Yahya Rhodus – Our Relationship the Quran #10
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The third etiquette of Islam is to recite a book and stay present in relation to the person being recited or present. It is important to be serious when learning and finding a better time to read the Quran. Consciously working on one's inner speech and finding a better time to read the Quran is crucial to achieving purity of their heart and avoid war. The importance of reciting the Quran and working on one's internal actions to change their heart is also emphasized.
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as we continue our journey in studying book eight of your
healing the dean, the book on the etiquettes of recitation of the
Quran, with intention of strengthening our relationship
with his book subhanho wa taala. We have now reached the third
internal act, interact in our etiquette, that hooded s&m,
Yamazaki wants us to know. And just to briefly recap, the first
two, the first interact is for us to exalt the Quran and to realize
that it is from Allah subhanho wa taala. And closely related to that
is the Talim. The exaltation that we have in a heart for Allah, the
multicolumn, the one who is speaking to us subhanho wa taala.
And all of these other etiquettes will build upon these first two.
This is the foundation. So we want to get in the habit of when we
start reciting a lot out his book, or when we're listening to his
book subhanho wa Tada is that just before we start reciting, we bring
to heart. This is the canal of Allah. And we have Talim and our
heart for the Koran we have titled Iman, our heart for our Lord
SubhanaHu wa Tada. And this is one of the great aspects of our dean.
Our dean teaches us to have Geraldine Malamala what gear Maha
Corolla but Allah Tada has deemed to be great, we have to have a
theme in our heart for that we exalt that, what Allah subhanaw
taala has belittled and what ALLAH SubhanA wa Donna has not deemed to
be great. That's not reflected in our heart. If Allah does not deem
something to be great, like this world in which we live, it's not
something that you and I should have Tallinn for an exalt.
And so we want to exalt what Allah Azza Tada has exalted, and we want
to be little what he has been a little subhanho wa taala. This
third etiquette, a 30th? Is her daughter calm.
It's about maintaining presence of heart. How about if Ludo in Arabic
language is to be present, and Hodor means presence. And if you
look at the linguistic meaning of this word, someone is there with
you. But then they're no longer there. So when they're no longer
there, the what takes place, when you're with that person can no
longer happen, because they're not present. They're with you.
And just as someone could be physically present, but their mind
is in a totally different Valley. They're thinking about something
else. And we've all experienced that when we're with other people.
And you're sitting next to them, you won't even be talking to them,
and they're somewhere else. Are you there with me? Can you hear
me, and then they kind of come back. And like we're Where are
you, we joke with him all times, and so forth. And this is the
nature of the human being
is that we are where our heart is. And if our heart is preoccupied
with something else, mentally, we might be in that place, our
thoughts might be drawn towards that place, or that person, or
that thing. And this is why there's different degrees. And the
very best degree of all, is where the outward and the inward is
combined. So your physically pleasant present, where Allah to
Allah wants you to be, whether it be prayer, or whether it be in
gatherings of goodness, whatever it might be, you're physically
present, if you're able to do so. And you're also present with your
heart, you're internally present, you are present in relation to
your bringing to heart the meanings that should be brought to
heart in relation to that particular gathering. So if it's a
gathering of knowledge, you're focusing intently on what has been
said seen, trying to understand that knowledge, seeing how it
applies to your own self making intention to put it into practice,
and so forth. If it is recitation of the Quran, you are present with
those meanings that are being recited to you. And so that's the
highest degree of all. And then there the second degree, is
actually to not
physically be present, but to have your heart be present, and what a
blessing you and I have, that you and I can't imagine to be in the
very best of places, even if those places physically are distant from
where it is that we are you and I can imagine right now that we're
making tall off around the Kaaba,
you and I can imagine right now, and then we enter into Madina
Munawwara and then we pray to the cost and the mission of the
Prophet Salah license in order, and then we go in front of them
water Sharifa and we send surrounds to him, Salah low idea,
disabuse, you and I can imagine that we're in places of learning
that we're with special people. This is the an amazing gift that
LaTonya has given us the power of imagination. And just as you and I
can imagine, being in gatherings of knowledge, we convene, imagine
being in gatherings of the righteous, and this is something
that we can intend as well, let's all make the intention to be
present, and all of the gatherings and knowledge, wherever they're
taking place on the face of this earth, let's make an intention and
be in the presence of all of the righteous people wherever they
might be on the face of this earth. And Inshallah, if we do
what we can outwardly, Allah is the most generous of all of those
who show generosity, he is the most mercy of all those who show
mercy, He will give us according to our attention, Subhana who had
to add. And so this is the second theory. And it's actually a higher
degree to not physically be present, but to have your
heartbeat present, then for the third degree, which is the person
who's physically present, but their heart is somewhere else.
Their mind is somewhere else. They're thinking about other
things. They're not concentrating, and some even wish that they might
not even be there. They wish for it to end and so forth and so on.
There's degrees after of course, and there are people that can go
back and forth between being present and being heedless. But
this is the third of degrees and from the Mercy of Allah Tada, when
it comes to Majelis, gatherings of different sorts, knowledge, the
remembrance of Allah to Allah, even the person who didn't come
for a good intention, with the right intention, even they will
receive mercy because when people come to sit for his sake, and to
learn for his sake and to remember for a sec, there's a blessing that
encompasses everybody who's there, even though when it came for some
other need in didn't even really intend to be there. There are
people lie Yes, Cobham, Julissa, whom they will never be miserable.
If you sit with you'll never be miserable. If you sit with the
right people, you'll never be wretched, you'll never be damned.
And this is why you and I should want to sit with the muffler Hain
with the people of success. And as people who came before us used to
say anyone who wants success has to see someone who has already
succeeded. Success comes from being in the presence of unseen
people who have succeeded. And this is a quote on that command.
Oh, you who believe that you will either I'm going to talk or law
have Taqwa of Allah. Be mindful of him. Well Kunal, Masada clean in
be with the people of truth.
Because when you're with them,
spiritual osmosis, you start to be like them. And even if you're not
like them, and even if you don't even make the right intention, yet
you still benefit Holman ACOEM liar's club him Jalisa. So, we
want to be from those though who are physically present, but also
we have presence of heart and presence of mind and this is what
herget to Assam is going to discuss in this etiquette Hodor
club. And so he adds another part to this chapter heading, as in
that he previously didn't mention when he was listing them and the
first part of the section
and what Taku Hadith enough's
and refraining from letting one's inner speech, get the best of
them. So, you can overcome overcoming your inner speech. So,
having presence of heart maintaining presence of heart and
overcoming inner speech.
So, he begins by saying appeal if it tips here, it is said is an
opinion that one of the meanings of the verse yah yah yah hoo the
Kitab baby oh Wha Oh yeah, here take the book who the Kitab take
the book with Kuba strongly with strength. A B GID. Den, which they
had one of the meanings of that is vehicle work
with seriousness and with hard work,
when you take the book and an all of
The meanings of taking it, you do so in a serious fashion, and with
hard work.
And the amazing thing about the righteous people that the sinful
soul has been blessed to see and have been must have been around.
They are the most serious of people, yet the most gentle,
the most serious of people, yet the most gentle.
And this is something that you and I must bring into our lives.
seriousness. And yes, it's good to be light hearted at certain times.
It's good to be easygoing, going when you're with people. But all
of that has to be what has to underlie all of that is a
seriousness that this matter is of the utmost importance. This matter
is real. You and I are going to die. We're going to meet our Lord
Subhanallah data. And the more that we really reflect upon the
higher them that the endeavor of all pleasures death, the more will
realize how we really need to be serious here on Earth. But it
doesn't mean that we walk around frowning, because this is the
amazing thing. The only are the most gentle and the Most Merciful.
And you tend to find them smiling more than anyone else, despite the
fact that they're serious. And they know exactly what it is that
they're doing in their different states. So one of the one of the
meanings of this verse, yeah, yeah, who will keep up with the
call when we heard that verse recited. It should inspire us to
be serious in our deen in our approach to learning the Quran,
establish in relationship with it, and have each Jihad work hard
towards that because we have to work hard with our relationship
with the Quran. Quranic Arabic is not something that you can take a
six month course and then all of a sudden understand what's in the
Quran. Yes, you can start understanding what's in the Quran.
But every year of your life you have to increase in understanding
the Quran, you're going to study for a lifetime.
And then you're still going to be only know a tiny portion of its
meanings. But everything we're permitted to know is great. And
it's a blessing from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. This is why one of the
Imams even my daughter has been Ahmad have she wanted of the great
emails of huddle remote.
He used to say that the new zone of the Quran in Qatar, the descent
of the Quran been revealed has ceased that ceased, obviously,
with the return of the prophesy zone to the Most High. But the Xs
isn't a lot to either inspiring his righteous servants with
meanings and understandings in his book remains. And that has
extended beyond the time of the prophesy centum will remain until
Allah Tala lifts the Quran from Earth. There are people who have
renewed understandings who have new understandings of Allah to his
book, and the same imam who was known to have such a great
relationship with the Quran, especially in Ramadan.
He used to say every year Allah gives me new understandings in his
book, every year, I understand more, and I understand more, and I
understand more. And this is way that we want it to be we want to
every year that passes increase, wherever we are, don't let
yourself get overwhelmed because it could get overwhelming.
Learn a little bit, little by little, little by little, little
by little increase your knowledge of his book. And there's many ways
that we can do that. So that's one of the meanings of that verse.
What Octo Wajid, so he knows that he's going to explain one of the
meanings of taking the Quran with GID with seriousness is what and
you're calling let the judge read and lo and the clearer it
is that you are freed up from anything that will prevent you
from reflecting upon its meanings and being present with it when you
are reciting it. Hmong Saudi for him mochila he and Haiti he
focusing your aspiration on it, and not being distracted by
anything else. And this is why we really shouldn't have Koran on
when we're having conversations at Iftar time that Quran, I was a
biller, we cannot treat it like background music.
Background music is something that people have playing in the
background while they do work. And while they do other things know
when Quran is not we cannot treat it like that. That's bad other
with Allah's book, the Quran should not be playing in the
background. When the Quran is playing, we should be listening
carefully and remain silent. We should not be speaking and if no
one else is present, and you have for instance, Koran praying while
you're cooking. That's one thing as long as you can concentrate on
the meanings, but you don't
don't want to speak over the corner or have it just playing in
the background. When the Quran has been recited, we should be
devoting ourselves entirely to it. And ideally, we should free
ourselves up so that we're not looking at our phone. We're not
having other conversations. We're focusing on its recitation. And we
should try to find a time where we're not distracted to recite a
lot of other code that is book. If there's a time that we know our
kids are going to be coming in and out or people are going to need us
to ask us questions or to text us or something. We should try to
find a better time to read his book subhanho wa taala.
So Masada offered him a beautiful way of stating it, we just
completely direct our aspiration towards it. And then he gives us
an anecdote located the battle to him. One of them was asked one of
the righteous eat up caught up third quarter and two had the
Sunnah of submission. When you recite the Quran, do does yourself
speak to you? Literally, ie, does your inner speech distract you?
Farrakhan our che on a hub La Mina Quran who had YouTube enough? See?
Is there anything that's more beloved to me than the Quran, such
that myself would speak to me about it.
Now, Allah and this tells us about something very important about the
psychology of the human being, we have what is called Hadith and
knifes inner speech, and your enough's is you.
Your enough's speaks to you, our nerves, our own selves speak to us
all the time, all throughout the day.
What is our inner self speaking about?
What does our inner self desire? What is it in meshed and entangled
with? How pure is it? What are the things that are saying?
Are those is are those those words? And the the speeches and
all of the things that it says to us? How pure are they if we put it
out on a plate? If we would voice it? What would people think? What
would people say? We should be embarrassed to claim any level of
piety, that anything that comes to our heart, any speech that we
speak to ourselves with, would be against the sacred law or that
other people would wonder why it is that we have that in our heart.
And Allah knows everything as well, we can't fool ourselves. We
don't have false piety, let's just all admit that we all need working
on. And this thank Allah, that he's veiled us,
and is not going to take us to account unless it moves from here
to here. But once that word moves from here, and it's gone, it's
gone.
And sometimes, we can repair that other times we can't,
as long as it's here, and as long as it hasn't come out, and we're
not comfortable. If it's not something that's good. It's an
atonement for but the purity of our inner speech ultimately is a
sign of the purity of our hearts.
And the only way to move towards purity of interspeech and purity
of heart is to struggle and to work on yourself. This is the
jihad Akbar. This is the greatest you had of all. Because you are
stuck with your own self, you can't separate yourself, yourself
is you.
And you have to do this in a way where you don't get tied out in
the first round.
And no matter how many times you get beat down, no matter how many
times you get pen to the ground, no matter how many moves your Nef
does on you, and gets you in chokeholds and you're about to
submit don't submit.
keep learning, keep coming back, take a little bit of rest, go back
to the war with your own self.
And nothing is more and more important for us to do than to
wage war against our own selves. The knifes your ego will ruin
everything.
It will ruin your life in or ruin your afterlife, your worldly life
and your hereafter and it will ruin everything else. It will ruin
a family. It will ruin a community. It will ruin a company
it will ruin everything. The knifes can ruin everything.
Think about how many wars have been fought, because of egos of
individuals. How many people have been dragged into war and fought
wars of other people because of the egos of individuals. Just
think about that.
The ego is a Bethmann Sabina ship on
the ego your knifes is worse, more vile than 70 Shit lawns than 70
demons.
And we all know that we need working on. But we have to then
collectively help one another to work on our own selves. And if you
want to establish a relationship, you think you can get married
without being aware of your own knifes. You think that you can
have a family with out with without working on your own knifes
I think you can have a community or an organization anything, the
knifes will ruin everything. But as long as we're committed
to mujahed it enough waging war against our own selves, and
blaming our own selves, remaining introspective, seeing what what it
is that you and I could do better, not blaming other people blaming
our own selves, if we can be committed to that, we'll be
successful. And we make mistakes, we have to admit it.
We have to admit it. And we have to rectify the situation. And just
as it's a mistake for someone to act upon his nerves and to not
apologize. It's also a mistake for someone who does apologize for
someone else not to accept their apology, that's serious.
When someone's sincere, and apologizing to you to not accept
their apology is serious. And the fear there is is that same thing
is going to happen to you in the dunya in this world, and then
you're welcome when you return back to a lot of other cortada.
This is why these books are so important. Because he mumbles a
speaks about the most important things that you and I need to
attain salvation in the next world to meet our Lord to gotico data in
a good state. So this righteous man and he's teaching us a lesson
here. And even if we're not there yet, the purpose of this is not
to, oh, that's a lofty station, I can attain that. Why am I reading
this?
It's a ridiculous assertion. We're learning this for a reason.
When he says here this righteousness asked is that does
yourself speak to you? When you recite the book, he says anything
more beloved to me than the Koran such that myself would speak to
me. In other words,
your inner speech stems from what it is that you love.
Your inner speech stems from what it is that you love. So it shows
the importance of love in this whole matter. It shows the
importance of love. And this is why we have to focus on love, not
in some goofy, Sufi way that people think in like it's just all
about love. No, in a very real way. We have to focus on love.
This is why this is what our teachers teach, and environments
that they create. This is why they interact with you in the way that
they do. Because nothing motivates us more than love. And if you You
can love Allah and His Messenger, in without fully being instead of
obedience and fully following the prophets, Allah Assam, the come
out of muhabba the perfection of love comes from following what you
can absolutely have love for Allah and His messenger. And then you
work on yourself. And that love drives you to work on yourself. So
that slowly, you do better and better. And you work on yourself
until you actually become pure. And then there's degrees of purity
that come after that. But your inner speech stems from what it is
that you love. So if we can love the Quran, this is why we have
sessions like hosted embedded session where we learn about the
virtues of the Quran. Because once you learn about the virtues of
something, you come to love it. And once you love the Quran, in
here deep love, where you find intense intimacy, when you recite
its meanings.
Then how could yourself even intimate anything else internally,
when you have such a degree of intimacy with Allah to add his
words, and he's going to use the example of there's someone you
really love? Are you thinking about other people when you're
with the one that you really love? If there's something you really
like to do, or you thinking about other things that you want to do
when you're doing the thing that you love most? Whatever it is.
So in other words, the Secret To Overcoming our inner speech is
coming to love Allah and His messenger and the afterlife, in
good in deen and beauty and light and so forth and so on. And once
that comes to dominate the
apart everything else comes easy
and more could be said about that. What kind of other sort of either
Clara sorta lemmya conical, goofy ha ha didn't add hernia. So some
of the righteous if they would recite a chapter of the Quran and
were they to realize that their heart wasn't present
they recite the chapter a second time.
Well how the Acebo to toe Allah do. I'm Kubla Hammond at all in
this trait ie being present when we recite Allah's book, overcoming
our inner speech comes after someone has the exaltation in
their heart that was mentioned. And so the two most important
things is titled theme and muhabba. Talim is a difficult word
to translate. I translate it usually as exaltation, exalting
the Koran. Perhaps we don't know what that means. But it stems from
a verse in the Quran woman new algorithm shouted Allah, whoever
exalts the sacred symbols of Allah, for Anam and Tuckwell Kuru
it is from piety of the hearts. So it's a lemma you're a liberal, is
to respect something, it's to magnify it, it is to recognize
that it's great, and to exalt it.
And so
we can only truly be present with the Quran. If we realize the
greatness of the Quran and realize the greatness of our Lord. Then
we'll be present with his book subhanaw taala for an animal
kingdom and lady at the low who is step she will be well yes, that
needs to be he or you Stephanie so Hola, yo, Hello, Anna. Because the
one who exalts the Quran, the Quran, the eternal speech of Allah
that he is reciting, and finds great joy in it and finds intimacy
in it is not going to be in a state of heedlessness fulfilled
Qurani Myos that new Sobey helical you will find no Quran, that which
the heart finds great intimacy in and once you taste the sweetness
is the word uses. Yes, steadiness. ance is intimacy.
And that intimacy is with the meaning of what it is that we are
reciting. You find intimacy in it, because you realize it fulfills
you at a level that nothing else can fulfill you at the deepest
level of your existence. This is what you were created to do. This
is why you were gifted a tang and an AKA and an intellect in a heart
in the first place. By doing this, there's, there's no greater way to
show gratitude to Allah. Because by reflecting on his book and
reciting, you are showing gratitude because this is what
these limbs were created for.
Nothing fulfills you more than this. And if we still don't know
what that means, it's too obscure. We find ourselves distance from
it. Don't give up. Strive.
strive
and struggle with yourself and make an intention to want to know
and don't listen to anyone else that thinks that this is too
difficult for you to attain a Saki Balki Allah can give you what he
wants to give you a how he wants to give you when he wants to give
you Yes, even 1400 years after the time of our Prophet Salah liason,
there will still be more Qatar being in Serbia again. And this
time,
there will still be even though there are a few in the later times
than not a multitude like the times it came up for us. But there
still will be the foremost and those who are close to Allah even
in our tongues. Why do we present prevent ourselves? It's not about
you and I.
It's not even about our effort. And yes, we should still put in
effort.
The greatest advice that anyone can give you is to turn to Allah.
Turn to Allah, in all of your states with all of your problems
with all of your issues, with all of your struggles, with all of
your frustrations, with everything that bothers you with everything
that you just can't stop doing with everything that is that you
want to do.
The elixir of all elixirs the secret of all secrets, the
foundation of all foundations is to turn to Allah subhanaw taala.
And there's no better time than right now in this blessed month of
Ramadan, and a time of mercy and forgiveness and being released
from the fire and all of the means of releasing
and as long as our spirit is shackled by our enough's.
We won't truly know what it means to be human.
As long as our spirits are shackled by our knifes, we won't
truly know what it means to be human.
And this is why we have to work on ourselves. We can't blame anyone
now.
If you blame anyone now, you should really only be blaming your
own self. If you get angry now blame your own self. If you get
bothered by things now, blame your own self. If your heart is still
inclining towards evil, and you have bad thoughts, blame your own
self. The Shayateen are locked up. And of course there's different
meanings there. But in in general, the shale Tina locked up, it's
your knifes and if it's still in kind sorts evil, one of the
explanations is it's because you've gotten yourself so used to
following the west of Associaton that it's just who you are, you're
left with yourself right now. And so Ramadan is a madrasa that
teaches us to confront our knifes.
In order to do so, you have to be courageous.
But if we cower away
and let our knifes get the best of we will lose in this world and in
the next world.
So he says here
fulfill quote animalistic needs to be helpful.
But you will find in the Quran that which the heart finds
intimacy in in Canada tally. Linda who if the one reciting is worthy
of it he's done his job to recite how it is that he should recite to
reflect how does the he should reflect for K for yet a little bit
on smell flickered for Haiti, he will Hua Medina Zan, amata,
virgin.
He said, is that how could someone have thoughts other than what he's
reciting come to heart? When he is in a beautiful garden? When he's
in the very best of all, he's what he's experienced is the very best
thing of all.
How could you do so and he goes into mentioned a metaphor for us.
And just again, imagine, if you're in the most beautiful garden,
you're in one of the most beautiful places that you've ever
seen in your life. And you're just walking around and just marveling
at all of the different flowers, and all of the different blossoms,
all of the different colors. It's a beautiful day, the temperature
is just right, and so forth and so on. Are you going to be thinking
about being in some cubicle somewhere?
If you're experiencing intense beauty, if you're tasting food
that is extremely delicious. Are you going to think about the meals
that didn't suit your tastebuds previously? If you're with people
that you love, are you really going to be thinking about the bad
interactions you've had with other people. I'm not talking about
conditions of trauma, but in general No. And this is his whole
point. For in order for our heart to be present, we have to know and
understand the also of the canal, the origin of the speech, and the
speaker, who is speaking to us subhanho wa Taala and have Tallinn
for his book and of Tallinn for him Subhana wa Tada so that the
heart will then be present.
And when the heart is present, that means our inner speech is not
dragging us into other things. And just as I say this tonight, when
we stand up to pray, tada we be in the night data, we will find that
our inner speech drags us to think about different things. And we're
in the middle of nowhere. And who knows what we're thinking about.
In the middle of totally
bring your heart back, make your heart present. And if you don't
know Arabic, still stand in prayer. And if you want to repeat
the Quran, your heart over and over again, and just repeating La
ilaha illa are repeating occur in your heart over and over again.
Something to keep your mind present, bringing to heart that a
lotta had a seizure at all times, and so forth and so on. That is
legitimate if you don't understand all the details of what has been
recited, but keep your heart present and use it as a time to
work upon yourself internally. And if you would just be in a state of
vigilance ie maraca while you're in total we're and
bring to heart that you are reciting the kingdom of law or
listening to the kingdom of Allah. And Allah is addressing you that
in no self is enough, even if someone of your siding for two
hours fixate your mind on that. Don't let your heart stray about
anything else. If you can't understand the individual
Denise and fix it your mind on that. And the beauty is our
teachers have told us if you do that with Salim and your heart for
the Quran, Allah will inspire you with meanings of the Quran that
the person adept in the Arabic language will not understand.
And it will change you at the core of your being. Because it is not a
prerequisite to be impacted or transformed by the Quran that you
understand all of its meanings. Yes, we should learn outwardly as
I mentioned, but just hearing a laws, book be recited, changes you
at the depth of your beam, a lot of adequate data, bless us to
implement these predicates and these internal acts, and to bring
our hearts to life with them. And may you and I already have Hello,
and be present when his book has been recited. Subhan Allah to
Allah, and may we be given Tofik to overcome our inner speech, and
that may the Koran become so Beloved to us, and our Lord and
the Prophet sallallahu Sallam become so Beloved to us. When we
are reciting his book, nothing else comes to heart, that when we
are mentioning his name, nothing else comes to heart. When we're
sitting inside of watch upon him, then nothing else comes to heart.
May Allah to animate our hearts to be from the very best of hearts.
And despite the time in which we live in, where so many people have
turned away from so much beauty, in turn towards so much ugliness,
may Allah to political data, revive this in our hearts in Allah
to Allah blesses to put this into practice, from the blessings of
this blessing book and the blessings of this blessing author
and for the blessings of this person month, behind what for Avia
will solve a lot I think Mohammed and while earning wasabia Salam,
Al Hamdulillah, Herbert enemy