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Once upon a time, I came across a statement—or was it advice my teacher once gave? He said, "If people were to hold on to the Qur'an the way they hold on to their phones, everyone would have been a Hafidh."
Just think about how people are today—everyone has their phone in their pocket. Everyone makes sure their phone is charged.
What happens when you lose your phone? Some people practically go crazy!
Are you with me, brothers?
Just during my recent trip for Umrah, I lost my iPad. When I reached Jeddah airport, I realized it was gone. I also lost a notebook where I used to write down beneficial points. The shock of losing it really affected me, and after that, I started misplacing other things too.
Are we all together, brothers?
But I had to remind myself—these are just technological devices at the end of the day. For me, it wasn’t the device itself; it was the content inside that mattered. I was in the middle of writing down valuable points.
Alhamdulillah, by the way—it was found. I found it, and InshaAllah, I’ll be getting it tomorrow.
But the point is, look at how attached we are to technology!
Losing a phone can make someone feel lost. How many times do people pull out their phones just to check them? No one's calling you, no one's messaging you, but you just check to make sure it’s still there. Or you touch your pocket—just to confirm it’s still in place.
Right?
Allahu Akbar.
Years ago, telephones had wires plugged into the wall. But today, that wire? It’s plugged into us.
The phone has taken everything from us.
I’ve seen phones do things to people that only Allah knows. The desperation some people show—"I need to go somewhere, but my phone’s dead! Please, can I get a charger? Does anyone have a charger?"
The way people act—ajeeb!
Tell me, has anyone here gone 24 hours without looking at their phone?
Just one full day—without touching it, without checking it?
It’s rare.
What if we held on to the Qur'an the way we hold on to our phones?
Let’s do something right now. Everyone, take out your phone. If you have an iPhone, check your screen time. If you don’t, just keep it in your pocket.
Go to Settings. Scroll down to Battery. Look at the screen time usage.
It will show you how many hours you spend on each app.
Now, most of us have a Qur’an app on our phones, right?
But look at your app usage—is the Qur’an app even on the list?
What’s at the top?
Instagram. Facebook. Twitter.
All the other apps—right?
It’s scary.
Some people have more than two hours of screen time daily. And if you’re not making money from it—if it’s not for business—it’s your personal phone, and you’re spending two hours every single day?
That’s scary.
Imagine spending those two hours on the Qur’an instead.
What would happen? How would you be?
When people tell me, "I want to learn the Qur'an, but I can’t find a teacher..."—No one ever says that when it comes to their phone!
Nobody ever says, "I need someone to teach me how to use my phone."
Yet, these phones have so many features that most of us don’t even use.
Am I making sense?
There are so many hidden features on these devices, but we never bother reading the manual. We just pick up the phone and start figuring it out.
If you truly want something, you find a way.
If you truly want to learn the Qur’an, I promise you—you will find a way.
Because where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Sah? When you truly want something, you go after it. You exert every effort possible to get it. But when it comes to seeking knowledge and learning about our religion, suddenly, excuses start pouring in: "I can't… I couldn't… I wouldn't… I would… I should…"
Every time, the same question comes up—"How do I seek knowledge?"
But come on, you already know it.
All of you have gone to school, right? Sah? You've been through secondary school, college—you know how learning works.
You didn’t just come from the forest! You know how to learn.
Maybe you just need someone to tell you, "Tweak this, adjust that. Prioritize this over that." That’s it.
The majority of us here already know how to seek knowledge. Sah?
And yet, this remains the most frequently asked question:
"How do I learn the Qur’an?" "How do I do Tafsir of the Qur’an?" "How do I seek knowledge?"
Brothers, we are not going to move forward unless we learn this Qur’an and what is in it.
There is no human speech eloquent enough, deep enough, or powerful enough to fill your heart the way the Qur’an does.
Wallahi, when you truly connect with the Qur’an, the words of people won’t have the same impact anymore. They won’t carry the same sweetness that the Qur’an has.
You will reach a point where lectures and reminders won’t move you—unless they contain a lot of Qur’an.
That’s where the true sweetness lies.
Sah?
This is why I say, Ramadan is around the corner.
When it comes, it’s the month of the Qur’an. It’s not the month of any other action.
It’s the month of the Qur’an.
You have to read the Qur’an.
Are we all together?
For the past two days, I wasn’t feeling too well. I had just returned, and I couldn’t read much from my usual books.
So, I picked up just one book—Al-Tafsir Al-Muyassar.
I read a Juz’, then I went through its Tafsir. I gave my son a copy and said, "Listen, take this copy. You do your portion, and I’ll do mine."
Then I gave him Al-Tafsir Al-Muyassar, while I took Al-Muqtasar.
Once I finished mine, I asked him if he had finished his. He just put it on the shelf somewhere!
But I told him, "We’re going to swap back, and I’ll read the other one."
Wallahi, I never found joy like the joy I found in reading the Qur’an.
Just reading the Qur’an as much as you can, and then going through its Tafsir—so much joy.
I read how Allah speaks, what He says, and how He says it—Subhanahu wa Ta’ala.
