Nouman Ali Khan – Legal & Comparative Tafsir – Tadabbur – #11 – The Quran Library
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The speakers discuss various books and their potential for learning, including the title " Akam al Quran" and "Abba Ali Asur offline." They also mention various books and events related to the Quran, including a book on the theory and the idea behind Tabur and a book on the connection between spiritual and academic work. They emphasize the importance of building a culture of TadaGeneration and one month of devotion, and encourage people to read and use the book and create a culture of Tada MAC.
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What would you say more broadly? What do
you understand by the word Tadabur? And what
does it cover?
Gosh.
What Tadabur covers is to me the
My friend Yacine was just telling me this
is a best selling book in the Arab
world.
And that I think to be honest is
is a starting point that everyone should have
access to and I feel sad that
many
people who believe in the Quran and love
the Quran
just haven't found an easy resource that just
opens that up for them, you know, and
I think that's very important.
And welcome to great books about the Quran
with Sheikh Suhay bin Nourmand. In today's episode,
I have no idea what we're gonna do.
We are starting with a look through the
category of Akam al Quran.
Okay. So we saw Al Qurtubi Tafsir. Remember
we talked about Qurtubi Tafsir? I mentioned how
there is
a genealogy of,
of commentaries which are focused on.
Sometimes scholars have said Yeah. Ata has rulings
in them. 500,
verses, but the exact number, you know, can't
really be pinned down. But,
500 of 6,000 something
tells you roughly the proportion of things that
are directly relevant to,
fiqi rulings.
So you get works on that topic in
the modern period.
This is by the late Sheikh Sabouni Tafsir
Ayat al
Hakam.
Actually, his title is up here, very tiny,
Rawah al Bayan. I was like, I'm sure
it was called Rawah al Bayan.
It's
there.
But you've got also things which are,
so that's a contemporary one. And then we've
got Sheikh Ali Asaias,
this one Tafsir Laiatl Hakam.
But then classically,
I don't really have I don't have the
classical work. So you've got,
Akam al Quran in the Maliki school, we've
got in the Hanafi school.
So you've got Abu Bakr ibn Arabi, you've
got,
Abu Bakr Razi Al Jassas,
and then you've got also,
I'm sure the Shafais have got some as
well. Ilkiya Al Harasi?
Oh, okay. Just checking with my Shafais over
here.
So
this book is,
titled Akam al Quran
of,
Al Bayhati.
So this is basically taken from Al Shafi'i's,
you know, teachings very directly. And as I
understand, I haven't read this work yet.
There is a bit of,
you know, exploration here about the methods used
in this genre.
Interesting.
So
it's interesting. I haven't read it yet, so
I can't say much about it.
But, you know, this is generally the fiqi
lens, you could say Yeah. In the Quran
and with it, the usuli lens, that is
to say extracting
the principles that are pertinent to legal thinking.
And this is this is an Usuli type
book as well as al Isharat al ilahiya
ila mabahat al usuliya. Mhmm. But al Tufi,
so it's a classical book which
is reading the Quran in terms of what
principles it gives for legal methodology.
And the Sur Al Fiqh is not just
legal methodology,
because the Sur Al Fiqh then becomes also
relevant to tafsir and so on because
you know, interpreting texts
Right. Is is, of course, part of the
Quran and part of the study of the
Quran. And,
so that's why when we talk about usulatafsir,
actually, there's a lot of overlap with usulatafsir,
I don't think I made that point when
we were talking about Surat Tafsir. Right.
But there is in fact,
one book on my shelf over there by
doctor Fayed Al Wahbi,
the same
author is this book here,
So the methodology
of extracting
rulings in particular
from the Quran. He's got another book about
the overlap between,
Al Masa'il Mushtaraka
al Masa'il Mushtaraka bayinah Qutub Ulam al Quran
while Sul Fak.
Oh, wow, okay. So there are things which
are discussed in both, and then occasionally there
are things in Sul Fak that are not
in Sul Fak that are not in Sul
Fak.
So istimbat
is is related to that. So how do
we extract
rulings?
Of course, not we, like, all of us,
but those who are Do we? Will do
it. Yeah. Those
So but Istimbath as a concept is a
bit broader than just extracting
fit key rulings. It could be extracting
Ethical principles or
anything pertinent to something you're gonna build some
conclusion upon and some action upon. So this
book is really cool. I wanna give you
a chance to
explore this one.
Not the best edition of it, but it's
just the one that I have by Imam
Suyuti.
I know it looks like it's by this
guy, but it's the it's a tiny tiny
name. Oh, hey,
So you'd think that this was Yahoo.
No. But that's not even the person who
did the the editing. That's that guy here.
He did the editing, and he oversaw the
editing, and he wrote the book.
So there's a lot of Istimbath that's required.
Istimbath of how this happened is another question.
So,
this is not a great addition, but what's
cool about it is Imam Suyuti goes through
the whole Quran and,
he finds you know, he he mentions what
different things have been extracted from each,
ayah of the Quran, sometimes by the fuqaha,
sometimes by the muttaqalimun
or by the Usul
Yun, by the philosopher maybe, maybe by the
scientists, or I don't know
the extent of it.
And he's not necessarily saying that all of
these conclusions are good,
He'll mention things that sometimes are very weak
and implausible.
Mhmm. But I really like this in terms
of, being part of a curriculum of study
because it's important to see what kind of
things people have
found in the Quran so that you can
also learn,
to sift between,
as you say,
Did you find anything that's just for us?
Very strange stuff, but, yeah. I opened it.
I kind of ran up. Wasn't strange?
So you're reading about
Okay. Yeah. So it's
so the story of the fact that the
the the the mother of Maryam,
Is a has having a problem that Maryam
is a girl. Yeah. And it's not like
well, it's not like a girl, and if
she was made for From that, you can
surmise that
women are not,
suitable to be,
to be put as the the the servants
in the in the temple.
So, yeah, in fact, I remember this, I've
read someone else about his, you know, about.
In fact, let me see here.
And then he says
So I guess not a legal verdict, but
he's extrapolating from it a principle, a faith
principle. Yeah. So he when he says just
the lubihi, he's just telling you that, you
know, someone has
someone somewhere has drawn this conclusion from you.
I see. He's not endorsing every little thing.
But as I recall, there are sometimes things
which are not kind of
just fit key things.
Let's see.
Oh, okay. So, yeah, this is an interesting
one. Yeah. So the ayat
So
Iblis is saying to our mother and father,
Adam and Hawa,
that
your lord only forbid you from this tree
lest you become
angels. So he said the who have the
view that angels are better than men used
as a as a proof of that.
Mhmm. As for the those who responded to
this,
It's amazing that someone will see this as
a proof that angels are better.
Right. So how can you
put Iblis as an authority in anything?
And all of this, he's not exactly misled.
And Iblis told the truth on this occasion,
you
know.
So he gives a a bit of commentary
here, but he doesn't almost do that. So
this is a really it's a it's a
fascinating book. I'd I'd really love to go
through this in a systematic way and Yeah.
And
It's an interesting way of looking at the
eye and what can we extract from it.
It's an interesting process.
This is a book by a student of
Muhammad Abu Musa that we saw,
Mahmoud Tawfiq Sad. Mhmm.
Subal
Istanbul Al Mu'ani min al Qurani was Sunnah.
Okay. So apparently, this is important. I'm told
that this this madrasah of of thinkers are
really,
strong, but I haven't had a chance to
study that yet.
So this will help us to move on
to our next topic,
which is,
differences
of approach amongst the mafasirin. So this particular
book is specific to
the context of Ayat al Hakam. So why
do the Mafasidians have different perspectives on Ayat
al Hakam? It shouldn't be surprising that they
do,
but it is important to study that carefully.
So here I have a very precious little
collection,
which is I've just sort of formed
recently from, from the books that I have
concerning the issue of difference,
among them for Selim.
And, you know, part of that
is about differences between the salaf, that is
to say between the sahaba, dabein, or between
different
generations among them. So these are books that
are published in
this is Dara ibn al Jawzi,
Both of them
are. So it's, you know, it's not like
a hidden thing. I mean, people who to
whom salafi tafsir is important
do talk about this.
Iftila fu salafi tafsir,
and that one is.
So it's istidraqaat that I'm particularly interested in.
The idea that somebody states an opinion
and then someone comes along later and says,
no. We need to correct this opinion. I
want to respond to it.
Because this sets the stage for what we
could call,
tafsir debates.
We could call
it tafsir critique. So this is a nice
book from Marcus Tafsir called.
I just didn't notice it rhymes, kind of.
So the craft of criticism
yeah. Criticism is not necessarily, you know, just
calling something bad, but it just means,
analyzing
and commenting on earlier opinions. So the tafsir
of bin Adia here is taken as a
case study,
by this author
who is the head of the Usul Tafsir
unit at Marcus Tafsir.
So I'm interested to dig into these.
And then
these 3,
I feel very pleased to have, you know,
found these disparate titles and brought them together
because they have something in common.
So we talked about hashias.
Yep.
So the hashia is where you've got,
a scholar takes a text which has become
kind of like a
a well established
source text like the kashaf of Zamach Shari
or the the Anwaru Tanzil of Al Beddawi,
or Dzalalayn,
and they write a commentary on that tafsir.
So they expand the ideas, but they also
might criticize some specific points
within the tafsir. Right. So that's, you know,
this book is a really nice,
way in to study this,
Hasia tradition because the author, Al Khirmani,
I mean, the way it's structured
is that,
you have
some selected texts from the Kashaf,
which some scholars have actually
commented on and responded to and debated.
Right? So let me see how it works.
So here, for example, this is something a
section from the Kashaf of Zebakshari. Mhmm. And
then here is a word called the takrib,
which gives some kind of response to it.
And then comes Atibi, that's the big hash
here that we've seen up there. Yeah.
And then a Saraji.
So there's a kind of, like, back and
there's a back and forth and discussion happening,
but it's here, it's very concentrated, like, examples
chosen that are actually
interesting enough, and and this author, Al Karmani,
has gathered them together. That's very cool. So
you can study specifically the issues where there
is some interesting debate instead of, of course,
reading a whole mass Lumbness. Yeah. A massive
hashia and not knowing where. And then going
to another hashia to accidentally find a response
to that Right. In that house. Right. So
this I mean, imagine how precious somebody has
extracted these debates. So you can see specifically
points that are debated, and they're not always
the points that you might think are, like,
really hot issues.
It could be on just a little point
of grammar.
It could be on a point of theology.
It could be all sorts of things.
But this is,
it's a beautiful thing to see
how the mfasir also discuss with each other,
debate with each other,
because it's a very
live subject. It's a very lively subject. People
seem to think tafsir is like, oh, you
just take a statement. Oh, no. Someone said
it already. They said the meaning. That's it.
You just have to pass that on.
But this shows you really the the depth
and the and how interesting it is.
This is one
which
is,
minister Dhruqat, Ibn Muthafar al Razi Alatasir Thalabi.
So I don't know really anything about Ibn
Muldafar who's mentioned here.
But Tassir Salabi is, is famous part of
the Nishapuri school that we briefly alluded to.
Yeah. But the point is
of 1 tafsir or another.
So this looks really fascinating. It's an Azeri
scholar, and
the introduction is done by someone I could
count as a teacher,
who was the head of the Kuwait Local
Arabiya,
and he became
the president of the university as well. So,
again,
carefully selected
issues.
And it has
So these 3 tafsirs,
they are istidraqat
by,
Maghribi and the Lucy scholar, Ibn Arafah,
who then,
you know, he's disagreeing with certain things of
those 3 tafsirs. I see. Now any tafsir
like, you could pick up Ibn Ashoor. You
could probably compose the books of.
Right. Someone will do it. It will happen.
But in the meantime, we have these as
well,
which, again, the the mentality that it builds,
I think very powerful because then then what
we're saying,
is that
our history is a history of
very engaged intellectual disagreement and debate,
and we're building ideas atop one another. And
people are not just taking lock, stock, and
barrel what's been said and then moving on.
And this this is happening from the earliest
times in Islamic history.
Yeah. So, you know, the simplistic idea, this
is,
this is what the Mufasilun
said.
Really? Which Mufasilun?
This is what the Mufasilun said. Was there
was there an astiddraq
on what this Mufasil said?
Is there a new name? Saw the beautiful
thing in Tafsila al Lusi where he he
really he brings that all together. But, again,
that's Tafir, Tafir. So it's nice to have
a selection
of, of of,
circumstances. And we can call this comparative tafsir.
That's the term that's used for tafir al
Muqaren. Mhmm. This is by, a female duktura,
Raouda Abdelkareem Frahoun. There are people called Frahoun.
Don't be too shocked.
And the and the supervisor of that was
Fadl Hasan Abbas, the Jordanian scholar that we
mentioned before.
So
I just I'd love the opportunity
to, you know, to have a class where
we study this stuff, but,
yeah, I need you need people who are
are ready for that journey. Perhaps when we
get to certain Suras where
we need to discuss legal issues or some
critical historical issues, we might have to consult
these sources and Yeah. For sure. Trace those
debates. Yeah.
Right. So I'm plucking up
quite a wide range of books just now
for the last topic that we'll be covering,
which is broadly speaking,
or
reflection upon the Quran. Oh my god. You
have. Okay.
Which one? I'll I'll show you.
Oh, yeah. This is the older one? Yep.
Yeah. Go on. I've done. Read it.
This was very informative for me.
These are some various books that are either
in the sort of theory of Tadabur
or and the practice of Tadabur.
Before we even get to that, I mean,
like,
I wanted to mention this under Surah Tafsir,
so I'll just put it here so we
can have an excuse to talk about it.
It's a book called
k. My upside in reading is not fully
up to speed yet. So the author, doctor
Hatem Al Aouni is based in Mecca.
This
signed copy.
What? Because I I I got it signed
when I came to London.
So this is very unusual, to be honest,
this book, because, first of all,
it just kind of recognizes that there could
be a thing
called being a mufassar
and that you might actually want to develop
that skill
and that there is not a closed gate,
you know, forever and ever. Only dead people
can be read? And only dead people can
be Amufasiran.
So I really like that concept and the
book itself has got very nice kind of
thought process
for, you know, how you can develop the
skills of mufassar. It doesn't mean at the
end of finish you finish this book, you're
a mufassar. It just means you've got some
idea about what is the route
to being mufassar. And I think that is
hardly
broached as even an idea or a concept.
So then,
we've talked about
extracting things, and that's part of Tadabur.
What would you say more broadly? What do
you understand by the word Tadabur? You know,
what does it cover?
Gosh.
What Tadabur covers is to me the purpose
of the ayah.
Like, beyond the meaning, what does this ayah
mean
for me? What's the wisdom, counsel, guidance?
Who is its target audience,
if not just myself? And what is it
telling them?
So,
where tafsir
is concerned with the what,
what it means.
I think the line between tafsir and Tadabur
is,
okay, now I know what this means. Why
did he say it?
What's what am I getting from this? What
am I to take from this? What is
he telling me from this?
So it's actually an exploration
of the wisdom behind what is said. So
I think that in that sense, it is
built on top of understanding the meaning.
Right? And in fact, in that sense, tafsid
is actually the means to the larger end.
Tamita Dabur is the end.
And tafsid is like,
okay, now I understand the base
meaning of what Allah is saying. I understand
the different ways to grasp it, what these
words could mean, what the what the history
of this ayah is telling us or,
you know, all the different principles we apply
in extracting the meaning. But then on top
of that is actually a deeply spiritual exercise.
What makes this profound? What makes this divine?
You know, those 2 ayaat that Allah mentions
tadabur and complains
of halayat tadaburun al Quran? It's interesting that
one of them points at the heart and
the other one points at the mind, like
So there's also like Tadabur will lead me
to
recognize the awesome divinity of the wisdom.
Right?
And it will, on the other hand, also
unlock,
things in me.
You know, that
so that that's how I see Tadabu as
actually a highly spiritual exercise.
Yeah. I think that's very useful.
Spiritual and intellectual, as you said. Yeah. Because
I think that a mufassir,
someone who is
explaining the Quran
in an authoritative way or exploring it. I
like to call them fasr explorers and explainers
of the Quran because I think they have
to be both. Yep. The exploration part is
the dabboor,
and the explanation part
really
must be left to the scholars. Right? But
the scholars have their
Right. Based on, you know, you become an
expert diver.
You know,
I myself, I don't have any experience diving.
Right? I could snorkel. You know, I could
be allowed in the water but if I
can't even swim I shouldn't go in the
water but diving, you know, there has to
be stages
of training and coming back
and being overseen
before you can become a scuba diver and
deep sea diver,
and go to try to get something,
that that necklace from the Titanic, right, that
went to the bottom of the ocean. Yeah.
So for all of these things, there has
to be stages of expertise. But we can
we all get a chance to go in
the water. We all get a chance to
experience it. So that's interesting you say that
because, like,
when I think of the,
different people having different human capacities. Right? So
let's say a student of tafsir, a rudimentary
student of tafsir, someone who's learning tafsir from
someone more learned, right, in the in the
form of lecture,
class, reading, whatever it may be. Read something
fairly accurate about a a story in the
Quran. Right?
Now let's just hypothesize that. Let's say this
this this reader happens to be a student
of literature, a student of storytelling, a student
of,
you know, the genre of storytelling.
And they've studied its different forms, styles, effects,
its history, etcetera. They they they have this
eye
for what's happening in the way a story
is being told because this is this is
what they breathe
every day. Right? So when they're reading the
story in the Quran,
they may
observe things that a Mufasir who was not
thinking about it along those lines.
They may make observations that are very powerful
in the form of tadabur.
Yeah. Yeah. You know? Similarly, if
I I've actually had this experience I was
talking about and we were talking about
Surat Yusuf and what Yusuf alaihi salaam was
going through. And there are people that are
in the field of child development, child psychology,
you know,
parenting,
counseling,
and they've done quite a bit of research
work in this space, and they work with
children. And
they're seeing something in the text
come to life that that speaks to their
lived experience, kinda like,
kind of. Right?
That,
that the exercise of tafsir facilitated.
Yeah.
Right? Understanding the basic meaning Yeah. And being
comfortable in what the ayah basically means allowed
them to see
shades of meaning and how those connect
to things in the in the real world.
In their world. In in, yeah, in the
real world. And it
and in that sense, the world of Tadabpur
is actually really fascinating because a historian might
see what a
what a botanist will not, and a psychologist
will see what a sociologist will not, and
a, you know,
a a a a legal scholar will see
something that Yeah. You know? So it's it's
really fascinating
what the world of Tadabu can open up.
Yeah. You know, and that's that's one thing
that I think we should
we should create the room for Tadabur by
way of facilitating tafsir.
Like, tafsir needs to be made accessible.
So at a base level,
people get what the Quran is talking about,
and then
the discussions guided discussions on Tadabur or facilitating
Tadabur needs to be it's it's weighs in.
You know? That's what Yeah. And I think
that's just talking about through the the context
of lenses that we can look
lenses
that an ordinary believer can apply. Yeah.
Or even someone who's not a believer can
still
contemplate the Quran,
You know, in what way? So that's why
those people, the hypocrites and Sona Bitton Affiliates
at the Barun al Quran,
this is not the same. Why don't they
have a spiritual experience? Why don't they
examine it carefully and they will discover
the reality of this Quran? Right. That that's
the way in for them.
And then those who are already believers, what
is there to dabboor, you know? I remember
what I for Ayati. First read that ayatul
Muhammad, I thought, you know,
so much of the Quran's already been revealed.
And the Munafiqul are asking questions that clearly
indicate that you haven't ever given real thought
to what's been revealed all this time, that
these are the kinds of questions that are
coming out of your mouth. Mhmm.
You know?
Like, you're so lost in yourself and your
own locks that this is this this is
your state. Or,
you know,
Yeah. All this time. Don't they get it?
Don't they get it? Has the message not
quite clicked yet for them? So, I mean,
some of these books I would say
are like, you know, oh, you know this,
author. Right?
Yes.
So
the book and the believer
or we've got, that's by doctor Asar Ahmed,
and then we've got,
Usas Khurram Murad's book, Way to the Quran.
I mean, this is talking about, you know,
the connection
as a believer,
an imani approach or what we call the
iman filter.
That means that therefore your lenses are going
to be beneficial to you. Yeah. When you
come to the Quran, that's important to have
the right attitude. Very similar to what El
Sahih does. And then,
Alama El Sahih in this book and then
Subhani, we saw some of his works. He's
got something to the Abu Quran.
In the Arab world, also, we've got,
some books on the kind of the theory
and the idea behind Tabur. So this is
this is quite a nice one.
Oh. So it's a lot going on here,
but it's it's a fairly short book, but
quite nice
examination of the ayat to mention these various
terms.
And this organization, which is called Tadabur,
have got numerous publications, but sometimes it's like
they gathered things from, kind of,
online forums and and put them together
as, you know, majalis in Tadabour. Mhmm. This
is also,
from them,
but in connection with the,
in connection also with the Moroccan
somehow.
I'm trying to see how it was.
But in any case, this one
is like a whole conference about,
Tadabpur.
I don't know how many they've had now.
But they've go to one of these. Yeah.
I told them to go to hang out
at one of these conferences. So I don't
know how spiritual it was. It'll be it'll
be, you know, academic papers. But
Oh, so you're talking about Tadabour. It's gotta
be somewhat spiritual. There's our,
friend Yeah. Who says doctor Abdul Haman Sheri.
He's got a paper in this one.
So, you know, this is academic work around
Tadabour, which again should inform, you know,
how we understand things. And this is
the,
sort of higher studies curriculum
in Saudi Arabia,
This is a book by,
an Egyptian scholar
who recently followed me on Twitter. I know
that's not interesting. It was interesting to me
because It was very interesting. I just saw,
like, so and so has followed you. I
was like, I know what that name. Hold
on.
Yes. He's the same one who's written this
book, this 2 volume book about Tadabur
Fatum Minar Rahim Al Rahman.
Quite a lot of effort in the Raymond
title there, but Yes. It's a good one.
Quran
of,
Farid al Ansari.
Won't say much about it, but a very
fascinating scholar.
And this one is probably worth a look.
Have you seen this?
I have actually seen that. This is a
sort of large, version of it. Yeah. I
haven't seen a large version. So in this
book, it's kind of,
giving little snippets that are are to help
you
find some nice quotes from,
Ulema.
There's at the Burats, really. Yeah. Which which
helps you to think about things and then
it asks you questions and write, you know.
Very nice.
So
it's good to have tools that, that prompt
you to actually think about something in a
bit of a sense. Yeah.
This is a book written,
by
a couple of
scholars who are also heavy users of QuranReflect.com,
which I'm connected with.
So this is their
meditation is a sort, Yousef. You know, we're
still in the process of writing up our
content to God as well. Yeah. But you
can see also they they then they turned
that into a book, and it's been printed
as a book
because people like sometimes to have,
have it in in printed form.
And, actually, doctor Mohammed Abu Musa has a
book on the
just Hadith Yusuf Musa? Hadith as in their
Speech. Speech, yeah, of Yusuf and Musa.
So, obviously,
it's got a lot of assortative to Yusuf
and,
you know, what what you get from the,
you know, the balakha of the speech of
the of the individuals in the story. Very
nice. Particularly of Yousef alaihis salam. So I
mean, there's no end to I mean, this
whole library that we've been going through
is to the Quran, isn't it? In a
sense, yes. It's investigating.
It is pondering.
It is trying to go deeper.
Looking at the micro level of an individual
word
or the macro level like this pile here,
which is the last pile inshallah
that we'll talk through,
which is about, you know, introductions to the
Surahs.
So we've got some things in Arabic.
My friend Yassine was just telling me this
is a best selling book in the Arab
world.
It's a funny title to me, Awul Maruat
Adibir Quran, but it's got little sort of
mind maps for,
you know, the the main contents of of
each Surah. And that, I think, to be
honest, is is a starting point that everyone
should have access to, And I and I
feel sad that
many
people who believe in the Quran and love
the Quran
just haven't found an easy resource that just
opens that up for them. You know? And
I think that's very important. It's very interesting.
Your little
insights into the Surah here. So,
my friend, Abu Bakr, who runs the Quran
Wiki
website, they turned that website into a book,
which, you know, it still exists as a
website. But they've they've tried to show, you
know, basic information about each Surah
with some graphs of, you know I don't
know what the graphs are here. The occurrence
of certain words,
word count per ayah.
Yeah. Interesting things which give you a brief
glimpse.
And that's, you know, that's one route into,
you know, appreciating the Surah.
And, again, our friend,
Sharif
Hassan al Banda Mhmm. Has got this kind
of, again, summary and mind map of the
structure of each Surah.
So there's room for more things like this,
really, which help you to
navigate and get a brief idea of what
is talked about in each Surah. And not
just in Ramadan. You know, Ramadan is when
we We get in Quran mode. We feel
motivated to do that. Yeah. I fully,
understand and appreciate and respect that. That's fine.
But,
you know, I'd love that we we develop
a culture whereby we've got 11 months of
preparation,
one month of, you know, the devotion,
I like it to cover in the Quran
in 1
in 1 month, you know. It's gonna be
read throughout this month. It's gonna be covered
in the Tarawih prayers.
You know, what do you do each year
to get ready? And then people will be
like, I wanna understand, I wanna know the
the language of the Quran. Well, that's something
you can do in the 11 months, you
know. And then each time we get to
Ramadan,
we've got a fresh you know, we've reached
another level of how we're able to appreciate
the Quran that we're reading or that we're
hearing.
So
any final reflections on our
journey through the Quranic studies library?
There's just there's too many things to
realize we haven't given enough attention to.
Yeah. Me too. What's what's daunting, you I'm
sure for even you as you've gone through
your library over again is, oh my god.
I need to give that more time. Wow.
Oh, that needs more time for me. Oh,
this needs to I need to pull time
out. And
I think instead of being overwhelmed, we need
to discipline ourselves into,
you know,
droplets of progress.
You know what? Okay. You know someone like
me needs
his students to come to the door and
say, I want to read that book with
you.
So they read it. They read it to
me. They discuss it with me. That's my
motivation taken care of. Yeah. Yeah.
So I think that's this is the environment
that I'm hoping to create.
Even my motivation for
teaching the Arabic,
dream program,
was to actually get students eventually to a
point where
an overwhelming,
you know, number of resources like this cannot
be
really extracted by a single group or a
single person.
It needs to be kind of a collective
effort.
And,
we have to raise the bar on this
and create circles like that. Right? So there's,
of course, there's the there's the halakas for
the youth and there's the khutbas and there's
the, you know, basic lectures and things like
that. But
a culture of Tadaabur really needs to be
fostered.
And we've got we've got some books in
English. We can do things with those books.
Yeah. But you see the the amount of,
you know, the
how much more expansive Quranic studies is in
Arabic.
It shouldn't surprise anyone, but maybe it has.
So when people sometimes are saying, oh, I
want to study, with you. I want to
study Quranic science. They'll say, study Arabic.
Yep. Right? And people don't like that answer.
As a focus on your Arabic,
master the Arabic as much as you can.
If there's
if some if somebody takes kind of a
motivation
away from this, like, I wanna be able
to access these treasures. Right?
Then just take a year and just drop
everything and just focus. Like, I'm not saying
drop your job and family.
Keep that stuff, but take your spare time
and just say, you know what? I'm gonna
get somewhere with my Arabic.
And you can.
You absolutely can.
And, you know, you can't the the mentality
that
someone has to tell me where to go.
Someone has to tell me what to do.
This is not what you do when you're,
when there's a real need, you become ingenuity
and you you come up with creative ways
to getting to your target. Right?
And people do that for work. People do
that for school. People do that with everything
else. But when it comes to RD, no.
Just tell me what should I do next.
I don't know what to do. And And
then they don't wanna do that. And then
I don't wanna die. Then I don't wanna
do that. So there's this, like, almost spoiled
child syndrome that has now
been
Sorry. It's true. It it is.
And I'm not saying that for the general
public, but I'm saying for those who say,
look, I'm motivated. I wanna learn.
They've we've created a culture of spoon feeding.
And
I'm not a product of spoon feeding.
I'm a product of I I really wanna
learn this. I I don't know what you
learn. So I could just say, I don't
have anyone to learn from.
Or you could just get up and say,
okay. I'm gonna learn one thing at least.
Somebody just there's this book right here. I'm
gonna try to learn it. I don't can't
read the first page, so I'm gonna go
find someone to read the first page with.
Mhmm. Take a step.
And, like, when when
if we do that, then you'd be surprised
how Allah keeps opening doors. Right? Like,
where you end up, you wouldn't even imagine
that that's where you would have been. And
so I think that that that motivation to
come
closer to Allah by way of connecting to
his word deeper and deeper and to be
able
to benefit from all these remarkable souls that
have done such
amazing service to Allah's book, it would be
a disservice to them
that we're not
taking advantage of the treasure they left behind.
You know? And and in in just about
all of these fields, you know,
as as cocky or arrogant and out of
place as it sounds,
you know, I look at it and I
think, well, that's amazing. I can see what
the next step of this might be. Yeah.
Right? Not because I'm able to do that
next step Yeah. But just that I can
see that there's growth potential Yes. All of
these studies. And so we wanna see that
happen. In order for that to happen, we
need people to, you know, absorb what has
been done. Otherwise, we'll just stay at the
same level.
Those of you who read Arabic, another
easy to read,
fascinating book.
It is a bestseller. I think I could
see why.
Went through a couple of pages. This is
pretty nice.
It's been a fascinating journey, and I think
this will be a benefit to us first
and foremost,
and whoever's viewing.
We will Sheikh Sahib is not going to
give you the bibliography
of each book. And can you make a
list of these books, please? Or the PDF.
If he was into PDFs, he wouldn't be
spending, like, his life savings on
These are my life savings. Yeah. That you
know? So,
and also, I think we should have regard
for these publishers,
these authors
that have put time, money, and resources into
publishing these materials. And I think it's
the least we can do is not to
undermine their work by
going to find illegal PDFs and whatever whatever
you can. Sometimes people don't have an alternative,
and this is the way they can get
it. But so many times, you know It's
right there, but this is what's the answer.
I'd rather and I'll I'm tell just telling
you just from experience, you're not gonna sit
through a PDF.
It's just not gonna happen. You might open
it once in a while. You're like, is
there an app that has this?
Is there Honestly, if I were to think
about if we were to go through the
PDFs on my phone, I don't even remember
what's there. But I see how the library
I have staring at your intimate relationship with
with everything Yeah. This library. Yep. Whereas I
don't even know what is what I've downloaded
over time.
It's gone to me. It's dead to me.
That's just
So dead trees are the ones that It's
like people in your contact list that you
don't even know like who's this?
Why did I save their number?
And you call them and they say who
are you?
It's like that. It's exactly like that.
Alright. Okay. So Insha'Allah, I I genuinely pray
that, all of you that are viewing benefited
from this journey. I certainly did as exhaustive
as it was make dua that we are
able to do some service to the Quran
before,
you know, Allah takes the soul
and is able to become some form of
sadaqa jariyah for all of us. And just
please may du'a for this project that we
have and especially for our dear Sheikh Suhaib
that Allah preserve him and allow him to
create a legacy that is truly worth showing
to Allah
on judgment day. You Allah, I didn't do
much but look at this legacy.
There's a lot of commission that should come
our way,
So I pray all of us, are forgiven
and are able to be rewarded for
yeah. So are are able to be rewarded
for the efforts that we're trying to make.
Allah accept your efforts and make your journey
into the Quran easy to. Assalamu alaykum, Assalamu
alaykum,
Assalamu
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