Search for yourself in the Quran #1

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. My dear brothers, sisters, respected elders, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala jalla jalaluhu sent his kalam, his word, his speech with one purpose only, purpose. Al naqsadul nuzoorul kalamullah, huwa wahid faqad. That we should reflect on it, tadabbur fiha, and change our lives and live according to it. The reading of the Quran, the writing of the Quran, the tafsir of the Quran, everything to do with the Quran, to learn to read it well and properly according to the usul of tajweed, to read, to learn the different qara'at, beautiful calligraphy, writing of the Quran, printing of the Quran. You name it, all of those things are important, but they are not the maqsad of the revelation of the qalaq. There is only one maqsad, there is only one reason, there is only one thing that the Quran came for, and that is to be lived by. When we think about these two things, we don't look at them as two opposite. We don't say it is not important to learn to read, but it is important to live. That's a stupid statement. To be able to live by the Quran, you must also know how to read it properly, you must understand it, and so on and so on. But none of that is the purpose of the revelation. The reason I'm saying that is because this is what has happened to us, the Muslims, after the time of the blessed generations, the generation of the Sahaba, the Tabain and the Tabatabain, people became experts and they focused on one aspect of the Quran, and illa mashallah, they left the issue of living by it. They put that aside. Obviously, this is a generalization, it doesn't apply to everybody, but we have people who are ufaz, we have people who are qurra, we have people who make tafsir, we have people who do all kinds of things with the Quran, but if you look at their lives, and may Allah make you and me separate from that, you do not find a reflection of the Quran in the life of the person. One of the great Tabain, Anaf Bil Qais, Tahaatul Ali, he read the ayah, لَقَتَنْزَلْنَا إِلَيْكُمْ كِتَابًا فِيهِ ذِكْرُكُمْ أَفَلَى تَعْفِلُونَ In Surah Al-Anbiya, Allah swt said, indeed, we have sent down for you, mankind, a book in which you are mentioned. There is your zikr, there is your reminder. Will you not understand? I'm talking about people who understood the purpose of the Quran. So Anaf Bin Qais, the son of Anur Ahmad, read this thing, he said, Allah said, I'm mentioned in the Quran, so where am I? Where is my name? Where have I been mentioned? Allah said, فِيهِ ذِكْرُكُمْ, you are mentioned in there. Where am I? Now we know of course that Allah swt did not mention anyone by name, except the Anbiya and among the Ba'ad al-Anbiya, Zayd bin Harithah is the only one who is mentioned by name. So we know that your name, my name is not in the Quran. But we know that Allah swt mentioned people and their qualities. And Allah swt mentioned what would happen to people with those qualities. So Allah swt mentioned people with certain qualities, and then he said people with these qualities, this will be their ending, this is where they will end up. And therefore we need to look for ourselves in these quality definitions and say, where do I fit in? If I fit in with the people whose qualities are good and whose ending is good, then Alhamdulillah. But if I fit in with people whose qualities are not good and whose ending is not good, then it is time to change. So when Anaf Bin Qais, Rahmatullah Ali searched in the Quran, he found that with some people Allah swt said, He said they are the people, Allah said these are people who sleep but little at night. And the rest of the time they are praying, they are making sujood, they are making salah, rukuh, between a state of fear of Allah swt, punishment and hope in Allah swt's forgiveness. And in the hours before dawn, they are found asking and seeking Allah swt's forgiveness. And in their property, Allah said there was the haq,