Walead Mosaad – Jewels of the Qur’an Session 1
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The holy eye is a critical component in Islam's natural world vision of the future, and protecting one's eyes and heart from evil attacks is emphasized. Personal responsibility and protecting one's eyes and heart from evil attacks are emphasized, along with the need for personal responsibility. The holy eye and the need for personal responsibility are also emphasized. Investing in learning the Quran and the natural world is emphasized, along with protecting one's eyes and heart from evil attacks. The upcoming presentations on individual verses of the Quran are also mentioned.
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ruler Mala Rahim hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa sallahu wa
sallim wa barik ala Sayyidina Muhammad where there was time he
has remained well that.
So as we mentioned in the introductory
session, what I want to do is kind of summarize or go over the main
points of a nominal disease
exposition on the Joah head or the jewels of the Quran.
And his basic premise that he outlines in his introduction is
that
in the Quran is everything that you need one of the great automat
of all Medion he said,
No, you're cool mudra Meridian had he big enough in the Quran coulomb
I read,
that the true spiritual aspirant is not such
until they find everything that they aspire for, in the Quran.
And it is out of Allah's love and mercy and compassion, that he
revealed the Quran to his final and finest Prophet, Muhammad
Sallallahu wasallam.
And
look for n, as we know, consists of letters and sounds, that when
put together, form words, and these words weren't put next to
each other form sentences and ideas and the sentences and ideas
when put together form various Foxtrot or sections or chapters of
the Quran.
And this was one of the challenges that was issued to the Quran.
Gosh, you know, why is the Quran miraculous? Why do we consider it
to be the living miracle?
Still today, and a challenge that was issued to the kurush is bring
something like it
bring something to be sorely missing, whether she had an
appointment during the day in conference or looking for a lamp
the fan will enter Falfa
and that you are good to hang as well hedger are doing it
carefully. Bring something like the Quran bring something like the
chapter of the Quran. And we see at the beginning of 14 chapters of
the Quran at Halluf and Macapa, as they call it, these letters,
individual letters like the beginning of sorts of Bukhara Alif
Lam Meem or earlier marohn meme
Elif nebula cafe and salt in Meriam powerhouse or Taha Elif
Anambra are off, so forth. So
it's like saying, here are the letters 28 of them.
Put these letters together in a way, bring them in a way, put them
next to each other in a way so that you can bring something like
the Quran.
And if you think about it, it's kind of it parallels
what some would say about the nature of the universe itself the
world.
So some scientists have been able to
even decipher the atom, right at the atomic level, or what they
call the quantum level. So you have electrons you have neutrons,
protons, and have a lot of open space in that. And, you know, the
Heisenberg uncertainty principle that you can't tell where the, the
subatomic particles actually are on any one given moment. And are
they waves are they particles, so a lot of kind of unknowns. Still,
when you get to the subatomic level, but what consists of the
fabric of the universe, right? We can, we can map the human DNA as
they've done right? And we can find down to the very basic
building blocks of humanity, what we consist of, and we know that
we're something I don't know 70% water and this percent skin and
you know, you can get it down to the chemical level of carbon and
oxygen and nitrogen or whatever else we consist of. But even if we
were to find out all of these things, and all of these basic raw
materials, can we produce a human being?
As a Quran challenges us? Can we produce even a fly of the web,
even the fly or the wing of the fly?
We cannot. So it's a similar challenge that is issued by the
Quran, just because you recognize the letters and you recognize that
you can put those those the form words and you yourself can put
those words into sentences. Yet you cannot bring something like
that. And it's eloquence, and it's foretelling and foreshadowing of
At your events, of talking about past events of the manner by which
it does it, the manner by which just the very recitation of the
words themselves of the A of the Quran is unlike the recitation of
anything else.
People who have no knowledge of Arabic, it's not their first
language, countless numbers of them 1000s And millions of
memorize the Quran. And it's not even the first language.
Yet, if you try to memorize a novel, for example, written in
Arabic, you will not find the ease that you encounter when you find
with a relative ease that you find with the Quran. So
this is what some of the Arabs refer to as a sand in Montana,
a settler, Montana, which means it looks easy, but it's prohibitive
looks like easy from Oh, I can do something like that. But when you
actually tried to do it, you cannot. And one of the proofs of
the message of Hamas or Salam is that for the Arabs, the Quraysh,
if they wanted to get rid of this mission that he was on, they could
have just brought something like the Quran, and then they could
have disproven the whole thing, and people would have left it.
And they made no attempts, and the attempts that they some of them
did were farcical. You know, like musei lemma, what he did was
Mohawk and Quran. Hakata Quran means you bring something like,
you know, he said, will feed will allow her to mentally ill, you
know, stupid,
and elephant and he has a long trunk. And so he's trying to do
Mohawk, he's trying to copy of something of sort of the field,
but he can't do it. That was that was the effort, that's what they
could come up with, nor could come up with something like it. So the
very nature of the recitation that Tila of the Quran and tilava means
till Well, overall, something that comes after the other. So Tilawat
means like a continuous thing. And that the level of the Quran is
meant to be continuous. So it's not a book that you can finish.
And it's not a conventional book, where it has a beginning it has a
middle has an end. And then you are to, you know, read the
introduction, and then have the main body of the story. And then
at the end is the conclusion and
anywhere you start is also at the same time could be the ending
point. And anywhere you end can also be the starting point. And
this is for you know, people who think linearly, and we tend in the
modern age to think very linearly, we think of
and to think linearly means have a beginning and have an end or we
have an ascension and we have a progress,
but not coming back to where you started. Not cyclically and I
would say that traditional people used to think more cyclically,
they saw things in cycles, which is good am I wouldn't have been a
nurse right? These are the days that we cycle you can that's a
possible translation. There wouldn't have been a nurse we
cycle back and forth your luck Wyoming Alec a day for you on a
day against you.
Well, law he asked me the oil so the way he tore down cyclical,
right Allah gives cop the law constricts why absolute and
expands what Allah He told Geron and to Him, you will return. So
sometimes when you have this expectation in life, that things
can happen linearly or progressively, right, I do this
thing, I do college a good job. And then I have incremental salary
raises, and I get to a certain point, and then I can expand and
have a bigger car and a bigger house and that whole thing.
And then when something defies that,
and it doesn't go according to that linear plan, then we some
people don't know what to do with themselves. And they think that
they haven't achieved enough or haven't done enough, or that
something is wrong, and that they consider to be a setback. But life
doesn't really operate that way. Life is not linear. It's more
cyclical. In fact, everything around you is telling you, the
universe is cyclical. We have change of seasons that are
cyclical. The two main days of celebration that we have during
the year are called the eight. Eight means cyclical. Jana, you're
owed. It goes and comes back. The Sahaba asked the province or some
about Yes, look, I need a healer will hammer well it will unless
you will hedge What is this Hillel? What are this moon? Well,
I'm gonna have a timer. It's it's starts as a sliver across into
Hillel in the beginning. And then it expands throughout the nights
of the lunar month till it becomes a full moon for three days, maybe
three and a half four nights. And then it begins to become smaller
again until it's again the crescent thing till it completely
dissipates, such as on the 29th and 30th. Like we can't see it
anymore.
And then reappears again.
Cyclical so everything tends to happen in cycles
going on over here
You call your lady insha Allah Mara, or we will Hulten Aleem.
How can the bones come back? How can the remains come back? linear
thinking?
It's went it's gone, it's dead.
Say the one who gave it life in the first place.
The one who originated it and sha Allah Mara was originally then he
gives life back to it.
And similarly, we see here we're in the beginning of spring.
Here in the DC area, they have the cherry blossom phenomenon for
those who live in the area. What last week or two weeks ago wasn't
there, right? Nothing. Who would have if you were some alien from a
foreign planet, another planet and you came down and someone told you
this thing actually looks dead. But it's not it's going to come
back in a couple of weeks in a matter that you can't even
imagine. Like, forget that. What are you talking about? But these
are the yet right. These are the signs that Allah subhanaw taala
puts before us. So the relationship that you have with
football and really can is your is a microcosm of your relationship
with the universe with life. And that's how traditional Muslims
used to view the relationship with the Quran or with yourself and
also with life. That item is coming right to me. So here
that's our enough second journal. So you will feel free to contact
with ilevel. As Imam Ali said, You think you're this little
insignificant thing. But within you is the universe. In other
words within you is the same basic blueprint that you find for the
universe you find within yourself. You look at a human cell under a
microscope, it doesn't look that different from the skies and the
sessional realm and a telescope. Lot of open space, a lot of
spherical movements, right couldn't be further can Yes,
backbone, they have this orbits that they are yes behind that
literally they're moving or swimming in. Same thing on the
atomic level, or the cellular level, the sub cellular level, so
forth. All of that is not by mistake. You know, all of that are
a yet are signs for people to see. And remember, there's any mentions
that in this, you know, the two worlds the two realms, there's
almondmilk was shahada, wilderman, rebel monocoat. So this, this
realm that we're in, right, the realm of the shahada, the realm of
witnessing things, physical things, is only part of the story.
Or it is one phase of the story, if we're looking at it, in terms
of time sequentially. But the other part of the story is, I'm in
life while I'm in medical, right, the unhidden of the hidden realm,
right and the higher celestial realm, and there is an aspect of
us, there is a facet of us, that belongs to both or we have one
aspect of us belongs to this world and other belongs in another world
or we are physically in this world, but technically we belong
to the other world. And that's the human heart and call.
So the heart of the believer Ohama had another Allah and it is by
which the place where the divine gaze falls upon, as has been said
by some is the human heart in Allah Allah yonder either.
Surah Komatsu, Malaccan, yellow Illa pulumi A few rewire. Allah
doesn't look to your bodies and doesn't look to your forms, but he
looks to your hearts, right and your Amen. And the deeds that come
out of the Heart Sutra, Allah Swatara looks towards. So this is
Maha. Nonetheless, this is the, the receptacle by which the divine
gaze is oriented or directed. And that is Malaguti. Right, that's
not, Mulkey that's not of this world, it is the next world. So we
have this aspect of us that can appreciate those things. And when
we are given glimmers, right, and we're given instances where we can
plug into something of the next world, we feel it in the heart,
and even to the degree, then the physical aspect of who we are also
reacts. You know, why do people show certain emotions at certain
times? Why do people leave or cry on certain things when they're
affected by it, or show joy or so forth? It's because there's a
recognition of something that the physical body is unable to keep
inside itself, because it's bigger than the sum of the physical body.
It's something of the heart.
So, you know, we can choose to go through this life going through
the motions and having kind of a linear sort of expectation, or we
can see this life for what it is and that it's really a phase of
the phases. It's a moment of the moments and it is a fleeting
moment. It's not even going to be the longest moment. It's a
fleeting moment. And the real agenda, the real
Will paradise the real longing is something of the next world. But
it's as if Allah drew like a window or a glimpse into what the
realm of the next life will look like.
And that door is the Quran.
That door is the Quran is the thing that if you if you live it
if you imbibe it as we heard earlier so before add Quran Yong
chi okay the Holy Quran Quran so our Salam is like a walking Quran
or his character was the Quran what does that mean? You know,
it's, it's deeper than what we think it means. It doesn't mean
just like he follows the commands of the Quran. There's something a
deeper, more profound aspect to that kind of political Quran, what
are the attributes of the Quran? What are the aspects of the Quran
when we contemplate them and think about them deeply and penetrative
ly? What comes out of that, you know, for the prophesies that I'm
looking for and was everything and if we make it everything for us
and make it our door to Allah subhanaw taala then we will find
things in this life and realizations that we have that
were were hitherto unavailable for us.
And it makes I think, life kind of worth living, but living in a
different sense. You know, the things that people pursue, that
are very fleeting, you know, the
uncanny thing about them is once you get them once you achieve them
it's anticlimactic, it's kind of unfulfilling.
The thing that you will thirst for more even as much as you get of it
is knowledge of Allah subhanaw taala knowledge of God. Meanings
gleaned from reading the Quran, the book Between the Lines and
reading the book between the lines between creation Kitab Allah and
Loboda Kitab a line muster for Kitab in situ. So the book that's
in the lines of the pages name of the Quran, and also the book that
we read in creation. And the Quran actually is a manual that teaches
you how to look towards creation.
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have they not seen the camel houses have been created and the
sky how it's been raised or elevated? And the mountains how
they have been anchored and the earth? How has that been made
plain?
So remind them for you are nothing more than a reminder, lest it be
Messiter. You are not someone who's going to compel them. And
this addresses to the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam. Okay
then you can only Abraham and Mallacoota somehow it will alter
the Hakuna Mina Mussolini in
here we saw Ibrahim and he said I'm going to go to Sumatra. What
are the signs of the celestial realm? When they are going I mean
I mean cleaning and so he can be of those people who have
certainty. Have certitude absolute certitude in what?
Absolute certain and this didn't come from anything or anywhere
else. Except Allah subhanaw taala Allah Xenia school Allah to Yemen.
Okuu Allah you know, we were difficult if you call the Sama
what you're robbing Mr. halacha has about Allah Subhana brooklinen
are the ones who remember Allah standing and sitting down and
laying down. And then they think about the creation of the heavens
and the earth, they contemplate them. And then they say, their
conclusion, Martha Baltierra Subhanak, you could have not
created this could have not come up out in vain.
Because nothing happens in vain, nothing happens for no reason.
But we're being conditioned continually to think things don't
mean anything and things are relative, and everyone has their
own truth and everyone
will no we don't have a commonality between us. There's
nothing that's absolute, everything is relative. And
eventually till we get to the point where everything is devoid
of meaning. And we think that this was some sort of random
bombardment of gases and random events, and hence we have the
universe. We don't accept such a premise, for the most trivial of
things.
Right? For literally Spilt Milk in the kitchen, we don't accept such
a premise, just happened by itself, or brought about its own
existence. Nothing can bring about its own existence. The theologians
assert that the only one who can bring something out of non
existence into existence is Allah. So something that never was and
then became only Allah can do that. No human being in the
history of the universe has to bring something out of nothing.
Cloning a ship is not something out of nothing, something out of
something, but something out of nothing, absolute nothingness, and
then taking that something and put
To get back into nothingness, what they call it that fear. Only Allah
subhanaw taala no one else can do that. So, it was that he said, one
of the major objectives of the Quran is to point us towards these
realities. So that we may know Allah subhanaw taala. And he calls
it a shell of a room, the noblest of of knowledge is of the noblest
of knowledge disciplines is to know Allah subhanaw taala. And
they say that if you don't know Allah subhanaw taala this, like,
you don't know anything.
You can have six PhDs in biochemistry, and I don't know
what.
But if you don't know Allah subhanaw taala it's like you don't
know anything. If you don't know, the very basic nature of who you
are, and what this is, and why we're here. And what we're doing
here all that what do you know,
you are if when a lot of inherited dunya pocket, the only know the
law here, they only know the extensible aspect of the dunya.
But on the asker they don't know anything. And Earth Hera is real,
or as real or more real than dunya.
And all about they have this kind of nice way of saying it they say.
And Maha coffin was document can we can measure the hull
so that you know, it's coming to pass in the future and you're
certain about it. It says if, or it is already here, it's already
here.
What are the how many things do we know for certainty about the
future?
Nothing except one thing, or two things, certainly we're all gonna
die. There's a certainty there, even though we don't know when or
how. And we also know that there's going to be certain things going
to happen once we die that certain about the future, nothing else is
certain about the future. How long are you going to live, where
you're going to marry who you're not gonna marry, how many kids are
going to have, what you're,
you know what your income will be? 10 years from now, nobody knows
that. Nobody.
But we know for certain those two things, was eventually going to go
and then once we go, there is going to be a hisab
there's going to be mashallah Sirat.
There's going to be the cob. All those things we know. So if those
things are certainties,
and nothing else about the future research and then why do we spend
so much time worrying about the uncertain things? And we don't pay
attention to the certain things just from a basic logical premise.
Final this thing is certainly going to happen then why don't I
spend more time preparing for what I spend more time thinking about
it and taking it into account and making sure that when it does
happen, at least I'm in a position that I am ready to ready for it?
Right? We don't want to die except in the state of STEM. We're not
gonna allow our Entomb slimeball.
So
let's look a little bit at
Roselli his approach here.
And he says that the Quran, it's like a deep ocean that consists of
categories of jewels and precious stones. And he says, I speak in
this sort of language, this metaphoric language to speak about
the Quran. Also, going back to the idea that when you're speaking
about things that don't really have a parallel in this world,
things of the unseen and any parallels that are drawn are
symbolic or representative. They're not exact. Don't think
when the Quran talks about fruits of the next life. And let me tell
you remember your shahada Hold on, I mean, and all those things that
it's exactly like something you can imagine. It's not like you can
imagine, because at the same time, female I know,
somewhat, well, ha Klobuchar, something no eyes have laid upon
or no ears have heard, nor has it been imagined in your heart. So it
can't be like that. But the words that are used often are
allegorical and metaphorical. So that we may have a glimpse an
idea, or at least a frame of reference about possibly what we
have to expect. But ultimately, at the end of the day, we don't
really know at all
We just know that Allah Subhan, Allah Subhan, Allah has something
planned.
And that's really the idea of certainty and God and Eduardo,
Allah, Allah, you know, even rely upon him and whatever this thing
that he has planned for us. Hopefully, it's going to be beyond
my imagination, in terms of the good isn't Allah and also beyond
my imagination, imagination terms of the bat, that's also to be
taken into consideration. So at the end of the day, it's all about
Allah subhanaw taala it's not even about the delights or the
punishments
further awards are the things that are intended but how much do you
trust in God? How much you trust in Allah subhanaw taala. So
there's that he says, The Quran is like butter and Mohit, like this
wide ocean. And it has these categories of jewels and, and
precious stones, and so forth. And he uses this language so that
people can have an appreciation for it. And he said, some people,
like if you go to the beach, you go to the ocean, and you look out
there, you may just get your feet wet on the Sahel on the coast.
Have you actually entered into the ocean or not? No. So he said in
terms of the Quran, in terms of what people are concerned about,
in terms of how they read the Quran, and understand it, there,
like those people who haven't actually really delved into and
dived, you know, done a deep dive into the depths of the meanings of
the Quran, rather, they just kind of got their feet wet at the
coast.
And he he compares these types of people to those who just see what
they call, he calls it a push, or the outer shell. Right so like we
said, the Quran consists of a roof of letters of SWAT of sounds that
represent the speech of Allah subhanaw taala. And he said, Some
people even wanted degree in the past and they said, the letters
and the sounds, that's the Quran and that's it.
He said, that's like people who just sit on the on the coast of
the beach, and didn't even get into the water. I think that's all
there is to it. They didn't actually go into and dive and he
said, The Quran is much more than that. So yes, we have disciplines
and sciences that are dedicated to preserving that outer shell or
understanding it, like the science of Tajweed how to properly
pronounce the Quran, right how to properly recite it, and it has the
mythology roof, the the points of articulation of the different
letters of the Quran, you know, and to know that the only half a
thought is Maha Maha, that is more rock, and things like that will
refer to roof. Right, where was the roof that had make like a sort
of whistling sound like Assad was seen? And then concolor could
Majed and all those things that we learned in touch with, that's very
important. And it preserves the whole integrity of how we properly
recite the Quran. And that's something you know, basically,
you're learning how to recite the way that Muhammad said, I said,
and recited when you learn to sweet, but that's not all the
Quran that's a basic aspect of the Quran. Then there's another level
beyond that, looking at the muffler that overall it will Quran
which are the words of the Quran. So a dictionary like a rather
rather will ask for honey for example for that and Quran looks
at the meanings of the Quran, you know, the individual words, what
is it Hamed mean, we say it Hamdu lillahi, rabbil, Alameen, so
forth.
But that's not it, either. That's not everything either. That's just
one aspect. Right? So even a level beyond that what's called Deaf see
it and called N
which is what are the meanings that are associated where he put
these words together.
That's an even deeper aspect. Now you've kind of waded into the
water a little bit, maybe it's knee deep, or you can still stand
you don't have to swim. But it's not really the deepest aspect of
the Quran. But nonetheless, that's an important aspect of the Quran
knowing those basic meanings, but one really takes a deep dive in
the meanings of the Quran. It's not just an intellectual exercise,
it has to be a spiritual one.
Some of them understood the verse of the Quran Leymah su illan mocha
Haroon
no one able to penetrate or to touch it, except the Malta Haroon,
those who have been purified, the focus. And the jurists, they say
this means you can't touch the pages of the last half, except
you're in a state of Google, or Gmail either did right and there's
a consensus about this issue. Don't touch pages at the most half
some certain exceptions. But for the most part, don't touch it
unless you're in a state of blue, lay in a smooth and mess, touching
the pages of the Mossad 11 with a huddle.
Others understood at the same time, same in the same verse,
different meaning that are complementary, not contradictory
to this meaning. Imam Ali, it's important I've said in the area,
via robot in your head one thorough,
viable bottom ahead, will not bother. There is a void. There is
an outward aspect of the verse in terms of the meanings. There is an
inward aspect. There is a had, right there are limits delimited
by the verse, and there is something a point of Embarkment
it's a starting point, not an end
point, you go somewhere else, you start with the verse But you go
somewhere else, somewhere in the waiting in the meanings of in
Mallacoota of the other realm of the other world. So
the Tafseer of the Quran is still the outer shell, right? It's still
a Cush, he said, it's not a lobe.
A lobe is the essence, right? Like, if you peel a, I guess you
don't peel a coconut, you crack it open. But if you peel an orange,
right, you get inside, you know, if you just saw the orange rind
and what the outside of it looks, you don't know what an orange is.
So only certain aspects, but you know, then you take off the outer
layer looks different. But you still don't know quite what the
orange is yet. Until you
you see that it's one of those individual orange things called
the HA,
no.
Whatever it is,
once you take that apart, you're like, Oh, this is something else
than I didn't see from from the shell. And then once you taste it,
that's completely different to so what's the difference being the
person who just sees the orange as this, you know, outer rind of the
orange versus the person actually ate from the inside of it and
tasted its sweetness. So similarly, in order to avail
yourself of the sweetness of the Quran. It's not just a merely
intellectual exercise, and I have to learn
you know the meanings and then we'll follow that Hazama theme as
we say this is necessary, but it's not sufficient.
necessary but not sufficient. In order to actually penetrate those
meanings lay in a so elemental Haroon, as the verse says, You
have to be MOBA, you have to be spiritually purified. You have to
come to the Quran with your glass empty, not full, you have to come
to it without any preconceived notions of what you think is going
to mean. Or you have to come to it without thinking that I am looking
for certain meanings that are going to confirm my particular
bias about an issue. That you come to the Quran like that you're not
going to penetrate it. Many other people who read the pages of the
Quran and they couldn't make heads or tails of it, they don't
understand it. They criticize it they don't they don't understand
what what is the and then others
who have less language, less cognitive aptitude, come into it
and read it and it is the most life changing and transformative
experience in their life.
Few of the Sahaba were like that one was honorable hilltop
you know every Sahabi had kind of like a origin transformation
story. Abu Bakr Siddiq, we tell people what was revealed of the
Quran when the by the time he became Muslim, one word ephra.
That's what was real to Abu Bakr Siddiq to Mohammed sauce and then
when he became Muslim, so his pathway, his door to to Islam,
wasn't a Quran was Sahaba, the Quran, also the loss of ISIL that
was his door, Amara hubbub on the night that he became Muslim, he
actually was going to intend to kill the Prophet sorcerer, sword
in hand, ready to go until he runs into his sister, who had already
become Muslim. And she shows him the pages of the most half. And he
read from solid Baja, Baja mountains and I've gotten a Tesla
Elon has gotten the manufacture. He began to read. He said, This is
what is this, this is not. This is not like what they said.
Because before that, he just listened to what people said about
the court and he didn't actually bother to read it, or to recite it
or to hear from anybody. But then he said this is something
completely different. So even though and that night almost had
hatred in his heart, but there was still an opening there that opened
up to him from the Quran. So instead when he goes and knocks on
the door of Donald Arkham, with sword in hand, intending to kill
the Prophet sighs So he goes any says La ilaha illAllah Muhammad
Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam So,
Larry, masu Elon moto Haroon, you will not penetrate it. Except if
you are multiple
other words you are purified from anything that would distract you
from this.
It's very hard, extremely difficult to have any appreciation
or understanding of things. If you have a lot of white noise.
Literally speak let's say you're trying to focus on what somebody's
saying. And their people chattering behind you.
Or there's you know, a lot of you know, with the sound system here,
you have to adjust it so that there isn't static or white noise
coming in. Otherwise when the recording plays back, you can't
properly make out what's happening. So it's like purifying
the line purifying the sound signal from anything extraneous to
it that doesn't belong. As human beings we function
In a similar manner, so we are meant to operate in a way where we
are focused on one thing and one thing only, namely Allah subhanaw
taala. That's what our hearts are like the column, which means the
oscillating entity or the oscillating vessel, right? Allah
subhanaw taala how you call it we'll call lube. Dr. McCollum will
submit the allergenic Oh ALLAH to Article Oh, Allah Imani prophesy
said, we'll call the bill Kulu. Right, the one who brings the
hearts back and forth. So Brittany, the speed, right make me
firm on this particular thing. And another Hadith that the main US
Army I mean, Asaba man, that the heart is between literally the two
fingers of God doesn't mean it in a literal sense. But it means that
these meanings that can penetrate the heart there of a divine
spiritual nature. So anything that's extraneous to that that
will distract, it will make you less available to understand those
meanings. So we can have chatter that's literal, right, like
chatter of people chattering behind us of a vain talk. And we
can also have chatter of the heart
idle things that are happening inside your head, right, idle talk
happening inside your head, what did this person say? What did they
say about me?
How come they didn't give me salon when I walked in the room?
You know, am I ever going to make this next mortgage payment?
You know, how come Tesla went down 25% today and deductions quite up
for the past month.
But
things like that, that that kind of just white noise chatter in the
back. So if you're trying to read the Quran, while this Chatter is
happening, at the same time, it's really difficult. And you may find
yourself not even able to sit for five minutes without being
distracted. And of course,
not the iPad, but the phone, and iPad two, and all those things add
to that mess, add to that distraction. And one of the things
that I think we can think about for Ramadan is not just having
this kind of fast from the conventional things of food and
drink, but maybe somewhat of a digital fast too. Or at least for
the times that we choose by which we're going to recite the Quran,
you know, set aside time, you know, maybe you say, for an hour
before method, nothing digital, you know, turn off my phone, or
put it away somewhere and you know, or turn off notifications.
Try it, you know, for people that I've spoken to who've done it and
it feels very liberating. If you're actually quite at ease and
happy with the result of at least turning it off for a little bit.
So that might be something to think about. And then it opens up
your heart for other things to get away from this chatter. So those
early he says that, you know, the Quran has kind of three main
things, three main higher objectives when we talk about it.
And he said it's inviting to something. What is it inviting to
it's inviting to God?
That's the highest meaning of the Quran. All of the verses are
inviting to Allah subhanaw taala in different ways, sometimes via
what's called the third rib.
Right? You will have the Boca, it's inviting you by showing you
of the things that are positive or you consider to be positive or
that are tempting, or that you'd be desirous of Jannetty names and
natural hold
during Ramadan Rajat raising in degrees, the all those things so
inviting you to Allah
and then it can also invite you in another way via a third Hebe right
via and wide. The first one is called Whad what Allah can promise
you the second one is called and why what can Allah can threaten
you with so that you can also come to Allah Spano palette and these
correspond to the very nature of the attributes of Allah subhanaw
taala or Lucifer as JLL Wajima algebra one Jillette he has of the
beautiful attributes and he has also have the magnificent
attributes that Gianelli attributes. Oh ramen Hora Haibo
Latif, so forth, but he is also an author and Moqtada alcohol,
vigilante Well, a Koran, those are also attributes of Allah subhanaw
taala. And to properly know Allah subhanaw taala you have to know
Him holistically from both of those attributes, who are the
people who appreciate the very essence of ALLAH as a result? The
vast majority people will appreciate him via his attributes,
or his actions and a file. So they say though he did a file,
recognizing the oneness of all the
acts of the universe as being the lone actor, Allah subhanaw taala
that is the first spiritual level or layer of tau hate. So when we
say let ADA Illa Allah, what does that mean? Here? There's Nephi or
negation of wood. Actually, it's nothing it's negation of an
existence of anything. Any other deity except Allah subhanaw taala,
then we have to understand what what is ooo, hey, I mean, when we
say La Ilaha, financial guru here, and really, it's negating all of
the things that we understand from Ooh here. What could be of
divinity for other than Allah? So what does it mean to be divine?
It means that one who is the performer, an actor of all deeds,
and of all manifestations of of attributes, also, that's good to
hear. And one in and the essence of Ooo here.
All those things go towards Allah subhanaw taala. So when you say La
Ilaha
we're negating all of that nothing, no power, no.
power to affect, no power to bring something from non existence into
existence.
No power to affect me, even personally, to give life or to to
take away life or to give therefore to take away death.
Or to bring about sickness or to cure with a minute of our Yes,
Shireen. That's inviting to Allah at showing you who Allah is. And
if I become sick, he is one who will cure me halaman Bevill a
file, right? That's looking at the acts of God and Rezac right,
learners Alucard is ka na Hello, nada. zoek will activate with a
Taqwa we don't ask you to sustain yourself natinal nosocomial, we
will give you sustenance, either a doubt that Oh, he did a fine. It's
inviting us to recognize the oneness of the divine acts. And
indeed, as Ali said, from the oneness of these divine acts, is
where all other Allume come from. It's from where all all other
knowledges and knowledge systems come from, from the one verse with
a minute to voice Shireen.
is medicine.
Just that one verse.
There's a Tibetan motto is better.
Right, there is an acknowledgement that there's sickness. And there's
an acknowledgement that there are there is healing, there are cures,
how the awesome minute will soon as they say this is a foundational
principle from the foundational principles. So if you understand
that, but it's built upon on the foundation of what, Allahu Allah
the UMID, Allah, Allah, the whole ESV, right? Allahu Allah, the
emalahleni or ESV, Allah is the One who can
bring about sickness to me, and is also the one who can cure me.
That's what it's predicated upon. Yes, there are ASVAB. Right. There
are intermediate things in between. You take medicine, you
have a good diet, you seek healing regimes and remedies. That's all
part of it. But at the end of the day, those are still acts of God.
It's not outside of the realm of the power, or of the Will the
desire or the knowledge of Allah subhanaw taala. And certainly that
outside of confer Kuhn.
In them is Allah sheen and Yagura Allah who could fail. If he wants
something to happen, then he'll say one, failure could be and it
is. That's the whole thing. So all of the aloo all of the knowledge
that the basis of human knowledge comes from that.
When we were in Chicago, this past few days, we were reading some of
Modena, gelatine Rumi mentioned this the other night, also at
length. And one of the poems of Rumi, he says, it's as if he's
speaking to Mohamed Salah Salem, he said, You know, when did you
have time to learn all of this? When did you have time to get all
of this knowledge? When who were the people that you could have
possibly spoken to? And learned all of these things? And then
within the limits of the short lifetime that you had, you were
able to document them and record them and pass them on to a single
generation that then pass it on to many, many generations? How could
you have possibly done that?
Obviously, it's saying it's not possible. Only if you are taking
your knowledge directly from Allah subhanaw taala because such a
thing come about.
Think about it even as if when the Quraysh heard that one of the
names of God was on ramen, and they hadn't heard this word ramen
before. They used to say Hola, they knew Allah in the name Yanni,
but they didn't know ramen. And the Quran says very well. You
know, if you add to Allah, we don't recommend any method of
Hello
That's metal fastener syrup. Ask Allah or ramen it's the same. But
before that they didn't they said this ramen is someone from the
mountains in Yemen who comes and teaches Mohammed these things.
Let's say follow them fine for argument's sake.
So there was this man who did that. All of this
even the Orientis who allege that he had some contact with Christian
monks and things, okay, let's say he did, which I don't think he
did. But let's say he did for everyone. All of this came from
them.
All of this change all of these words, all of these meanings. How
is that possible? Mister Hey.
So
you know, the Quran is barren land fit, right? It's an ocean that
will never run out. Guillemette Allah is sort of Jeff mentioned
never, will never run out. Right? Even if it was the seven C's.
Man, if you look at metal law, the words of Allah subhanaw taala,
will never ALLAH SubhanA multicolumn what is that with a
Kelemen? As the theologians say he is multicolumn he communicates and
he speaks, and he continues to speak because if you were to say
he doesn't speak any more than Lacuna Coil and now Acuras Harsha
who would have said that he has fallen silent or is unable to
speak now Allah continue to speak in different ways. Every moment in
phantasmal moment in existence is Allah speaking, is Allah saying
confer cool.
Nothing would happen this room would not sustain itself by
itself, your life, my life, everybody's life, the the sun that
not falling into the earth, all of that. It's not by chance, Allah
subhanaw taala is maintaining all of this. And every single moment
he's saying confocal he's telling the sun conveyor to be in it is
he's telling me and you and our individual systems and organs and
circulatory systems conveyor, Kuhn, always configurable so it's
as if you're constantly being renewed.
You're not on autopilot.
Because constantly being renewed, and we call these things the
automatic qualities things to Juliet. Right, the other
manifestations to Juliet effect, a smell Sefa they are the Juliet.
They are the manifestations of Allah's names and his attributes.
So all of the realm of human knowledge, as we mentioned, falls
under this though hate And FYI, the oneness of the divine acts of
Aloha, cocoon warmer TAMIU Allah created you and what you do, so
that means there's nothing in creation there's nothing in
existence except Allah and what he does
have a bed that's the door of inviting to Al maru. Ed Namie
Allah subhanaw taala beyond that, there's even an inner shell of
this not just the Juliet in a file Otto hidden file is still HEDIS
effect of the Julieta SIFAT. So the attributes of Allah subhanaw
taala from which the acts emanate
are one so Allah subhanaw taala was Samia horrible see raha hai
Whoa, mutter Kelim
Whoa, hit
Well, Kadir Whoa, Murray, right. He has willed He has intent, he
has power, Hawaii Salim are vocally the element Aleem. He has
knowledge. So these are all the beautiful attributes and Names of
Allah subhanaw taala. So that means also recognizing the
manifestation that nothing happens in creation, except by way that
Allah knew about it, and intended it or other work Adara right and
made it happen allowed it to happen executed.
How to heat a smart will suffer the oneness of the divine
attributes. These can be understood on an intellectual
plane, but more profoundly on a spiritual plane. And you cannot
penetrate that spiritual plane except if you are someone who is
on a path of thoughts here.
Who is not distracted by all of the distractions and the white
noise and the chatter of your own heart and the chatter of other
people. And all of the things that draw us away from the remembrance
of Allah Spano plan. It's why the Quran says Ella music related
mental clue.
It says if it's saying nothing else besides us going to work
actually, you're looking for Toma, Nina, you're looking for rest.
You're looking for respite. You're looking for ease. You're looking
for a break from the daily drawl. None of that's going to work
Arabic relay. Pathfinder Kulu only by the remembrance of Allah
subhanaw taala and remembrance in all of its variants all of its
forms, not just a SIP hat with this beer.
But in all of its forms a defeat and failure
and more often if you know the stance that you take in life
that's based upon God, it's all types of God reading knowledge.
They also prophesy seldom said dunya MeLuna Morona mafia Illa
island with me oh my weather Homer. This place is a kurset
except for the island, the student, the teacher or the
student. Oh Ma Ma, oh, that which is to have at home that are that
which is serving one of those two things.
Right, and here are the island Island biller. In the martial law,
I mean, a baddie and all I met the ones who truly have Hashem Allah
subhanaw taala are the ultimate. So these are the argument that the
hadith is talking about and not just Adam. You know, natural
sorrowful, Kalam
sorry, but I'm of
you know, through knowledge of Allah subhanaw taala any man I
refer to no matter who la what is the Quran inviting you to? It's
inviting you to Allah via his smet his SIFAT is x and his that Allahu
Allah in the whole higher volume
Heather some of them said is millennial Alvin back just that
phrase Allahu Allah in who will hire local you
know Illa Illa who hola who is he? And how you will call you
right those are attributes let that who seen that one? No. He is
not taken by saying I want to know not by a light sleep or by deep
sleep.
This is what they call taka ds.
This is a very important concept also in Oulu here, because it
talks about this talk these are 10 Z 10 Z taco DS it means
not ascribing or
negating that which is not ascribable or appropriate for last
panel to add. Because this is one of the places where people get
into trouble.
Right? Because as he said, if you look to hospital Janene if you
look in the Quran mentions these two types of people, those who
would oppose the privatization What did they usually say?
Yeah, like what's what's what's the crux of their argument? Most
of the time? They say bad things about Allah or they say bad things
about Mohammed Salah Salem, or they deny and we add that's it.
Right? They say bad things about Allah.
They said the other law him as Lulu Well, yeah, dharma soutenu
Okay for your shed.
Right, the hands of God are constrained by the Adel Matsuda 10
rather than two hands are outstretched, can metaphorically.
So they say bad things about Allah. Or they say bad things
about the Prophet Muhammad SAW I said, shy and Majnoon Kahin NAMA,
your Alamo who Bashar like we said, that's another argument.
Or they deny in the ayat.
Right? They deny that there's going to be herself, they say,
well, now you're looking at Illa de
we are not taken away except by time that passes. So they're
denying even those going to Riyadh and Sahaba Jannetty in sorbitol
caf, he said if I were to find something, I would not find
something better than this. After.
So, all of those things, you know in in, in logic, they call that ad
hominem argument.
Ad Hominem means that you're not actually addressing the argument
or the Hajah, or the proof. You are disparaging the one who
brought you the Hajia or the proof. So like
we're in DC, Washington.
Washington Nationals is the baseball team, right?
So if,
if I if I'm from New York, and I'm a Yankees fan, and I say, You know
what, the Yankees are the best team and national nationals are
horrible. And then nationals fan, like let's say, Dr. USA says,
well, you're stupid, you know what you're talking about.
He's not attacking my argument. He's not saying oh, the nationals
have won World War series than the Yankees which obviously they have
not, but
he's actually attacking me.
He's like, You're stupid. You know what you're talking about. You're,
you know, talking nonsense. Okay, but what about what I said is
nonsense.
And licorice couldn't do that.
What Uh, what about what the Prophet SAW Selim is not right.
What about what he is the argument he's bringing or what he's
bringing to you is not right. What about what Allah smart ALLAH is
commanding to? is not right. That was never the the crux of the
argument.
They will just disparage Sahaba reseller so Arsalan or they will
disparage
Sahabi Dawa or whether or na Allah subhanaw taala.
That's it, or they deny and we add
those are all spiritual maladies.
Right? It's not an intellectual one. They didn't have an
intellectual issue. They had a spiritual issue. They had they had
an issue with how would it affect them and their MACOM and their
position and their status in society. Right? Many of them would
say, how can we let this orphan from bento Hashem be the one who's
in charge of us and bring something?
That's what they would say.
You know, when when it was said, someone said, the famous thing
that we needed was salami.
He was passed away and someone came and visit his grave in Iraq.
And he said, Is there any of the followers here of WC that want to
speak to them? I want to hear what some of the things that he said,
What are some of his Michelet?
So he said, I was a Sahiba was a companion of abuse it.
He said, Okay, so what are some things that he said? He's like,
whoever sees me will not enter into hellfire.
He's like this man said that. How could you say that? If Abu Lahab
saw the Prophet SAW Selim, and he's going to hellfire and it says
on the Quran, Tibet. Yeah, that'd be loving whatever. How could this
man was not the prophesy said it makes such a statement.
He said I wouldn't have didn't see rasool Allah. He saw your team, a
battalion.
He didn't see the prophet of God. He saw the orphan of Abu Talib.
That's what he saw.
That's what they saw. They didn't really see. The Prophet SAW said
they saw what they're sick and hearts tell them to see. So they
see an orphan and they don't see rasool Allah and in that is a
lesson What did Satan see?
When he was asked to prostrate before Adam Alayhis Salam, what
did he say?
And I Roman Hallak 20 Min nurdin are halacha hoomin gene. So he
didn't see Adam? I will Bashar will say that Bashar. He saw dirt.
He saw clay.
That means the veil wasn't over Adam or over God the veil was over
his own eyes. He didn't see it. Just like the veil was over Abu
Lahab he didn't see Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam he saw your team
I will call him the orphan of Avatar.
So
we have 10 minutes for questions. Okay.
Well, that one fast I went through the first two pages
and it was skipped around a little bit.
So
So he calls that the first question of of the objective of
the Quran inviting to Allah subhanaw taala which includes in
in talking about his essence, as we mentioned, talking about his
attributes talking about his acts, and so forth. He calls the second
higher objective
cleric salute it Allah subhanaw taala
okay, we recognize who we are being invited to. How do we get
there?
How do we get there? How do we make this spiritual jump? It's not
just intellectual one how do we make the spiritual jump and
recognize and live like we know Allah subhanaw taala
well, he mentioned the Quran says with a better delay hit up de la,
la in LA who have attorneys who work here, right? So this thing
called a Tibet tool.
And in Kufa, the bat to means cut off everything and dedicate
yourself.
Sometimes when we say things like this, people think we mean you
mean like like leave everything and sell my assets and leave my
job and go live in a mountain somewhere and eat wild blueberries
and watermelon rinds that people throw away and no sound talking
about? How the hochland kalbi
it's, it's an issue. It's a judgment or an evaluation of the
heart, not of the body.
Some of the odd they would say, we would speak to people 30 years and
they thought we're speaking to them. We're actually speaking to a
lot
so Jeff and metta. I will have one minute
I will have awful Jalwa so you are detached in your heart. But you
are with Allah's panel time.
So the prophets are seldom said louder have any real Islam there's
no monasticism. We don't go live in, you know, we can often not
connected to everybody that's not what we're saying. But Allah
bernia tilicho lube
Right the monasticism and being detached treat your heart as the
temple of God as the house of Allah subhanaw taala there is the
house of Allah GABA few Metka and mocha Rama and Michel rava but
make take Kareem into Sharif of your heart.
Right? If someone were had like a herd of Is it a hurt, I guess it's
called of pigs. And he's leading them into the Haram, for sign. And
the pig is defecating everywhere and making a mess. How would we
feel about that?
Be so angry would be like, you know, this, it's hard this shadow
of how can we allow this to happen? Well, how do you allow it
to happen in here,
this image and that image and this backbiting and this talk and this
thing, and you let it come inside your heart.
So what's the difference?
This is this is just as important if not more important, if the
prophesy said and said the spilling of blood of a believer is
more sacred, more enormous to Allah than taking the Kaaba down
brick by brick. Then what's more important, this so there's
Baitullah haram over there if you Mecca or wait Allah al Mahmoud,
that is above the Kaaba from Allah, Allah, Allah, that 70,000
Angels every day, new ones come in and out. And there's this bait.
This, this house to that heart that you should be protecting,
that you should be safeguarding, that you should make every effort
to make it as pure and as pristine as you would the floor of the
Sahan of the courtyard in Mecca.
Same thing, if not more important, and you're personally responsible
for this one, you're not personally responsible for the one
in Mecca.
So in terms of your personal responsibility, this is the one
that you have to be paying more attention to, than the one in
Mecca. And the one who like has been taking care of you don't have
to worry about it actually. But no one's going to be taking care of
this one except you.
There are no
people who are going to come and do that for you. You have your the
personal guard of it, you have to take care of it.
So the the salute Illallah making one's way towards Allah the Quran
teaches us how to do this, or at least emphasizes the importance of
it. Called after the Hammonds again, I will call them and the
cell right on Afla Menza. Whoever gives it Ischia a flat will be
successful, local problem in this, right and the other ones, their
dreams and aspirations will be dashed, if they neglect it.
And Allah reminds us how close he is. So it was that he said, it's
not like there's a distance between you and the last panel to
Allah. Allah says we're not going to Accra, Buddha, him and Hamlet
worried we are closer to you than the jugular vein or the carded
artery. Allah is not far away. And he's not even hiding.
And he is accessible. And his door is not closed. In fact, there is
no door.
Right? It's not like think of don't think of Allah as being in
this far foreboding place. And there are many doors and locks to
get past so that you can reach him. No, all the doors and locks
and veils are with you not with him.
They're over your eyes. And sometimes, you know, there's two
reasons why people don't see things as they are.
Either, it's too bright for them to see it.
So like if you look directly into the sun is too bright, you can't
look at it. And if Allah is also that way, he's known his light is
so bright, sometimes we're not ready for it.
Or we have a veil over our eyes.
So you can be blinded by the sun's light and not see it. Or you could
have something over your eyes and you don't see it.
So we have to work on both those paths.
If it's too bright for you to be able to see it, then you have to
learn to see the light. You have to accustom your eyes, your means
accustom your heart.
And if there's something over your eyes, which is the veil of your
sins, then remove the veil. Right so it's, it's not something you're
traveling towards the last month that he's already there. But he
says think of it more like polishing a mirror.
So if the light of last month out of penetrates everything and
nothing escapes it, it's always there. Then the way by which we
can see it as maybe not looking directly but by reflection of the
mirror. So if you reflect the sun's light off of a mirror then
you could see and you see it in the mirror even though you're not
looking directly at the light. So Allah's essence is
incomprehensible. We can't understand that direct light, but
we can receive it via a receptacle which is the mirror but then
mirrors comes in all different sizes and shapes. You know
The funny mirror at the amusement park if you you know, makes you
look fatter than you are or thinner than you are taller than
you are shorter than you are. We don't want that type of mirror.
We want a mirror that's neither concave or convex, we want a
mirror that accurately reflects and depicts the light that hits
it. So he calls this suckle, polishing of the mirror, you have
to polish this mirror which is to polish your heart, polish it of
its sins of its Oh ham, of its delusions, of its
anxieties of its wasa was, right. These are all kinds of things that
will cause the mirror to not function properly.
Once you do that, are you on a path to doing that, then things
will open up,
things will be clearer, you'll receive a type of clarity, whether
in a in a wakeful state are in a sleep state, your dreams will be
more have more clarity to them. The space between when you fall
asleep, when you're awake, and you fall asleep, there'll be a clarity
to it. Right because this is one this is part of the Melaku
privatize LM said one, the last part of 46 parts of Naboo is
through dreams. And so the true dream itself and what leads up to
the true dream gives you a clarity, it gives you an insight
into the other realm into the other world. But you won't have
any of that or be difficult to have any of that if you're not
polishing the mirror. If you're not polishing the heart, if you're
not seeking out the means faithfully and trustworthy,
to have a better knowledge and traversing a path to Allah
subhanaw taala. And these are what some of the verses of the Quran
invite us to do. So we're just about out of time because we want
to do question and answer. So in the next lecture tomorrow morning,
I'll pick up on some of this and also look at some of the
individual verses that as Edie includes, in each of these
particular meanings, in sha Allah, so we'll stop here with watercolor