Mustafa Khattab – Tadabbur The Art Of Reflecting On The Quran

Mustafa Khattab
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The speakers discuss the use of the Q booked in Islam, including the importance of teaching the Prophet serving the people and sponsorizing others. They also encourage people to use the Q booked to teach the Prophet serving the people and share the reward with their families. The speakers encourage people to sponsor one box and make a donation, while also reminding them to teach the Prophet serving the people and encourage them to share the reward with their families.
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So, his relative had an ear infection.

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He went to the doctor.

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So, the doctor examined his ear, and he

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told him, you have an ear infection, and

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he told him, these tablets, take a tablet

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every eight hours, and I want to see

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you after three days.

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Okay, as they say in Somali, no problem.

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So, however, the patient came first thing in

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the morning.

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Not after three days, he came first thing

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in the morning.

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So, the doctor said, khair, what happened?

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So, he said, well, I took the first

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tablet, I was in pain.

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I took the second one, I couldn't sleep

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the whole night.

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I took the third one, I was in

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tears.

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So, the doctor said, khair, inshallah, let me

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re-examine your ear, and sure enough, he

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looked inside his ear, and he found the

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three tablets stuffed inside.

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مشكلة وين, big problem.

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So, the doctor gave him the right medicine,

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but he was using it the right way.

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So, whenever I tell the story, people start

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laughing, but the problem is sometimes, subhanallah, we

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do the same thing with the Qur'an.

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It's shifa, as Allah says in the Qur

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'an, but sometimes we use it the wrong

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way.

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But let me first make the distinction between

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shifa and ilaj, shaykhna.

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Ilaj is medicine, shifa is healing for sure.

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Which one did Allah use to describe the

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Qur'an?

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Ilaj or shifa?

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Shifa, because it's healing for sure.

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Ilaj, medicine, if you take it, maybe it

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will work for you, maybe it will not

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work for you.

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Maybe it's good, let's say someone has a

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fever, so he goes to the doctor, he

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gives him ilaj, medicine.

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So if you read the, usually the medicine

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comes with a flyer, you read the flyer,

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my nasihah to you, my advice, don't read

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the flyer that comes with the medicine, because

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you'll be depressed.

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So it tells you, these are the symptoms,

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if you take the medicine, it's gonna treat

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this little problem that you have, but you

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have five pages of side effects.

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Starting with drowsiness, all the way to kidney

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failure, heart attacks, blood pressure, like what is

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this man, I just had a headache, it's

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gonna kill me.

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So Allah calls it shifa, healing for sure,

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not ilaj, medicine.

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And the Qur'an is ilaj, it's shifa

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for personal problems, family problems, society problems, everything

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is there in the Qur'an.

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And it also solves the political problems that

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we have in society, social, economic, everything.

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So I remember one time, I used to

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visit a lot of Islamic schools in Canada,

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Toronto area, and the kids there in the

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school, they asked so many fantastic questions.

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Some questions are crazy, like imam, imam, what

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color is the black stone?

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la hawla wa la quwwata illa billahi wa

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sallim wa al-jinni biyidu wala biyawlid?

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al-jinni, do they give birth or lay

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eggs?

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habibi, who cares?

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I don't know.

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I don't know, man, I don't know.

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Another question was, when we live on the

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moon or Mars, which way is the qibla?

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This is why, brothers and sisters, I decided

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to retire as an imam.

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khalas, I don't work as an imam anymore.

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No more talaq, no more counseling, khalas, finished

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for me.

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But some of the questions are very good.

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Like one kid once asked me, there's a

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hadith from a Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in

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Musnad Imam Ahmed, other collections, where he says

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that throughout history, from Adam to Muhammad Sallallahu

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Alaihi Wasallam, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sent

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a total of 124,000 prophets.

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These were the prophets, like Harun and other

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prophets.

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The ones who came with messages, the number

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is smaller, right?

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So not every prophet received a book from

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Allah.

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The number of the prophets who received messages,

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revelations, like Qur'an, Zabur, Tawrah, the number

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was much smaller.

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So he said, why are not all of

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them mentioned in the Qur'an?

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So I told him, if Allah were to

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mention the 124,000 in the Qur'an,

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we only have 25 of them mentioned by

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name, their stories, sometimes in great detail, sometimes

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briefly.

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But if the Qur'an were to mention

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the 124,000 prophets, it's going to turn

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into another encyclopedia Britannica, right?

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But the Qur'an is a kitab l

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'i'tabar, it's not a history book.

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However, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sampled those

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prophets.

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So when it comes to political problems, read

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the story of Firaun and Musa Alayhi Salaam.

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Social problems, family issues, read the story of

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Yusuf Alayhi Salaam.

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Financial problems, read the story of Shu'ayb

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Alayhi Salaam with his people.

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So among themselves, these anbiya, they covered everything

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that we need in our lives.

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And Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in his seerah,

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in his life, he covered everything that we

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need to know about this life, the next

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life, social, economic, political, everything is there.

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So the Qur'an provides solutions for everything.

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However, if you look at the conditions of

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the ummah, there are so many issues and

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problems.

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Why?

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Because people turn their backs on the Qur

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'an.

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Let me give you a couple of examples

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to illustrate.

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So I'm not going to pick on Indians

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and Pakistanis tonight.

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I'll be picking on Egyptians because I'm from

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Egypt, right?

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So if you go to my village in

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Egypt, basically, if you go to someone's house

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and they play the Qur'an, the first

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question people will ask, مين مات?

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Who died?

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So to a certain degree, people have associated

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the Qur'an with death.

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They only play it if someone dies.

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The book of the dead.

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But Allah says in the Qur'an, لِيُنذِرَ

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مَنْ كَانَ حَيًّا This Qur'an is a

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reminder to those who are truly alive.

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Another way people use it back there, because

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car insurance is not farz in Egypt.

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Here you can't drive if you don't have

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a car insurance.

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But back there, if you don't have car

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insurance, it's not a big deal.

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So what they do, they put a copy

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of the Qur'an in the front of

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the car or in the back for protection.

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Again, if theft and accidents and so on

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and so forth.

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Some people, they just frame ayat of the

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Qur'an and they put them on their

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wall in the living room to make it

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look nice.

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Some others, and I'm guilty of this, when

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I was young, في الجاهلية الأولى So what

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we used to do, we didn't know istikhara

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back then.

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They would open the Qur'an randomly, a

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random page, and they take a look at

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the first ayah they see, and they act

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based on that ayah.

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So let's say for example, someone wants to

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marry Zaynab.

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So they open a random page, first ayah.

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Oh, I see this ayah here.

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If it's positive, if it talks about jannah,

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نعيم, good things, خلاص, Zaynab is approved.

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But if you open a random page, جهنم,

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barbecue, like, suffering.

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No, Zaynab is ابتال.

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I'm gonna go for Fatima, right?

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People do this, and I did it when

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I was young.

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Subhanallah.

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The weirdest thing, the weirdest use of the

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Qur'an that I've ever heard in my

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life, I was in Alberta, Canada, and one

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time, this guy came to me and he

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said, he got an advice from a friend

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of his, because his own grandfather had been

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sick for a number of years in and

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out of the hospital.

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He was suffering, basically.

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Allah shower him with mercy.

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So his friend told him, I know your

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grandpa has been suffering for a long time.

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If you want to end his suffering, just

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read surah Zalzalah on him.

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It's going to finish him off.

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As soon as you read it, janazah, you

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will be in jannah, خلاص.

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I said, I've never heard this like, عجيب,

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هذا كذب محد.

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له قرنان.

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I've never heard anything like this in my

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life.

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So استجيبوا الله والرسول إذا دعاكم لما يحييكم.

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The Qur'an gives life, it doesn't cause

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death, and so on and so forth.

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So this is how many people use the

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Qur'an, just for decoration, it looks nice,

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mashallah, this and that.

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No.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed the Qur

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'an for a reason.

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The basic level of your connection with the

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Qur'an before we talk about tadabbur is

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to read the Qur'an.

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Read the Qur'an.

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I know the majority of us, the majority

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of Muslims, 85% they don't know or

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understand the Arabic language.

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May Allah reward you for your struggle.

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You'll get double the rewards that I personally

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as an Arab would receive because of your

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effort.

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The next level is hifz, memorization.

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And we have this notion in some cultures

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that your relationship with the Qur'an will

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end as soon as you become hafiz al

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-Qur'an.

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Where did this come from?

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Your relationship does not end with hifz, it

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begins with hifz.

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This is the basic level.

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The next level after hifz is to understand

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the Qur'an, understand the meaning of the

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Qur'an.

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And subhanAllah, most of the deviant groups in

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the history of Islam have capitalized on people's

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misunderstanding of the Qur'an to prove their

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own existence.

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For example, there was an Egyptian guy who

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became very popular in the 1980s in the

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US, Towson, Arizona.

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His name is Rashad Khalifa.

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Number 19 in the Qur'an and this.

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And he became very famous.

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And at some point he claimed to be

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a prophet.

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نبي من مصر.

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You know, mashaAllah.

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مصر طلعت فرعون وطلعت الأمر.

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What is this, man?

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They asked him, what is your proof that

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you are a prophet?

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He says, my proof is in the Qur

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'an.

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Okay, فين الدليل?

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He says, Allah says in the Qur'an,

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وَإِذْ قَالَ رُبُّكَ الْمَلَئِكَةِ إِنِّ جَعَلُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ

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خَلِيفًا My last name is Khalifa, so it's

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talking about me.

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What is this, man?

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So the ayah in surah Baqarah, ayah 30,

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where Allah talks about putting a Khalifa on

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earth, an authority.

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So he said, this Khalifa, the word Khalifa

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refers to my last name.

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And some people actually fell for it.

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Tens of thousands of people followed him.

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So he abused their misunderstanding and they followed

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him.

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Subhanallah.

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So understanding the meaning of the Qur'an,

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this is a higher level.

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The next level is to live your life

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according to the meanings of the Qur'an.

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What is unique about the sahabah of the

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Prophet ﷺ is that when they listen to

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the Qur'an, they felt it was talking

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to them personally.

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يعني مثلاً if Allah says, do this, don't

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do this, they took it personally.

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He is talking to me.

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Abdullah ibn Rawaha had this impressive story.

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It says that one day he was sitting

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with his wife and all of a sudden

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he started to cry.

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So she saw him crying, she cried too,

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in support.

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So if this happens today, you are sitting

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with your wife, you start to cry.

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Oh Allah, we need to take you to

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the doctor.

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There is a problem with you.

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So she cried too, and she asked him,

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why did you cry?

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He said, I remember this ayah from the

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Qur'an where Allah says, وَإِن مِنكُمْ إِلَّا

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وَارِدُهَا Each one of you will pass over

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Jahannam.

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So I started to think about this, and

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I realized that me too, because Allah says,

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everyone will pass over Jahannam, the believers will

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make it to the other side, the kuffar,

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the munafiqun will fall down.

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He said, I was not sure if I

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will make it to the other side or

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fall down.

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And that's why I got scared, I started

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to cry.

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He took it personally.

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But for many of us, subhanAllah, when they

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hear the ayat in the Qur'an, do

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this, don't do this, he's not talking to

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me, he's talking to my cousin, he's talking

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to my neighbor, not me, I'm a good

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guy.

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No, he's talking to you, this is for

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you.

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The next level is to make the Qur

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'an the judge in your life.

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So Allah is the judge.

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He rules for you.

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This is right, this is wrong, and so

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on and so forth.

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So let me focus a little bit on

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tadabbur al-Qur'an.

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Tadabbur al-Qur'an, which means deep reflection

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on the meanings of the Qur'an.

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Because those who listen to the Qur'an,

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sometimes they read it superficially or listen to

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it passingly and they're playing with their phone

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or it's playing in their car, they're not

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even listening.

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This is not tadabbur, you're just killing the

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time.

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But you need to read and think and

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reflect.

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Tadabbur in the Arabic language comes from dabara,

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which means bottom or back.

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Dabur al-salah, like in the back or

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the bottom of.

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Which technically means to understand the book just

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like you know the back of your hand

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and to get to the bottom of the

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Qur'an.

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This is the meaning.

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Back and bottom, the back of your hand

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and the bottom of something.

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You get to the bottom of something.

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And this does not happen like this, it

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takes time reading, reflecting, understanding the meaning.

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Let me give you some fruits of tadabbur

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from the Qur'an.

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Because so many ulama have written about tadabbur

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and deep reflection.

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And your mind will be blown when you

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listen to these facts.

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Because it will make you appreciate the Qur

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'an even more.

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And it will make you realize that this

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Qur'an cannot be from Muhammad SAW, it

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has to be from a higher authority.

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A few examples to illustrate.

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For example, we know that the Qur'an

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is not arranged now chronologically in the order

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of revelation because surah Iqra is not number

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one.

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It's close to the end.

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So Rasulullah arranged it based on instruction from

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ilham wahi from Jibreel AS, based on orders

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from Allah SWT.

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So we read surah Fatiha.

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At the end of the surah, إِهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ

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الْمُسْتَقِيمِ صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ

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عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا الضَّالِينِ It talks about three types

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of people.

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This is at the end of surah Fatiha.

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You go to the next surah, surah Baqarah,

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the beginning talks about three people.

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So three types of people here, three types

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of people at the beginning of Baqarah.

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المُتَّقُونِ الْكَافِرُونِ الْمُنَافِقُونِ Surah Fatiha ends with dua.

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Surah Baqarah ends with dua.

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Surah Al-Imran ends with dua.

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Okay, what is happening here?

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The ending of one surah leads to the

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beginning of the next surah.

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يَعْنِ مَثْنًا Surah Isra, surah 17.

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Last ayah, 111.

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وَقُولِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي لَمْ يَتَّخِذُ وَلَدًا Say,

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Alhamdulillah, who does not have children.

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This is the last ayah of surah 17.

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You go to the next surah, next chapter.

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What is the first words of surah Kaaf

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we read every Jummah?

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Alhamdulillah.

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Well, it says here, say Alhamdulillah.

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Alhamdulillah.

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لَمْ يَتَّخِذُ وَلَدًا He does not have children.

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The ayah after it says, وَيُنذِرَ الَّذِينَ قَالُوا

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اتَّخَذَ اللَّهُ وَلَدُهُ To give a warning to

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those who say that Allah have children.

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It's the same, connected.

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So this surah is connected with the next

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one.

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Surah 22.

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Surah Hajj.

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The last two ayah talk about Salah.

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اِرْكَعُوا وَاسْرُدُوا وَاعْبُدُوا رَبَّكُمْ The next surah, surah

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Mu'minun, surah 23 begins with قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ

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الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي صَلَاتِهِمْ خَاشُونَ It talks about

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Salah.

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Those who pray with Khushu will be successful.

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Connected.

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Not only that, the beginning of the same

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surah is connected with the ending of the

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same surah.

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Surah Mu'minun.

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قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ At the beginning of the

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surah, the believers will be successful.

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At the end of the surah, اِنَّهُ لَا

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يُفْلِحُ الْكَافِرُونَ Indeed, the kafirun will never succeed.

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It's connected with the beginning of the surah.

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Subhanallah, even when you go to surah Tawr,

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the last ayah of the surah, وَإِدِبَارَ الْنُجُومِ

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When the stars fade away, this is the

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last ayah of surah Tawr.

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Surah Najm is the next one.

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When the stars fade away, وَالنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوْ

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The same meaning, the same wording, and so

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on and so forth.

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Now another point of reflection, تَدَبُّرُ in the

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Qur'an, something they call the ring structure.

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You probably heard that word before, which means

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if you were to fold a surah, a

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chapter of the Qur'an right in the

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middle, or an ayah right in the middle,

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the first half will match the second half

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perfectly.

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So remember Rasulullah received the Qur'an in

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an oral tradition.

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He didn't read or write.

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The way it was revealed, he memorized.

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Surah Yusuf, for example, has 14 different topics.

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Surah Yusuf, 14 different topics.

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If you fold the story right in the

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middle where the king had the dream, the

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first half will match the second half perfectly.

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For example, first few ayahs of Surah Yusuf,

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the introduction, it talks about the Qur'an.

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إِنَّ أَزَلْنَاهُ قُرْآنًا عَرَبِيًّا لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ It talks

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about the Qur'an.

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This is topic number one from the beginning.

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Topic number 14, the last one, talks about

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the Qur'an.

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مَا كَانَ حَدِيثًا يُفْتَرَى وَلَكِن تَعْقِلُونَ Qur'an,

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first topic, Qur'an, last topic.

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Second topic from the beginning, Yusuf a.s.

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sees the dream.

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Second topic from the back, topic number 15,

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13, the dream came true.

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Number three from the beginning, the brothers make

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a conspiracy to kill Yusuf or to throw

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him away.

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Topic number three from the back, they apologize,

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we made a mistake.

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Topic number four from the beginning, the wife

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of Al-Aziz was busting all the moves

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trying to seduce Yusuf a.s. Four from

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the back, she said he is innocent, he

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didn't do nothing.

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Five from the beginning, the women were making

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all the plots against Yusuf a.s. Five

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from the back, they said he is innocent,

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he is a good man.

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He goes to jail, he is out of

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jail, the king had a dream, the king's

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dream is interpreted.

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Subhanallah, the first half matches the second half

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perfectly.

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You will do this exercise when you go

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home tonight.

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See Ayah Qursi from Surah Baqarah and the

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ayah that says, شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِي أُنزِلَ فِيهِ

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الْقُرْآنِ Each of them has about seven sentences.

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The first one matches the last one.

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The second sentence matches the second last.

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The third, the third from the last and

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so on and so forth.

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So Rasulullah a.s. could have never done

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something like this.

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This is amazing.

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This has to be from Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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Another level of tadabbur, the numbers in the

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Qur'an.

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I'm not gonna talk about how many times

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the shayateen and the mala'ika are mentioned.

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The same number of times.

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Jannah, Jahannam and so on and so forth.

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Something else.

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We know the story, the four stories in

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Surah Kahf we read every Jummah.

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So the first story, the youth in the

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cave.

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So the first story, the youth in the

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cave.

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Allah begins the story, لِنَعْلَمَ أَيُّ الْحِزْبَيْنِ أَحْصَى

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لِمَا لَبِثُوا أَمَدًا How long they stayed in

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the cave and so on and so forth.

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And at the end, Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala gives us the number of years they

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stayed in the cave.

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وَلَبِثُوا فِي كَهْفِهِمْ تَلَاثَ مِئَةٍ سِنِينًا أُزْدَادُوا تِسْعًا

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So at the beginning of the story of

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the youth in the cave, Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala poses a question.

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We did this to show how many of

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them will know the exact estimation of how

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long they stayed.

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لَبِثُوا لِنَعْلَمَ أَيُّ الْحِزْبَيْنِ أَحْصَى لِمَا لَبِثُوا So

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the word لَبِثُوا is used at the beginning

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of the story of the youth in the

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cave.

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It means they stayed, they remained.

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At the end of the story when Allah

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gave the number of years they stayed, He

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said, وَلَبِثُوا فِي كَهْفِهِمْ They stayed.

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So you see لَبِثُوا stayed at the beginning

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of the story.

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لَبِثُوا stayed at the end of the story.

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If you were to count the Arabic words

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between لَبِثُوا stayed at the beginning, لَبِثُوا stayed

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at the end.

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If you were to count the Arabic words,

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by words I mean verbs, nouns, and particles,

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how many do you think they are?

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309 words.

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309 words.

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Is this a coincidence?

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I don't think so.

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Another example.

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The story of Nuh عليه السلام is mentioned

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in the Qur'an in many places.

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Surah Shu'ara and so many different places.

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وَالْأَعْرَافِ وَهُودِ Different places in the Qur'an.

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Surah, the story of Nuh عليه السلام is

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mentioned.

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However, Surah Nuh in Tabarak is the only

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surah that gives you his da'wah techniques.

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What he did when he was giving da

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'wah to his people.

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سُمَيْنِي دَعْوَتُهُمْ جِهَارًا ثُمَيْنِي أَعْلَنْتُ لَهُمْ وَإِسْرَرْتُ لَهُمْ

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إِسْرَارًا فَقُلْتُ اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ He created this and

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he invited them publicly, secretly, individually, collectively, his

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da'wah techniques.

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How many years did he stay in da

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'wah?

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950 years.

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If you were to count the number of

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letters, Arabic letters in Surah Nuh, the only

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surah that focuses on his da'wah techniques,

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how many Arabic letters in that surah from

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the beginning to the end?

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950 Arabic letters from the beginning to the

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end.

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Where did this come from?

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So Rasulullah ﷺ could never do anything like

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this.

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It was inspired to him by Allah ﷻ.

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Another level which came as a shock to

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me because I found this out recently, a

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few years back, there was a professor from

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Egypt, Abd al-Ra'uf Abu Sa'dah, رحمه

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الله.

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Back in 1992, he came up with this

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theory because he studied Arabic, he studied Hebrew,

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Aramaic, ancient Egyptian.

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So the guy was very knowledgeable, masha'Allah.

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So his theory was, he released a book

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in Arabic and in English about the non

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-Arabic names in the Qur'an.

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For example, the name Ibrahim, originally it didn't

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come from Arabic, Abraham, it came from Hebrew

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or Syriac or Aramaic.

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It's not originally an Arabic name.

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Ismail is not originally an Arabic name, it's

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a Hebrew name.

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A name like Musa, Musa is an ancient

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Egyptian name.

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Fir'aun, an ancient Egyptian name, and so

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on and so forth.

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He said, every time Allah ﷻ mentions a

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non-Arabic name in the Qur'an, there

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are 61 of them in total, 61 non

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-Arabic names in the Qur'an, when Allah

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ﷻ mentions those non-Arabic names in the

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Qur'an, He gives you the meaning in

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the same ayah from those original languages even

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if the language was dead at the time

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of revelation.

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Let me give you a few examples.

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When the wife of Fir'aun, when they

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found Musa ﷺ in the basket, he didn't

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come with a name tag that said Musa.

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That was not his name.

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He didn't come with a name, you know.

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No name.

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What did they call him?

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They called him Musa.

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It's an ancient Egyptian word which meant little

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boy.

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No name.

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Little boy, just a little boy or kid.

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Musa in ancient Egyptian.

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The ancient Egyptian language was there 2,000

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years before Rasulullah ﷺ was even born and

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before the Qur'an was revealed.

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So Musa, when you read in the Qur

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'an, when Fir'aun talks to Musa ﷺ,

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he says, قَالَ أَوَلَمْ نُرَبِّكَ فِينَا وَالِيدَ Didn't

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we raise you, Musa among us, as a

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little boy?

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Musa, little boy?

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So the word is used in there.

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Another example.

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In Surah Hud, وَامْرَأَتُهُ قَائِمَةٌ فَضَحِكَتْ فَبَشَّرْنَاهَا بِإِسْحَاقَ

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وَمِنْ وَرَاهِ إِسْحَاقَ يَعْقُوبُ So we see two

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names.

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Ishaq and Yaqub are mentioned in the same

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ayah and both meanings, both names are defined

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in the same ayah.

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Both names come from Hebrew.

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So the word Ishaq, his wife Sarah, the

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wife of Ibrahim ﷺ, was standing there.

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She smiled.

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So we gave her the good news of

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the birth of a son by the name

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of Ishaq.

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What does Ishaq have to do with her

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smiling?

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Because Ishaq in Hebrew means the smiling one.

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So Ishaq, like the Haq in the Arabic

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language, the smiling one.

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Not only that, the meaning of Yaqub is

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also mentioned in the ayah, وَمِنْ وَرَاهِ إِسْحَاقَ

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يَعْقُوبُ Yaqub means the ones that comes after.

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So the ayah says, and after Ishaq, there

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will come Yaqub.

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So both names are defined.

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Another example, from ancient Egyptian.

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The word Fir'aun, Pharaoh, is a title.

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In ancient Egyptian, Fir'aun means the big

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tower, the tall tower, or the big house.

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This is the meaning of Fir'aun, tall

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house, big tower.

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وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ يَا هَمَانُ بْنِلِي صَرْحًا So Fir

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'aun said to Haman, his chief architect, build

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me a big tower.

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Fir'aun, big tower.

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The word is defined in the ayah.

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What does Zakariya mean?

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Zakariya means the one who remembers Allah in

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Hebrew.

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زِكْرُ رَحْمَةِ رَبِّكَ عَبْدَهُ زَكَرِيَّ Zikr Zakariya.

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What does Ismail mean in Hebrew?

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Ismail means Allah answers the dua.

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This is the meaning of the word Ismail.

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Eel in Arabic.

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حَتَّى مَعْنَاهُ إِلَىٰهُ الْإِلَٰهُ Ismail means Allah answers

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the dua, listens and answers the dua.

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الحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي وَهَبَلِي عَلَى الْكِبَرِ Ismaila وَإِسْحَاقَ

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إِنَّ رَبِّي لَسَمِيعُ الدُّعَاءِ Alhamdulillah who blessed me

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with Ismail and Ishaq.

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Indeed Allah hears and responds to all dua.

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What is the meaning of Maryam?

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Maryam in Hebrew also means the one who

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submits and humbles herself in worship to Allah.

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يَا مَرْيَا مُقْنُوتِي لِرَبِّكِ وَاسْجُودِي وَارْكَعِي مَعَ الرَّكْعِ

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The same meaning is given in the ayah.

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And this is true for each one of

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the 61 names that are mentioned in the

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Qur'an.

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Now some of you will say well I

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don't speak the Arabic language.

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Like the majority of Muslims, 85% of

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Muslims, they don't speak or understand the Qur

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'an In Arabic, how can I do Tadabbur?

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Well, as I said at the beginning, Allah

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will give you the reward for doing your

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effort.

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You get the reward for doing your best.

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Let's say you have a back problem.

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You cannot stand up in Salah.

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You sit down.

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This is the best you can do.

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You will get the full reward just like

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the person who is standing next to you

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in Salah because this is your best.

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And so on and so forth.

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Allah will give you the reward for doing

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your effort, for doing your best.

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So if you are not able to read

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or understand the Qur'an in the Arabic

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language, try to study Arabic if you can.

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Because the Qur'an in Arabic is like

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nothing else.

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English is very miskeen.

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Like when I was translating the Qur'an,

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Brother Hisham here, stand up.

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Stand up.

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Brother Hisham used to live in Canada with

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me.

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And he is one of the three chief

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editors of the clear Qur'an.

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Turn around.

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Let them see your beautiful face.

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JazakAllah khair.

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Now he lives here locally, alhamdulillah.

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So we used to think a lot about

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the ayat, the meanings of the Qur'an

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in the Arabic.

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So powerful, so beautiful.

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And the English is so miskeen, so limited.

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What is this man?

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So is there a perfect translation of the

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Qur'an?

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No, there is no such thing as a

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perfect translation of the Qur'an.

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The only perfect thing is the Arabic.

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English is miskeen, limited, French, Urdu, Turkish.

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They are very limited.

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Just one or two examples to illustrate.

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The Arabic language has 25 times the number

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of words in the English language.

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25 times the number of words in the

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English language.

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There are words in the Qur'an in

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Arabic, you cannot translate because they have no

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equivalence.

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Like these words we don't have even in

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the English language.

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So you can read the tafsir in your

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language, read the tadabbur of ulama like Zamakhshari

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and Al-Kashaf.

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There is a website called Qur'an Reflect,

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they show you tadabbur, you can read the

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tadabbur by imams and scholars and so on

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and so forth.

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So I have dedicated my life in the

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last 11-12 years to the service of

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the Qur'an.

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As I said, eventually I retired as an

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imam, so I can focus entirely on the

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clear Qur'an.

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The first translation of the Qur'an that

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I did was back in 2002 to 2005

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from the haramain in Mecca and Medina.

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We're trying to make the Qur'an easy

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and accessible in an international language like English.

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So we would sit in the studios from

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the haram in Mecca and Medina behind Shuraim

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and Sudeith and Hudhaifi and translate the Qur

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'an, the subtitles.

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You still see those lines, the subtitles, when

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they broadcast the taraweeh in Ramadan.

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So this was the second one.

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I was in Toronto, 2013, I was visiting

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as an imam and I had this, mashallah,

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nice robe from Pakistan with a turban like

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a prince, mashallah, from Hollywood or Bollywood.

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And I was going to give Jummah khutbah,

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so the cab driver that day was not

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Muslim.

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And he said something out of the blue.

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I was sitting in the back and he

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said, you know, Muslims are good people, but

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Islam is not good.

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I said, dude, why?

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Why are you saying this?

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He said, because Islam calls me an animal.

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The Qur'an calls me an animal.

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I said, I'm Hafidh al-Qur'an, it

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doesn't say this anywhere.

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And he cited 8.55, surah Anfal, inna

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sharra al-dawab bi'inda Allahi allatheena kafro.

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And I explained to him that da'ab

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does not only mean this, but it means

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human beings, anything that walks on earth, as

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Allah says in surah An-Nur, ayah 45,

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wallahu khalaqa kulla dabbatin min ma'famin wa

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man yamsha'a ala batni wa man yamsha

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'a ala jlayn.

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It's a very general term.

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He says, no, I'm an animal according to

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the Qur'an.

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I said to him, understand you cow, you're

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not an animal.

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So most of the translations say either animal

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or beast.

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So this is when I decided to do

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the clear Qur'an, just to stick to

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the true meaning of the ayah, because other

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translations are either confusing or they are used

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by missionaries to attack Islam because there are

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certain mistakes.

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Are there any good translations out there other

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than the clear Qur'an?

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Of course.

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The clear Qur'an does not have a

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monopoly on the truth.

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So Muhammad Abdel Halim from Oxford is an

00:32:06 --> 00:32:07

excellent translation.

00:32:07 --> 00:32:09

Ahmed Zaki Hamad from Al-Azhar, it's an

00:32:09 --> 00:32:10

excellent translation.

00:32:11 --> 00:32:13

But this one is more user-friendly, the

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titles, the background stories and so on and

00:32:15 --> 00:32:16

so forth.

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But there are good translations out there.

00:32:18 --> 00:32:21

But some others, subhanAllah, they were not qualified

00:32:21 --> 00:32:22

to translate in the first place.

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The sad reality, subhanAllah, khalas, we're almost done,

00:32:27 --> 00:32:28

like 10 more minutes?

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Yes.

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The sad reality, Muslims are the only faith

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community on the planet who will accept a

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translation of their holy book by someone who

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is not qualified and someone who is not

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even from the faith.

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

If you apply this to Jews and Christians

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or anyone else, like let's say you go

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to a synagogue or a church and tell

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

them, hey, my name is Mustafa or Mufasa

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or anything.

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I'm not from your faith and I didn't

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study your book.

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

I know nothing about translation but I have

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produced the best translation of the Bible.

00:33:08 --> 00:33:09

They will kick me out.

00:33:09 --> 00:33:11

But Muslims do it differently.

00:33:11 --> 00:33:14

Someone like an accountant.

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No translation training, no training in Islamic studies,

00:33:19 --> 00:33:21

uloom al-Quran, nasikh mansuh, nothing.

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

Someone who is not even from the faith

00:33:24 --> 00:33:25

like NJ Dawood.

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This guy hated Rasulullah so much and he

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

translated the Quran and it's celebrated as one

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of the best translations even though it's full

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

of mistakes and problems.

00:33:36 --> 00:33:39

Another beautiful saying from our brothers and sisters

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in India, Pakistan.

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How many of you speak Urdu?

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Raise your hand.

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MashaAllah, we have a big number here.

00:33:46 --> 00:33:53

We say in Urdu, Half a doctor is

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dangerous to your life and half a scholar

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is dangerous to your faith, your iman.

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So just like when you get sick, you

00:34:00 --> 00:34:01

go to the best doctor.

00:34:02 --> 00:34:03

If you want to learn about the faith,

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

you go to the best scholar.

00:34:05 --> 00:34:08

Not just the guy of the streets.

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

You have to get someone who is reliable,

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

someone who is qualified.

00:34:11 --> 00:34:13

So this is why we did the clear

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

Quran.

00:34:14 --> 00:34:15

We tried to make it clear and easy

00:34:15 --> 00:34:16

and accessible.

00:34:17 --> 00:34:19

We worked a lot on the flow of

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

the translation.

00:34:20 --> 00:34:30

So for example, We tried to reflect the

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

rhythm of the ayat in the Arabic even

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

though it's less than 1% of the

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

beauty of the Arabic.

00:34:35 --> 00:34:38

So we said in the English, the sun

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and the moon travel with precision.

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The stars and the trees bow down in

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submission.

00:34:43 --> 00:34:45

As for the sky, he raised it high

00:34:45 --> 00:34:47

and set the balance of justice.

00:34:47 --> 00:34:48

So you will see a lot of rhymes.

00:34:49 --> 00:34:54

And recently, subhanAllah, in Ramadan, we released the

00:34:54 --> 00:34:55

clear Quran audiobook app.

00:34:56 --> 00:34:57

So download the app tonight.

00:34:58 --> 00:35:00

It's a little commercial here but that's okay.

00:35:01 --> 00:35:02

The clear Quran audiobook app.

00:35:03 --> 00:35:06

So we started back in 2018 when I

00:35:06 --> 00:35:07

started working on the project.

00:35:07 --> 00:35:11

I reached out to Morgan Freeman to narrate

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

the translation.

00:35:11 --> 00:35:12

He agreed.

00:35:12 --> 00:35:13

We sent him a copy.

00:35:14 --> 00:35:16

Then someone took him to court for a

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

different issue.

00:35:17 --> 00:35:18

We're not going to talk about the details.

00:35:19 --> 00:35:21

So we dropped him and we got an

00:35:21 --> 00:35:22

all-Muslim team.

00:35:22 --> 00:35:25

Brother Mark Strong is a popular Muslim in

00:35:25 --> 00:35:27

Toronto, a recent arriver to Islam.

00:35:29 --> 00:35:30

Very soothing, beautiful voice.

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

Then we got Sheikh Yasser Qadi, Omar Suleiman,

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

Yasmin Mujahid, different imams to narrate the translation.

00:35:39 --> 00:35:41

We have like 15 different voices.

00:35:41 --> 00:35:44

It's not just like one regular monotone boring

00:35:44 --> 00:35:46

guy narrating the translation.

00:35:46 --> 00:35:49

No, we have the main narrator.

00:35:49 --> 00:35:51

But if there is a voice in the

00:35:51 --> 00:35:56

translation, like Pharaoh or Iblis or someone, we

00:35:56 --> 00:36:00

have a character that voiced this section.

00:36:01 --> 00:36:03

So we reserved the evil character.

00:36:03 --> 00:36:05

We reserved the evil character like Iblis and

00:36:05 --> 00:36:07

Pharaoh for a British guy.

00:36:08 --> 00:36:12

I don't know why we did that, but

00:36:12 --> 00:36:13

it was very befitting.

00:36:15 --> 00:36:18

But we balanced this out when we got

00:36:18 --> 00:36:21

a British sister to do the good female

00:36:21 --> 00:36:22

characters in the Qur'an.

00:36:22 --> 00:36:25

So we're not racist or anything.

00:36:25 --> 00:36:26

So it balances out.

00:36:28 --> 00:36:30

So it's good, alhamdulillah, and it's dramatized.

00:36:31 --> 00:36:34

So if the ayah talk about the Battle

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

of Badr, you will hear the horses and

00:36:36 --> 00:36:36

the swords in the background.

00:36:37 --> 00:36:39

It's very soothing and it's very engaging.

00:36:39 --> 00:36:41

The Clear Qur'an audiobook app.

00:36:42 --> 00:36:44

We did the Clear Qur'an for kids.

00:36:45 --> 00:36:47

And we had a team of over 70

00:36:47 --> 00:36:50

students between the ages of 7 and 13,

00:36:50 --> 00:36:52

14 to review the translation with me.

00:36:52 --> 00:36:56

So it's so easy for them to understand.

00:36:57 --> 00:36:59

We used stories, illustrations.

00:36:59 --> 00:37:02

We answered their difficult questions about the Qur

00:37:02 --> 00:37:02

'an.

00:37:03 --> 00:37:05

Then we did the Clear Qur'an dictionary.

00:37:05 --> 00:37:07

As I said, most Muslims don't speak the

00:37:07 --> 00:37:08

Arabic language.

00:37:08 --> 00:37:13

I remember back in 2016, I was leading

00:37:13 --> 00:37:16

Taraweeh at Anatolia Masjid in Toronto, a Turkish

00:37:16 --> 00:37:16

Masjid.

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So it was the 12th night of Ramadan.

00:37:20 --> 00:37:23

So after we finished Taraweeh, Surah Yusuf, we

00:37:23 --> 00:37:26

had an Egyptian Qari, very emotional, very beautiful

00:37:26 --> 00:37:27

voice, mashallah.

00:37:27 --> 00:37:31

So after we finished Taraweeh on that day,

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

Surah Yusuf, this Pakistani brother came after namaz

00:37:35 --> 00:37:36

and he was extremely angry.

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

He was yelling at me after namaz.

00:37:38 --> 00:37:40

Imam Sahib, how come you have this problem?

00:37:40 --> 00:37:41

What's wrong with you, Imam?

00:37:42 --> 00:37:43

I said, what did I do, man?

00:37:44 --> 00:37:46

So initially when he started yelling at me,

00:37:46 --> 00:37:48

I said, maybe the biryani we had for

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iftar was so spicy like Jahannam, this is

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why he's angry.

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Then it turned out, he told me that

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I stood in salah for over an hour

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that night and he couldn't understand anything because

00:37:59 --> 00:38:01

Arabic was not his native tongue.

00:38:02 --> 00:38:05

And what bothered him the most was the

00:38:05 --> 00:38:07

Arab people in the audience, in Surah Yusuf,

00:38:07 --> 00:38:09

very emotional, they started to cry.

00:38:10 --> 00:38:12

He didn't know why, and this is why

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he was angry.

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So I said, khair, inshallah.

00:38:14 --> 00:38:15

Kuih maslani.

00:38:16 --> 00:38:17

We'll do something about it, inshallah.

00:38:18 --> 00:38:19

So over the next 6-7 years, I

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worked on the clear Quran dictionary.

00:38:21 --> 00:38:23

The Quran has 2,000 root words.

00:38:23 --> 00:38:25

If you know them, you're good to go.

00:38:26 --> 00:38:28

2,000 root words repeated about 100,000

00:38:28 --> 00:38:29

times.

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And at the end of the dictionary, the

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clear Quran dictionary, there are 9 pages.

00:38:35 --> 00:38:37

I made something like a poem that rhymes.

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

Those 9 pages have the 2,000 words

00:38:41 --> 00:38:42

of the Quran.

00:38:42 --> 00:38:44

If you study them, khalas, you're good to

00:38:44 --> 00:38:44

go.

00:38:44 --> 00:38:46

The Quran is easy, but we make it

00:38:46 --> 00:38:46

difficult.

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Finally, inshallah, in my last 5 minutes, every

00:38:53 --> 00:38:56

year in Ramadan, and now, since I joined

00:38:56 --> 00:38:59

Furqan Project, I go to different masjids to

00:38:59 --> 00:39:00

promote the clear Quran.

00:39:01 --> 00:39:03

So last year in Ramadan, I was touring

00:39:03 --> 00:39:04

the US and Canada.

00:39:04 --> 00:39:06

I flew from Turkey, I came to Canada,

00:39:06 --> 00:39:10

east to west, in the US, north to

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south.

00:39:11 --> 00:39:13

So every day I was visiting a different

00:39:13 --> 00:39:13

city.

00:39:13 --> 00:39:16

Last year, I probably did something around 50

00:39:16 --> 00:39:18

,000 miles in Ramadan last year.

00:39:18 --> 00:39:20

I was flying every single day in Ramadan.

00:39:20 --> 00:39:23

So one day I'm in Washington DC, tomorrow

00:39:23 --> 00:39:25

I'm in Alabama, the next day I'm in

00:39:25 --> 00:39:28

North Carolina, the next day I'm in Tennessee.

00:39:29 --> 00:39:30

I was all over the place.

00:39:30 --> 00:39:32

By the end of the month, I was

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totally exhausted.

00:39:34 --> 00:39:36

25th of Ramadan, I was at the Diyana

00:39:36 --> 00:39:37

Center of America in Maryland.

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

And that night, I had the best dream

00:39:41 --> 00:39:42

of my life.

00:39:42 --> 00:39:45

So subhanallah, I prayed salatul fajr, I just

00:39:45 --> 00:39:46

wanted to get some sleep before I go

00:39:46 --> 00:39:48

to the airport for the next flight.

00:39:49 --> 00:39:51

As soon as I closed my eyes, I

00:39:51 --> 00:39:54

felt my body was being seized, and I

00:39:54 --> 00:39:55

started to have this dream.

00:39:56 --> 00:39:57

So in the dream, they said, Chalo, chalo,

00:39:58 --> 00:39:58

come.

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You are being escorted to present a gift

00:40:01 --> 00:40:04

copy of the clear Qur'an as a

00:40:04 --> 00:40:06

hadiyah gift to Hazrat Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

00:40:06 --> 00:40:09

So I walked with them, long story short,

00:40:09 --> 00:40:11

I stood in front of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi

00:40:11 --> 00:40:14

Wasallam, the beautiful face, the lovely smile, very

00:40:14 --> 00:40:18

bright, very broad shoulders, and the full beard,

00:40:18 --> 00:40:21

the turban, not very tall, not very short,

00:40:21 --> 00:40:23

the exact same way he's described in hadith

00:40:23 --> 00:40:26

of Ummul Ma'bad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

00:40:26 --> 00:40:28

Every time I mention this story, I get

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

goose bumps.

00:40:29 --> 00:40:31

So may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gathers

00:40:31 --> 00:40:33

together with Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in Jannatul

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

Firdaus.

00:40:34 --> 00:40:35

Ameen Ya Rabbil Alameen.

00:40:37 --> 00:40:39

So now, what do we do?

00:40:39 --> 00:40:42

And after this dream, I said, this is

00:40:42 --> 00:40:44

an isharah, a sign from Allah that you

00:40:44 --> 00:40:46

have been working on the Qur'an, you

00:40:46 --> 00:40:48

translated the Qur'an like five times so

00:40:48 --> 00:40:50

far, now is the time to work on

00:40:50 --> 00:40:52

the life of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

00:40:53 --> 00:40:54

So inshallah, in about a week, we'll be

00:40:54 --> 00:40:57

releasing the clear seer of our kids.

00:40:58 --> 00:41:01

This was motivated by the dream that I

00:41:01 --> 00:41:02

had in Ramadan last year.

00:41:03 --> 00:41:06

365 days with Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, 52

00:41:06 --> 00:41:07

weekly themes.

00:41:07 --> 00:41:10

And inshallah, some Islamic schools, including the one

00:41:10 --> 00:41:13

here in this masjid, Madrasatul Iman and others,

00:41:13 --> 00:41:16

will be adopting this book as part of

00:41:16 --> 00:41:17

their curriculum.

00:41:17 --> 00:41:20

Because we use stories, illustrations to teach the

00:41:20 --> 00:41:22

seerah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in

00:41:22 --> 00:41:23

an engaging way.

00:41:23 --> 00:41:27

So tonight inshallah, after Salatul Isha, as you

00:41:27 --> 00:41:30

exit the masjid, we have a table outside

00:41:30 --> 00:41:31

for the clear Qur'an.

00:41:31 --> 00:41:33

What we want from you is, if you

00:41:33 --> 00:41:35

can at least do a box, sponsor a

00:41:35 --> 00:41:38

box which has 52 copies, it will cost

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

you $104, which will help us put the

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

Qur'an in the hands of every non

00:41:42 --> 00:41:43

-Muslim in this country.

00:41:44 --> 00:41:47

So over the last 4 years, alhamdulillah, we

00:41:47 --> 00:41:49

have distributed more than 5 million copies of

00:41:49 --> 00:41:51

these to non-Muslims in the US and

00:41:51 --> 00:41:52

Canada.

00:41:52 --> 00:41:54

And we have seen thousands of shahadahs.

00:41:55 --> 00:41:56

So we need your support.

00:41:57 --> 00:42:00

You guys, when someone accepts Islam, we have

00:42:00 --> 00:42:04

brother Andrew, I met brother Taylor, I met

00:42:04 --> 00:42:06

sister Allison after Salatul Jumu'ah.

00:42:06 --> 00:42:08

You have so many reverts in this community

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

inshallah.

00:42:08 --> 00:42:11

And some of them came to Islam after

00:42:11 --> 00:42:12

reading this book.

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

Alhamdulillah.

00:42:13 --> 00:42:14

So this is a blessing from Allah.

00:42:14 --> 00:42:16

Hidayah is not from me.

00:42:16 --> 00:42:17

Guidance is from Allah.

00:42:18 --> 00:42:19

But we bring the Qur'an to their

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

attention.

00:42:20 --> 00:42:23

As I said in the khutbah today, a

00:42:23 --> 00:42:25

lot of people when they accept Islam, they

00:42:25 --> 00:42:26

have the same complaint.

00:42:27 --> 00:42:29

They say, guys, where have you been like

00:42:29 --> 00:42:32

20 years ago, 30 years ago, when my

00:42:32 --> 00:42:35

parents, grandparents were desperately looking for the truth.

00:42:36 --> 00:42:37

No one told them about Islam.

00:42:37 --> 00:42:39

Nobody gave them a Qur'an.

00:42:39 --> 00:42:40

And they died kafir because of you.

00:42:41 --> 00:42:43

So we have this treasure, the Qur'an,

00:42:43 --> 00:42:45

and we're hiding it.

00:42:45 --> 00:42:46

We don't want to share it.

00:42:47 --> 00:42:49

Wallahi, our neighbors have a right on us.

00:42:50 --> 00:42:52

They will complain to Allah on Yawmul Qiyamah

00:42:52 --> 00:42:53

because of us.

00:42:54 --> 00:42:56

They live next to you 15, 20, 30

00:42:56 --> 00:42:56

years.

00:42:57 --> 00:43:00

They know absolutely nothing about Qur'an, absolutely

00:43:00 --> 00:43:02

nothing about Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, absolutely nothing

00:43:02 --> 00:43:03

about Islam.

00:43:04 --> 00:43:06

They will figure it out on their own.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:07

No.

00:43:08 --> 00:43:10

They will become Muslim because I'm a nice

00:43:10 --> 00:43:12

guy, I give them biryani, I give them

00:43:12 --> 00:43:15

mansaf, shawarma, chicken suqar, beef suqar.

00:43:15 --> 00:43:17

Do you think they will accept Islam because

00:43:17 --> 00:43:18

you're a nice guy?

00:43:19 --> 00:43:21

Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was a million times

00:43:21 --> 00:43:22

nicer and better than you.

00:43:23 --> 00:43:26

But still, he spoke to people about Islam

00:43:26 --> 00:43:28

even when they're on their deathbed, they were

00:43:28 --> 00:43:32

dying, he still talked to them about Islam.

00:43:32 --> 00:43:34

Because they cannot figure things on their own.

00:43:34 --> 00:43:40

So alhamdulillah, especially after the situation started in

00:43:40 --> 00:43:44

Gaza last year, نسى الله أن يحفظهم وينصرهم

00:43:44 --> 00:43:46

على عدوهم وعلى من خذ لهم يا رب

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

العالمين.

00:43:46 --> 00:43:49

A lot of people are interested in Islam

00:43:49 --> 00:43:51

and many people have come to Islam because

00:43:51 --> 00:43:53

of our Palestinian brothers and sisters.

00:43:53 --> 00:43:55

They're impressed by them.

00:43:56 --> 00:43:57

They read about Islam, they read the Qur

00:43:57 --> 00:43:58

'an and they become Muslim.

00:43:58 --> 00:44:00

And you will find so many stories on

00:44:00 --> 00:44:04

TikTok, Sean King and his wife accepted Islam

00:44:04 --> 00:44:05

after reading this.

00:44:05 --> 00:44:08

There are so many sisters and brothers, they

00:44:08 --> 00:44:10

read the Qur'an, alhamdulillah, clear Qur'an,

00:44:10 --> 00:44:11

they become Muslim.

00:44:11 --> 00:44:13

So inshallah, sponsored boxes.

00:44:13 --> 00:44:16

If you do 10 boxes tonight, you're gonna

00:44:16 --> 00:44:17

get this one as a gift.

00:44:18 --> 00:44:20

A box has 52 copies, $104.

00:44:20 --> 00:44:23

If you do 20 boxes or more, you're

00:44:23 --> 00:44:24

gonna get this one.

00:44:24 --> 00:44:27

Subhanallah, so beautiful with the gold, so heavy,

00:44:27 --> 00:44:28

Arabic-English.

00:44:28 --> 00:44:29

You will need a truck to take it

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

home.

00:44:30 --> 00:44:31

So you get this one as a gift,

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

inshallah.

00:44:32 --> 00:44:34

You can do it once, or you can

00:44:34 --> 00:44:37

do it monthly on behalf of your family,

00:44:37 --> 00:44:39

your parents, grandparents, and you will get a

00:44:39 --> 00:44:41

tax receipt, inshallah.

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

If someone accepts Islam through this, I will

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

be sharing the reward with you.

00:44:45 --> 00:44:49

Brother Hisham, Furqan Foundation, the masjid here, you

00:44:49 --> 00:44:51

will be sharing the reward with us.

00:44:51 --> 00:44:52

But do your part.

00:44:53 --> 00:44:55

The last thing that I will say, inshallah,

00:44:56 --> 00:44:59

Jazakallah khair Imam Muammar again for your patience

00:44:59 --> 00:45:01

with me, opening your hearts and doors for

00:45:01 --> 00:45:02

me always.

00:45:02 --> 00:45:05

Is when I stand before Allah SWT on

00:45:05 --> 00:45:07

Yawm al-Qiyamah, I will say, Ya Allah,

00:45:08 --> 00:45:10

Wallahi, I have done my level best.

00:45:11 --> 00:45:13

I sacrificed my Imam job for this.

00:45:13 --> 00:45:17

Every day in the last 11-12 years,

00:45:17 --> 00:45:20

every day I put 12-15 hours into

00:45:20 --> 00:45:21

this project.

00:45:21 --> 00:45:22

You look, oh, it's very cute, little book.

00:45:23 --> 00:45:25

No, 12-15 hours every day.

00:45:26 --> 00:45:28

That means more than 50,000 hours in

00:45:28 --> 00:45:30

the last 11-12 years alone.

00:45:30 --> 00:45:35

So we can have something easy, accessible, presentable

00:45:35 --> 00:45:36

to give.

00:45:37 --> 00:45:40

Like, subhanallah, some other translation, verily.

00:45:41 --> 00:45:43

As soon as they see verily, they put

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

it down.

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

What is verily, man?

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

Thou.

00:45:46 --> 00:45:48

This is the age of TikTok and Twitter,

00:45:49 --> 00:45:49

man.

00:45:49 --> 00:45:52

People don't have time to look up words

00:45:52 --> 00:45:54

in the dictionary to understand the book.

00:45:54 --> 00:45:56

And I was talking to one of the

00:45:56 --> 00:45:58

brothers today, he said he was reading different

00:45:58 --> 00:46:01

translations and he was able only to understand

00:46:01 --> 00:46:03

the Quran after reading this because it's easy,

00:46:04 --> 00:46:05

accessible.

00:46:05 --> 00:46:07

He was able to understand the message and

00:46:07 --> 00:46:08

he took shahada, alhamdulillah.

00:46:09 --> 00:46:09

So please support.

00:46:10 --> 00:46:13

Make sure to sponsor one box, 5, 10,

00:46:13 --> 00:46:16

50, 100, and you will share the reward.

00:46:16 --> 00:46:17

You will get a tax receipt.

00:46:17 --> 00:46:19

May Allah reward you and reward your families.

00:46:20 --> 00:46:22

And we have different methods of payment.

00:46:22 --> 00:46:25

You can talk to brother Muhammad Imran and

00:46:25 --> 00:46:26

brother Hisham and the brothers outside.

00:46:26 --> 00:46:29

I think we have a couple of minutes

00:46:29 --> 00:46:31

if someone has a question, inshallah, before Salatul

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

Isha.

00:46:34 --> 00:46:35

Any questions?

00:46:38 --> 00:46:38

No?

00:46:41 --> 00:46:42

Alas, we're good, alhamdulillah.

00:46:42 --> 00:46:43

That's good.

00:46:43 --> 00:46:44

Jazakallah khair.

00:46:44 --> 00:46:45

Barakallah fikum.

00:46:45 --> 00:46:47

May Allah bless you and your families.

00:46:47 --> 00:46:49

May Allah continue to bless this community.

00:46:49 --> 00:46:50

Ameen, ya rabbal alameen.

00:46:50 --> 00:46:51

Jazakallah khair.

00:46:51 --> 00:46:53

For those who want to read more about

00:46:53 --> 00:46:59

the project, go to TheClearQuran.org TheClearQuran.org

00:46:59 --> 00:47:00

Assalamualaikum.

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