Mustafa Khattab – The Amazing Quran Ii
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I bear witness that there's not worry about
worship except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And I bear witness that Muhammad Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala Peace be upon him, is the seal
of the prophets and the final messenger to
all of humanity.
Whoever
Allah guides, there is none to misguide.
And whoever Allah
leads astray, there is none to guide
So last Jumu'ah, we spoke about reflecting on
the Quran and reading the Quran and having
this personal connection with the Quran.
If you don't read the Quran, if you
just put it on the shelf, and you
don't read it and reflect on it,
You will not give the Barakah, the benefit
of this Quran,
and you will not be able to live
your life according to the way that Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wills for you.
We said before in one of the Khutbas,
when you buy an iPhone, or Samsung, or
you buy a laptop, or you buy a
new car,
it usually comes with a manual. And in
the manual they tell you, if you use
this product in this way,
this is what you do, this is what
you will avoid, you will maximize the benefit
of this machine or this,
proper item that you, you got.
In the same way, we as human beings,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is our manufacturer,
and He sent us the manual,
something to live your life by. And if
you live your life according to the Quran,
this is your manual,
you will maximize the benefit of your life
here, and you will achieve
Salvation
Naja in the
So the Quran is the book of life
and haveta when people read
Surah Yaseen that is usually associated
with the dying, people read it on the
dead or those who are dying, and this
is based on ahadith.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling us in
Natsura
liyun gala mankana
hayya.
This Quran is a reminder to those who
are truly alive.
So it's a book of life, it is
not just for the dead.
Because as we said before,
if you go back home and, like, in
my village and someone is playing the Quran
in their house, the first thing you say,
who died? Like, because
for some people the Quran is only associated
with the death. But the Quran is the
book of the living, those who are truly
alive.
We mentioned last time
that the Quran is relevant.
Arabic. It is suitable for all times and
all places.
And we need to understand a couple of
things before we continue our discussion about the
Quran. To be able to appreciate the Nirma
of the Quran, you have to read it,
understand it, and reflect upon it. So So
we said the Quran is relevant, it is
suitable for all times and places.
And when you look at the teachings of
the Quran,
there are 2 types of teachings.
Because people say, well it was revealed 1500
years ago, Now we live in the 21st
century.
You know, the, everything is different. We live
in a different country, and in a different
society, and the culture is different. How can
the Quran accommodate us in here, in North
America, in the 21st century? We have to
realize there are 2 sets of teachings in
in the Quran.
There is Ibadat,
I will,
tahid
or woman,
ufil Muhammad.
So there are 2 types of teachings in
the Quran. The first one is your relationship
with
Allah or theology,
and this never changes.
And Allah will always be 1.
You will pray
You will always fast Ramadan.
So this does not change, it will it
will never change.
The second type is human interactions, Al Muhammedalat.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala when He speaks
about,
your relationship with Him, what He wants from
you, the things that you need to do,
and the things you need to avoid, it's
very clear.
It's very specific and detailed.
But when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaks about
human interactions, our relationships together, Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala will tell you,
do the Haram, stay away from the Haram.
So it's very open for interpretation.
So this is why if people to choose
to govern themselves in a certain way that
is in accordance with the teachings of Islam,
the number of people they choose in the
government,
if you, if they have traffic lights, paying
the taxes, respecting your neighbors, all of this,
it falls under Sharia.
Even if some of these things are not
specified
very clearly, we know that it is acceptable
in Sharia. There's nothing wrong if you follow
the traffic lights because this protects human life,
which is one of the objectives in Sharia.
The other thing about the Sharia, the second
teaching, is when it talks about
Haram,
it specifies
123
in in the Quran and also in the
Sunnah of the Prophet
If it talks about the Haram, it is
very general.
Yeah, let's say for example, when Allah
talks about the Haram things to eat
Allah
is very specific because the number of things
that are Haram is very small in number.
So he
will
tell
you
He will tell you I have made it
Haram for you to eat pork, to drink
alcohol, to drink running blood, to eat dead
animals. There, it's very specific. It's a short
list.
But when it comes to Halal items, Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will say,
Everything that is good and pure is Halal.
It doesn't specify because the Halal is more
than the Haram.
So we need to keep this in mind
when we think about the Quran.
Number 2,
the Quran was written down at the time
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam because this
is a common question I get that, know,
was the Quran written at the time of
the Prophet
Do we have different versions of the Quran?
It is only 1. It was written at
the time of Muhammad
entirely.
Each Surah was written individually,
but it was not in one volume.
This was done within 2 years of the
Prophet Sarsilen's death at the time of Abu
Bakr
at the request of Umar ibn Khattab
The manuscript
was kept with,
you know, the Khalifa Abu Bakr,
then it moved to Hafsa
and at the time of Uthmar
many copies were made, they were sent out.
So the Quran that we have in Canada
is the same Quran, like in Pakistan, in
Japan,
in in Turkey. It's it's all the same
Quran. It is the same copy of the
Quran. There is no difference in any of
these copies. The only thing that I mentioned
last time was a slight
pronunciation of certain words, and this is where
we get the Quran from. But the meaning
is always is always the same.
The Surah were arranged at the top of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in the same
order we have today, from Fatihah to Surah
Nas. Because the Because the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam, we know from the hadith and Bukhari
used to review the Quran with Jibril Alaihi
Wasallam once every year in Ramadan, but the
year he passed away he reviewed it twice,
and the Sahaba like Ubayi ibn Ka'ab, they
were there, they used to write down for
the Prophet SAW, and
this is the order we have today.
Even the names of the Surahs, we used
at the time of the Prophet SAW, and
the Sahaba would tell us an authentic hadith,
the Prophet SAW, insalatul Faz, we have with
Jumahi you read, he would read Surah Sajdah.
In Khulbatul Jumah, he would mention, or read
Surah Khaf, for example. They mentioned the names,
or the prophet
stood one night to pray Qiyam or Tahajjud
at night, and he read Surah Baqarah, Surah
Al Imran, Surah Nisa, Surah Ma'ilah. They mentioned
the names, so everything was done at the
time of the Prophet The
other thing is, as I mentioned the arrangements
of the Surahs was done at the time
of the Prophet
and we know that the first Surah that
was revealed was Surah Ikra Bismillah Bikal Adi
Khala. The first 5 ayat.
So how come
that Ikra Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah is not
Surah number 1 in the Quran? Surah Fatih
Haz.
Because as I mentioned the Surahs were revealed
in response to some circumstances
at the time of the Prophet SAW Alaihi
Wasallam like the Battle of Badri Hijra, this
that, but before the death of the Prophet
SAW Alaihi Wasallam, the Surahs were arranged in
the same order we have them today.
And while I was working on the, clear
Quran translation for 4 years, I was studying
the connections between the Surahs, and SubhanAllah, it's
mind blowing.
And I put this in the introductions to
each Surah. We have about 5 to 7
lines as an introduction for every Surah, and
in that introduction I connected the Surah, this
one with the one before and the one
after, and and it is amazing.
If you read Surah Fatihah, for example,
Surah Fatiha is basically like a roadmap, like
a table of contents for the whole Quran.
So if you read Surah Fatiha, it talks
about your relationship with Allah, this, this world,
and Aqdilah we rely on Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala for guidance and assistance. Then it talks
about 3 types of people, and these 3
types of people are detailed
in Surah Baqarah, Surah Al Imran, and Surah
Nisa.
So the the Surah Faqah is basically like
the table of contents for the whole Quran,
starting with the first, long source.
If you read for example,
some Surahs,
the ending of 1 Surah is connected with
the next one. Sometimes we don't realize it,
but when you read and reflect, this connection
becomes very clear.
So for example, the last ayah of Surat
Al Hajj, the last couple of Ayat. Of
Karum wasjudu wa Abu Durabat. It talks about
Salal and Eibat.
Then the next Surah,
Surah Muminun, Surah 23, it talks about
It talks about Salah and Fashur in Salah.
So the 2 Surahs are connected.
And even that SubhanAllah, in some Surahs,
one Surah will end with
a certain Ayah, and the exact words are
used in the 1st Ayah of the next
Surah. In Surah Tur,
means before Farshr, when the stars set, they
disappear.
The next Surah Surah Al Al, When Najmi'idah
Hawa, When the stars fade away or they
set. The exact words are used.
Some Surahs complete each other, like Surah, Safat
and Surah Asah. They complete each other. When
you read them, you feel like they are
1 Surah, Because one of them gives you,
4 or 5 stories, the next one gives
you 3 more stories, the stories are not
repeated, and they complete each other.
Sometimes,
the Surah will talk about some concepts, and
the next Surah will give you the exact
same
concepts. Yeah, the same example Surah, Rehman.
It talks about the fact that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is the Creator, He is the
Provider,
and it talks about 3 types of people.
The people of the right, the people of
the left, and the Mutarabun.
Surah Al Qara talks exactly about the same
things, the exact same things, but in reverse
order. But the exact same things.
All the way, all the way to Surah
Al Nas, when you read Surah Al Nas,
it says that Allah
is our Lord, we rely on Him for
protection and assistance,
and this is the theme of Surah Fatah,
it's like full circle.
So when you finish the Quran, you go
back, so all the Surahs are connected.
So this is from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Muhammad SAW Salam could not have done something
like this.
The other thing
about the
Quran,
as I mentioned that some people, like missionaries
and stuff, they would question the Quran and
say, why does it say this and why
does it say that? And Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala makes it very clear in the Quran.
If this Quran was from anyone except Allah
Subhanahu Wa
you will find a lot of contradictions inside
the Quran.
But it is from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and we spoke last time about the falsification
test, produce one like it, or find a
mistake inside, no one was able to meet
the challenge of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Another way of proving that this Quran is
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala will talk about things that happened in
the past that no one knew about, and
He will give us some things that will
happen in the future that no one knew
about at the time of Revelation.
In Surah Al Surah, Allah says,
This Quran is a mighty book.
And it cannot be proven false from any
angle,
from the composition of the Quran, from the
style, from the facts, from the historical facts
in the Quran, scientific facts in the Quran.
You cannot prove it false. You cannot prove
it false.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for example in,
some of the Ayat in the Quran, He
will tell the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam in
many places in the Quran, you didn't know
about this,
how come that it is mentioned in the
Quran? Like, so for example,
the story of Nuh Alaihi Salam in Surah
Hud, the story of Nuh Alaihi Salam with
his son, when he said, come with us
on the ship, you so and don't be
with the Kuffar or you will drown. This
story is not mentioned in the Bible, it
cannot be found anywhere.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells him in
the same Surah, Maqun Ta'ala Muhaan tawalaqamu. Biu
Muhammad You
didn't know the story, no one knew about
it, how come that now you know about
it? It's from me.
And in the Surah Yusuf,
the story of the witness
who said, No, She tore His shirt from
the back. This story is not in the
Bible. The story of the women and the
Walima.
It is not in the Bible. And Allah
says at the end of the Surah,
You
were not there when they were making all
these conspiracies about Yusuf. How come that now
you know?
You were not there. By Mount Tur, we
were revealed the Quran about the story of
Musa to Muhammad You
were not there. You were not a witness.
No one knew about this. So these are
things that happened in the past that no
one knew about.
The Quran talks about future things
that will happen in the future that no
one knew about at the time of revelation.
And the best example is at the beginning
of Surah Rum, Surah number 30 of the
Quran.
Aliflamimwuli
batirum
fi alilal ardhiuhumimpadi
baladimsaalibun
fi build alisini
So at the beginning of Surah Rum Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says that the Romans
at that time there were 2
Superpowers at the time of the Prophet
SAW The Persian Empire
to the East and the Roman Empire to
the North and the West
So the Romans
were defeated
and the Persians were victorious
And
Allah says at the beginning of the Surah,
yes, the Romans have been defeated,
but they would be victorious
The word means
from 3 to 9 years.
Then the Romans became victorious after 8 years.
No one knew about this. And and the
defeat of the Romans was so,
like, they were destroyed,
no one would imagine that they would be
victorious in a in a few number of
years. Right? So when this was revealed, the
people of Mecca were making fun of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and after 8 years the people of
the Persians were defeated,
and in Salat al Fazir is the exact
same day that the people of Mecca were
defeated at the Battle of Badr. The exact
same day. Because when the Romans were defeated,
the Arabs that are Christians,
Muslims were not happy, and the people of
Mecca were happy because the Persians were pagans
like them. So So the Quran says, no
no no no. Yes, they were defeated, they
were vanquished,
but they were victorious
in 3 to 9 years, and it happened
after 8 years. The other thing is,
who would have known at the time of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? This word used
at the beginning of Surah Rum,
Fi Adin al Art
Most of us here they say the Romans
were defeated Fi Adin al Art in the
nearby land which is Palestine,
Jordan in that area around
Al Bahr al Maid, the Dead Sea. They
say if you add Alhamd a nearby land
because it's close to Arabia.
We know in Arabi, the word Adna
is the opposite of Alhamd. Alhamd means high,
Adna means very long.
So the other day, I was reading on
NASA website,
and they say that this area, Palestine and
Jordan, around the Dead Sea, is the lowest
point on in the whole world, on Earth.
1300
feet below the sea level. That's 400 meters
below the sea level. And they say very
clearly, if you go to their website,
put Dead Sea, and it says, the Dead
Sea, this area where the battle took place,
the end of Al Ad is the lowest
point on Earth.
So, who knew about this at the time
of the Prophet
At that time, we mentioned he didn't have
a telescope, he didn't have a microscope.
How did he know about this? It came
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The development of
the baby inside the mother, the expansion of
the universe,
all of this is mentioned in the Quran.
All of this is mentioned in the Quran.
And I'm really
happy when someone in the West will discover
something, like a breakthrough,
and will come out and say, oh, but
it has been in the Quran for 1500
years.
Because you're lazy,
and you didn't study, and you didn't reveal
it to the world. You wait till someone
from outside will come and say, oh, we
discovered this. Well, we we should be the
first ones to read and find these gems
in the Quran, and and share them with
the world.
Another thing that is mentioned about the Quran,
I always get the question, the Quran has
some
mistakes in it. We will not talk about
the grammatical mistakes because the person who is
raising the question
cannot even read Arabic.
How do you know it's a mistake if
you don't know Arabic? You have to read
the Arabic itself.
And as I said, the Quran is the
standard for the Arabic language. The Arabic is
not the standard for the Quran. So we
use the Quran to set the standard for
the Arabic language.
And as I said, because people don't know
the, those who attack the Quran, they say
grammatical mistakes, they don't speak Arabic, they don't
know Naqwul Safa and Grammarly. And for them
it's a mistake, but for those who master
the Arabic language, it is not a mistake.
This is the standard in the Arabic language.
So they say, for example, in Surah Kahf,
you read every Jummah.
So I get the question, I got it
like 2 weeks ago. How come that Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said that
the sun
sets in in the mud? Surah Al Kahf,
in the story of Dhunkarnay.
Well, first of all, the Ayah says that
it appeared
to Dukarnayn
to be sitting in the mud,
and this style is very common in the
Quran. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will talk to
you from your own perspective.
Yeah. Let's say, for example, when Allah
says in the Quran,
Allah says,
the creation of the galaxies, the universe
is more difficult than the creation of human
beings.
This is from our perspective, but from his
perspective,
all is the same.
He creates a galaxy,
the solar system,
or the Milky Way system with the word
Kun the same way he creates a human
being. It is not none of them is
difficult for him. But this is from all
from our own perspective, that this one is
more sophisticated
than this one.
So he talks to us from our own
perspective.
In the story of Musa Alaihi Salam, when
he the the burning bush, as they call
it.
Ra'anar.
Actually, it was not Nar.
It was light, Nur, but Musa Alaihi Salam
thought it was Nar, so Allah
says, and Burikam infinari woman kawla. Those who
are at the fire, woman kawla, the angels.
Allah goes with fire, because the point was
not to discuss
with Musa alaihis salam the first time they
met if it was fire or light, the
focus is Tawhid, you are a Prophet, deliver
the message.
That was not the point. Right? So Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would talk to people from
their own perspective.
So it appeared to Dhukhanayn, it was sitting
in the mud.
And actually,
when we read the news every day,
and even on your phone, it says that
sunrise is at this time, sunset is at
this time. The sun actually doesn't ride rise,
and it doesn't set.
This is what appears to us. The sun
doesn't set and it doesn't rise.
The sunset and sunrise happens because of the
Earth's,
rotation around its axis. Right?
So you can say that this all people
say the sun sets and it rises. It's
a scientific mistake,
But this is what people understand,
so we use it this way.
The other one,
very quickly,
is when they say, You Uftaharun.
When the people of Maryam Alaihi Salam said,
Oh, sister of Harun, how come you came
with a boy, and you're not married?
So,
because Uftah Harun, Harun is the brother of
Musa Alaihi Salam, he died centuries before. How
come that she is called Uftah Harun, the
sister of Harun? We use this style in
Harabi.
Like, say, for example, if I throw some
good punches, you call me Abu Muhammad Ali,
the brother of Muhammad Ali Clay. Right?
Abu, twins.
But
because you compare someone to another in equality,
so you can say that he is his
brother. Uhu Hatim Al Thali, his brother in
generosity and so on and so forth. So
this Tal is very common. And the other
thing is in the Quran, just like the
Bible some names are repeated
just because the father of Maryam Alaihi Salam,
Maryam Al Nata Imran
Her father's name was Imran it does not
mean that it was Imran the father of
Musa Harun. These names are very common.
I'll give you another example. In the Quran,
there are 2 Shra'iks.
Shra'iib the Prophet, and Shra'iib the father of
the 2 women in Surat Khasas,
and Musa
got married to one of them. This is
a different tribe. There are 2 Musas in
the Quran. Musa Alaihi Wasallam the Prophet, and
there is Musa al Samiri. His name was
Musa, as well as Musa and there is
Musa al Samiri.
His name was Musa as well. In the
Bible there are so many Yusufs, there are
so many Mariyans, and so on and so
forth. So just because a name is is
very common, it does not mean it's a
mistake in the Quran. This is a common
name,
just like Muhammad here, Yusuf Ibrahim, we have
so many here in this community. We ask
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give us the
best in this life, and the best in
your life to come here. Salallahu Wa Ta'ala.
So I'm gonna kindly ask you, to move
forward. The people are waiting outside. So in
the last minute, inshallah, for the life of,
this Gopa, a couple
of rulings,
related to,
lukhijat,
o khayaqurbari,
and also the day of Eid. Because this
Eid, inshallah, the day of Eid,
will will also happen to be, inshaAllah, the
day of Jummah. So what is the ruling?
Do you have to come for Salatul Jummah
or not? So we'll discuss this very briefly,
inshaAllah.
We know that when the first day of
the hija comes,
for the next 10 days, those who, plan
to offer a Qurbani
from the sunnah, some say wajib, but it
is sunnah. It is musta hab. It is
not farad.
So it is sunnah not to trim your
hair or fingernails.
It is sunnah. If someone does it, Alhamdulillah,
they stick to the sunnah, they give the
reward, but if someone forgot, it is not
a big deal. You don't have to do
anything about it.
And someone was asking, planning to offer Ruhayyah,
and
the fingernails
and the hair, I know the ruling, but
what about intimacy with 1 spouse, husband or
wife? This ruling only applies to the people
who are there in Makkah for the Hajj.
It doesn't apply to you here. Only if
you go for Hajj, it applies. Intimacy is
not allowed, but if you are here, it
is permissible,
only for the Hajjaj.
So this ruling is only for the Hajjaz,
the people who do Hajj, not for the
regular people like us.
The second thing so, of course, once you
offer your Hauteya
on your agent, if you send it back
home to Egypt, Pakistan, other countries, Turkey,
then as soon as your agent offers the
material on your behalf, now you can shave,
and now you can trim your fingernails.
The ruling is, suspended in this case.
The second ruling and the last one for
today,
if Reel arrives on the day of Jummah.
These are 2 Reel.
So the scholars, and this is the chosen
opinion, if you come for salatul riid in
the morning,
you don't have to come for salatul jum'ah,
but you have to pray dhun. Some say
you don't pray dhun. No no no. You
have to pray dhun. Whatever you are. If
to come all the way for Eid and
to come all the way for Jummah, especially
those who live far away. So in this
case, the same ruling applies. If you come
to Eid in the morning, you don't have
to come for Salatul Jummah, but you pray
Salatul Dhul and we ask Allah
to give us the best in this life
and the best of Allah to come.