Yahya Rhodus – Our Relationship the Quran #5
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Salah more Allah because he Nyla via
Salah more Allah Smilla Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil
Alameen wa salam Allahu Allah so you didn't know Muhammad and while
early he will be he was salam, as you mean and hamdulillah we're
going to continue our study of this very beneficial book of
intimate Deen book eight on the keytab T lautet Quran and about
the various proprieties of reciting the Quran all of this to
learn how it is that we can strengthen our relationship with
the Quran and the Hadith on this blessed day as you might see you
in my what jacket that I'm wearing and Humpty mercy is descending,
it's raining where we are. And Mackenzie Pennsylvania and
inshallah Tada. It's also raining spiritually in the unseen realm
from the mercy of Allah to Allah gives to people during the special
month of Ramadan. Every time that the fast is broken, there are
600,000 and other nourishing 1 million people that are locked out
to release this from the fire. And there's many released meanings of
being released from the fire. And this is why we should be
especially cautious to be present with Allah subhanaw taala. When we
break our fast, it's very easy to be in a state of heedlessness to
be cooking or to be making coffee or to be worried about, well,
maybe not in these days getting to where you need to go. In other
days, when you're invited to Iftar you're racing last minute to get
to some get somewhere, that we should really try to do that to
the extent possible ahead of time, so that those last three or four
minutes, that we are in a state of
penitence, and asking Allah Allah to forgive us. And that being
present with him Subhanallah data.
One of the beautiful things that we can do is to repeat
these these blessed words, and this was done, where I studied in
tidying and how the remotes and they recite throughout the day,
but especially just before of tar, a shadow in
law and style federal law, they said oh congenita whenever they
become in a nod, they repeat that three times and then they say a
law Menaka iPhone to hit but off off off one, three times. And so
this is a very good practice to do with your children at home with
the group that you are breaking your fast with, so that we can be
present with Allah subhanaw taala in those last moments, may Allah
Allah bless us, and May He strengthen our relationship with
the Quran in this Blissett month here at hamara. He mean
so we are now on the other side. It's the sixth etiquette that
herget tsunami memos that he mentions. And this is an etiquette
that is of the utmost importance, and it is one of the abandoned son
suddenness, the Sunnah and Majora of the Prophet Muhammad Salah laid
out his IV syndrome and it is a sunnah that is so important. There
is a direct relationship between the number of people in the OMA
that are observing the Sunnah, and the good that comes to the Ummah
and the more the people there are, the more good that's going to come
to the Ummah, the lesser are, is that the less good that's going to
come to the Ummah and this is nothing other than the son of Boca
weeping for the sake of Allah to Allah. And so he mentions this is
one of the outward etiquettes and
Allah subhanaw taala mentions in the Koran or either towards Allah
Allah him Isaiah two Rukmani Hanro Sudan Wolbachia, when the signs
the verses of the merciful are recited to them, they fall down,
prostrate, and weep. And as one of the subjects used to say, how the
subject of fainted because this is the prostration so where is the
weeping? In this verse, Huddersfield, Judah and they fall
down prostrate, wobble key, yeah. And they're in the state of
weeping. And this is something that you and I need to bring into
our religious life and to realize that a sign of a hard heart is the
fact that we don't shed tears. This is a very healthy thing to
do. One of the healthiest things of all to do spiritually is to
weep for the sake of Allah to motorcoach data. And so he
remembers that he says edible car almost the Hub One mile Cara, it
is recommended that we weep while we are reciting the Quran. And
there is a Hadith and he mentions the Hadith in different parts, but
the hadith is in in magia, and a
Last Aparna and our Prophet Salah lie down just have you sent him
said in a hadith the Koran, nessa Libby husband, this Quran was sent
down with herzan, sadness, grief.
And what is meant by that is the one who reflects deeply on Allah
subhanaw taala his book will realize this affair is serious.
This is not a joke. We weren't created in vain. And there are
repercussions what is that we do in the unknown, of the future is
sufficient for us to be in a state of trepidation, a state of worry
and to be sad internally because we realize the very little that
Our Lord has commanded of us we have fallen so short in so in a
huddle Quran has to be Herson it has been revealed with his and
with sadness for ADA have caught up to mo Ferb, cool. So if you
recite Allah's book, then weep. For LM taboo for tobacco, if you
do not weep, then force yourself to do so force yourself to weep.
And so what is our profit satellites and and teaching us
here, that we can sometimes feign something until it becomes a part
of your reality.
And he's going to give us details here about how to actually do
that, how to actually force ourselves to cry and how to force
ourselves to have grief in our hearts. But just the proposition
of doing something that you is not, because you can't, you can't
really, you cry, because you're affected by something, and then
you cry.
But the fact that we can force ourselves to cry, and there is a
truth in this sense, fake it till you make it.
And even though that sometimes used in a worldly sense, the
religious dimension of that here is true. You force yourself to be
the way that you know you need to be and then it will start to
naturally come from you. And this is actually the case with many
traits of character. You have to force yourself to be like that.
You have to struggle with yourself, you know, you shouldn't
be like that. You try to make yourself like that, until it flows
naturally from you. And so, in this case, that our proposition is
referring to weeping, if we do if you do not weep, then force
yourself to weep. And then the Hadith ends what to hon no big
recite the Quran beautifully for men labdanum yet the 100
behaviourally Samina whoever doesn't recite the Quran and adorn
the recitation is not from us.
So, one of the righteous is that he said that I had a dream where
in the dream, I was reciting the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi salam. So imagine that this righteous man is
has seen the prophesy centum in a dream and he's reciting the Quran
to him. And then the Prophet Salah liason said to him, this is a
dream, of course, yeah, I saw that. That was his name, Salah had
the the Prophet Angel Booker. This is your recitation. So where is
the weeping, indicating that this is something that should be a part
of our recitation? And he mentioned the narration of of an
abbess, rhodiola and Houma, where he said, either corrupt him says
that a Subhana Allah tat Gob sujood had to tap goo. And so if
you recite this particular subject of Subhan, He says, Don't hasten
to prostrate until you have wept phantom Tab key I know I had a
comb, fell Yep, kalpoe. And that if your eye does not weep, ie you
don't have a tear shed with your physical eye, he said, then let
your heart weep.
And so open up the door for us to understand another dimension of
weeping. You can weep in your heart. And sometimes even if we're
not weeping outwardly, we could weep in our heart and the ideal is
to join between the two. So then emammal Azadi, what does he do? He
says,
The way to force yourself to cry is the following. In your Perdita,
cardboard husband, you bring to heart sadness, grief, because when
there's hesitant when there's sadness in the heart, naturally,
someone's going to cheer up. And then the key then is how do you
bring husband to the heart then, and he tells us how to do that as
well. And so if we have grief or sadness and the heart will
naturally weep, so then the key is to bring this horizon to the heart
and we can do that in the following way. He says and yet to
Emily Murphy imminent add, while worried, is
One reflects deeply upon the various warnings or threats in
Allah to his book, as well as his promises, reflect deeply upon
them.
Allah says this is what's going to happen if you do this. And this
should cause us to really change internally. And he says, Think
upon the mawatha, IP and the hood. Think about all of the covenants
that have been taken with us all of the trust's
and what it is that it's been placed upon our shoulders, and
what it is that we have to do. So when we think about this, and we
think about these various verses, and the verses of threats, the
verses that have promises in them, we think about the various
covenants that we have to fulfill, we think about the various
all of the different things that Allah to botica to Allah has made
binding upon Us. And then we think about our own Tafseer. We think
about our own shortcomings in relation to fulfilling His
commands in relation to fulfilling his proposition Subhanallah data.
Naturally, the heart will then
be in a state of grief and sadness. If where people live
human that's going to have to be the state. And don't get
disillusioned. If you tried to do this one time and it doesn't work.
Do it a second time, and a third time and a fourth time and a fifth
time and rely upon Allah Tabata Katana and you will see it will
have an impact upon your heart eventually. And how this is
incredibly practical advice is radiant and beneficial for us and
those moments that we spend implementing this will be some of
our best moments of life.
And keep in mind, one of the seven people, one of the seven people
who will be under the shade of the Throne of Allah subhanho wa Taala
is someone who sheds a tear, when they are alone in the remembrance
of Allah subhanaw taala out of fear of him Jalaja Allah. So this
these tears are waiting in the scale and these tears will be a
means of great good for us in this world and the next. So he says for
ya has any lady kala Mahalla are yep key then naturally, we will
come and we will start to cry. So then he says for en la mia, her
daughter, her husband will Boca KAMNA Yehudit Arbab kuruva Safiyah
he said, but then if we still find that when we do this, we don't
have we're not in a state of grief and we don't start weeping as the
way that the pure hearted do in the way that they have these
traits in the hearts he says fell Yeah, Biggie Allah fact in his
book, then we should wait for the fact that we're not weeping, or
for the fact that we don't have this spiritual grief in our
hearts, fended dedeker out of them and Messiah, because that's one of
the greatest calamities of all is that we are bereft of this. So
this is what he says. And this is in accordance with the Quranic
guidance. We quoted the first verse that came before and sort of
Maryam and Allah had also says, Will you fit Luna lid and Connie
Yep, gonna we as Ito Shula. And they fall down on their faces
weeping, and it increases them in humility. And so this is part of
our recitation. And one of the things that I will say there,
generally speaking, this should be done privately. And if it
overwhelms someone while they're with other people, then that is
fine. But when we're with other people, we should try to weep in
our hearts, and we're alone. We should weep openly, and especially
when we're trying to force ourselves to weep, we should do
this privately and between us and Allah subhanho wa taala. So then
the next etiquette, this is the seventh etiquette.
Imam was that he says in Uriah hackle ayat
is that we should make sure that we take great care to observe the
right of the various verses. And he means specifically here,
the verses that when you recite them that then you prostrate so
you recite the verse and then you prostrate and this is what is
called an eye of Sajida. And the such the, the prostrate itself was
called the
Sujit tilava, the prostration of recitation. And whether we're the
ones reciting, or whether we are hearing someone else recite and of
course Mama was it is the Shafi so he's going to be presenting the
sheffey opinion
And all throughout this discussion is that we recite when we are we
prostrate when we are the ones reciting just as if we hear
someone else reciting we prostrate as well. And he said that you
don't prostrate unless that you're in a state of the hotter according
to the Shafi school, and you have it as a prerequisite to prostrate
to be in a state of purification. And he says in the Quran, there
are 14 places where when we recite those verses that we then
prostrate, and some are Lama say 15.
And some Obama say different numbers as well. And he says in
sort of that hedge, there's two, and the subject and sort of sod
according to this jacket, yeah. Is not a place where we prostrate and
there's if they laugh about that, some of them include that in the
verses where you would prostrate. And then he starts to talk about
how it is that we prostrate to benefit from the fifth that we
need to know about it. The legal rulings, he says and yesterday
that we would jump at all is that the minimum that you do when you
hear that verse is that you just put your forehead on the ground ie
prostrate, and he said, an even better way of doing that is to say
Allahu Akbar. So you say, Allahu Akbar, and you don't have to be
standing. You could be sitting, you say, Allahu Akbar. And then
after that, you prostrate. And once you prostrate you make dua
ensued,
with what is with what is appropriate for the verse that is
that you recite it. And so he gives us a couple of examples
here. So, for instance, if you recite the verse 100 So Jordan was
Saba, who became the Rahim who may stick the room, they fall down in
prostrate and glorify the praises of their Lord, and they are not
hottie they do not show haughtiness for your cool. So an
example of a dua that we will say there's Allah mage and numina
Sergi Dini, what chick Oh Allah bless us to be from those who
prostrate for your noble countenance, Alamosa behind
Abraham duck who glorify your praises wherever the beaker and
Hakuna Lenin was stuck to be and I seek refuge in You from being from
the arrogant and Amrik into arrogantly ignore your command. O
Allah Olia or to be arrogant towards those that you love your
pious folk. So that verse, you then make dua ensued based upon
the verses that you recite, and this is a great benefit, and this
will bring our prostrations to life so that we just don't
prostrate quickly and that's it. Whatever it is, that we recited,
we make a DUA, supplication in prostrating according to what it
is that we recited.
He said, for instance, if you recite the verse while you're
running that tiny little Athan, you're gonna be easy to home
kashua, the verse we previously transmitted, that you say, Oh
Allah, Allah, homage anuman and back in verse me PB from those who
weep for your sake, and Hashem in luck, who that have the state of
reverential fear towards you look at that he can equally such that,
and this is what we do in every prostration that we prostrate. So,
then he says that the conditions in the Shafi school for this
frustration are the same conditions for prayer. So you have
to have covered your Outre your legal nakedness. And for males,
that is between the navel and the knees. And for females, that is
everything except their face and their hands. And you have to have
it stick about it'll Qibla so you can't just prostrate in any
direction, we have to know where the cover is in prostrating the
direction of the Qibla and there has to be 202. So we would bet in
men and Hadith Hadith. And you have to be in a state of ritual
purity and IE, that you are not in a state of greater or lesser
ritual impurity. If you're in a state of greater ritual impurity,
that you have to take a also purificatory bath in a state of
lesser ritual impurity, then you have to make will do and then
you'll be in a state of purity, but also to be free of new Jassa
filth legal filth, on your clothing your body in the place
that is that your prostrating?
He says woman lemon your corn added Tahara in the summer, the
search for either tota Hara, Sajid and so if you're not in a state of
voodoo, you can then make wudu and perform the superfood after that.
And Alhamdulillah prostration is something that should be very
Beloved to us. This is something that was beloved to our Prophet
salaallah idea, this idea Salem, and we know that the closest that
a sermon is
to his Lord as well. He is prostrating.
And in that moment when we prostrate our heart is above our
mind. The heart is above the aka the intellect, meaning here that
the reality of the intellect is in the heart, but the outward lower
degree of the intellect is in the mind. The heart is above the ankle
in this time at this time, which indicates the ascendancy of the
heart and the primacy of it. And one of the wisdoms of prostrating
outwardly physically, is to shore humility before a lot of medical
data, but it's also to affect the heart greatly, so that eventually
our heart prostrates and this is what you and I want. We want our
hearts to prostrate.
And so that even when we lift up out of frustration in prayer, or
heart is still prostrate, meaning a heart is constantly in a state
of submission to Allah,
feeling an absolute need of Him, broken before him in a state of
loneliness, and humility, and submissiveness. When the heart
prostrates that Allah Allah Allah, it never ever again lifts up. And
this was the blessed question at the young man, the great Imam
Salah to study left the city that he was from and traveled to
another city to ask, but he was raised by his bus and uncle who
gave him that very special liquor and way of remembering Allah
Tabata quota that he repeated regularly, and an increase in it
throughout the time, saying that Allah is near me, Allah, Allah who
may Allah is with me, Allah Ushahidi Allah, witnesses me allow
How did it Allah was present with me Aloha Nalini Allah gaze upon
Allahu Akbar Eva mini Allah is near to me, had da wa jal to
Halawa as he said until that I found it sweetness. And then he
had this question that he asked the locals that he couldn't
answer. And then he traveled to another city and finally found a
righteous man who answered his question for him and what was his
question? Can the heart prostrate? What an illuminated question
and when we make a lot of liquor in our thicker is a result of
liquor are thicker is mono water.
And Allah to Allah says no Quran in the Holika Samoa Tiburon, the
work the lovely lady, were in the interview, Helga similar to today
with the lovely lady with her Illa ayat and newly that Bab, la La
Nina years Quran Allah pm and Walker who didn't know behind is
that Allah says those who remember Allah standing, sitting in on
their sides, what the effect goes on if you have a similarity or
odd, and they reflect upon the creation of the heavens in the
earth, there's first dimension of the code remembrance. And then
there is a mentioning of that flicker, reflection. And so that
when artifact God is based upon liquor, or to fucker, our
reflections, our thoughts will be Manawa. There'll be radiant, as we
see in the case with this blessing young man who came out and turned
out to be one of the great Imams of this Deen. Because of his
remembrance of Allah. His questions were radiant. And when
was the last time that one of our young men or women asked one of
these radiant questions? What kind of questions? Are they really
asking nowadays? How to get some something new for their switch? Or
whatever it is that the plane on or some new technique that they
can implement in fortnight, or that something that they some way
that they can watch off the grid YouTube videos are something what
kind of questions oftentimes are the youth of this generation
asking? And what type of questions should we be asking? You'd be
surprised at the potential of young people. Young people, if
they attach themselves to these meanings can ascend very quickly.
And we shouldn't think that just because they're young, that
somehow they're distant from these meanings, though they could
attend, they can attain these meanings very quickly, because of
the purity of their souls. And so the question when he asked this
great share, can the heart prostrate and he said, Yes, son of
mine, and once the heart prostrates it never comes up out
of frustration.
And so every time that we prostrate that we want to do so in
a way that we realize our absolute need of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. And
that we should especially prostrate for these 14 or 15 times
in the Quran. When we're encouraged to prostrate make the
doors that make our doors correspond with what it is that we
recited
realize our absolute neediness before Allah Tada and ask him to
bless us with sujood of color in the prostration of the heart so
that we are constantly then receiving Allah subhanaw taala His
mercy just as the water reaches the lowest points always and
likewise the most humble people are the ones who receive the most
mercy. That is like Rain Man a lot of liquidity give us Tofik and
blesses with all of these etiquettes we will continue on in
shallow to add up
next session, we will get into what it is that we say and the
beginning of our recitation will speak a little bit about reciting
audibly and then move on to the last the tent etiquette inshallah
Tada of the outward etiquettes before we then transition into the
inner etiquettes May Allah subhanaw taala give us Tofik and
bless us in all of our affairs. Ramadan Mubarak to all of you in
sha Allah this is a time of great benefit for all of us building
light data. This is a time and Shana data that we will truly
enjoy as believers and get beyond some of the outward difficulties
of the fast so we experience it sweetness mathematical data give
us Tofik Baraka Alphacam masala light as in Muhammad Anwar Urdu
Samuel Salam will humbly low here a bit enemy