Sajid Ahmed Umar – Ramadan Reminders – Recite, Memorise, Listen To, And Ponder!

			Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh brothers and sisters in Islam I pray you all Well, do you
know we just finished the seventh night of therapy. And after this comes the seventh day, which
means a week of Ramadan is about to come to a close. We were counting the months and weeks and then
days and then hours and then minutes and seconds leading to our special month and the arrival of our
special guest. And now this month has been with us a week and three weeks remain May Allah subhanho
wa Taala accept our weekend inspire what is yet to come. I mean, your umbrella mean brothers and
sisters in Islam. The only topic we can discuss today is the topic of pondering over the revelation
		

			Allah. Allah says a fella runer Cora, the man recited in the Torah we have Allah tada Brunello Kuru
and do they not ponder over the skora
		

			brothers and sisters in Islam, the Quran was not revealed so that it should just be read, nor was it
revealed so that it could just be listened to no was it revealed so that one just memorizes it.
		

			And even though all these matters are amazing, in terms of us and the building of our paradise,
listening to the Quran, reading the Quran, memorizing the Quran, in fact, the Quran is the only
revelation of Allah through which a person worships through the mere recitation of it. So no doubt
reading is good for every letter that you read a lot gives you 10 rewards, right? And this should be
an inspiration and motivation for people to learn Arabic and learn how to read the Quran in Arabic,
because for every letter recited, you get 10 rewards, you get a Hashanah, and Hashanah contains 10
rewards.
		

			Despite all this, brothers and sisters, the essence of the revelation of the Quran was
		

			so that we ponder over its meanings.
		

			Because this is where true benefit comes with the Quran.
		

			When you ponder over its meanings, when you recite an A,
		

			and then you check the Tafseer of the ayah. So you make sure you have understood the AI. And then
you ponder over it, you take a step back, and you analyze, you ask yourself about the meanings of
this area? And how relevant these meanings are in your life. How close are you to the injunctions of
the area? How far are you from the injunctions of the IRA?
		

			Then what does this ayah mean in light of you and the community that you're in? Because many is in
the Quran? Have community or community based objectives? So how close is the community towards what
this ayah instruct or how far is the community from what this ayah instructs? This is the double at
the basic level is many levels. We're not going to
		

			discuss some of the more intricate
		

			methodologies of the double but on a simple level brothers and sisters in Islam for every human
being can practice this is that
		

			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was described as having
		

			Quranic character, he was a walking, talking, moving cry, what you read in the Quran, you would see
in reality when you saw him, this was him living the Quran. How many of us live the Quran? How many
of us want to live the Quran how many of us realize that we have to do with the Quran, Allah
subhanho wa Taala knows best. And the relationship between a Muslim and the Quran has to be a
relationship of connectivity that you connect with the Quran. And this is where the debate happens
because the DAP board is inspired through connectivity and connectivity happens when the heart is
engaged, whilst the eye sees and the mouth reads Subhan Allah
		

			which means the the, the highest relationship a person can have with the book of Allah subhanho wa
Taala is to read it with a connected heart
		

			is to listen to it with an engaged heart is to memorize it with the present heart. It is
fundamentally important for the heart to be present. Now, I go back and mentioned the 10 rules for
every letter because I don't want to discourage anyone especially in this month Mashallah people set
different targets some people want to read one Quran in this month somebody some people to some
people, three Everyone has different targets. I'm not discouraging this brothers and sisters in
Islam. But what I am saying is your relationship with the Quran can not only be one of recitation,
this Quran is a guide. It is the photocard the differentiate between success and failure between
		

			truth and falsehood.
		

			It's important, there's a higher objective that is required of you and from you with regards to the
Quran, they just reciting it. So by all means, definitely work on the recitation and recite as much
as you can, but by all means, do not let that association with the Quran be your only Association,
you need to have different relationships. There is, you know, a relationship of recitation, as you
are doing now. And then even a recitation related to memorization right where you slowly but surely
memorize different Ayat of the Quran because by doing so, Alhamdulillah it improves your Salah as
well because in your Salah, now you can recite from different ayat. Right? So your worship stops
		

			becoming a norm and it remains an act of worship. If you keep repeating the same surah in every rock
of every Salah it just becomes a routine right? So you should have a relationship with the Quran
whereby you are memorizing, different is slowly but surely. And then the ultimate relationship where
you have a relationship of
		

			where you take an ayah or two or three and you spend a day or a week or a month pondering over it,
working towards bringing it in your life and slowly but surely, that relationship with the Quran
grows until you have several ayat and then a juice and then several Jews and then inshallah the
whole Quran as part and parcel of your life slowly but surely burning yourself in or should we say
burning the ayat into your being? Right where these areas are internalized, and they become part and
parcel of your being whereby when you speak, you speak upon the instructions of the Quran. When you
act you act upon the instructions of the Quran. When you listen you listen upon the instructions of
		

			the Quran, when you move you move upon the instructions of the Quran, when you are stagnant and
stationary. You do so again, upon the injunctions and citations and instructions of the book of
Allah subhanho wa Taala. Basically, you become a walking, talking, moving,
		

			right, whether we can do that in our lifetime, Allah subhanho wa Taala knows best but the effort to
do it, Yes, we can. We have to realize it, we have to revise our relationship with the Quran, and
make sure that it is a more robust dynamic relationship than just recitation, and reading and
reading, reading. Once again. Go ahead and read and read as much as you can. But don't forget to
have moments in which you sit down with an IRA or a group of ayat and you work towards making those
is part and parcel of your life. This is the essence behind the revelation of the Quran. And that is
where I lost a parent who attended the opening of Bukhara just after sort of In fact, he teaches us
		

			that the school and his who then live with ducklin, a guide for the believers, a guide for those who
engage the heart televue for the sake of Allah Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh