Suleiman Hani – In Love With The Quran #22 – Are You Choosing The Right Path

			Have you ever been hiking or walking on the trail and then found a fork in the road or found two
different paths to take, you'd have to choose one over the other. Imagine you are hiking and you
find a fork with two paths. One path, you can see clearly, it's worn down by many travelers by many
hikers before. This path is the one that's been taken so many times. The other is an unpaved path
hardly ever taken. Sometimes, we'll hear in different types of analogies and inspirational quotes
about the path less trodden. Or you don't need to follow the path of everyone else, that it's a
better option for you to choose the one that is less trotted. This analogy is focusing on something
		

			very different. And so I want you to imagine the path that is paved, the one that's ready to go, is
in fact, the path of the many righteous Muslims who came before you. That's the path that has been
taken millions of times, now we are at 2 billion Muslims. This path, when you have these two
options, this one is well constructed, it's well lit. And there are signs placed throughout the
trail warning, you inform you of different aspects of the journey, when you take this path. This is
the path that is tried and tested by the righteous before you. This is the path that gives you
greater access. It has less unexpected bumps along the way. And it gives you confidence it gives you
		

			comfort throughout why? Because many other people have taken it before you because of the righteous
believers who travelled this path long before you came along. And so there is comfort here. And
there's a type of confidence when you pursue and when you succeed with the completion of that
pathway. And so, choosing this path is choosing success. Those who choose this path are choosing to
devote all of their attention with the limited time they have to progress rather than potential
dangers, slow downs, distractions, temptations, unprecedented hardships along the way. So there's a
sense of comfort in knowing that your journey as a Muslim, your journey in life, as unique as your
		

			life may be, spiritually, it's along the same pathway of the righteous who came before you, the
righteous before us were connected to the Quran. And in so many ways, they would attempt to live
upon it, to teach it to convey it to study it. And of course, they would want to preserve it in
their hearts realizing, in fact, they are preserved by holding on to the Quran. And they would want
to teach as much of it to others as possible, even if it's only one verse that you know, one surah
that you know, and this is why some of the scholars would say, like I will follow a Razzie he would
say it was upon the memorization and the teaching of the Quran, that the hearts of the first part of
		

			this ummah, the first generations of this ummah, in those after them lay me that's the foundation
it's the Quran, Imam and nowhere we Rahim Allah Allah. He said the pious predecessors, the self, the
earlier Muslims, they would never teach Hadith and fiqh jurisprudence, except to someone who had
memorized the Quran will get the standard that they had for the one who came to them saying, I'm
ready to study and become a student of knowledge. Well, first you need to memorize the Quran, why
it's the foundation of everything else. This is not the case for everyone who's trying to learn
Islam in different ways. Rather, this was through specific teachers and scholars who had a high
		

			standard and they wanted their students to be able to reference the Quran, one of the scholars he
said, I heard my grandfather say, I asked my father for permission to study under playback. So he
said first learn the Quran. And then I will give you permission, learn the Quran, and they'll give
you permission so he said to started to memorize and I memorized it by heart. And then he said to me
remain until you've led the people in prayer with it meaning the Torah with prayer in a Milan when
you've memorized the Quran, it's usually the best way to lead others in prayer and to solidify and
cement what you have memorized. He said, so I did that. And then finally after that Eid prayer, he
		

			gave me permission to leave so I left I departed and he went to learn with one of his teachers.
Allah subhanaw taala reminds us of traits that we should work towards when it comes to remembering
him or listening to the Quran. Allah subhanaw taala tells us in nominal mean on a Lavina either
don't care at all law who Lagina poodle boom what either truly at Arley him to who that Imana wanna
be him Miata work on the believers are those who when they hear the name of Allah, their hearts are
moved. When the Quran is recited upon them. He increases them in Eman and they put their trust in
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			While we may not always feel this way, when it's something we should strive towards, and it won't
happen on its own, it will happen when you start trying to connect to the Quran. It will happen when
you put in effort. If someone says I don't feel connected to the Quran, but you never put in any
effort connecting to the Quran, how do you expect to get anything out of it? You're going to put in
what you want to take out of happiness, of emotions of increased Iman, one of the Sahaba general the
Aloha, he says we were to youth, young Muslims with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So we
learned EMA and faith beliefs before we learned the Quran, and then we learned the Quran and
		

			increased our iman, whenever you will recite the Quran you will find you will encounter many things
like what when you read the Quran regularly, you will read about many verses of mercy of paradise
and rewards and it will motivate you. It will give you that part of the prescription that you need.
But then you continue resetting and you you recognize you also recite verses about Hellfire
prohibitions, warnings punishments. So you reflect on the examples of previous nations. The stories
of people who disobeyed they rejected their prophets and rejected every sign God gave them and they
continue to ask for more out of arrogance, not out of sincerity, and we read how they were punched.
		

			You read the Quran and you find there are victories that Allah gave for the believers in times of
hardship and oppression. No matter what you go through in life. Recognize your path is unique for
you, but yet it is so similar to the path of the Muslims who came before you. And ask Allah subhanaw
taala sincerely to guide you along that path and to grant you a reunion with those who paved the
path before I leave you with this question. How would it feel meeting the companions in the
afterlife? And the Muslims who came before you know when you try your best to follow in their
footsteps?