

in their car, like, especially back home when

00:09:43 --> 00:09:45

they don't have car insurance, they just put

00:09:45 --> 00:09:48

it on the windshield or the dashboard, and

00:09:48 --> 00:09:49

they put it in the back, just for

00:09:49 --> 00:09:52

Barakah, like, for insurance, to protect the car.

00:09:54 --> 00:09:56

And, in the houses, you see the, you

00:09:56 --> 00:09:59

know, the things they, you know, they put

00:09:59 --> 00:10:01

on the wall, they inscribe Quran on God,

00:10:01 --> 00:10:03

or whatever, and they put it on the

00:10:03 --> 00:10:03

wall,

00:10:25 --> 00:10:26

You know,

00:10:27 --> 00:10:29

so even back home when you look at

00:10:29 --> 00:10:30

the thieves,

00:10:30 --> 00:10:33

the corrupt people they always have statements from

00:10:33 --> 00:10:35

the Quran behind them on the wall, like

00:10:35 --> 00:10:37

this is a gift from Allah,

00:10:37 --> 00:10:39

This is the the ayah from the Quran

00:10:39 --> 00:10:40

they put behind them. Right?

00:10:41 --> 00:10:43

And so on and so forth. So people

00:10:43 --> 00:10:44

don't use the Quran the right way. The

00:10:44 --> 00:10:46

Quran is not meant to be put on

00:10:46 --> 00:10:48

the wall in gold. The Quran is meant

00:10:48 --> 00:10:51

to be recited and understood and applied to

00:10:51 --> 00:10:52

our daily lives.

00:10:53 --> 00:10:53

For some

00:10:54 --> 00:10:55

people, in the Quran,

00:11:03 --> 00:11:05

So back home, most of the time, a

00:11:05 --> 00:11:07

lot of people have no conviction whatsoever with

00:11:07 --> 00:11:10

the Quran, unless someone dies. They start to

00:11:10 --> 00:11:13

recite Quran for Janazah, but after that, nothing.

00:11:14 --> 00:11:16

As if, the Quran is the book of

00:11:16 --> 00:11:17

the death.

00:11:17 --> 00:11:19

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling us in

00:11:19 --> 00:11:20

the Quran, istajibulnaverasuriya

00:11:22 --> 00:11:25

da'atulina yuhheekum The Quran is a source of

00:11:25 --> 00:11:27

life This is what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

00:11:27 --> 00:11:29

calls the Quran in the Quran itself

00:11:30 --> 00:11:32

So it's a source of life, it is

00:11:32 --> 00:11:33

not meant only for this.

00:11:34 --> 00:11:35

For a lot of people,

00:11:36 --> 00:11:38

when they think about the Quran, they think,

00:11:38 --> 00:11:40

Oh, this is a history book, an ancient

00:11:40 --> 00:11:40

book.

00:11:42 --> 00:11:44

And, you know, it talks about Musa 3000

00:11:45 --> 00:11:46

years ago, about,

00:11:46 --> 00:11:50

Muhammad Salazar, 1500 years ago. It talks about

00:11:50 --> 00:11:52

the children of Adam, Bani Adam, Bani' Adam,

00:11:52 --> 00:11:53

Bani'ida,

00:11:53 --> 00:11:55

who knows how many 1000 years ago.

00:11:56 --> 00:11:58

So for them, some people think, well, it

00:11:58 --> 00:12:00

is not very much relevant to our life

00:12:00 --> 00:12:01

these days.

00:12:01 --> 00:12:04

Well, subhanAllah, if you read the Quran very

00:12:04 --> 00:12:06

closely, you will see that it is very

00:12:06 --> 00:12:08

relevant, because history

00:12:08 --> 00:12:09

has a habit

00:12:10 --> 00:12:12

of repeating itself.

00:12:12 --> 00:12:14

When you read about Firaun, Pharaoh in the

00:12:14 --> 00:12:15

Quran,

00:12:16 --> 00:12:17

how many Firauns,

00:12:17 --> 00:12:19

pharaohs you picture in our time?

00:12:20 --> 00:12:22

In that country, in that a lot of

00:12:22 --> 00:12:22

pharaohs.

00:12:23 --> 00:12:25

When for example you read about,

00:12:38 --> 00:12:40

So when it talks about abused and oppressed

00:12:41 --> 00:12:42

men, women and children,

00:12:43 --> 00:12:44

you said Umrah,

00:12:44 --> 00:12:47

who say You Allah! They cry You Allah!

00:12:47 --> 00:12:49

Take us out of this oppressive land! Give

00:12:49 --> 00:12:51

us a savior! Gave us someone to protect

00:12:51 --> 00:12:54

and help us! By your help and your

00:12:54 --> 00:12:55

grace.

00:12:55 --> 00:12:57

So you picture the people of Syria, the

00:12:57 --> 00:12:59

people of Iraq, and the people of Palestine,

00:12:59 --> 00:13:00

and so on and so forth.

00:13:01 --> 00:13:03

When you read for example about the story

00:13:03 --> 00:13:05

of Yusuf Alaihi Salam in the Quran.

00:13:06 --> 00:13:09

So I picture the temptation of our youth

00:13:09 --> 00:13:11

in our times because the temptations are so

00:13:11 --> 00:13:12

high

00:13:12 --> 00:13:14

and so on and so forth. The stories

00:13:14 --> 00:13:16

are repeated all the time. So when you

00:13:16 --> 00:13:17

read the Quran,

00:13:18 --> 00:13:20

those who read and reflect and contemplate

00:13:21 --> 00:13:23

the Ayat of the Quran, they can easily

00:13:23 --> 00:13:26

relate what is mentioned in the Quran to

00:13:26 --> 00:13:28

our daily lives now. Because as I said,

00:13:28 --> 00:13:31

history repeats itself all the time. So you

00:13:31 --> 00:13:34

will find something relevant in the Quran.

00:13:35 --> 00:13:37

You see, in the Quran Allah subhanahu wa

00:13:37 --> 00:13:38

ta'ala is telling the Prophet

00:13:38 --> 00:13:41

about the story of Musa and how pharaoh

00:13:41 --> 00:13:43

was a tyrant in the land, and eventually

00:13:43 --> 00:13:44

he was destroyed.

00:13:45 --> 00:13:46

Even to the Prophet this

00:13:46 --> 00:13:47

was a reminder

00:13:48 --> 00:13:50

of this sunnah of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

00:13:50 --> 00:13:51

That the oppressed

00:13:51 --> 00:13:53

will prevail at the end, and the oppressors

00:13:53 --> 00:13:54

will go down,

00:13:55 --> 00:13:57

and Jahannam at the end. So, this is

00:13:57 --> 00:13:59

also a lesson for us. So, the Quran

00:13:59 --> 00:14:01

is very relevant today, as it was at

00:14:01 --> 00:14:03

the time of the Prophet SAWHANNAH

00:14:04 --> 00:14:06

So what is the Quran? What what does

00:14:06 --> 00:14:08

it represent for us? We need to keep

00:14:08 --> 00:14:09

in mind

00:14:09 --> 00:14:11

that the Quran, when you look at this,

00:14:11 --> 00:14:14

the Quran is the finest revelation from Allah

00:14:14 --> 00:14:16

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Asan Al Hadith. This is

00:14:16 --> 00:14:18

how it is called in the Quran itself.

00:14:19 --> 00:14:21

One thing unique about the Quran,

00:14:22 --> 00:14:22

as a book,

00:14:23 --> 00:14:25

it's probably the only book in the world

00:14:25 --> 00:14:27

that doesn't have the name of the author

00:14:27 --> 00:14:28

on the cover.

00:14:29 --> 00:14:31

You think of any other book,

00:14:31 --> 00:14:33

no, it has the author on the cover.

00:14:33 --> 00:14:35

But the Qur'an doesn't have an Author on

00:14:35 --> 00:14:38

the cover. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reveals

00:14:38 --> 00:14:41

Himself on every page. He talks about the

00:14:41 --> 00:14:43

Qur'an, He talks about the purpose of life,

00:14:43 --> 00:14:45

He talks about the believers, the kuffar, He

00:14:45 --> 00:14:48

talks about jannah, jahannnah, kisaab, all these things.

00:14:48 --> 00:14:50

So this is what is unique about the

00:14:50 --> 00:14:50

Qur'an.

00:14:51 --> 00:14:54

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala revealed the finest book,

00:14:54 --> 00:14:55

Aksana Kitab,

00:14:56 --> 00:14:57

Li'ashlafi Nabi

00:14:58 --> 00:14:59

to the Finest Prophet,

00:15:00 --> 00:15:02

it's coming from Rav Bilal Amir,

00:15:02 --> 00:15:05

Through Jibreel Alaihi Wasallam, the Finest Angel,

00:15:06 --> 00:15:08

in the Finest Land, Makkah,

00:15:08 --> 00:15:10

in the Finest Month, Ramadan,

00:15:11 --> 00:15:12

on the Finest

00:15:13 --> 00:15:16

Night, Laylatul Qadr to the Finest Umma, khairummatitikhjjajatilinas.

00:15:18 --> 00:15:20

So it's the Finest, from the Finest, through

00:15:20 --> 00:15:22

the Finest, to the Finest, in the Finest,

00:15:22 --> 00:15:23

on the Finest,

00:15:23 --> 00:15:24

it's all Finest.

00:15:25 --> 00:15:27

For the Finest Ummah revealed to the people.

00:15:28 --> 00:15:31

What is also unique about the Quran, it's

00:15:31 --> 00:15:32

the Last Revelation from Allah

00:15:39 --> 00:15:39

Wa'idhali

00:15:52 --> 00:15:55

So Umu Ayman, when the Prophet SAWA wasalam

00:15:55 --> 00:15:56

died,

00:15:56 --> 00:15:59

she was crying, and she was always in

00:15:59 --> 00:16:01

tears, and some of the sahabas said, okay,

00:16:01 --> 00:16:03

why are you crying? You know, we understand

00:16:03 --> 00:16:05

the Prophet SAWH passed away. It's a very

00:16:05 --> 00:16:07

very difficult time for all of us, but

00:16:07 --> 00:16:09

we know that the Prophet SAWH was going

00:16:09 --> 00:16:12

to die. He's not eternal, he's a human

00:16:12 --> 00:16:14

being, and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling

00:16:14 --> 00:16:15

him in the Quran, You Muhammad

00:16:16 --> 00:16:19

You Rasool Allah, you will die, and everyone

00:16:19 --> 00:16:21

else will die. So we know. She said,

00:16:21 --> 00:16:23

I'm not crying for this.

00:16:23 --> 00:16:24

I'm crying

00:16:28 --> 00:16:30

for the revelation of what that has stopped

00:16:30 --> 00:16:31

completely

00:16:31 --> 00:16:33

because from the beginning of time from Adam

00:16:34 --> 00:16:36

through Nuh and Ibrahim

00:16:36 --> 00:16:39

and Musa and Issa and Dawood and Surayman

00:16:39 --> 00:16:40

and all these prophets.

00:16:41 --> 00:16:43

We know from authentic Hadith that, the number

00:16:43 --> 00:16:45

of Prophets who were sent,

00:16:45 --> 00:16:46

124,000

00:16:46 --> 00:16:47

Prophets,

00:16:47 --> 00:16:50

a fewer number of them were messengers. They

00:16:50 --> 00:16:50

received revelations,

00:16:51 --> 00:16:52

but with

00:16:52 --> 00:16:54

the death of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,

00:16:54 --> 00:16:57

this wahi, this revelation that have continued for

00:16:57 --> 00:16:58

1000 of years,

00:16:59 --> 00:17:01

is over now. Khalas. No more revelations. The

00:17:01 --> 00:17:03

Quran is the final. It's the final. Khalas.

00:17:03 --> 00:17:04

It's finished.

00:17:05 --> 00:17:07

So she said, I'm crying because now the

00:17:07 --> 00:17:10

revelation is stopping. We're not getting any revelations

00:17:10 --> 00:17:11

anymore from Allah

00:17:12 --> 00:17:13

This is why she was crying.

00:17:15 --> 00:17:16

We know that Allah

00:17:18 --> 00:17:20

is challenging people in the Quran, all the

00:17:20 --> 00:17:21

time,

00:17:21 --> 00:17:24

to show them that this is the truth.

00:17:28 --> 00:17:30

It's in the Quran, we will always continue

00:17:30 --> 00:17:32

to show you miracles and signs in the

00:17:32 --> 00:17:34

Quran, in yourselves, in the universe,

00:17:35 --> 00:17:37

to know that this Quran is the truth

00:17:37 --> 00:17:38

from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

00:17:39 --> 00:17:40

And he is giving us

00:17:41 --> 00:17:44

what they call in in science, they call

00:17:44 --> 00:17:47

it falsification test. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is

00:17:47 --> 00:17:48

challenging humanity,

00:17:49 --> 00:17:50

and He is telling us if you think

00:17:50 --> 00:17:52

this Quran is not from me, okay?

00:17:53 --> 00:17:55

You gotta do 1 of 3 things.

00:17:55 --> 00:17:58

He says number 1, if you want to

00:17:58 --> 00:17:59

prove that this Quran is wrong,

00:18:00 --> 00:18:01

find 1 contradiction

00:18:05 --> 00:18:07

If this Quran was from anyone other than

00:18:07 --> 00:18:09

Allah, you will find a lot of contradictions

00:18:09 --> 00:18:10

in it

00:18:10 --> 00:18:12

Find one if you can

00:18:12 --> 00:18:14

Now I know some of you go to

00:18:14 --> 00:18:14

school

00:18:16 --> 00:18:18

when you turn the paper to your teacher,

00:18:18 --> 00:18:19

you give them the paper and assignment,

00:18:20 --> 00:18:22

you challenge your teacher, well this is my

00:18:22 --> 00:18:23

assignment,

00:18:23 --> 00:18:25

I challenge you to find one mistake.

00:18:27 --> 00:18:28

So this is the way Allah

00:18:29 --> 00:18:30

Allah is presenting the Quran to us, find

00:18:30 --> 00:18:33

one mistake, they have been trying forever, no

00:18:33 --> 00:18:35

one could find a mistake in the Quran.

00:18:36 --> 00:18:37

Number 2, Allah

00:18:37 --> 00:18:40

is challenging us, if you think this Quran

00:18:40 --> 00:18:41

is not from me,

00:18:41 --> 00:18:44

make one like it in Arabic. In

00:18:45 --> 00:18:47

Surah 2 of the Quran, Surah Baqarah if

00:18:47 --> 00:18:48

he said, If

00:18:51 --> 00:18:53

you think this Quran is not from me,

00:18:54 --> 00:18:55

make one like it.

00:18:55 --> 00:18:57

And this is in the 2nd Surah. In

00:18:57 --> 00:19:00

Surah number 11, there are 10 Surahs before,

00:19:01 --> 00:19:03

He says, If you think this Quran is

00:19:03 --> 00:19:04

not from me,

00:19:04 --> 00:19:07

Fattu Be'ashri Surahim Mithlihi Muftayyah

00:19:07 --> 00:19:08

This is Surah number 11.

00:19:09 --> 00:19:11

So Surah number 2 it says, Make one

00:19:11 --> 00:19:13

like it. Maybe it's talking about Fati Hadhamah

00:19:13 --> 00:19:16

before. Surah number 11, Surah number hud. Surah

00:19:16 --> 00:19:18

number 11, he said if you think this

00:19:18 --> 00:19:21

Quran is not from me, make 10 like

00:19:21 --> 00:19:23

it. The 10 Surahs before because this is

00:19:23 --> 00:19:24

Surah number 11.

00:19:25 --> 00:19:28

So SubhanAllah, the challenge is still there, no

00:19:28 --> 00:19:29

one was able to take the challenge.

00:19:30 --> 00:19:33

Allah SubhanAllah Wa Ta'la, challenge number 3, is

00:19:33 --> 00:19:35

telling us, if you think this Quran is

00:19:35 --> 00:19:37

not from Me, then watch, I will preserve

00:19:37 --> 00:19:38

this Quran forever.

00:19:39 --> 00:19:41

Now if you think about it,

00:19:42 --> 00:19:44

millions of people throughout history, or probably billions,

00:19:44 --> 00:19:47

they memorize the Quran. Not a single book

00:19:47 --> 00:19:49

other than the Quran has been memorized by

00:19:49 --> 00:19:50

so many people.

00:19:51 --> 00:19:53

And if all the books in the world

00:19:54 --> 00:19:54

are burnt,

00:19:55 --> 00:19:57

or thrown in the ocean, only the Quran

00:19:57 --> 00:19:58

will survive.

00:19:58 --> 00:20:00

Because it will come back in a matter

00:20:00 --> 00:20:02

of days because we have millions of Afas

00:20:02 --> 00:20:05

including the brother right here, Umaydi Adan, he

00:20:05 --> 00:20:06

is Hafid al Quran Masha'Allah.

00:20:07 --> 00:20:09

So people will always

00:20:09 --> 00:20:11

bring it back from memory and write it

00:20:11 --> 00:20:13

down. This is from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

00:20:13 --> 00:20:14

Other books,

00:20:15 --> 00:20:17

Kitabu Ibrahim, Sohu Ibrahim, they are done. We

00:20:17 --> 00:20:18

don't have them.

00:20:19 --> 00:20:22

Dawood Alayhi Salaam is Zaboor, Tarah ijil corrupted

00:20:22 --> 00:20:25

over time. Only the Quran is protected, and

00:20:25 --> 00:20:26

this is from the challenge of Allah Subhanahu

00:20:26 --> 00:20:27

Wa Ta'ala.

00:20:28 --> 00:20:30

How do we approach the Quran?

00:20:30 --> 00:20:33

Because we, as Muslims, we know that this

00:20:33 --> 00:20:36

is the connection. There are some revelations, some

00:20:36 --> 00:20:38

traditions from the Prophet SAWH

00:20:38 --> 00:20:40

that say that the Quran

00:20:41 --> 00:20:44

is a Saba, a rope, between you and

00:20:44 --> 00:20:46

Allah. So he says in the hadith, one

00:20:46 --> 00:20:48

end of the rope is in the hands

00:20:48 --> 00:20:49

of Allah,

00:20:50 --> 00:20:51

the other end of the rope is in

00:20:51 --> 00:20:52

your hand.

00:20:52 --> 00:20:54

So when you read the Quran, you have

00:20:54 --> 00:20:56

this connection between you and Allah Subhanahu Wa

00:20:56 --> 00:20:57

Ta'ala.

00:20:58 --> 00:21:01

We need to be reading the Quran more

00:21:01 --> 00:21:02

and more. If you want to understand the

00:21:02 --> 00:21:05

purpose of life, the solution to the misery,

00:21:05 --> 00:21:07

the pain, and the problems we have in

00:21:07 --> 00:21:09

our world, Go back to the Quran, and

00:21:09 --> 00:21:10

read the Quran, and of course,

00:21:11 --> 00:21:13

you have also to read the sunnah because

00:21:13 --> 00:21:15

both of them came from Allah Subhanahu Wa

00:21:15 --> 00:21:16

Ta'ala. A

00:21:19 --> 00:21:21

hadith are also by what? From Allah Subhanahu

00:21:21 --> 00:21:22

Wa Ta'ala to the Prophet

00:21:24 --> 00:21:26

And listen to the Quran. The Prophet SAW.

00:21:26 --> 00:21:28

SAW. Although he used to read the Quran

00:21:28 --> 00:21:30

all the time, he used to listen to

00:21:30 --> 00:21:32

the Quran from other people. There are so

00:21:32 --> 00:21:33

many Hadith.

00:21:33 --> 00:21:35

Abdullah ibn Mas'ura radiAllahu

00:21:50 --> 00:21:51

faqalainuuhibu

00:21:52 --> 00:21:54

anasma'hu Milayl. I would love to hear someone

00:21:54 --> 00:21:56

else recite the Quran to me. So Abdullah

00:21:56 --> 00:21:58

ibn Mas'ur, it's an authentic hadith in Bukhari,

00:21:58 --> 00:22:00

started to read from Surah An Isaa from

00:22:00 --> 00:22:01

the beginning,

00:22:01 --> 00:22:03

3, 4 pages he recited,

00:22:03 --> 00:22:04

until the prophet Abdullah

00:22:06 --> 00:22:07

ibn Maswud recited this ayah.

00:22:28 --> 00:22:29

So in this hadith,

00:22:30 --> 00:22:32

Abdullah ibn Azrul started to read for the

00:22:32 --> 00:22:33

Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, recite Quran, and

00:22:33 --> 00:22:36

he recited from Surah 4, Surah Alaihi Wasallam.

00:22:36 --> 00:22:38

From Ayah 1, he recited 2 or 3

00:22:38 --> 00:22:41

pages, until he came to this Ayah. Allah

00:22:41 --> 00:22:43

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, I'm not just, adjust

00:22:43 --> 00:22:45

to anyone in the least,

00:22:45 --> 00:22:48

even if you do something small as an

00:22:48 --> 00:22:49

Adam's weight, you will see it on the

00:22:49 --> 00:22:50

Day of Judgment.

00:22:51 --> 00:22:52

How will it be, Ah, Surah Allah, on

00:22:52 --> 00:22:54

the Day of Judgment? We will bring a

00:22:54 --> 00:22:56

witness from every people of their Prophet to

00:22:56 --> 00:22:59

witness against them, and we bring you, You

00:22:59 --> 00:23:01

Muhammad, as a witness over humanity.

00:23:02 --> 00:23:03

Then the Prophet was

00:23:03 --> 00:23:06

crying and he told Abdullah Nasruww that's that's

00:23:06 --> 00:23:06

enough

00:23:06 --> 00:23:09

in another authentic hadith, Abdullah Ubayib Nika'a

00:23:42 --> 00:23:45

You Ubayi Allah gives you Salaam, Ubayi was

00:23:45 --> 00:23:47

one of the scribes who used to write

00:23:47 --> 00:23:48

the Quran for the Prophet SAWHAN

00:23:49 --> 00:23:51

He said You Ubayi Allah gives you Salaam,

00:23:52 --> 00:23:54

and he told me Tilu Ubayi ibn Kaab

00:23:54 --> 00:23:56

to read Surah Bayinah for you.

00:23:57 --> 00:24:00

So Ubay ibn Ka'b was astonished, he was

00:24:00 --> 00:24:00

stunned.

00:24:00 --> 00:24:02

And he said, Did Allah

00:24:02 --> 00:24:05

mention me by name? Did he ask you,

00:24:05 --> 00:24:07

till Ubay ibn Ka'b to read Surah Bayyina

00:24:07 --> 00:24:09

for you? He said, Yes. Yes. Allah mentioned

00:24:09 --> 00:24:11

you by name. Subayr radiAllahu anhu started to

00:24:11 --> 00:24:13

cry, because what a great honor.

00:24:14 --> 00:24:15

So we need to read the Quran, and

00:24:15 --> 00:24:17

listen to the Quran.

00:24:17 --> 00:24:19

We need to reflect on the Quran, and

00:24:19 --> 00:24:21

apply it to their lives.

00:24:22 --> 00:24:24

We know what is halal in the Quran,

00:24:24 --> 00:24:25

and what is haram, and so on and

00:24:25 --> 00:24:28

so forth. We know theft is haram, abuse

00:24:28 --> 00:24:30

is haram, shitting people's blood is haram,

00:24:31 --> 00:24:33

rebal is haram, pork is haram,

00:24:33 --> 00:24:35

so on and so forth. Everyone knows what

00:24:36 --> 00:24:37

is halal and halal, but they need to

00:24:37 --> 00:24:39

back it up by reading the Quran,

00:24:40 --> 00:24:41

and to be attached to the Quran.

00:24:42 --> 00:24:45

Abdullah ibn Allahu Alaihi Wasallamu He was sitting

00:24:45 --> 00:24:47

with his wife one day, he was sick,

00:24:47 --> 00:24:49

he was lying when his wife left,

00:24:49 --> 00:24:51

and he started to cry,

00:24:51 --> 00:24:53

and his wife started to cry with him.

00:24:54 --> 00:24:55

He said, well,

00:24:55 --> 00:24:57

I was crying, I know why I was

00:24:57 --> 00:24:59

crying, but why did you cry?

00:25:00 --> 00:25:02

So she said, well, I saw you crying,

00:25:02 --> 00:25:05

I cried like you, to support you, emotional

00:25:05 --> 00:25:05

support.

00:25:18 --> 00:25:20

Now you, he said, I saw you cry,

00:25:20 --> 00:25:22

She said, I saw you crying, I started

00:25:22 --> 00:25:23

to cry like you.

00:25:23 --> 00:25:25

He said, the reason I'm crying because

00:25:26 --> 00:25:28

I remember this ayah from the Quran that

00:25:28 --> 00:25:29

talks about Jahannam,

00:25:29 --> 00:25:31

and the salah, the bridge between Jannah and

00:25:31 --> 00:25:33

the hannah, and the ayah says, none of

00:25:33 --> 00:25:35

you, except that they will pass over this

00:25:35 --> 00:25:39

bridge over Jannah, so Abdullaha Rabnuwaha said, Wallahi,

00:25:39 --> 00:25:41

I was not sure if I'll fall down,

00:25:41 --> 00:25:42

or I will be saved and go to

00:25:42 --> 00:25:44

Jannah, this is why I'm crying.

00:25:44 --> 00:25:46

So this is the understanding.

00:25:47 --> 00:25:50

So reading, reflecting, and applying the Quran to

00:25:50 --> 00:25:52

your life, and also if you are able

00:25:52 --> 00:25:53

to memorize,

00:25:53 --> 00:25:54

Alhamdulillah.

00:25:55 --> 00:25:57

Memorization is a great honor from Allah Subhanahu

00:25:57 --> 00:26:00

Wa Ta'ala. If someone memorizes the Quran,

00:26:00 --> 00:26:02

there's an authentic hadith that says on the

00:26:02 --> 00:26:05

day of judgment, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would

00:26:05 --> 00:26:08

put a crown of gold and pearl over

00:26:08 --> 00:26:08

your head,

00:26:09 --> 00:26:11

and the person will ask, You Allah, why

00:26:11 --> 00:26:13

am I getting dishonor? And Allah will say,

00:26:13 --> 00:26:15

This is because your kids are khafar.

00:26:15 --> 00:26:16

They memorize the Quran.

00:26:17 --> 00:26:20

But memorization by itself is not enough. Memorization

00:26:21 --> 00:26:22

without understanding

00:26:22 --> 00:26:24

and applying is not enough. It's not a

00:26:24 --> 00:26:26

good thing. We just add another copy of

00:26:26 --> 00:26:27

the Quran.

00:26:55 --> 00:26:57

But the people who memorize it and they

00:26:57 --> 00:26:59

don't apply it and they don't understand it

00:26:59 --> 00:27:01

they will not be they will not be

00:27:01 --> 00:27:02

from the people of the Quran on the

00:27:02 --> 00:27:04

day of judgment. Nas Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

00:27:04 --> 00:27:05

An YajAAalalalalal

00:27:05 --> 00:27:06

Quran

00:27:20 --> 00:27:23

The Quran has been translated by so many

00:27:23 --> 00:27:23

people.

00:27:24 --> 00:27:26

Muslims and non Muslims, those who speak Arabic,

00:27:27 --> 00:27:28

and those who don't So

00:27:29 --> 00:27:31

even if you read the Quran in translation,

00:27:31 --> 00:27:33

you still get something out of it

00:27:34 --> 00:27:35

Allah

00:27:35 --> 00:27:36

knows

00:27:36 --> 00:27:39

that around 85% of Muslims are not Arab.

00:27:40 --> 00:27:42

You see, a country like Indonesia, one single

00:27:42 --> 00:27:44

country, one single Muslim country,

00:27:45 --> 00:27:47

it has more Muslims than all Arab countries

00:27:47 --> 00:27:49

put together, 24 of them.

00:27:50 --> 00:27:53

One single non Arab country has more Muslims

00:27:53 --> 00:27:55

than all Arab countries combined.

00:27:56 --> 00:27:57

So 85%

00:27:57 --> 00:28:00

of Muslims are not Arab. Indians, Pakistanis,

00:28:00 --> 00:28:03

Turkish people, people from Africa, Latin America, Europe,

00:28:04 --> 00:28:07

Australia, from different places, they don't speak Arabic.

00:28:08 --> 00:28:10

So when you read the Quran in translation,

00:28:10 --> 00:28:12

you still get something out of it. Yes,

00:28:12 --> 00:28:15

it's good to study Arabic and try to

00:28:15 --> 00:28:16

read in the original language,

00:28:16 --> 00:28:18

because no translation

00:28:18 --> 00:28:19

will ever replace the Arabic.

00:28:20 --> 00:28:22

But if you can't, then by just reading

00:28:22 --> 00:28:25

the English translation, or the French, or the

00:28:25 --> 00:28:26

Urdu, or the Turkish, you will get something

00:28:26 --> 00:28:27

out of it.

00:28:27 --> 00:28:29

So I'll give you this story, and then

00:28:29 --> 00:28:30

we'll conclude, insha'Allah.

00:28:32 --> 00:28:34

So I mentioned this story a few days

00:28:34 --> 00:28:37

ago, at our Dawah training. So Insha'Allah, after

00:28:37 --> 00:28:39

Jum'ah, check out our booth downstairs,

00:28:40 --> 00:28:43

because tomorrow is the International Dawah Day, so

00:28:43 --> 00:28:45

we have our Dawah team here in the

00:28:45 --> 00:28:47

Mas'id. We'll be doing Dawah in Toronto and,

00:28:48 --> 00:28:49

Niagara Falls, Insha'Allah,

00:28:49 --> 00:28:52

giving out Quran translations and Dawah material, and

00:28:52 --> 00:28:54

we'll be giving out cold bottles of water

00:28:55 --> 00:28:57

with a label that has a Ayat from

00:28:57 --> 00:28:57

the Quran,

00:28:58 --> 00:29:00

and a website so people, if they want

00:29:00 --> 00:29:02

to know more about Islam, about the Quran,

00:29:02 --> 00:29:03

they can visit that website.

00:29:04 --> 00:29:06

So this guy is a new Nazi, from

00:29:06 --> 00:29:09

the US, they shave their heads bold, they

00:29:09 --> 00:29:11

have this * that hitla kid a lot,

00:29:11 --> 00:29:12

kid fool,

00:29:13 --> 00:29:14

and he hated

00:29:15 --> 00:29:16

non whites.

00:29:16 --> 00:29:18

So If you are brown, if you are

00:29:18 --> 00:29:20

Asian, if you are black, you'll be in

00:29:20 --> 00:29:22

trouble if you get on that guy's way.

00:29:23 --> 00:29:24

They hated non whites.

00:29:25 --> 00:29:27

This guy was very violent, because he used

00:29:27 --> 00:29:28

to do drugs,

00:29:29 --> 00:29:31

and he used to fight with his mother.

00:29:31 --> 00:29:33

So one day, he was fighting with his

00:29:33 --> 00:29:35

mother, and he pushed her to the side,

00:29:35 --> 00:29:36

she fell down, she hit the wall or

00:29:36 --> 00:29:38

the chair, she caught her head.

00:29:39 --> 00:29:40

So he ran away from the house because

00:29:40 --> 00:29:41

she called 911.

00:29:42 --> 00:29:44

So he said if I go to my

00:29:44 --> 00:29:45

friend's house, George,

00:29:46 --> 00:29:48

and I stay in his house the police

00:29:48 --> 00:29:50

will find me. I'm gonna go to a

00:29:50 --> 00:29:52

place where no one will think I'm there.

00:29:52 --> 00:29:53

The library.

00:29:54 --> 00:29:56

He doesn't go to the library. Okay, so

00:29:57 --> 00:29:58

he went to the library and he was

00:29:58 --> 00:29:59

sitting there on the table

00:30:00 --> 00:30:02

and he noticed that everyone is reading a

00:30:02 --> 00:30:02

book

00:30:03 --> 00:30:05

in a book, different fields

00:30:05 --> 00:30:07

math, science,

00:30:07 --> 00:30:08

English, poetry.

00:30:09 --> 00:30:10

So, he said, I gotta read something man,

00:30:10 --> 00:30:12

because if I sit here without a book

00:30:12 --> 00:30:14

people look at me like, I'll feel I

00:30:14 --> 00:30:16

look like a zombie, because everyone is reading,

00:30:16 --> 00:30:17

I'm sitting here doing nothing.

00:30:18 --> 00:30:19

So, he just put his hand in the

00:30:19 --> 00:30:21

shelf, and ran the book, he got a

00:30:21 --> 00:30:24

random book, and he started to read, it

00:30:24 --> 00:30:25

turned out that it was Quran.

00:30:26 --> 00:30:27

It's a true story.

00:30:27 --> 00:30:29

So he started to read, he read

00:30:30 --> 00:30:33

the introduction, eventually this guy became Muslim.

00:30:34 --> 00:30:36

Allah, it's a true story. And at the

00:30:36 --> 00:30:38

end of the story, they say this guy,

00:30:38 --> 00:30:38

he quit,

00:30:40 --> 00:30:42

the drugs he was using, and he became

00:30:42 --> 00:30:44

very nice to his mother, Sila Dorani. And

00:30:44 --> 00:30:46

the funny thing at the end of the

00:30:46 --> 00:30:48

story, it's not funny, but interesting, at the

00:30:48 --> 00:30:50

end of the story, he got married to

00:30:50 --> 00:30:52

an African sister from Kenya.

00:30:53 --> 00:30:56

A black sister. Right? The same people he

00:30:56 --> 00:30:58

hated, or he used to hate, because in

00:30:58 --> 00:31:01

Islam, Islam removes racism from the people.

00:31:01 --> 00:31:04

So, still, by reading the Quran, he got

00:31:04 --> 00:31:05

something out of it.

00:31:05 --> 00:31:08

The sister who visited, and this is also

00:31:08 --> 00:31:09

a true story, happened in Edmonton, a new

00:31:09 --> 00:31:12

Muslim sister told me that her friend was

00:31:12 --> 00:31:12

non Muslim.

00:31:13 --> 00:31:15

She had been Muslim for 2 years, this

00:31:15 --> 00:31:17

Muslim sister. She invited some of her non

00:31:17 --> 00:31:19

Muslim friends, They came to our house for

00:31:19 --> 00:31:19

lunch,

00:31:20 --> 00:31:22

and this Muslim sister, she didn't know, she

00:31:22 --> 00:31:24

kept a copy of the translation of the

00:31:24 --> 00:31:25

Quran in the washroom.

00:31:25 --> 00:31:27

You know, some people like to sit and

00:31:27 --> 00:31:28

read newspapers,

00:31:28 --> 00:31:30

they like to sing because of the echo

00:31:31 --> 00:31:33

and stuff, so she came she kept the

00:31:33 --> 00:31:35

English translation in the washroom.

00:31:35 --> 00:31:37

She didn't know the ruling, but at the

00:31:37 --> 00:31:39

end of the day, the English doesn't take

00:31:39 --> 00:31:41

the exact same ruling with the Arabic, because

00:31:41 --> 00:31:43

what is sacred is the Arabic. So she

00:31:43 --> 00:31:46

didn't know. She kept the copy in in

00:31:46 --> 00:31:48

the washroom, then the non Muslim friend came,

00:31:48 --> 00:31:50

she used the washroom, she started to read,

00:31:50 --> 00:31:51

and eventually,

00:31:52 --> 00:31:53

she took shahal.

00:31:53 --> 00:31:55

Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives Hidayah in

00:31:55 --> 00:31:58

mysterious ways. So she got Hidayah in the

00:31:58 --> 00:32:00

washroom. Who who can imagine something like this?

00:32:01 --> 00:32:03

So by just reading the translation, Insha'Allah, you

00:32:03 --> 00:32:05

will get some of the reward.

00:32:06 --> 00:32:09

Insha'Allah, after Jum'ah, there's a table downstairs,

00:32:10 --> 00:32:12

Brother Abarissa, he's going to be standing there

00:32:12 --> 00:32:13

with his wife, Insha'Allah,

00:32:14 --> 00:32:16

and they will because we'll be releasing our

00:32:16 --> 00:32:18

translation of the Quran. It's called the clear

00:32:18 --> 00:32:20

Quran, and this is the Arabic English edition

00:32:20 --> 00:32:20

hardcover.

00:32:22 --> 00:32:24

And I'm gonna conclude with this. It's something

00:32:24 --> 00:32:26

interesting, so I thought I might, share it

00:32:26 --> 00:32:28

with you. A few years ago, 3 4

00:32:28 --> 00:32:29

years ago,

00:32:29 --> 00:32:32

I moved from Edmonton to Toronto to stay

00:32:32 --> 00:32:34

for 1 month at a masjid on Dundas,

00:32:34 --> 00:32:35

downtown.

00:32:36 --> 00:32:39

So, every Jummah, I used to go get

00:32:39 --> 00:32:40

2 or 3 Khutbas,

00:32:40 --> 00:32:42

and leave, and of course,

00:32:42 --> 00:32:44

I used to go to the hotel from

00:32:44 --> 00:32:45

the Masjid, or back and forth.

00:32:46 --> 00:32:47

The cab driver

00:32:47 --> 00:32:49

cab drivers all the time, they were called

00:32:50 --> 00:32:52

Most of them were Muslim. Right? So all

00:32:52 --> 00:32:53

the people who took me from the hotel

00:32:53 --> 00:32:55

to the Masjid, back and forth, were Muslim.

00:32:57 --> 00:32:59

So, that one day,

00:33:00 --> 00:33:02

3 4 years ago, summertime, August,

00:33:02 --> 00:33:04

the cab driver was not Muslim.

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

So, out of nowhere he said, You know

00:33:07 --> 00:33:08

what?

00:33:08 --> 00:33:11

Muslims are good people, but Islam sucks. Islam

00:33:11 --> 00:33:13

is evil. I said, okay. It reminded me

00:33:13 --> 00:33:15

of Fox News. I started Fox News for

00:33:15 --> 00:33:18

PhD for 5 years. They say the same

00:33:18 --> 00:33:20

thing. Muslims are good, Islam is bad. So

00:33:20 --> 00:33:22

it is better if you leave Islam, you

00:33:22 --> 00:33:24

will be good. This is what they say.

00:33:24 --> 00:33:26

So I said why? He said because the

00:33:26 --> 00:33:27

Quran calls me Ayoan.

00:33:28 --> 00:33:29

Your Quran calls me animal.

00:33:30 --> 00:33:32

I said well, I know the whole Quran

00:33:32 --> 00:33:34

by heart. It doesn't say that anywhere.

00:33:34 --> 00:33:36

He started the Ayah from Surah Anfal

00:33:37 --> 00:33:40

in Nashar al Dawab binindallallahu ladheena kafar. Indeed

00:33:40 --> 00:33:40

the worst

00:33:41 --> 00:33:43

Dawab in the sight of Allah are the

00:33:43 --> 00:33:43

Kufar.

00:33:44 --> 00:33:46

I said I speak Arabic. The word Dawab

00:33:46 --> 00:33:49

bin Arabic does not mean animals necessarily, but

00:33:49 --> 00:33:51

it means all living beings. All the things

00:33:51 --> 00:33:53

that move on the face of the earth,

00:33:53 --> 00:33:55

human beings, birds,

00:33:55 --> 00:33:57

the squirrel in your backyard,

00:33:58 --> 00:34:00

they are called all called dawab. The words

00:34:00 --> 00:34:03

of all beings, human or living beings in

00:34:03 --> 00:34:05

the sight of Allah are the those who

00:34:05 --> 00:34:05

disbelieve,

00:34:06 --> 00:34:08

and those who violate their treaties with Muhammad

00:34:08 --> 00:34:10

all the time. He said, No, this is

00:34:10 --> 00:34:11

what my translation says.

00:34:11 --> 00:34:14

So I went home, there is this website,

00:34:14 --> 00:34:16

it's called Islam Awaken, they give you a

00:34:16 --> 00:34:19

translation of the Quran, one verse in Arabic,

00:34:19 --> 00:34:22

40, 45 different translations in English,

00:34:22 --> 00:34:23

and I looked at them,

00:34:23 --> 00:34:26

yes, the man was right! Most of them

00:34:26 --> 00:34:27

say animals or beasts,

00:34:28 --> 00:34:28

right?

00:34:29 --> 00:34:30

Then I realized

00:34:30 --> 00:34:31

how many mistranslations

00:34:32 --> 00:34:33

and mis you know,

00:34:34 --> 00:34:35

false

00:34:35 --> 00:34:37

translations are there, because most of them were

00:34:37 --> 00:34:39

not done by Arabs. People don't speak Arabic,

00:34:39 --> 00:34:43

they translate it. Muslims and non Muslims. People

00:34:43 --> 00:34:46

are not well established in Qur'anic studies, in

00:34:46 --> 00:34:48

Arabic, in English, in translation, they they know

00:34:48 --> 00:34:49

nothing. They just translate.

00:34:51 --> 00:34:53

And those who actually know Arabic from Egypt,

00:34:53 --> 00:34:56

from Lebanon, from other countries who translate the

00:34:56 --> 00:34:58

Quran, they complicate things for no reason, they

00:34:58 --> 00:34:59

make it very difficult.

00:34:59 --> 00:35:01

Even for Muslims, when you read the Quran,

00:35:02 --> 00:35:05

well, it's all English, Shakespeare man, what is

00:35:05 --> 00:35:06

this? You don't understand.

00:35:07 --> 00:35:09

Horrible mistakes in translation. I'll give you one,

00:35:09 --> 00:35:11

the Kharaz will let you go, insha'Allah.

00:35:16 --> 00:35:18

And this is why a lot of people,

00:35:18 --> 00:35:21

they attack the Quran in translation,

00:35:21 --> 00:35:23

thinking that this is what the Quran says,

00:35:23 --> 00:35:25

but this is what the translator

00:35:26 --> 00:35:27

did in the translation, it is not the

00:35:27 --> 00:35:28

Quran.

00:35:28 --> 00:35:31

So one ayah from Surah Anbiya, it talks

00:35:31 --> 00:35:33

about Yunus alaihis salam

00:35:33 --> 00:35:35

Then Noon, the man of the whale,

00:35:36 --> 00:35:38

Itharba Muwadab, and he left his town out

00:35:38 --> 00:35:40

in a rage,

00:35:40 --> 00:35:41

for Vanna al Nafdura'alai,

00:35:42 --> 00:35:44

thinking that Allah has no power over him.

00:35:44 --> 00:35:47

This is what they say in translation, almost

00:35:47 --> 00:35:49

all of them. But the word

00:35:49 --> 00:35:49

it

00:35:50 --> 00:35:52

doesn't mean that at all.

00:35:52 --> 00:35:53

How come that a Prophet

00:35:54 --> 00:35:55

think that Allah

00:35:56 --> 00:35:57

has no power over them?

00:35:59 --> 00:36:01

They use the dictionary and this is what

00:36:01 --> 00:36:01

it says.

00:36:02 --> 00:36:02

Here

00:36:03 --> 00:36:05

means it is just like the other ayat

00:36:05 --> 00:36:06

in the Quran. Why

00:36:09 --> 00:36:10

not do?

00:36:18 --> 00:36:21

So it doesn't say Allah has no power

00:36:21 --> 00:36:23

over him, it says that Allah Subhanahu Wa

00:36:23 --> 00:36:25

Ta'ala will make things tight for him, He

00:36:25 --> 00:36:27

will train him, because he left his town

00:36:27 --> 00:36:28

without permission.

00:36:30 --> 00:36:32

He put him in a very tight place.

00:36:32 --> 00:36:34

What is it? The belly of the whale.

00:36:34 --> 00:36:35

He made it very tight for him, and

00:36:35 --> 00:36:37

this is in many places in the Quran.

00:36:37 --> 00:36:38

Allah gives

00:36:39 --> 00:36:39

unlimited

00:36:41 --> 00:36:41

provisions,

00:36:41 --> 00:36:44

resources to whoever he wants, and he limits.

00:36:44 --> 00:36:46

He restrains. Allahu yapsu tur rizkalimaniasha

00:36:47 --> 00:36:49

wa. This is the meaning only someone who

00:36:49 --> 00:36:50

studied Arabic

00:36:50 --> 00:36:54

formally, professionally, will understand this. But in translation,

00:36:54 --> 00:36:56

they don't know. So this is why, alhamdulillah,

00:36:56 --> 00:36:57

it took us,

00:36:58 --> 00:37:01

several years, inshaAllah, to translate this translation. So

00:37:01 --> 00:37:03

check it out, it's available for you, for

00:37:03 --> 00:37:05

your kids. It makes it very easy for

00:37:05 --> 00:37:08

them to understand the Quran, and when they

00:37:08 --> 00:37:10

memorize, it shows them where to start and

00:37:10 --> 00:37:11

where to stop. So we ask Allah subhanahu

00:37:11 --> 00:37:13

wa ta'ala to accept this effort from us,

00:37:13 --> 00:37:15

and to make it easy for us, and

00:37:15 --> 00:37:17

we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to guide

00:37:17 --> 00:37:19

people to asrath and mustaqeem, and give us

00:37:19 --> 00:37:20

the best in this life, and the best

00:37:20 --> 00:37:21

in the life to come.

Share Page