Zakariyya Harnekar – Sacred Sanctuary Series 3 P1 discusses, Returning, before our Return
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The speaker, Zakaria Anika, introduces themselves as a student of theiter's school of union ministry and discusses the idea of engaging with the Quran to prepare for the upcoming month ofFinancial. They also mention a plan to encourage people to use the period of lockdown to prepare for the month and to use it to influence the political climate. The speaker then discusses a section of the Quran that focuses on reversing negative behavior and offers insight into the history of the word "brite."
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I pray
nice, decal voice. But anyways,
let's get into it.
As per the instructions I've been given,
I'm introduce myself. My name is Zakaria Anika.
I'm a, student of
Islamiyah,
currently teaching at the same institute,
under the supervision and
of. Before that, I studied at,
under
the tutelage of,
as well as I did a BSC degree
at UCT
some years ago. And
studies are continuing.
Yeah. But
that's besides the point.
Let's get into what we have for tonight,
and that is, to engage with the Quran.
The nia of this program that that's being
hosted by, Light Upon Light is,
is that in this time of lockdown,
in this time of,
confining ourselves to our homes, that we make
the best of it.
We we want to encourage hope in people,
inspire hope in people rather than becoming,
depressed or feeling claustrophobic
and that that we find ourselves in,
in dire straits, etcetera. Rather, we want to
increase our connection with Allah
because an increased connection with Allah
it naturally leads
to one feeling full of hope, one feeling
inspired, one feeling, you know, content.
And that's what we're trying to build
through this program, bi'uminu alayhta'ala. In addition to
that also, we just,
one of the intentions of this program is
to encourage people to use this period of
time,
to prepare for the month of Ramadan. Ramadan
is the month of the Quran. Quran. So
what better way can we prepare for that
month by actually engaging with some passages of
the Quran by the grace of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
SubhanAllah, tomorrow night I think is, Laylatun Nussum
In Shaaban. So we just have half a
month left before before Ramadan. You know, Allah
alone knows
what situation we'll find ourselves in then, but,
may Allah
remove from us this,
this difficult situation
and may Allah
replace it with,
with ease and moments in which we can
come together
as, as a Muslim Ummah. Again, we can
be in each other's company.
It's difficult for me,
teaching
across online without engaging with anybody in front
of me. There's something special that is in,
the bonds, the physical bonds of people and
how their souls connect in that space. But
we ask that Allah
replicate that,
in the situation via the means that we
have available to us. We are trying our
best.
So
the section of the Quran that I intend
to focus on tonight,
is a section from Surah Turum.
Surah Turum is a Makkan Surah,
and it gets its name from a passage
at the very beginning
where Allah
predicted
that, that the Romans would conquer the Persians.
In fact,
okay, this doesn't really relate to the the
passage and the lessons I want to derive,
but just for for some background information,
The, the Mushrikin of Mecca, the polytheists of
Christians of Rome were overpowered by the,
the fire worshippers. The priests of Mecca then
used this as an opportunity to, like,
Allah
in prophecy
that
I hope, joy for the believers presiding with
Polytheists.
33
is in 41. Then
word translation of the verse of the verse
on these verses,
difficulty, adversity,
what do they do?
They
are ones who repent or they call upon
him whilst
turning back to you. And then Allah says,
again
on the 4th Ba'am, on the first Ba'am
it means that something.
When Allah causes them adversity
when Allah causes them to taste
what happens then?
So when adversity befell, then when Allah causes
them to taste,
Allah says,
Behold.
I'm just going to go over that verse
again. Allah says whilst repenting to him, behold
a party of them ascribed partners to their
law.
Uses that Allah subhanahu said and Nasrul.
A little bit of adversity befalls them.
But in the one case,
then what do they do? Now they start
ascribing partners to. Allah
says,
that word that lamb can be understood,
So that
or or they are in ungrateful.
Means
so this is result of that or via
gave them in the first place that rahma
that he allowed them to taste.
So in joy, Allah
says, if Allah's come on.
Just give me a second. I think we're
having a technical problem.