Name: Juz' 23 with Dr. Zara Khan
Uploaded: 2020-05-16T03:13:58.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro, joined by special guest Dr. Zara Khan, explore gems from the 23rd Juz’ of the Holy Quran.

<p>Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro, joined by special guest Dr. Zara Khan, explore gems from the 23rd Juz&apos; of the Holy Quran.</p>

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Qur'an 30 for 30

 As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.  Alhamdulillah, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa ala radwani ila ala al-alameen. Wa ala aqibatu ila al-muttaqeen. Allahumma salli wa sallim wa baraka al abduhu wa rasuluhu wa sallim wa ala alihi wa sallam.  Welcome back to Qur'an 30 for 30. And we want to welcome, alhamdulillah, our distinguished guest, Dr. Zahra Khan with us for the first time, alhamdulillah.  Who's a research coordinator, senior fellow at Yaqeen, has written wonderful things. And we pray, sister Zahra, that the baraka of the Northeast will stabilize our internet.  We've been having issues. So may Allah keep our technology well and firm tonight as well. But we're looking forward to hearing your insights.  And very grateful to be joined by you. And of course, alhamdulillah, as always, jazakallah khair for being with us tonight.  And inshallah ta'ala, I will just get right into this next section of the Qur'an. We're now in Juz 23. We pray that Allah azawajal accepted this night of prayer from us.  That Allah azawajal enable us to worship him with sincerity and gratitude in these moments inshallah ta'ala.  And I remind everyone that this is very likely or could, there could be a high possibility that this would be Laylatul Qadr.  Because some of the scholars, of course, pointed to beyond just the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam pointing to the odd nights.  But some of those that specifically say the 23rd, as in the narration of Ibn Abbas Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and others.  So please do worship as much as you can. And may Allah azawajal enable us all to do so this night and allow us to catch Laylatul Qadr wherever it is. Allahumma ameen.  This is one of my favorite ajza' of the Qur'an because it merges the most hopeful ayat or the most hopeful ayah, arja' ayah bil Qur'an.  The most hopeful ayah in the Qur'an is Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Asad is in this chapter.  And the surah that follows it is surah Ghafir, the forgiving, which is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's name, the forgiving.  And it is the section in surah Az-Zumar where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,  Qul yaa ibadiyya alladheena asrafoo alaa ansusihim la taqnatoo min rahmatillahi innallaha yakhfiroo aldhinooba jameeAAa innahu huwa alghafoorur raheem  Where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about the importance of us maintaining that sense of drawing close to him.  Now before we get to that, and surah Az-Zumar technically is divided into two, so you have surah Az-Zumar as it shows up within the first part of it which shows up in juz 23,  and then the second part of it which shows up in juz 24.  You think about the build up to that ayah, arja' ayah fee kitabillah, the most hopeful ayah in the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.  We get to that when we get to surah Ghafir. We come off of surah Yasin where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us this imagery of the universe,  kulloon fee falakin yasbahuun, everything in perfect order as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has commanded it to be.  And then surah Saad, and there are many mentions in surah Saad of the hellfire and of the punishment as well as the rewards as they come.  And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, if you turn to surah Saad from verse 51 to verse 58 and 59, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about the people that are being driven into the hellfire.  And as they're being driven into the hellfire, and the torment is there, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions that this is the torment that they were driven to in a group,  we have to realize that the next surah, Allah azzawajal tells us about the groups of believers and the groups of disbelievers.  And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is showing us in this section of surah Saad, those that did not pay attention to the consequences that they're warned about in surah Yasin.  Remember the messenger speaking to the people and warning them about surah Yasin, warning them about the punishment of the hereafter,  and inviting them to the jannat of the hereafter, and they kill that man, they ignore that man.  And here, if you pay attention to verse 61, what are they saying?  What are the people saying about those that drove them to the hellfire, those that called them to the hellfire?  SubhanAllah, they killed the man who called them to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.  And that man said, ya layta qawmi ya'lamoon, if only my people would know better.  If only they would know the benefits of belief in Allah azzawajal and the forgiveness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the jannat, the paradise and the gardens that await them.  And then, now you have that man who's been killed, who is obviously in the jannat and enjoying the rewards of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,  the promise of Allah when he had no one around him to prompt him towards belief.  And here in surah Saad, you have verse 60 and 61, the conversation, the argument between the leaders of disbelief and those that follow them in their disbelief.  And they're arguing in hellfire, and wh…

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