Yaser Birjas – Taraweeh Khatira – Are You Abondoning The Quran
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The end of the month ofFinancial is highlighted as a month for the implementation of Islam. Visitors are encouraged to recite the Quran and share experiences of individuals struggling with it to motivate others. The transcript discusses various individuals who were recited in the Quran, including a professional reciter who was criticized by the military and a reciter of the holy grail. Visitors are encouraged to continue reciting the Quran and not let things happen at their own pace.
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I don't know if you guys know that,
but tonight at sundown what happened?
It's not the cold weather. I'm not talking
about the weather, Jamal.
In terms of the counts for Ramadan.
Half time. This is it.
Right now, we're counting down to the end
of the month of Ramadan.
Basically, you're not going to fast more than
what you already fasted
and the rest of us are gonna be
now counting down to read, may Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala give us the ability to go
through the entire month of Ramadan. Amen. With
Islam.
And may Allah subhanahu wa'ala make the second
part of it better than the first year
of
And give us the conclusion to be the
best, inshallah, for all of us.
Now, one of the things that people they
complain about some somehow around the middle of
the month of Ramadan is what? Fatigue,
tired, losing focus. Now we start kinda like
realizing you know, sleep deprivation, all that kind
of thing that comes with that. And as
a result, one of their biggest regrets is
what?
Not being able to meet their goals when
it comes to the Quran.
One of the goals that we set for
each other is that, look, you're on a
you're on a different journey.
Everybody's on their own journey with the Quran.
Some of us, they still barely wanna learn
the alphabets.
Others wanna learn how to read it properly.
Some, they would like to excel in reading
the Quran. Some work on their, their progress,
their understanding.
Everybody has their own journey with the Quran.
But we all need to understand. We all
need to understand that no matter how difficult,
how hard it is,
I want you to continue with it.
Do not stop
and keep going because Allah knows where the
khayr is gonna come to you inshallah will
come to the Quran. To the beginning of
the month or the end of the month.
And just to let you know, struggling as
you try to learn the Quran and recite
the Quran, it's nothing new. It even happened
with the Sahaba. Remember, the Sahaba, the Quran
came down with their language, which means supposed
to be the easiest thing for them to
remember and to learn. Still though, even in
that generation, that righteous generation, there were people
who were struggling with the Quran,
and there were people who excel in the
recitation of the Quran. I wanna share with
you a few examples insha'Allah. It would come
to those who struggled and those who excelled
in the recitation of the Quran.
So some of those struggles with the Quran,
they were basically they're
farmers, they were,
shepherds, so they're not the people who come
to the mezzan regularly maybe to learn. They
don't even have time for that.
They didn't even have time for that. One
of those examples. Mu'ad ibn Jabal radiAllahu ta'ala
An was one of the excellent reciters of
the Quran. He was a young man. He
was in his early twenties.
And you can imagine, when you're twenties you're
what, masha'Allah.
You think you have control of everything. The
world is yours, masha'Allah. You're very energetic. You
have the the the the mind for it
and the muscles for it and everything.
Mu'ad was a very enthusiastic young man, and
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam loved him.
He was one of the few people. The
prophet
prophet told him, I love you for the
sake of Allah
because of his qualities.
So he used to pray isha with the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, and then he heads
to his to his,
to his neighborhood,
and he leads his community for southern Isha.
So one of those nights,
Ma'ad came from the masala sallallahu alaihi sallallahu
alaihi sallam seems to be so enthusiastic
and so inspired and charged with the emotion
and maybe with spirituality.
He decided to lead salat al Isha to
recite Surat al Baqarah.
If I did that, then that's what happens
to Jemaah.
So Mu'a decided to resolve. Somehow
as he was reciting, one of the one
of the men behind him
realized this is taking too long for him.
So what did he do? He goes, assalamu
alaikum to Allah.
He goes back
some of those around this man came to
Moa and he says, by the way, just
to let you know, this guy, he did
so and so. He goes, really?
He says, yeah. He said, leave him. He's
Munafak.
SubhanAllah.
A young man, through that accusation, just quickly
rushed in that accusation,
radiallahu anhu.
So he told him he said leave him
his munafiq. Why did he see munafiq? Because
Allah mentioned that in the Quran about the
munafiq, and they come lazy and they drag
their feet to the salah, and the prophet
said there's no salah heavier on the Munafikin
more than Fajr and Isha. So, yeah. Munafik.
So he said he is one of them.
So friends of this young man,
they heard that from Ma'ad, and what did
they do?
They went no. They went to him.
They went to the young man. He goes,
by the way, Ma'a said you're not afraid.
He goes, what?
Mu'ase said you're Munafiq because he loved the
salah.
Because I'm Munafiq.
You know what? I'm gonna take it to
your prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So the young man go to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
He
says, look. I am shepherd.
I stay with the camels all day in
the sun,
and by the end of the day, I'm
exhausted. I'm tired. I could barely open my
eyes. I come for salatul Isha. And then
you have your qari, Muad Radillah.
He recites a very long recitation. I can't
handle this.
I don't have that energy for that.
And the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam, he
the Rawi, the Anasradhanahu alaihi wasallam, narrating the
story, he goes, I've never seen the prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam. Never seen the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam so upset
and so angry in giving an advice and
admonition the way I saw him giving the
admonition to Mu'ad in that moment.
So he called Ma'ad.
Ma'ad, come over here. Is that true?
Is that true? You need you need?
And he told
me, What's wrong with you? Are you gonna
cause people to turn away from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala?
Because if you're going to be reading salah
for people, make sure to recite something light.
He said, if
you're gonna believe in people in salah, make
it easy. Recite something easy. And he gave
examples.
You guys recite
easy surahs for for the people. For yourself
If you're gonna be praying by yourself, read
as long as you wish. And then he
turned to the young man.
He goes, by the way, what do you
do with your salani? What do you recite
in your salah?
He goes, look at Rasoolallah. For me, when
I when I pray, I I praise Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, I thank him and I
just do my, own dikr and that's it.
I really don't understand your humming and the
humming of Ma'aden.
Like this is too much for me.
The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he smiled
with him and he goes,
look, my
my humming and Ma'ad's humming,
We're just humming around the same thing too.
Like he's making it easy on this man
to make him to understand.
The idea is that this young man wasn't
like other sahaba like Mu'ad, for example, with
his citation.
And the prophet, salallahu alaihi wasallam, took it
easy on him.
It doesn't mean you don't upgrade yourself to
the next level.
It doesn't mean that. And subhanallah, he was
sincere with his, with his level. He was
trying his best, but that's the best he
could give.
I want you to be better than that
inshallah.
Another Sahabi,
who was not necessarily,
as maybe illiterate as this man in terms
of the recitation,
but maybe in terms of hev
memorization,
he wasn't at that level of other sahab
radiAllahu anhu. But this man has a different
skill.
This man was actually Khalid ibn Walid radiallahu
anhu.
You guys know Khalid. Right? Khalid radiallahu anhu.
What did he do to the ummah?
He conquered the world.
He's one of those, unfortunately,
underserved in terms of his sira, in terms
of his genius
mind, that the military genius of Khaled radiya
llahu an is completely underserved
and completely understudied.
Wallahi says this man was unbelievable.
The achievements he did in such a very
short time, radiallahu ta'ala anhu warden. The prophet
named him what?
Sayf Allah al Maslul. The unseeds sword of
the soul of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But
this man, one time he led his commanders
in salah and he made mistakes.
He was reading them in salah as he
was reciting. He made mistakes with the Quran.
When he finished, he turned to the people
and he said,
because unfortunately,
fighting for the sake of Allah took too
much of my time away from the Quran.
Like some people have different skill different than
other people, so maybe haf is not your
thing,
but don't let then the qira'a
also be wasted.
If you can't memorize, then excel in your
reciting.
If you can't excel in reciting,
then at least learn it. Learn to understand
it. To To follow it in whichever capacity
you can, inshallah, you can do that.
But just don't say, no. It's too hard
for me.
But some other sahaba were excellent in the
Quran.
Who can give me some names of sahaba
we know from the Sira? They were the
professional reciters of the Quran? Like who?
Abdullah ibn Mas'ud.
The prophet says,
Because if anyone desires to recite the Quran
as fresh as it was recited, it was
repeated to the prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, recite with Ubni Ummi Abd, another name
for Abdullah ibn Mas'ud.
He was a professional qari,
and he was the first Sahabi to recite
the Quran publicly in Makkah when no one
dared.
When they were the the the chiefs of
Quraysh,
the enemies of Rasulullah, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he
put himself in danger for that, that he
lost his ear for it.
Literally, he lost his ear because when he
was residing publicly near the Kaaba, Abu Jahl
came. He looked at him, and Abdul Ahmed's
ood was tiny in terms of his size.
He was petite.
He slapped me. He severed his ear.
This man was one of the professional salars
of the Quran.
Another Sahabi that was known to be professional
Qari.
Ubayi bin Kab.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he said he
came to Ubayi one day. He says,
like
Allah commands me to recite
to you.
Can you imagine? The prophet
is reciting Surat Al Duha
to
Ubay.
So Ubay was shocked.
He goes,
what's the man, Elak?
Did he really,
name
give my name to you? He goes, yes.
My name. I need to recite surduduha to
you. He starts crying.
That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah azzawajal,
he endorses the recitation of Ubayyahu radiAllahu ta'ala.
This is why, Amr Al Khattab later on,
what did he do?
He actually he made him the the official
official,
reciter and qari for tarawih and the ummah.
Ummah. But Allah Abdullah Mas'ud, the other one
nothing about Abdullah Mas'ud, the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, he told him, he says Quran. Read
the Quran for
me. So he said,
May recite the Quran for you when it
was revealed to you? He
goes I love to hear it from somebody
else.
Another Sahabi who is known to be professor
Qari Abu Musal Ashari.
One day, the prophet
during the day, he goes, you Abu Musa.
Because if you have seen me last night
as I was actually eavesdropping to a recitation
in the Quran,
He was walking, salallahu alaihi, salallahu alaihi, at
night and he heard Abu Abu Musa Asha
reciting the Quran beautifully.
So he stopped listening to him. He stopped
and he started listening to him until he
probably maybe did did rakur in tahajjud or
qiyamulayl.
So
if I knew that you were listening
to
me I would have made it even more
beautiful.
Like Like if it wasn't enough, beautiful enough,
I'm going to make it even more beautiful
to you.
Another sahabi we know that had beautiful recitations
was Usayd ibn Hudayr.
Usayd ibn Hudayr, he was one night reciting
the Quran. He was reciting Surat
Al Kahf
and his son Yahya was near him. Baby,
actually, Yahya was near him. So as he
was reciting the Quran, suddenly the horse, his
horse I mean, back then they lived almost
in the same space.
His horse
became uneasy
and started moving,
so he stopped
and the and the horse calmed down.
Then he recited again
and the horse moved one more time. He
stopped again.
Then he started again
and the horse became almost like violent and
then eventually had to stop out of fear
for his baby, for his child. Then suddenly
he looked up and he saw an aura
of light
and it started going up into the skies.
The next day he told the prophet, salamu
alayhi, rasoolullah, that's what happened. He goes, Iqra.
Iqra Aba Yahya.
Keep reading Abu Yahi. Keep reading Abu Yahi.
He said, I swear if you continue reading,
you would have actually you would have seen
the angels the more the the next day
in the morning. Because that was actually the
angels came to listen to a beautiful recitation
of the Quran.
Brothers and sisters, the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam mentioned harid Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala.
The one who recites the Quran excellently.
You recite with beautiful recitation, excellent recitation. He
says,
You are with those ambassadors, the angels.
The most noble, the most righteous, he says,
which means you'll be in that rank on
the day of judgement.
When they recite, you recite with them.
And the one who recites the Quran, while
it's so hard to read the Quran, which
means keep making mistakes and kind of trying
their best, because you have double the reward.
One reward for trying and one reward for
every letter that you recite.
So we have no excuse
not to keep trying. You can be in
the rank of Ubay,
Abdullah ibn Mas'ud and others,
and or at least
Yes, you're busy doing something else, but it
shouldn't deprive you from also connecting with the
Quran at your own pace as much as
you can.
Do this, and may Allah
in your life, in your effort, in your
Quran, in your life.