for love of god it also can be despite your love of the goods of the money so
the could be so it has both meanings they give it out of love of god but also they love those
the things they're giving so it's it and that's like the prophet saw i said was asked
you know that you are the best when you're
healthy you're sound because people on their death bed you know will give it away right no when you're healthy and
sound and you fear poverty you you hope for increase and
you fear poverty i mean it's quite stunning to relatives and orphans again the most
important what masakeen women is and the wayfarer and to the needy was
the needy here really are the beggars people who are asking
freeing the slaves and who are constant in prayer and who give alms for welfare and those
who fulfill their promises when they make them and who are patient and suffering adversity and hard times
so is difficulty in your circumstances the is
difficulty in your actual body so they're patient when they have difficulty also
can mean like and poverty and also humiliation those
difficulties the ra can mean here marat or zamana like chronic disease
people have chronic pain for those of us who have chronic pain you
know people who have chronic pain know how difficult it is and traditionally those type people
you know like my mother and father's generation they didn't even complain they didn't even mention it to people because they didn't
want other people to know that we would make them feel bad it's like
you know there's a there was a comedian who died a while back and he
had cancer for 10 years and he never told anybody even his own family didn't know uh jan or daddy
mentioned this to me because he liked this uh norm macdonald but he
he didn't tell anybody he was sick and they asked him why when he they found out he was dying and he said he just
didn't want to make anybody sad you know so there's people that they just they they suffer enduring that's
what it means enduring law you know patient enduring
in war and jihad but also hard times they're all sound meanings suffering adversity and hard
times they're all sound meanings they are the truthful ones
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so there's spend before that day comes there's no
bartering there's no friendship there's no mediation and it is the ungrateful who abuse and oppress
and then this is the great ayat the prophet isaiah said it was the greatest verse abu under he asked him
what was the greatest verse in the quran he mentioned this and he struck him on it gave him a strike on his chest and
said you know congratulations on that knowledge
because this really gets at the again the essence of the quran is really a book about god
from god about god and goes back to god like he he recites
it the prophet isaiah said the best thing that you can give to god is what came from god which is the quran
so it came from god it goes back to god god
allah exclamation mark
the end of time won't come until nobody says allah allah you know you know there is no god but
the one the living the self-subsistent these are two really important
attributes of god drowsiness does not overtake him sinneh is like just a nod off just a knot
does not overtake god nor sleep well i know the humaf is
he possesses that's who god belongs what is in the heavens and the earth who could there be who can intercede with
god ladies who can intercede except by leave of god
god knows what is in front of them and what is behind them but they do not comprehend
anything of god's knowledge
the throne of god extends over the heavens and the earth and the preservation of them both is not oppressive to god it's not a burden
it doesn't weigh him down
and then [Music] comes immediately after that once god's declared
it's amazing no compulsion in the religion
it's clear so if somebody's blind you can't guide them unless they want guidance
but if somebody just says leave me alone you have to leave them alone
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and believes in god and has taken hold of the most reliable handle that uh does not break for god is all hearing
all-knowing those who spend their wealth in the way of god and then do not follow what they spend with reminders of their
generosity or with abusive treatment they have their lord they have their reward with their lord and there is
nothing for them to fear and they will not sorrow again hope kind and forgiving words are better than
charity followed by abuse because there's people that are abusive with their charity they could remind you of how much they
helped [Music] don't tell me uh how much you've done
for this religion that's what the prophet was told to say to these bedouin who were coming out we
supported you we join your religion you know wanting something
don't tell me what a great boon your islam is to this religion
no allah can remind you of his blessings to you so and that's why al-manan is a
negative term except for god god has every right to remind us but when you remind other people
and partly it's because in reality it's from god you were just a subup so don't tell them what goodness you've done for
them because in reality it came from god it's just god has told us you know we have to thank people and encourage people
and then don't nullify your charities by reminders of your generosity or by abusive behavior
as do those who spend their wealth to be seen by the people without believing in god in the last day and what that is
like is a hard stone with dust on it on which a heavy rainfall so it's just barren and there's nothing nothing comes
out of it the example of those who spend their wealth seeking to please god and strengthen their souls is that of a
garden or a null and that it's quite beautiful i mean i don't know if he's the first
one to use that but it's a perfect term because uh noel is a you know the grassy knoll at dallas there's a place where
you know they think there might have been other gunmen but it's called the grassy note because it's an elevator it's an eminence so is
elevated it's in english language no it can also mean null like the null of a bell like nell the death knell of the
bell ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee but also asks not for whom the bell knows
it knows for thee so null can also mean the ringing of a bell it's a verb to know the bell
the messenger and then this alhamdulillah we got to the end so the mecca i want to get to at least finish
bakara the messenger believe
so the messenger believes he believes the prophet when the jewish rabbi came and gave his description of the torah he
said i meant to be rasulullah i bear witness that i'm the messenger it strengthen his iman
remember when he got the message he was troubled he didn't know
and that was his sincerity who am i that was who am i to get a
message from god who am i and that's why it's so arrogant you see
these people that god spoke to me really god
creator of the heavens and the earth knower of the scene and the unseen spoke to you what did he tell you
i mean it's like that is a sure sign of madness and that's why the prophesied sin was so troubled
but then look here's the proof this is what came out of him it's not like somebody wandering around talking to
himself saying that god's speaking to him i mean this transformed the world
this transformed western civilization all these things that western people see they don't even know that it came from
ikra bismi arabica lady all the mathematics all the architecture all the
science if you read george sartan's multi-volume on the history of science
the first two volumes are all muslim names right
so this is what came out of god speaking to a man
by their fruits you shall know them don't look at isis in the same way you can't look at pedophilic priests to
determine what catholicism is you know no look at our civilization look at what the muslims built
look at look at the taj mahal look at the alhambra palace
what kind of people built those
these are the remnants that we leave behind to tell you who we were so after we're
gone look at what we have left behind if you want to know who the muslims were
look at what these people left behind and those were people that were following this book and they were
following our prophet saw isaiah and that's why they were given toffee and when they die
deviated and the prophet isaiah said you will deviate you will follow the way of other peoples
that went before you the jews and the christians and the other religions he told us that and he warned us of that
and that's why muslims have to make taubah and so do all the faith each believes in
god and god's angels right well mo minoon we believe in allah
and his angels and his books and his messages
we don't make distinction these are all prophets from god and they say we hear and we obey him
we ask your forgiveness our lord
does not compel a soul to do what is beyond its capacity this is from allah's rahmah
it gets what it has earned and it is responsible for what it
deserves our lord
do not punish us do not take us to account if we forget or if we air
in because nisian and khatta are different you can forget and you can make a
mistake if we forget or we air to air as human to forgive is divine
right so we make mistakes but we're asking allah and then we ask him for what we know and
what we don't know because sometimes we make mistakes not even knowing
do not place on us a burden
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practice the muslims we have it easy compared to the previous dispensations of what they had to do to get close to
allah and we're in the latter days of this ummah which is even easier to get close to allah subhanahu ta'ala in these
latter days when so many people are turning away from allah
and please our lord do not make us carry that for which we lack the strength
and please grant us pardon and forgive us
and have mercy on us you are our mawlana you are our
protector um they have no protector you are our protector
so help us against the ungrateful people help us against the ungrateful people
that are wreaking all this havoc in the earth alhamdulillah so that is uh
i that's what i was hoping to how relevant are concepts like stress syllable intonation pitch the quranic restoration
how do they affect the meaning is there a book explaining the poetics of the quran you know poetics we're using that term
obviously i i understand how he's using that term because quran is not poetry
but but it has in it in english poetry meaning beautiful language not poetry not sure
right so stress civil intonation pitch these are all very important in in in the quran
what are called the in in tajweed those are ishtihad so those are the ishtihad of the the
quran and they're different israel so you have different there are places where it's haram to stop obviously
because it will it will affect the meaning and in the house quran it's very nice because they give you the a little
signal uh of the huh yeah
like not just yet don't stop here right because you can uh
corrupt the meaning of it um like the khatib who said to the prophet
something and then he said because he added a wow where there shouldn't be so
stress is very important syllable intonation all these things when you get into deep tajweed studies
the great quran of this ummah actually learned the muhammad
and recited the quran based on the mahamat so the are
what traditionally in music theory are called modes which are slightly different from key signatures so in music you have key
signatures but you also have modes so you have these famous modes that have been identified like the doric mode
right the phrygian mode these are modes so like there's melancholic modes like if
you look at irish music it's it uses uh melancholic modes that's why when you
listen to it it's it's just not the jigs are very upbeat but a lot of irish music is very mournful
so so uh the great masters of tajweed learned the
modes and they would recite that they still do this believe it or not in fact there's on on youtube there's actually a
then from turkey who shows you the different makaams that are used in the different prayers so the fajr he uses a
makam to wake people up and so the this is how sophisticated our religion got was that they were using
uh the intonations uh to do that and stress so
raising the voice i mean one of the sheikh nuren who allah
lot of people very attracted to his recitation that's those
where he's going up and down those are all regulated so the stress will affect the meaning the wakufa are interesting
because you have like imam who aloha i mean i have no problem with
this some people have a problem but he actually his he said were purely from kash
that uh although according to you can't use it for like you can't the
you can't use kash for the prayer time like to have a question the prayer times in you can't use it you have to
do the go out and measure the shadow or now people just look at the prayer time
on their watch or their adhan which they can end up praying at the wrong time in any case
the um the very interest like help the imam is moroccan he has like kalila
[Music] it completely changes the meaning so
kalila they are a few minaleili they don't sleep at night whereas if you
don't do the waku there it's [Music] they only sleep a small portion of the
night so the the stops can really affect the meaning
that's different from raibafihi and then hudalin so the walks
it gives a lot of possibility for many many interpretations which is really interesting one aspect
of the quran the names of jacob's sons and wives are not in the quran does that information come from yes
they're mentioned in our tafsirs they it comes out of the bible the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam
permitted us to quote the bible and just he said
don't be absolute don't deny it and don't be absolute in its affirmation but
there are many useful things there's been a modern trend amongst the mufasirun to
completely remove all of the israelites there is some benefit in that because a
lot of the superstitions that got into the tafsir came out of
the previous dispensations but on the other hand there's a lot of interesting things how do we understand the quranic
verses give giving glad tidings to jews christians jews and saviors in the light of perennial thought i mean obviously
the perennialists like that verse i think for me the best thing that i've
read on this subject is faisal which is imam al-qazadi's book
that allah allah is going to judge people we're not judges we can't say anybody's
going to heaven and hell the quran makes it very clear that if
people do this this and this they're going to hell but in the end there's something called
in our tradition the of allah allah fulfills his what in terms of his threat if he does not
fulfill his threat it doesn't diminish him whereas if he if he didn't fulfill his
promise it would diminish him so the example they give if if a ruler says
to you know some somebody in another land he said wallahi is
like if he comes here i'll slaughter him and then the man comes and he forgives him
nobody's going to say oh that he didn't fulfill his promise they'll actually see it as a good thing
he said oh he's a merciful ruler whereas if he said
if he comes i'll give him a thousand dinars then he comes he says sorry i'm not giving you anything everything you
say ah what a miser that guy was right so allah makes threats he doesn't have
to fulfill the threats but he makes promises and he has to fulfill the promise although he has promised that he
will fill jahannam so that's not a threat that's a promise so
you know people should be concerned about that i'm trying to study arabic to better understand the quran how long did
it take you i mean i'm still learning arabic so it's going on 44 years
arabic is an ocean and you know i still
i still study arabic i learn words i learned a word today that i didn't
know so it's it's the ocean the the muritan is
nobody can learn all of arabic except a prophet so there's always something new to learn
always something new to learn i didn't know tamara meant to for your
hair to fall out you know there's in the hadith it says
the prophet seems his face changed like the the
they say like you know you could see that he was upset in his face but also means for your hair to follow
i didn't know that so there's always something you learn any other questions
i understand the quran is eternal means but i don't see how many verses with us how can those verses be applied in different scenarios then
well remember that the quran is in quran
which is the matrix of the book so the quran there are infinite possibilities with
allah's words allah says if the oceans were inc and the and the forests were pans
the words of god would never be exhausted so allah could rearrange he could i mean
it's just infinite possibilities out of 29 letters allah can adi
and then but there are other possibilities i mean the there are infinite possibilities to
the meanings that that allah could generate from uh from the quran
so what do you think of the view by imam and other scholars that say the mary was
i mean yeah that's been pointed out some of them said asiya also
the prophet isaiah mentioned about the perfected women the kumbh amongst the women
i mean maryam is you know i my understanding the word or what i was
taught the dominant opinion of uh the school of uh of akida that i was taught is that
the prophets are males and the reason for that is
is that the the position that allah has put the the
male in the male is and the male has a daraja the male is
has allah has given an authority to the male
which doesn't diminish the female and it shouldn't be seen like that it's actually a tribulation for the male
because it's it's a it's a big tribulation to be put into that position
so um but if if she was a prophet you know we'll find out in the afterlife
i mean this is a valid difference of opinion the mature the dominant opinion
is that they're from the men but clearly the angel spoke to her which
i mean that's that's a revelation certainly
and there's a difference obviously between the messenger and a prophet so the rasool has the book or has a new sharia
whereas the prophets are given revelation so the idea that that she
had revelation from god i mean that's clearly in the quran and that's why i mean many mention this that that they
considered her to be amongst those who received prophecy um
aloha adam you know i the safe position always to stick with
the majority and the dominant opinions are there for a reason so that's that's where we hold to inshallah
inshallah i hope that you continue to support the college in the last few days of ramadan
even if you've already supported it maybe you could think about giving a second one just out of
a desire to see more that we can do the more you help the more we do the garden
project that has to be specified we don't use any of your donations
uh for things that somebody might think that's extravagant or why are they doing that and
they should use their money more wisely and that's a valid opinion i've thought about that too but my goal is about dawa
and about making this religion again as attractive as it should be
and that's one way that people are attracted it's it's a way to it's like honey you know to bring
uh to to uh to attract people with beauty and then then you can explain to them
what the religion is because we have a lot of bad information about our religion in this country and around the
world and we need to work better you know another thing i've been thinking a lot about is we really need to have more
outreach to the hindu community in the united states because the hindutva is is a very
serious problem um and and the muslims are really under threat
uh in many places where there are there are extremists it's always ignorance
because educated i know that educated hindus that really understand their religion must be horrified by a lot of
what's happening and it's really important not to collectivize people and not to generalize about people but to
really to recognize that there's good people everywhere i mean we have
a hindu lady that's helped us every year with taxes she's a really good lady and she's all you know just a
really sweet lady and i have no reason to have any animus towards her
at all on the contrary she's been very helpful to me and so i feel gratitude and
you know and i think that's the way we should be with people is just judge people
by the content of their character not by the the creed that they happen to follow
because there's a lot of bad muslims you know and and then there's a lot of good
people outside of islam and it's really important just to acknowledge that and to recognize the goodness in people and
i think in doing that we're truer to the nature of our religion and certainly truer to the
nature of our prophet samus he was a mercy to all the worlds
and and and we were said speak nicely to people inshallah
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