Nouman Ali Khan – My Quran Week Experience – The Vision, Journey & Key Highlights

Nouman Ali Khan
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The speaker discusses their experiences studying the Quran and the importance of understanding the natural and complex world. They emphasize the need for collaborative learning and the rewarding and rewarding experience of studying the Quran in a stressful way. They also discuss the challenges of studying in a stressful way and the potential for deep discussions and engagement with people from different sciences. The importance of "will" in the Quran is emphasized, and rich discussions can bring transformation. The speaker offers resources for Muslims to study the Quran and bring the power of the Quran back to one's consciousness.
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Is this gonna be too much for everybody?

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Because they're gonna be like, this is too

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so much information.

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I thought we're gonna get very, very few,

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super nerdy, super

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really interested,

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you know, senior peep maybe even imams are

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interested in this kind of stuff.

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And it was the most amazing pleasant surprise.

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I think that ayah or that part of

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the ayah, I spent maybe an hour and

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a half, an hour 45 minutes without a

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break

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with my audience on that ayah.

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And myself and everybody in the audience was

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just balling in tears.

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The first was a really big shot in

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the dark. I was very nervous about that.

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The reason for that was

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I know my audience is used to hearing

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shorter clips, a 20 minute chutba,

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at most, maybe a 40 minute, 1 hour

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lecture, but this is, like,

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3 hours or 2 and a half hours

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every day for a whole week. And it's

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not like an Arabic class. In an Arabic

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class, I ask a bunch of questions. They

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answer. It's kind of like a conversation. I

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know how to keep breathing oxygen into the

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room.

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But this is a detailed study of the

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Quran, so it's basically me lecturing, and they're

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not interrupting in the middle.

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And there's a lot of different things that

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I wanna incorporate. Right?

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I I used to have I've developed a

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good system for teaching Arabic, like a method.

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And for the first time, I was like,

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no. We need to have a methodical approach

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on how to study Quran deeply.

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Like, word analysis, comparative tafsir, comparative religion,

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you know, outside,

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questions. Like, there's a system I put in

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place. Right? I was like, is this gonna

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be too much for everybody? Because they're gonna

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be like, this is too so much information.

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And

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really big shot in the dark. I thought

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we're gonna get very, very few super nerdy,

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super

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really interested,

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you know, senior peep maybe even imams are

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interested in this kind of stuff.

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And it was the most amazing pleasant

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surprise,

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the the 1st Quran week in in Glasgow,

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because the audience was college students, high schoolers,

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kids,

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Quran teachers, imams,

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youth activists, khatebs. It was the entire spectrum.

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And the questions and the engagement that came

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from it was so incredible. Like, I was

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like, wow, they're actually this is something that

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can that can work because, you know, my

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my goal behind

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doing that was to shatter

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this notion that

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deeper study of the Quran is just for

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scholars.

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Right? And it's

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and if you know it, if you know

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something more in-depth about a Surah, good for

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you. But it's it's kinda extra stuff. It's

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not fundamental to our religion. I was like,

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if the if Allah is saying contemplating the

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Quran is fundamental to your hearts,

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right, in so many words, then how are

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we saying that it's not fundamental?

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Right? But there was no way to give

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people that without making them feel overwhelmed. And

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I think

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that was a really great first experiment

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that encouraged me that this is this should

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become an institution and should carry on.

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So the the old format of doing Surat

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Al Baqarah, Juzamah,

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was

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which are both of them are very different

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formats, by the way. So,

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the way I did Juzamah

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was I was in a masjid for about

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a couple of years, actually. The original time

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I did it. It was a weekly halaqa.

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So the Baqarah was everyday in Ramadan and

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then continued as a weekly thing for a

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couple of years.

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And that's in a single community. Right?

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But then with with these surahs, which I

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kind of with with the work that I've

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already done, decided to start with Surat Adariyah

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51 onwards.

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Basically, it's as many Surahs as can be

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studied that are 4 pages or less. Basically,

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that's the rough idea.

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I figured instead of sitting in front of

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a camera

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and doing that in one place, why not

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use every surah as a unique opportunity

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to go in front of a live audience,

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a fresh audience that has been done something

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like that before

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and give them that experience

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and see what will come of it. Like,

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it's so much easier for Bay Yin and

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for myself to stay home, turn the camera

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on and do this. Right?

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But the the the Scotland experience

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made me realize that this actually is a

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seed that can turn into something in each

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of those communities.

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And that's only been validated as I've traveled.

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Like I know now people that came to

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Quran Week and that became the start of

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a very serious commitment to Quran studies, Arabic

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studies, their Islamic education

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that has now turned into

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not only their own growth, but they're starting

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Quran circles, podcasts,

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you know, discussions, families, study circles.

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Really cool Quran inspired activism

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is now happening in different communities because they

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attend the Quran week, and that was the

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spark that kind of started it all. So

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it's a really, really cool

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opportunity for sadaqa jari, I feel.

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Okay. So my first Quran week, as we

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said, was Glasgow in Scotland,

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and it was Surat Al Dariyat.

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And my last Quran week was, Surat Al

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Qiyama.

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And

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I'll have to confess, there's 2 things about

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the last one.

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1, it was Los Angeles, which I, you

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know, with my experience with American communities and

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traveling, my assumption was LA's,

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like, the most relaxed crowd. They don't take

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anything seriously. They're gonna roll in. If it's

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a 7 o'clock program, they'll roll in at

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maybe 8 o'clock. You know, like traffic, it's,

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like, so hard. Like that,

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they're gonna be like that.

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And that was my assumption. And then the

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other was Sutokoyama because I only had a

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couple of weeks to prep. I was like,

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okay. This Sura is just a page and

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a half, so this will be easy. I

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think I can manage in 2 weeks prep

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time.

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And very quickly, it dawned on me that

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2 weeks was not nearly enough. Those 2

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weeks were more hours than soon as I've

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studied for 3 full time weeks with the

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entire team.

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So to both, I underestimated. The,

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the the the kinds of interactions

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in

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Los Angeles in King Fahad Masjid

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were very unique.

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One of the coolest things there's a couple

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of things that

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stick out to me. A fellow was doing

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his PhD work in

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neurology,

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particularly working on consciousness.

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And so Tokayama opened up with the guilty

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conscience. And they talked a lot about the

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concept of consciousness and how it's been discussed

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in our,

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you know, Islamic literature, how it's been discussed

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in Christian tradition, Jewish tradition, philosophical tradition, the

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scientific tradition, how things would do in the

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scientific community. And this guy, I didn't I

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don't know his background. He's sitting there. His

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jaw is dropping like,

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I have to have something to share with

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you. And he starts sharing his research that

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he's doing at the PhD level on this

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subject and how in line with the Quran

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it is. That was incredible to me.

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Another couple of 2 really cool stories. There

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was a senior sister that was in the

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program, and she said, I have to tell

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you because we had an open QA session.

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I have to tell you something. I was

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like, what? She goes, I graduated from Azhar.

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She had graduated from Jami Atul Azhar maybe

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30 years ago. She's been teaching Quran to

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kids in Los Angeles for many years. And

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she goes, what you're doing is really important,

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is very unique, and it must be done.

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And I I wanna help in any way

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that I can. And I was like, yes.

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I found a female scholar that wants to

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help.

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So, like, connecting

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with people like that. And then a couple

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of young kids that are college students, graduates,

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actually,

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from Minnesota. I had done a Quran week

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in Minnesota, and I see familiar faces sitting

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in the front row. I was like, what

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are you guys doing here? Like, it's the

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Quran week. You can't miss it. Like, you're

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you were gone out of America for so

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long, you know. So they they they flew

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in, both of them.

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They started even a podcast just on the

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number of the Quran.

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And so the the, you know, the way

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it was different from the first Quran week

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was I'm starting to see the fruits of

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it

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in really interesting ways.

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And, what it's what it's spawning into, what

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it's really turning into. And,

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that was

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probably the thing that that really stuck out

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to me about this, Qur'an week.

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Different Surahs, different challenges.

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I would say probably one of the most

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challenging Suras to study,

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from just

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how many different sciences had to be tapped

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into was.

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Because history,

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politics,

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law,

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language,

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coherence,

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like, there's so many things that had to

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cross section to understand

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what Allah is getting across in at

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a deep level. So that was really awesome,

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and that was a great experience in Sydney.

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A surah that was very challenging from a

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from a personal reflection perspective

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was Surah Taha Boon. I think it was

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probably one of the most rewarding surahs,

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that I've studied thus far. I always knew

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it's special, but,

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you know, just just the way that that

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emerged even for myself in that study was

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just super special.

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So Surat Al Qaban,

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talks about calamity in a way that

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pretty much nowhere else in the Quran discusses.

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Allah is knowledgeable of the state before the

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calamity, the state during the calamity, and the

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state after the calamity.

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Allah is knowledgeable of what I understand and

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what I don't understand,

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what I know and what I don't know.

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Allah knows how this calamity

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translate into a blessing in this life or

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the next life or both.

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I don't know any of that. Allah is

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the one who knows all of it. Just

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comfort in Allah knowing.

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And I really wanted to dive in because

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the phrase

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occurs multiple times in the Quran. But why

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does Allah use the word for calamity? What

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is this

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how does how is the Quran talking about

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tragedy?

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Right? And every every person's life has tragedy

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tragedy. Societies have tragedy. The world has tragedy.

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Tragedy can be

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going on inside somebody. It can be going

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on visibly. It can be going on in

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the world and and and, like, war and

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genocide and things like that. Right? So how

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is the Quran talking about this problem?

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And specifically, when it comes to to me

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personally and my relationship with tragedy, how is

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Allah commenting on that? And where is he

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commenting on that? The way he does that

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in Surat Al Ta'ala, but I don't wanna

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give it away because that'll turn into I

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I won't stop talking about it. But, like,

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it was it was very moving because usually

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these these studies are very academic also.

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But I'm telling you that I think that

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ayah or that part of the ayah, I

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spent maybe an hour and a half, an

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hour 45 minutes without a break with my

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audience on that ayah.

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And myself and everybody in the audience was

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just balling in tears as we're going through

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this.

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And then people came up to me and

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said, you know, I lost a child and

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nothing helped me like this did like Desaiya

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did. And other people came up to me

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and said, I've never understood tragedy in this

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way. Other people just just completely, utterly speechless

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except

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for, I just needed this. I know I

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just really needed this, and the world needs

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this. And I was like, you're right. The

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world does need this. We need this this

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ayat. Yeah.

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I can't speak about anybody else. I I

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will say that

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I became more

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acutely aware

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of the need for collaborative learning

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with the Quran, especially when it comes to

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contemplating the Quran,

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taking advantage of people that are experts in

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particular fields

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and drawing from their knowledge

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and giving credit where it's due. Like, there's

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no way I'm a student of politics and

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political philosophy, but that doesn't mean I'm an

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expert in it. Right? I I I dabble

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in,

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you know, background in psychology, but I dabble

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in psychology. But that doesn't mean I'm I'm

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the leading expert in in psychology

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by no stretch of the imagination.

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So I'm I'm technically, I'm an expert in

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no field.

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Right? So

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what what I'm trying to do now is

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have rich discussions and engagement with people from

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these different sciences

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and bring to them the the problem question,

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the curiosity from the Quran on a particular

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ayah, particular phrase and saying,

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what do you see here? Like, how would

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you respond to these questions?

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Right? And then taking some of their insights

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and documenting them and then discussing them as

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a group.

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Right? And what one of the things that

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group discussions has done as part of the

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prep for,

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Quran week subject matter is that

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questions or criticisms of an idea. Maybe I'm

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thinking I'm leaning towards a conclusion and then

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a criticism comes along and I'm like, I

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never thought of that.

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Right? And then that becomes a new discussion.

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And then sometimes what's what's even cooler is

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sometimes the entire group is stumped.

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Like, we none of us have the answer.

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And then we have to go to others

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and say, hey. We're all stumped here. Can

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you help? Right? So

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the idea isn't that I'm trying to present,

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the final word on the final word.

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My my my hopes with Qur'an Week are

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I really genuinely think this will be the

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spark

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that somebody will take

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and really do something with it. Like, I

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can touch on the depth of the ayah

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as much as I think we're doing deep

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work. Right?

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A a a 4 page surah or even

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a page and a half surah,

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my collective number of hours on study for

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for those

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3 2 to 4 pages is about a

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100 hours minimum

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in those couple of weeks, not to mention

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the team's hours.

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And then on top of that is the

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hours in the Quran week itself. The day

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of the lecture, I'm studying

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from Fajr until Asr, and then I go

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to the lecture. So it's a good, you

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know, 50, 60 hours

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in the Quran week itself. But those hours

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are me getting to where I think

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the ayah can touch, but then somebody will

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come along. I genuinely feel because of this

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work. Somebody will come along and say, I

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never thought of it this way, but it's

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leading me down another rabbit hole, another path,

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and opening up an entire world of discovery

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inspired by the Quran,

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like the neurologist, for example. Right?

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And and others that have that have come

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across. So that's that's really the hope, not

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to be the authoritative final

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word on this, but to show the richness

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of what tafsir and tadabur of Quran

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can actually bring to the world.

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So the dominant emotion is that I'm just

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in awe of

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the

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richness of the Quran and also

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guilt

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for subconsciously

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underestimating

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the Quran.

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Oh, Surat Al Qiyama is about the akhira.

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There's other surahs about the akhira too. This

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is gonna be easy.

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No. No. It's not. Right? So there's a

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there's a I've learned over and over again

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that subconsciously

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somehow this idea creeps in that this Surah

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is basically saying what some other Surah's have

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already said. So no need to go to,

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you know.

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And instead of thinking of each surah as

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a divine gift

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descending from the heavens

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that is unique in its beauty and its

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signature.

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Like, for God's sake, would you ever look

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at 2 babies and say same thing?

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Would you look at, you know,

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you you wouldn't do that with, like,

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any other creation of Allah. You look at,

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like, the uniqueness, the beauty, the intricacy of

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it all. Right?

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But we don't do that.

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I'm not going to say with anybody else.

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I don't do that enough with the Quran.

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And every time I take on another Surah,

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the mindset

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beforehand is don't underestimate

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it. Like, I tell myself that. But even

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then some part of me is like, but

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it is kind of the same, though.

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And then when I get in it, then

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it's like I got slapped with the study

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itself.

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See, it's not the same. Yes, Allah. Yeah.

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You Allah. I keep forgetting.

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You Allah. I need to

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so that's probably 1.

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The 2 is

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the second is

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how powerful

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this,

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book is to bring about a transformation.

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And the the feeling that comes to me

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is there are things you can study that

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are intellectual curiosities and you learn more about

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them and it's fascinating stuff.

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The Quran is not just fascinating stuff. The

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Quran is transformative

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stuff.

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So like,

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diving deep into a Surah

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or contemplating the Quran, even an ayah,

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can actually be transformative

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for an entire life,

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for a person, can be transformative for an

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entire family,

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and by extension, can be transformative for the

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for for society, for the world.

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Like, don't underestimate what this word can do.

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It's not just yeah. Yeah. And I'm not

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dismissing the fact that the study of the

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Quran increases our imam, connects us closer to

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Allah. But the Quran does that and uses

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that to do so much more.

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And we've we need to bring that

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that power, that untapped power of the Quran

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back to our consciousness.

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Right? That's what I feel like Quran week

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has has helped me do also.

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