Assalamualaikum, warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
Start with a personal experience and then explain to you exactly
the structure of this brief lecture inshallah when I started
learning about religion and got interested in Islam in my
college days, there were many Avenues.
To take there. Were mean, you could have
studied some any number of ways and depending on which way you
start learning your entire view of Islam, gets shaped by your,
in a sense. Your first impression and New
York where I started learning about Islam was a pretty crazy
Place depending on which mustard you go, you get a different
brand of Islam, pretty much, right?
And so I was and I was really eager to just acquire everything
that I could from anywhere that I could and I just have this
habit when I get into it. I just really, really entirely
give myself to one thing and I did that I did Did I studied
some with one group that another, then another, then
another one scholar than another, then another just
completely giving myself truly, trying to understand the point
of view until I stumbled upon one thing that and when I
experienced it, I knew that something inside me, it
completely changed. It happened in a Ramadan, early
on, in my journey, when I didn't even know much about the Arabic
language at all. And I attended a program where
my teacher who happens to be my Arabic teacher, my Quran, my
first coat on teacher, dr. Of the Sameer was covering the
entire Quran. In Translation.
And when he was covering it in Translation and giving a brief
synopsis of every I are presenting it as a conversation,
it was the first time that I actually felt that I can connect
with the Quran as a book. That personally speaks to me up.
Until then I Tried reading the Quran in Translation, I found
myself disengaged with it very easily.
I found myself confused about many things that it had to say
very easily. If you want to study a
particular topic and Islam fine, you can go ask a scholar read an
article, maybe get a book but if you wanted to get a good grasp
of what is Is this Surah about or what is this Ayah talking
about? Or what is, you know, what are
these passages about Etc? It seemed like you have to go a
lot farther than translation to really get it and the materials
that are available Beyond translation, what we call
Tiff's, it easily seem pretty complicated.
It's not something that you can easily just study and grasp.
So I felt like there's a disconnect connect between
myself and the Quran even though it's the primary text of Islam.
But in this Ramadan experience, it was the first time that I
truly truly felt connected with the word of Allah.
Sessions would be like, I don't know, two, three hours long and
half an hour in 20 minutes in. Even I'd lose sight of the fact
that I'm in a lecture. I'd feel like, Allah is talking
to me, you know, and it just, it was so powerful and experienced
that at the end of that series, I went to my to him, he didn't
know who I was when up to him and I literally asked him, I
just, I really want to do what you do and I meant two things by
that. I want to teach what you teach,
because it's so meaningful, what you've taught and I want to be
able to contribute in that way. But more importantly, Lee.
I want to be able to take from the Wellspring that you take I
want to be able to learn like you've learned, you know.
And he's the one who then inspired me to become a student
of the Quran and of the Arabic language and that Journey then
continued that snowballed into things.
I didn't expect I was just a kid trying to learn more about the
Quran and somehow some of the few things I taught friends and
family. Maybe give a hug by here and
there it snowballed into, you know, podcast that started
getting downloaded in the millions and speaking requests
all over the world and my Phenomenal opportunity to meet
remarkable Scholars from everywhere to learn from, and
now, you know, being institute's been around, nearly a decade or
actually more than a decade now. So alhamdulillah things
transpired from there, but it all began with that kind of
Ramadan Quran experience. And that brings me to what this
webinar is about. This is a webinar about the
beginning of the 60 second Surah.
So, Total Drama. And these ayaat in the, in the
course of my study, when I study these particular ayat, they
resonated with me. In a very special way because I
felt like they summarize my own journey into the Quran and in a
sense into Islam itself like how I felt transformed from within
and how my outlook on life changed was a process and that
process of change was actually very beautifully articulated in
these opening ayat of Surah, Juma.
And that's my intention today to share with you.
And so, I'll get right into now just some things about the
discussion. I'm going to have with you and
hopefully insha Allah, you'll be able to stick with me.
And go through it in a systematic way and I hope to
keep things organized, so that you can keep things in your
mind, I'm interested. Not just in giving a lecture,
but in Sharing something with you that that you internalize
so, well you can share it in your own words with somebody
else in sha Allah. The first thing I'm going to try
to do is share, give you an introduction to sort of jummah
the 60 second Surah of the Quran.
Just say a few introductory comments about it.
The second thing I hope to do is to cover for names of Allah.
The first Ayah of this Surah describes Allah with four of his
name. She's very beautiful profound
names in a certain special order.
So we're going to talk about those four names a little bit
and that order and what it signifies, then we're going to
talk in the second Ayah about the task given to the prophet
salallahu alayhi wasalam, our messenger was given the greatest
Mission ever given to a human being and that entire Mission
has been summarized in the second Ayah by four tasks.
These are the four things, the prophet had to do some the
Lahore, alehsalaam to bring about the kind of transformation
that he did. And at the end of this
discussion, the No discussion, I'll have with you is, what does
all of that mean for my and your own self transformation?
These for guided steps in the Quran, for self transformation.
That's What I Call this webinar. That's what they're about at the
end. We learn these lessons from the
Quran and then extract from them at the end.
What applies to ourselves. So, let's begin with that
introduction. The first discussion and a brief
introduction to suitable, Juma. It belongs to a group of
students called the mastaba Hat. What's a big Arabic word?
You may not know what it means to let me tell you, briefly must
have be hot actually means those Those that declare Allah has
Perfection. What these students have in
common is all of them. Begin with either Subhan Allah
Hafiz sumati waffle on or you shall be holy lady.
Massimo moratti weld. Everything has been declaring a
lot Perfection. Perfection everything in the
skies and the Earth has been declaring a less Perfection and
will continue to declare a less Perfection.
And is already declaring a lot of perfection.
These are the Declarations at the beginning of this group of
Metheny sutras within which this Surah belongs to Jim about.
Thanks. But the other thing that this
was have in common that should be noted.
Is that all of them first begin with the heavens and the Earth
declare, a lot of perfection. And then they compared the
heavens and the Earth to the Believers living in Medina,
after the prophet had migrated, and the new community of Muslims
was formed in Medina. It compares the state of the
Muslims to the heavens and the Earth, essentially saying the
skies, and the Earth do what they're told, Allah created them
and they submit before, Allah and declare his Perfection.
Why do you have Have levels of Faith, some of you very
committed, some of you not committed at all, some of you
even hypocritical, some of you very weak in their conviction,
there's this variation and so Allah is actually raising the
level of faith and hoping to transform everybody through the
messages in the sutras in these must be hot.
Now, part of that group, once again, is sort of drama, but
subtle humour even within this small group of students in the
Quran stands in a unique Place. Why?
Because there's two reasons, one first.
Most is because in every other Surah Allah would describe the
skies and the Earth and what they do.
And they're supposed to you said, behold Lila Hema for Samoa
Theophylline and since the skies and the Earth do what they're
supposed to do, the Believers of then criticized, why don't you
do what you're supposed to do? Limit Hakuna, Matata found out.
Why don't you do what, you know, why do you say what you don't
do? Well, as the halacha come from
income kaffir woman commitment, he's the one who made you, the
among you. There are those who disbelieve
among you. There.
Are those who believe Why is there a discrepancy among human
beings and among the believing Community when there's no
discrepancy in the skies? But this Surah is unique as soon
as Allah describes the skies and the Earth and they do what
they're supposed to. He comes to the prophet
salallahu. So instead of criticizing us, he
comes to the prophets. Elijah them and describes that
he does what he's supposed to like just as the heavens, follow
the order. Heavenly order of Allah, the
prophet himself salaam salaam executed.
The Heavenly order of Allah, there's a Harmony To, in the
skies and the Earth and what the what our Prophet himself did
salallahu alaihe Salam that which is a beautiful unique
quality of the syrup. In addition to the fact that it
instead of mentioning to of Allah's names inventions for of
his name's but we'll get to that in the second discussion.
Now before we get into the topic of the first Ayah and the four
names of Allah, that I was going to talk to you about, I want to
talk to you about the overall message of not just this webinar
but this entire Surah it's message is essentially change
and to understand that you have to To understand a parable and
analogy that is very common. In the Quran, Quran Compares
itself on a number of occasions to water raining from the sky.
That's the comparison that's made, and that's an important
comparison to understand water. Comes from the sky.
The Quran came from the sky water is pure.
The Quran is pure water, gives life to the Earth.
That was previously dead. It had the potential for Life.
What? It was, previously dead, the
same way, the Quran gives Life to the hearts that were
previously dead. They had potential in them, but
that potential hadn't been activated yet inside or they had
the seed inside of goodness, but it hadn't been given an
opportunity to Blossom and to bloom, right?
So that the the water and Quran analogy is a very powerful one
because it's actually an analogy of transformation itself.
We are in a sense being compared to the earth, just like the
Earth can be transformed by water.
You won't recognize the land after the greenery.
Comes after the rain has done its effect.
T', and before, it looks like two different places.
The same is true of human beings.
When the effect of Revelation takes place this.
Let's so let's talk about that transformation.
That how did human beings transform like the Earth
transforms? How did human beings transform?
What was that? Change that the Quran brought
about? Just looking at it from a
historical point of view, the revelation of the Quran starts,
when the prophet is at the age of 40 and a discontinues when
he's at the age of 63. So that's a 23-year, very brief
period, and in this period. An incredible Revolution took
place in this unknown part of the of the world map in the
middle of that desert where there was no massive Empire and
no no Grand historians and Scholars, and things like that.
In the middle of that completely unknown place, a revolution took
place a revolution that changed individuals from from within
everything about them changed. How they looked at life, how
they thought about happiness and sadness.
What their priorities were practically, every everything
changed about the way they eat. The way they sleep, how they get
married, who they get married to how they get divorced, what they
think about life and death, how they clean themselves, how they
spend their time, what should their priorities in a day and in
their year and their life? Be, you know, how, what should
they love and what should they hate?
Everything about them emotionally practically in their
daily habits transformed. It's an incredible individual
transformation but it's not just an individual transformation.
It was also a societal transformation.
The way business is conducted changed forever.
The way the economy Economy's organized changed the way people
deal with each other, what are the rights of men and women?
And how should they interact with one another in society, you
know, what should be the, how do people have different economic
classes deal with each other? How do how we're governments
deal with people and people deal with governments?
What are the norms and values that govern the behavior of a
society? What are even the ethics of War?
How is even were conducted meaning, even at a societal
level, the value system was completely revolutionized Within
These Three years. It's actually from a historical
point of view and unprecedented kind of change within one group
of people within one Society add to that.
If you think about the fact that these people had a culture and a
tradition that was thousands of years old, and when people
follow a tradition that centuries-old, then they're very
set in their ways, it's not easy to change them.
But this something happened in this time that changed them in a
way that no other change in human history even compares and
that's not enough. Not only that little small
portion of the Map changed. But as a result of it in just a
few years until to this day, the map of the world itself has
changed forever. You know?
You and I many of us are Muslim today because of what happened
in those 23 years. It's an incredible, incredible
change that continues to transform the world as we speak
today and it started then and the effect still continues.
But if you look at it from the qur'an's point of view, yes,
this is from a historical point of view.
And political scientists point of view, you know, from a
sociologist point of view from an Thomas point of view, you
know the you know they can see and measure these changes and
look at how the map changed and how politics changed, how Islam
spread and all of it. But if you look at it from the
korans point of view, the most incredible change that happened
was one change. It was change inside people's
hearts, something inside people transformed you know you could
talk about how green the Earth is on the outside.
The Quran is saying it's that seed within that transformed
that's that's the root of all of that change and that's what
we're going to try to get at. In today's webinar these were my
Comments about the introduction to the Surah and the subject
matter that we're going to be dealing with.
Now, I have three more discussions to share with you
just briefly outlining. The once again, the first thing
I'm going to talk to you about now is going to be the four
names of Allah from the first. Ayah then I'll talk to you about
the four tasks given to the prophet salallahu alaihe, Salam
in the second Ayah and then thirdly we'll tie it all
together and try to understand something about transforming
ourselves self transformation. So let's begin with the first
Ayah Bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim you said, behold Allah
Hafiz summer W. Ey my fellow Delma.
Michael Cote du Ciel Aziza like him, I'll briefly translate this
for you. Everything in the skies and in
the earth, declares Allah as Perfection and will continue to
do. So, the king, the pure, The
Authority, the wise, this is a simplified translation in which
I'm going to emphasize the four names of Allah that have been
mentioned. And then we'll dig a little bit
deeper once again in brief translation.
Everything in the skies and everything in the earth
continues to declare and will continue to declare the
Perfection of Allah. Who is the king, the pure, The
Authority, the wise in that order, the king, the pure, The
Authority, the wise, okay? So, let's now talk about each
one of these names a little bit and I what I want to start with
is actually an observation of Imam Pasadena, Rahim Allah, who
pondered over these four names of Allah in this package
together. And the thing that he felt ties
them all together is the fact that all each one of these names
in its own way, draws you closer to Allah, Each one of these
names attracts you to a lot and keeps you in close company of
Allah and he wanted to describe that.
And so I'm taking some excerpts from from his commentary.
I'll start with his commentary on the name, the king and the
laulima lion. Sorry for I'm ugly, Seaman Kana
and the hula and entire body module, is he?
I will even even salafi him. When you're in the company of
someone great, in this case, in the company of the king, it's
improper protocol for you to just walk away.
You can't just, you know, you've been given the the honor of
being in the company of royalty being invited to the castle
being invited to the inner quarters of a king.
You, it's, you're not sitting in a restaurant, you're not sitting
at a train station or in a movie theater or something, you just
get up and walk away. There's a, there's an actual,
you know, proper etiquette respect and protocol that has to
be observed because you are in the presence of royalty.
I actually have experience with this to an extent in the human
sense. I've had the opportunity to meet
with presidents and you know, Some cases Royal members of
royal families in different countries and Etc.
And before you meet them, there's always a protocol team
that tells you here's how you're going to meet the president.
Here's how you greet the king, here's where you're going to sit
here is how you're going to you. Let him eat first.
Then you eat this, that the other you know there's there's
all this stuff you can't just like in the middle of the
conversation. Pick up the phone and say hey
excuse me king, I gotta take a phone call.
That's not going to happen. What he's trying to get at is
when you get introduced to Allah, you are in awe of the
fact that you're in the presence of royalty and you're going to
feel ashamed. Embarrassed walking.
Away from that present, that grand presence your.
So honored that you got to be there.
Why would you want to to leave that presence?
You'll be, you'll be reluctant to leave that presence.
So this first name of Allah draws you in and keeps you there
out of reverence, for Allah, the second name of a lot of Kudos
which I simply translated. As the pure he says about it,
I'll Moon has a who and an ox. Well, who are your Hub of he had
retired? He is someone who is free from
flaws and because they're free from flaws there refined You're
pure individuals, such a person and such an entity is their
company is desired. Let me put that, in simple words
for you people, like refined company.
We like people that that are pure in their speech and their
mannerisms, and their behavior, their kindness is pure, their
advice is pure. The sincerity is pure your
gravitating towards those kinds of people truthful.
People honest people, people that are genuine with you.
Those are the kinds of people that you want to be around.
So human beings naturally are drawn towards truth.
Fulness and cleanliness and, and pure kinds of company.
But even in the physical sense, if you live in a polluted area
where there's smoke and Smog and dust.
And all of that human beings want to move away from that
towards, what a natural environment, a pure environment,
where they can breathe fresh air, where they can drink, pure
water Purity, is something that attracts people in the personal
emotional sense. But even physically, we are
drawn towards Purity and cleanliness.
We want to get away from filth and dirtiness, you know, No,
that's that's a human inclination Allah.
Put inside of us. So in a sense when you get
introduced to Allah as the ultimately pure being in his
company starts, purifying you and thus you feel, and a change
inside of you and you don't want to leave that company, that's
attractive in and of itself the third.
So two names of Allah so far, so good.
The quick recap would be the king.
That's the first name, the pure that would be the second name.
The third name of Allah is the authority al-aziz.
He says about it. Yeah, it does.
All multiphone how low for Mo Farah to home, her daughter, who
the freaking Villa Rosa, that those who are around the
authority. And by the way, let me translate
that a little better, I'm keeping it simple.
So you remember the words, the king, the purely Authority, the
wise now we're on Authority, the third one, but let me just give
you a little bit more about the word, Allah Aziz from the Arabic
language. It actually combines two
meanings. It combines the meaning of
authority, which I've already translated, but it also So
includes the meaning of honor and dignity and respect.
And if you combine those two, the notion that comes from,
Allah Aziz is an authority that commands respect.
That's an important distinction because there are people and
there are entities that have authority but they don't have
any respect. There are neighborhoods in which
the police have a lot of authority but the community
doesn't respect them, that happens.
There may be an institution. There may be people that people
respect like a teacher, may be respected but he has no
Authority, that might happen. But as easy as someone who has
Authority, and that the authority is also respected.
And so he says, then why is this name attractive?
Because Tim, I'm Rosie. All these names are attractive
in some way right there. Drawing you in closer to Allah.
He says it's similar to The King and Authority.
A noble respected Authority has invited.
You your in their company, you walking away from that company
is not degrading them. It's degrading you, you missed
out on an honor. You got invited by somebody
Noble, you got invited by By The Authority.
So you showing your loyalty you showing you, you coming up and
showing up and staying there is actually being is a means of
dignifying yourself. So one actually becomes
dignified in the company of al-aziz, they get a result
because they're in the company of Allah Aziz.
And finally, I quickly get to the, the final name in this
list, Al malikul, quddus al-aziz.
And finally, al-hakim the the king, the pure the authority.
And finally, the wise al-hakim either Farrakhan, I hadn't have
lotta who fighter who fix The and in shape, 1 Min Al hikmah.
Beautifully said when you're in the company of someone wise
every moment you miss out on getting wisdom from them is a
loss for you. Every moment you want to take
the most of it. I mean I have personal
experience with this and you might do there are people very
few people in our life are a source of real wisdom and if you
have those kinds of people, you know, that they're very sought
after company. So you getting their undivided.
Attention is not easy, and if you do get it, you want to
cherish every moment that you possibly Chablis can to capture
whatever wisdom they have to offer you.
There are some teachers in different parts of the world
that I look up to. I'll travel and not to go and
give a talk or a speech. I'll just travel to go see them
and ask them questions and if they can give me an hour of
their time, 20 minutes of their time, I'll be grateful because
those 20 minutes or more valuable to me than 56 hours of
studying on my own that wisdom to me is priceless that
companies Priceless. So with the wise every moment is
precious and it's a close intimate relationship with
Teacher a mentor and Elder someone who cares and loves for
you and therefore gives you wisdom.
Okay, so these are the four names of Allah that are
described inside of this Ayah, the king of the pure, the
authority and the wise. This was some things about Imam
razi and how he framed these names together.
I want to add some of my own observations to that observation
and I'd like to share with you that these four names of Allah
can be further paired up there, four of them, you can divide
them into two pairs and those two pairs would be the first and
the third name. Mmmmmm are similar and the
second and the fourth name have something in common, so 1 in 32.
And for now let me put words to that that would mean that the
king and the authority have something in common and the pure
and the Y's have something in common.
So let's talk about that. On the one hand, what if it
should be obvious to many of you?
What are the king and the authority have in common?
A king is an authority and a king.
Ideally is also a respected Authority, they have a lot in
common and they both demand loyalty they are You know, their
authorities that have to be respected, they have to be
obeyed. You have to, you have to
recognize that they're up here and you're down here you know
and Authority is superior. A king is superior the Royal and
you're a subject you're down here these names of Allah.
What are they what effect do they have?
The effect they have is they make me loyal to Allah obedient
to Allah. Humble before Allah they make me
afraid of Allah. They may even be intimidating to
me. They're overwhelming to me about
the power and the Grandeur of Allah and my insignificance.
And that's what these names highlight, what two names, and
Malik and al-aziz. They are about the greatness of
Allah and therefore how minuscule an insignificant, I
become a how'd, you know, I become humbled before these two
names. But if you look at the other two
names, I'll put those and al-hakim the pure and the wise.
Well Purity refinement, cannot be experienced from a distance
like those first two names, Purity, and refinement is when
you get close to someone and you see their mannerisms and Wisdom
is something that when someone puts their hand over your
shoulder and gives you advice and understands your situation
and then gives you exactly relevant Council pertaining to
your situation. I'm reminded particularly in the
matter of al-hakim of the story of lachman in the Quran.
Look, man lovingly gives advice to his son and Allah says, well,
akkad Athena. Luqman al-hikmah.
We gave look man wisdom. And then he imparts that wisdom
on to his son that that that intimate close loving
relationship, part of that is imparting, wisdom.
You can't just Get wisdom from a distance.
You have to develop a relationship with somebody for
them to impart wisdom relevant to your life to you.
The other song on the first side, I'll put those refined
company. Pure company company, whose
presence makes you feel better about yourself, brings you
peace. In a sense, you can think of it.
Like, I like to think about produce and al-hakim paired.
Also, in a sense that when you're in the company of someone
pure your heart starts getting purified.
And when you're in the company of someone wise, your mind
starts getting purified. Their wisdom, right?
So it's hearts and Minds that are being refined by the quddus
and the Hakeem, the pure and the Y's.
So two names are distant, Royal Grand, even intimidating and two
names are close and friendly. And they bring you near that
kind of makes it seem like these four names are near or rather
far the near than far the near. There's a push and a pull going
on. As far as how I'm to react to
these names between myself and Allah that That dichotomy and
that tension is actually something beautifully
articulated in the Quran. And they're both necessary
components of my relationship with Allah that distance and
that closeness with Allah. First, I want to give you an
example of it. And the example, my favorite
example of it among many is the example of Musa, alayhis salaam
Moses. When he saw the fire, he was
with his family and he saw fire up top the mountain and he told
his family, you stay here. I see a fire.
Maybe I'll get some directions there little.
Did he know he's going to be meeting with Allah when he goes
up there. When Gets their what's the first
experience he has Allah says ya Musa.
Any another book for like Musa? There is no doubt.
I am your master. Take your shoes off, then in a
couple Waddell muqaddas Etowah, you are no doubt in the sacred
value of 2. He's intimidated.
Allah has established his Mastery.
Over him, he's just a slave. Take your shoes off.
Show proper etiquette. This is a intimidating
relationship and immediately following that.
What does Allah say? Well, I know Donald took a first
time we met you And I'm the one that has chosen.
You, I have selected. You listen carefully to the
inspiration. Being given like a lie saying, I
see good in you. That's why this Choice has been
made. He's making him feel
comfortable. Now all of a sudden its
closeness with him and immediately following that in
any on Allah La ilaha illa, Ana moodini.
I am no doubt. Allah know what is to be
worshiped and obeyed besides me, be my slave, enslave yourself to
me, worship me. That's again, Mastery and
slavery and intimidating, a powerful relationship and Lee
following that a close relationship?
Welcome Miss litella decree, establish the prayer.
So you can remember me a remembrance of Allah, of course,
is a matter of the heart and a matter of closeness with Allah
following that. Again, he scares him and says
the hour is coming in the Satya. Tony, Accardo.
Officially touches are cool. Enough symbol is coming and keep
me keeping it almost entirely hidden.
So every person gets paid gets compensated in a or danced with
the efforts they made. Don't let anybody distract you.
Especially the one who doesn't believe in it distract you from
it and they follow their own way and fall off a cliff.
Literally he says Fatale because he's standing on a cliff.
So he says they fall off a cliff figuratively.
You might fall literally as Moosa is terrified of Judgement
Day. He says, one material can be a
meanie Kya Musa. What is in your right hand there
Musa. What's their?
What's that in your right hand? Like a casual conversation.
Bringing him close again. I wanted to highlight this
because this happens all over. Over the Quran.
But now it's important to understand why.
Why does that happen? Why are some names?
Intimidating us scaring us establishing a lot of authority
and other names, making him a friend and a close Ally, you
know, even someone we love, and who loves us?
Those two things. Don't go hand in hand.
How are they always there together?
You see, if you only have a relationship with Allah about
Authority, Then you're going to be so scared of Allah and so
terrified of Allah that you will lose all hope.
If you have a relationship with Allah, that's all friendship and
love, Allah loves me. He knows what I'm going through,
I love him. He's my best friend, etc, etc.
You know what happens with friends friends don't have
authority over each other. Friends start saying yeah I
crossed the line but so what he's my friend, he loves me too
much. If we became entirely connected
to Allah through his authority, we would become hopeless and
fearful only it would be a very depressing outlook on our
relationship with Allah. If our relationship with Allah
was only about closeness only about friendship and intimacy.
We would end up taking advantage of that relationship and
disobeying him and not regarding his guidelines.
A lob keeps that balance between those two things.
Just like he does between hope and fear.
It's between Authority and closeness that he maintains that
balance and that balance is so beautifully.
Nick It together, in the First Eye of the Surah, Al Malik, Al
CODIS, Allah Aziz, Al Hakim, the king, the pure, The Authority,
the wise, they're close and far close in far over and over again
subhanallah. So now we're ready.
Now, that I've given you a recap of these four names, the king,
the pure, the authority, and the wise.
Now I'd like to talk to you about my second discussion which
is about the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and the four
tasks, Allah gave him. I want to share first of all the
idea with you and then we'll Discuss it in some detail and
I'll briefly translate it for you to who led by NASA
Philomena. Rasoolum in home yet Louella him
ayat. He was a key him where you are
living room will kitab awhile hikmah.
Well encounter woman Camille. The field wall a lima bean.
He is the one who appointed among the unlettered, a
messenger from within them mean home yet Louella homogeneity,
who recites on to them, who narrates unto them, his
miracles, his ayat, his Revelations were Miracles, you
can call the ayat Well, use a key him and he purifies them
where you are living room, we'll get up.
And he teaches them. It says the book, but you can
understand that as the law, the term kitab, in the Quran, many
places is used for the law. So he teaches them the law.
Well, hikmah and the wisdom, once again, I'm summarizing the
translation and our concluded. He is the one who appointed
among the unlettered, a messenger, among them, who does
four things. Here's what they are.
He teaches them, he recites the ayaat on to them, he, he
narrates onto them or introduces them to the Miracles.
He purifies them, he teaches them, the law and the wisdom.
That's the fourth thing. Where in carloon Cobb Lou,
Lafitte La Lima Bean, even though for much before they had
been immersed in obvious, misguidance these people were
lost for many many centuries, many many generations obviously
lost worshipping all kinds of false gods and Pagan Idols,
right? So that's the commentary made in
this Ayah the here. Once again for tasks have been
highlighted reciting, the ayaat purification the messenger
purifies when you are leaving, home and kitab, He teaches them
the law and it teaches them wisdom.
In order to understand these four tasks, the first thing I
want to share with you is the fact that the prophet of Allah
sallallahu aleyhi Salam among all of the other prophets
carries, a unique burden, being the last messenger, isn't just
the fact that you're last on the list, it means you have the
heaviest load that has ever been given.
No, other Prophet is coming to guide Humanity.
So what he has been given and what he must deliver in those 23
years isn't just Nest. It's not isn't just necessary
that Transforms his immediate audience, he has to be given
something that is going to continue to transform Humanity
until the day of judgment the way prophets used to transform
people. The job that was done previously
by profits must now be done by this one profit for every
nation, every ethnicity, every generation, every society to
come until Judgment Day, that's the burden on our messenger
salallahu alayhe wassallam. And on top of all of that, you
know, Messengers used to be given In the this, this this
miracles in grand miracles to be able to bring about their
changes to be able to convince people like Musa and the staff.
He's only going to be given the Quran.
He's not going to be given anything else, but in order to
understand the beauty of these and the flow of these four tasks
and depth. I'd like to start this
discussion with an analogy and I think it ties in some of the key
Concepts that are being communicated here in these ayaat
Imagine that there's a town that's kind of backwards is a
village, not very civilized people live there, they kind of
live. They they don't have much in the
way of law or infrastructure refinement and one day they see
an Entourage of horses. You know, back in the day horses
decked-out soldiers in uniforms and an ambassador coming with
them and the ambassador's just in clothes, they've never seen
before. Clearly these people are not
from around here and he opens up this Grand, scroll and starts
reading them a message from a king.
Who would like to, uh, next their Village.
He like to take over their Village and offer them the
benefits of being part of their Kingdom.
And, you know, starts, giving them all of this this message
from this King. And these people look at them
and say, first of all, it's obvious, you're not from here,
but how do we know you're actually here from a king?
What proof do you have? So he shows them, you know,
coins. He shows them Treasures.
That can only possibly belong to a King, he gives them some kind
of indication. That he represents royalty if
they're convinced. They say, you know what, we'll
hear about, will want to hear what this King has to say.
You know, we're kind of impressed with the Entourage and
everything he brought and the proofs of his Grand royalty.
We're going to give him a shot. If you're going to go to that
company of that King, you're going to go meet him, then
you're going to have to address your best.
You're going to have to dress for the occasion and observe
proper protocol. You're gonna have to refine
yourself, you're gonna have to purify yourself.
Keep in track. Keep keep in mind what we're
talking about in the ayaat You are the mighty what user came.
You go meet this king and the King says if you want to be part
of my kingdom here laws, you have to follow here.
The regulations you must. Now adopt, this will become your
Constitution and he overtime develops, these people and they
Implement more and more of the laws of the Kingdom, until they
themselves. Become a very refined
well-developed, well well-established sophisticated
society, and only as they develop and grow, do they start
learning the advantages of becoming a more sophisticated
Nation. They didn't see the wisdom in
some of that. Ah before.
But now they start seeing that wisdom.
They went through this process of refinement.
I wanted to give you that analogy because it's kind of
like what the messenger did select show them.
But there are some differences and the commonality however is
that those people that the prophet came to have not had a
message from their King for many.
Many generations, were encounter Mill, Kabal, Lafitte La Lima
Bean. The first thing, what did the
messenger? Do he recited?
Allah Allah's ayats yet. LOL.
Hey, Maya, T people? Read the message of the Quran
and he's claiming that this is from God.
It's from Allah. They said, how do you know it's
from Allah? How do we know what proof?
Do you have that? This is from Allah, the words of
Allah, or so powerful or so, Grand were so inimitable, you
couldn't produce something like them.
You were so overwhelmed by them that the audience that would
hear it would know immediately that those words don't belong to
a human being. They were experiencing the
miracle of Allah has words directly and That alone was
humbling them. They were instances where people
came to debate with the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and he
would recite ayat and he would get to an eyewear Allah
commands, everyone fall into sajda disbelievers.
The entire Congregation of them would fall in prostration.
That happened. The Quran commands words,
overpowered them, and that's the first thing.
The prophet did introduce people to the miraculous power of the
Quran yet. Luo La he myAT&T he's
introducing them and while he's introducing Them.
They are in awe that this this does not belong to this human
being. This is coming from a much more
Grand, much more Royal, much more powerful Source then some
people were in so much. All of that word that they
wanted to accept that word and recognize that they want to.
Now become purified. These were the people that then
come accompanied the prophet sallallahu alehiwassallaam, they
became they came all around him, they hovered around him.
They formed a society around him and he would give them constant
reminder for the kid enough Attitude Era.
Remind if the reminder, ER, has any benefit for enough that they
caught on fire and we need continuous reminder is going to
benefit Believers. The prophets are selling would
continuously, give them a reminder through the word of
Allah. And through that, reminder, two
things happened, their hearts start being purified of greed of
jealousy of materialism of want and worry about worldly things
there. Their heart start becoming more
and more connected to Allah, and less and less connected to
material things. They start seeing things in a
more refined and beautiful way, but their minds start getting
refined to their thought process.
It's changing, they start criticizing things, they
previously didn't criticize, they start appreciating things,
previously didn't appreciate a purification is happening
because of their constant exposure to Revelation.
This Quran is transforming them with this regular exposure.
This is what, use a key him, his purifying them.
And when they, they reach the point of purification, their
hearts and Minds were completely submitted before.
Allah after they were in all Velez Miracles already, these
became the strongest of people people that were willing to
leave everything behind, and when Allah gives, Of them laws.
Finally, with a less started giving them laws.
When he started telling them that certain foods that you've
been eating your whole life, you can no longer eat certain drinks
that are addictive in nature, wine, and alcohol.
Addictive in nature that you've been enjoying your entire life,
today is the day you stop drinking.
That's it. Certain clothing.
Are, you know, women that loved beautifying themselves in
dressing up and going out in Social, Gatherings and doing all
of that. And then Quran comes and says
no, from today on you're going to dress like this and gave them
laws. When Allah gave those laws,
these people were immediately ready to implement those laws.
Why did that happen? Because two things had already
happened over a long period of time yet Luella.
Hey, Maya teehee, they were a novel has Miracle.
They were humbled by Allah's words and they were constantly
being purified by reminder. And then finally, they were
ready to learn the law. I'm reminded I always repeat it
because it's such epic words by eyeshadow the Allahu Kana.
Now, a well, a man has a lab in Al qarani Latasha bull Hammer,
Lacuna, wallahi London, through Cal camera Abaddon.
She says if the first thing ever revealed in the Quran was don't
drink alcohol. We would have said well la he
will never stop the consumption of alcohol ever.
We will never give it up because we weren't purified yet.
That's the point that she's making you know.
So here we are at Louella him ayat.
He is a very powerful actually what your Ali Mohammed kitab
teaches them. The book is a very, very
powerful reminder that we have to internalize that laws.
That the regulations of Islam aren't just taught just like
that. Do this, don't do this.
This is what we do with our Our children nowadays, this is hot
on, this is hot on. This is hot on.
If you really want them to transform, then they have to go
through the same process that the Quran identified here, you
know. Now finally is the endless
Journey while hikmah and he teaches them the wisdom, why do
I call that the endless Journey. See laws are a finite set of
regulations. It's a number of rules.
This is prohibited. This is prohibited.
This is a mandatory requirement.
This is what you must. You must Five times a day, if
you can afford to, you must go to Hajj.
You must fast in the month of Ramadan laws are finite and
regular regulated. There's not an infinite number
of laws in Islam, but wisdom is an entirely different entity.
Wisdom is an endless lifelong Pursuit.
The Quran didn't just come here to give us laws.
The Quran came to give us endless lifelong wisdom.
My entire life will be spent exploring the wisdom of the
Quran, and I will leave this world having only captured a few
drops, that's the nature of wisdom.
And so, Allah will judge says that.
Finally, he teaches them the wisdom, he teaches them a way to
engage with this book and draw more and more, and more
Treasures from it. And this is done by means of
reflection and contemplation of a leotard up Brunel Quran, don't
they pondered deeply upon the Quran, you know, this is the
process that was given. By the way, one more thing about
about wisdom is that wisdom also starts, teaching you the wisdom
behind the laws. It starts actually showing you
that Islam isn't just a bunch of regulations.
It's actually a moral code, it's a spiritual code.
These laws have a spiritual benefit, a moral benefit.
You know, that's wisdom behind the laws.
That starts becoming manifest as you study.
These are the four steps of transformation that the prophet
slice along was given. Now I get to one of my favorite
Parts in this presentation, and that is how these four parts
that I just shared with. You were able to transform that
Society. That had been lost for many,
many many generations. Allah is telling us that the
Quran cannot be underestimated. The Quran cannot be, it's not
just a book that you read. The Quran is a book that you use
to be completely transformed. These four tasks of the Prophet.
I remind you again. He recites the ayaat, he
purifies them, he teaches them the law.
He teaches them. The wisdom are actually
perfectly super imposed on the four names of Allah that I
started this discussion with this is one of my favorite parts
of this presentation. You know Allah azzawajal will
say but I remind you of those four names, the king, the pure,
The Authority, the wise go back to the king.
The king is known by one people came and saw this Ambassador.
They were skeptical or you really from a king, what did he
have to show them proof? What are the ayaats?
When the messenger recites, the ayaat on to the people when he
shows them the Miracles? What is he actually doing?
He's now showing them the the The proof that this can only be
from Allah through the ayaat they get to know their King.
Notice also, even in the introduction, to the Quran, one
of the first introductions to Allah Al hamdu, lillahi, rabbil
al-amin r-rahmani, r-rahim Malachy, omuty.
Not the this closeness and ar-rahman ar-rahim, and then
there's this Grandeur, the king, the kingdom of Allah, the
kingdom of God or the king of the day of judgment, the master
and the owner of the day of judgement now The king is known
by his signs. So you had literally, he Maya T.
That's how people will be in all of Allah when they're introduced
to the miracle of the Quran. The second name of Allah was a
good dose. Alko du musst means what the
pure think about. What is the second task of the
prophet? Salallahu alayhi wasalam in the
second Ayah, where user key him and he purifies them.
The pure is the name of Allah and inspired by that name.
This is what your messenger does, he purifies people by
bringing them closer. Sir, to the pure this name.
And this task of the prophets, life seldom are corresponding to
each other. This is what the prophet is
doing. He's bringing these four names
of Allah into people's hearts. He's in his instilling them into
people's hearts. If you look at the third name or
the third name of Allah was I like as he's the ultimate
Authority, The Authority that should be respected.
And what is it for D? If not, the lawgiver and
Authority is the lawgiver, The Messengers, I saw them.
Then teaches the law, the law on behalf of who, on behalf of the
authority. Whose authority should be
respected until you develop an honor and respect for that
Authority. Until you don't realize that
everything that Authority does is there to purify you, you will
not be able to implement that law.
You will not be able to live by that law that you're supposed
the way you're supposed to. So, because he's allies, he's
the messenger fulfills that has of Allah by teaching the people,
the law of Allah Aziz, the constitution of that Authority.
Then finally, a Las last name in the first Iowa's, al-hakim the
wise And what is the name of Allah that al-hakim
corresponding to in the activity of the prophet's voice from the
task of the prophesy Saddam? He says, subhanahu wa'ta'ala,
were you Ali Mohammed kotoba? Well, heck my he teaches them
wisdom, it is a lot of the ultimately wise, who will now
teach his Messenger to inspire wisdom, into his followers, into
his into the subjects, those who will accept this call and accept
this Faith. Subhan, Allah for names of Allah
directly superimposed on the for tasks.
Given to the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihe This is the
incredible incredible journey of the Quran that people went
through to instill. Those names that the heavens and
the Earth recognize when they declare his Perfection, what a
life saying is, if you can internalize these names, you
will be in harmony with the heavens and the Earth.
That's what the prophet came to do, is to bring to you.
The order that is already all around you, you know, Allah will
say, for example, a shumsa, welcome, Ruby husband, when
najma was arrested on the star and the 3DO sajda.
Why is he telling us the truth, the start?
The tree do sajda or the birds do test be Allah says the birds.
Do test be, you know what it means, shayin illa, yusabbihu,
bihamdihi Robbie, you know. Well, a key lot of kahuna
tasbeha mistletoe is so is there anything that doesn't declare
its Perfection? How can we?
But you can't understand it. Now we're going to be in harmony
with the rest of creation around us, you know, having said, all
of that. Now, I get to the juicy part.
How do we think about self-transformation, the
prophet's alaihi Salam? Was given a?
It's an interesting question before I get to the province.
Like the time, you know, we, we think of this amazing
transformation that happened and since I was little, maybe you've
heard this too. If you've been attending could
buzz and sermons your whole life, how great those companions
were, how amazing their change was what incredible
transformation they went through and what amazing submission to
Allah the demonstrated. And you keep hearing about that
and you keep asking yourself. Yeah, that was them.
What about me? I mean they were awesome.
I get it I'm clearly not. Hi, my capable of that kind of
transformation is the Quran only talking to me about an
incredible historical transformation, or is it telling
me something I myself am capable of look at the third idea.
Look at what Allah says well Ocarina mean Homeland Mi hakuba
him Wahoo Allah Aziz Al Hakim there are other than them those
who are not from the Arabs and others and them could also mean
other Generations that haven't yet joined them.
This is the third eye. There are other than the other
than them. Ourselves, who haven't yet
joined them and what Lam yahkum Bima, who Allah Aziz Al Hakim
and he's the ultimate Authority. Always, Allah is already saying
this incredible spiritual moral. Ethical Revolution is not
limited to these few people in the company of the prophets of
Allah who seldom. This is something that is meant
to continue because he is the final messenger, others.
Haven't, yet joined them, they will never have met their
Prophet, but they'll meet the Quran.
They'll never have bet the companions, but they'll meet the
same transformation. They're coming, they're on the
way by saying that even the companions of the Prophet or
somewhere, like others, who are these others?
Manhattan, Willa, we were sitting in the company of the
Prophet. They say gonna loosen and the
Nabi Saleh Ali Salim. We were sitting in the company
of the prophets are Salam. When you know, Nazareth,
alehissalaam are the sort of humor.
I came down the suit. I came down and when he started
reciting, he resided. Others haven't yet, joined them?
Well Ocarina. Minimal have Kobe.
You haven't joined them yet and when they heard this, are there
like man. How would I also love?
Who are these people? And the prophets are sort of
looks at Salman al-farsi, he looks at someone Farsi.
And now, before I tell you what happens, next you to know
something about someone else VAR C.
If you don't know, it gives them as you.
For those of you don't know, his name is Salman, the Persian
tells you where he's from is from Persia.
He was born and raised in a zoroastrian fire worshipping
Priestly family, his family was part of the religious clergy of
Fire worship, he denounced his religion, couldn't take, it
didn't make sense to him. He sought the one true God, and
he was, you know, persecuted imprisoned tortured because of
his belief, he was an embarrassment to his family.
He escapes prison runs off seeking truth and ends up in the
mentorship of a Christian monk who teaches them previous
teachers in previous scripture, you know, the Old Testament, the
Hebrew Bible and he teaches them, the message of recently.
Some Jesus also teaches them the signs of a final coming profit
who's going to come in the land of So, Salman al-farsi says, I
need to go there if there's a sign, any hope that a final
Prophet is coming. I want to go and see, so he
goes, and actually gets caught up, gets enslaved, ends up in
Medina as a slave and remains there, waiting in anticipation
for the prophets is on them. And when the prophesy Sun
finally came to Medina, he presented himself and said, this
is how I've come. I came seeking you, you know, I
come back to the story. This is a Persian who was in an
environment that had nothing to do with Islam had no message Age
no preaching to him, he sought the truth himself and ended up
in the company and at the footsteps of the prophets like
Saddam. This is the Man People asked the
prophet when this idea came others.
Haven't yet joined, who are they?
He pointed at Salomon and 5c. And said, you know, local Amanda
Surya if Faith were so far. It was on planet.
Jupiter the Nile Ahuja, Lumen hula men like him, people like
him would have reached it. There are people that are going
to be on a quest, no matter where they are in the world.
How far away from Islam, they are how they have no idea what
La is. They have no big knowledge of
the Arabic language or of Muslim Society or nothing.
They don't know what Quran is a little Revelation is nothing,
they have no clue. What?
Ever and those people are going to find Allah.
And he says these are the people that Lush talking about in this
journey, in other words that that transformation did not stop
with that generation, it continues by pointing at Salman
al-farsi the prophet of Allah sallallahu alayhe wassallam was
in fact pointing at all of us. He was telling us the
transformation that you would you and I are capable of.
And so we need to understand what it means to engage in that
journey of transformation. This is what I want to share
with you. Now, towards the conclusion, I
don't want you to just experience or Just hear this
theory of transformation, I want to let you know that I've turned
that sort of into a mission of my own.
How can I help myself and others engage in that journey of self
transformation? We feel that we have a solution
to implement the lessons that I've talked to you today in this
Ayah through something we call the unit TV.
Some of you are familiar with it but I'd like to introduce to you
how but, you know, TV operates and what we're hoping to
accomplish for yourselves. And it is, it is at the end of
the day, my life mission everything I try to do is to
create this resource, so Can experience the transformation.
Then I myself, am so inspired by and I hope that you'll expect
except this journey from me. What I told you about the tasks
of the prophets lesson. Let's go back to that.
Actually, before that, let me tell you what being a TV is
about. It's about you going on a
journey through the entire Quran in a way that is that brings
light into your life. In a, in a way that you can
manage, I know people are busy. Some of you are moms.
Some people working professionals college students,
you have different engagements in life.
Were always going to be busy. We need I have an engagement
with the Quran, for those who cannot drop everything and just
to leave the Quran full time. We need an engagement with the
Quran that we can systematically continuously and seriously make
progress with the Quran on our own schedule.
So here's our plan for you. The first plan for you is to
study just the Fatiha number one.
That's all. I'd like you to do is study the
fatty how we put a recording of the fact that had together.
I delivered it some years ago and the purpose of this Fatiha
isn't just introduce you to the Quran.
Of course, the best introduction to Lot and to the Quran itself
is Allah has own introduction. Which is the first Surah the
Fatiha. But the way I presented this to
highlight, how is it actually? So beautiful?
It can only be divine. Like I'm not just translating it
and teaching you some of the lessons inside the Fatiha.
I'm trying to highlight as miraculous miraculous Beauty and
power. That's what I'm trying to do.
I really love this stuff's particularly have a special bond
with it because I've met people who used to be pastors and
people who followed other faiths who came to Islam because they
heard this. Does they heard this explanation
of the Fatiha? So I feel that that's an
important start and an important part of our contribution for
you. The study of the Fatiha once
you're done with the study of the fact, how my hope is that
you're now curious about the rest of the Quran.
If party has so unique, so beautiful.
So remarkable. What else have I been missing
out in the Quran. What else does it have to offer?
And that's where I'd like you to take you to Divine speech.
Divine speech is a program. I put together many years ago.
I traveled many parts of the world.
I'm teaching the seminar and it's been recorded now,
alhamdulillah available, on being a TV.
I'll tell you simply the purpose of divine speech and the way I
like to define the purpose of device features, what happens at
the end of divine speech, when you're done with Divine speech,
you're supposed to be able to come out and say, wow, this is
definitely from Allah. This is not the word of a human
being. That's all.
I'm not even trying to convince you.
I'm just trying to show you what makes the Quran.
Remarkably Annex inexplicably, beautiful.
Inexplicably, just humbling overpowering.
That's all I'm trying to do. I travel with it and I talked to
seminars sometimes even universities and other places
and non-muslims attended and to my account at least in front of
me 15 people that I know of took shahada at this program, they
were transformed just I didn't do this.
It's just I'm just explaining what I've come to understand.
And about the power and beauty of the Quran through the Second
Step called Divine speech here. Now that you've done, you know,
you're being you're in awe of the Quran.
Now you want to take that next step, then third step is going
to be to get a picture of what the message of the Quran is all
about an overview. You know, our an overview of
thematic overview of the Quran, the major subject matters in the
Quran. The way that this course was put
together is I took passages from the Quran that represent some of
the most In Concepts in the quraían.
If you visualize the Quran as a building, these are the pillars
holding it together. So if you study, these few
passages, you have a pretty good idea of the subject matter of
the Quran. So, no matter where in the
Quran, you're studying, you can tie it to one of these passages,
right? That's the notion behind it.
So before you study the entire Quran, you get kind of a bird's
eye view and a pretty decent notion of the major subject
matter within it. That's the, you know, the
overview of the Quran, a thematic overview of the Quran
from there. Now, now, you're actually ready
to embark on a step-by-step journey into the entire Quran,
but I don't want you to do that too.
In depth yet, I want you to have a good view of the entire good
read, a guided read of the entire book and that's why I put
together a concise commentary on the Quran.
This video series is just you listen to 15, 20 minutes of
Quran every day little by little by little.
And as you keep going and making progress in your new reading of
the Quran. It doesn't matter if it takes
you two years or five years years at end, it doesn't even
matter, but you're getting drops of the Quran in Translation with
brief explanation. Especially the parts that are
hard to understand that are commonly misquoted or
mistranslated parts that are particularly confusing.
I'll highlight in simple language.
Hey, this is what it actually means or here some of the
lessons that come from this but not too in-depth, it's not
overwhelming. The point of it is you're
getting your daily dose of Quran now.
And you're going through the entire Quran, this way, this is
the Quran, a concise commentary and then comes the final step to
me, my favorite step, actually. And you don't want to jump the
gun and get their first. I'd like you to go through this
process and take your time with it.
The final step is what we call a deeper look.
And deeper look is what I decided to do myself and you'll
experience this to. Once you go through the Quran,
one end to the other, you'll realize, there's so much more I
want to learn. I passed It's like I touch the
surface of the ocean. There's so much going on deeper.
I want to go back and experience it again and again and again and
again. And so what I decided to do a
few years ago is I restarted my study of the entire Quran, I'm
studying it like I'm assuming I've never studied it before and
I try to study it in more depth than I've ever tried to study it
before. I've actually even put together
and being out hundred, I'm very grateful.
We have a research team put together that helps me study the
Quran in depth before the in-depth lectures are given so
that I can we can make our Effort in trying to offer you a
deeper meaning and I have a more profound understanding of the
word of Allah to the best of our ability.
That's a deeper look, that's something I'm going to be
engaged in for the foreseeable future.
I see years and years ahead of me where I'm going to be doing a
deeper look. And that's what I want for.
You is to be engaged in this journey to go along its I'm not
interested in, you finishing the journey.
I'm just interested in you taking a step in that journey
and that's what brings me to the conclusion of this webinar.
These five items that I mentioned to you.
Starting With the Fatiha doing Divine speech, doing the the
overview of thematic, overview of the Quran, the concise
commentary and the deeper look, these five steps you know what
they're inspired by their inspired by those four tasks
given to the prophets Allah who are using them.
That's what I want to show you. The first task of the Prophet
slicer them was yet. Louella homogeneity.
He introduces people to the Miracles introduces people to
the Grand or you know the Amazing Word of Allah that
humbles them before their King that is actually the thought
behind putting the fatty house. He's and the Divine speech
series together you go through those two steps because that's
our way of giving you some Taste of yet, LOL.
Hey Marty, that's that first task of the prophets lights on
them. The second task of the
Prophecies of them was were user key him.
He cleanses them, he purifies them.
How did he purify them? Continuous consistent.
Reminder, the Thematic overview, and then the concise, commentary
of the Quran. What are we?
Hoping it is for you. Continuous consistent, reminder,
it's a means by which were hoping your hearts are purified.
Your your minds are purified. You're listening to 15 20
minutes a day on your commute and you're finding advice that
will guide your day. You're going to find relevance
more and more and more of the Quran in your life because
you're getting a daily dose has dosage constantly.
I don't actually expect you to sit with a pen and paper and do
this, I just need you to get exposed.
That's all that in itself has a cleansing effect but so if you
go back to the tasks of the Prophet it was yet Louella
Himalaya T which is here Divine speech and Al Fatiha and divine
speech. What you Him purifies them,
purifies them were hoping through the constant, reminder
of, you know, the Thematic overview and the concise
commentary. But then, the prophet Isaiah was
given that latter task, which was, he teaches them, the law
and the wisdom and teaching, obviously, is when you become a
student and you have a teacher, it's more in-depth, it's
engaging. Now, you have to put pen and
paper together and that's where we put the deeper.
Look together, the deeper look study is looking at the Quran in
depth, so we can learn the law and learn some of the wisdom of
the Quran to the best of our ability.
That's the journey. I'm recommending all of you
take, I genuinely Jeff. You were sitting, I'm talking to
you through Facebook live where there may be thousands of miles
between us, but please think of me as someone sitting in your
living room right now, I genuinely mean well for you.
If you came to me personally, I met you at an airport at a
restaurant somewhere and said, we'll start.
How do I study the Quran? This is the advice I give you.
This is my personal advice to you.
I can't tell with no strings attached.
I just like you to be part of this journey.
Don't delay. Don't procrastinate it.
Don't spend hundreds and, you know, hundreds of hours doing
this immediately. No.
All I need is little by little, by little high little Moody
Eduardo. How ankle?
Our Prophet says, the best. Deeds are the ones that are the
most consistent, even if they're a little, that's all that were
asked, we just need to be if I can die in this journey through
the Quran. I have succeeded.
That's all I care about. That's all I want for you.
So if you can, if you trust my advice, this is the journey I
want you to embark on. Go to be an adult TV don't delay
just sign up today. There's a there's a two-week
trial that I've put together with my team so you can get an
idea of how things work. Give it a shot, you know, make
some commitment that in the morning commute, you know, or
you know, in the afternoon or in the evening before you go to
sleep, you'll take your daily dosage, just a little bit, just
a little bit, just a little bit and I'm hoping that through
this. And some of you are familiar,
there's thousands of videos of Me on YouTube, there's tons of.
So I talk a lot. My mom tells me right?
Are, there's tons of content all over.
Were the place? Yes, it is but it's scattered.
This is a plan of study. This is like you've taken me as
a tutor for your colon studies. That's what this is.
So, with me, and my colleagues were hoping you Embark in this
Quran journey. And I honestly, genuinely pray.
That each one of you is blessed in this journey that you and I
don't become lazy in this journey, that Allah brings risk
and, and Beauty in our life and benefits and Baraka to ourselves
our children. Our loved ones people around us
are inspired because of the light that we continuously
receive from. Let's book.
My intention of putting this together is to make him happy.
Your intention should be to make him happy.
Just to connect to his word. Y'all are just want to
understand your word better. I want to live by Your Word
better. I want to be inspired inside of
my heart with your word better. That's all that's all the you
know, TV is about. I don't care about anything
else. If we did nothing else, this is
all we did. I'd be happy, I'd be completely
happy. And I'd be so happy for you.
If you give us the honour of embarking on this journey with
you, I hope to see you in sha Allah with Allah and this two
week trial get started. Let friends and family.
Know, I would even say let Don Wilson friends and family know
about it, yet them a subscription.
I have employees who gave the subscription to their parents
non-muslim parents, who are, who will be listening to those of
Quran, you know, Christian Mother's, you know, that are
that are going through. So Italian Grand and studying
it, why not let them be introduced to Allah's book what
better way for them to learn about Islam and the Quran itself
that Allah speak to them directly.
So I'm hoping that this is a service that a like Steps from
all of us. I'm so grateful that all of you
attended today. I'm very also.
I'm really also very Excited that we've also put a nap
together. So those of you that want to
listen to our stuff and can't watch the videos, you can
actually download odd. It's downloadable audio within
the app itself. So you can find it on the App
Store, you know, the iPhone app is available on, Android is also
available. So it's a neat way to be able to
consume this stuff in Shallow tale.
Even if you're on the go, I hope, I genuinely hope you take
advantage. Thanks.
So, so very much for listening today, deductible, locate and
selam aleykum, ve rahmatullah wa barakato.