Yahya Rhodus – Our Relationship the Quran #12
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Salah more ALLAH because
ALLAH more Allah Smilla Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa salatu
salam ala Rasulillah. While early he will soften me here, woman. Why
Allah, we left off in yesterday's discussion on the fourth and total
etiquette ahrntal Act that holds it is samyama because it mentions
in his book Kitab dubbed it over to the Koran, his book on the
propriety so the etiquettes of Quranic recitation. And always, I
always want to remind ourselves that we're speaking of these
predicates in the context of strengthening our relationship
with the Quran. The more that we observe these predicates inwardly
and outwardly, the stronger that relationship will become, and the
greater quality of interaction that we will have when we read
Allah subhanaw taala his book. And so I want to always remind
ourselves where we're at, so we don't get lost. The first
interactive Quran presentation was realizing the greatness of divine
speech. The second was exalting the one speaking,
the third was maintaining presence of heart
and overcoming or controlling inner speech, what goes which goes
along with that. And we left off in the middle of the fourth, which
is to the book, contemplation of Allah subhanaw taala, his book,
and one of the things anyone who has already taught us was
contemplation is beyond presence of heart, because your heart can
be present, ie, you're not thinking about other things, but
you night might not be contemplating what it is, it is
being recited. So, the whole purpose of reciting with total
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adorning the Quran, recitation and reciting the slow and distinct
manner is so that you and I can reflect deeply on Allah subhanaw
taala, this book. And this word duckboard.
Is indicates something about its true reality and shows how it
takes time and effort to actually come to the meeting. Because the
door is the rear. And to double is the process that you struggle with
and go through to find something that is not normally accessible.
Ie it's this mental process of really reflecting deeply putting
the individual parts of what we've learned together so that we can
come to know the meaning that is in that particular verse, or one
of the many meanings.
So Dunbar is one of the most important inner acts of Quranic
recitation. And we left off with his statement in his relating a
narration on the authority of a bizarre Oh, he thought he the
great companion, Paula he said Hado last little Hama Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi salam bien la Latin for common bi or 10 Euro do
you do have we here and this indicates that they probably sent
it lead them in prayer comma Rasulullah. Vina Leila 10 He led
us in prayer. He was standing in prayer and we were praying behind
him on one night and he was reciting this following verse, you
will adhere to her over and over again. He kept repeating it and
it's the words of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
into the boom for inhome a bad luck. If you punish them, they are
indeed your slaves. One tall fella home and if you forgive them for
in Nikka enterprises or hacking, you are the mighty and the wise
nonprofit suddenly send them kept repeating this verse into the boom
fenomen a bad duck Went over the hump and accounted as usual Hakeem
into as the home and nominee about duck when tall fella home for an
accountant and as usual hacking. And he would repeat this over and
over and over and over again. And the very fact that he indicates
this went on for a prolonged period of time and the Prophet
kept repeating it. It shows how the prophesy center was impacted
by his recitation of the Quran but it also shows how he was
reflecting and pondering the meaning deeply. Whether or not to
be the case, how would you be able to keep reciting a verse over and
over again like that?
And then he mentions a narration of Timmy mud daddy, the companion
of the Prophet sallallahu sent him that he Alma laid it in Bihar.
Idealia he spent the night reciting the following verse, and
has the ability in instead of a sejati energy Allah whom Kaleena
Avenue where I'm going to solve your heart. Do those who have
committed sins, think that we're going to make them like those who
believe and do righteous deeds, that has the ability in history to
say, to those who commit sins, think that we are going to make
them like those who believe and do righteous deeds, he kept repeating
this, and kept repeating this, and kept repeating this. And even if
you and I might not be able to spend an entire night, reciting
one particular verse, perhaps that we can start by certain verses
repeating them twice, three times, five times, maybe 10 times, maybe
we go a little bit beyond that, repeat a little bit more.
And we reflect upon it, we reflect upon it, we reflect upon it, apply
it to ourselves, think deeply about it, let ourselves be
impacted by it. And that's an etiquette that's coming. Let it
withdraw from us, the state that it's meant to withdraw the emotion
that it's meant to withdraw the emotion or the internal reality
that it's meant to withdraw.
So he spent the entire night with this verse repeating it.
And then we'll come and say devenu, Jabbar Laylat and you're
ready to head the hill higher. And one of the early emails cited and
Jubeir. He spent an entire night repeating the following verse one
tasm Yama you had Majidi moon, and this is found in surah. Yaseen
that Salam o colon, Min Robin Rahim, worm toes a yo Mumtaz. Yo
mama, you had mercury moon. And this translates as, oh, you
criminals, sinners, let you be set aside on this day. In other words,
is that they are going to be set aside from the believers on the
day of judgment. And imagine where we're going to be when that
actually happens. Which Side Are we going to be on? Are we going to
be with the believers or are we going to be made to be from those
who have to part from the group of the believers I thought it sounded
Aafia. He mentioned these various narrations, even though again,
this is something we might not be able to do spend the entire night,
we find ourselves we find it difficult to recite the Quran for
30 minutes. And we finish quickly and then move on to something
else. But at least that we can understand that this is the way of
the early people.
They would recite the Quran often and there was certain occasions
where they would focus on certain verses, or certain chapters of the
Quran, recite them over and over again. This is from the sunnah of
our Prophet sallallahu sallam, and this from the way of the setup of
the righteous predecessors before us. So let's put this into
practice in the way that we can. And again, just start by repeating
verses a few times, and again with the intention of contemplation.
And there's many parts of that contemplation, but particularly,
how does it relate to you and I's own self.
We'll call about the home in the left edge of our sorta for you
funny about them a shadow fee, and then for all human heart, yet
fragile.
One of the righteous would say I start reciting a chapter.
And some of the meanings that I witnessed in it up for me, it
stops me.
And I'm unable to stop reciting it until dawn enters.
So again, reflecting deeply upon those meanings. We'll call Ken
about whom you're cold, calling it and let him or her, what are you
going to call with Allah per doula hat?
He said, Every meaning that every verse that I recite, that I don't
understand, or I'm present with, and that I am that thinking about
its meaning, I don't consider that I'm going to get reward from it.
This is not to discourage people. This is just this point simply to
the importance of today's Board of contemplation.
Will hakea and Abby Soleimani, Iranian who called in Nila
absolute Iota for okay mafia, Abba Leyland or Hamsa Leyland, what
Allah an octa Alpha graffia magia was to Ilahi
and so he said that sometimes I will recite a certain versus
great, righteous man from the early people I will Solomon and
Dharani and sometimes I will spend four or five
I have knights reciting one particular verse, and I won't stop
reflecting upon it, not moving on to the next verse.
On the other side of no book, if you sold your hood, sit down to
Ashura and ukulele, Doha will Allah for the woman at the WV ha.
And then Imam was it mentioned the story of one of the righteous
predecessors that he spent
six months reciting Surah tude the chapter hood, he just kept
reciting it. He kept repeating it and kept reciting it. And he kept
reflecting deeply upon it. For six months, he's kept repeating this
over.
What caught about the other thing
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said every Juma every Friday, I do a HUD some of the Quran will be
equally Shahada. And then every month I do a hotter motorcar with
equally Senate in hutzpah. And then every year I do a Hatha, what
do you what Mattoon Mundo that Athena Santa 10 ma follow
Muhammad. And there's a husband I've been doing for the past 30
years that I've yet to finish.
So meaning he had four HUD homes going at the same time.
There was one item that he was doing, and we touched upon this
already that he was resigning, he'd have to resign a little bit
faster, do a HUD home once a week. And then
there was another hot tub
that he's doing need to finish every month. So as a different
Hutton, he had a different place that he left off in the month off,
and he was reciting, with more deliberation. And with spending
more time reflecting upon the meaning for the one that he's
doing basically a juice a day. He says and there's a hard time that
I do every year. So you think about the entire Quran divided by
the days of the year, and you're reciting that amount. And so
you're reciting a smaller amount and you're able to go into a
little bit more detail. He said and then there's a HUD term that
I've had I started that's been going on for over 30 years, about
30 years that I haven't finished yet. And then he's going into fine
tune detail on that particular hot tub.
Well that it can be has to be that is added to that as data data to
the Buddha he would have to he knows that he says this is because
of the different degrees of contemplation that he was doing
towards Allah subhanaw taala his book. Well, can I have the aid on
your pole, or come to enough Seema Carmen Jara El Morya, Mama 10. One
Musa baton, Moshe Hara 10, will Musa Hana.
And so what I'm used to say is that I have established myself in
the station of a worker who was hired to do something. And he said
that I work for a wage, a daily wage, a weekly wage, a monthly
wage, and a yearly wage. And so the Musa tan is to work where you
get a daily wage, Musa 10 relates to seven, you get a weekly wage,
Masha Hara is monthly, and then we'll say Nah, let's just center
Gideon on a yearly basis, indicating his different degrees
of recitation of Allah subhanaw taala his book, salted abroad and
and hamdulillah increasingly in the English language, we have AIDS
that help us reflect upon Allah subhanaw taala his book, and that
could be a good translation of the meanings. And in Hamdulillah,
there are books of Tafseer now entering into the English language
that also help us do that. Increasingly, there's more
teachers available so that we can study the meanings, were able to
learn Arabic as well. There's many places that we can do that, so
that we can then increase the knowledge of Allah subhanaw taala
his book, and as we progress as a community in the English speaking
world, this is very important that we spend time learning the Arabic
language but to also have resources in English, that help us
reflect upon the meanings of the Quran. And we don't wait until we
know Arabic or that we have we're proficient in Arabic to do to the
power of the Quran, even with the translation of the meaning, think
deeply about the meaning of the verse, and how it applies to you.
Don't cut yourself off from the importance of contemplation
because you don't have access to the Quran for it with with by way
via the Arabic language.
So then this takes us to a
The fifth etiquette which is a differ hum at differ home, and
this relates is relates to the bar, but it's more specific. So a
differ home and on this form
to a layer to follow it has that context of striving to do
something just as we said with the dev board. So when you say for
instance Tottenham to learn, you're striving to get in to help
them you're striving to attain heaven, this forbearing Enos, and
to feel at home here is you're striving to attain fan, you're
striving to attain understanding, so
striving to understand a lot of antiquities his book, and he's
going to speak about this. Well, hello and you stole the mean
Cooley, I attend my illegal behalf. And he says it's for
someone to try to understand your stolen so that they have clarity
about every verse, and what is the meaning that is behind it, or one
of the meanings that is behind it?
And specifically, different verses. If you have difficulty of
that verse, you have an understanding of it, they relate
to different things. Is that a quote on your stomach or thick,
greasy fatty layers or gel, because the Quran contains
the mentioning of Allah subhanaw taala. His attributes was the
curry of Ali, and the mentioning of his axe was it could have added
NBI de Mistura to sit down, he mentions the various states of the
prophets was white and McCarthy been the home the states of those
who deny them wonder home cave or leuco, how does it they were
destroyed was the Kiowa he was allegedly, and it mentions His
commands and His prohibitions was it could have Jannetty, when not
the machine of Paradise and the fire. So what he really wants us
to do here is to understand the various what you could call themes
of the Koran, and to really think about each verse and strive to
understand how this verse relates to the various themes of the
Quran. And so what he presented here is close to what Imam even
just said, Kelby said was the seven themes of the Quran. And
those are Allah. So the the first theme of the Quran is Allah, and
mention of his essence, his attributes, and Subhanallah data
is x. And then the second theme is the prophets. And not the Stories
of the Prophets. That's its own, but mentioning of the prophets,
the sending of the prophets, the message of the prophets. And then
the third is the ad, the return literally, the afterlife.
And then the fourth is, I come to legal rulings of the shittier, the
legal rulings associated with various verses in the Quran. And
you see this and Allah's book. And then five and six is the wad in
the Wade, the threats, and the promises that Allah data makes in
his book, The wide as the promises, and the aid, or the
warnings, or the threats. And then the seventh category is our
stories. And so
each verse that has been recited, you should reflect on how this
verse relates to one of these categories. And what is the
meaning that I can draw from that. So this is a type of to Debow, but
it's more specific. It's a specific type of contemplation,
related to striving to understand how the meaning of that particular
verse relates to what you could say is the overarching themes of
Allah subhanaw taala his book. And incidentally, this is one of the
great ways to teach other people about Allah's book, non Muslims
included, to talk about the themes of the Quran, and to give
examples, this is a very helpful way of explaining Allah subhanaw
taala his book
and what had been Jews A can be says, all of those seven themes
ultimately get back to the overarching theme which is Allah
to either is extending an Invitation to his creation
that they come to believe that worship Him, believing in Him, and
that having correct behavior inwardly and outwardly, and then
encouraging them to do so, and warning them that if they don't
so these are the overarching themes of Allah to add his book
and this is what he says here. This is what hola to Anna's book
contains. And so this as I just mentioned, this is similar to what
your mom was that he is saying here. And then he starts to give
examples a massif Atala here, so a gel as for the attributes of Allah
to Anna furcal Colita laser committed a che, there is nothing
like unto him, well who is Samuel was here, and he is the All
Hearing and he is the all seen. Well, hopefully Tata Medical could
do Sasaram Mahina as easily Jabara Mata kappa mentioned mentioning in
a number of attributes of him subhanaw taala that he is the
medic that he is the king is the conduced the holding is the Sadam
the giver of peace, He is the movement he is the more Haman is
the Aziz, he is the Jabbar, he is in the motor cab bar, and
reflecting deeply upon each one of these names of Allah subhana wa
Tada and then understanding how what's happening in creation is a
manifestation of one of those names. And this is what he says
forget to America MAN Yeah, how did I smell see fat? Let him think
deeply about the meanings of these names. And these attributes
leading Kashi fellow Asakawa. So their secrets will become unveiled
to him. For Dr. Ha man in mid fall Nutan because hidden underneath
them beneath them, or hidden meanings, literally buried
meanings, hidden meanings lerton Kashi for ill and Vulcanian that
are only unveiled for the people of certainty. We lay here Sherif,
Ali, Raja Allahu Allah, Vicodin, sobre la Rasulullah sallallahu
Assam Shane ketema nas Illa and your Allahu Isaiah JAL, Abdon.
Feldman Vicky tabber. This is a Hadith and that the collection of
Imam in the city is that Wednesday night he was asked, Did the
prophesy sin give him something that he didn't give other people
and he said that the prophesy centum did not seek to really tell
us anything that we have kept from people other than one of us was
given a special understanding in his the book of Allah Tada, and
what greater things are to be given.
And this is why you have a hadith that is there's multiple
narrations that speaks of the connection of the Quran, with the
elevator Rasulullah sallallahu sallam. And one of the meanings is
that the Imams from elevated Rasul Allah from Allah cinema Gemma that
are scholars or they do the greatest, they placed the greatest
effort and have the greatest job in preserving the means a lot to
Ratan Tata his book, by extension as well. The other scholars have
this Dean, but that's one of the meanings is that they're
preserving an understanding of the Quran and preserving the sunnah of
our Prophet Salah lie syndrome, in the very best of ways.
We'll call it a venomous ODE of interest owed said,
Man arada, animal Oberyn What are hearing whoever wants the
knowledge of those who came before and those who come at later times?
Fell? You thought we'll call
and let him then find it. In Allah subhanaw taala his book, will
Allah Mohammed Quran TAFTA Ismaila xojo was the Fatah and the
greatest knowledges of the Quran are found beneath literally, the
names of Allah to Allah and His attributes is limited direct
access to the internet, and more than that every time we affirm
him, what am yeah, through the award, he has the vast majority of
creation, only we understand that
affairs matters commensurate with their ability to understand and
they haven't gone into their depths. And so this is what he
says here and Charlotte data. We will stop there for today and to
come back where he's going to speak about the efile the acts of
Allah subhanaw taala May Allah Tabata Katara give us Tofik in
blesses to be from the people of depth board of contemplation and
tougher home will strive to understand the meanings of his
book and military buses to be able to understand his book in a better
fashion every day that is that we live here at hombre
mean and have an increased connection via the light IRA or
solo Lourdes Mohammed and while Eddie saga Salam or hamdulillahi
rabbil Alameen