Yahya Rhodus – Our Relationship the Quran #13
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The conversation discusses the history and meaning behind the title of Islam, including the deen book on the internet and the deen book on the Quran. It also touches on the actions of Allah and his attributes, including his actions in creation and his actions in the pastology. The importance of learning a language and reflecting in order to spend time reflecting is emphasized, as it is crucial for achieving proficiency level five reader. The conversation also touches on the importance of fearing the power of Allah and trusting his actions.
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Lie to Allah. And so to again, situate ourselves, all of these
lectures have really been the purpose behind them is to
strengthen our relationship with the Quran. And in particular,
through this book number eight of the deen the book on the
proprieties of Quranic recitation, to learn exactly how it is that we
should have other with Allah to add his book, inwardly and
outwardly, what should we be doing outwardly? What should we be doing
inwardly. And we are currently under the chapter where we are
learning about the inner acts, the various predicates that we need to
have at the level of the heart. And we started discussing the
fifth interact, which human was added, calls a tougher home, and
can be translated as striving to understand. So we spoke a little
bit about realizing the greatness of divine speech, and what follows
it from exalting the one speaking, and then what comes after that,
which is maintaining presence of heart. And then number four,
contemplating upon the meanings of the Quran. And then we reach
number five, which is striving to understand striving to understand
every verse and to understand what that verse points to what is the
mean, what are mean, and what are the meanings of that verse.
And so, what he meant was that he says about this is it's in your
soldier who is it we try to understand and clarify from every
verse, Miley, who will be what is suitable to it, what is befitting
of it, and he then presents many of the overarching themes of the
Quran which we discussed last time, and after presenting that he
goes into a little bit of detail about each one. So he began with
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attributes of Allah subhanho wa taala. And one of the important
things that he said about this is that there are deep secrets and
understanding the attributes of Allah subhanaw taala that come in
his book, and reflecting upon why those attributes relate to what
preceded it. And he says in this is a very deep knowledge, that is
gifted to the people of certainty. And this is something that you and
I should strive to attain to attain, strive to understand. And
we can begin by learning the nine Names of Allah and learn their
meanings. And once we learn their meanings, that we can reflect
deeply on how that meaning for instance of a particular name of
Allah to Allah that comes well who had aliotta alim and how it
relates to the verses are the what Allah Tada mentions before.
Now and we left off quoting even Abdullah live in Minnesota, saying
men, Allah, Edmund are willing will are hitting whoever wants the
knowledge of the ancients and for all of those who will come federal
you thought would add Quran let him search for in the Quran. Let
him contemplate the Quran, read the Quran, study the Quran, learn
the meanings of the Quran fell you thought with Al Quran, that
expression contains all of those different meanings, meaning he
will find it in Allah Tabata kata This book will illuminate Quran
TAFTA Ismaila, huzzah JAL, we'll see if it the greatest of the
pearls, of gems of wisdom in the Quran, are found beneath the names
of Allah and His attributes. Subhanahu what to Allah. So that's
what he says about the C fats of Allah. And then he's going to
speak about the F L of Allah, if Allah is the plural fill, and you
translate this as the acts of Allah. And so ultimately,
everything in creation is an act of Allah, everything in creation.
And so you could say, and they actually mentioned this in the
books, that the only thing that exists is Allah and
In his axe,
the only thing that exists is Allah and his axe. And even when
we speak about the Divisions, that the latest scholars lay down for
the science of theology, ie, the, that which pertains to Allah, that
was to pertains to prophecy, and that which pertains to the day of
judgment and eschatology, that breakdown in particular, the last
two, I eat, the sending of prophets and everything that will
happen in the afterlife. Those are the two greatest acts of Allah.
And so in reality, when you read Allah subhanaw taala, his book and
you learn that he exists, you learned about his attributes than
everything else that you are also learning about in the Quran. And
this is we'll see examples, anyone who has any mentions here, or acts
of Allah, Allah creating certain things in creation subhanho wa
taala. And so everything in existence ultimately, is an act of
Allah. And we should learn that that particular act points to
names and attributes of Allah subhanaw taala. And this is what
He wants us to do here is to have to for him, to strive to
understand what those verses are pointing to, and in particular, in
relation to the acts of ALLAH.
So he says here, for instance, the creation of the heavens in the
earth. This is a great act of Allah, the heavens in the earth,
Allah brought this into existence, from non existence into existence.
La ilaha illa, Allah, Allah brought this into existence, well,
AD and other things like other things like what, like mountains,
just think about the majesty of mountains, the Bihar, all of the
different oceans and seas, that Allah subhanaw taala created. When
you look out on the ocean and you're at the seashore and you
just see water or you're in the middle of the ocean, just
surrounded by water and you don't see any land, the vastness that is
there. It indicates internally, and every person who fits that or
realizes this, that it must have had a maker, it puts you in a
state of all at this natural beauty that points to the beauty
of our Lord subhanho wa Tada. And so he says, Philip Hammond Tati
minha SIFAT de la sol gel which Allah Allah Whoa. So let the one
reciting the Quran understand from verses that pertain to like
creation of the heavens and the earth, the attributes of Allah
azza wa jal and His Majesty
and His greatness and the canal liquidity in the perfect nature of
his power. In Fittler, you do alpha because the ACT indicates
the doer of the act, it points to it for todo lo Allah to Allah
ultimately. So the greatness of the Act indicates the greatness of
the one who did the act for anybody in your Shadowfell faintly
alpha l do not fail. So what is befitting of a believer, whenever
they witnessed anything happening, any act is that they witnessed the
thought or the doer of the Act,
as opposed to being restricted to the act itself. From an artifact,
Huck are all equally shade. And so whoever knows the truth here, with
a capital T, Allah Jalla Jalla, Allah, He will see Him in
everything. And what is meant here is not that we see Allah increase,
you don't see Allah in creation. Allah does not exist in his
creation.
We don't believe and animism or pantheism we don't believe that a
God God is spirit in his creation. We don't believe in that. Allah
originated everything and brought it into existence. So when we say
that he sees Allah and everything, ie he witnesses the divine impact
upon creation, he realizes that what is collusion for who a man
who everything originates from him, this is what it means to see
along everything. Everything originates from Him, follow a man
who was a lay, and everything returns to Him, somehow no data
will be he will a whole, everything subsists through him.
And everything belongs to him subhanho data. That's what it
means to see a lot everything. We're aware of that. And we can
have that with knowledge at first. But the goal as we traverse
through life, is to tread a path of spiritual purification, where
then this is witnessed at the level of the heart. And this is
what
means to be an RF biller to be unaware of Allah is that the the
RF biller witnesses everything originating from him returning to
him subsisting through him and belonging to him. subhanho wa
Taala
and then he says woman lair, Rafi Colima, Europa Canyon Houma. Arafa
and so if anyone who doesn't see Allah and everything that is the
disease is if the he doesn't know him, woman out of out of coalition
mahalo Allah balterio and whoever knows him knows that everything
other than Allah is false, ie their existence is contingent,
it's as if it's non existent. And it only exists because Allah
created it allowed it to exist in upholds its of its existence in
subsistence, some hunter who went to either one no coalition,
Harlequin Illawarra, and that everything is perishing, except
His Countenance subhanaw taala Latin No, Sir Yom Tov is done in
Ha not that it is going to perish sometime in the future, or in some
other state. No, who has an Balta right now it is Baltimore. And
this word Baltimore is the word that you use for falsehood. And
what is really meant here is that it's non existent, ie it doesn't
exist in of itself. It's Balt it can only exist if Allah gives it
existence and substitutes SubSys its existence Subhan Allah data in
October that woman hater who if we consider the essence of anything,
nothing exists in and of itself, only Allah has independent
existence, he is the wajib it will do the Necessarily Existent
Subhana wa Tada. All other existence is contingent. In
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the existence of any other thing
is insofar as it exists because Allah subhanaw taala brought it
into existence in SubSys its existence through his power to
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only in this consideration is considered to actually be existent
will be to this is the cloud Voltron Matt, but if you talk
about independently independent existence, that it is sheer, non
existence sheer falsehood will have that map their own minimum
bad Edmund McHale Shiva, this is one of them about that. One of the
starting points principles, first things that someone starts to
witness with the science of unveiling
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he says that the one reciting they should if they're reciting the
following verses of Allah subhana wa Tada afar AITSL Mata hydrophone
Have you not reflected upon or considered what you so far hmm,
and Lita Shadowmoon Have you not reflected upon the water that you
drink fra terminology to Rome, have you not reflected upon the
fire you have kindled fra tomato noon, have the unit reflected upon
the * that you emanate. Allah Yoxall another hot and when not
when health when money is that our reflection should not be
restricted to the water, the fire, the seeds that we're sowing, or
the * itself Belia to AMA, we should reflect deeply what is
behind these acts in creation. So we see water, we see fire we see
the sowing of seeds and what grows from it. We see within the human
being, we have this fluid that will lead to something.
And this is what he's saying we should reflect deeply upon us. So
he said he mentioned the example of many, that human beings *.
And that if we think about how it is, and everything that it leads
to, in the way that a child is born, and everything that that
child then develops, and all of the traits that are developed, and
he mentioned in great deal detail and just glossing over all of that
process that takes place from inception until the child is born.
And then until the child grows and everything that happens, this is
truly amazing. The creation of a human being is amazing. If we
really think deep
about it, how human beings originate, and then the process
whereby wish that they grow in the womb of their mother. And then
when they're born and then they slowly grow and go through phases
of life. How is this all happening? Only a calf, someone
who denies the truth will not come to the conclusion that this is
from Allah subhanho wa taala. We should reflect very deeply upon
this fear to AMA and then he quotes a verse in the Quran, our
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Have they not seeing how we created the human being from a
drop of fluid from * for either who will call * will
been and then you find him openly argument, argumentative, and
arguing.
Nyla had a lot. And how could that be? That it's as if all of a
sudden we forgotten. All of the stages that went before us, we've
forgotten how it is that we were born, we forgotten everything that
we were given so that we could grow and then for either who will
have seen when will being he just argues openly fit. Ahmed had a
giant let him think deeply about these wonders. Li Europa minha ala
Jebel Agia him so that he can be raised in rank and come to the
most wondrous of all wondrous things or who has sunnah. And this
is the act of the maker, the act of the sauna, the one who made
everything that is, as it is a Latina, saw that it had a hijab,
that all of these amazing things and wondrous things came from
Falaj, as a younger son, it was your asana. And this person that
reflects deeply, when they look at what was created, they looked at
what was made, it points to the Creator, and it points them to the
maker.
And again, we have to train ourselves to do this train
ourselves. It's like reading, you don't learn another language
overnight. It takes time to learn the letters and practice the
letters and to learn them individually. And then place them
in sentences, and then you learn words, and then you learn
sentences, and so forth, and so on. And then eventually, you have
a number of different skills that you can read very quickly. And you
can analyze arguments and develop opinions and all these other types
of things and can connect knowledge that you have from
before to knowledge that is that you're acquiring and so forth, and
so on. And you can become a very complex level five reader, where
you are very skilled and adept. However, that doesn't happen
overnight, you have to begin with the alphabet. And learning the end
of that, and the TAT and your abs and your C's, and learn the
preliminary knowledge in order to be able to do that. Likewise, when
it comes to reflection, we can't just say, Oh, this is hard, like,
learning language is hard. So because learning language is hard,
you're going to not learn a language. Think about learning
Arabic, how long it takes. Think about learning any language to
become proficient in Arabic, not going to say fluent, proficient in
Arabic, proficiency defined here, as
you understand most of what you read an array of different books.
And we'll just focus on classical traditional Arabic, classical
Arabic, you understand most of what you read, and almost
everything of what you hear from a teacher teaching you. That's like
a basic level of proficiency, that takes roughly two years to reach
that place that reached that point, where you've put in work on
a daily basis, maybe four to five hours a day, over a period of two
years, then you'll reach that level of proficiency. And it might
take a little bit longer, for some people might be a little bit
quicker. But there are no shortcuts. And unless ALLAH had to
give you an opening, you just learn language like that it's
possible. But generally speaking, it takes people two years of full
time study, putting in a lot of work to get the grasp of Arabic
language. I've seen this through experience. And yes, in one year,
you can have a program that gets you ready to study a second year
all in Arabic. But still, you'll need to continue Arabic studies
and you'll have to use translation for many of the meanings that
you're learning. It takes time. And likewise, this takes time. But
we have to learn how to do it and cultivate this within ourselves
and spend time reflecting. So he's this is what he mentions in terms
of what you could call one of the overarching themes which pertains
to Allah. And he spoke here about His attributes and His acts, and
then he shifts to talk
About the heart of the MVR
Allah He was salam. And to learn about the circumstances in the
states of the prophets, may the peace and blessings of Allah be
upon them. So he says Fe that semi minha unknown god kafer because
evil will Dodi we will go to Wilco Tila battledome. And when we read
about how some of them were belied, they weren't believed in,
some of them were physically harmed, some of them were even
killed. Failure of Herman Husi is definitely
one of the meanings that we can take from that is the trait of
independence, self subsistence of Allah, as Urgell and also one more
study lane, Allah is not a need of the messengers he sends, or those
who he is sending the messengers to. And where he went, no lo
halacha. Jimmy and we're here to destroy all of them. Lamb, you as
the female Keisha, that wouldn't affect his dominion in any way.
And that's very humbling for the human being to come to terms with
it. We, on one hand, are significant, because Allah to
Allah made a significant because he's given us the ability to know
Him. But our significance is in our ability to know him.
On the other hand, we're totally insignificant,
totally, completely insignificant. Where Allah Tala just completely
destroy every single one of us. It wouldn't affect his dominion
anyway. So man with that,
and who are we to think that we deserve to exist? Who are we to
think that somehow we are entitled to have what is that we have?
These are very deep seated diseases of the heart, that get us
in a lot of trouble as human beings. And so we have to hammer
this meaning to our heart is that a law is absolutely independent.
subhanaw taala he is self subsistent. He does not need us to
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called the roto Lars or gel with your orderliness Rachel Huck. And
then we read the stories about the prophets and how Allah helps them
in the end, after going through immense hardship. Usually, this
reminds us and points to the power of Allah.
What we extrapolate from those stories is the power of Allah, we
come to believe in His power. And we can believe in our own context,
it might not be overnight, but if your heart is with Allah, you will
come out on top in the end, even if they take your life, even if
you are in strange circumstances here in this world, you will be in
the place that you need to be accepted by your Lord subhanho wa
taala. So this should teach us about the power of Allah subhanho
wa taala.
And how he wants to give victory to truth.
As for if we read about the wild, the very states of the McCarthy
between those who deny revelation and don't believe in Allah or his
messengers, can I add in with the mood, the people if ad and the
tribes of people if the mood well Margera it him everything that
happened in folio, coinfected woman who is dished out at home,
our meaning our thumb, when reading stories like this, is that
we should feel hope, fear in our heart. We should fear the software
of Allah. We should fear Subhana wa Tada his power when he's Nigma
in his punishment, what you're going to help them no antibiotics
enough. See, our portion from those stories should be learning
lessons in and of our own selves. We don't just read those stories
like Oh, see what happened to you? No, no, we learn and read those
stories to make sure that doesn't happen to us that we don't act
like that. And this is extremely extremely important one no either
in the Raffaella oh a sad that was thought to be held for the record
Nakama will turn booth we had called the saying that we worry in
half, and we're distrust and we're fearful that if we become
heedless, or we have bad and we become deceived by this time that
Allah data has given us perhaps that something might go wrong, we
end up getting punishment, we end up getting punished and something
bad happens a sauce and I'm gonna have here he says it likewise if
you hear the description of Paradise, and the fire and
everything else that is in the Quran Furla Yom Kippur, Stokes amo
Femina. It's not possible for us to detail everything that's
understand it for
I'm all of those different things. Linda daddy Kalani hiatal, whoa,
because there's no end to that. When I'm out equally abdomen home
will cut the recipe. Every human being will understand according to
his risk, his sustenance that has been determined for him and
definitely what we understand is from our sustenance. Find out
Ottawa. What are you obviously lucky to have been? We've been
pointing to a verse in the Quran is that there is nothing green or
moist. There's nothing moist or dry, nothing green or dry. Except
that is in a manifest Book. And then Allah says Good luck, Canada
Hello, me dad. And they can imagine rugby say that. If the
ocean were ink for the words of my Lord Allah nephrite and bajada,
covenant and feta Kalamata be, the ocean would be exhausted would be
dried up before the words of my Lord, were exhausted, would OG not
be missing he muda even if we came with the likes of it, ie another
ocean of ink, the same thing what happened? What he's article called
out, you know the Allahu Anhu for this reason, sila Halimeda.
Matala, who learned Tafseer directly from satan Mohamed salah,
Lai they send them hello shit to let our call to Sabina by Edom in
tipsy and fat, your hotel keytab.
Why to have one, I could have written so many volumes of
commentary on the Fatiha that will take in 70 camels to carry those
volumes. So just to put this into perspective, a buyer a camel can
carry roughly 500 kilograms 500 kilograms. And let's just say a
book weighs for math sake to make it easy to kilograms. So let's say
that 200 So two times 250 equals 500. So 250 volumes per camel. So
then you can do the math, whatever 250 times 70 Is he said, Well, I
tell one or two I've could have written that many volumes of a
commentary of the fat your hotel keytab and that's with the fat
fell a lot of Domi Medaka attend be added to the Caterham. The
purpose of what we've mentioned in this subsection of this chapter is
to indicate how it is that we can have to feel at home ie strive to
understand Allah subhanaw taala his books the infantry hubbub, so
the door of understanding opens for a monistic saw as for going
into painstaking detail, thoroughly filming on multiple IV
there's no way for us to really desire that or to do that. Well my
name Yoko no pheromone Murphy Lakota and Willow. Edna Richard
Dakota if you hold the data in someone who doesn't have even the
least degree of understanding and last book in May Allah Tada give
us that and give us more and give us a an in depth deep
understanding of his book. Otherwise we could enter into the
words of ALLAH Tada Woman Oh man a stimulator we Laker hotter either
huddles woman Indigo Caudill call Lulu Deena who told Enma Mala kala
Antifa and from among them are those who listen to you until they
leave your presence. And then they say to those who have been given
knowledge, what did he just say before we let you get it in a
tuber Allah Allah Kurumi they're the ones that a lot to add has
sealed their hearts and this tawbah otol bit and a seal. These
are from the marijuana, the various preventatives of
understanding that he's going to actually mention and the next
subsection will clot peeler, and it has been said Leo * and
modied meridian. The aspirant the one seeking closeness to Allah is
not really considered to be a modied someone who's truly seeking
closeness to Allah had a big day filled Quranic kulana you need
until he finds in the Quran, everything that is he is searching
for while you're going to knock Salman amazi we're still gonna bid
molar and a bead and he finds sufficiency and he takes refuge in
Allah subhanaw taala data from all of his servants and that yes
stubborn even molar. He trusts in him Subhanallah Tata and relies on
him and doesn't rely upon His servants. And so
the fruit of reflecting deeply on the Quran contemplate it striving
to understand it.
Is that where we you and I have this very intimate relationship
with his book. Every time we read a verse, we realize that it's
pointing to a very deep meaning.
And that deep meaning relates to you
Our relationship with Allah subhana wa Tada. So this is one of
the most important subsections of any chapter in this particular
work and of everything that we've been discussing thus far. This is
one of the most important things of all, learning to strive to
understand the meanings of Allah to Allah his book, so that our
relationship can strengthen in the way that was described. And of
course, if we start to understand the meanings behind these verses,
and they teach us how it is to be before Allah subhanaw taala we are
definitely going to have our relationship with the Quran,
strengthen Allah to give us Tofik and bless us in all of our fears
and open up the doors of understanding for all of us who
are humbled army and the doors of release realization, so that we
put these things into practice in a way that is pleasing to Him.
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