English has become the language of our
conferences and our intellectual and
scholastic pursuit is an indication of
our humiliation because it's a language
of a people that conquered many Muslim
lands and they have implant
they've given us this language and this
is what we're left with it's a language
that and I say this as a native speaker
of the language it is a poor language
it's a poor language it's what the Arab
they called lava to tiara the language
of Commerce which doesn't mean they
don't have philosophy and Shakespeare
Sheikh Isabel right they even say he was
an Arab but the point that as long as
we're trapped in the language of English
I believe as an intellectual community
we will not rise to the level anywhere
near what those who went before us do
part of regaining our heritage is
regaining the Arabic language and also
unlike almost all the other languages in
existence the complexification of
languages increases despite the fact
that that that it changes in other words
Latin moved into Italian Spanish French
these are like slangs or dialects of
Latin but by the nature of language
because they left Latin there was a
complexification that took place that
enabled them to articulate difficult
thought unfortunately this has not
occurred in the Arabic language and the
reason for the I say unfortunate I
really not unfortunately but it has
unfortunate consequences the Arabic
language by its nature has been
preserved intact unchangeable with the
revelation of Allah subhana wa ta'ala
the arab grammarians and the arab
lexicographers were the first people the
first dictionary in the English language
is 16th century they don't even know
really what Chaucer's language meant
they can only guess at a lot of words
the meanings of words the Hebrew
language the Hebrews caught on to
dictionaries from the Muslims and this
is why in modern biblical studies in tel
aviv and the universities where they
study they go to arabic brews
to understand the Bible this is a fact
that I'm not making this up they go to
Arabic roots to understand the Bible
because they recognize that as a Semitic
language it is the only language that
has maintained a lexical purity that
other languages have not maintained
because of the preservation of our
scholars and and by the trophy of Allah
because when Allah said in Ana's Elna
dhikr winner who the Harvey boon that
includes the preservation of the Arabic
language because it's an essential
aspect the Arabic language has been
preserved and it's there for whoever
wants it if you want dunya then learn
English but if you want a shuttle learn
Arabic because it is the language that
literally opens up a whole world of
meaning that is inaccessible in the
English language and I'm saying that as
somebody who is bilingual who reads upon
in Arabic and reads English the Arabic
the Quran is not the Quran in English it
cannot be called the Quran in English
and this is not a kind of you know a
boasting of the scholars of the past no
part of the ages of the Quran is the
Arabic language itself and it is a
language of Revelation so we must learn
the language of the book itself and this
includes Arabs who go through year 12
years of high school and they can't they
can't you know one one of the Ottomans
Muhammad banir for saying said this
house lot hosted Holly DOMA be Thoth an
unsub what is nad will Arab this OMA has
been given three special things
knowledge of the unsub genealogy the
knowledge of the is mad Lola Senate La
Paloma Capanna mansion Hashanah less
eminent Mubarak said if it wasn't for
the Senate of this Ummah that he would
have said whatever he wanted to say
whoever wanted to say it so we have the
Senate which is the unbroken chain of
transmission which to the Piranha exists
to this day in an unbroken
chain of transmission to the messenger
of allah to gibreel a days to them to
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala there are
Muslims who memorize the Quran with the
Senate unbroken chain to allah subhana
wa ta'ala and this exists to our day
it's a miracle of the Quran that we have
an absolute Senate of unbroken chain of
transmitters of the Quran both Moshe
hava Sheraton and da Mucha faith then
Wakita Burton by articulation and by
writing its unbroken or estimate as many
all of this has been preserved so
learning the Arabic language now the the
next aspect is and this does not mean if
you don't know Arabic you can't read the
means of a part on I'm not suggesting
that but I'm saying it's a crutch and
lame people use crutches but the beauty
of it is you can throw away your
crutches because the Arabic language is
learn about I mean Marie spoken was 50
years old when he learned the Arabic
language a French scientist who just
wanted to read the Quran in its original
language 52 years old
we have Muslim that speaking was better
than the Queen they speak English better
than the Queen why why is that people
grow up in the Swat Valley and they
speak Queen's English what we want to
speak the King's language not the
Queen's English more I speak the King's
Arabic which is the language of Alan
Milliken mulu the King of Kings Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala so Allah says in the
Quran where da porra al-quran systemic
allahu wa ANSI to la la coneja moon if
we want Rama from Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala
this is Allah has given us the formula
when the Quran is recited listen to it
now the word in Arabic here this
terminal is from an eighth form verb is
this Tamara which is what it's called
babban Muhammad which means it's a
reflexive it goes back into the self in
other words it's not simply a hearing it
is an internalization of the hearing
it's a harkening if we say in the first
form semi
it means we we hear like some actor
mauritania dollars they smell like smell
that's not there always ask me do you
hear that do you hear like here they
used to say I heard that right now but
that's not what is the matter it means
that is what semia means estimate means
to internalize it so you you not only
hear the word you internalize it you
take it into the cell you allow it to go
through the ear and into the heart where
it's understood and comprehended what on
c2 and then once it enters into the
heart there has to be silence and
stillness there has to be silence and
stillness if you do not steal the heart
from the chatter of the world then you
cannot understand and penetrate the
meanings of the Book of Allah
Liam you Sue Ellen Mata Harun they only
touch it the purified ones the purified
ones mata haru which is a passive form
they're purified by their class - Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala purifies them they
only have access intimate access to it
those who are purified and so this Quran
has to be internalized there has to be
esteem this this estimate festa me Allah
who were on Seto Lana come for a moon in
order that you are shown Rama now we one
of the things that I think is is a sign
of the the sickness of our Ummah is that
we no longer listen to the Quran in
other words in our Suk's the Quran now
is played like background music you will
hear it out of it I am in a shop another
scene you will hear Quran now in the
Suk's of all the Muslim countries you
will hear the Quran even in the soup and
if you hear it here then tell the people
to stop playing it because the soup is
not the place for Quran in fact it's my
crew to recite the Quran in the soup
except for part of it in who's doing
melodia and you can look at the books of
fear I'm not making that up
and I was once trying to do a
transaction and somebody had a CD of
Quran that he was trying to sell and I
asked him please turn it off and he said
why and I said because Allah says he's a
hotel for infest amir una who if you
hear the quran listen to it and be
silent and and i can't make a business
transaction if you got caught on plane
and
said is it wide you see this is I mean
this is a sickness this is a sickness it
means there's a deep loss of Adam and
this is what's happened in our Ummah we
have lost add up to the Book of Allah
I'm gonna close it up now we've lost add
up to the Book of Allah Subhan Allah to
Ana now from the add above the Book of
Allah is that you listen to when it's
recited and you're silent now in the
Quran it says left our fart was rotten
for assault and nippy don't raise your
voices over the voice of the Prophet the
Animus many of them has said it includes
when hadith is being recited now there's
a principle in tafseer Muhammad Allah
which is the even more storm like when
Allah says don't say to your parents
both that's the least thing you can do
it obviously means not hitting them or
going on if we're commanded to be silent
when the prophets Elohim is speaking
then what is the commandment when allah
subhana wa ta'ala himself is speaking
which is the kalam of allah which is the
book of allah subhana wa ta'ala if we
hear the Book of Allah we should go
silent if you don't understand it then
be silent anyway neither come tohe moon
in order that you'll be shown Rama from
Allah subhana WA to Anna the the Quran
is the unending miracle of Allah subhana
WA Ta'ala it is the book that enriches
those who have no wealth it dignifies
those who are based and ends and and
subjugated it gives nourishment to those
who are spiritually malnourished it is a
book that brings light and life to the
dead and the blind someone book moon a
moon for home la opción
they Allah says about them they are
blind deaf and dumb and they do not see
their they're deaf they can't hear and
there's they can't speak they can't
articulate and they can't see and the
Muslim is somebody who is listening
attentively to the signs of Allah seeing
the signs of Allah subhana without
because the signs are both things that
we see with the eyes a some amount well
busts are wilful add we see with the
eyes we hear with the ears and we
understand in our hearts the Muslims are
people of intellect they're not people
of stupidity and an idiocy
Muslims are people of
intellect and the Quran is a book that
demands deep thought it is not a book
for simplistic for just just a that no
it absolutely demands from us that we
think Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says
bare-knuckle hockey on a button Fayed
mother who fat either who was a hair we
thrust this Quran against falsehood and
all forms of truth against falsehood and
it is overcome now the air there's a
modern translation that says and it
smashes out their brains which that's a
Grossman's translation of Quran because
da Matta although in its one of the
meanings is a soffit edema to to hip
strike the brain that striking does not
mean smashing it physically out which is
a lot of a way that a lot of Muslim
modern Muslims would like to finish
arguments by smashing out their
opponents brains know where people are
bored on and the proof is if you read
the ayahs that follow that verse you
will see that they all asking about do
you think there's more than one gun in
creation haven't you looked at the
heavens on the earth it's using
intellectual proofs to show these people
in other words you're the mother who yet
mother who means that it overwhelms
their intellect until they have to admit
that it is the truth from allah subhana
wa ta'ala
muslims have never been afraid of open
debate and open discourse the muslims
have never been afraid of open debate
and open discourse of a hadith or of the
omaha and who he debated the atheists in
the masjid he debated people that didn't
believe in the bath this is what the
muslim because they were not afraid of
any forms of falsehood because they had
the truth but because we're so distant
from the book of allah we actually fear
now all of this falsehood that is out
there
well I al Hawk is a half a bottle in L
bought that I can as a hook-up if the
truth comes falsehood vanishes falsehood
is vanishing the Prophet when Saint Ali
he said sits alone Calcutta Leyland
Muslim there there are fictions like a
dark black night and then
ali karram allahu wa ja reveal on said
Marshall Asuma edenia Rasulullah what is
the way out on that day he said kid have
allah the book of allah fissionable
omaha broken maha brahma better come
worship mama vanakkam it has the
information of those who went before
news about those who will come after and
it is a judgment between you the
prophets alliance edmond de la who
teairra sirat al-mustaqim Ikuo Coronado
was tougher Allah give Baraka Melissa
and Musa Musa Ramallah the beer the beer
the beer desert Allah brother Hamza in
view of the shortage of time I'm going
to allow only one question if anyone in
the audience has a burning question to
ask brother Hamza I am white just one
question
yes brother if you would stand up and is
there a microphone in the
you
go back to me
but a
the question if I understood it right
was as from Arabic speaking people
because an Arab by definition is
something who speaks Arabic and the word
in fact comes from a word which means to
articulate clearly baba your Arabic
means to articulate clearly and some
call an out of mind is like rubber
lining things like that but the and some
say it comes from the Arab which is the
one of the fathers of Arabic but it's
those who articulate clearly which means
the vast majority of people now claiming
to be Arab are not really Arab in fact
if the Sahaba heard them I think they
would just shake their heads and say are
these what kind of language is this but
like a eyes in are like Hagia they would
just say what was that active the LME
that means in Arabic I write with pain
so they you know they really wouldn't
understand I don't think I mean they
heard so Hebert Romi once saying yeah an
S yeah an S and all Madhavan of kebab
said mybatis oh hey you Nadia Ness
what's wrong with sohave he's calling
the people and he said no no he has a
boy named Yanis but so he had the urge
MA in his tongue so he didn't pronounce
the hat very strongly I would say that
the the the way that we go back to the
Quran is taking them in Hajj of the set
of people the men have the cell phones
to read the Quran in 30 days this was
the Manhattan of the cell of the Quran
was divided into 30 Jews 660 his 30 Jews
the the his was 60 to be recited at Fajr
and mother it takes about 15 to 20
minutes to read and most people spend
more time in the bathroom doing their
toiletries then then that takes really I
mean just to put our priorities straight
agua Hanif are up in LA I know who is
oftentimes the most generous in terms of
his new
Nancy said that the least amount that we
can recite the Quran is twice a year
that it must be recited at least twice a
year the prophet Elijah in a hadith that
has weakness that arrazi mentions that
says men today are Barina
Fahad Jaffa the one that has gone past
forty days and hasn't completed the
Quran has been rude to the Quran the
Quran must be read but it has to be read
with deliberation we know that the
Sahaba did not memorize the Quran until
they were acting according to it and
this will increase us in our knowledge
when I'm gonna be my edema or death or
Hollow in my madami annum whoever acts
according to what he knows Allah will
increase him in his knowledge so there's
increased by acting according to what we
know the Arabic language of Quranic
Arabic although there are deep
intricacies and subtleties in the
Quranic Arabic by and large the Quranic
Arabic is not a complicated Arabic it is
Mubeen the Hadees are actually more
difficult to read than much of the Quran
but the Quran must be read with
commentary and the commentary is is
something that this is one of the
problems of the modern age is that
people are literally reading the Quran
misunderstand there's people reading
English translations and
misunderstanding because the translator
misunderstood it and there's
misunderstandings in the translations
and also translations only give one
aspect the Quran oftentimes have many
different aspects so the the Quranic
Arabic there is a beautiful vocabulary
that is not extensive that can be
learned very quickly I have a class that
has been working with me two hours a
week for about three and a half almost
four years too and they are they all of
them were a gem when they
and now they're reading the Quran with a
considerable amount of understanding
they can understand it with a dictionary
using relying on a dictionary for some
words and this shows you just that a
small amount of time a massive amount
can be gained now Arabs already have a
considerable jump on everybody else
because there's a great deal of the
platonic Arabic that they still can
understand even for a person on the
street
my friend Abdullah Ahmad in dead that
told me he was in Egypt once and he he
speaks four high Arabic and he got in a
taxi and he said read on Hobart a
Superman paprika hat - Terry about of
Allah and the men said subtle Allah
seemed
so now Egyptian taxi drivers are
notorious for being like what they call
FIFA dumb so I don't know if he was just
not understanding it was caught on or he
was making fun of my friend but we'll
give him the benefit of the doubt now
yes Coleman minute oh man I send your
crew no Heidemann home let not want
people mocking other people perhaps
they're better than them so the the most
beautiful tafseer' that we have is the
jela lane for a quick understanding of
the quran it's in a remarkable work with
and i also recommend a testy Lee Adama
tanzeel by even Jews al qalbi
which is also concise and just brilliant
in what it contains and then you move on
to the bigger tough series but we should
identify resources and the other thing I
didn't I want to talk about this but
again I'm just not I need to be more
structured but I want to talk about our
children and and giving our children the
book about la Savannah with Anna the
prophets allies and I'm said on the Omo
qiyamah that the parents who give the
caught onto their children will be given
crowns that radiates like sons you tell
we drew T Jan tell America since I mean
Subhan Allah
oh I don't understand how we can give
our children chemistry and biology and
physics and I mean it's just that
they're not going to be tested about
that stuff on yo mo camera which is not
to under two diminish the importance of
those Sciences I'm not but we need to
get our priorities right and our
priority above and beyond everything
should be the book about loss of Panama
Tiana and what lie and I'm saying this
and making an oath by Allah our own
amount who were the most brilliant
scientists and scholars that the world
has ever known
I mean way beyond the people now who
don't even know how to to take care of
themselves
I mean scientists are uninspiring
by and large it's not all of them but a
lot of them they look at these Western
scientists they don't even know that how
to send it to me on email they'd only
want to talk to people anymore send it
to me on email but these are anima all
of them what they share in common is
that they memorize the book of allah
subhana wa ta'ala and they learn the
language of the arabs and I believe
personally that that I in the Quran is
absolutely literal in its meaning land
of contact they don't in order that you
use your intellect that you learn to use
your intellect when Allah tells us the
reason why we're all scattered and
separated he says Vatika the end of all
Monday afternoon because there are
people that don't use their intellects
taxable and Emanuele Pirro vinsetta that
it can be uncommon a afternoon you think
that they're united their hearts are
separate because they don't use their
intellects we need to begin using our
intellects raise up to the level of this
Deen and Arabic is a means it's a tool
that's all it is it's a tool but it's a
powerful tool that empowers the
intellect certain types of
understandings that are not available to
people through other linguistic mediums
jazakallah harmless automatic