Saad Tasleem – How to Approach the Quran in Ramadan

			So this minute let me start with the first question. It says, as it is said to recite more Koran
than usual during the month of Ramadan. My question is, should we focus only and just reciting only
on reciting the Koran? Or should we say Tafseer? And do memorization of the Quran in Ramadan as
well? Okay. This is an excellent question
		

			the the the month of Ramadan Yes, it is known as the shadow Koran the month of the Quran, for the
very reason that the the Quran was revealed in Ramadan. Also we know that the prophets that I sent
them would review the Quran with the angel jabril every Ramadan from beginning to end. And in the
year that the prophets I send them passed away he reviewed the Quran twice. And so it has been the
practice of the presence lm and the companions after him to pay special attention to the book of
Allah to Allah in the month of Ramadan. Now, unfortunately, there are many people who have their
relationship with the Koran is just memorizing the Quran. And sometimes this is more of a cultural
		

			issue where we're taught that the memorization of the Koran is the most important thing or just the
recitation and if Arabic is not our native language, and we may not understand Arabic, and sometimes
by the way, this is not just for people who are not
		

			even out of sometimes they may speak Arabic, but their dialect of Arabic can differ from classical
Arabic, or what is known as the Arabic of the Koran. And so even somebody who is born into an adult
household and they speak Arabic, they may not have a great understanding of the meanings of the
Quran. So sometimes as I said, there's an emphasis on just reading the Koran or just memorizing the
Quran. Now when it comes to having a relationship with the Koran and that's what our goal is
inshallah tada to have a relationship with the Quran, what does it mean to have a relationship with
the Quran? I'm going to mention five or six things that we should try and focus on in the month of
		

			Ramadan inshallah Giada. Number one is an okay law, which is recitation and that I think most
people, they do focus on that.
		

			We know that simply reciting the Quran, we are rewarded for it the Selim said that whoever recites a
letter from the book of Allah will get will will receive a good deed. And person said, I'm not
saying he said, that undef la meme is not one letter rather an F is a letter meme is an alarm is a
letter. And meme is a letter, meaning every single letter of the Koran that we recite, we receive
reward for that. So the other extreme, by the way, is people who say like, Don't recite the Koran,
don't memorize the Quran, just just look at the meanings of the Quran, which is the other extreme,
and it should not be all or nothing. It shouldn't be just one or the other. And that's what I'm
		

			going to mention about five or six things here. But one of them Yes, just the recitation within of
itself is important, as well, even if we're not understanding anything, if we don't understand a
single word of what were reciting just the act of reciting the Koran, intrinsically, it has reward
in it. So yes, that should be part of our relationship with the Quran. So that's number one.
		

			Number two scholars they say, and it's called, which is proficiency of the Quran which is working on
becoming proficient in the Quran, that is basically trying to better our recitation of the Quran and
to try to better our pronunciation of the letters, and the words and Tajweed and all of that that is
what is known as it's on or being proficient in the Quran. It doesn't mean you have to be
proficient. But what it means is that you make an effort to be proficient in the Quran. And we know
I was impressed that I'm told us that a person who struggles with the recitation of the Quran
meaning a person who is not proficient with the Quran, a person who struggles person I'm told us
		

			that he has a he or she has a an added reward. Not only do they have the the reward of reciting the
put on but all the struggle that they go through, they're rewarded for that as well. So even if
we're struggling
		

			with the Koran we are rewarded for that very struggle even if we're not proficient but working
towards proficiency in reciting the Quran number three, so we said okay, ah, and it's on and number
three is horseshoe, horseshoe R is really presence of the heart or we can say presence of the heart
and and the mind right so we don't want to have a relationship with the Ottawa our hearts and minds
are not present because really part of the Quran and the reason why the Koran was said
		

			Yes, it was sent for recitation, but also it was sent for us to learn and understand the meanings of
the Quran. And horseshoe I can only be developed when we learn and understand the meanings of the
Quran which is what I will get to in childhood tiara. So when you are developing for sure and
developing the presence of our heart, the presence of our mind when reciting the Quran, a number for
ultra double double, which is basically contemplation of the Quran. Allah has peddle it to us as a
fun idea to the owner on that, do they not pondered? Or do they not reflect upon on an APU been
acquired? Or are there locks upon their hearts? And here, this isn't a question by law, his panel
		

			with the IRA, to wake us up, to help us understand that if we're not, if we're not contemplating the
quote on that, if we're not reflecting upon the Koran, then we're not truly benefiting, we're not
properly benefiting from the Quran. So part of of of having a relationship with the Quran is being
able to or is reflecting upon the Quran and a prerequisite for that is obviously what I said earlier
unfound which is a family which is understanding the Quran. So working towards understanding the
Quran, how do we understand the on? Well, for some of us, yeah, that means looking up the meanings
of the Quran. And looking up the defeat of the Quran to properly understand the message that Allah
		

			has pointed to Allah is giving to us. That's how we will develop kosher what I spoke about earlier.
And also that is what will lead to this point, point number four have to double the double Koran
which is reflecting upon the Quran. We don't want that our hearts be like they are locked up, as I
said, Are their locks upon the heart meaning the neuron needs to penetrate our hearts? And how will
they penetrate the Koran if we do not reflect upon the Koran? Now, a lot of times people ask me, How
do you reflect upon the Koran? What does it mean? Or some people will say, Look, I'm not a scholar,
I don't I cannot do it, the seat of the Quran, I can be very clear here, there is a very big
		

			difference, there's a clear difference between to see and to the board. No one is asking you to do
to see it, nor should you be doing Tafseer. To see it should be done by those people who are
qualified those people who are educated in the deen and who are educated in the Koran to do to see
if Tafseer goes into things like what is a law saying here? Why did Allah say it? What circumstances
did Allah mentioned this area in all of that comes under Tafseer. And that comes with knowledge to
double happens after the knowledge meaning once we understand once it is done, we understand what
what is saying, then we can do to the book. So to double is different is separate than to see it, no
		

			one is asking you to do to see it, go look up that to see it go look at the interpretation and the
meanings and the message of the arm. Do that leave that to the scholars. But look it up once you
know the meaning of the Quran do to double to double is taking the meanings of the Quran and asking
yourself, how does this relate to my life? How does this affect my life? What role does it play in
my life? So for example, Otto has said in the in the rest of your song, that with hardship comes
ease. Okay, so we have the fear of it, we recite it, we want to make sure we decided in the best
possible way. We want to develop hosts who are intended but want to reflect upon the Quran, we have
		

			to first understand what it means. So when Allah says in the electricity, you saw that with hardship
comes ease. That means and this can go into the meaning and the deceit of the Koran, that when a lot
gives hardship, a lot also gives ease with it. That is the deceit that is the understanding also
part of the deceit is that when a law brings hardship that always attached to that hardship is ease
and ease is connected to it. Mara law said with enough certainly mercerie use law with the hardship
is the ease meaning they're not separate, there'll be connected after a hardship there comes ease
either in this life or in the afterlife. So that is now we have understood the Quran we know the
		

			meanings of the Quran we proceeded to put on to Dakota means we say in my life now that I understand
that that verse in my life, how does this apply? Well, I'm going through this difficulty and that
difficulty in this hardship. The depth of the Quran means I say, Okay, so how do I apply this to my
life? Well, this gives me solace. It gives me comfort because as difficult as things are right now,
there is ease that is attached to meaning relief is going to come. Maybe not in this life, but maybe
in the afterlife. also part of the Tafseer of this ayah which I forgot to mention is that the use of
that Allah has mentioned part of that user is a robot.
		

			Word, right, the reward we get for going through a hardship and being patient. So, once again, the
tempo means Okay, I'm going through this hardship, whatever that particular hardship is to you. And
you say, I know this is hard, but I know that if I'm patient with this hardship, then certainly
there's useful with it part of that user is that Allah subhanaw taala will reward me for that ease
that I am going through. And so that is what we're talking about when we say to the, to the
borrower, or on reflecting upon the number five, have a little fun memorization of the Quran. And
yes, that is part of it as well. We should make an effort in the month of Ramadan, as we're making
		

			the effort to recite and to reflect upon the Koran, we should make an effort to memorize the Quran
as well. This doesn't mean you have to memorize 10 sodas of the Quran or a juice or two, Joseph
honor three Jews. That's not what we're saying here. What I'm saying is that you should make an
effort to memorize something of the Quran, even if it is one ayah even if it is small if the Quran
but regularly memorizing and making a schedule for ourselves that we will add to our memorization of
the Quran and if we memorize the Quran, obviously their fault know this, that for them a lot of
times it's a review of the Quran right review and strengthening of what they have memorized. The
		

			prophets I send them he says certainly the one who doesn't have anything of the Quran in their heart
is like an abandoned, abandoned house or a ruined house. Meaning we all want something of the on it
doesn't mean you have to be a habit of the Quran. But what it means is that we should be making an
effort to memorize something of the fun even if it's something very little or very small. So he said
on heavy metal put on put on number six. And this is the last point I'll mention is an I'm going to
be this is acting and implementing the Quran into our lives. So this is part of reflecting upon the
Quran as I mentioned earlier, but this is now the practical aspect of
		

			it of living with the prawn mini we take the message of the pylon, and we apply it into our lives.
And that was the methodology that was the way of the companions. One of my favorite narration that I
mentioned a lot catala
		

			is the narration of intermodal, the alohar. And who said it took me four years to memorize Sultan
Baccarat. And I often compare this to the default that we have today. SoTL Bukhara some of you may
know this, but it's it's about two and a half Jews of the Koran.
		

			For for eight for somebody who is memorizing the Quran, to memorize two and a half Jews, for
somebody who's like really good at memorizing, they could do it very quickly. There's people who
memorize the whole Quran in two years, right. But in the whole Quran in two years there kofod that
will end even less. I've heard of her father, who have memorized the Quran in less than two years,
even mo who was a Sahabi. He was a knowledgeable, so happy he was a scholar amongst the Sahaba he
had a very high rank. He said it took me four years to memorize just two and a half Jews of the 30
Jews of the Quran. Why? He said because I would never pass a single verse of certain Bukhara except
		

			that I would implement it into my life. So had Allah. This is why it took him so long. He said, I'm
not going to move on. I'm not going to memorize another idea. until I've implemented I can test it
on the Day of Judgment, I can come and say, Oh Allah, I heard the message. And I applied it in my
life. And because of that, he said, it took me four years to memorize salt and butter. And that's
why we I don't believe we should be in a hurry, especially as adults, children, it's another matter,
right children, we should encourage them to memorize as much as possible, obviously, to the best of
their ability and we don't want to pressure them. But children, you know, is a different issue. But
		

			as adults, I don't believe we should be in a hurry just to memorize the Koran. If we're not
benefiting from the message of the Quran. If we're not doing to be up for not implementing the
message of the Quran. Yes, we should memorize as I said, but part of that memorization should be
implementation of the Quran, even the mysteries of the law. Once again, famous companion, he said it
was difficult for me to memorize the Quran, but it was easy for me to act upon the Quran and somehow
enlighten our times that it is the opposite, right? We find it easy to memorize the Quran, but
difficult to act upon it right. But we want to go back to the way of the companions and their
		

			relationship with the with the prime. So to review if you didn't, if you didn't catch all of them,
we said number one
		

			recitation of the put on number two. It's fun to work to be proficient in in our in our recitation
of the on. horseshoe are developing the presence
		

			sense of heart and presence of mind with the on we said that happens when we learn and understand
the meanings of the Quran when we look up at the feet of the Quran which is definitely a part of
what we should be doing
		

			to who we said number four to the board reflecting upon the Quran number five, here's a little quote
on memorizing the Quran. And lastly, which is not a last point, but this is and this is not in, in
in order of importance This is all together we should be doing all of this is up to the
implementation
		

			of the Quran and Allah who's peddle it to Allah knows best. Sorry for a long answer to that question
is just that that question is an excellent question because it is very relevant to the month of
Ramadan and 100 Now we know that in the month of Ramadan, it may become easier for us to work
towards bettering our relationship with Allah. And so this is an excellent time to build a
relationship with the Quran that will hopefully continue with us. Even after the month of Ramadan
and Allah Subhana. Allah knows best