first the idea of the Quran as the
miracle of Islam Islam is is fascinating
in that we have before us the miracle of
the Prophet sallallahu sanim and like
the miracles that we read about in the
Quran that are taken based on faith such
as the miracle of moosa a.s a time when
he thrust down his staff and it became a
haya a snake and the miracle of the ISA
is to them who brought the living to the
dead or dead to the living or the bird
that he fashioned from clay and then it
was given life by the power of Allah
these are miracles that people
experienced at that time and some people
would contend that they have a type of
what's called tolet or or because
there's such a vast chain of
transmission of these miracles that they
can be accepted on that value but we
would believe in them because they're
mentioned in the Quran but the Quran
itself is the miracle of the Prophet
this is the triumphant miracle that the
prophets alighted some was given one of
the poets put it best when he said a
hookah ISA that a matin for Carmela your
brother isa al salam he called the dead
and they became they answered him and
they stood up one Tov Gaeta
as Yellin mine'll Adam II but you have
brought generations back to life the
prophet sallallaahu Slim's miracle is
that his book is with us to this day
track to thicken and rainy Matta
mastectomy hemolymph illumined by the
abbe de Quito Allah was from the sea I
have left two things with you as long as
you adhere to them cling to them hold to
them you will never go straight The Book
of Allah and
sooner and the sooner is in reality an
explanation of the book of Allah it is
an explanation of the book of Allah the
prophet saww license life is a tough
sear a commentary on the Book of Allah
so beautifully articulated by Aisha when
she was asked how was the character of
before the prophets Eliza me she said
Kenneth Oppel Quran his character was
the Quran were in the katana horican
oven you are on a vast character a vast
ethos the Quran can be really summed up
in one statement that even Jews a says
in his table Sarah says here he says
that it is the call of creation the
invitation of the creation to the
worship of al Haq the truth which is
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala now this
invitation is exactly that it is is an
invitation Dawa in the Islamic tradition
is an invitation we invite people we
have never historically have never
outside of the arabian peninsula have
never forced anyone to become muslim
this is historically documented nowhere
has a Muslim held a sword over
somebody's head outside of the arabian
peninsula and say become a muslim or you
die this is simply falsification of
history other religions have been
notoriously known for doing that the
muslims have never done that and the
reason that they have
then that is because the power-on is an
invitation it's a gala
the Muslims know what that one means it
means literally to invite a druid a
sevillio bigger better hikmah one more
that that has a call invite to the way
of your Lord in the best way with wisdom
and in the best exhaustion the best
exhortation this is the message that
Islam has gone out and spread to people
so if we look at the Quran as a
invitation it is a Dawa we can see there
is a beautiful hadith that articulates
this and gives a different nuance to
this idea the Quran is the medulla of
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala in the creation
in this earth
dooba in the Arabic language means a
place it theirs to rewire two
transmissions one is Madiba and one is
Madiba the medulla is a banquet in which
a king sets forth and invites those
worthy of the invitation to his banquet
and they must have the proper and
requisite Edel in order to enter into
the the tent of the king and this the
Quran is the banquet of Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala in his earth the other area which
is also sound calls it Madiba
if you look at the word matter but it is
what they call ISM I can in the Arabic
language it's the place where one
acquires Adele and EDA is that which
makes us human the prophet sallallaahu
sanam said the best of what a parent
gives to his child or her child is a dub
hassle is good at up this is the best
and highest
thing that a human being can give to his
child is good Adam and the prophets
Eliza and in a hadith that is has some
weakness some people called moon car but
it's by the consensus of the Ummah the
the meaning is sound at debonair rugby
Roxanna DB My Lord has given me a dub
and how excellent he made my adapt the
word Arab in Arabic means courtesy and
it's a deep courtesy it's a spiritual
courtesy and this is what the Quran in
it is a place where we learn the
requisite courtesies in order to be
fully human and those courtesies are
beautifully demo kated by our scholars
in the two sections of sip which are a
bad ads when more amal at the courtesies
between the slave and his lord which is
called badet or the acts of worship and
the courtesies between the slave and
creation which are called more amulet or
the human transactions allah subhanho wa
taala has given guidance in both of
these when we look in the the idea of a
Veda a better has two aspects the first
is al-qaeda and the second is a calm
there are peda can be broken off again
into two branches one of the sicknesses
of the age is an obsession with al-qaeda
which in using Western terminology which
would go into the category of what they
call kerygma or rules of which you learn
the updater is not complicated it's
something that can be learned very fast
the update of America Howie is a
beautiful al Qaeda of which the OMA has
agreed upon it can be learned very
quickly but the RP that must be seen as
three essential aspects and all what we
say we say Allah is one we say Allah has
no likeness we say Allah has not give
birth does not give birth these are
aspects of the RK that which we
articulate and then there
Javad a belief in the heart that
al-qaeda must penetrate the heart it
cannot simply remain at the level of
ratiocination at the level of the
intellect it has to transcend the
intellect and enter into the heart and
directly impact the heart and this is
what manifests human behavior at the
level that a Muslim is demanded to show
and this is where the Rp that then
permeates every cell of the body and the
human beings behavior shows that he is a
Muslim that he is a Muslim lonna madona
welcome America we have our actions and
you have our actions it is actions that
deed that distinguish human beings and
nothing else it is the actions which
distinguish human beings based on their
understanding because actions emanate
from understandings and not vice versa
and this is very clearly understood in
modern social sciences and I would
recommend studying the concept of
cognitive dissonance which is a
beautiful a beautiful insight which the
Quran gave us centuries before I haven't
found really any insights in my own
personal studies of modern Sciences
except that I found already either
explicitly articulated in the Quran and
the Sunnah or implicitly understood by
the scholars of Islam who came later if
you look then at what the Quran is the
Quran is is formulated on this this idea
of al-qaeda the other aspect of the
Quran which is from from the account is
how then do we get human beings how does
how does the human being get from a
stage where he is bereft and without
guidance to a stage where not only does
he understand but he is acting according
to the guidance of Allah so Panna with
Donna and this is done in
and with two very important concepts and
you can see the quran beautifully
following this pattern constantly the
first is called Talib and the second is
called Turkey in Turkey what this means
is that Allah calls us to the Book of
Allah and gives us the sound reasons for
following the Deen of Allah Subhan Allah
Tala and the benefits of following the
Deen of Allah and what will happen with
us if we follow the need of Allah the
next aspect is called Tar Heel which is
out of ah
to inspire awe Bravo the prophets are
listening in the hadith beautiful dua
that he made when he went to sleep alone
as them to an FCE take forward after
what he baked
well Chava hurry like another patent wah
but an awake I have surrendered myself
to you I have faced my home have placed
my back in your security and safety
grandpa tell what a habit an awake out
of desire for you and an out of all of
you and these are the do these are the
two sandals that the human being must
have in his life he has to have the
symbol of Raja and he has to have the
sandal of health and so he moves forward
or she moves forward in her life with
the turkey and the toheeb and this is
the balance even Masood said that the
movement is the one who the turkey
vanatter Hebe history they become equal
with him abu hamid al-ghazali of the
Llano preferred the Raja because he said
Raja engendered love and fear engendered
despair if we then look at the aspects
of the Quran there are seven identified
by even josée what are the law and who
in his test he'll the first one is there
are seven knowledge that the Quran
encompasses the first one is illumiroom
via which is the knowledge of lordship
who is
Lord who is Allah subhanAllah to Anna
who is Allah subhana WA Ta'ala Allah
tells us and declares it in the Quran
know that there is no god but allah
subhana wa ta'ala that there are no now
part of the miracle of the Quran and in
the central aspect of it is the Arabic
language the Arabic language is unique
in terms of certainly European languages
it has a unique aspect and that is that
there is no copulative verb to be in
other words when we say in English there
is no god but Allah we use the verb is
which in Arabic does not exist when we
say there is no god but Allah we say la
ilaha illa Allah there is no god but
Allah but we do not use a copy of verb
to be what this enables us to do in
language is to transcend being in other
words there is no conceptual limitations
of allah subhana wa ta'ala when we speak
about allah subhanho wa taala in the
arabic language which exists in the
english language and that is why it is
impossible to say la ilaha mola in any
other language than the Arabic language
the Quran is an Arabic revelation before
it is anything it is revealed in until
now or on an outer billion line the
Kentucky moon the lalala here is in
order that you are it's not a help like
taraji there's different types of line
that here it is it is in order that you
talking on that you become people of
intellect the Arabic language somebody
asked me why should
learn Arabic I said to increase your IQ
to increase your intellect with the
Arabic language by its nature and all
the Arabs that speak Arabic don't fall
into that because they don't speak
Quranic Arabic which is that is the
language that empowers and will
literally give the human being a much
deeper and broader understanding your
your actual understanding of existence
increases with your increase in the
knowledge of Arabic language why because
it is a true language it is a true
language in other words the language is
not simply a symbolic language in which
people have agreed on certain phrases to
use like in the English language we use
the word cat in Arabic to describe cat
or self to describe self if you look at
the actual evolution of the language
there it's these are arbitrary
distinctions in the Arabic language
there is no arbitrariness there we
believe that the Arabic language is part
of Revelation it is a Tulpa via language
that was revealed it is not a language
of which human beings agreed upon and
this is why as you begin to move into
the Arabic language and the meanings of
the Arabic words you will see
conventional understandings of words
that exist when an Arab says nufs he
understands self but if you begin to
actually go into the language itself it
will articulate for you the reality of
nufs you will understand what enough
says if you make it and I'm even though
the bus Cities won the battle I I like
the crew fee school of the grammarians
you have the bus cities and the crew
fees and they used to if they ever got
together they throw sandals at each
other and and in the good old days all
right now we throw bombs at each other
in those days they just used to throw
sandals when they disagree but the crew
fans believe that words the source words
were roots of the verb and the noun
came after and the bus friends believe
that the noun was actually the source
because Allah says that he taught Adam
the SMAN
physical affair
if you look in Arabic if we look to the
verb itself the Arabic word for nuts has
as to possibly more but two words in the
first form there's six what they call
Bab six forms in the in the Arabic first
form or what they call a fool a fever
the two are not ISA empezó
which is on the bab castro patent and
the nephew say enforcer which is bomb
abandon the the neffe scientist who
means to be miserly the Nephilim who so
means to be precious already Allah is
indicating two types of self the
prophets Eliza ham said in in a
beautiful hadith about one of the
monarch Athene when he was asked who's
your savior and they said sayyiduna
so-and-so and it Lannister killer who
except we consider him miserly the
Prophet said well who naked on a diamond
and Bajal is there a disease more sick
than miser leanness because the kaffir
is a miser in reality because he will
not give thanks to Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala out of thanks is easy to give you
know it's like this London taxi cab
driver that I got and he was complaining
about all these Muslims that had come to
London and I won't say from which
countries but they come during the
summer and they take over a place called
Edgware Road and he was going on her and
he would told me the thing that really
bothered him was they never say thank
you right and and I said well it does
exist in their language which means that
it's just they're bad mannered people
just like you have bad men are people in
any culture any language and I I wanted
to tell what comes around goes around I
mean they stole everything in the the
English right stole the whole world and
they never said thank you to anybody for
all the stuff that they took from it
right the colonialists didn't go and
tell that the Afghan 'yes thank you for
letting us steal your country right but
that's another story the but the the
idea of the Bohemian as one aspect of
humanity the other aspect is
preciousness in a feast the nufs itself
it's
primary nature is precious that is why
whoever kills enough it's as if he
killed all of humankind
this is the phonic worldview the nafs is
precious now if you go into the second
form you have naphtha which means to
help other people to alleviate somebody
suffering which is the cream the
generous the preciousness will do this
but then if you move to another type of
transitive verb it is NASA which means
to literally buy and compete you NASA
civil and this is a sickness that comes
from miser Lina's not wanting other
people to have generosity to have the
blessings that you have and this is why
the Prophet said well attend FSU and
don't buy with one another and if you
must make Tanaka's poor feed addict
affiliate NFS and Mota nephew soon if
people must compete with one another
then let them compete with one another
for akhira but not for this world and
what is very interesting that the
dominant philosophy now is what they
call competitive capitalism which is
literally destroying people as the
prophets Allison and said it would
destroy people when they tenaha sue ha
when they begin to buy over the dunya
but the Velichko home come out a
headache at home and it destroys them
like it destroyed the people before them
so this is again a disease of the self
so from this semantic field that comes
out of the Arabic language you can see
the richness of the word nafs which in
its conventional meaning simply means
self but once you begin to open it up
and explore it you get this
extraordinary
it's where symbol meets reality it is
this is the power the symbolic power of
the Arabic language is that it is
literally meeting reality and haqiqa in
arabic comes from house it comes from
allah word is a lot his name is al haq
and haq Peppa is a derivative from the
word al Haq now if you look in english
the word for reality which is reality
comes from a word
yes which means thing so already in the
language it's indicating what they
believe reality to be which is things
material things this is the substance of
their reality this is not the substance
of our reality we believe that the earth
and everything on it is contingently
real and that it will vanish like
everything else
kudamon are a half an everything is in a
state of annihilation
kullu shay'in had equally leveraged her
everything will be destroyed this
existence is not permanently real it is
only contingently real based on the
ionia of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala that he
allows it to exist this is all the
worldview of the Quran that Allah is
giving us el morado via knowing lordship
and we must again the whole point of
this was that you had to go into the
Arabic language la ilaha illa ma we do
not think of Allah as the supreme being
in a hierarchy of being this is this is
something that already even the
Christian philosophers are recognizing
the the invalidity of this point we do
not see Allah as the supreme being in a
hierarchy of being let's say committee
shape Allah Subhan Allah Tala in a
extraordinary articulation by Abu Bakr
al any one of the great intellects of
this Ummah when they said lay some
apostle in Bahasa he what I'm on FASTA
Don Ho he is neither connected to his
creation nor separated from his creation
leisa committee Sheikh Allah is not the
supreme being with all these inferior
beings la ilaha ill allah and this is
the depth of the Muslim understanding
the Muslims will have the deepest and
most profound understanding based on
their knowledge of the Quran and on
their knowledge of the Arabic language
the next is an amenable WA which is
knowledge of the prophets themselves the
Quran gives us knowledge of what is
Nagoya
we identify that there is no god but
Allah that Allah is actually giving us a
message then who is the messenger the
messengers are clearly identified as men
that come from the the purest of human
beings and they articulate the truth for
creation in different times and places
the the next one is Alma ad where are we
going for an attachable where then are
you going this is the great Quranic
question that every single individual
must come to terms with if people don't
want to think about where they came from
which most people don't and people like
Stephen Jay Gould aren't really thinking
about where they came from because these
people all they look at is how they
never look at why you see evolution
looks at how all this happened never
looks at why why has this come about
whether we believe in evolution or not
is irrelevant in terms of the question
itself why did this stuff come about
what where did it come from who brought
it into existence and so knowledge of
Alma ad that we are going to meet Allah
Subhan Allah Tala that we will be in the
presence of allah subhanho wa taala in a
way that only allah subhana wa ta'ala
knows and we will be asked and taken to
account for this is the end minimum at
the next emphasis of the quran is calm
once you accept your Lord you accept
that there's messengers you accept that
there's a final reckoning how then do
you live in the earth how do you live
with human beings how do you live and
worship Allah and this is the realm of
ham in the Quran there are only 500
verses in the Quran that deal with
account either explicitly or implicitly
it's not a great deal out of the six
thousand two hundred and thirty six I
believe verses of the Quran I don't know
where they get sick sick sick sick I see
either in books quit people whoever's
writing that quit writing that that
scares the Christians they put there's
six hundred six thousand six hundred and
sixty-six verses in the Quran I don't
know who I think a Christian wrote a
book first of all and then Muslims just
been reading that book and getting the
information cuz that's not how many I is
at the AMA but it scares them because
it's the
of the Antichrist in their eschatology
so after understanding the acam and
applying them in our lives
Allah gives us a Gentile human turkey
which is right and worried in the Quran
what we are promised if we follow the
Book of Allah suit pan over to Anna and
we follow the Sunnah of the messenger
when I compute a suti - watch one hasan
at Leman Kanazawa what your mail after
what a Corral Baha kathira do you have
in the messenger the best example for
those who are yearning for the next life
who desire a Las pleasure and desire to
meet Allah in the next life and do much
remembrance of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
and so the the wide is there and the ye
which is again the term here there are a
lot of promises if we deviate from the
Quran what will happen to us and we are
witnessing that everywhere this is one
of the beauties of the Quran is it
empowers the human being and allows us
to know why we are where we are and how
we can get out of the situation we're in
if you look all over the Muslim world
what why I have two deep deliberation
about these things I have come to the
conclusion that all of this is in
reality a Rhema from Allah Subhan Allah
Tala and nothing else this is a Rama
from Allah - this only yareta adorama TV
- yaja the punishment of my ummah was
placed in the dunya and this is a
ruffler from allah in order that we
might return to allah subhan allah to
Anna
Allah has frightening and devastating
ways of bringing his people back to the
Deen of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
we are warned about this in the Quran so
we should see these things on SantaCon
who shay-shay
and wa huwa hydrant perhaps you detest a
thing but in it is much good for you and
Allah knows Allah knows well the Hanuman
to let Adam on you do not know we do not
understand existence fully and then the
last aspect out of these seven is the
idea of chaos which is the Quran
contains stories of those who went
before us now the stories of
those who went before us are there to
teach us that we are part of an unbroken
chain of struggle the Deen by its nature
is more jihad ah it is struggle we are
part of an unbroken chain of struggle
that will continue until the end of time
it is the struggle of truth and
falsehood they they fight one another
and this is the nature and that we that
allows the panel Italia will give
victory to those who are patient amongst
us and this is why in alumni harbor Dean
what we see from those who went before
us was the deep patience that they had
the deep deep patience that they had in
taking this message out in suffering for
it what met ependymal one honeymoon car
was better on a matter Sabich command to
good forbid evil and be patient about
what afflicts you from doing that to
also been happy what tool also the
suffer they enjoy right and they
enjoying patience by the nature of in
joining right you will suffer
afflictions these are the seven that
even jews al elke lv identifies in the
quran now what I would like to do is
just talk a little bit about the how
then all of us agree that the Quran is
the way out I don't think I've heard
this so many times what is the way out
and I've said it myself the Quran how is
it then do we get from understanding
this at the rational level in the
intellect to literally experiencing it
and living it in our lives I believe
that the Quran itself gives us the
methodology for doing that the first
thing I want to say is that I although
there's a lot of work been done on the
scientific miracles of the Quran Abdul
Majid and Danny has done extraordinary
work and and really people many people
have been influenced and impacted by it
I personally do not believe that the the
I think the scientific miracles of the
Quran are insignificant in relation to
the purpose of the Quran because I do
not believe that the purpose of the
Quran is to be a book of science there
are miracles of science no
in the front in embryology extraordinary
things and in geography and geology and
other sciences they are there and it's
good work for people to identify those
things because it's part of what they
call a jazz an enemy or the
incapacitating nature of the science in
the Quran but the primary a jazz of the
Quran is linguistic and what I would
like to do is look at a statement made
by a man Jeremy Campbell who wrote a
book about information theory he says in
here evidently nature can no longer be
seen as matter and energy alone which is
the 19th century view of reality matter
and energy alone nor can all her secrets
be unlocked with the keys of chemistry
and physics which is what human beings
have been attempting to do to understand
reality at the biochemical level at the
atomic level - this is materialism at
its sickest brilliantly successful as
these two branches of science have been
in our century a third component is
needed for any explanation of the world
that claims to be complete the powerful
theories of chemistry and physics must
be added a late arrival a theory of
information nature must be interpreted
as matter energy and information nature
must be interpreted as matter energy and
information that is the Quranic
worldview the Quranic worldview tells us
that what we see and witness outside of
ourselves are signs from Allah subhana
wa ta'ala and what we see and witness
inside of ourselves are signs from allah
subhanho wa taala
the witnessing itself is not simply a
witnessing with the eye which is the
physical but it's a witnessing with the
heart itself which as a super physical a
metaphysical witnessing articulated by
our scholars when they say a Shahada
totem sadhana and
by moshe Heatherton basurin or bossy
rotten that are witnessing that allah
there is no god but he is a articulation
that manifests out of a knowledge gained
by witnessing mu Shahada basurin with
our own eyes or bossy rotten and with
our hearts and this is why the human
being according to the founder I mean
the Quran itself but the founder of
information theory Claude Shannon who's
the founder of this theory of
information says the human being is the
ideal decoder this is the function of
the human being is literally to decode
and the quran itself is the it is this
the code it is the the translation for
the human being it is the manual by
which the human being can break the code
of existence not from a scientific
aspect and I don't doubt that there are
things in there that that do with that
but from what how existence works in
terms of Sunnah of Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala how existence works this to me is
the greatest miracle of the Quran that
if we learn and deeply deliberate the
Quran a variety tebron al-quran America
lovenox adoha don't they deeply
deliberate and reflect on the Quran or
are there organs of cognition their
hearts covered with locks unable to
access the Book of Allah a variety
Debruyne al-quran what Oh Kahneman in
the lady laughs now as you do fiesta and
kathira if it was from other than Allah
they would have found much differences
in it like the fifty thousand errors
that they found in other religious books
they would have found much differences
in it but there are not differences in
the Book of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
because the Book of Allah is from Allah
Subhan Allah Tala this can only be
grasped in a
deep and sincere way with yet being
uncertainty by deep reflection on the
Book of Allah and this is the job of
Allah about the people can sustaining
innermost core that break away the shell
of superficial thought that transcend
the shell of superficial thought and
enter in to the meanings that Allah has
immersed the human being in both in his
experience of the world and in the
greatest and the divine articulation of
who the creator of the world is what the
world is and what our place and all the
various types of people and creation
that exist in the in the in existence
itself and this is an act of discovery
to enter into this is an act of
discovery which in itself is to enter
into the experience of ecstasy the word
in Arabic to find or discover is the
same root word that we use for existence
itself who dude is existence what it
means to find but it also means to be
ecstatic because discovery is a state of
ecstasy when they ask table Hanif out of
the Aloha and who Bhima at the rock tell
you how did you gain knowledge he said
well hyung he was shook up by hand and
sugar and the meaning of that is that he
said who know Mazda 2 element with hamon
hammer to lava Shekar to La Paz a Denis
every time I increased in my knowledge
and understanding I thanked Allah and I
gave him helmed praise and he increased
me and my knowledge and understanding
and you thank Allah by blessings things
that make you felicitous things that
give you sad this is why we thank Allah
the Quran is a book of sahaja it is for
the meaning Wynonna's alumina for animal
of she fountain rock metal element
meaning we have revealed from this Quran
what is a healing and a mercy for the
meaning when I use either body minute
Hazara it will only increase those
transgressing in laws why because
they're gaining by transgression and the
Quran stops transgression Unser a hawk
embodiment norm of lumen give victory to
your brother the oppressor and the
oppressed ke phenom sort of Ahana
ilan him how do we give victory to our
brother the oppressor by stopping him
from his oppressing and this is what the
Quran does it will only increase the
bonding in loss because it stops him
from his oppression and this is what the
Muslims who adhered to the book of allah
subhana wa ta'ala have done the way the
methodology in in deriving benefit from
the quran is in the quran itself the
first thing that the quran when it
announced 'as itself it that it is away
from Allah Subhan Allah Tala and then it
tells us that these are signs now a sign
in linguistic theory is something that
must be decoded you have to decode a
sign in order to arrive at a knowledge
of what that sign is indicating and and
the sign is indicating what it's a it's
a signifier of something beyond it and
this is the world is both a sign of the
existence and unity of allah subhanho wa
taala
but the quran itself is a sign of an
explanation of the existence of Allah
Subhan Allah Tala and of the creator and
so the first thing is to recognize that
the Quran is a book literally of ayat
now to in order to decode that those
signs we must learn the language of the
Quran the language of the Quran is
Arabic the language of the Quran is
Arabic Imam is a theory in his rosada of
the one who said well yes Ivana coonley
Muslim in and yet the element and
arabiya T Maya Bravo who do its
obligatory on every Muslim that he
learns from the Arabic language what his
capacity enables him to do and this was
the position of the early community and
I'm not I'm not an Arab here like giving
some kind of note I disallowing that I
learned myself and I'm still learning
because it's a vast language but the
point is that Muslim and and really to
me the English language is is it's a
language as a human language it's a sign
of Allah Allah says in your tongues and
in your colors our signs it's a sign of
a lot but it's for the Muslims to me it
is a sign of our he
and our subjugation that we speak that
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