Nouman Ali Khan – Surah Yusuf #1

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Jain about salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. Today is the first day that I'm starting,
inshallah, a long series on a study of suit use of and I thought the coming month of Ramadan is a
really good time to go over one of the most unique sources of the Quran. And I decided to start the
series not from the first of Ramadan. But before then because there are lots of things to discuss
and its introduction, there's quite a few things I think that are important to take note of and to
have ourselves calibrated mentally, spiritually, in the right direction, so we can take full
		

			advantage of what Allah has given us this gift that Allah has given us, in this surah. The first
thing to note, of course, is that this was a unique gift given to the Prophet himself, sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, anybody who's ever studied the surah knows, one of the most famous things to know
about this surah is that it was given to the prophets lie Selim in the year of grief, Ahmed hosen.
So his wife Khadija has passed, is the support of his uncle is gone, things in Makkah have gotten
way worse than they ever were before. And there was already an opposition, but at least there was
some level of family support. But all of that has been evaporated. So it's completely gone. And he's
		

			going through extreme turmoil in the state, not only in his personal life at the loss of loved ones,
but now, people have sprung new confidence in being more aggressive towards him. So things have
gotten a lot worse for him internally, personally, emotionally, and also from the outside. So from
both fronts, he's going through a lot, so a lot more news item. And in that context, Allah gave him
the surah. A lot of scholars, when they hear the name, or they when they process the name Yusuf,
which is of course, the most, you know, the pretty much the only subject talked about in the surah.
With the exception of a few ions in the beginning and a few ions at the end, pretty much the entire
		

			story is about use of rallies around the attribute the word use of to the word SF. And the word SF
in Arabic means sadness or sorrow. So they say that the his name has to do with sorrow. And then
they kind of extrapolate from that, that so much of his life was spent in sorrow, because he was
taken away from his family, he spent so many years of his life in prison. And then even when he had
a reunion with his family, they said Ill things about him to his face. So there's lots and lots of
sorrow in his life. And that's why his name his use of and this was the year of sorrow for the
prophets, I saw them. So that's why he was given this name, I, this is why this surah is important
		

			for the prophets, I saw them. I would argue that the word use of also you have to look at its Hebrew
meaning, because it's actually not an Arabic word. It's a, he's one of the prophets of the
Israelites. That's very, very clear. In fact, he even mentions his lineage in the surah itself. And
clearly His name is actually Hebrew, it's it's, and from the Hebrew origins, it means something
else. So but we'll talk about that a little bit later. I will say, though, that I don't dismiss that
the Arabic origin should be or the Arabic connection should be considered, because a lot does bring
names from other languages into the Arabic, right, so that there's an element of that meaning there.
		

			But to say that's the only meaning there, that's where I don't find myself in agreement. So where do
I want to begin with this sort our introducing you guys to the surah. I think the first place to
begin is Ibrahim Ali Salaam. You see there are some prophets in the Quran in the study of the Quran
that are pivotal, they're absolutely fundamental prophets, you have to know about them, you have to
learn about them. And they are talked about more often than anyone else. And the way they are
talking about clearly illustrates that their stories and their legacy, and their connections to each
other are just of the highest importance. I won't give you a lecture about who those prophets are.
		

			But of them, there are two that I want to mention for now. And one of them is Ibrahim alayhis salam,
and the other one is musante. Saddam Hussein Islam I've talked about many times before, he's the
most talked about prophet in the Quran. So that's obvious. With Ibraheem alehissalaam it's important
to note that Allah calls him calls Islam itself.
		

			Religion of our father Ibrahim, or Abraham, as Abraham is another reading of the same word in the
Quran too, right? So when, you know, your Western friends may say Abraham, that's actually not
entirely an incorrect pronunciation of the name. It's part of the original pronunciations of the
name. But anyway, we are the religion of Ibrahim, that's one of our names. And our profits will
alarm Saddam was told to cleanse the house built by Ibrahim al Islam, you can even argue that his
Sierra is 23 years, we're actually fulfilling the legacy that was started by his father, the dream
of his father, that people people will come to this house from all corners of the world was
		

			fulfilled by the legacy of our Prophet salallahu alaihe salam by the coming of the Quran. So you
could see how Ibrahim alayhis salaam is a fundamental importance and understanding everything we can
about Ibrahim Alayhi Salam is directly important for our understanding of even our own prophets will
alert them because that's in a sense his father, his you know, his patriarch and it's also important
that that's his role model. The Allah tells our prophets lie Selim for debit meloetta Ibrahima
Hannifin, follow the religion of Ibrahim exclusively, and be solely dedicated to that religion. So
even our Prophet is told that at least that was Salam. Anyhow, why am I starting with Ibrahim
		

			Alayhi? salam, if this is sort of use of? Well, Ibraheem alehissalaam it's interesting that the
Quran highlights a conversation that happened between him and Allah. That's not found in the Bible.
And there's a conversation that you find in the Bible that God has with him, that's not found in the
Quran. So the conversation that he has with ally in the Quran is he's worried about his children,
that Allah has guaranteed him that he is leaders, a leader over all of humanity in Egypt, locally
nasty Mama, when he passed all of the most difficult tests. After all of them, Allah told him I'm
making you a leader over all of humanity and his immediate concern was women the reality what about
		

			my children? I'm referring to sort of Bukhara What about my offspring and their kids and their kids
and their kids? So he wasn't just worried that Allah has graduated me? Are my kids going to be okay?
And Allah said to him, Lionello actually mean, my guarantee doesn't go doesn't cover wrongdoers, I'm
making you a promise that I will give you leadership, but leadership is not guaranteed for those who
do wrong. So he immediately knew that among his children, they will be wrongdoers. Right that that
part we already knew. This is not mentioned in the Bible. This is not talked about in the in the
scriptures before or if it was, it's lost. What we have now is a concern of Ibrahim al Islam, that
		

			some of his children will lose their way. Right. And this is this conversation happened after he
built the Kaaba along with his satisfy.
		

			And in the conversation, he asked for a profit, meaning from Ibrahim through a smile, Yala, at least
give my son a smile among his offsprings, give them a messenger, who will recite your revelations to
you, right and so, is my Isla de Salaam, many, many, many generations later, 1000s of years later,
you get Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Now there's another conversation, there is a
separate conversation. And that conversation is about the child that he's going to have after in a
very old age. His name is Huck. And that needs so he's younger than his married ID Salaam. And his
Huck has a son named Yaqoob. And Yahoo is going to have 12 sons. They're called the 12, sons of
		

			Yahoo. Yahoo has another nickname in so they're also called the 12 sons of Israel. So let me walk
you through that again. Abraham has two famous sons, you've got Ishmael and Isaac is married and
this Hawk right from Israel in all of the generations later, eventually you get Muhammad Sallallahu
Sallam that's the Prophet you get from the children of Israel, through coming back to Abraham and
Islam. On the other side, Ibrahim alayhis salam has a son named bizhawk. In very old age, Isaac is
Huck has a son named Yaqoob. He has other sons too, but he has a son named yaku. The Quran doesn't
talk about his other sons. The Bible does. Okay, but we won't get into that. Anyway. So he has a son
		

			named Jacob or yaku. Yahoo then has 12 sons, one of them is useless. So the thing to note now is,
for those of you who didn't know, use of is the grandson of Ibrahim, a great grandson of Ibrahim, so
his father is Yakuza prophet. His grandfather is his Hawk, who's also a prophet, and his great
grandfather is Ibrahim Ali Salam. So he's third generation now, you know, fourth generation
prophecy, one after the other after the other after this is the person that we're talking about now.
So he's a few generations separated from Ibrahim Ali Salaam, but he's still carrying the legacy of
Ibrahim Ali Salaam. How do we know that actually, later on at one point, Yusuf Ali Salaam is going
		

			to be in jail. And when he's in jail, he's talking to a couple of inmates, and when he's talking to
them, he brings up that he belongs to the religion
		

			of his father's. And he first father he mentioned is Ibrahim alayhi salam. So he sees himself
connected to that legacy right? Now this is important because just like he's a few generations
disconnected but still connected to who, Ibraheem alehissalaam are messengers or Islam is
attributing his religion to his father, Ibrahim Ali salam, right we let that be comb Ebrahim, the
religion of your father Abraham. So just like he sees Ibraheem alehissalaam as his father figure,
our religion and our prophets lysozyme sees Ibrahim Ali Salaam as a father figure. Now, here's where
the important stuff begins in the Bible, I won't go into the entire conversation, because that will
		

			come up as we discuss the ayat in detail, the comparative analysis from the Bible. But what I will
mention to you for now is God promises Abraham that his children will be as numerous as the stars
right and in the in the biblical account. He's been promised the promised land. So the Israelites
believe that they were promised the land through a conversation that happened between God and
Abraham. That's why they were promised the land. Now the Quran, paints a very different picture. The
Quran doesn't talk about the promise of any land. The Quran talks about the promise of being good,
so long as are being given leadership so long as they don't do wrong. Right. There's no guarantee of
		

			land and the Quran paints a very different picture of Lin Ibrahim Ali Salaam, himself wandering all
over, never in one place. And on top of all of that, Allah says in the Quran in the DRC
		

			my land is vast, worship only me. So the land is in anybody's, it belongs to Allah. And eventually
when Abraham Elisa does want his family, his children to settle, what is he's not interested in them
having a homeland, he's interested in them coming to his house. So instead of them having a home,
he's more interested in them coming to Alaska, last house says a big contrast between the biblical
picture that's being painted for the promise of Ibraheem alehissalaam and the Quranic picture that's
being painted. But this is important because the cycle the religious identity of the Jewish people,
and the religious identity of the Christian people also is very fundamentally tied to the
		

			conversation, especially the Jewish people with Abraham Elisa. Now, to this day, politics is
affected because of a claim to land and date from a religious point of view. They believe that land
was promised to them through Ibrahim alayhis salam, right so that's that's part of this narrative.
Now. The thing is in the Quran, okay, coming back to that, why is use of Elisa is so important,
because Allah gave the Israelites more profits than any other people are and describes that as
football nakoma on an island mean, football to come on an island mean, I gave you preference over
all other nations and all other people of the world. I give you more miracles, I give you more
		

			blessings, I gave you more profits than anybody else. Our Prophet would tell us about them about the
Israelites, Israel. When I say Israelites, what do I mean? The sons of which prophet yaku the sons
of Yaqoob and their children and their children and their children, right? Allah says about them
these you know that he gave them more blessing than any other our Prophet tells us good llama holla
cantabrian Hello fnbo every time one of their profits would die, another would take his place.
Another would take him so literally they had every generation of profits, sometimes multiple profits
in one generation. But the legacy of the Israelite prophets and by the way the majority of the
		

			prophets talked about in the Quran. The majority of the prophets talked about in the Quran are
Israelite prophets. This is also important to know they're from the Isaac line is haka la Salaam is
mentioned iacobelli salaam is mentioned in that then you know, Yusuf Ali Salaam is mentioned. Then
after that you've got the Israelite prophets like cerca de la Samia, Holly Salaam, you've got you
know, the clumsily finally Salaam wa salatu salam, we already mentioned several times, how do you
prophet after prophet after prophet if they belong, if, if you look at who belongs to one family
more than any other, that would be the Israelite prophets. They are a big deal in the Quran, too.
		

			They're a big deal in the Quran too. But then turning into a nation and prospering as a people and
having as many children as the stars as the imagery is in the Bible. All of that actually starts
with use of alleys.
		

			And you know, the Old Testament, the final portion of the old test, you know, in the book of
Genesis, the last story is actually that of Joseph, it's this story. And then from there on in the
next book, subsequent books, it's basically predominated by the story of musasa. Now, why because
the Moses story, the Moses story could not exist without the use of story.
		

			They couldn't exist. So now think about that, not from a Jewish and Christian point of view. Think
about that from a Muslim point of view.
		

			How much of the Quran is taken up by Israelite prophets? How much of the Quran is taken up by the
account, especially of Masada, Islam, and Islam, versus the Pharaoh, how much of it and none of that
guidance that we have until Judgment Day, is that history doesn't play out until the events happen.
That happened in the life of Yusuf Ali Sam. So he's of pivotal importance from a historical point of
view. And of course, the people before us understood that the people of Scripture, they look at this
as a such an important, you know, part of their legacy and their history, because the, you know, we
use of La Salaam, he is, it's because of him that his family left canon, the canon, right, or canon,
		

			and they left from there, and came all the way to Egypt. Right, so they ended up in Mississippi. And
in Egypt, they settled, they were given good housing, they were given good economic status because
Yusuf Ali Salaam saved the Egyptian people, because of his interpretation of a dream. All of that's
coming later on. Now the Israelites are settled, now they start becoming a prosperous people. And
they start multiplying. And there's many of them until eventually, a couple of generations later,
the Egyptian powers start seeing them as a foreign threat. There's too many foreigners here, we got
to do something about them. And over time, they're turned into slaves. And that's when the story of
		

			Mousavi Salaam takes place. Right? So you've got this chronology, that starting if you basically you
can't understand musala Islam without understanding Yusuf Ali son from a history point of view. So
Allah has given our prophets I send them a profound historical gift, in giving him the story of
Yusuf Ali Salaam and setting the record straight. But in this part of this introduction, what I
wanted to say a few other things, few other pointers. One of them is that what Allah has given to
the prophets, I saw them in the Quran is so different about Yusuf is so different from what a lot,
what you find with the previous people in the Bible with Joseph, it's so different. And inshallah,
		

			point by point as we go through the story, I'll try to illustrate to you how it's different. But the
most important difference is how the story is being told, not just what's being said, how it's being
said, because to Allah in this, in this surah, you'll find this as an incredibly intimate, personal,
emotional surah, where every single event that is so close to the heart, is mentioned in so much you
and I can learn from our personal for our personal lives is like, you know, injected into virtually
every idea of the solar. So while the people before us looked at the solar for its historical
importance, and the Birth of a Nation. And it's, you know, it's even political importance and the
		

			importance of it from a civilization point of view. The Quran acknowledges that in the background
passively. But the Quran is far more concerned with the personal story of use of Elisa Lam, with the
personal story of his brothers, with the personal grief and pain of yahoo. bodyslam. So it's an
extremely personalized surah of the Quran. You know, it's a very different take on history, if you
study history, right? history is almost non emotional. History is just part and dry facts. It
doesn't connect, it doesn't bring you to tears. But this is a story that demands that you connect to
a deeply as a matter of fact, by the end of this story, Allah says that in in the way that Allah
		

			tells their stories, there's a blah, blah in Arabic, they translate that in English translation,
they say it's a, it's a lesson like that kind of same era, right? in their stories, there's a blah,
blah means a lesson. But Alba in Arabic actually means to cross over water. So when you go from one
end of the river to the other, crossing over, that's Abra, which is a good play on interesting play
on words, because they crossed over eventually. Right. So that's an interesting play on words. But
the other thing also is an Abra is used when you hear a story or you hear something that touches you
so much that the tear crosses over, and comes from the inside of your eye and it comes out. So he
		

			says, in their stories, especially in this one, there are things that will move you to tears. That's
what a lie himself says. So this is his way of telling the story. This is his way of narrating that
account. Now before I wrap up, this first session of the introduction is going to take me a couple
of days to finish this introduction. But I wanted to share a couple of really quick things I've
talked about the you know about the connection to Abraham Elisa and a little bit. I've talked to you
about the Arabic origins of the name, maybe we'll go into the Hebrew origins of the name maybe a
challenge in the subsequent session. I also want to tell you something that has been tried by
		

			desperate theologians from a Christian point of view, to retell or reinterpret the story of use of
the Jews. We understand why it's important for them
		

			Most people, the Israelites, why use of Holly's lamb is important. That's clear. I mean, literally,
he's the son of Israel, right? And they're called the sons of Israel. So he's the original son of
Israel. So that's why that's important. From a Christian point of view. Paul presented the idea that
Jesus didn't come to the Israelites that Jesus came for all of humanity, that Jesus is the salvation
for all human beings, all people, all nations. And this became a problem, because the Bible clearly
says, I have come for the loss, soul lost sheep of the sons of Israel, Jesus as a clearly and openly
I came for the Israelites. And in the Quran, he doesn't say people, he says, you have a nice law, he
		

			says, sons of Israel, I'm a messenger of Allah to you. So Quran makes a clear and biblical evidence
makes it clear that that Jesus came specifically for the Israelites like all of the other Israelite
prophets. In fact, he's the last of them to come specifically to the Israelites. That's the that's
the key. Now, and actually, this is why they had a problem with him, because he didn't come to the
Israelites. So the Jews of Medina, the Israelites of Medina, had a problem with Mohammed silence.
Because No, well, we don't accept prophets unless they come specifically to us. Now this time, he
was sent to all of humanity. But the Christians have a completely different take. The Christians
		

			wanted to create a to believe in the doctrine that internationalize is Christianity, we don't want
it to be for the Israelites, we want it to be for all of humanity. And Paul presents this notion,
right that it's for all of us, we have to save all of humanity with the blood of Christ and all of
it right. Now, in order to do that, you have to go back to the prophets stories. And you have to
find some way of justifying that, you know, prophets, even Israelite prophets can be International.
So therefore, inside Islam was an international prophet. So the first case study would be this one.
Why? Because Yusuf Ali Salaam, moved from Canada, from his family, and he came and he helped with
		

			his interpretation of the dream, he helped the Egyptian people. Right, so clearly, he wasn't limited
to the Israelites, he helped the Egyptian people, therefore, we gotcha, we got Oh, is this such a
stretch to? Like, it doesn't even go into the spirit of the story is even a messenger to the
Israelites? Is he preaching to them? You know, or what is his legacy stand for all of that pushed
aside, just to pick point, you know, pull something as an evidence to justify something completely
unrelated. Right, so these desperate kinds of attempts, I point that out not to criticize the
Christian attempt, but actually to point that out a certain kind of mentality. Revelation speaks for
		

			itself. When you try to dig into revelation, to justify a conclusion you've already made, there's a
big problem, because then your conclusion is higher, and revelation is lower.
		

			And you need to use revelation, to only strengthen your point,
		

			your conclusions should always come second, your humility to Revelation should come first. And you
come to Revelation without any conclusions. And you let Allah Himself give you conclusions. You
don't come to it with conclusions to prove your point. Or I already have my point. Now I'm gonna dig
around in the Quran to find how I can prove it. That means your mind your opinion, your thesis, your
theory, is above the word of Allah. And the word of Allah is just some evidence you can use to
furnish, as you know, a reference is just a reference. That's all it is. How is that regard for the
word of Allah? How is that humility for the Word of God? How is that humility? So this is something
		

			I know, don't just say this as Christian, some Christians have done this. I say that Muslims do
this. I say that Jews do this. I say that anybody who takes the wrong approach towards revelation
will fall into this trap. And that's something to be warned about, as we introduce ourselves to the
sort of the last thing I'll share with you. And that's where the fun begins. Tomorrow is something
that happened with me almost a decade ago.
		

			I was studying, you know, different stories of the Quran and particularly I have a fascination with
with Musa alayhis salam. And I was studying sulit
		

			cos, so to Casa surah, number 28. It tells the Early life of Moosa when he was a baby, you basket,
that part of the story, right? And later on, it mentioned some of the comments of the pharaoh when
he was introduced to the message of Islam. So I want you to pay attention to this. It's all coming
back to you. So, okay. So the pharaohs says something that hit me. He says Maha that he loves
Yamato. This is the pharaoh talking. Once he's heard the message of Musa Okay, so he says, Mahara
Illa Tara, this is nothing but magic that's been made up. This is creative magic. Well, my
assignment now be harder for a BA in a winning this is the part. He says we've never heard of
		

			anything like this. Since our earliest ancestors. We never heard of anything like a prophet or one
God.
		

			Revelation or heaven in *? What is this stuff? We've never not us, not our ancestors. I've never
ever heard anything like this. Okay? So the first part, he just calls it magic that's creative. But
the second part your attention needs to be on the second part. He says, we've never heard of this.
The Pharaoh says, we've never heard of this. Now, when he said that, I was kind of struck. Because I
was already My mind was already traveling in a direction where I thought there has to be a
connection between Yusuf Ali Salaam, and Mussolini. And now I know that historical connection,
they're both Israelite prophets. They're both they have something in common. They're both in Egypt,
		

			right? They're both in Egypt. But there was something more in common between them. Here we are
studying solid use. So the use of one of its pivotal eye art in the beginning is nanoco, SWALEC
Arsenal, casas, we are telling you the best, we have the best way of telling us the narrative, the
narrative causes. And surah number 28, which is not about use of it's about Moosa is called El
cosas.
		

			So this one in the beginning uses the term causes and that surah itself is called causes. And I said
there has to be a Quran connection between these two, but I didn't think much of it at the time,
then what really hit me so about a decade ago, is when I heard Pharaoh say, and I never thought
about it before. The Pharaoh says, I've never heard of anything like this. We've never heard of
anything of this since our early ancestors.
		

			But the question is, did they? Because Yousuf was in Egypt, right. And he wasn't just any person who
people never listened to. He In fact, save the kingdom of Egypt. So he's a pretty important
historical figure. How can use a very some, there's no way he was silent about what he believes he
wasn't even silent in prison.
		

			How is he going to be silent when he's Minister of Finance, or the vice president of the country,
he's going to be silent about what he believes in. And then after he's publicly had a reunion with
his family, which is going to happen in this surah, when he has a reunion with his family, his
family's there in the parliament? Because what I thought about why he allowed he put his parents on
the throne. He raised where's the throne? throne is out in his house. Where is it? It's in the
government building. So they're discussing Allah's grand plan of reuniting the family and thanking
Allah, and by dream came true. And the prophecy, they're discussing all of that inside an Egyptian
		

			palace, can you imagine?
		

			And any conversations that publicly happened inside a government building? Aren't they part of
public record? Aren't they don't they become part of history? This is not some private secret
conversation and putting somebody on the official government chair, the throne, is that a small
thing? That's a pretty big thing. How come? There doesn't seem to be how come the pharaoh can see
with such confidence? We've never heard of anything like this. So my mind was kind of wondering for
what the answer could this to this could be until I reached surah number 40. So number 40, is called
so with Lafitte. It's also called pseudo min, the surah of the believer. It's called a pseudo of the
		

			believer because that's what our contains a very long speech given by a very special man. This man
is not a prophet. This man is believed to be a good friend of Musa. He was a police officer. Early
on in Moses life when he accidentally punched when you punch someone and accidentally killed him.
That police officer secretly had already become Muslim. And he was part of a meeting in which he
found out that the police is trying to kill Musashi Salaam without a trial. As soon as they find
him, they'll kill them. But he they don't know that he's Muslim, that he believes in the God of Musa
and they don't know that he's friends with masa. So he secretly goes to Moosa tells him you need to
		

			get out of here and the like. I mean, I'm not saying By the way, all of this is sort of causes. So
number 28, he tells him to get out of here. He was the one that saved musala Sam's life and helping
him escape Egypt, telling him don't come back. Don't turn yourself in, because the cops won't arrest
you, they're gonna kill you fine.
		

			In surah, number 40, the pharaoh says he's had enough this is many years later, Moses back, the
signs have taken place in all of it. The Pharaoh says I've had enough of Musa I'm ready to kill him.
		

			I've had even though he's family, I love him. I'm ready to kill him now. And that friend of use of
he must have been promoted by now. So he must be a police chief, or a commissioner or a general one
of his generals. So he's in the military meeting,
		

			where they're discussing the execution of Moosa. Now with Pharaoh in the court.
		

			He couldn't take it anymore. He was secretly hiding his faith.
		

			But he opened up, he opened up and he said what occurred? So he starts talking to them about
		

			How can you hate someone who calls to one God? What are you doing? We're called, we're asking for
our own destruction. And I'm inviting you guys. To understand this sorta just do a cursory reading
of sort of 40 and his monologue. Imagine him standing in the corner of the pharaohs, going at it.
giving this speech is so powerful, it became part of the Quran. Can you imagine? Rarely do you find
this length of a speech from a single prophet that you find from this man in the Quran? It's It's a
special place. But one of the things he said, Man, I kid you not. If I didn't fall off my chair, I
purposely fell off my chair.
		

			Whether cuz john accom, used to for many of
		

			us have had definitely come to all of you before remember.
		

			He's telling the Egyptian Parliament who had come to you before us have so he's telling can he's
educated, trained in Egypt, by them. And they he went to their schools, their military schools, he
took their history classes.
		

			And in their history classes, what did they learn about a man named Yusuf? And he's referring to
what they already know. and telling them by the way, why is Why are you acting like you don't know
anything that you Moosa is talking about? This sounds exactly like who you serve. This sounds
exactly like him, you know all of this already. What do you what do you mean you've never heard of
it, he calls them out. He calls them out. And he even says, had that either halakhah until the time
when use have died. Ultimately ever after law home and by the he'll Sula. You people have the
audacity audacity to say, Allah will never send a messenger after this, Allah will never send a
		

			messenger after this. This is what you all said, when you have died. It's on record.
		

			It's an Egyptian record. He's citing Egypt. He's not citing the Bible. He's not citing some
scripture. He's citing Egyptian history, and telling me to Egyptian politicians and military
commanders and telling you you are the people who said, God will never send another messenger. I'm
adding my personal interpretation here, what I think I've shared with a couple of scholars, and they
kind of they're inclined towards this, but they're not fully convinced. I'm pretty convinced. Here's
what I believe. What I believe is Yusuf Ali Salaam before he died, let them know that after me, a
messenger will come to you.
		

			I'm telling you, Allah sent me to save you, Egypt. But if you don't accept this message, just like
Allah sent me to save you from turmoil, it may be that Allah will send a messenger and if you don't
listen to him, what happens to every other nation will happen to you, when you reject the messenger,
you will be destroyed. And you were so confident when he died because you appreciated his political
and economic service. But you didn't appreciate his religion too much. And you said yeah, he talked
about a messenger will come in no messenger come in. And now you've got this general in Parliament
saying, remember when you said, There is no other messenger coming. And here we have who Moosa right
		

			here. In other words, musalman salaams legacy is so intimately tied to Yusuf Ali salam, that even
the worst of the disbelievers, the pharaohs, they recognized it.
		

			They recognized it as a very powerful connection. And if Musashi Salaam is the most talked about
prophet in the Quran, messenger in the Quran, then there is no way that we can, we can underestimate
the value of this of the life and the legacy of use of Islam, because they're intimately tied to
each other. So this is what led me to explore the connection. This was the starting point, this
discovery was the starting point of me trying to explore the connection between Yusuf Ali Salaam,
and musala Islam beyond the obvious beyond the fact that they were just both in Egypt, beyond the
fact that they were both, you know, messengers of Israel, you know, beyond the beyond that there's a
		

			there's a recollection of the two with each other. What else connects these two together, especially
from a Koran point of view. So when I started exploring this, I found more things than I ever
imagined. I didn't find them in a Tafseer book or in a literary analysis book. These are sort of my
own discoveries. I wrote a word about them on Facebook, I think a long time ago. But before we get
started on the story of Yusuf Ali Salaam, I will walk you through those parallels, because this is
the Qurans way of telling stories to make those connections, right, so you're never reading or
learning something in isolation, you're learning it in connection to something you're learning in
		

			connection to something so inshallah Allah will cover some of that. And then after that, we'll talk
a little bit more about some of newzoo and then we'll get into the art themselves. Just to give you
guys my plan for Ramadan. My sessions will be probably around 30 minutes, the intro sessions may be
a little longer because I want to get some other some longer stuff out of the way. But my regular
sessions will be about 3035 minutes at the most, there'll be around our motive here is a
		

			Eight o'clock central time, so there'll be around 8:30pm my time and but it shifts by a minute or
two. So we're starting at 830 Central and it'll, it'll move from there, inshallah, I'll try to keep
up with all 30 days to do these sessions. And I'm starting tonight so this was my first session and
from now until the end of Ramadan, inshallah, I'm going to try to do as much as we can from the
surah I am not promising you that we're going to finish this.
		

			All I am saying is we're going to do what we can I'm, I don't like to rush through a study of a
surah or the teaching of a surah. So if it takes us two years to go through to see if I'm okay with
that, but at least we're getting a kickstart in the month of Ramadan in sha Allah. So my
recommendation to all of you is to if you'd like to, you know, keep up with it. I've asked my
colleague chefs to hypsi to actually recite a couple of shots of the surah everyday and put it up on
his Facebook page and probably haven't put on put it on his YouTube page too. So if you guys want to
like learn to memorize the surah even recited Little by little, get on that so that okay, after 30
		

			days, you came out with some more Quran than you used to have before right? That's what I'd like you
to have I'd like you to have a you know, when what by the time Ramadan ends, okay, you don't know
everything about the Quran, but you know some things more and you have a deeper connection with some
part of it that you didn't have before and you have the blessing of having memorized it. So you can
pray with it. You can cry with it, cry with it to Allah, you know, cry with you in your empty
moments. That's the most valuable gift that Allah can give us his tears from our eyes. When we
recite his words may Allah azza wa jal bless all of us with genuine tears and genuine Toba and
		

			accepted worship in this coming month of Ramadan. barakallahu li walakum wa salaamu alaykum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato