Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reflections 20 The Month Of The Quran
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The transcript discusses the importance of the Quran in practicing life and living a good life. It emphasizes the need for the Quran to be memorized and applied to our lives, and that it should be read and memorized. The transcript uses the Quran as a reminder to people to read and memorize the Quran, and that the Quran should be used for our lives and should be applied to our lives. The winner of their sister will be Sarta Hocha, and the question for tonight is whether the Quran was revealed over 23 years, and the winner of their sister will be Sarta Hocha.
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So,
basically Ramadan is the month of the Quran,
so in the next few minutes, I'll be
talking about the Quran and our relationship with
this month.
Allah
is Khaliq, and the best of creators, and
He revealed the Quran.
So the Quran came from the best.
And Jibril alaihis salaam delivered the Quran to
Muhammad so Jibril alaihis salaam became the best
angel.
Assal al Malaika.
And the Quran came down to Muhammad,
the best of the prophets.
And he came down in the month of
Ramadan, the best month.
Un Laylat Al Qadr, the best night.
In the city of Makkah, the best of
cities. And he came down to this Ummah,
The best Ummah ever evolved from humanity.
So everything about the Quran is the best,
is the finest.
So whatever problems that we have in life,
social, economic,
financial,
political, the Quran always has a solution in
there, and so on and so forth. So
basically, how do we treat the Quran? So
usually people treat the Quran in different ways.
So for example,
I'm gonna talk about Egypt. I don't know
about you guys. In Egypt,
I should have closed up.
So in Egypt,
to the best of my knowledge, car insurance
is not obligatory. I could be wrong, that
it's not obligatory.
So what people do basically, they keep a
copy of the Quran either in the front
or in the back for protection, if they
don't have insurance.
Another thing,
the Quran has become to be associated with
death.
Like, if you visit someone, at least in
my village in Egypt, if you go to
someone's house and the Quran is playing in
the background,
the first question is,
minmet. Like, who died?
So the Quran has been associated
with death. It's the book of the dead.
But if you look at the Quran, this
is how Allah
describes the Quran. He revealed the Quran,
The Quran came as a reminder to those
who are truly alive.
It's it's the book of the living according
to what Allah
says in the Quran. Some people they like
to frame certain ayaat, and they put it
on the wall, masha'Allah, it's for Barakah and
so on and so forth, and they don't
really reflect on the meaning. Because,
in all of our courts back home,
you know,
when you pass a judgment between people, you
have to judge in all fairness.
And we know that our judicial system is
probably the worst, the most corrupt in the
entire planet, galaxy, probably.
And and and all the tyrants and, you
know, corrupt rulers in our countries, they have
this cliche from the Quran, this ayah, have
them in Fadarabi.
This is by the grace of Allah, from
the help of Allah, and Shaytan is going
like, what the? You know, because I helped
you every step of the way.
I taught you how to be corrupt, and
how to bribe, and how to do coup
coups, and, you know, and so on, and
so
forth. And now when you made it to
the top, you killed so many people, you
throw so many people in jail, you're so
corrupt,
now you give credit to Allah,
I did everything for you! Now, shaitan is
going, is going crazy.
Another way people deal with the Quran,
so I remember when I was young in
the in the Jahiliyyah til'ula, in the early
days of Jahiliyyah, when I was very young,
and a lot of people still do this
thing till this day.
They did they don't do istikhara,
so basically if they want to do something,
they just open a random page. I see
some of you are smiling because you probably
do the same thing. So basically, they open
the Quran if it says something positive, like
the ayat al Sheif
just recited
also. So, basically, if it says
this is positive, I'm gonna do it. If
you talk about
I'm gonna do it. But if he talks
about You Ibrahim Wa'arab Al Hadda, or if
he talks about Jahannam, and, khalas, I'm gonna
keep him awake. Right? So we do the
same thing.
So I remember this story from when we're
young,
there's this, personality
in Islamic,
tradition they call it, Juhad. Like in Egypt
they call it Juhad,
in, in other countries they call it Hoja,
and so on and so forth. So basically,
Juhad did the same thing. He wanted to
buy a donkey,
and he did the same thing. He just
opened the Quran,
and he came across something positive. He went
to the market, a suit, and he bought
the donkey.
So he his wife came and she said,
okay. What motivated you to go and buy
the donkey? So he said, I opened a
random page to
and the ayah
said,
We'll give you a brother to help you.
So he went yeah. That was the sign
for him to go and and buy the
donkey. The Quran is Quran is not for
this, you know. It's not meant to be
used in this way.
Another example, a very weird example that I
came across in Edmonton,
so I was there for 2 years, the
Imam of the, Rashid Masjid, the first Masjid
built in Canada, 1938.
So basically this brother came and he said,
Imam, you know, we have a problem. My
grandpa, very old, maybe in his nineties, he
was sick all the time, in and out
the hospital and stuff.
So one of his friends,
knew about the situation, so he gave him
no seeha. He
said, you know, I know your grandpa is
suffering,
and if you want him to die, just
read and
he's going to finish him off. Like, you
read the Surah then
and he will die.
And he was asking, is this correct?
And I said, dude, Allah, if this was
correct, we should have used it a long
time ago for Tony Blair and George Bush
and Donald Trump and you know what I'm
talking about? This is this is nonsense.
Yeah. There are so many suckers in this
world who could have used it, and but
no. The Quran is not used for this.
Allah
revealed the Quran
as a reminder to Al Alamin, for humanity,
as a reminder. So the Quran should be
read.
The Quran should be memorized.
The shura, Quran should be reflected on with
Tadawwah.
And the Quran should be applied to our
lives. The Quran is there, and the way
I look at the Quran, the Quran to
me, as a Muslim, is just like the
manual that comes with the phone or the
iPad.
So if you go by this manual, you
will live a good life.
You know, if you go by the manual,
then your life will be amazing. But if
you turn your back to the manual, you
throw it away,
then So I know people get excited the
first couple of days, they get, you know,
they dig the Quran out of the dust,
they read the first couple of pages,
then, you know, Khalaas, they lose interest, and
they put it back. So I remember one
time I gave this talk, and,
I asked the brother in the Masjid, I
said, okay, when is the last time you
you opened the Mus'haf? And he said,
a few days ago. I said, Masha'Allah, this
is amazing. You are giving me hope in
humanity. Which surah did you read? And he
said, well, I was looking for my driver's
license.
Because if you want to hide something from
your brothers and sisters at home, put it
in a book.
Maybe in the Quran, they will not they
will not find it. Right? So, yeah. So
we need to bring the Quran back to
our life. It has the solution Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala calls it, chief at a healing.
And he doesn't call it dawa because dawa
is a medicine. Maybe it will work, maybe
it will not work, but Allah
calls it shefa.
It's a healing for sure. Whether we're talking
the spiritual
illnesses, physical illnesses,
social problem, economic, financial, Allah
put the solution there because this is the
planet of relation,
and it is good for all times and
all places. So we'll continue tomorrow, inshallah. We
ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us
the barakah and the risa of the Quran,
Amina, Alba Alabi.
Their question for last night was, if you
fast for the last 6 days of Shawwal,
what do you give? And the prophet
said in the hadith, you will give the
reward of fasting an entire year. Because if
you do a good thing, you get the
reward multiplied by 10, 30 days Ramadan,
by 10, 300, 6 days Shawwal, that's, 60.
360, that's the reward for the entire year.
And the winner of his sister will be
Sarta Hocha.
Sarta Hoca.
Sounds like an Albanian name. Right.
Kynav. No. Kynav is not from Albania.
No. So, yeah. So the sister can collect
the, prize later inshallah. And the question for
tonight,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in the Quran
in, that the Quran was revealed Un Laylatul
Qadr.
But we understand that the Quran was revealed
over a period of 23 years.