Suhaib Webb – Guidance For All – Part Two- Being Whole With Revelation
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The speaker discusses the meaning of the word "Qela" in Arabic, which refers to reciting the verse Qauqah. They explain that the word Qa is a recitation of a culture where people share information and ideas together. The goal of the course is to bring together the cognitive and physical ideas of the people involved in the process of joining together to create a sense of precision and whuthuthuthuthiness.
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So as we begin this journey through the
Qur'an, let's talk about what the word
Qur'an actually means.
It's from an Arabic word, Qa, Ra, A.
If you look at an Arabic dictionary or
if you type it even like in Google,
and you put the letter Qa, which is
in Arabic, Ra, an Arabic letter, and Hamza
or Alif, which is A in Arabic, you're
going to see a plethora of meanings.
And I think it's very beautiful because it
sort of animates our approach towards the Qur
'an as we push into this super important
moment.
And that is that oftentimes you find the
word Qa, Ra, A, it means to recite.
We find, you know, the very first verse
sent to Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
in the Qur'an is Iqra, recite.
So oftentimes you find people saying, well, the
Qur'an, it means something that's recited.
But according to the majority of ancient Islamic
Arabic scholars, something really powerful, the word Qa,
Ra, A, actually means to join together.
That's why we call a village Qariya in
Arabic, Qariya, because that's a place where people
come together, people live together, people cooperate, and
they grow together.
So the word Qur'an, according to the
majority of linguists, is from a word which
means to join.
Because if you think about it, it joins
together letters, it joins together words, it joins
together sentences.
And for us, it joins together verses, as
well as chapters.
What does that mean for you?
How does that apply to you and I
today?
Is that just as the Qur'an makes
letters that were shattered, if you will, whole,
it makes us as human beings.
The goal of the Qur'an is to
join us together, to make us feel a
sense of completeness, a sense of wholeness.
So the word Qur'an means to join,
to bring together my cognitive ideas, my spiritual
ideas, my physical actions, the corporal and the
spiritual, to bring them into a balance.
The Qur'an, one of its major foundations
is balance, to respect the idea of balance,
the idea of maintaining equalization in our lives,
between spiritual service, public service, family service, you
name it, it brings all this together in
a beautiful sort of cooperation.
So as we push into the Qur'an,
one of the things that you want to
ask yourself now is, what are the areas
of my life I need to work on
to make myself whole?
And how can the Qur'an serve those
different areas to bring about a sense of
balance in my being?
So the word Qur'an linguistically means to
make whole.
The goal of studying the Qur'an should
not be to be separating religion and life.
This is sort of what secularism sort of
amplifies and even modern religion does.
It makes religion here, it makes life here.
The Qur'an does something very different.
Islam seeks to do something very different, that
is to bring together, not to separate, to
join, not to disjoin, to find intersections and
not divisions, except in a few areas.
So the outcome of this short course that
we're going to take together is hopefully you
find the capacity to be whole and complete,
grow within your space.
May Allah bless you.
As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.