Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Special Quran Gems 8
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Now, till the end of my talk, think
about the meaning of Allahu Samat. So I'm
gonna ask you at the end to raise
your hand if you know the meaning.
So with that I'll begin insha Allah.
The Quran was revealed in which month?
The month of Ramadan. Right? So the Quran
was revealed from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, Rabbulaalameen.
To Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the best
and the most, honorable Prophet,
through the most honorable Angel, Jibril alaihis salaam,
in the most honorable month, the month of
Ramadan,
in the most honorable night, laylatul qadr
in the most honorable land, Malka.
So it's coming from honorable, through honorable, to
honorable, with honorable, in honorable, and so on
and so forth. So this gives you an
an idea how honorable this book is.
And we are recommended to read this Quran
during the month of Ramadan. This is the
month the Quran was revealed. Right? We know
from the hadith of the Prophet SAW Alaihi
Wasallam that the Quran and fasting
have a very strong connection. The Prophet SAW
Alaihi Wasallam Musaheb Bukhari says that fasting and
the Quran
will make shafa'ah for you on the Day
of Judgment and the shafa'ah will be accepted.
So this is a very honorable and very
powerful book.
Now, what do Muslim do? Most Muslims. How
do they achieve the Quran?
Most of us, and I'm being honest here,
I'm not trying to offend anyone,
most of us, we just put it on
the shelf to collect dust most of the
time. We receive Qurans as gifts,
and all we do is just put it
to collect dust, and that's it. We don't
read it.
I remember one time I asked one brother,
what was the last time you opened the
Quran? He said, SubhanAllah, I opened it yesterday.
And I said, which Surah did you read?
He said, I didn't read any Surah. I
was actually looking for my driver's license,
and it was in the Mus'haf. Okay. Thank
you. Fair enough. But most of the time
most of the time,
we,
we put the Quran on our windshield not
windshield. What is the thing in front of
you when you drive? Dashboard. Dashboard.
Just to afford Barqa, for, protection of a
car. In case you don't have insurance. Right?
So you just put it there for Barqa.
Some of us, we put it on the
wall behind us, like certain aya from the
Quran, and sometimes we don't know the meaning,
we just put it there on the wall
for Baqa.
If you see videos from our, like, dictators
back home, our tyrants, our rulers, masha'Allah,
and they always just, have this Ayah behind
them. Have them in Fathir
Abi. Like, if this is by the grace
of Allah, like, this position I have.
The thieves and the chores, the hearses back
home, they have this aya behind them.
Allah will give to whoever he wills without
limit.
So we just use clashees from the Quran,
and we don't care what they mean.
For some people, the Quran has has turned
into,
the book of the dead. Why? Because their
only condition with the Quran is when someone
dies, and they read Quran for them, Surah
Fatah.
No. This book was intended for the living.
Allah
says in Surah, in fact, obey the Prophet
when he invites you to that which gives
you life. So the Quran is a life
giving book,
and the Quran is meant to be recited.
The word Quran in Arabic means recitation.
So it is not actually a book, it's
a recitation that is inside. It's not the
paper, it's the words that matter to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
A lot of people, they direct their kids
to memorize the Quran, and this is one
of the greatest things you can do for
your kid, to teach them Quran.
On the Day of Judgment, there is an
authentic hadith, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
says that the parents who teach your kids
to be hafib, they they will come on
the Day of Judgment with a crown, something
like this, but from gold and diamond, and
this will be given to the parents
as an honor for
making their kids hafiz. So this is a
great honor.
But also on top of that,
we need to teach our kids the meaning
of the Quran.
Umar ibn Khattar
we know from authentic narrations, it took him
12 years
to memorize Surah Baqarah. 12 years. Why? Because
whenever he memorized an Ayah, he never moved
till the next one until he applied the
previous Ayah. So if there is an Ayah
that talks about Zakah, he fully understood the
Ayah, and he applied the Ayah. If there's
an Ayah that talks about Salah, he fully
understood the Ayah, and he applied the Ayah.
And so on and so forth. So reading
is good,
memorizing is excellent,
understanding
is great, but what is best is to
put the Quran into action. You apply it
to your life. If it says, Ramadan is
Haram, you stay away. If it says, drinking
is Haram, you stay. Tattoos have you so
whatever the Quran says, this is Haram, stay
away from. If it says, this is something
good, you have to follow it. Most of
the time, when the Quran tells us to
do this, and don't do this, our problem
is,
we we think he's not talking to you.
He's talking to your cousin, he's talking to
your neighbor, but not you. The way the
Sahaba understood it, if it says do this,
so it's talking to you. Not the guy
next to you, not the guy behind you.
No. You.
The reason why a lot of Muslims are
not understanding the Quran,
this is why there are a lot of
misconceptions in the Muslim community,
and there are a lot of
people who fake,
they are fake or fraud, they claim to
be teachers
and even prophets.
For example, what's his name? Rashad Khalifa
in Arizona, bay back in the 19 eighties,
he's an Egyptian scientist, but he traveled to
Arizona, he was a scientist, whatever, he wrote
about the mathematic mathematics in the Quran. At
some point, he claimed to be a Prophet
from Allah.
So someone said, okay, what's your proof that
you're a Prophet? He says, You have the
Quran, yes, open, I have 30 Surah Baqarah
Wa'il Qara Rabbukaril Mala Hikati Nijja'il Al Fil
Ardi Khalifa. Do you see the word khalifa?
This is my last name. So it talks
about me. So they said, okay, you are
the Khalifa.
Actually, thousands of people believed in him as
a prophet.
Because people, yanif, they don't have the proper
understanding of the ayaat. I remember another time,
in Edmonton, I was in the masjid one
day, and this brother came to me, and
he said,
my grandfather
is very old, has been in and out
the hospital for a long time, and he
is in pain.
So he said that sometimes I wish that
he died, so that his pain his pain
will be over.
So he told me that a friend of
his, who claims to be a scholar on
the Quran,
told him, if you want your grandfather to
die, read surahs and zara on him. So
this surah is gonna finish him by
He would die.
So I told him, this is nonsense. There's
no hadith. There's nothing that talks about this.
Right? So what we need to do, we
need to read the Quran, understand it, if
you memorize it Alhamdulillah,
and apply it to your life.
Some of you will say, well, 85% of
Muslims are not Arab. They're either Turkish, they
speak Urdu,
Somali, they speak different languages, French, English. Only
80% of Muslims in the world are Arab,
and not every Arab in the world can
understand,
the meaning of the Quran. They do most
of the time, I would say, 60, 70%,
but there are some ayats where they need
the fasir to understand,
the meaning.
If you read the translation in Urdu, Turkish,
Somali, English, French, you still get some of
the greatness and some of the beauty of
the Quran. I'm gonna conclude with this story.
There was this sister in Edmonton.
She had been Muslim for 2 3 years.
I was there, and she would come for
halakas and stuff, and she told me that
she, when she accepted Islam, she kept a
copy of the translation of the Quran in
her bathroom, in English.
She didn't know the ruling. But in any
way, the English does not take the ruling
of the Arabic. What is sacred is the
Arabic words, not the English anyway, but we
shouldn't keep the translation in the washroom anyway.
So she said, she had some non Muslim
friends over,
one of them had to use the washroom,
and this lets her keep the Quran in
some magazines, you know. Some people like to
stay inside, read, and some like to sing,
I don't know. You know.
So,
the lady who had to use the washroom
saw the Quran,
so she started to flip the pages, she
read Surah Fatihah Surah Baqarah, and when she
came out, she said whatever this is, I
would like to follow this, and she took
shahada the same day. So the sister said
that Allah gave her Hidayah in the washroom,
but through the translation of the Quran. So
even if you read Tajima, you're gonna still
get something, some of the, benefit or some
of the, the the greatness of the Quran.
So I ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
give us the best, and I ask Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to help us honor and
treasure the Quran, Ameen Ameen. Who knows the
meaning of a summit?
Is the brother in the back?
Doesn't he die anymore? Hassan, masha'Allah.
You'll get this, dates from Madinah.
Yeah. You can pass it to him, please.
Convertible card. So as Samad is the one,
needed by everyone, but he does not need
anyone. This is the meaning of as Samad.
As Sayid Ulla bi Usmat Ula il Hajjat.
Asad Barak al Lawfi.
So the question for last night, there is
one eye in the Quran that, mentions 2
masajid, and of course, this is the
And the, winner is brother Abdullah, Duwala Duwala
Duwala
Duwala.
Abdullah?
Duwala.
Tonight's question is very easy.
There are several fruits mentioned in the promana.
We have grapes,
dates, pomegranates,
so on and so forth.
Bananas are actually mentioned in the Quran.
And this comes as, good news for Somalis
because I love Somali food, chicken suqaar, beef
suqaar. They always eat their food with, bananas.
There is one ayah in the Quran that
mentions bananas.
If you know where this ayah is, where
the word banana is mentioned, most, banana is
mentioned in the Quran,
Email me, tomorrow inshallah at imamustafat
anatoliacenter.c.
Jazakkullahu.