Yousuf Raza – Lets Grow Quran Daily Intro

As-salamu alaykum and hello to everyone watching,

to everyone listening.

This is Yusuf Reza, this is Let's Grow

and our feature is Qur'an Daily.

I'm going to give you a basic introduction

as to what I'm looking to get out

of these recordings that we're going to be

putting up, these podcasts and videos and just

the format.

And that'll be the end of this introductory

video.

As simple as that.

Right.

So what are we doing and why are

we doing it?

With every day, with every episode, we'll be

looking to explore beliefs.

Understand that whatever you're doing, it has some

kind of belief behind that.

Right?

And you may be aware of that belief,

but for the most part, we are unaware,

i.e. that belief is usually unconscious.

And that's what makes it so dangerous.

Right?

So even people who say they are irreligious

or that they don't have any beliefs, they

have beliefs as well.

They have some religious structure inside of them

that they may not be cognizant of, which

makes it all the more dangerous.

So even if you're going to define yourself

as irreligious, you have to be aware of

what that irreligiosity entails.

You have to be aware of what that

is.

And the less explored that belief system is,

that unconscious religion is the more dangerous that

is for our growth, for our understanding.

Right?

So people say that I know what I

have to do, but I can't do it.

I can't get myself to do it.

Understand that there is a contradictory belief, an

unconscious belief, a belief that you may not

be aware of, that you may not even

be willing to acknowledge that it's inside of

you, but it's there.

That has to be identified.

We trace it back from the action.

Identify it for what it is.

And then whatever evidences our unconscious self has

given for that wrong belief, we need to

be able to identify those as well and

then replace them with the right belief.

And by right belief, we mean that which

takes us closer to who we want to

be.

And in the view of those looking and

reading the Quran as Allah's message to them

that revealed to the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi

Wasallam as what he wants you to be.

So me becoming the better version of myself

entails me becoming more of what he wants

me to be like.

I find that out more and more and

believe in accordance with that and then act

in accordance with that.

So that's what we're going to look to

do really.

Every day, the reflections that we're going to

be sharing are going to be oriented around

identifying those beliefs and then giving examples of

how our actions may be contradictory to those

beliefs, which means we have some hidden, some

demonic beliefs unconsciously.

Identify those, address those, and then look to

develop and grow as believers.

Look to grow as individuals.

And that's going to be that.

Right?

So it's going to start from the very

beginning.

We're going to start with the أعوذ بالله

من الشيطان الرجيم Actually, we're going to talk

about that for a little bit.

We're going to go on to the Bismillah

and then Surah Fatiha and then all the

way towards the end of the Quran for

however long it takes.

The idea is that you give 10 minutes

a day to this and slowly and gradually

your connection, your understanding with the Quran becomes

better.

Understand that this is not a tafseer.

I am not going into any kind of

a hermeneutical study here of a scholarly understanding

or looking to develop a scholarly understanding myself

or looking to give that to you.

That's not what it is.

There are translations and lectures and explanations out

there which are meant for the educated lay

person.

That's what I use and that's what I

bring to you.

And on top of that, I add reflections

that relate to psychology.

So if there's any kind of expertise or

any kind of speciality or scholarliness coming in,

that's from the dimension of psychology and nothing

else.

Other than that, it's just plain communication of

what I've studied from sources or resources that

were prepared for the public viewing or for

the public reading.

Right?

So that's the idea.

That's what this is.

I hope you benefit from this, that this

daily reminder, this daily study of the Quran,

reflections along with it, help for us to

identify those unconscious beliefs and if there's something

wrong with them, replace them with the right

beliefs.

And we talk about how that work, how

that process goes on at the level of

thought, at the level of actions.

And that's going to be that.

Thank you very much for watching.

I look forward to doing this with you

every day, five days a week.

Across the weekdays, we take a break over

the weekends and we come back again, 10

minutes every day.

That's all it's going to take and fit

this into your schedule.

There's a lot that you can do with

this.

Whatever personal study you're doing, you can synchronize

that with this.

You're looking to memorize the Quran.

Awesome.

You can memorize along with this, whatever one

ayah that were part of the ayah that

we study, look to memorize that during the

day and just make that part of your

prayers and see the magic that takes place

and how drastically it changes who you are

for the better.

So wishing you all the best.

Thank you very much once again for watching.

I will see you tomorrow with the first

video, first podcast talking about what lessons from

personal growth we can draw from that.

Take very good care of yourself.

As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.