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The imam in Taraweeh is reciting Qur'an he's reading the book of Allah and he's reading and he goes over verses that speak about Jannah and also verses that talk about Nahr and there's promises and warnings in the Qur'an in Taraweeh And the people are not Crying, they don't get affected by it doesn't move them. Okay the dua starts the imam raises and everyone's crying and And the dua is it the words of Allah No The imam has put these words together, but kalamullah the words of Allah Has not affected you has not touched your heart. There's something wrong There's something wrong here.
You need to revise yourself your situation and look back Alhamdulillahi allathee anzala alqur'ana wa yassara wa ashadu an la ilaha illallah wahdahu la sharika lah waffaqa lilqiyami bil qur'ani man ikhtarahu wabassarah fa'amila bihi watadabbarahu wataghanna bihi wahabbarah wa ashadu anna muhammadan abduhu warasuluh al qa'ilu al mahiru bil qur'ani ma'as safaratil kiramil bararah wa sallallahu wasallama wabaraka alayhi wa ala alihi wa ashabihi allatheena jama'u al qur'ana fi sudurihi mussalimati wasuhufihi al mutahharah Amma ba'du my beloved brothers and sisters the month of ramadan and the qur'an Wallahi my brothers and sisters the bond between ramadan and the qur'an Is a very strong bond The qur'an my brothers and sisters as allah says in the qur'an Ya ayyuhan nasu qad ja'at kum maw'idatun min rabbikum wa shifa'un lima fi suduri wa hudan wa rahmatun lil mu'minin The qur'an it's a reminder from your lord allahu subhanahu wa ta'ala It's a cure for the hearts It's guidance It's mercy for who for the believers If you're a believer who believes in allah and the day of judgment the qur'an is a reminder for you It's a cure how many of us are suffering from so many different illnesses the qur'an is a cure wa shifa'un lima fi suduri wa hudan a guidance. Are you looking for guidance? It's in the qur'an Are you looking for mercy? Wa rahmatun lil mu'minin and it's a mercy for the believers. Who is saying this allahu subhanahu wa ta'ala No one's going to tell you as allahu subhanahu wa ta'ala Also allah says in another place in the qur'an Ya ayyuhad nasu, oh people Allah says oh people it has come to you proof Light from your lord allahu subhanahu wa ta'ala and look what allah then says And we have sent onto you a clear light Wallahi my brothers and sisters the person who has the qur'an That is light You're not in darkness You're only in darkness when you walk away from the qur'an Allah also says Allah says it has come to you from your lord light guidance proof anyone Who wants to see? You will see it through the qur'an If you want guidance it is through the qur'an If you walk away from this qur'an You will lose that light.
You will lose that wisdom. You will lose that insight and you will be dumb deaf and blind My brothers and sisters Those verses is about the qur'an in general But the month of ramadan Is the month where our beloved messenger He used to revive the qur'an He mentioned He mentions the prophet was the most generous individual. There was no one there is no one more generous than muhammad ibn abdillah And his generosity will multiply in the month of ramadan When jibreel would meet him And guess what? Every single night jibreel would meet the prophet And the prophet and jibreel would revise the qur'an My brothers and sisters, do you know who's revising the qur'an here? It's our beloved messenger and jibreel Both of them are messengers This is the messenger from the human beings and this is the messenger from the angels Both of whom are the best of their creation Jibreel is the best angel And nabi muhammad is the best of the children of adam Both of them are meeting each other in what time? In the month of ramadan To do what? To revise the qur'an Every single night jibreel would meet him This hadith shows That that is what is required from every one of us If muhammad ibn abdillah And jibreel Jibreel are both revising this book Why are you and I absent from this book? Why are you and I not reading this book? Why is our mushaf collecting dust? Why is that the case? Where is our hearts? Where are our minds? These narrations that we're hearing right now here Are they not And the majority of you guys have heard this You've probably even heard it This khutba tul jum'ah Or you've heard it the previous khutba tul jum'ah Or you've been hearing it every single year When ramadan is about to come You hear these narrations But the point is not about hearing it It's about How have you looked at this narration?
Has it changed you in the way that you deal with the qur'an? Hafidh ibn rajab He's a great scholar by the way A giant in knowledge You know what he said about this hadith? This hadith alone indicates What does it show? Ala istihbabi derasati al qur'ani fi ramadan That it's highly recommended To revise the qur'an in the month of ramadan Not only that To bring together your friends and your colleagues Tell your family members Your children Your siblings, your cousins, your neighbours Tell everybody It's the month of the qur'an Let's all revise the qur'an Let's all go back to the qur'an ... ... And also to say Who has the most knowledge When it comes to the qur'an Let's read it on that person If there's a teacher you can find If there's a scholar in your neighbourhood If your imam of the masjid is open to it Take your family members with you And read on him That's what this month is about Abdullah ibn Abbas also said Pay attention to this hadith as well ... ... ... ... ... ... ... My brothers and sisters Every single one of you here I'm sure inshallah you all want to enter jannah And so do I I ask Allah that he makes us from the people of jannah But you know what I Ask myself and I want all of you guys To today ask yourself this question We want to enter jannah And so did the prophet's companions They all wanted to enter jannah But the effort that they Exert is not the effort that we exert They were exerting Every energy and effort that they could possibly do Look at the Great giants of islam I'm baffled and mind boggled When I see the likes of al imam al shafi'i That finish the qur'an Twice, every single day in the month of ramadan That means He finished the qur'an in the month of ramadan 60 times So that means shafi'i wants jannah And I want jannah But I'm not doing what he's doing Shouldn't I be competing with him Shouldn't I say to myself listen This is the route to jannah This is exactly copy them Imitate the great people ... ... ... If you can't be like them Copy them Imitate them for verily imitating The righteous people It's a virtue in and within itself Twice my brothers and sisters Twice in the month of ramadan I sat down and I calculated it How many hours Would shafi'i sit down And read the qur'an in the month of ramadan I might be wrong But I just roughly roughly I came to the conclusion I might be wrong and I might be right about 15 hours every single day every single day 15 hours is the time that Shafi'i would spend if he read the Quran according to my calculation Allahu Akbar 15 hours every single day would read the Quran if he if you wanted to finish it twice how many of us even spend an hour on the Quran the Prophet he told us in a hadith he said وَمَجْتَمَعَ قَوْمٌ فِي بَيْتٍ مِّن بُيُوتِ اللَّهِ there is not a group of people who come together in the house of Allah يَتْلُونَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ they read the book of Allah وَيَتَدَارَسُونَهُ بَيْنَهُمْ and they revise the Quran and they study it together إِلَّا نَزَلَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّكِينَةَ tranquility descends on them why are you depressed this is the reason why you're depressed you're missing this you're stressed lack of tranquility here it is the Prophet is telling you this إِلَّا نَزَلَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّكِينَةَ tranquility will come to you from the highest Allah وَغَشِيَتْهُمُ الرَّحْمَةَ Allah's mercy will cover you وَحَفَّتْهُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ the angels لَذِينَ لَا يَعْصُونَ اللَّهَ مَا أَمَرَهُمْ they never disobey Allah وَيَفْعَلُونَ مَا يُؤْمَرُونَ and they do as they are told the angels are a righteous noble creation what will they do for you وَحَفَّتْهُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ they will roam around the people who are reading the Qur'an and guess what my brothers and sisters this is the biggest thing that you will achieve وَذَكَرَهُمُ اللَّهُ فِي مَنْ عِنْدَهِ Allah will mention you Allah will mention you to whom to the best of the creations or from the best of the creations the angels the ones I just said to you لَا يَعْصُونَ اللَّهَ مَا أَمَرَهُمْ وَيَفْعَلُونَ مَا يُؤْمَرُونَ He will mention them to you mention them and talk to them and say look at my slave فُلَانِ بِنُ فُلَانِ over there memorizing the Qur'an reading the Qur'an وَذَكَرَهُمُ اللَّهُ فِي مَنْ عِنْدَهِ today if a famous person posted your name or your picture on their social media and he's famous everyone knows him he's got millions of followers how would you feel? feel so happy فُلَانِ ما شاء الله what do you guys call it? shout out, right? he did a shout out for me he mentioned me you will love that person because he said your name he's a مخلوق he's a creation like you that person sometimes might not even be a Muslim أصلا and people still get happy that a كافر who's not Muslim said your name posted you on their story on Instagram or TikTok or Facebook or Twitter whatever you get happy الله there's nothing we can compare him to but imagine and I don't think your imagination can reach it that Allah mentions you he mentions you by name and says my slave فُلَانِ ابن فُلَان remembers me that's the highest level of honour that you can achieve so my brothers and sisters Ramadan is that month where you need to revive the Qur'an the Prophet my brothers and sisters some of you might say to yourselves I can't read I can't read the Qur'an I don't know how to read Abdur Rahman your video here it's motivated me I understood the importance of reading the Qur'an and guess what I want to but I can't what should I do in this situation
I have a solution for you you don't have to worry make sure next Ramadan Inshallah Ta'ala that you study the Qur'an but this one has happened what's happened it's happened you don't know how to read but I've got a solution for you you listen to the Qur'an you get a reciter and you put the headphones in your head and you finish the Qur'an by listening to it our Messenger ﷺ did this did what he listened to the Qur'an from his companions Abdullah ibn Mas'ud رضي الله تعالى عنه he said قَالَ لِيَ النَّبِيُّ the Prophet said to me ﷺ اِقْرَأْ عَلَيْيَ read on me قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بِالْمِسْعُودِ imagine this Nabil ibn Muhammad saying to you read on me Abdullah ibn Mas'ud was baffled he said يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَقْرَأْ عَلَيْكَ وَعَلَيْكَ أُنزِلْ shall I read the Qur'an on you and the Qur'an came down on you there's no reciter as good as the Prophet imagine today if a reciter said to you the biggest reciter let's say محمود خليل الحصري said to you read the Qur'an on me الله أكبر so Allah الله أكبر saying to Abdullah ibn Mas'ud اقرأ علي read on me and he said أَقْرَأْ عَلَيْكَ وَعَلَيْكَ أُنزِلْ am I going to read the Qur'an on you and the Qur'an came down on you قال نعم the Prophet said yes read on me Abdullah ibn Mas'ud said okay فَقَرَأْتُ سُورَةَ النِّسَاءِ he said I recite Surah An-Nisa meaning he's hafidh as well masha'Allah Surah An-Nisa is very hard it's a complicated surah it's got actually hard surahs in it verses in it like for example the ayat of Mawarith the ayat of Inheritance where Allah Ta'ala says وَلَكُمْ نِصْفُ مَا تَرَكَ أَزْوَادُكُمْ يَوْا يَسْتَفْتُونَكَ فِي النِّسَاءِ يَوْا يُوصِيكُمُ اللَّهُ فِي أَوْلَادِكُمْ يَوْا وَلَكُمْ نِصْفُ مَا تَرَكَ يَسْتَفْتُونَكَ فِي النِّسَاءِ he didn't reach يستفتونك لكن يُوصِيكُمُ الله and he read وَلَكُمْ نِصْفُ verse it's got inheritance a bit complicated he started it from the beginning بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ he read it do you know who he's reading it to? the Prophet so he read it and he read it and he read it حَتَّى أَتَيْتُ إِلَى هَٰذِ الْآيَةِ until I reached this verse what verse? ayah 41 he read 41 verses and he reached the verse فَكَيْفَ إِذَا جِئْنَا مِن كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ بِشَهِيدٍ فَكَيْفَ إِذَا جِئْنَا مِن كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ بِشَهِيدٍ do you know what verse he reached? he reached the verse where Allah is saying سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَىٰ how is your situation going to be? فَكَيْفَ إِذَا جِئْنَا مِن كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ بِشَهِيدٍ how is your situation going to be, Muhammad? the day we bring all of the nations and they testify against you and you are testifying against them how is your situation going to be? that verse is addressing the Prophet Abdullah ibn Mas'ud said when I recited that ayah فَكَيْفَ إِذَا جِئْنَا مِن كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ بِشَهِيدٍ وَجِئْنَا بِكَ عَلَىٰهَا أُولَٰئِ شَهِيدًا when I recited that verse the Prophet said حَسْبُك حَسْبُك الآن stop it now stop now Abdullah ibn Mas'ud said فَلْتَفَتْتُ إِلَيْهِ I looked at the Prophet فَإِذَا عَيْنَاهُ تَضْرِفَان the Prophet's eyes were just watering he was just crying that's what it does to the believers it touches their heart the meaning they understand it you know what's really shocking my brothers and sisters
I'm telling you this it shocks me and it baffles me the Imam in Taraweeh is reciting Quran he's reading the book of Allah and he's reading and he goes over verses that speak about Jannah and also verses that talk about Nar and there's وَعَد وَعِيد promises and warnings in the Quran in Taraweeh and the people are not crying they don't get affected by it it doesn't move them okay the Dua starts the Imam raises his hand and everyone's crying and the Dua is it the words of Allah? no the Imam has put these words together some of the Dua or majority of the Duas are what? where it's not even the Dua from the Prophet ﷺ it's Dua that the Imam has constructed together now I don't want you to misunderstand me I'm not saying that the Dua is not something very powerful I'm saying yes but Kalamullah the words of Allah has not affected you has not touched your heart there's something wrong there's something wrong here you need to revise your situation and look back the Prophet is crying فَإِذَا عَيْنَهُ تَظْرِفًا you know what the word تَظْرِفًا means? it's watering gushing with tears ﷺ he's crying Bukhari and Muslim both narrated the Hadith another wording in Muslim actually says فَرَفَعْتُ رَأْسِ عَبْدُ الْحَمْدِ I raised my head فَرَأَيْتُ الدُّمُوعَهُ تَسِيلُ I saw his tears were pouring pouring تَسِيلُ means pouring ﷺ because the Qur'an my brothers and sisters as I said before it does that to the believers it touches their heart it brings tears to them but when your heart is hard rock solid it won't affect it أَلَمْ يَأْنِنِ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَن تَقْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنَ الْحَقِّ وَلَا يَكُونُ كَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلُ فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَمَدُ فَقَسَّتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَكَثِيرُ مِنْهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ the heart has become tough and rough so then the Qur'an will not affect you Guess what? The Sahabas رضي الله عنهم were like that when it came to the Qur'an Meaning what? They were connected to the Qur'an The recitation of the Qur'an was like that One day, just like Abdullah ibn Mas'ud read on the Prophet Umar, look what he did Umar, Ameer al-Mu'mineen Umar ibn al-Khattab رضي الله عنه He said to Abu Musa al-Ash'ari He said to him يَا أَبَا مُوسَى ذَكِّرْنَا Remind us ذَكِّرْنَا رَبَّنَا Remind us of our Lord يَا أَبَا مُوسَى Remind us of Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى So what does he do? He started to recite He started to read and he read and they started to listen to him and Abu Musa al-Ash'ari he had a beautiful voice as the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said قَدْ أُوتِيتَ مِزْمَارًا مِنْ مَزَامِيرِ آلِ دَاوُودِ You have been given the voice from the voices of Nabila Dawood beautiful voice of Abu Musa al-Ash'ari beautiful recitation he had So my brothers and sisters Ramadan is coming and it's gonna leave and some of us have not even opened the Mus'haf let alone read what's inside it haven't even opened the Mus'haf haven't even gone the direction of where our Mus'haf is in the house it's collecting dust how is that possible? how is that the case as a believer who knows that the Quran came down in this particular time شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِي أُنْزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنَ it's the month in which the Quran came down Umar رضي الله عنه one day he said to his companions مَا تَقُولُونَ فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى What do you guys say about the verse of Allah وَرَأَيْتَ النَّاسِ يَتْقُولُونَ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ أَفْوَاجًا فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَاسْتَغْفِرُ وَإِنَّهُ كَانَ تَوَّابًا What do you say about that verse عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مِّنْ وَعَبَّاسِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَنْهُ May Allah be pleased with him and his father He actually, do you know what he said He brought an understanding of this verse which the other companions couldn't He said رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَمَهُ اللَّهُ لَهُ This verse إِذَا جَاءَ نَصُرُ اللَّهِ That the Prophet's death is about to come He got an understanding from this surah that no other person got from it So the verse إِذَا جَاءَ نَصُرُ اللَّهِ وَالفَتْحُ فَذَاكَ عَلَامَةُ أَجَلِكُ مَا أَعَلَّمُ مِنْهَا إِلَّا مَا تَعْلَمُ All I know of that surah Is what you understood from Ibn Abbas Meaning Your understanding of what the surah is Is the same understanding that I also have of the surah So my brothers and sisters What is that He's saying that you've pondered and you've contemplated correctly And you've extracted the correct understanding And that's why Abdullah Ibn Abbas Because of that understanding of the Quran that he had Because of him pondering over the Quran Umar R.A Who took him, he was a teenager He used to sit In the parliament If that's the correct way of saying it Or if that's the correct choice of word You can sit in the committee Of the Ahlul Shura Those who make decisions Abdullah Ibn Abbas who was a teenager Was sitting with them Because of the Quran So my brothers and sisters What am I saying, Ramadan is about to come If you can't read the Quran If you cannot recite the Quran And you don't have that knowledge Listen to the Quran As for if you can Read the Quran Then Inshallah Ta'ala listen to this Bi'in Ilahi Al-Karim You can finish the Quran Quran once a month Every day you just read one juz Every day A juz, a juz, a juz سَيَقُولُ سُفَهَا تِلْكَ الرُّسُلُ كُلُّ طَعَامِ And you carry on like that Every day one juz 30 juz, you finish in 30 nights Or 30 days Maybe if it's 20 nights, you just hurry up And you finish it one day early If you wanna go in And that's not enough for you And it shouldn't be One time, it's still too little Ramadan is about the whole time It's the Quran So what do you do? You finish it every 7 days If you wanna finish it twice a month You can, the first 15 days and the second 15 days You can, no problem So you read two juz every single day That means you finish the first 15 days And then the next 15 days you finish it again You can But there's something that the sahabas used to do Which is that they used to recite the Quran Every 7 days they would finish it It's called fami bishawq You start from surah al-fatihah You take it to surah al-ma'idah From surah al-ma'idah to surah Yunus From surah Yunus to surah Bani Israel Fami bi Bani Israel From surah to Bani Israel It's the same name Fami bishawq Bani Israel From surah to Bani Israel From surah al-shu'ara From surah al-shu'ara To surah al-safat From surah al-safat to surah al-qaf And from surah al-qaf to surah al-nas 7 days you finish the entire Quran Those are the people who can If you think No, I'm not gonna even I wanna compete with the sahabas I wanna compete with the tabi'een And itiba'u tabi'een I wanna compete with the great giants of Islam Good That's how the mindset should be Finish it every 3 nights 10, 10, 10 Every 3 nights you finish the Quran If you can finish it every single day In the month of Ramadan May Allah make it easy for you The reward is with that May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala As'alullaha tabarak wa ta'ala An yaj'alana wa iya'akum min ahl al-Quran Wa an yafa'ana bi kitabihi al-karim Wa bi hadi sayyidihi Wa bi hadi sayyidi al-mursaleen Wa alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen Wa sallallahu wa sallam ala khatimin nabiyeen Wa ala alihi wa ashabihi ajma'een Subhanaka Allahumma wa bi hamdik Ashhadu an la ilaha illa add Astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayk
