Yahya Rhodus – Our Relationship the Quran #3
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Rasulillah. While early he was so happy Omen by Allah, welcome to
our second session of nurturing our relationship with the Quran.
And actually our third session of nurturing our relationship with
the Quran. And we will continue our study, but it knew that I had
to add, and the outward etiquettes of tilava of recitation of Allah
subhanaw taala, his book, and these our etiquettes are very
important because they are the way that we are carrying ourselves
outwardly so that we can experience the meanings of Allah
subhanaw taala his book inwardly. And this next etiquette, the
etiquette, its next etiquette relates to what Remember Was it
calls the metadata of Cara, the amount that we recite Allah
subhanaw taala this book, and I'm going to present what he has here,
and then contextualize it for us. There are many aspects of this
book here Luma Deen,
that seem unreachable for people in our time, it seems like this is
just simply something that we will never ever be able to do. But just
because we can't attain all of something, doesn't mean either
that we just completely give up. What we want to do is to attain a
balance in relation to our deen and do an amount that's
manageable, something that we can do sustainably and then slowly
increase over a period of time. But it is important to know what
is out there to have the correct understanding of how this
particular matter should be viewed.
So, the metadata of the kata how much Quran should we be reciting?
So remember was it starts by saying that the Quran the people
who recite ALLAH SubhanA antis book, they have different types of
customs in relation to how much or how little they recite and then he
says from among them are those who do a hatom. So the Hatha Maya,
Timo is to seal and this is can be used in a verbal form to indicate
a complete reading of the Quran.
So he says there are some who would do a complete reading of the
Quran in one day. So they would write, recite part of it at during
the day and part of it at night and do an entire reading of the
Quran in one day.
And one example of someone like that we have is the case of Sidna
birthmom and fn. We know that there are times where he would do
a complete hatom in one raka one cycle of prayer. This was also
what has been narrated about the great Imam Muhammad divinities, a
Shafi that he would do an entire reading of the Quran every single
day. And then we also know that in Ramadan, he would even do more he
will do to HUD homes of the Koran every single day. Imam Shafi. Now,
someone might say, How could that be, and I'll mention this now to
prepare you for what's to come. Because there's something that
Imam Ali says in the book called his book on the book of
remembrance is where he actually says that he'll speak about the
most that is reached in that someone recites the Koran in a day
and night.
And well we have to understand is we have a view of time that is
based upon belief, and Allah to Allah could put Baraka in blessing
in someone's time, so that time expands for that particular
individual.
And when we look at a very that limited view of time as you and I
experience it, ie if I'm looking at the clock on the wall, and I'm
looking at the how every second is passing, and there's 60 seconds in
a minute, and so forth and so on. And there's 60 minutes in an hour,
and then there's 24 hours in a day. And I know that when I recite
Quran, depending on how fast I recite the fastest that I can
recite it, I can do a juice in 20 minutes or 25 minutes or 30
minutes. And so let's just say that someone's an extremely fast
reciter because there's so adept and without reciting the Quran,
the way that it actually becomes offensive or even haram 15
minutes, just so even if that were the case, that 15 times four, so
that's for just an hour. And then that time seven, is that seven
hours and then plus another 30 minutes too. So seven and a half
hours would be
As someone who recites very quickly, and then you would add to
that, so if someone would say that if I was going to do two hot tubs
and let's say I could do in 10 hours, that's going to take 20
hours of the day, where's the remaining time going to go between
food, eat, sleep, drink and things like that? It doesn't seem like it
adds up. This is the same mentality that people had when.
And I've actually read this and Orientalis that commented on the
mama Bahati, who has over 7000 Hadith in his famous collection,
his sadiya. And when he comments on the fact that he took this from
600,000 Hadith that he was familiar with. And what we mean by
that number of hadith is the various chains, not different
actual texts themselves, and what the Prophet is saying, and so some
different chains back to him satellites, and them. And this
oriental said, okay, that we're ready to give, a man will have 15
minutes to look through each one of those narrations. And he's
using this kind of rational way of thinking about it, it would have
taken him this amount of time. So for him to say that he completed
this in this amount of time, this is impossible. This is impossible,
based upon your limited view of things. But when you believe in
Allah, and you believe in the fact that Allah can expand time for
you, and can allow you to do an enormous amount in a very short
period of time. Subhan Allah, then you have a very different view. Do
we not believe that our Prophet sallallahu Sana, went on the night
of the SRR from Mecca and macabre, all the way to Jerusalem to
GoodSearch Sharif, and then ascended up into heaven, went into
the divine presence came back, and his bed was still warm sunlight
and Addis Ababa. Now, do we not believe in that, of course we do.
Meaning, because we believe in Allah, we believe that He is the
creator of time and space. And he can cause us to have blessing in
our time in the way that he wills to political autonomy. But this is
one of the things it's very important for us to note. It's
part and parcel of the modern world, it seems and the more
secular any society becomes, it seems that blessing is taken from
the time
and it seems that we don't have a lot of time. Whereas these people
who came before us their lives, yes, oftentimes the great Imams
especially revolved around the Dean but there was an immense
amount of blessing in their time. And so Imam Shafi that he used to
to Hutton's a day in the blessing month of Ramadan so he says from
among them are those who have done a hot term in one day and then
from among them are those
that did two hot items in one day and then from among nor are those
that did three hot items in one day.
And then remember was it switches to the the amount that he feels to
be the least amount we should be doing? Woman who often fish out of
water and there are those who done a hot tub every single month? And
so there's a note here in this print and I remember reading this
and the coffee mama No, Mama No, we is that he says that the most
that has reached him
are those that have done eight Huttons of the Quran in one day,
for during the day and four at night. He says how the XR Marbella
gonna fill Yama Leila. Now, we Allah is called that adequately
shake. If Allah wanted to expand your time such that was possible
Subhan Allah. And obviously this is not something that you and I
can do. This is requires an immensely powerful spiritual
state. But it's important that we mentioned it. Because the whole
purpose of us knowing that there are people that spent this amount
of time reciting the Quran every single day should indicate to us
we need to have relationship with the Quran.
We need to have a relationship with the Quran. And this etiquette
of the amount of Quran we recite. If you really think about it,
think about how we've neglected Allah's book.
This is Allah's book. I was just recording the session earlier,
quoting Imam was already in quoting the great email when you
say it can be and both of them spoke about the Quran, how it
essentially is an invitation from Allah to his creation, to call his
creation to himself subhanho wa Taala
the Quran was revealed so that you and I can be guided and come to
know our Lord to bodycote data. Knowing that reality in this
incident is the number one reason we should read the
brought on, learn the Koran and come to know the meanings of the
Quran is so that you and I can draw on your to Elijah that this
is what it's about.
And if you understand that, and you understand that this is the
whole purpose of existence is to draw near to Allah to Allah, then
what is our relationship with okwara
We oftentimes get into the watching videos of different
sorts, and we might watch different series, whatever
someone's watching in the moment, whether it's aerotow, or something
else. And think about the amount of time that you spin, watching
some type of series that you like, think about how you binge watch,
think about how you're tired the next day at work as a result. And
we do that for some type of series. We do that for some type
of movie, we do that for some type of soap opera, or something of his
nature. But what is our relationship with Allah.
That is how people were with Allah to add his book, The way people
are now with series like or tall or whatever people are watching.
That's how people were with the last book, they fell in love with
it.
In it caused them to have sleepless nights, so that they
spent their time in worship of Allah Jalla gelato, and we should
be embarrassed before Allah subhanaw data, that we do it for
dunya let alone doing it for something that relates to our
knifes, let alone doing it for haram, we should be utterly
embarrassed before Allah. Here we have the Quran before us. And the
Quran will be a means for us to come to know Allah. But we don't
recite it. Nor do we take the time to learn how to read it into
recite it properly. Anyone, even someone who is older, and even
someone who
that
that is not out of an origin. If you put time into it, you can
learn to read Allah subhanaw taala his book, and people have
different degrees of that, of course. But even if you recite the
Quran extremely slowly,
the reward in that is immense. And even if you struggle with even the
recitation you never ever come to learn the meanings. Still, in
giving it it's right in doing what you can,
there will be immense benefit in it. And a person in that state
should also read the translation of the meanings so that they have
access to some of the meanings of Allah subhanaw taala his book. So
this indicates to us how the people before us approach the
Quran, and how seriously took this matter. It was an integral part of
their day.
And this is what our teachers would teach is that we should open
Allah to others and read Allah's book every single day. And if
we're so busy, and for some reason, we can't even read like a
page, they said, at least just look at the Masaf.
So that you develop a habit of having a connection to Allah to
his book, every single night, let's bring this to life. And when
you read, and I've remember reading,
about some of the tendencies that are afflict, affecting people of
religion in general, and that particular study was about
Christians, and the percentage of people who would read Scripture
regularly, and how that was decreasing dramatically, and how
more and more there's less and less people reading. And there's
less and less people reading scripture. This is something that
you and I have to bring into our own lives and bring into our
households. We don't want our children to be distant from the
book of Allah to have a year pass. And they haven't done a hard time
that they haven't a month pass and they haven't read a page of the
Quran. We should bring this into our homes, or our homes are known
for reciting Quran. And if the Quran becomes a priority,
in our mind, this is very easy to happen. Again, think about the
amount of screen time in our homes.
And we can't spend 30 minutes a day with the Koran. We can't spend
20 minutes a day with the Quran. And we spend all our time doing
these other things. We should be embarrassed before Allah. And then
we wonder why when we go through tribulations, we don't have our
spiritual immune system built enough to be able to deal with it.
We want we wonder why we get afflicted in different ways. And
this is our state they handle.
If the Quran was a priority in our minds, we would make it a priority
in terms of how much we read it every single day. So let's do
better be any light I don't let's take the opportunity of Ramadan to
do this.
So then he says
Hola Maya la vie to the RAD Koto Rasulullah sallallahu sallam. And
so then he's going to quote a hadith of our Prophet sallallahu
Sallam where in this is a Hadith
from the Muslim Imam Ahmed.
In other collections of tournament even measurable Dawood manakala.
The Quran Fe atoll means that Athan LEM yufka. Whoever recites
the Quran and finishes a complete reading in less than three days,
they will not he will not understand it fully. And so that
hadith is there. And this is in general how this is a good measure
for many people according to a mammal Rosati, but it also doesn't
negate those that received a special Baraka in their time that
recite it in the amount of time that was mentioned. Because surely
oath members are fine would have known that hadith of our Prophet
SAW I sent him and so that has a particular type of understanding
for with it for a particular person who would be reciting in a
way that they wouldn't be able to concentrate. No, he says because
that when that you recite the Quran, in less than a period of
three days based upon this hadith, it prevents what is called Tata T
il reciting, in a that slow fashion where you give every
letter. It's right. And in a proper fashion. What did l Khorana
Tara Tila in a slow measured fashion in a way that's beautiful.
No, and then say to Aisha, as she said when she heard someone you
hold Quran reciting so quickly, that he started to potentially
make mistakes in the way that he was reciting. And she says in the
Hadith, Mr. Quran Quran Allah says that this man has not really read
the Quran, nor has he remained silent.
So then we have specific narrations as the memo was it
mentions where the prophet Sunlife sent him is that he told Abdullah
bin Ahmed radula and Houma to do a hatom of the Quran once a week,
every seven days.
And many of the Sahaba This is how they did it as well. They would do
an entire hartham Every Joomla once a week and finish the Hutton
on Joomla and he mentions the likes of databind dabba timidness
ood and obey even Cobb, Radi Allahu Anhu. So we have different
narrations about the amount that people came before us used to
recite. So what he meant was that he's going to do now he's going to
suggest what he thinks is the best course of action.
Okay, and, again, this is for his time, and will comment at the end.
So he says that,
that l Hutton Filion WELEDA. Kakheti hijama so there's some
that say it's actually mcru to do a hatom in one day.
While hatom frequently Shahara
frequently yo Hola, Yeoman juice unmin Tara dangers and what can
anymore by lack of electricity, he said to do a custom every 30 days
so that you read one just a day, he says that this is the very
least that should be done. So he's proved that he's presenting both
sides. And again, this is for his time, that some say it's more
crude to do a hotter man one day, that just a day. So as you do a
hotter man a month. That's the very minimum that he said we
should be reciting. He says
that between these two degrees, there's two balanced approaches.
The first is to that do a Hutton every week.
I had them a week, which means that you would be reciting a
little bit over forges of the Quran every single day.
He says that the second way to do it, you want to do a little bit
more. So it's it's a little bit less than Ohama. Week, a little
bit more than 100 per week and a little bit less than doing it
every day. Is that to do to Hutton's a week,
in every week to do to Hutton's and then he gives detailed
guidance
on how that actually should be done. He says and yes them HUD
Martin Vallejo HUD webinars is that you start one item that you
do, and you're doing this over the course of a week that you finish
that HUD home at night, and then another HUD home that you do by
day, so you have to Hudson's going simultaneously and that way a hot
button a hot humid name. So you finish the hot temperature during
the day in the day on Monday in the to Docker as a fuzzer or right
after them. And then you make the hattem of the night on the night
before Juma in the tube rocker as of McGraw. And so what he means
here is the Sonata casts so
In the Tucson under cost of McGraw and whereas the first is the two
sooner UK as a Fudger
or right after them. And he says what's the wisdom in doing it like
this, so that by doing these two items at this time, you are
approaching the time that is during the beginning of the day
and the beginning of the night. Because we know that there are
angels that will offer special prayers for someone
as someone's doing this Cottam by night before interest into the day
and likewise by day before they enter into the night. So you'll
get the baraka of those angels who are preying upon them whether they
are by night or by day
numb.
And then he says that if someone is from the Aberdeen the
worshipers decide to King that are traveling a spiritual path, we
thought he can ama that are that
endeavoring to work for the sake of Allah to Allah. He says that
they should not do less than two atoms a week.
No, and he says when Cana Mina said it can be a credible doodle
but fikar omen and Michel de munition n. Okay, so the Saudi
King are different, those that are taking a pesto luchadors some of
them focus more upon Iman actually doing deeds, doing acts of
worship. And then there are some that place more focus on my little
CALB the actions of the heart and focusing on flicker and
reflection. So the second category, the second group of
people or included in that category, as well are those that
are have learned knowledge and are spreading that knowledge. He says
that lab rats, it's okay for them to only do one hot tub a week,
he says and that if it's someone who requires a lot of time to
really reflect deeply upon the various verses of the Quran, he
says this person might want to do a hot them in a month. He says Lee
Cassidy the hygienic Catherine to deal with Emma because this person
might need to repeat the verses over and over again and to reflect
very deeply upon them.
So what do we take from this?
I want to bring this closer to home because sometimes people hear
this and some of you have might have already dropped off and like
oh my god, this is too hard for me. I can't do anything like this.
I'm I'm disillusioned. This was not meant to disillusion you. On
the contrary, this was meant to encourage you and my own sinful
self, who falls short all the time. Let's bring the Koran into
our life. Let's bring the Quran into our life. let's dedicate
ourselves to learning the Quran.
Let's start with learning how to recite the Quran property. Let's
follow that up with learning the Arabic language in learning the
meanings of the Quran even over a long period of time learning key
words of the Quran if we're not going to learn Arabic grammar and
some of the other sciences associated with the language. Well
let's also simultaneously learn the meanings of the Quran. And
whatever language that is that we speak. Let's revere the Quran in
honor of the Quran. And make an intention to put it into practice.
And as you and I put that effort in, let's make a portion of our
day for the Quran. And whatever it is that we're doing in relation to
the Quran, whether we are learning to recite it or to read it or
studying it, let's make a portion of our day for Allah subhanaw
taala his book.
And let's make sure that regularly, we are both learning to
read we are actually reading and learning the meanings of his books
and Pinilla data. And the more we do this the closer our
relationship will be. And even if we can't do a cut them in one day,
or hug them every three days or 200 times a week or 100 them a
week even.
It least let's try to do a hatom Every once in a while. And
depending upon how fast one reads, and again I know there are a lot
of especially converts out there
who struggle with us they hear this and they feel disillusioned
and it makes them feel bad that they haven't learned Allah
subhanaw taala his book. The intent here is not to make you
feel bad. We all fall short. But let's dedicate ourselves to
learning and even for you that if you find trouble reciting recite
what you can even if it's half a page, even if it's a third of a
page, and then read the translation of the meanings. And
so for those of those difficult for the Arabic You can still read
the translation the meanings and do so regularly. And then slowly
build your ability to learn that your ability to recite the Quran,
and then those that are can recite fairly well. Let's
Find a balanced approach to how much it is that we recite.
And let's start with that no less ever than 100 them a year. And
let's move beyond that, where we start doing a hot tub every six
months, and then set another goal, where we do a hot turn every two
months. And then let's set a goal where we can get up to a HUD home
every month. And this is a good thing for us to do in our time, if
you can have someone in our time that does a HUD a month, that's a
very good thing. And that's way above the average of our time,
even though in relation to previous times, that was like the
bare bare bare minimum. But in our time, that's a good average. And
that some of our teachers that we were able to meet, despite all of
their preoccupations and everything is that they were doing
would still take time to do a hard time of the Quran every week. And
in the school in which I studied, we would do 100 of the Quran every
week. And that in terms of how much we would read, they would
have us read officially a just a day with other people. But then
the school collectively would do a Hudson a week. So the meaning here
is to bring the Quran into our lives. This is so so so important.
And some of the meanings of the Quran that we don't fully
understand. Go to the Quran with humility. Ask a lot to make you
understand what you don't know whether it's some of the meanings
the Arabic words you don't know other whether it's some of the
meanest your learning loss book like oh, how do I understand that?
Go with humility to a loss but go with seeking understanding. Go
with knowing you're limited in your perspective. And you need to
be taught how it is that you should see things. Go with
humility. If you go with arrogance, without a biller,
you'll be blind, you'll be blinded from the signs of Allah subhanaw
taala and from the meanings of His Verses, may Allah to Allah blesses
to bring the Quran to our lives yada but I don't mean as
individuals, as families and as a community. Let's do this. Let's
all take part in this and bring life to this blessed sunnah of our
prophesy Sam to recite the Quran regularly. And then after that,
there's a lot that will then happen. This is we like to speak
about Islamic civilization and all of these great achievements have
none of that was possible. Without the Quran. None of that was
possible, without the time that the great pious people and Elon
Musk spent went to Quran. This should be at the forefront of our
religious practice. May Allah Tada give us two feet to do this and
bless us and all of our different affairs will sell a lot as in
Muhammad and why the audio saga Salam Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil
Alameen