Taimiyyah Zubair – Taleem al-Quran 2010 – Juz 30 – L313I

			I
		

			would like to call Krishna
		

			just aquaclear for joining us for our community, but Alhamdulillah my experience of who there has
been a memorable one. Many people they think that Oh, there's just about learning and teaching the
Quran and it is there's a very big part of it for them. But just by being here for the past 18
months has given students like myself many other opportunities and has opened a lot of other doors,
such as doing double work, helping with the food drive, popular teachers and all with the same
purpose in mind. I would also my classmates that one of my classes was right here on campus, and the
other one was on the fourth one, the highway for 100. My rides my long rides from Markham, with my
		

			carpooling sisters has taught me so much more than just the word tour translation, they've taught me
how to actually implement this knowledge into my everyday life. If I could just take away one thing
from these past 18 months and it's kind of hard to take away just one thing, it would be that my
purpose in life has changed and also the way to attain this purpose has also changed. I've always
wanted to assist women with psychological disorders, especially depression, anxiety, this is very
common even amongst Muslim women. However, the Book of Allah has taught me that first I do have
myself recently recovered from everything, and I have 14 Lenovo raanana of the hearts which is
		

			soiling or rusting of the hearts. So I kind of learned the book of Allah has taught me that first
and to diagnose myself diagnose my own diseases of the hearts and minds, and then instill this
knowledge and instill positive thoughts in the hearts and minds of other Muslim women. I thought
that I would be a psychologist, a counselor to other woman insha Allah and working towards that as
well. But however, after learning the Quran, I realized that what could be a more sincere advisor
and a more effective behavioral therapy even than the speech of Allah subhanho wa Taala is accurate
for for listening Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh.
		

			So you can see the sisters that did this course, they had their own challenges every single one of
them. Krishna, Allah used to come from a very dark place, and sister Malia, a young mother with a
little baby, she also completed the course from
		

			school, university, graduate school work, baby, life goes on, one day after another one week after
another year after year. This was my life before studying the Quran. I came to Hooda after more than
half the course was over. Other students already seem to know their words, Mashallah. And I thought
it would be impossible for me to understand the Quran in Arabic, which was my goal 100 with time
alone enabled me to understand patterns, and even understand the word torah translation.
		

			Knowing that I would be back at work after maternity leave back to the same old routine, except for
the addition of a baby and busier than ever before. I knew I had to try and stop and learn the
Quran. Between these phases of life.
		

			I had never stayed at home before. And the task of being a stay at home mom, even if for only a year
seems daunting at first. I had always been at school or at work trying to do something or the other
to enhance my career. My career was my ultimate love, and the only thing that had pulled me away was
the baby. I knew that I'd never stick around at home. If I wasn't at a playgroup, I probably end up
at the mall wasting my time. This brings me to time. A lot gave me so much time before I had a baby.
But one thing came after another undergrad than grad school than work and finally a baby. The Quran
has made me realize the importance of time, if we aren't grateful for our blessings of luck and take
		

			them away. But those of us who are young, have more time, responsibilities grow as we grow. It's
easier to take a break from your life to learn the Quran when you're young. Once you took a break
from life to learn the Quran, the benefits were immense. Knowing how to react in different
situations was really helpful. Allah says in Surah, one ayah 11 no disaster strikes except by
permission of Allah. And whoever believes in Allah, He will guide his heart and Allah is Knowing of
all things. Allah guides our hearts, not only matters of beam, but also in your daily affairs and in
your dealings with people.
		

			Knowledge the Quran helped me understand how to respond to people and their questions about Islam.
And it gave me the confidence to put things into practice, despite what people may think. So it made
me less people conscious.
		

			It puts things into perspective. I feel that learning the Quran will help me when I go out into the
world again, to resume my career and to raise a young family inshallah. In order for the Quran to
guide me, I've realized the importance of staying connected with it every day of my life. I can
never be too busy for the Quran. I can, however, be too busy for other distractions because my focus
		

			is still put on Colossus and serum was a male, higher 20 Europe knows that you stand in prayers,
nearly two thirds of the night, sometimes one half or one third of it. And so to others among your
companions, Allah has the measures of the night and the day, he knows that you will not be able to
keep it up. So he has turned to you and mercy. Therefore read from the Quran as much as you easily
can. When the Quran reciting it, learning it, implementing it becomes your goal. Other things can
and do fall into place. I pray that Allah keeps us all connected to the Quran, and to those who
learn, teach and implemented and that he gives us the pharma steadfastness. When we go out and face
		

			the world, amin
		

			Kumara mokuba Baraka
		

			and hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen I think Omar subhanho wa Taala for this day, I thank him for all of
my teachers and my fellow students. Allah says in the Quran, called Holly so we live in Ala Moana we
live in Allah Allah Subhana Allah whenever a remember this ayah I see myself before the knowledge of
crime. I grew up in Rwanda, where I grew up with just a basic knowledge of Islam, fasting Ramadan,
praying Juma to Juma and I believe this was okay. Alhamdulillah I moved in the US and when I lived
there, I worked well running after dunya every day, making money, I came to realize one day that
this was not enough. So I made door to Allah as a well over please guide me 2005 I moved in Canada.
		

			And then hamdulillah I was going to displacer for halakhah my teacher at the time she mentioned
about an Huda and in deep in my heart, I thought I know enough already. I don't need to go to
Buddha, you know, and it's so sad when you think you know, yet you don't know, to have Allah. So I
came here just you know, let me go so that my teacher can she can be happy. She actually did go to
the CES, I went to Alberta. So I came here as a listener into Panama, and love it so much. So that I
made dua to Allah, Allah, please help me, help me to go to a hotel. And I realized that I didn't
know anything that I didn't know anything. So Panama, and hamdulillah 2010 and hamdulillah Al
		

			Hamdulillah. Allah gave me an opportunity to be a student here. You may think maybe it's not easy,
you cannot do it. But and hamdulillah have, I had me, as a single mother with two children, one of
my children has a special need. And every day I used to come here every time and get a lesson at the
Tafseer I hold on that Listen, I hold on to Allah. And they went home, day by day, step by step. And
today and hamdulillah so my dear sister, you can make it and hamdulillah now I know the purpose of
life. I know who I am. I know I am insignificant human being. So I have to humble myself. I have to
fear Allah subhanho wa Taala I know the purpose of life. The best thing when I stand for Salah, I
		

			know what I'm reciting and of the greatness of Allah subhanho wa Taala not only just walking, even
like when I'm driving now I'm not going to look at this. The BMW SUV has a beautiful car. I'm gonna
look at this case. Quran has taught me how to use my intellect to see the power of a verse of Hana
Horta. Even like when I'm walking, I see the trees, they're dry. I know one day I'm gonna die and
I'm going to Allah subhana wa Taala. So with Quran, you're going to have complete knowledge
regardless of any degrees you have a PhD, but without Korra you don't have knowledge and hamdulillah
Allah subhanho wa Taala and I pray for all of you that you get the knowledge of Quran. A Salam
		

			aleikum, wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

			inshallah, we will have another reflection from our dear students, Xena pup and inshallah she will
be giving a reflection about how this course was for her.
		

			cinematical Muhammad Allah Hubert
		

			I remember our first day of school when they told us that Allah subhanaw taala has chosen us out of
everyone in the world to be here and study the Quran. I know understand the weight of that
statement. We are all honored to have been able to study Allah's words. After having gone through
the Quran, I realized how ignorant I am and how merciful Allah subhanaw taala has been to me. I feel
as though I had been walking in darkness and didn't even know it until someone turned on the light.
The light of guidance that we find in this miraculous book, I recall a quote that one of my teachers
had once written on the blackboard. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
		

			But what is success? The way I had thought of success was in terms of worldly achievement only,
meaning I should work hard. Get a good education.
		

			Have a job that I excelled at, and have confidence in my abilities. But now I realized that my
definition of success was flawed, because it was incomplete. I wasn't working at all for my
hereafter. I was thinking of success in the near terms only. I only learned that to success includes
accepting your circumstances and submitting to our Lord. And our ultimate goal needs to be doing
those actions which pleases him the most. And this is the purpose of my life, not running after
worldly pleasure and praise. And Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, and indeed, that he may
admit to believing men and believing women to gardens beneath which rivers flow to abide there and
		

			eternally and remove from them their misdeeds, and ever is that in the sight of Allah, a great
attainment?
		

			May Allah subhanaw taala help us all to stay connected with his book, perform righteous deeds, and
do not return to our habits that we have left behind? And gravitas to success and tranquility.
		

			Santa Monica, What
		

			are y'all doing?
		

			Okay, just to tell you guys a little bit about myself. I began this course in July of 2010, right
after I graduated from middle school. So two weeks after I graduated from middle school, I started
the course. I had a lot of people telling me we feel bad for you. But today, I feel bad for them.
		

			Because we all got to feel to come and learn. And and yeah, so this journey through the Qur'an was
just breathtaking. It's not something I can just explain in words. I encourage every person here who
wants to learn the words of the Most Merciful to come in the locker and I remember when we finished
wrestle Baccarat. I thought we covered everything in the Quran, like what are we going to cover now?
Like soprano love. It's amazing how the Quran teaches like everything from embryology, psychology,
from math, to family life, everything 100. And just an incident I wanted to share with you guys that
really like changed me I
		

			was I remember when we learned that a law or sometimes put you in such a situation that you can do
anything except that you accept and then you think, Okay, what can I learn from this. And so my
family left the country for approximately four months. And it was just me, my younger sister and my
father. And at that time, I didn't know how to cook. I wasn't good at cleaning wangi and all that
but hamdulillah that time, at first, it was a little tough to accept straight. But
		

			after some time, I thought, What can I learn from this? So when I was 100, I was able to learn all
of these things as well. So when you start learning, when you see your difficulties from different
perspectives, I used to wonder how is this now a way of life? When we learn even the etiquettes of
knocking on someone's door, and there's a pile of that's what I knew is that really is a way of
life.
		

			So my dear sisters, any one of you wants the comfort of their hearts coolness of their eyes and
success in the hereafter. Then
		

			Monica
		

			Santa Monica rahmatullah wa barakato, wabarakatuh.
		

			Rubbish. I had a surgery where suddenly an MRI, or a little letter melissani of all these are busy
near an alarm of a bayonet indeed. I mean,
		

			if you see the reaction of people towards the origin, there's three kinds of people nowadays, some
people, they don't know anything about it. For example, if you see some people, they never see an
ocean. They don't know what it looks like. Maybe they heard about it. Somebody might tell them like,
Okay, it looks like green. They don't know it's blue. And some people they probably see OSHA, they
know what it looks like. And they know is that in these seats, beautiful, but they never dive in
inside. And this could be the example of those some of us that we never had the chance before. Or we
never had the chance to study the origin for Wordsworth, this translation or steps here. And for
		

			those of us who study the origin, 18 months hamdulillah when you dive in inside the ocean, you see
how beautiful it is. You see how vast it is, when you pick one pearl or when you pick one jam, you
see its beauty, you get mesmerized, and you get shocked, and then you think like, Oh, this is one
job, and I got so much you just pick it up and then you get so mesmerized by one job, and then you
realize there's deep The ocean is not just one job. And and this is could be the example of one that
you learn in the origin. And you get so mesmerized if this is one that is that has what not only one
meaning
		

			But I don't know how many sometimes six different interpretation and you were like, wow, I don't
know nothing. So what did I pick up for myself? One thing that I pick up for myself was the
importance of Allah. Before I let up on I used to think that okay, Islam is 45 times a day, I go to
Hajj, I get up, and I hamdulillah I'm a perfect Muslim. I don't know anything about Allah. I don't
even know what it is. And but I have the love when I exposed to the Quran, I realized, whoa, not
only praying, but I should be really concerned about the other fellow Muslim, I should really help
my mom, I should really respect the other people, I should be really concerned like, Am I taking
		

			their space? Am I offending them? Watching my word, looking? Make sure that I fulfill my
responsibility. Now the words, I remember it was, as I was saying, in the beginning of the course,
or on is the mirror for your action for your personality? I don't know, like, what does it mean? I
don't understand. But now it hamdulillah like learning the origin of Allah subhanaw taala that I
know what it means that Oran is shapes you, you learn how to walk even you learn how to talk, you
learn how to see somebody. And just if you see your house, how many mirrors Do you have,
		

			you have in your washroom you have in your living room you have in your bedroom, even you have
inside your purse. And then every time you want to make sure you look good, you take it out and you
sleep, right. And then similarly, if you want to make sure you have a perfect a lot, go back to
orange and see what is missing. Sometimes we put foundation, okay, this is something missing in
here, something messed out, you just fix it. All right. And as similarly, if you want to make sure
you have good luck, go back to Oregon. Another thing that I found in Oregon was my purpose in life,
I'm not created just like that The sun has a purpose. The river has a purpose, everything has a
		

			purpose. So do I, I am created to worship My Lord. And this gives me purpose in life that I have a
reason that I am here to worship Allah subhanaw taala. And the last but not the least, I have
learned who is almost
		

			I learned who is my Creator, he created all the water cycle spatola just for me to have a glass of
water. He tilled the earth so that I would have a piece of bread in front of me. And not only that,
he just provide food, shelter, clothes, everything. Not only that, but you also send a book for my
guidance. And then for example, if you say I have mentioned about example, about ocean, if you see
those people who study about the ocean, they will just go once diving, and then we know everything.
No, if you see their life, they spill all their life studying, researching, either they just go
there to have fun, or they go there to research to search something. And similarly our life has to
		

			be like that. For those of us who learned that one once is not enough, because there's a lot of
strangers to find. And for those of us who never had a chance, ask Allah subhanaw taala He will
guide you, and then inshallah you're going to find treasures, and the treasures and treasure is my
friend listening in America.
		

			When I try to write a reflection on the Quran, it was extremely, extremely overwhelming. I sat and I
stared at this blank piece of paper for days before I could think of even a single thing to write.
And it's not for lack of words, no, every single day that we were learning the Quran in school,
every single day was filled with reflection. The problem is there's just too much to say, how can
you summarize the entire Quran into five minutes? It's too overwhelming to even think about. But I
thought about it. And I thought about it and I thought some more. And finally I think I came up with
something. So if there's one thing that I've learned from the Quran, it's that the Quran teaches us
		

			our identity. It teaches us our roots, our origins, our ancestry. It teaches us what has afflicted
us what has corrupted our hearts and made us lose the way in teaches us how to be who we were meant
to be how to reclaim that honor and the dignity that was lost from us. And I want to give a personal
example from my own life to help explain this. I can read it to Islam about seven years ago, and I
was lost before I accepted Islam. But I didn't realize how lost I was until that day that I said
those words. And I felt that this feeling of welcome like I finally belong somewhere. I felt
perfectly fine before. But after accepting Islam, I felt like I no longer had to suppress myself. I
		

			felt like I was freed in a way my identity was released. It was as if all alone in my heart I was
crying out to be a Muslim. In my heart. There was something trying to speak but I kept on
suppressing
		

			It, I kept on giving in to what society expected of me. And when I said those words, it was like a
weight was lifted off of my heart in a way, like you can think of your fitrah. You keep burying it
with different things like shark and cofra. And as soon as I sat there, I was like both things
disappeared, like I was so much later. So for 19 years, all of this was lying deep inside of me, and
I had absolutely no idea. But for six years afterwards, there was still another weight on my heart.
And I only came to realize that when I opened the door and started reading it in Arabic, I got rid
of the shark in the corner that was burying my throat down deep inside, but there was still all this
		

			other stuff, all this other junk garbage that was there from society that was not shaken, not Cofer.
But it was still a huge weight on my shoulders. And I didn't know about it until that day that it
disappeared, learning the word for word meaning of the Quran, and the tafsir. Each and every Ayah
has shown me that my journey to find myself, it didn't end with just accepting Islam know from the
first day up till the moment and back in July 18 months ago, not a day has gone by that I hadn't
changed. Over the last 18 months, I learned how to read the Quran in a way that it speaks to me how
to have a conversation with a law through the Quran. And when you read the Quran this way, it's not
		

			possible that it doesn't change you through the Quran, we learn not only about Allah, the day of
judgment, stories and laws, we learn all these things, of course, but each of them teach us about
who we are, each of us teach them about who we are and who we were meant to be. Throughout the grant
from beginning to end, Allah teaches us gradually who a true believer is and who he wants us to be,
where we came from, and where we're going, what behavior suits us and what behavior doesn't. So the
main point that I want to make here is twofold. Firstly, to our wonderful guests who are not yet
enrolled until the end, I pray that Allah gives you all the tofik to read the Quran in its original
		

			language, and to be connected to Allah through it, and the tofik to discover who you were truly
meant to be. And I want to leave you with the message that not everyone is here today. You are hand
chosen by Allah to come here. So ask your heart if maybe he's sending you a message, that maybe this
is exactly what's missing from your life, the solution to all your problems, that maybe your heart
is also crying out to be close to a lot. And although you don't know it, yet, Allah knows it. And
he's answering that call. Secondly, to all my classmates who are finishing the Quran with me, I pray
that Allah gives us all the trophies to implement what we've learned, and to continue being
		

			connected to the Quran And to Allah throughout our lives as we go our separate ways. Don't let this
be the end of the road. Let this be the beginning of a journey. Okay, that was cheesy, but I had to
say.
		

			And remember the great quote from Thomas Shafi that all humans are dead, except those who has
knowledge. And all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds. And all
those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere. And all those who are sincere
are constantly in a state of worry Zakah
		

			subhanak Allahumma vmdk nashotah La Ilaha. illa Anta, nostril fuuka wanted to LA a Salaam alaykum.
warahmatullahi wabarakatuh