Yaser Birjas – The History And Preservation Of The QurAn – Introduction

Yaser Birjas
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The Arabianese community experienced struggles, challenges, and challenges to claim the race, challenges to be the winner, and fear of victory leading to their struggles. The community was pressured to believe the Prophet Luca was the only person present and fear of poverty and victory led to their struggles. They also discussed the importance of the god's teachings and legends in the generation of the Prophet, as well as Jibreel's time in the cave and breaking his leg while running. The discussion touches on the importance of finding the meaning of life in learning, editing, mastering, and harvesting phases, as well as finding the cave in the middle of the mountain to find the meaning of life.
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Assalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu Assalaamu alaikum

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wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen wa

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sallallahu wa sallim wa barakatuhu wa nabiyyin wa

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muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam

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wa tasliman kathira thumma man ba'd Our ulama

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they say, sharaful ilmi bisharaful ma'loom which

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means the status of knowledge depends so much

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on the status of the subject matter.

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The status of a knowledge depends so much

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on the subject matter.

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And when you study the Qur'an, there

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is nothing higher in terms of knowledge, in

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terms of the status than learning and reading

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the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Knowing that the Qur'an is the book

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of Allah azza wa jal, the words of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then if that

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is the subject matter of the subject, you

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can imagine right now the status of this

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knowledge that we're learning over here.

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And I hope that you keep that in

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your mind as we study the Qur'an,

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the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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You're not studying any random subject, you're not

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studying any particular book, you're studying the book

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of Allah azza wa jal, the divine words

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of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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This is why studying the Qur'an is

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one of the most important subjects, the most

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important things you do in your life.

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But in order for us to understand inshaAllah

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the Qur'an itself, we need to understand

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where did it come from, what's the meaning

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of it, what's the history behind it, how

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even to understand the Qur'an, I want

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to know.

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Before I learn about the meaning of this

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ayah, I want to understand why do I

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need to learn the meaning of this ayah,

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why the ayah was revealed in that fashion

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and what's the meaning of that revelation, that

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sense and so on.

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So that's why inshaAllah my sessions with you

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will be more on the history and the

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structure of the Qur'an.

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Like helping you understand what Shaykh Ammar is

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saying, what Shaykh Waheed is saying and other

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mashayikh inshaAllah would come to start discussing the

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Qur'an with you.

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And with that being said, we're going to

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start inshaAllah from the very, very beginning.

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I know for many of the stuff that

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we're going to be studying probably might be

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elementary to many of us, but I want

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to realign our understanding of the subject inshaAllah

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properly bismillah azza wa jal by starting with

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the first few questions we have for you

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inshaAllah the revelation of the Qur'an.

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Obviously the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala is eternal.

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What does that mean?

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Since it's the words of Allah azza wa

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jal, it's eternal in that sense, meaning it

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has Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's attributes.

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So therefore we need to study at least

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from our perspective as humans, the Qur'an.

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The first question we have over here that

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we need to ask ourselves, what is the

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Qur'an?

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So I'm going to give you one minute

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for you to discuss this question with your

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neighbor sitting next to you.

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Choose one of the neighbors around you, ask

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this question to each other and tell them

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what is the Qur'an, what is the

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Qur'an to you, bismillah go for it.

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What's the Qur'an, what is the Qur

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'an?

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Alright, let's hear from you right now, I

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can see, I can hear that the voices

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are going down, so let's hear from you

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right now.

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Tell me, what is the Qur'an?

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You guys answered each other didn't you?

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You must have given an answer, so tell

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me.

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Yes, the book of Allah?

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What is revealed to the Prophet ﷺ?

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Guidance to all mankind, beautiful.

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So you mentioned three things about the Qur

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'an, beautiful.

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What else, yes?

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The speech of Allah ﷻ, very specific.

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These are the words of Allah ﷻ, the

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speech of Allah ﷻ, beautiful.

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What else, yes?

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The last revelation that came from Allah ﷻ,

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beautiful.

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What else?

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It is the book of guidance that gives

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us what's right and wrong, right?

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So at least we live by the instruction

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of the Qur'an, beautiful.

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What else?

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This side, brothers and sisters, yes.

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So Allah ﷻ revealed to us, that sent

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it to us?

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Allah's love letter that was sent to us,

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beautiful.

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Very interesting perspective, mashallah.

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Poetic, tabarakallah.

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I understand, but it sounds very poetic, mashallah,

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beautiful, yes.

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The challenge to mankind, a mu'ajidah, the

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challenge to mankind, that's beautiful.

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What else?

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Healing and mercy from Allah ﷻ, a book

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of healing, yes?

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It's protected, it's a book that was well

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guarded by Allah ﷻ who sent it to

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us, yes.

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It's a miracle, a miracle in different ways.

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We're going to talk about this in details

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later inshallah as well.

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What else?

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What is the Qur'an, yes?

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I can barely hear, I'm sorry.

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It helps you navigate through life, right?

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It's like a road map for life basically,

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yes.

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So a message to the mankind, sent to

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the messenger of Allah ﷻ to heal us

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of all these things that we go through

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in this life, beautiful, yes.

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It's a proof, to what?

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The proof and the evidence that established Allah's

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ﷻ presence and the meaning of this life

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to all of us, beautiful, yes.

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Transmitted through mutawatir, like it came to us

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with absolute authenticity, that's what it means over

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here, yes.

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A proof for all times, like it works

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at all times.

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Look, 1400 years later and we still talk

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about the Qur'an being a book of

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guidance, a road map to the world, a

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beautiful thing that we learn about the Qur

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'an as well, yes.

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Many stories we can learn from, so it

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documents the past so we can live in

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the present to the future inshallah.

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So all these are beautiful answers, okay?

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You guys give me technical answers.

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Now let's see about, what about this, what's

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the Qur'an for you?

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The second question I want you to answer

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right now.

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Where do you see its importance in your

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personal life?

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In your personal life, I'm going to give

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you another minute to answer this question to

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the neighbors next to you inshallah, go for

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it.

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Bismillah.

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Let's hear from you.

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Where do you see its importance in your

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personal life?

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Like what we do with technicality inshallah, let's

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answer this question.

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I want to hear from you right now.

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By the way, the first question was the

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Qur'an in general and you guys answered

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in a very abstract way.

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I need you right now to give me

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in your own personal way.

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What is the Qur'an to you?

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Where do you see its importance in your

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life?

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Yes.

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But is that what you do with it,

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personally?

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Is that what you hope you would do

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with it?

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I'm trying to basically make it my daily

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life thing, like alhamdulillah.

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I use it in my salah, in my

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ibadah, in my healing, my ruqya, when I

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go to sleep, like it's in my daily

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life.

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Beautiful, what else?

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Yes.

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I use this to help me go through

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the challenges of this life.

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Every time I go through something, I want

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the Qur'an, I want to see some

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healing words from the book of Allah, subhanallah,

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beautiful.

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What else?

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Yes.

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Just in the back, all the way in

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the back.

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Like help me find my identity.

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Especially in time when people don't even know

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who they are anymore.

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Right?

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Truly.

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As Muslims, alhamdulillah, we're very anchored with that.

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That's the thing that anchors us.

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Where you go in life, alhamdulillah, the Qur

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'an really brings us back again to where

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we belong.

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Many, many people in this time, they don't

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even know what they are.

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Not even what gender they are anymore.

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But the Qur'an, alhamdulillah, keeps us anchored.

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Like I always find my identity in the

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words of Allah, subhanallah, beautiful.

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What else?

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Yes.

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So like it gives me, alhamdulillah, a way

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to deal with the people and understand them.

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Allah has given me a lot of instructions

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in the Qur'an, how to handle this

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situation.

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So I understand, and I just do it,

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alhamdulillah, based on this instruction.

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Yes, anybody else here?

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So how to interact with people.

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So basically, alhamdulillah, I use the Qur'an

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to help me navigate again how I deal

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with people in my life.

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Beautiful.

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Yes.

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So it helps me understand the power behind

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all what I see around me, right?

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Whether it's positive or negative, I go back

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to the Qur'an and it gives me

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a better understanding of why these things happen.

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Beautiful.

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Yes.

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It helps me understand who Allah is.

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Like, subhanallah, when people are lost in terms

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of direction back to God, it helps me

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easily find the way to Allah, subhanallah, wa

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ta'ala.

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Anybody else on this side?

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Yes.

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So alhamdulillah, it gives me the identity, the

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grounding part of it, and also helps me

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grow with it.

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Like I don't stop there.

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I continue to grow based on the structure

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of the Qur'an.

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Those are all beautiful answers, and I hope

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that you can guys reflect on your own

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way what the Qur'an is to you.

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Beautiful.

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The third question we have here, what were

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the characteristics of the Prophet ﷺ that qualified

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him to be the receiver of the Qur

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'an?

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Oh, didn't it go on the screen?

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Okay.

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So the question that's on the screen is

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supposed to be, is this.

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What were the characteristics of the Prophet that

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qualified him to be the receiver of the

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Qur'an?

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I want you to discuss this also with

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your partner next to you.

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One minute.

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One minute.

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What were the characteristics of the Prophet ﷺ

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that qualified him to be the receiver of

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the Qur'an?

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Okay.

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Let's hear from you.

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Guys, this is very important.

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Why?

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Because today, one of the major issues to

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discredit the Qur'an is to discredit the

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receiver, the one who transmitted it to us.

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So if you don't even know the qualities

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of the Prophet ﷺ that qualified him to

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be the messenger, we have a challenge here.

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When people ask you and they start attacking

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the Prophet ﷺ by attacking his integrity and

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his character and so on, and you have

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no answer for this, that's a problem.

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So I want to hear from you.

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What do you know about the Prophet ﷺ

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that qualified him to be the receiver of

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the Qur'an?

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Bismillah.

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Let's hear from here.

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Yes.

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He was illiterate.

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He was illiterate.

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What does that even mean now?

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He couldn't read or write.

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So, what's the significance of that?

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He could not produce it of his own.

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He was not known to be a poet.

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He was not known to be a writer

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or anything like that.

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So being illiterate was one of the qualities

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Allah highlighted about him in the Qur'an,

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to say that, look, he cannot produce anything

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with that kind of eloquence.

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Beautiful.

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JazakAllah.

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What else?

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Yes.

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He was honest personally and known to the

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public to be an honest person.

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So if he could not lie to people

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about dunya matters, about personal issues, how could

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he lie about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?

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He was a very honest person.

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Yes.

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He was a tranquility person who would not

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have usurped the rights of others.

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If he would not, being so honest person

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that he could not really usurp the rights

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of other people, how would he usurp Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala's right to reveal a

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book and say that it's a book of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?

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What else?

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Yes.

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His what?

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Good manners.

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Good manners.

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Absolutely.

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Because he's going to be representing who?

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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So Allah chose the best, as he said

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in the Qur'an, qal min anfusihim, which

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means among themselves.

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Another qiraa of that ayah, min anfasihim, like

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from among the best.

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Like he's the best of the best salallahu

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alayhi wa sallam.

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Because being the best of the best, it's

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easy for people to know, you know what,

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that's true.

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His akhlaaq, his manners, I would follow this

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individual.

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I would follow this man.

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Yes.

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He was trying his best salallahu alayhi wa

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sallam to develop the people, not to separate

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them.

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Although of course we know that this is

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in a tribal system, it's a bit different.

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But still, the Prophet ﷺ was, his heart

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was into benefiting the people.

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Let me put it this way.

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His heart was really into benefiting the people

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salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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Yes.

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Very respectful, so credible salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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But still though he stood for justice, even

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though it was against people who are elders

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for example in the community.

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Yes.

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He gave it to us as he received

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it.

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Like he did not take anything out, he

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did not add his own influence in it

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or his own interpretation.

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As he received it, he delivered it salallahu

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alayhi wa sallam.

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Beautiful.

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Yes.

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He did not what?

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Like he did not follow the norm which

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is basically what's going on to his people

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to worship these idols and these traditions.

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He was always looking for that which is

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reasonable and that which is right.

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He was very gentle.

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So when he talks, people can connect with

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him.

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So emotionally he is very connected with the

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people salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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Yes.

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So he was going up to the mountains

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reflecting about the meaning of this life.

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So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala just gave

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it to him in that moment.

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Not when he was with the people.

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He was looking for the truth.

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He was a man of truth seeker salallahu

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alayhi wa sallam.

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Now the question for you guys, all these

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beautiful characteristics.

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You insist on it.

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Go ahead.

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Go ahead.

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So when he received the first revelation, he

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didn't go out boasting about, hey guys, I'm

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a messenger of God now.

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Instead he was so scared about it.

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Because he knew how the responsibility that's been

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assigned to him salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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Now my question to you guys, my question.

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Huh?

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Oh this thing?

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I thought it was my beard.

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Transmitting so much power.

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Sure.

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All right.

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So my question to you guys.

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If you know that these are the qualities

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of the person who received the Qur'an

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as I had delivered it to the people.

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They were at least, we say that they

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were not like looking into understanding from him.

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What is stopping us today from delivering the

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message of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala following

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the exact same guidance of the Prophet salallahu

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alayhi wa sallam.

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It is his akhlaq and his manners.

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Like truly if you're going to be preaching

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the Qur'an to people, what do you

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need to do?

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Be someone who's credible.

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Someone when they speak about the Qur'an,

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people would say, you know what, yeah I

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can take that from you.

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A lot of it unfortunately when we talk

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about Islam and invite non-Muslims to Islam,

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we say beautiful things about Islam that unfortunately

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we are unable to, you know, to show,

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to be credible for it.

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And we have already probably maybe many of

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us have heard the statement that many people

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they would say when they became Muslim they

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say, alhamdulillah Allah showed me Islam before he

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showed me Muslims.

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So let's not be those people as well.

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Don't be part of the statistics over here.

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We need to make sure we have the

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qualities that qualifies a person to hold the

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Qur'an.

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Question number four right now.

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How did it look like around the time

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the Qur'an was revealed?

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How did it look like around the time

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the Qur'an was revealed?

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I want you now to think about the

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time when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam

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was sent with the Qur'an.

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How did it look like there?

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Again, you have one minute.

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Share it with your friend next to you

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inshaAllah ta'ala.

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How did it look like around the time

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when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam was

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sent with the Qur'an?

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Okay, let's hear from you right now.

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Tell me.

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What do you know about that time, around

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the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and his

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time when the Qur'an was revealed?

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Tell me.

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What do you know about it?

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Come on jama'at.

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When we study the Qur'an we need

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to understand the context when it was revealed.

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What is it?

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Yes.

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Jahiliyya.

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What does that even mean?

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Ignorance.

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What does that even mean?

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Ignorance.

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What kind of ignorance we're talking about?

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Of God and practice.

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Of everything.

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Like when we talk about ignorance, the time

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of Jahiliyya, ignorance about everything.

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About who they are, who God is, the

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purpose of this life.

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Like they have absolutely no knowledge of that.

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They lost, they lost the track of how

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to be humans, how to act humans, how

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to understand the purpose of this life and

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if there is any creator for this world.

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That was the time of Jahiliyya.

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So, the practice has reflected all of that.

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What else?

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So, there was chaos in the society.

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No rights to anybody.

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Everybody just kind of, if you have the

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power you can overpower anybody.

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Men, women, children, orphans, different race and different

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groups and no regard to human rights or

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dignity and so on.

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Yes.

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What else?

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Superstition.

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People they believed in anything.

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They believed in the mountains and the trees

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and everything that crawls even.

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Doesn't sound any different from our time, right?

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But the idea is just like it was

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weird.

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Yes.

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Idol worshipping.

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True.

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Different idols, not just statues.

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Many, many different ways.

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Yes.

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No sense of community outside of tribal relationship.

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Like if you're from my blood, then I

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will support you regardless if you're right or

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wrong.

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But they don't care about other people.

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Yes.

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So, when they make tawaf, their ibadah, even

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their practice is just completely ridiculous.

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Like, making tawaf naked for example.

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What kind of ibadah is that?

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Or their tawaf was about clapping and whistling.

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That was kind of like nonsense of ibadah.

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Which what we see today sometimes in many

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practices of Muslim sects and even non-Muslims

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as well too.

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Because they're far away from the main source,

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the Qur'an.

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Yes.

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So, basically the kind of the community was

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a bit disconnected.

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And the Qur'an alhamdulillah just kind of

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like brought them together inshaAllah.

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There's so much we learn about actually this

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time.

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I'm going to skip question number five to

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go to number six quickly inshaAllah with you.

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Which is, how much do you believe the

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world today is in need of the Qur

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'an and why?

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Like, if you understand the context that the

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Qur'an was revealed in was so horrible.

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How do you see the world today and

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how much do we truly need the Qur

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'an in our time?

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And why?

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Go ahead.

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We have one minute inshaAllah to share with

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each other inshaAllah ta'ala.

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Alright.

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Let's hear from you and I promise that

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was the last question I asked you over

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here.

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Let's hear from you right now.

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If you want to make that parallel, that

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comparison between the time when the Qur'an

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was revealed and our time today.

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What are these parallels?

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What do you see that was similar to

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what was back then?

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Tell me.

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Yes.

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Poor and rich.

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There's a huge gap between the poor and

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rich.

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And you can imagine what kind of social

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injustice that creates in the society.

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Yes.

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When you don't even believe in God and

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you don't believe that there's a purpose of

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life other than just indulgence.

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You can imagine how people get confused and

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what they do in this world.

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And that's what they did back then.

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What else?

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Astaghfirullah, can I hear you?

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A lot of corruption in all aspects of

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life.

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Politics?

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You can imagine.

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If you have the power, the poor is

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gone.

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Orphans?

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Who cares?

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Children?

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They'd be murdered in the thousands.

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And no one really say anything about this.

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Justifying it because there's someone who's more powerful

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is actually making the narrative today.

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And many other things.

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And the society is still in the same

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fashion.

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What else that we see in our time

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that's parallel to the past?

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Yes.

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Worshiping their desires.

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Yes.

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Quits?

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So the media back then, the propaganda, giving

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the narrative that everybody likes and everybody wants

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to believe in.

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And now the Qur'an comes to break

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that narrative.

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Yes.

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Lack of gratitude with morality.

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Like there is no sense of morality anymore.

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Morality right now is a very subjective thing

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for the people.

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If you see these things right now and

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you realize that the society today, how close

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it is, how so similar to the society

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back then, you realize you guys today, the

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greatest opportunity has been given to you to

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become the da'iyahs for the next generation.

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And I'm telling you right now, the world

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is so much in need of what you

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guys are studying today.

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Wallahi, they need it badly.

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People are dying for this guidance.

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When Gaza situation erupted, Allah make it easy

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for them, Ya Rabbil Alameen.

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How come people start flocking and coming to

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Islam in waves?

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Why is that?

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Because when they're looking at these people, what

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makes them so strong like this?

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And they say, oh because they're Muslims.

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Okay, what makes them so strong being Muslims?

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That's their book, the Qur'an.

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And they went and they studied the Qur

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'an and subhanAllah they found out, you know

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what?

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This is what I've been looking for in

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my life.

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And we've seen all these videos and all

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these posts that comes from young people, men

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and women, and so happy that they were

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able to find that guidance.

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Brothers and sisters, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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brought those people to Islam without me or

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you.

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Without us.

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Can you imagine if Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala utilizes you to use the guidance of

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the Qur'an to bring it to the

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world?

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The people are so much in need of

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what we have and we're not doing our

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job to deliver it to the world.

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We're not.

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So I want you to make this a

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task upon yourself in these seven days that

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you're going to be spending here inshaAllah ta

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'ala.

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Connect with the Qur'an in a way

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that you truly, truly find a way to

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give it to the people.

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How can I become that person inshaAllah ta

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'ala who will deliver this to the world

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and hopefully a few people, many people, thousands

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of people will become Muslim because of me

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inshaAllah ta'ala.

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Put this in your mind, binillah azawajal, and

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that's why we need to study the Qur

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'an together inshaAllah, beginning with at least a

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definition.

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Let's try to understand the Qur'an, the

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background of the Qur'an, the history of

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the Qur'an, how it all started inshaAllah

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ta'ala, beginning with the definition.

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The linguistic definition of the Qur'an, it

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comes from the word qara'a yaqra'a.

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This is what you have in your book

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right now actually, you have the notes with

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you inshaAllah ta'ala.

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Qara'a, so the word is qara'a

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yaqra'u.

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Linguistically speaking the word qara'a means to

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put things together, that's what it means actually.

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Al qara'a, al jam'a, so when

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you put things together, that comes with the

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qara'a.

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Why?

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Because the Qur'an put the words together,

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put the ayat together, put the meaning together,

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put the surahs together.

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So all of this was put together, that's

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the Qur'an.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, inna alayna

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jam'ahu wa qur'ana.

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He vowed that we will put it together

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and we shall give it to you so

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you recite that, recite the Qur'an.

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Nowadays when we say Qur'an, we mean

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by that recitation of the words of Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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We mean by that the recitation, it's an

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iqra' which means to recite the words of

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Allah azza wa jal.

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Now that's from the linguistic definition.

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The shari'a definition of the Qur'an,

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the ulema have given a lot of definitions,

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expanded and short ones, so this is an

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average definition of the Qur'an.

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Kind of like an average definition, I'm going

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to explain that to you one statement at

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a time insha'Allah.

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Number one, al Qur'an, kalamullah.

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When we say kalamullah, what do we mean

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by that?

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The literal word of Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala.

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The speech of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Where do we get that from?

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From surah at-Tawbah where Allah azza wa

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jal says, وَإِنْ أَحَدٌ مِّنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ اَسْتَجَارَكَ فَأَجِرْهُ

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حَتَّى يَسْمَعَ كَلَامَ اللَّهِ If any of the

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mushrikeen, the non-believers, they sought shelter, refuge

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with you, give them that shelter, give them

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that asylum, until they hear from you, kalamullah,

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the speech of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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So as Muslims, as ahlul sunnah wal jama

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'ah, who believe in the author, we believe

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that the Qur'an is the actual speech

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of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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However, in a manner that suits His Majesty.

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How?

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We don't know.

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Allah azza wa jal, He spoke the Qur

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'an to Jibreel to deliver that Qur'an

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to Muhammad ﷺ.

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But how that speech happened?

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In a manner that suits His Majesty.

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That's what we know.

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We can't say anything besides that.

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But we know it's the word of Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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And when we say it's the literal word

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of Allah azza wa jal, we could say

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it's an oral revelation.

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What's the meaning of saying an oral revelation?

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When you open the mushaf, what do you

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read in the last three surahs of the

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Qur'an?

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Or the last, you know, more than that.

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But the last three surahs of the Qur

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'an.

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It starts with what?

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Qul.

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Qul huwa allahu ahad.

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Qul a'udhu bi rabbil falak.

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Qul a'udhu bi rabbil nas.

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But what is the meaning when we say

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Qul?

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What does it mean exactly?

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Say, right?

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Say.

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So if you're the receiver of that statement

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or that command to say, when you deliver

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the message, what do you usually say?

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Do you say Qul?

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When you deliver it?

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You don't.

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So what do you say?

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Huwa allahu ahad.

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Right away.

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So the fact that the Prophet ﷺ conveyed

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Qul huwa allahu ahad, the instruction that was

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given to him as it was pronounced by

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the Lord subhanahu wa ta'ala to Jibreel,

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that tells us the Qur'an is an

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absolutely an oral revelation.

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Word for word from Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala.

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Otherwise, if it was given to the Prophet

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ﷺ in written form or it was spoken

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to him to narrate the Qur'an, not

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to recite the Qur'an, he wouldn't say

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Qul.

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He would skip that.

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He would just go straight to saying allahu

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ahad.

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But we say it's an actual speech of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, oral revelation of

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the Qur'an.

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And we say, al munazzalu ala nabiyyihi Muhammad.

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That was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

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Munazzal, revealed, which means what?

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It was actually revealed to the Prophet ﷺ,

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meaning from above down.

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That's what it means.

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From above down, from heavens.

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So we know that the Qur'an, Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Qur

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'an, inna anzalnahu fee laylatul qadr.

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It was revealed, it was sent down, fee

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laylatul qadr.

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So we know it's coming from above down,

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from heavens, to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

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When we say munazzal ala nabiyyihi, munazzal ala

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nabiyyihi ala Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, that excludes who

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ya jama'a?

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All the other Prophets.

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And it excludes also all the other books

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of Allah azza wa jalla.

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Because the one that was revealed to Musa

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ﷺ is called what?

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Al-Tawrah.

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The one that was given to Isa was

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called?

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Al-Injeel.

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So when we say ala Muhammad ﷺ, it

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excludes everything else.

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So it's exclusive to the Qur'an.

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Billughati al-arabiyya, in the Arabic language, in

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the Arabic language.

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That excludes what?

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All the translations.

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All the translations of the Qur'an excluded.

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So if someone comes to you holding a

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translation and says, look what your Qur'an

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says.

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You have absolutely the right to say, no

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that's not what the Qur'an says.

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But look, it says the Qur'an, the

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translations of the Qur'an.

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Say, well these are the words of the

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translator.

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And we have so many bad translations out

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there by the way.

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Especially done by orientalists from the past.

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When they were translating the Qur'an, they

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put their own bias into the translation.

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So therefore, you have all the right to

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dispute and reject translations.

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Because you will tell them that's not the

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Qur'an.

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That's only the translation of the Qur'an.

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The Qur'an is the Arabic text itself.

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And that's it.

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Say, biwasitati Jibreel.

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There is a will to the Prophet ﷺ

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through the Prophet for the message, Jibreel.

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Because Jibreel is the angel that Allah ﷻ

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assigned to communicate between him and his human

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Prophet ﷺ.

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Biwasitati Jibreel.

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Munajjaman ala mada thalathatu wa'asheena aaman.

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Meaning, munajjaman means actually came in intervals.

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It wasn't revealed in one single book.

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It was sent, you know, ala mada thalathatu

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wa'asheena aaman.

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23 years.

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23 years.

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From the first revelation to the end of

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the revelation.

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It took 23 years.

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About 23 years, the Qur'an was revealed.

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Now we're going to learn later on that

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it was revealed that way.

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Why?

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In order to, for many reasons.

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One of them is obviously to make it

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easy on the people, one ruling at a

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time.

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To strengthen the heart of the Prophet ﷺ.

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To always be instant so that it always

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have a divine connection with Allah ﷻ.

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Like imagine, when you receive instant messaging from

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a friend or from your loved ones, how

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beautiful, how fresh those messages are.

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Makes you feel, you know, kind of like

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so excited.

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So that you're connecting with them.

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But if you receive something, you know, after

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a few hours, all in one text, it's

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not the same feeling like when you have

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it instant.

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The same thing when you receive it from

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Allah ﷻ instantly.

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Let's finish it and then come to you,

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inshallah.

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What does that mean?

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Means it's miraculous by its own text and

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language.

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Like the language itself of the Qur'an

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is miraculous.

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The actual love of the Qur'an, the

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actual pronouncements and the words of the Qur

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'an are miraculous.

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And we're going to learn that the miraculous

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nature of the Qur'an expands beyond the

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words.

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But the wording itself is miracle.

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How so?

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Allah ﷻ in the Qur'an challenged the

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Arab back then who excelled in the art

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of speech three times.

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He says, first of all, bring me the

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Qur'an similar to this.

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فَلَا تُبِي مِثْلِ هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ Let them bring

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something similar to this Qur'an.

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They couldn't.

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Then Allah ﷻ challenged him with what?

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Ten surahs.

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فَلَا تُبِي عَشْرِ سُورِ المُفْتَرَيَاتِ If you can

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create and fabricate ten surahs.

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He didn't even tell them the length of

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the surahs.

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Like any ten surahs.

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And they couldn't.

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Then he said, okay, one single surah.

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As short as إِنَّا عَطَيْنَاكَ الْكَوْثَرِ And they

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could not.

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And this challenge, this linguistic challenge of the

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Qur'an stands until this day.

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The many attempts happen here and there, but

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they're all ridiculous when it comes to the

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quality of how they're trying to fabricate something

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similar to the Qur'an.

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So that's what the meaning of saying linguistic

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miracle of the Qur'an.

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فَلَا تُبِي تِلَاوَتِهِ That when we recite the

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Qur'an, it's an act of worship.

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An act of worship in terms of what?

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In terms of salah, it's an act of

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worship.

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Reading every letter is an act of worship.

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As the Prophet ﷺ mentioned, you take ten

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hasanat, ten merits, for every letter.

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He said, I don't say alif, laam, meem,

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one letter.

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No, alif is letter, laam is letter, meem

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is letter.

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So you get reward for every letter that

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you recite.

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And then he also, we know that when

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you read the Qur'an for healing, it's

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also an act of worship as well too.

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When you blow it in the water and

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drink it as well, ruqya is an act

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of worship.

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So the Qur'an, reciting the Qur'an

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is in itself an act of worship as

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well.

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المُفْتَتَحُ بِسُرَةِ الْفَاتِحَ The way we understand now,

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it starts with the Fatiha, as the order

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of the Mus'haf is in our hands

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today, and ends with Surah An-Nas.

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Why?

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Because there was an attempt, I don't know

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how many of you have seen that, there

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was an attempt, it's actually available on the

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internet unfortunately, when some people they reordered the

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Mus'haf and the Qur'an based on

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the chronological order of the revelation.

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So the beginning of the Mus'haf you'll

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find, اِقْرَى بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ the first

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five verses only, and then the beginning of

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Al-Muddathir, and then this is basically for

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them to try to put the Qur'an

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in the right order of revelation, trying to

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fabricate another format of a Mus'haf.

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So Alhamdulillah, it's rejected by the Ummah, and

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really not so many people even know anything

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about this so-called Mus'haf, or modern

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Mus'haf of our time.

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المَكْتُوبُ فِي الْمَصَاحِفِ So the Qur'an has

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been documented in the Mus'haf today.

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There are many recitations or قراءات that happen,

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and not necessarily in the Mus'haf we

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have anymore, so we'll discuss that later inshaAllah

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ta'ala.

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And then we said, وَالْمَنْ قُولُ إِلَيْنَ بِالتَّوَاتِرِ

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that was transmitted to us through التواتر.

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تواتر means in abundance.

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So in every generation that transmitted the Qur

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'an to us, there's an abundant number of

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people.

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When we say abundance, it means basically limitless.

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We're talking about thousands and thousands of people

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who have memorized the Qur'an, and they

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moved the Qur'an from generation to generation

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to generation, until we have it today alhamdulillah

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in our time, when we have millions of

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people who have memorized the Qur'an.

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Today we have millions of people who are

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huffadh and memorize the Qur'an.

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Men, women, children, adults, Arab, non-Arab, you

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name it.

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And that is one of the miracles of

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the Qur'an as well.

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So this is just a general definition of

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the Qur'an.

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Once again, it's the words of Allah ﷻ,

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the speech of Allah ﷻ, which was revealed

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to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in the Arabic

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language, to the Messenger Angel Jibreel, in intervals

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of 23 years, miraculously in his language, and

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its recitation, its worship, that starts with the

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Fatiha in Surat al-Nas, and written in

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the Masahif, what was revealed to us or

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transmitted to us through تواتر.

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You had a question?

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Yes.

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No.

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So the question is about when Allah says,

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إِنَّا أَنزَيْنَاهُ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ Does that mean

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that the Qur'an was revealed on the

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Night of Al-Qadr, the Night of Power?

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Was that the actual revelation to the Prophet

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ﷺ, or was that the actual revelation from

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the seventh heaven to the first seven?

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We're going to come to that, inshaAllah, chronological

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order of the revelation.

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But since you opened the subject here, إِنَّا

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أَنزَيْنَاهُ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ That is actually when

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the Qur'an was entirely, the entirety of

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the Qur'an was brought from الَّوْحَ الْمَحْفُوظِ

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all the way to the earthly heaven.

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So that was actually that night.

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So the whole Qur'an came down to

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the earthly heaven.

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Which is why Allah ﷻ says, قَالَ تَنَزَّلْ

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مَلَاكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ فِيهَا It comes with a huge

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procession of angels.

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It was the escorting and of course the

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revelation of the Qur'an all the way

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to their earthly heavens.

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And then when Allah ﷻ gave the order,

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the first verse are revealed to the Prophet

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ﷺ over the 23 years.

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والله عليه نعم All right, any questions, Jama

00:34:54 --> 00:34:54

'ah?

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Okay, I'm going to give you one minute.

00:35:01 --> 00:35:02

I want you to share with your neighbor

00:35:02 --> 00:35:04

next to you, what did you learn about

00:35:04 --> 00:35:05

the definition of the Qur'an?

00:35:06 --> 00:35:09

One thing you learned about the definition of

00:35:09 --> 00:35:09

the Qur'an.

00:35:09 --> 00:35:10

One minute, go for it.

00:35:12 --> 00:35:13

Don't tell me you learned nothing.

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All right, let's hear from you guys.

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I want to hear from you.

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Okay, we have still about 17 minutes to

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finish and start the session.

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I want to hear from you.

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What did you guys learn about the definition

00:35:23 --> 00:35:24

of the Qur'an?

00:35:24 --> 00:35:26

What did you learn from the definition of

00:35:26 --> 00:35:26

the Qur'an?

00:35:26 --> 00:35:27

Yes.

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So it was revealed over 23 years.

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How significant is that to you?

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So alhamdulillah it came through 23 years.

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That makes it easy on me even today

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when I try to study the Qur'an.

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You know, it takes time.

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So if Allah ﷻ chose to reveal the

00:35:42 --> 00:35:44

Qur'an 23 years for the ummah, to

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make it easy on them, you know, to

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memorize it and learn it and live by

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it.

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It also takes time, a lifetime for me

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to learn the Qur'an.

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Beautiful.

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JazakAllah khair.

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Anything else?

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What did you guys learn about the definition

00:35:55 --> 00:35:56

of the Qur'an?

00:35:56 --> 00:35:56

Yes, sister.

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Say it again.

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You should be learning Arabic.

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Bismillah.

00:36:04 --> 00:36:05

Who wants to join the jama'ah?

00:36:07 --> 00:36:09

You know, I don't know how to say

00:36:09 --> 00:36:10

that since you brought the subject.

00:36:10 --> 00:36:12

I don't want to guilt trip you guys.

00:36:13 --> 00:36:15

But wallahi, being born as an Arab and

00:36:15 --> 00:36:17

speaking the language, you know, as a mother

00:36:17 --> 00:36:20

language, it's not just a privilege.

00:36:21 --> 00:36:22

It's also a huge responsibility.

00:36:23 --> 00:36:25

You know, there are many, many, many, many

00:36:25 --> 00:36:29

times I've been invited to attend someone's graduation

00:36:29 --> 00:36:31

for a Hif program or recite the Qur

00:36:31 --> 00:36:31

'an.

00:36:32 --> 00:36:34

Families are happy that their child finished this

00:36:34 --> 00:36:35

or that, subhanAllah.

00:36:35 --> 00:36:37

It's so interesting for me to be sitting

00:36:37 --> 00:36:37

there.

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And it gives me goosebumps when I realize

00:36:40 --> 00:36:43

among the 200, 300 people attending and listening

00:36:43 --> 00:36:45

to the child reciting the Qur'an, I'm

00:36:45 --> 00:36:47

the only one understanding what he's saying.

00:36:49 --> 00:36:50

Wallahi, I'll be looking around, I'm just like,

00:36:50 --> 00:36:51

this is really scary.

00:36:52 --> 00:36:55

200 people attending this program, I'm the only

00:36:55 --> 00:36:58

person understanding what this child is reciting.

00:36:58 --> 00:37:01

And in my mind, I wish they all

00:37:01 --> 00:37:02

know what he or she is saying.

00:37:03 --> 00:37:05

So yeah, learning the Arabic language is a

00:37:05 --> 00:37:07

huge privilege and responsibility at the same time.

00:37:07 --> 00:37:09

And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala facilitate

00:37:09 --> 00:37:10

that and make it easy for you.

00:37:11 --> 00:37:13

Because wallahi, tomorrow, by the way, our first

00:37:13 --> 00:37:14

session in the morning, we're going to talk

00:37:14 --> 00:37:15

about the language of the Qur'an.

00:37:16 --> 00:37:17

And you're going to see how beautiful, how

00:37:17 --> 00:37:19

significant it is to be in the Arabic

00:37:19 --> 00:37:19

language.

00:37:20 --> 00:37:22

Out of all the languages, Allah chose the

00:37:22 --> 00:37:26

desert people tongue to reveal his final revelation.

00:37:27 --> 00:37:28

Why?

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We're going to learn that tomorrow morning, inshaAllah.

00:37:31 --> 00:37:31

What else?

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We'll learn about the finish of the Qur

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'an.

00:37:34 --> 00:37:34

Yes?

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Until he died.

00:37:47 --> 00:37:48

Until he died.

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And so it's a lifelong relationship.

00:37:51 --> 00:37:54

So the revelation of the Qur'an, we

00:37:54 --> 00:37:55

say 23 years, but you have to keep

00:37:55 --> 00:37:57

in mind, this is actually lasted the lifetime

00:37:57 --> 00:37:59

of the Prophet ﷺ from the moment he

00:37:59 --> 00:38:01

received the first revelation until he died.

00:38:01 --> 00:38:03

Which is again, if you would like to

00:38:03 --> 00:38:05

have a connection with the Qur'an, it's

00:38:05 --> 00:38:08

from the moment you realize how important the

00:38:08 --> 00:38:09

Qur'an to you in your life until

00:38:09 --> 00:38:10

you really die.

00:38:11 --> 00:38:13

There's no interruption of it.

00:38:13 --> 00:38:15

You have to be living with the Qur

00:38:15 --> 00:38:15

'an.

00:38:15 --> 00:38:18

So I hope you have your own action

00:38:18 --> 00:38:21

item that you're registering down next to these

00:38:21 --> 00:38:22

points, inshaAllah, with regard to the meaning of

00:38:22 --> 00:38:23

the Qur'an.

00:38:23 --> 00:38:25

Let's move on to the next point, inshaAllah.

00:38:25 --> 00:38:28

And that's the events preceding the first revelation

00:38:28 --> 00:38:28

of the Qur'an.

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The events preceding the first revelation of the

00:38:31 --> 00:38:31

Qur'an.

00:38:31 --> 00:38:33

First of all, we're going to talk about

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the world around the Prophet ﷺ.

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And then we're going to talk about the

00:38:37 --> 00:38:39

actual event that happened in the life of

00:38:39 --> 00:38:40

the Prophet ﷺ himself.

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And we have about 14 minutes to finish

00:38:43 --> 00:38:44

this session, inshaAllah.

00:38:44 --> 00:38:46

Number one, the Meccan society.

00:38:46 --> 00:38:48

Let's talk about the Meccan society before the

00:38:48 --> 00:38:51

Prophet ﷺ received the revelation.

00:38:52 --> 00:38:55

The Meccan society, or just to give you

00:38:55 --> 00:38:56

a perspective on Mecca.

00:38:56 --> 00:38:59

Mecca was considered a very important town in

00:38:59 --> 00:39:00

the Arabian Peninsula.

00:39:00 --> 00:39:01

It was a trade center.

00:39:03 --> 00:39:08

It was the home of the religious hub

00:39:08 --> 00:39:10

of the entire Arabian Peninsula.

00:39:10 --> 00:39:14

The Arabs of Mecca, or the Quraysh to

00:39:14 --> 00:39:17

be specific, they were more like the shapers

00:39:17 --> 00:39:19

and shakers and movers of the Arab culture

00:39:19 --> 00:39:22

in the Arabian Peninsula because they were considered

00:39:22 --> 00:39:24

Ahl al-Hims, like the people of God,

00:39:24 --> 00:39:27

basically, the chosen ones to be custodians of

00:39:27 --> 00:39:28

the house of Allah ﷻ.

00:39:28 --> 00:39:30

So they had tons of privilege.

00:39:31 --> 00:39:33

Anyone who was born there in Mecca, and

00:39:33 --> 00:39:34

born for the Quraysh, and born for Bani

00:39:34 --> 00:39:36

Hashim, was someone special.

00:39:37 --> 00:39:39

Because it's like Gizna from being an Arab,

00:39:40 --> 00:39:42

to being from Mecca, to being a Quraysh,

00:39:43 --> 00:39:45

to being Bani Hashim, and then you have

00:39:45 --> 00:39:48

all now to the micro-level lineage of

00:39:48 --> 00:39:49

the Prophet ﷺ.

00:39:49 --> 00:39:52

When the Prophet ﷺ was born, who was

00:39:52 --> 00:39:53

the chief of Quraysh at that time?

00:39:55 --> 00:39:56

Who was the chief of Quraysh when the

00:39:56 --> 00:39:57

Prophet ﷺ was born?

00:39:58 --> 00:39:59

Guys, who was it?

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Abdul Muttalib.

00:40:01 --> 00:40:02

Who was Abdul Muttalib?

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The grandfather of the Prophet ﷺ.

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And when the Prophet ﷺ was born, there

00:40:07 --> 00:40:09

was a major event happening around the Arabian

00:40:09 --> 00:40:09

Peninsula.

00:40:09 --> 00:40:10

What was that?

00:40:11 --> 00:40:12

The Eid of the Elephant.

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What is so unique and special about this?

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Just to give you perspective of how important

00:40:16 --> 00:40:17

the event was.

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So the story is, in Yemen, when Allah

00:40:21 --> 00:40:24

ﷻ revealed to us later on Surah al

00:40:24 --> 00:40:27

-Buruj, talking about the people of the trench,

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when they were burned alive there, because of

00:40:29 --> 00:40:30

their faith and their belief.

00:40:30 --> 00:40:34

So what happened there is that there was

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the talent of that land.

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He subjugated the Christians against, of course, that

00:40:41 --> 00:40:42

persecution.

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Eventually they were burned and killed, those monotheistic

00:40:46 --> 00:40:47

Christians of that time.

00:40:47 --> 00:40:52

So later on, the Abyssinians, who were Christians,

00:40:52 --> 00:40:55

they took revenge against, of course, what happened

00:40:55 --> 00:40:58

to their fellow Christians in the southern part

00:40:58 --> 00:40:58

of the Arabian Peninsula.

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So they took revenge of that.

00:41:01 --> 00:41:04

And when they did that, Abraha al-Habashi,

00:41:04 --> 00:41:07

who was the commander of the Abyssinian army

00:41:07 --> 00:41:10

there, he wanted to spread, of course, his

00:41:10 --> 00:41:11

da'wah and his religion into the Arabian

00:41:11 --> 00:41:12

Peninsula, so this never happened again.

00:41:13 --> 00:41:15

And they heard about the Arab worshipping something

00:41:15 --> 00:41:18

there, and they do something in a town

00:41:18 --> 00:41:19

called Mecca.

00:41:19 --> 00:41:20

So what he did, he goes, you know

00:41:20 --> 00:41:23

what, I'm going to make something better for

00:41:23 --> 00:41:23

them.

00:41:23 --> 00:41:25

He built a fancy building called al-Qulays.

00:41:26 --> 00:41:31

Huge, massive structure, beautiful, exquisite, colorful, you name

00:41:31 --> 00:41:31

it.

00:41:32 --> 00:41:34

Obviously, it's supposed to be impressive to the

00:41:34 --> 00:41:35

Bedouins to come and worship over there.

00:41:36 --> 00:41:37

But no one was impressed by that.

00:41:38 --> 00:41:40

Because for them, religion was not about how

00:41:40 --> 00:41:42

fancy it is, how sacred that place was

00:41:42 --> 00:41:42

for them.

00:41:43 --> 00:41:44

Even it was made of bricks.

00:41:44 --> 00:41:45

So they did not.

00:41:46 --> 00:41:49

And there was a special event when the

00:41:49 --> 00:41:51

announcement went to the Arabian Peninsula that, you

00:41:51 --> 00:41:52

know, you're going to have to start going

00:41:52 --> 00:41:54

to Mecca, and you need to move to

00:41:54 --> 00:41:56

worship in Yemen.

00:41:56 --> 00:41:58

Part of it is, of course, in addition

00:41:58 --> 00:42:00

to the religious advantage he was trying to

00:42:00 --> 00:42:02

achieve there, the economic advantage as well, too.

00:42:02 --> 00:42:05

He wants to move the financial hub or

00:42:05 --> 00:42:07

center of trade from Mecca to Yemen, which

00:42:07 --> 00:42:08

is closer to the Abyssinian area.

00:42:09 --> 00:42:10

And he tried to do that.

00:42:10 --> 00:42:11

He failed miserably.

00:42:12 --> 00:42:13

So what happened, he said, you know what,

00:42:13 --> 00:42:15

I'm going to go and destroy that place.

00:42:15 --> 00:42:16

Forcefully.

00:42:16 --> 00:42:17

And we know what happened.

00:42:17 --> 00:42:20

You know, Allah ﷻ destroyed his army and

00:42:20 --> 00:42:21

the elephant that came with them.

00:42:22 --> 00:42:23

But that was around the time when the

00:42:23 --> 00:42:25

Prophet ﷺ was born, and his grandfather was

00:42:25 --> 00:42:26

the chief of Quraysh.

00:42:27 --> 00:42:29

So he was born, you could say, in

00:42:29 --> 00:42:32

a very privileged time, ﷺ.

00:42:32 --> 00:42:36

However, that privilege somehow was compromised a little

00:42:36 --> 00:42:38

bit when his father died before he was

00:42:38 --> 00:42:40

born, and his mother died when he was

00:42:40 --> 00:42:41

only six years old, ﷺ, growing up as

00:42:41 --> 00:42:45

an infant, in a society that praised and

00:42:45 --> 00:42:46

worshipped power.

00:42:46 --> 00:42:49

And if you are orphan, you're done.

00:42:50 --> 00:42:52

Which is why Allah ﷻ at the beginning

00:42:52 --> 00:42:54

of Surah An-Nisa, when he was talking

00:42:54 --> 00:42:56

about the rights of people and social justice

00:42:56 --> 00:42:58

of the society, right from the very beginning,

00:42:59 --> 00:43:00

the first thing he talked about, he ﷺ

00:43:00 --> 00:43:01

spoke about who?

00:43:01 --> 00:43:02

The rights of the orphans.

00:43:03 --> 00:43:05

Because they were usually the weakest link in

00:43:05 --> 00:43:05

the society.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:08

And they would always be taken advantage of.

00:43:08 --> 00:43:10

Women as well, too, in Surah An-Nisa,

00:43:10 --> 00:43:11

taken advantage of.

00:43:11 --> 00:43:12

So that was kind of like the situation

00:43:12 --> 00:43:13

there.

00:43:13 --> 00:43:17

In the Meccan society, part of, of course,

00:43:17 --> 00:43:19

of the Arab society out there, it's all

00:43:19 --> 00:43:24

about tribal advantage, blood relationships.

00:43:24 --> 00:43:26

When it comes to the subject of war,

00:43:26 --> 00:43:29

it's all about revenge and taking retaliation.

00:43:29 --> 00:43:31

Sometimes they fight for the most ridiculous thing.

00:43:31 --> 00:43:32

I don't know if you've ever heard about

00:43:32 --> 00:43:35

Arab folklore, but there's a very famous war

00:43:35 --> 00:43:39

called Dahis Wal Ghabra that lasted 40 years.

00:43:41 --> 00:43:45

Two generations were fighting, not knowing why, from

00:43:45 --> 00:43:46

later on.

00:43:46 --> 00:43:49

But the whole story is all about debating,

00:43:49 --> 00:43:54

about fighting to claim which horse won the

00:43:54 --> 00:43:54

race.

00:43:55 --> 00:43:57

Dahis or Ghabra.

00:43:58 --> 00:44:00

So these two horses belong to different tribes.

00:44:01 --> 00:44:02

So when they were racing, it seemed like

00:44:02 --> 00:44:05

it was almost like a head-to-head

00:44:05 --> 00:44:06

race.

00:44:06 --> 00:44:08

But then they were fighting to say who

00:44:08 --> 00:44:10

won the race, because for them it's not

00:44:10 --> 00:44:12

about the money, it's about actually the fame

00:44:12 --> 00:44:13

and the privilege of being the winners.

00:44:15 --> 00:44:17

And for 40 years they kept fighting each

00:44:17 --> 00:44:20

other, fighting each other to claim that winning

00:44:20 --> 00:44:25

race until Islam came to them.

00:44:26 --> 00:44:27

Also, we have seen that in the Aws

00:44:27 --> 00:44:28

al-Khazraj.

00:44:28 --> 00:44:31

They were fighting for many, many years, many

00:44:31 --> 00:44:33

years until the Prophet ﷺ came to them

00:44:33 --> 00:44:33

to unify them.

00:44:35 --> 00:44:37

So you see that the society was very

00:44:37 --> 00:44:42

actually exhausted, was very tired, morality down, prostitution

00:44:42 --> 00:44:43

all over there.

00:44:44 --> 00:44:45

In terms of human rights, they killed their

00:44:45 --> 00:44:47

own kids because of a fear of poverty

00:44:47 --> 00:44:48

or fear of shame.

00:44:50 --> 00:44:52

Worshipping stones and statues.

00:44:53 --> 00:44:54

And Umar ﷺ, even he mentioned after he

00:44:54 --> 00:44:56

became Muslim how silly it was for them

00:44:56 --> 00:44:57

when they traveled.

00:44:58 --> 00:45:00

Sometimes when they don't have a guide, they

00:45:00 --> 00:45:02

don't have anything to carry with them, they

00:45:02 --> 00:45:03

make God out of dates.

00:45:03 --> 00:45:05

They put the dates together in the form

00:45:05 --> 00:45:06

of a statue and start worshipping them.

00:45:06 --> 00:45:08

And when they get hungry, they eat it,

00:45:08 --> 00:45:08

basically.

00:45:09 --> 00:45:11

This is how ridiculous their way of worshipping

00:45:11 --> 00:45:12

was.

00:45:12 --> 00:45:15

But then, subhanAllah, Allah sent them the Prophet

00:45:15 --> 00:45:16

Muhammad ﷺ.

00:45:16 --> 00:45:19

We also know from the surrounding Arabian Peninsula,

00:45:19 --> 00:45:22

there were two major entities that were fighting

00:45:22 --> 00:45:24

against each other for world dominance.

00:45:25 --> 00:45:28

The Byzantine Empire, which was located in modern

00:45:28 --> 00:45:31

-day Istanbul, and then we have also the

00:45:31 --> 00:45:32

Persian Empire.

00:45:32 --> 00:45:33

They're fighting against each other.

00:45:34 --> 00:45:40

The Byzantines were Christians, Orthodox Christians, and the

00:45:40 --> 00:45:41

Persians were Magians.

00:45:42 --> 00:45:45

So they were fighting for political dominance, obviously.

00:45:45 --> 00:45:48

The Arabian Peninsula, historically speaking, by the way,

00:45:48 --> 00:45:51

no one really showed much interest in the

00:45:51 --> 00:45:51

Arabian Peninsula.

00:45:52 --> 00:45:53

Why is that?

00:45:56 --> 00:45:57

No resources.

00:45:57 --> 00:45:59

Empty land, nothing.

00:45:59 --> 00:46:01

The only space people they fought for in

00:46:01 --> 00:46:03

the Arabian Peninsula, only the southern belts.

00:46:04 --> 00:46:04

Why?

00:46:05 --> 00:46:07

Because that's when you have dominance over the

00:46:07 --> 00:46:09

trade routes through the water, the water straits,

00:46:09 --> 00:46:10

that's it.

00:46:10 --> 00:46:12

So Yemen was very actually important for them.

00:46:13 --> 00:46:15

The same thing in modern-day Oman, for

00:46:15 --> 00:46:15

example.

00:46:16 --> 00:46:17

But in the middle, in the center, no

00:46:17 --> 00:46:18

one cared about them.

00:46:18 --> 00:46:19

They're Bedouins fighting each other, no one cared

00:46:19 --> 00:46:20

about them.

00:46:20 --> 00:46:22

Even when the Ottomans actually, when the Ottomans

00:46:22 --> 00:46:24

took over, same thing.

00:46:24 --> 00:46:26

They only cared about the Hejaz, where Mecca

00:46:26 --> 00:46:27

and Medina is, and that's all over Yemen.

00:46:28 --> 00:46:29

Central, fight each other, as long as you

00:46:29 --> 00:46:31

give me loyalty, I'm okay with that.

00:46:32 --> 00:46:34

So this is how ridiculous was the society

00:46:34 --> 00:46:35

of the Arabian Peninsula.

00:46:35 --> 00:46:39

But the Romans and the Persians were fighting

00:46:39 --> 00:46:41

each other, and the southern belt of the

00:46:41 --> 00:46:43

Arabian Peninsula has always been a source of

00:46:43 --> 00:46:44

fighting for them.

00:46:45 --> 00:46:47

So it's always one time ruled by the

00:46:47 --> 00:46:50

Romans, or at least their proxy states in

00:46:50 --> 00:46:53

Abyssinia, the Christians, and sometimes by the Persians.

00:46:53 --> 00:46:56

By the time the Prophet ﷺ arrived, they

00:46:56 --> 00:46:58

were still fighting, and there were two major

00:46:58 --> 00:47:00

battles that happened, Allah reported in Surah Ar

00:47:00 --> 00:47:00

-Rum.

00:47:02 --> 00:47:04

Like one time, the Romans, they lost the

00:47:04 --> 00:47:08

battle to the Persians, and after a few

00:47:08 --> 00:47:10

years, it took about seven to nine years,

00:47:10 --> 00:47:12

Allah ﷻ gave victory to the Romans against

00:47:12 --> 00:47:13

the Persians.

00:47:14 --> 00:47:17

But when the Prophet ﷺ arrived, the Persians

00:47:17 --> 00:47:18

were in control of Yemen.

00:47:19 --> 00:47:21

They were in control of Yemen, the southern

00:47:21 --> 00:47:21

belt.

00:47:21 --> 00:47:23

And the Christians were in control of the

00:47:23 --> 00:47:25

northern belt of the Arabian Peninsula.

00:47:26 --> 00:47:28

So modern day Tabuk and these areas used

00:47:28 --> 00:47:31

to be actually Christian land, Arab Christians who

00:47:31 --> 00:47:33

were vessel states for the Romans of that

00:47:33 --> 00:47:34

time.

00:47:35 --> 00:47:38

As for religion, in the Arabian Peninsula, there

00:47:38 --> 00:47:40

were pagans, few Christians in the north, like

00:47:40 --> 00:47:44

we said, also Christians and Jewish tribes, Arab

00:47:44 --> 00:47:46

Jewish actually, in the south.

00:47:46 --> 00:47:49

Where did Judaism come to Yemen from, Ijemaa?

00:47:49 --> 00:47:49

Anyone knows?

00:47:52 --> 00:47:53

Ethiopia?

00:47:53 --> 00:47:56

Ethiopia was very purely Christian, actually, but before

00:47:56 --> 00:47:58

it was considered in Yemen before.

00:47:58 --> 00:47:58

Why?

00:47:58 --> 00:48:01

Actually, Judaism came to Ethiopia from Yemen.

00:48:05 --> 00:48:11

Sulayman ﷺ and Balqis, when she accepted his

00:48:11 --> 00:48:13

message in Islam, of course at the time

00:48:13 --> 00:48:16

of Sulayman ﷺ, so that became more like

00:48:16 --> 00:48:20

a connection between the two states, in Jerusalem

00:48:20 --> 00:48:22

and Al-Quds, and Yemen.

00:48:22 --> 00:48:26

And when the Romans and the Persians invaded

00:48:26 --> 00:48:28

Jerusalem and the Jews had to leave and

00:48:28 --> 00:48:30

they lost their state, they started going south.

00:48:31 --> 00:48:33

And they went south as far as Yemen

00:48:33 --> 00:48:35

as well, to find shelter, of course, with

00:48:35 --> 00:48:36

their allies from the past as well.

00:48:36 --> 00:48:38

So that's why actually they have a presence

00:48:38 --> 00:48:38

over there.

00:48:39 --> 00:48:40

So there were Jewish people, there were Christians,

00:48:41 --> 00:48:43

and there were some of the people who

00:48:43 --> 00:48:47

are considered muwahhidun, monotheistic faith, such as Waraq

00:48:47 --> 00:48:48

ibn Nawfal and others.

00:48:48 --> 00:48:50

One of them is also, we know him

00:48:50 --> 00:48:52

in the story of the Prophet ﷺ, Sirah

00:48:52 --> 00:48:54

Salman al-Farisi, may Allah be pleased with

00:48:54 --> 00:48:56

him and please him, who was very monotheistic

00:48:56 --> 00:48:58

and trying to follow the pure message of

00:48:58 --> 00:49:00

Ibrahim ﷺ.

00:49:01 --> 00:49:05

Now as for the Roman Empire, it was

00:49:05 --> 00:49:08

completely corrupted, 500 years from the time of

00:49:08 --> 00:49:10

Isa ﷺ, 600 years as a matter of

00:49:10 --> 00:49:13

fact, that of course led to Christianity being

00:49:13 --> 00:49:14

altered multiple times.

00:49:14 --> 00:49:17

So when the Prophet ﷺ arrived, Christianity went

00:49:17 --> 00:49:19

far away from the origin or the first

00:49:19 --> 00:49:20

revelation.

00:49:21 --> 00:49:23

Now in regards to the time of the

00:49:23 --> 00:49:24

Prophet ﷺ, before the Prophet ﷺ received his

00:49:24 --> 00:49:27

first revelation, how did the Prophet ﷺ, how

00:49:27 --> 00:49:30

was he prepared for the revelation?

00:49:30 --> 00:49:33

So we know that Allah ﷻ brought Muhammad

00:49:33 --> 00:49:37

ﷺ among anfasihim, min anfusihim, which means from

00:49:37 --> 00:49:40

the people of Quraysh, and He brought him

00:49:40 --> 00:49:42

ﷺ among the best of the best.

00:49:42 --> 00:49:45

Like people, they always of course had special

00:49:45 --> 00:49:48

status in their hearts for the Quraysh and

00:49:48 --> 00:49:50

for Banu Hashim, the family and the clan

00:49:50 --> 00:49:51

of the Prophet ﷺ.

00:49:52 --> 00:49:54

They were the custodians of the haram.

00:49:55 --> 00:49:57

They were the ones who gave them food,

00:49:57 --> 00:49:59

gave them water and gave them zamzam, so

00:49:59 --> 00:50:00

they always respected them.

00:50:01 --> 00:50:03

In addition to that, what happened to Abdul

00:50:03 --> 00:50:07

Muttalib, when Abraha was trying to invade Mecca

00:50:07 --> 00:50:10

to destroy the Kaaba, and Abdul Muttalib, he

00:50:10 --> 00:50:12

went and he held the doors of the

00:50:12 --> 00:50:15

Kaaba and he says, Ya Rabbi, ihmi baytaka,

00:50:16 --> 00:50:18

protect your house, and they went to the

00:50:18 --> 00:50:21

mountains and Allah ﷻ showed them that sign.

00:50:21 --> 00:50:23

So that was like a special status to

00:50:23 --> 00:50:24

the leader of Quraysh when he made that

00:50:24 --> 00:50:27

dua that Allah accepted from him, and that

00:50:27 --> 00:50:29

increased the status of his family in the

00:50:29 --> 00:50:31

hearts of the Arab as well too.

00:50:31 --> 00:50:34

So that's how the Prophet ﷺ was prepared

00:50:34 --> 00:50:34

among the people.

00:50:34 --> 00:50:37

And when he was born ﷺ, there are

00:50:37 --> 00:50:40

many, many signs, and by the way, you

00:50:40 --> 00:50:41

probably have read about them a lot in

00:50:41 --> 00:50:43

books of Sira, about his mom saying it

00:50:43 --> 00:50:46

was a very light pregnancy, she had seen

00:50:46 --> 00:50:50

a light that was shining into the skies

00:50:50 --> 00:50:51

when he was born, and he was born

00:50:51 --> 00:50:55

making sajdah, he was born with his hands

00:50:55 --> 00:50:57

showing tawheed, and all these signs that I've

00:50:57 --> 00:50:59

just mentioned to you, they're actually not authentic.

00:51:01 --> 00:51:03

So you probably read about them a lot

00:51:03 --> 00:51:05

in the Sira and the stories, but none

00:51:05 --> 00:51:07

of these stories had any chain of narration

00:51:07 --> 00:51:10

to say it's a verified report.

00:51:11 --> 00:51:13

They call them qasas, which means just stories,

00:51:14 --> 00:51:14

maybe tales.

00:51:15 --> 00:51:16

Allah ﷻ knows if they're authentic or not.

00:51:17 --> 00:51:19

If you ever narrate these stories, make sure

00:51:19 --> 00:51:21

to say, they say, instead of saying, it

00:51:21 --> 00:51:23

is what it is, because we don't know

00:51:23 --> 00:51:24

if it's authentic or not.

00:51:25 --> 00:51:27

But what we know about the authenticity of

00:51:27 --> 00:51:29

what happened to the Prophet ﷺ is when

00:51:29 --> 00:51:33

he was born, no woman was accepting this

00:51:33 --> 00:51:35

child to nurse him, except for one woman,

00:51:36 --> 00:51:38

and that woman was Halima al-Sa'diyah, and

00:51:38 --> 00:51:40

there was so much barakah in taking that

00:51:40 --> 00:51:43

orphan boy to her tribe.

00:51:44 --> 00:51:46

That is now mentioned, actually verified in the

00:51:46 --> 00:51:47

Sira of the Prophet ﷺ.

00:51:48 --> 00:51:50

The barakah of having the milk from the

00:51:50 --> 00:51:52

others of the camels, and also Halima al

00:51:52 --> 00:51:54

-Sa'diyah was able to feed the baby and

00:51:54 --> 00:51:55

her children as well.

00:51:55 --> 00:51:57

There is so much khayran barakah happened in

00:51:57 --> 00:51:59

her time for taking care of the Prophet

00:51:59 --> 00:52:00

ﷺ.

00:52:00 --> 00:52:01

So he was a very special child.

00:52:02 --> 00:52:03

He was a very, very special child.

00:52:04 --> 00:52:05

Also, that child, as he was growing up,

00:52:06 --> 00:52:10

he was very unique, never prostrated to any

00:52:10 --> 00:52:12

idol among the Arab.

00:52:13 --> 00:52:15

He did not follow the path of his

00:52:15 --> 00:52:15

own people.

00:52:16 --> 00:52:18

He did not even like that kind of

00:52:18 --> 00:52:20

partying scene that they had in their own

00:52:20 --> 00:52:20

ways.

00:52:20 --> 00:52:22

So he was a very unique person, very

00:52:22 --> 00:52:25

respectful, very pure, very innocent, trustworthy.

00:52:26 --> 00:52:28

And as he became an adult, he was

00:52:28 --> 00:52:29

also known to be what?

00:52:30 --> 00:52:32

The truthful, the honest person.

00:52:33 --> 00:52:37

That reputation caused a woman such as Khadijah

00:52:37 --> 00:52:39

to say, I want you to lead my

00:52:39 --> 00:52:40

caravan to Ash-Sham.

00:52:40 --> 00:52:43

So he became a businessman ﷺ, trading for

00:52:43 --> 00:52:45

her, until of course she saw his honesty,

00:52:46 --> 00:52:48

and she married him to become her husband

00:52:48 --> 00:52:48

ﷺ.

00:52:49 --> 00:52:53

It was around his 40s, around that time,

00:52:53 --> 00:52:56

before he became 40 ﷺ, and this is

00:52:56 --> 00:52:57

in the age of human beings by the

00:52:57 --> 00:52:59

way, it's stage three in our life.

00:53:00 --> 00:53:02

So our phase is first, the first phase

00:53:02 --> 00:53:06

is called the learning phase, then the editing

00:53:06 --> 00:53:09

phase, and then we go into the mastering

00:53:09 --> 00:53:11

phase, and then we go to number four,

00:53:11 --> 00:53:12

to the harvesting phase.

00:53:13 --> 00:53:15

Like after going through life, now we start

00:53:15 --> 00:53:16

reflecting on life.

00:53:17 --> 00:53:18

And that's what the Prophet ﷺ now is

00:53:18 --> 00:53:19

reflecting, what's the meaning of this?

00:53:20 --> 00:53:21

What's the purpose of all of that?

00:53:22 --> 00:53:25

It was mentioned in the Sahih, that the

00:53:25 --> 00:53:28

Prophet ﷺ during that time, he loved going

00:53:28 --> 00:53:29

into seclusion.

00:53:29 --> 00:53:32

And his favourite spot was a mountain somewhere

00:53:32 --> 00:53:34

far away from Mecca, going all the way

00:53:34 --> 00:53:36

up to find a small cave there called

00:53:36 --> 00:53:37

Hira.

00:53:37 --> 00:53:39

How many of you have went to the

00:53:39 --> 00:53:41

mountain of An-Nur and the Ghar of

00:53:41 --> 00:53:42

Hira, anyone been there?

00:53:44 --> 00:53:47

I don't know if you noticed that, but

00:53:47 --> 00:53:51

before this whole construction of Mecca, as we

00:53:51 --> 00:53:54

see it today, how on earth did you

00:53:54 --> 00:53:55

find even that cave there?

00:53:56 --> 00:53:58

Like literally, how would you find that cave?

00:53:58 --> 00:54:00

It's in the middle of the mountains, you

00:54:00 --> 00:54:02

can't even see anything if you look from

00:54:02 --> 00:54:04

the bottom up over there, unless you go

00:54:04 --> 00:54:05

and you climb and you look for it.

00:54:06 --> 00:54:08

So the Prophet ﷺ, he must have put

00:54:08 --> 00:54:10

so much energy and effort in trying to

00:54:10 --> 00:54:11

find a way to be away from people.

00:54:12 --> 00:54:13

Like he didn't want people to see him.

00:54:14 --> 00:54:16

He just wants to find that moment with

00:54:16 --> 00:54:18

Allah ﷻ, trying to find the meaning of

00:54:18 --> 00:54:19

this life.

00:54:19 --> 00:54:21

It was that time when the Prophet ﷺ

00:54:21 --> 00:54:24

starts going to the cave of Hira, not

00:54:24 --> 00:54:25

telling anybody where he is.

00:54:25 --> 00:54:28

So he takes supplies from home, food and

00:54:28 --> 00:54:29

water and so on, and he goes up

00:54:29 --> 00:54:30

there to spend the night.

00:54:30 --> 00:54:33

If you've ever been there, unfortunately there's no

00:54:33 --> 00:54:35

way, there's no way you can even have

00:54:35 --> 00:54:38

the same feeling anymore because there are always

00:54:38 --> 00:54:39

visitors up there.

00:54:39 --> 00:54:41

With the nice stairs that they built to

00:54:41 --> 00:54:42

get you there, it's becoming even easier for

00:54:42 --> 00:54:44

people to go up, so now you have

00:54:44 --> 00:54:45

more people being up there.

00:54:45 --> 00:54:48

So you will never really enjoy the same

00:54:48 --> 00:54:48

feeling.

00:54:49 --> 00:54:51

I always wanted to enjoy the moment when

00:54:51 --> 00:54:54

it's silent and quiet and the only thing

00:54:54 --> 00:54:55

you could hear is just the blowing of

00:54:55 --> 00:54:56

the wind or the howling of the wind

00:54:56 --> 00:54:58

through, of course, the holes of the mountain.

00:55:00 --> 00:55:01

But never.

00:55:01 --> 00:55:02

You can't find that.

00:55:02 --> 00:55:04

But that moment is that, imagine you're sitting

00:55:04 --> 00:55:07

there day and night and then you run

00:55:07 --> 00:55:09

out of supplies, you go down home, you

00:55:09 --> 00:55:10

spend a few days over there, you get

00:55:10 --> 00:55:12

some more, you go back again out there.

00:55:12 --> 00:55:14

You do the same thing again and again

00:55:14 --> 00:55:14

and again.

00:55:14 --> 00:55:15

You become familiar with that cave.

00:55:16 --> 00:55:18

So you know that cave?

00:55:19 --> 00:55:20

It's just a cave.

00:55:20 --> 00:55:20

It's empty.

00:55:21 --> 00:55:22

You know, it's ins and outs.

00:55:22 --> 00:55:24

You know every detail of that space and

00:55:24 --> 00:55:24

so on.

00:55:24 --> 00:55:26

It was during that time when the Prophet

00:55:26 --> 00:55:29

ﷺ became very comfortable in that cave that

00:55:29 --> 00:55:32

Allah ﷻ showed him the miracle, which is

00:55:32 --> 00:55:34

why it was so very special for the

00:55:34 --> 00:55:36

Prophet ﷺ and he was very shocked when

00:55:36 --> 00:55:37

it happened.

00:55:37 --> 00:55:39

So I want to take you, inshallah, in

00:55:39 --> 00:55:39

that moment.

00:55:40 --> 00:55:43

So here's the Prophet ﷺ in the cave

00:55:43 --> 00:55:47

of Hira alone at night when it's dark.

00:55:48 --> 00:55:49

And I don't know how many of you

00:55:49 --> 00:55:51

have seen Ghar Hira, but it's very tiny.

00:55:51 --> 00:55:53

It could barely fit two people in there,

00:55:53 --> 00:55:53

by the way, at a time.

00:55:54 --> 00:55:56

So he's just sitting there ﷺ trying to

00:55:56 --> 00:55:57

reflect on life and so on.

00:55:58 --> 00:55:59

And in an instant, all of a sudden,

00:56:00 --> 00:56:03

this whole space became bright.

00:56:04 --> 00:56:06

Like light and shiny and even limitless.

00:56:07 --> 00:56:08

Like no space anymore.

00:56:08 --> 00:56:09

Like, you know, imagine sometimes they do that

00:56:09 --> 00:56:10

actually in movies.

00:56:11 --> 00:56:13

Like suddenly from being in a room, all

00:56:13 --> 00:56:14

of a sudden everything is bright and white

00:56:14 --> 00:56:14

around you.

00:56:14 --> 00:56:15

Just like, whoa.

00:56:15 --> 00:56:17

No boundaries, no walls, nothing.

00:56:17 --> 00:56:19

And then this man standing in front of

00:56:19 --> 00:56:19

you.

00:56:19 --> 00:56:20

He says, read.

00:56:21 --> 00:56:22

And the Prophet ﷺ was shocked.

00:56:23 --> 00:56:25

He didn't even know what to say, but

00:56:25 --> 00:56:26

he says, like, what do I read?

00:56:27 --> 00:56:28

I mean, there's no way to go because

00:56:28 --> 00:56:29

there are no doors, no exits, nothing.

00:56:29 --> 00:56:30

I can't see anything around me.

00:56:30 --> 00:56:31

Everything is bright and light.

00:56:32 --> 00:56:33

Like, read.

00:56:33 --> 00:56:36

And the man is just like, he's just

00:56:36 --> 00:56:37

shocked ﷺ.

00:56:37 --> 00:56:38

And he says, what do I read?

00:56:38 --> 00:56:39

I don't know how to read.

00:56:40 --> 00:56:43

So the man squeezes him to make sure

00:56:43 --> 00:56:45

that he understands, you're awake, you're not sleeping,

00:56:45 --> 00:56:45

you're not dreaming.

00:56:46 --> 00:56:47

Like, you are awake.

00:56:47 --> 00:56:48

You know when sometimes you see something, you

00:56:48 --> 00:56:49

say, can you pinch me please?

00:56:49 --> 00:56:51

I don't know if I'm awake.

00:56:51 --> 00:56:53

So Jibreel was doing that to the Prophet

00:56:53 --> 00:56:54

ﷺ, squeezing him.

00:56:54 --> 00:56:56

I couldn't breathe anymore.

00:56:57 --> 00:56:58

He did that three times.

00:56:58 --> 00:57:02

And then finally he says, read in the

00:57:02 --> 00:57:04

name of your Lord who created.

00:57:05 --> 00:57:07

And that was the first revelation that the

00:57:07 --> 00:57:09

Prophet ﷺ received from Allah ﷻ.

00:57:21 --> 00:57:23

Now we know that the Prophet ﷺ received

00:57:23 --> 00:57:27

that revelation, and then suddenly Jibreel vanished.

00:57:27 --> 00:57:31

And that light and that space shrunk again

00:57:31 --> 00:57:32

back to the darkness of that cave.

00:57:32 --> 00:57:34

If you were in that moment, what would

00:57:34 --> 00:57:35

you do?

00:57:38 --> 00:57:40

You wouldn't even stay a moment in that

00:57:40 --> 00:57:40

place.

00:57:40 --> 00:57:42

And that's what the Prophet ﷺ did.

00:57:42 --> 00:57:44

In the darkness of the night, he came

00:57:44 --> 00:57:45

out of the cave running.

00:57:45 --> 00:57:46

And I want you to remember, there were

00:57:46 --> 00:57:48

no stairs like we have today.

00:57:49 --> 00:57:51

In the darkness of the night, he had

00:57:51 --> 00:57:53

to run down that mountain.

00:57:53 --> 00:57:54

He could actually hurt himself.

00:57:54 --> 00:57:55

He could break his leg.

00:57:56 --> 00:57:58

But he was too scared even to think

00:57:58 --> 00:57:58

about what's going on.

00:57:58 --> 00:58:01

And he was running and going down that

00:58:01 --> 00:58:01

mountain.

00:58:01 --> 00:58:02

By the time he got to the ground,

00:58:03 --> 00:58:05

he still had another distance to run all

00:58:05 --> 00:58:06

the way to Mecca.

00:58:06 --> 00:58:08

Have you ever seen the clock tower from

00:58:08 --> 00:58:09

the mountain?

00:58:10 --> 00:58:10

You could drive.

00:58:11 --> 00:58:13

You drive actually about, what do you say,

00:58:13 --> 00:58:14

20 minutes driving.

00:58:15 --> 00:58:16

Imagine now running.

00:58:16 --> 00:58:17

It takes forever.

00:58:17 --> 00:58:19

And he kept running until he entered the

00:58:19 --> 00:58:22

house of Khadijah ﷺ, knocking on the door.

00:58:22 --> 00:58:23

And she was shocked and surprised because he

00:58:23 --> 00:58:24

usually doesn't come during that time.

00:58:24 --> 00:58:27

And that's when he came in and he

00:58:27 --> 00:58:31

said to her, to which Allah ﷻ revealed

00:58:31 --> 00:58:33

the following ayat afterwards.

00:58:34 --> 00:58:36

What's the significance of these ayat?

00:58:36 --> 00:58:38

We're going to discuss that tomorrow morning, inshaAllah.

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