Yahya Rhodus – Our Relationship the Quran #9
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ALLAH more Allah Smilla Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa Salatu
was Salam ala Rasulillah but early he was so for me he Woman, why
Allah. We will resume our discussion in the light to other
book eight of the halal Medina Kitab Tila with the Quran adapted
to Quran on the proprieties and etiquette and manners associated
with recitation of Allah subhanaw taala his book and hoping they're
in to develop a strong relationship with a lot of medical
data his book. So, we have discussed what emammal was that he
mentioned from the 10 outward etiquettes associated with
recitation. And now we will move to a new chapter where we will
treat what he calls the Amal and Balton Videla that is the
interacts the inner etiquettes of Quranic recitation. And they're
also 10.
And so, he first list them and so, we will offer a translation of
each mutiny die Tata, and then we will proceed to discuss each one
in detail over the next many days building a Tata. So he mentioned
10. The first is thermal us little kind.
And you could translate this as realizing the greatness of divine
speech. This is what he means. It's not just understanding It's
realizing the hustle, but hear the greatness of divine speech to a
Talim exalting the one speaking, titled demon with the kalam
Thumma huddle club, maintaining presence of heart. That's number
three. Number four, to depth board, contemplating Allah's book,
some a tougher home, then striving to understand the meanings one is
reciting
some like the huddly and Melania and fam avoiding the preventatives
of understanding
and that is number six. And then number seven, a duck cease, which
you would translate as applying the Quranic address to oneself.
Number eight a thought being affected by the verses one recites
so much Turkey, ascending in degrees of recitation is number
nine. And then number 10. Is a tub buttery, and disclaiming
disclaiming any power this claiming that one is actually
doing anything, solely relying upon Allah subhana wa Tada. So
those are the 10 and inshallah Tada. We will take the first one
or two today isn't the night Tada. So the first one is fahel Other
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up. And so the first thing that Imam was that he wants us to do,
is to really understand the origin of the speech, and then exalt the
Quran and realize the greatness of Allah subhanaw taala his book. And
so in mammals, it says,
I fell young. So here's the title is in a little bit more detail
than the first way he listed above. And he says so it's to
realize the greatness of the Divine speech, and its loftiness
and to the realize the greatness of Allah Subhan Allah to Allah,
and his gentleness with his creation, and how he subhanho wa
Taala that descended from the throne of His Majesty, and no
anthropomorphic way to the degree of the understanding of His
creation. So the very fact that Allah to Allah created us so that
we can come to know Him even even though we will never truly know
Him. Only Allah knows Allah. But the very fact that he has enabled
us to even have partial knowledge, even a little bit of knowledge is
an immense blessing from him. And the knowledge that we can have,
even though it's not complete, even though it's not
comprehensive, is the greatest knowledge that you and I can
possibly attain. And in fact, all other knowledge in the world,
including religious knowledge, is a means ultimately, for knowledge
that we want to receive from Allah I live now home in Inman
And we taught him knowledge from our presence at Illumina duniya.
This is the knowledge that is sought for, in and of itself, and
even religious knowledge, knowledge of Tafseer knowledge of
Hadith knowledge of aqidah knowledge of filco knowledge of
all the different sciences of Islam, and all of the other
instrumental sciences, the goal of all of those knowledges is so that
you and I can be gifted knowledge of Allah subhana wa Tada so that
you and I can draw near to Allah subhanaw and data. And if that's
the case with religious knowledge, what then about other types of
knowledge that exist in the world, everything ultimately is a means.
And this includes as well all acts of worship, this includes as well,
everything that pertains to our religious life, all of our
interactions with other people. All of that, ultimately, is a
means for us to be gifted knowledge of Allah, and to come to
know Him Subhana wa Tada. And this is why it is one of the great
problems that is widespread in the Muslim world, is that we have
taken oftentimes as individual members of the prophets, Allah
means as an end,
we've taken the means as an end. And the means have to remain means
even what you could call worldly ends. Things like having good
character, things like following the shitty things like
establishing our servitude, things of this nature. They're still even
though their worldly ends, ie you don't in a utilitarian fashion,
bypass them if you think it's going to be convenient for you're
useful in some way.
All of those worldly ends still are means.
And that includes all religious knowledge as well, let alone other
types of knowledge. If this is our perspective, you will see then the
danger of the perspective of so many Muslims and I'm speaking to
the Muslim community now. And the way that we view knowledge, and
how so many of us have fallen victim to what it is that they're
told in school, what is that they hear in the media? What is it they
read, that religious knowledge is inferior, and in fact, all of
these incredible things that are happening in the world and all of
the inventions and all of the technology that people have
produced? This is the type of knowledge that we need to spend
our time researching and studying. And I don't want to create a
dichotomy, it doesn't mean that we can't take part in other types of
knowledge and that university settings and things of this
nature, you can however, you and I as a believer have to be very
clear that ultimately all knowledge is a means. And it's a
serious problem. If we think that knowledge is greater than revealed
knowledge we are the biller revealed knowledge is the greatest
knowledge of all. And just as it's a serious problem, if you are
taking any type of knowledge as an end, other than the knowledge that
were by which we know Allah subhanho wa Taala so he wants us
to understand this.
And he says for the Condor, cave, a lotta phobia hulky look at how
Allah to Allah has gently suddenly shown his benevolence to his
creation. If he is Saddam and he killed me in conveying the
meanings of his eternal speech LDV who will see Fatone Kadima tune,
call me told me that he has eternal speech that is a, an
attribute that is Kadima, that it is eternal, and subsists in his
essence, Subhan, who would either either have hammy Halki to the
understandings of His creation, will Keifa to Gillette law home
and telecoil Sefa fi te horo Fen was Walton here, Seattle.
And how that he had Gillette is the word here that is used,
manifested to them in with that actually telecoil Silva manifested
that attributes in the form of haruf of letters and ASWAT sounds,
he has effected mushrooms that are from the traits of creation.
And he, of course, is opening up a discussion here, which he's very
clear about as a top notch theologian.
When you and I read the pages of the most half
the letters on the page of that copy of the Quran, the binding,
and that the art recitation of it, all of that, of course, is
created. And we make the distinction between those letters
themselves that are written on the pages and that we recite and
They're obviously created because they come into existence and they
come out of existence. But those letters on the page and those
letters that we recite as scholars have said, point to the eternal
speech of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So, those, the way that ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada has revealed his Quran in a way that you and I can
even understand it as human beings as a to jelly. He's manifested
Himself to us through his book subhanho wa Tada. And that he
Tabata Kota Allah in a way that is a mystery and cannot fully be
understood in the intellect, with the intellect other than to say
that, that manifestation I II, those letters, those sounds point
to his eternal speech subhanho wa taala. And if someone is still
thinking, how could that actually be? The entire creation is
wondrous. Everything in creation, is a manifestation of one of the
names and attributes of Allah, everything in creation, it
wouldn't exist, were a lot to add or not to have brought into
existence, everything in creation, and this is what morality is,
Gnosis is knowledge of Allah truly is this what the knowers of Allah
have the ability to do, they can understand the names and
attributes that are manifesting before them
in the Melkonian mind and imagine the salt, indeed the entire
universe is meanings in the in the form of images, besought and forms
could lumen use require the camera However, anyone who perceives this
will be from the people of intellect and reflection.
So he says, think about this and ponder this greatness. And he
says, is the Joseph Batchelder and it will soon it fmsc Fatty lie to
Allah, the humankind is unable to reach an understanding of the
attributes of Allah subhanho wa taala. He left me see fatty light
Allah, LW will see that you see fat enough seeking except through
the traits of his own of the of their own selves. In other words,
you and I cannot fully come to know the attributes of Allah to
have adequate data, we can know that he is all merciful. He is
unripe man, we can know that he is elevada the all powerful, but can
you and I really know the true nature of that attribute? Can we
know the true nature of his bien el cada know, we know that he has
that attribute, but we don't know its essence or its true nature.
And if someone thinks that this is difficult to understand, again, we
don't even fully understand matter. The closest thing to us
that we see when we just look around us, we don't even
understand matter completely. And increasingly, it's more and more
of a mystery. And is it a wave? Is it a particle, what's really
happening with matter? It's wondrous matter. And if that's the
case, then everything that's happening is an act of Allah. And
understanding how his acts relate to his attributes, understand how
his attributes relates to his essence, subhanAllah we realize
how little we really know. Hola, uitto Ilca Lila, and you've only
been given a small bit of knowledge. And so we know these
attributes of Allah by first knowing attributes that you and I
actually have. We know what power is because we've understood it in
our own cells, we know what will is because we've understood it in
our own selves, we understand what existence is we understand what
seeing and hearing in speech is great, because we see that in
human beings and then when we understand that, oh, I can see but
I can see only a range of things. I can understand the concept of
being all seen, I can understand the concept of being all hearing,
I can understand the concept of eternal speech, but I can't
understand its reality. So he's saying what a blessing that Allah
to Allah has revealed his book, ie the Quran, to the Prophet
Muhammad, so I send that you and I can read and that the fact that we
can even read it and understand it, and those letters that we
recite and those words on that page point to his eternal speech,
what a blessing of Allah subhanho wa Tada. And he says, well, hola
is sitar, couldn't he gelato at Konami? Because what did haruf
Were it not to be that the essence of the majesty of his eternal
speech is veiled through the covering of those letters lemma
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Even the throne or nothing on earth would have remained firm
when it heard the eternal speech of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada what
Tanasha it would have just gone into non existence. Mabin Houma,
everything that is between them and ultimately Soltani from the
greatness of its authority of its assault on will sue will Hattie
know the he and the majesty of its light. What hola TestSuite Allahu
xojo Lee Mousavi Saddam Lama taka sama Academy and we're not to me
that ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada made Musa firm, even though in his book
subhanho wa Taala that he says that Moses collapsed unconscious
that he would have not even been timid remain alive. Lemma taka
sama can me Come on a limb you tickle Jebel Medallia to zhu li
just as the mountain didn't begin, didn't wasn't able to bear.
There's that manifestation had the sauna deck again until that it was
leveled to dust. And this is in reference to that. A verse where
Allah subhanaw taala says wollam Jaya Musa Lamia, Katarina waka
lemma Hora bajo when Moses came at the appointed time in his Lord
spoke to him caught up the irony under the lake. He asked my lord,
reveal Yourself to me, so I may see you.
Allah answered hotter than Torani you cannot see me while I can
unload Elijah belly. But look at the mountain finished macabre
Magkano for solfatara Ronnie if it remains firm in its place, only
then will you see me phylum to gel Lara boho lil Jabari, when his
Lord and he translates here appeared to the mountain
manifested himself to the mountain giallo deck again, he leveled it
to dust. And what was the result? Well, hello, Musa saw your call.
And Moses collapsed unconscious phenom MAFAC when he recovered,
Kala, he cried. Subhanak, I took two elec Gorbea to you, I turn to
you and repentance 101 And what meaning and I am the first of the
believers, what a meaning there. And this is what he memos that he
is pointing to, and how he's wants us to reflect upon this so that we
can understand the greatness of the Quran, and exalt the word of
Allah subhanho wa taala, so that it opens up the doors for us to be
able to benefit from it internally.
And then, after this, the second etiquette is a Talim and what to
kill them. And this is to exalt exalting the one speaking Subhan
who went to Allah and the one reciting the Quran should when we
approached Allah to add his book, and we're about to start, we
should bring these meanings to heart. We are reciting the book of
Allah, we were reciting the eternal speech of Allah, and we
should bring to heart that we are before Allah, and that Allah
Tabata Katara sees us
and he says fellow kata and will be diverted out just one young boy
and Yehudit vehicle we are limited multicolumn we should bring to
heart when we start reciting the greatness, the Exalted pneus of
the one speaking well, yeah, I know my alcoholism in common
Bashar and we should know that what we are reciting is not from
human speech. One if it Tila Tequila Mila, tada, hiatal Hatha.
And that when we recite Allah subhanaw taala his book, this is a
extremely momentous moment that we spent.
Allah subhanaw taala says, lie Emma Sue ill Motoharu no one will
touch it, except the purified and then he explains here will come
and Allah had agenda and Mustapha Wanaka to well, what alcohol
morose and Dahari Vishuddha T Lamis Illa and Kanemoto hidden and
just as the outward cover of the copy of the Quran in its pages are
protected, ie that it's unlawful for someone to touch them with
your hand except that if you're in a state of purification and
purity, felt Balti no matter now Aidan we hooked me is the he was
really my job and Walton Hill club. II they can and Matata
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inward nature of its meaning, by virtue of His Majesty, and might
is veiled from the inner chamber of the heart, except that if the
heart is pure from all filth,
so just as outwardly, that this meaning of this is you can't touch
the Quran, without a state of will do this and to exalt the Quran.
And we should always put the Quran in the highest place
in our homes, and respect the Quran, and love the Quran. And we
make sure that we're in a state of we do when we handle the Quran,
It's haram not to.
And that meaning is there outwardly, for divine wisdom, but
then also inwardly, we should know that we don't have access to the
meanings of Allah's book, without purity of heart. And how many
people will come to the Quran with preconceived notions, they'll come
to the heart with
that diseases that are in their heart. And it will, they'll be led
further astray. Or they'll be led to go astray further. And all you
have to do is just follow some of the chats that sometimes people
put in some of these posts that people post and that see how
people are just completely that led astray by virtue of what is
actually only in their own heart.
We're allowed to either protect us and preserve us from that.
And we should not think that this is new. We shouldn't let this
affect us. This has been happening for centuries and centuries and
centuries and centuries. And the same things that people said to
prophets that came before us are the same things they're saying
now, inside different ways, the same archetypes. They keep
repeating themselves throughout history. And hum de la llamada.
Katana has given his belief in his book, despite living in a time
which we live in sha Allah, we live upon that and we die upon
that with any light other arm, any he says the heart also is the most
near and we know that the motto care has to be filled with light,
the light of exaltation in magnification and respect. Come
Allah Surah Halima said God knows half Kulu yet, just as it's not
possible or even appropriate for the hand of anyone to touch the
cover of the most half Furla slowly turned out to be clueless,
and not every tongue is truly able to recite his book and what he
means is the doors open to recite his book, but we have to make sure
that our heart is purified. Well, Lolly nailed him. I knew him
Coolio Kolb, not every heart is ultimately going to attain in
depth understanding of his book, what he meant there how the total
theme
only wali Mithali, how the Talim then because of this type of total
theme, that equilibrium who held the son of one of the worst
enemies of our prophets, Allah sent him in look at the great
state that Allah raised him despite the state of his father.
He raised Him to this high rank equity Ma was a companion of our
Prophet salaallah alayhi salatu salam Rody, Lada and who are law
is that either NASA that was half when he would open up the most off
before him, close your eye lay there's times when he would faint
and become unconscious. You say her the camera be her the camera
be?
Let's put this into practice. This is not meant to just read when we
open up a must have and we're getting ready to read. Let's
remind ourselves had that kind of rugby had the contaminant be?
Allah subhanaw taala is addressing every single one of us.
This is an invitation to his creation
that Allah to Allah is that making himself known to his creation. You
want to learn about Allah read the Quran.
You want to come to know Allah, read the Quran, understand it, put
it into practice, and your heart will blossom.
What a blessing from Allah subhanaw taala to have this for
the email cannot be titled even what to call them. So we exalt the
book of Allah to Allah, His eternal speech by exalting the one
speaking Wallan Damodara who ultimately communicate the
Medallia typography, value agility with Addie, and that we won't ever
truly have the appropriate degree of exaltation and realization of
Allah's greatness, if we don't reflect upon his attributes in His
Majesty in his acts. For the Hatha rebellion hours will cause he was
somewhat or dune will not be in homogeneous units who would do a
better job I'd even enter the holodeck the Jimmy I want to call
that out.
Rosabella head. So there's ways that we can reflect upon His
Majesty by reflecting upon his creation. So you think about the
throne and the descriptions that you have of the throne of the
corsi of the footstool, of the seven heavens of everything that's
on the earth, and everything that is between them, Gen Con
humankind, animals, trees, think about everything in creation. And
think about now what we know science is telling us about the
vastness of creation, and these intergalactic distances, and all
these amazing things that people couldn't see before they should
increase us, and closest to our Lord, Increase us in man in all of
his creation. I mean, just we should be other all of his
creation subhanho wa taala. And so, we come to the conclusion we
realize then, the Creator who bought all of that into existence,
who has power over all of that and who sustains and provides for all
of that is one
another quality contradictory more or the don't benefit enormity, in
all people that are in the, the the are under his control, and
under his power, or between his bounty in his mercy will be in
iniquity will cultivate either and I'm will be fooled the Devo and
aka the other day, so if he that gives blessings is to his
generosity and bounty, and if he punishes is through his justice
100 of the court, he is the one who says, How Allah if Allah
Jannetty wala Abadi, or how old or even naughty when O'Malley that
these are the people of Paradise, and I don't hesitate to put them
there. And these are the people that have fire and I do not
hesitate to put them there, we'll have the highest and ultimately
we're too early. This is the utmost degree of greatness. And
that loftiness for the difficut if you haven't had how they taught
him what to condemn someone scimitar Lehmann Cayambe. So if we
reflect in this way, a will bring to heart Talim of the multicolumn
exalting the one speaking or Lord Allah, and then Talim of the Kadem
and exalting the divine speech realizing the greatness of the
Divine switch, may Allah subhanaw taala bless us to put this into
practice and to give us Tofig to have a close connection to Allah's
book and a strong relationship with it. We approach it with the
utmost Adam outwardly in a state of purity and may Allah to either
continue to purify our heart and make it more and more pure every
single day of our lives and that have further meanings of a lot
your his book be unlocked to us yet but I mean, day after day, and
year after year behind for Afia May we all be blessed with a camel
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