Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reflections 20 The Month Of The Quran

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.