Suhaib Webb – A Deeper Dive Learning To Recite Hafs With A Tariq Part One
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Assalamu alaykum, everybody. It's great to see,
a lot of
old
friends, not older, but, older friends, alhamdulillah.
And it's nice to be back in the
area and and
realize how much you miss people, you know,
when you see them.
So it's certainly a pleasure. Humdulillah to see
many of you and see you, like, with
kids and family and, you know, it's, like,
really awesome. And I'm I'm grateful,
and very happy,
to be here with you. Alhamdulillah.
We know that Allah
has made the Quran a central part of
our life. And one of the challenges,
that we have as educators in this country
is is Quranic education.
Quranic education
starts first with being able to recite the
Quran properly.
And that usually involves like a 3 or
4 term process where someone will cover some
basic books,
gradually
introducing to them certain terms,
certain rules,
certain concepts
that in around 4 to 5 terms, you
know, you can say that they're going to
be reading
one of the ways of deciding the Quran
properly.
Unfortunately, in the West, and I can say
specifically in the United States,
Qur'anic studies tend to be very sloppy.
And that's the reason that I wrote this
book,
around a year and a half ago, alhamdulillah.
And what this book does, this is a
a poem that was written by the teacher
of my teacher. He's a great scholar, Imam
al Sheykh Ibrahim Samanudi,
who when he died, it was pronounced, Bashekh
Khudayfi
in Medina. Aalam
like the person who has died today is
the most knowledgeable person in the recitation of
the Quran.
Oftentimes we tend to think of people being
the most knowledgeable as being those that have
the best voice.
And there's no doubt that having a beautiful
voice is important,
but that doesn't necessarily equate to knowing the
art
and the form
and the rules related to reciting the Quran.
So why Sheikh Ibrahim Samanuri
may not have been famous for his voice,
here are some of the people he taught.
Sheikh Alhusur,
Sheikh Abdul Basit,
Sheikh Mansher,
Mashari Al Rashid.
When I was in Egypt, Sheikh Mashari used
to come to Egypt and go to the
village
to read
to Sheykh Samud.
So, oftentimes,
Allah sometimes they say
preserves the auliya from riyyah
by making them teachers of people who are
famous.
So Sheikh Ibrahim Saburubi is famous amongst
the ulama.
Right? Famous amongst scholars.
Famous amongst people,
who are, like, really dedicated to reciting the
Quran. But for the masses,
someone like Sheikh Ibrahim
Saluduhi,
like,
they may not know him, but they'll know
his impact.
So that's why the prophet said,
You know, that paradise is for those people
you don't see them, those pious people that
you don't see them, but you can see
their impact.
So when they're present, you can you don't
notice them. But when they're absent, like, you
would notice them because their impact goes
when they go. So Sheikh Ibrahim Samnudhi is
more in the early part of 20th century.
He lives a really really long life. He
died around 12 years ago, as I recall.
And he his entire life really,
was dedicated to the Quran.
And more so, the art of the Quran.
And one of the concerns that I as
I was learning the Quran is that I
realized that unfortunately,
and and this doesn't mean people are sinners,
like, nobody freaked out. Okay?
But unfortunately,
I don't think we have one standardized
proper reading of huffs in America.
What we tend to find is people thinking
they're reading
with a narration of Imam Hafs,
but what we call
Khaled Tore.
Right? They're mixing
a lot of stuff together
and unaware of them. So tonight what we're
going to do is learn
18 to 19 rules. If you read if
you practice them, you'll be reading the tariqah
of Hafs
as it was narrated
from Hafs al Hissati Wariyyah
back
to Imam al Asim al Kufi,
back to
Sayna
Muhammad So I wrote this book to standardize
the recitation
of the uyawiya of Hafsa and Aasih
for our young people. So, like, we can
now begin to standardize what's authentic in our
community,
and and to ensure that we're reading something
properly.
And the other reason that I did this
is as you see tonight, you didn't like
a maids. Like,
the level of focus
that Scott has had on
Quran.
And not as we now tend to focus
on Quran strictly for barakah.
1 of our teachers used to say
people who have reduced knowledge
just to blessings
are people who tend to be lazy.
So it's like, just for the barakah,
just for the blessing.
But the Baraka has to be Haakkah.
Right? Like, the effort. Baraka is not an
alibi not to
explore the potential
of our faith and our religion and our
texts.
So there's some terms,
that you should learn, and you may be
challenged a little tonight. It's okay. Sometimes to
be challenged is a good thing. Content of
dissidents, those educators, you can appreciate
Piaget
coming into the future. The first is called
Tiraha
on on on page 5, if you have
the book with you. Tiraha,
you have the poem, you don't have the
book. This is the explanation
of the poem. If you're interested in the
text, you can you can talk to Tokyo.
Or you can get it you can also
get I'm trying I'm not trying to sell
it, I'm trying to help you. You can
find it on Amazon. And this book, by
the way, is only sold at cost.
There's no there's no profit.
Well, they send me Quranihimo
aqila,
a shout to be sent.
You know, like we shouldn't make money from
Quran now
we might make a little money, you know
what? Nah,
it's not Bitcoin
But, alhamdulillah, because,
people enrolling in Swiss early
and engaging,
for our our monthly,
program, we're able to provide things to make
it accessible for people.
So it's sold at cost on Amazon, it's
sold at cost.
So what are some of the terms that
we need to know before we jump into
the study of what we're going to study?
Number 1 is the word kirah. When scholars
use the word kara'a, and I want you
to understand something. I'm not talking about how
you may know this word. Like, you may
know this word culturally,
but now we're dipping into the college like
if we're on a campus, we walk into
the college of Quran.
So the terms are now being used by
that college. Not by Angfu Fu Lan from
Brooklyn or, you know, anti Fatima from Arapindi,
you know, or anti Tiffany from Oklahoma. No.
How did the scholars of this science
use these words, and what do they mean
by these words? And usually this problem happens
to my Arab brothers and sisters because like
Al Qidr in theology. You say Al Qidr
like an old person. You know what Al
Qidr means?
So the term has a different meaning within
the college, within the faculty.
So now you and I, we walked into
the faculty of Quran. So the meanings are
held by that faculty. So if it differs
with your meaning, just say to yourself, oh,
my meaning is related to whatever I know,
but to align my understanding of what's correct
within the science, I need to adopt their
definition.
Understand what I'm trying to say? Like surfing
in Santa Cruz is not surfing on the
Internet.
Right? So different meanings.
So the first is qara'a.
When scholars use the word
of this word in context of Quran
they mean an authentic narration back to the
prophecies.
Of how the author has saled the Quran.
And in general we have 10.
Ten major imams
that passed on to us, 10
Piranat.
But most of you know 7. We'll talk
about why because most of you
were exposed to the
Torah of Imam Shaltami. So
you can say 7 to make it easy
for you. And I need you to remember
something else really, really super important.
So I say at qibaa that means and
like an authentic hadith as sahi. Right? An
authentic way of reading the Quran is called
what?
Kirab.
You can you can think about it in
that way. So authentic hadith is called what?
Sahih.
Shivan. An authentic
way of reading the Quran is called what?
Great.
We have 7 major imams to make it
easy for you mentioned by Imam al Shafiq.
Khalas.
Each of those imams, their qira'ah had 2
major students, which means that those two students
narrated 2 ways to read that qira'ah. So
we have 7 qira'ah, and how many ways
to read them? 14. 14.
Masha'Allah.
So has
from Assam.
It doesn't change the meaning, doesn't affect anything,
and in fact, the opposite. People hear this
initially like, oh my gosh. I thought Quran
is protected. But then when you read this,
it's like,
holy cow.
Like, they really
preserve the book of Allah.
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So 7
and all those 7 had 2.
So, Imam Nasser,
you have more.
Imam Abu Amr,
Assoos
Sunosi,
and so on and so on.
Khaled and Khalaf
from
Imam Qisayi.
Imam Alsim
will you read? Imam Alsim had 2 major
students.
Imam Hafs, and that's what most of you
read,
and imam
shar. It shall to be said,
What I'm trying to make is, as one
of our teachers used to say, if Muslims
took the time to study the Quran, they
wouldn't argue over it.
They learn etiquette. They learn at the they
learn, like, there can be more than one
way sometimes.
Like relaxing.
So for example,
not to scare you, we say
Also, we say
All 3 are authentic. All 3 are going
to say, Muhammad
We get uncomfortable with differences because we have
become a very modern community.
What I mean by modern is the negative
components of modern community.
We're in we're not tolerant.
So
3 different
qira'at
and each of those different qira'at have 2
major students.
So we say
we mean a recitation which is Sahid.
I'm Sayidna Muhammad
I think we need to turn down the
pipe. The second,
is
the name of Alaihi.
I used to tell my students, they said,
I cannot I can't remember all these names.
Like, this imam, this imam. I said, Imam
Aasim is awesome.
Imam Asim.
Oh, Imam Asim. Yeah. Imam Asim.
Imam Assem al Koothi, he was born in
41 after Hijri.
Yes. It's super close.
And he and and
some people say between 41 60 Hijriyah.
And he died around 120, 129 Hijriyah.
Was considered the greatest Messiah of the Quran
and Kufa.
Is Imam Asim, a Kufi.
And
something interesting about the awesome imam
is he was blind.
Al Anulla.
So he was a person with a disability.
Some of our best reciters when I was
in Azhar
were our brothers and sisters who were blind.
But Imam Asim who was blind
and he used to have an aid to
help him teach,
Masha'Allah.
And the scholars, they agreed upon his
imamate
in this subject.
And his student was Abdul Rahman al Salehmi,
his teacher, excuse me.
And Abdulhamid al Salami, his teacher is Sayna
Ali. So between Imam Alsim
and Sayna Mohammed is how many people?
3. 2.
Abdul Ahmed al Sulami
and Sayna Adi.
Between, he said 3. Nah. Between Aasim and
Jibril is 3.
Imam
Asim also was a political activist.
Nowadays, we have to worry about people who
used to soul wolf and knowledge as a
means to justify
hanging out with dictators and buqtulu
bayadaqumumma
Those people that have imanas and they wear
the clothes and they have the cool scarfs
and they say Sidi and they have all
the language. But Wallahi, subhanAllah,
they are malayu b'luffat.
There is a contradiction between their words and
their deeds, their knowledge and what they do.
Imam Al Hussein is out of what banned
CS.
So he actually led a political insurrection against
the Abuis
because he felt that they were
incorrect
in their positions, especially on Sayyidina Ali and
his family and debates.
Another thing about Imam Alsin that makes him
Alsin
is he was socially responsible. Again, there's no
contradiction
largely. We're all contradictions to a certain degree,
but he's able to limit his contradictions.
And it's very interesting. His most famous student
is Hafs. All of you you read what
Hafs. And maybe you thought like Hafs is
that imam. No. Hafs is the student.
Like Samanuri. You don't know Samanuri, but you
know who? You know Qusuri, rahimahullah.
You know Abdubasit. You know Mushari, but you
don't know their
Allah hafehbahu binuria alhamdulillah.
So,
Imam al Aasen,
even though he's blind and he's kind of
in a political
the idea of Sunni quietism, this is nonsense.
You know, just be quiet. Don't give politically
involved. Politics is dunya.
Khas, so when you're being destroyed and murdered
and killed,
How's it gonna help you with your akhirah
and your children? You have no rights and
no dignity.
So Imam Asin, listen to the story brothers
and sisters, especially young folks who are mender.
Imam Asin,
he
he hears about a woman
in his city. She's a divorcee.
Some say that she was a widow.
And she had a son,
so single
parent at home.
Imam al Asim, even though he's blind and,
you know, engaged in political insurrection,
he proposes to marry us.
So she agrees, like, who would say no
to Imam Asen? He's awesome.
Her son is named Hasd. Oh,
that that child
that did not have a father
is Imam Hafs.
So we see, like, being socially responsible
brings fruit, man.
Like, doing the right thing
Of course, there was attraction, I'm sure. And
there were reasons they wanted to get married.
It wasn't void of attraction or any other
things that are important to marriage.
You know, you're not gonna marry Shrek
just because you feel morally responsible.
But she accepts that he marries her.
And Imam Haq's becomes the most
profound in the narration of Sayidna Ali.
Sayidna Uflam Naflam
through
his stepfather,
Imam Asim.
That's why Shaitan B says,
So it's important that we study scholars.
We don't divorce them from, like, the things
they did socially.
They're they're being
consummate,
you know, and they're standing for justice. Nowadays,
scholars try to tell us that being politically
active and standing for justice is counter to
the tradition. No. Your tradition,
not our tradition.
That's your tradition that you created,
but that's not our tradition.
We need to be very careful of not
getting hoodwinked
by
state
actors, and I'll leave it at that. Or
people who are just scared.
And if you're scared, don't leave.
And if you're being sponsored by CC, CC
backwards is ISIS.
Sisi backwards is ISIS, s I s I
I s I
s. And it means to look twice in
Spanish
or yes.
Look twice in the street.
So we should be very careful
of this new
Sunni quietism.
Don't rock the boat,
you know, don't get involved.
Just be with Allah
Why don't you say that to the people
that are killing people and putting them in
prison?
Don't rock the boat. Yeah. Who's job? Who's
rocking the boat?
Subhanallah.
So Imam Al Asin marries a single woman
who either is a divorcee
or a widow,
and masha'Allah,
her son
becomes
imam Hafs.
Watch
now. The majority of the whole world reads
with Imam Rewas Hafsaan.
Awesome.
Because there's barakah
in being responsible and making sacrifices.
And also she sacrificed, she made a blind
man.
And look at the khair. So I asked
one of my teachers, why?
Why for example do we read Hasf more
than Shawla?
Shawla, Mashallah.
He said,
Ibrahim,
Asim
was with Hasid all the time. He's his
his caregiver.
So often times, I want you to think
about something.
When you read about great people, understand
that greatness is behind them.
There's something that they did.
There's something going on in their lives
that that brought this khal.
It's not just, wow, they have a lot
of knowledge.
No. They had a lot of knowledge,
but that knowledge translated into something good.
Translated into something that was what we call
now influencers.
They were willing to sacrifice
and use their the privilege of their religious
knowledge
for people.
That's what makes them different.
They didn't have fans.
They didn't have people that were like loathing
over them.
No, no. They earned respect.
So Assam al Kufi, one of our Bashay,
he wrote a poem about him. You can
find it on page 6,
that goes through, like, his details. So, Piraha
and Imam al Assim.
Imam al Assim is the narrator
of this qira'a.
He's the imam of this qira'a.
Like we have the methab of Malik, we
have the qira'a of A'asim.
Except the kira'a is much more
than firk. But just to give you, like,
an idea of how it works.
The next word that we need to know
is
is what the student of the imam there
is.
So the qira'a is Asim.
Asim's student is who?
So Has is the rabbi.
So we say, riyat
Hafs an
awesome.
The narration
of Hafs from
awesome.
Notice some background here about Imam Hafs.
The next tour is where people tend to
stop at their
touch reading studies.
That's the word tariq.
A tariq is a narration
of the student
of the Rawi
of the Piraha.
A narration was called tariq,
a path
like tariqah.
A way
signifies
a narration
of a student
of Hafs
of Hafs Rewayah
back to imam,
Aasinsqirah.
Somebody must say, why don't you just all
call it one word? Because our scholars were
very concerned about preserving the authentic,
especially with Quran.
BalaisehAllah
in Quran studies
is something that
Like, when you when you really get into
the narrations and everything,
you you find yourself in an ocean with
no ending and you say to yourselves, like,
Allah, the Quran is howling. The Quran is
kind of mohammed.
Like, it it won't take you to doubt.
Because they even have a science
when not to recite a septon.
Like there's rules for how to be quiet,
let alone how to read it.
Do you breathe once?
Did the problem stop a long time? Did
you breathe once? Soft and waff.
So our scholars were so
OCD,
in a good way, that they even have
a chapter on when to be quiet when
you read.
So not only that we're worried about how
you read it, but they're worried about how
you what?
Excuse my slang. How you not read it?
So what does that tell you? That we're
very, very careful.
So today what's gonna happen as we go
into this, you're gonna see, like, a little
window open, and you're gonna look and see,
like, this land called Quran land, And you're
gonna see the back end of it. Often
times you only hear Quran is preserved, alhamdulillah,
we're in the beatitudes.
Quran is the greatest miracle of the project,
but we should show people how.
So those words have meaning, they have something
in them. It's not just an empty word.
So the next is tariq. Tariq
is a narration
from one of the students
of the student
of the imam.
So we have qira'a,
sahi,
biwaya,
student of qira'a, and the third word,
Taliyyid. What's
Taliyyid?
No. No. Hasbac.
Good. What's Taliyyid? Taliyyid. What does it mean,
Taliyyid?
The narration of
who? The student of who?
Student. Abu Rabi,
the student of?
The party.
So we have Kiraa,
Sahih we are greeting.
The the
narration of the student of the Kira,
which means Sahih
and tariq.
Tariq.
So from the kai to the tariq is
1 person.
Remember that.
Imam Hus has 56 tod.
What?
56 ways it can be read.
But there are 2
major ways that are considered
strong
and accessible.
The most popular way is the tariq of
Imam Shatabim.
That tariq is found in the the Mus'at
from Saudi Arabia.
We will haves you're looking at the tariq
of Shatugim,
back to 'Anarul Sabah,
back to Imam,
havs,
back to Imam Sayyidina
Asi.
But there are other tariq
of havs
And one of them is the tariq of
Mu'adir from
Imam Fil.
You know why they call him Fil? I
can't say
no.
This imam, he was so big, he named
himself elephant.
He said, I am an imam elephant.
Maybe for those of you who are younger,
it's gonna get you you can remember imam
feel because when you hear why he made
himself feel and you're a millennial and you're
super sensitive,
you can say you're up in your
feelings.
Imam Fil.
We'll get you in your feelings.
Imam Fil,
masha'Allah,
his tariel
between him and Amr al Sabah is one
person. Amr al Sabah is a student of
havs.
Havs is a student of
who? Awesome imam.
He narrates a tariq of hab.