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Juz 27: The Qur'an Heals You | Sh. Yaser Birjas
The end of Ramadan is a time to redouble your efforts. Pray more, fast more—give more.
You recite the Qur’an, but do you truly reflect on it? You make dhikr, but is your heart really present? What happens when remembrance becomes routine and the message feels distant?
Join Sh. Yaser Birjas with hosts Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro as they dive into juz 27 of the Qur’an, exploring how deep reflection leads to glorifying Allah, how conscious dhikr revives the soul, and why the Qur’an is the cure you’ve been searching for.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.The Qur\'an is not meant to deprive you, it\'s not meant to cause you anxiety, it\'s meant to heal you, it\'s meant to cure you. Glorify Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala through the reflection and allow that reflection to serve as a motivation and means for you to glorify his name. Is to make sure that you revive your heart with conscious dhikr. It doesn\'t matter how much dhikr you make. How much conscious dhikr are you making? As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh everyone. Welcome back to Qur\'an 30 for 30. Before we get started, alhamdulillah rabbil \'alameen, tonight is the 27th night. May Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala bless it and accept it from each and every single one of us. Allahumma ameen. We\'ve been on a long journey together with Qur\'an 30 for 30, with the other side, with all of the other Ramadan content that\'s been coming out. And of course prior to that, alhamdulillah, you\'ve seen the work of Yaqeen over the last eight years and insha\'Allah you see the trajectory that we\'re only growing bi-idhnillahi ta\'ala. This is the night typically that we have the most donations to Yaqeen. And so I want to encourage you, even if you\'ve given before tonight, please go ahead and donate bi-idhnillahi ta\'ala tonight. Support the work insha\'Allah ta\'ala of Yaqeen and other important organizations bi-idhnillah. It\'s a blessed night and hopefully sadaqah towards something that I hope has changed your life as well insha\'Allah ta\'ala, will be a means of acceptance for you and propelling you as well. So I want to encourage you, please click that link tonight bi-idhnillahi ta\'ala and donate whatever you can on this blessed night. May Allah accept it from us all. And we have with us the one, the only, Shaykh Abdullah, Shaykh Yaser Birjas. Shaykh how you doing? Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah rabbil \'alameen, Allahumma laka alhamd. Shaykh Yaser, alhamdulillah, we\'re very happy to have you. We want to help you Shaykh. I\'m a fitness coach, Shaykh Abdullah is a marriage counselor, you know, we want to help you.
When you were a kid Shaykh, did you have a problem with like someone taking your toys and you took your siblings toys instead? Did you used to take people\'s rooms? I just want to know where this habit of taking people\'s things came from. Always take my stuff, like was it a childhood thing? I can help you, the fitness. Shaykh Abdullah can do counseling, like what happened? Tell us about your childhood. I think if you had a trauma of this being done to you, don\'t project that on other people. So if somebody took your parking spot, you know, before, don\'t come to me and then start claiming it. My brother used to park the Lego into. I\'m sure your brother would have done that. I think that\'s why he became a lawyer. Maybe so. Good one at that, mashallah. I was trying to figure out why he kept taking my stuff. And then I was blessed with you, alhamdulillah, as another brother to take my stuff. And I don\'t know what to do, Shaykh, but it is what it is. Inshallah, we\'ll see. Shaykh, on a serious note, 27th night, what\'s your quickest advice to people? Like if you gave someone a 30 second advice about how to treat the 27th night, what do you tell them? We\'re coming to the finish line. And usually this is not the time for people to start relaxing because now they can see the finish line and they\'re excited. That\'s when people, they relax and they drop their guards down and they might lose the last moment. We\'ve seen that in many videos, subhanallah, these runners, when they run the whole race and then they relax right before they cross the finish line and someone has zoomed through and take that position from them. Can you imagine the regret of that moment? So no regrets in those last few nights, inshallah. So make sure to be the first at the finish line. Jazakallah khair. Beautiful advice. The premature celebration, subhanallah, we see it over and over again. Oh, yeah. Protect us from that. I think that\'s especially true after like 29th night. And I always think to myself, like, what if, what if like Laylatul Qadr is the last night, you know, and people just. And then usually, especially after the 27th night, which is this night, people, they say
khalas. Yeah. Alhamdulillah. Now it\'s preparing for the Eid. Yeah. Allahumma astaghfirullah. So, Alhamdulillah, the topic we have is actually one that we\'re all going to be talking about the Quran tonight and talking about the Quran in a very special way. The verse that I chose and the lesson that I have is the Quran isn\'t as hard as you think it is. The Quran isn\'t as hard as you think it is. In what way? In some ways, it could be contradictory to the lesson that you\'re going to be sharing, but it\'s not. Ramadan seems daunting when you look at it before, especially with the long days. And now, Alhamdulillah, it\'s getting shorter, right? But we remember Ramadan in the summers. But perhaps the Quran task that you set for yourself, the things that you don\'t know that you\'re capable of, they seem daunting. But there is something that Allah enables you to do. And so the verse that I chose, wa laqad yassarna al-qur\'ana lidh-dhikri fa hal min muddakir Allah Subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, and we have certainly made the Quran easy to remember. So is there anyone who will be mindful? And SubhanAllah, it\'s really interesting because in the very next surah, Allah Subhanahu wa ta\'ala mentions, law anzalna hadhal qur\'ana \'ala jabalin la ra\'aytahu khashi\'an mutasaddi\'an min khashyati Allah. Like Allah talks about the Quran flattening mountains in this juz. But he also says that it\'s easy, easy to remember. But it was hard when it was revealed. It\'s powerful. It has within it the pedigree, the potency, the depth, the strength. SubhanAllah, what is greater than kalamullah, the word of Allah Subhanahu wa ta\'ala. But still, Allah \'Azza wa Jal made it easy to remember, made it easy to absorb, made it a source of healing. It\'s not a burden on you. It\'s actually something that heals you, SubhanAllah. So this verse, because of where it\'s placed in particular, in the 27th juz, you know, where you start to get to Allah Subhanahu wa ta\'ala talking about the beauty of the Quran
and praising the Quran and talking about how great it is and its potential to transform you. And we\'re going to be talking about this in the night time. Surah Al-Hadid, like one of the most transformative verses in the Quran. The Quran is not meant to deprive you. It\'s not meant to cause you anxiety. It\'s meant to heal you. It\'s meant to cure you. I remember, Shaykh Haqq, so I\'ll give the story. When Shawn King became Muslim, I remember when Shawn, we were sitting with him and he was like, how am I going to start to learn Arabic? And he pulled out a napkin and started writing down, said, read this letter, read this letter, read this letter. And like, okay, you got this. It\'s not that daunting, right? I remember when he became Muslim, and I know a lot of people, when they first become Muslim, they\'re just like, how am I going to get this? How am I going to do this? And it\'s like, no, you can approach this. Shaykh Abdullah, you got that experience. Maybe you could tell us about how the Quran was daunting to you when you first became Muslim, but like, hey, you got this. And like, subhanAllah, people become huffadh, like memorize the whole Quran. Imagine you telling yourself before you became Muslim, you\'re going to memorize the whole Quran. Now you\'re going to be able to read it. You\'re actually going to memorize the whole thing. You can learn its recitation. You can understand it. You can apply it. You can be healed by it. It\'s transformative. It\'s not impossible. It\'s not impossible. Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala did not make this some convoluted thing that you have to parse through, but at the same time, it\'s always enriching. So it\'s just, I think the praise of the Quran in this regard, that it\'s not as hard as you think it is. You can learn it, you can read it, you can apply it, and you can understand it, but it\'s heavy at the same time. It doesn\'t diminish the Quran, but in fact, it praises the one who revealed the Quran by saying al-Hameed subhanahu wa ta\'ala, also the one who made it so heavy, made it so easy at the same time for us to be able to comprehend it and to encompass it in our lives. Shaykh, subhanAllah, I just think about this, it comes to my mind. Why would Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala use the word, fa hal min muddakir, it\'s like a reproach statement. Like he\'s saying, where are you?
It\'s there and it\'s ready. So where are those people who are looking to memorize the Quran, learn the Quran, study the Quran, where are you going? That means Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is bringing our attention to the fact that we are going with comfort. Like in our time these days, people have stopped memorizing the Quran or even making an effort to memorize the Quran. Why? Because convenience, alhamdulillah rabbil \'alameen, made it easy to have access to the Quran. You have it in your phone, you have it, you know, immediately you can put it in your ears with your, if you have a Bluetooth and so on, it\'s very convenient to have access to the Quran. It\'s not like before. Back in the days, you need to memorize the Quran because you have no other way to have it because people couldn\'t read and write even from books. But now because we can read from books, we can have digital copies, we can have it in your pocket. All that convenience right now made people very comfortable with it. So they\'re not putting enough effort anymore to memorize the Quran. And Allah says, what happened? The Quran is still easy. Why aren\'t you putting the effort to memorize the Quran? So I hope it\'s not just about people turning away from the Quran completely. It\'s also those who are the people of the Quran are turning away from the Quran because they think, alhamdulillah, I have easy access to it right now. So I don\'t have to put that effort in it. Shaykh, I want to segue to you, but I want to give like a, I want to set you up to talk about something in this regard. So Allah\'s mercy. Also in this juz, he taught the Quran. And I meant to say the next juz, Allah mentions, it\'s like it could flatten mountains. But when you think of like the easiest surah or a surah that people immediately fall in love with, it flows. It\'s the mercy of Allah. When you were becoming Muslim, what were you looking at the Quran like? Like this Arabic text? What is this like? There\'s a story behind it. It\'s interesting because there was a masjid I used to go to with one of my close mentors,
actually probably my first mentor, my first and second mentor, Naeem, brother Salvatore in Houston. And there was a masjid called Masjid al-A\'la in the Southwest Houston area. And I used to walk to the masjid with Naeem and we\'d go to the masjid and the imam was from Kerala and he recited and it was just so beautiful. And I remember in the prayer, I was like, man, whatever that is, I want that. That\'s what I want. So after the prayer, we\'re sitting down, Naeem, I\'m sitting down trying to just do some dhikr, trying to remember Allah, trying to, I was actually reading Fatiha and I hear them making the phonetical sounds of Tajweed and you know, ah, ah. So I look, it\'s two grown men doing phonetics to one another. I\'m like, okay, what is that? I walked back there and it\'s, you know, it\'s Naeem and the Shaykh that led us in Salah and he\'s pointing to the word and then he\'s no, he\'s correcting him. I\'m like, a grown man\'s correcting another grown man. And then he slides the book over to me and then he says, read. He says, read. And at that moment, I was literally like, because he said, read. I was like, I don\'t understand what this is. And he just said, read. And then he said, say it. He closed it. He opened it back up. He said, look, what I read over there, you could read better than me. You can memorize this book of Allah. So he made it so easy for me. Like he gave, he encouraged me to do it. But as they were doing it in the beginning, I was like, what is this? What language is this? Why, why, what\'s the significance of it? Which brings me to my second mentor, Brother Sauber. He always used to say, we say that we\'re Muslims, but we haven\'t read the Quran cover to cover. We haven\'t read the Quran. We don\'t know how to recite the Quran. We\'re Muslim and we don\'t even know the word of Allah. If Allah is telling us something, don\'t we want to know it? And that was enough for me. Like in the beginning, when I saw those letters, I said, even though that may seem difficult, I know Allah can make it easy if I just be persistent with it. And Alhamdulillah, I mean, that\'s the message that I give to my kids. It\'s a message that I give to any new Muslim. It\'s another language, but how profound would it be
if your non-Muslim relatives and parents saw you reciting a language that you don\'t understand. And even better than that, you understand it and are able to articulate it. So that\'s amazing, you know, SubhanAllah. That\'s- You are teaching it, man. Alhamdulillah. Someone told you before you became Muslim, one day you\'re gonna be on a series called Quran 30 for 30. Yeah. Memorized and teaching and helping people understand it. But you know, one of the greatest things is Shaykh, and this is a message to all of those that can understand the Quran and those converts and those that come into Islam, those that are born Muslim. And there\'s nothing like riding in the car with your mom and she hears the beautiful singing of your holy book, which she would say, I love the sound of that singing. What is that? And you\'re able to translate and then get down through, just translate the message right there on the spot and then just tell her what it means. I, that is beautiful because that singing to them is a great introduction for them. So you can just give the message that\'s, it\'s pure. You know, so SubhanAllah. I ask Allah SubhanAllah to give all that to us, you know what I\'m saying? To have that virtue, you know, and speaking of that virtue, you know, Allah SubhanAllah is always reminding us. And that\'s the Quran. Is the dhikr, is the dhikr, is the dhikr, is the dhikr, are there going to be those that remember, you know, that will remind themselves, you know, Allah is asking you, where are you just to wake you up? And Allah wakes us up in different ways. And in the Quran, sometimes he will mention his creation and he will mention forms of creation for you to ponder over. And even though it is musakharan lak, it is there, it is subjugated for you. At the same token, it has the potential to harm you. So when Allah SubhanAllah is talking about dhikr in particular, what I want to talk about is where it\'s important for us to glorify Allah SubhanAllah and glorification can come through the reflection. Allah always wants you to ponder, to think, to reflect. So when you reflect, you look at what am I doing with what I\'m thinking about?
So when I\'m thinking about the fire, I\'m thinking about the fire of this life, but then Allah SubhanAllah, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam reminds us about the fire of the next life. When it was hot outside, we say, I seek refuge in Allah from the scorching heat of the fire. And that\'s from the wisdom of Allah SubhanAllah. So when Allah talks about in the chapter of Waqi\'ah, he goes through down the line of his creation and then he speaks about the naar, the hellfire, or the fire itself. Then Allah SubhanAllah concludes and he says, We\'ve made it a reminder and a provision for those that are needy or the needy. So glorify then the name of your great Lord, or it could be glorify with the name of your Lord. And what\'s so beautiful here is this is what they call the veil, or this is the ending of it. This is the conclusion. After I\'ve told you all of this, many times we as human beings sometimes, fortunately and unfortunately, is that we say, okay, what\'s the result of that? What do you, what do you want from this? What\'s this message? What does it demand from me? Now or in general? Well, sabbih bismi rabbika al-\'azim. Glorify with or glorify the name of your Lord. You\'re looking at all of these forms of creation. And that\'s why it\'s important, especially when we go on these vacations, these vacations with our families or wherever, or we see the Kaaba. It\'s important whenever you see something magnificent or anything that you encounter or don\'t anticipate or anticipate and it\'s greater than what you may have anticipated, use the name of Allah at that moment. Glorify his name, glorify him and know that he is greater than that because he is the creator of it. And that\'s what\'s so beautiful about learning the names and attributes of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. You know, when the companions, when they would even mention, when we would elevate going up a mountain, we subahna, we nazalna kabarna. And they would always glorify Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala and mention his beautiful name
based on what they encountered with their senses. So even internally, what you\'re feeling, you say astaghfirullah. You know, if you think about something that you\'ve done, particularly in this 27th night, right? You think about what you have done and this is the night and the time and the month for you to ponder over those beautiful names, think about things that have happened in your life and remember and ponder and call on a name that\'s sufficient with that or that has some connection with it. And this is what I always tell myself and others, when you\'re in the prayer, when anything that you encounter in the prayer, when we\'re praying, sometimes we lose focus. Sometimes you may think about something, what do I have to do after the salah? Or what am I going to do? What am I going to break my fast with? Or I broke my fast with something I shouldn\'t have done it with. Or you think about something outside of the prayer. Whatever you\'re thinking about, think of a name of Allah that\'s connected to that event, whatever it is, and that will bring you back. Astaghfirullah. Alhamdulillah, I have children. Alhamdulillah, I\'m healthy. Alhamdulillah, I made it through COVID. Alhamdulillah, subhanAllah, that event was so great, subhanAllah. What I just saw, I didn\'t even anticipate that that would happen to me. Using that as opportunities to remember the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. And some scholars mention, and when you say, sabbih bismi rabbika al-\'azim, that you glorify him, which means tanzih, is separating him from any of his creation by mentioning and saying verbally, subhanAllah al-\'azim. As the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, ij\'aluha fi ruku\'ikum, that when this verse was revealed, some scholars mentioned that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, that say this in your prayer being subhanAllah al-\'azim, that you glorify him. When we see in surah al-a\'la, sabbih bismi rabbika al-a\'la, that could be, you glorify him with your actions. You glorify him in what you do. And that is ultimately tawhid of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. By practicing the sharia, this deen of Islam, everything that we do in the sharia is a means of dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. So that\'s the message, really,
that you glorify Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala through the reflection, and allow that reflection to serve as a motivation and means for you to glorify his name. But there will be times where that glorification can just become lip service. And that\'s where the challenge can present itself. So may Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala make us of those that remember his name and ponder over the name every single time that we mention it. And when shaitan comes to us, that we use that as a means to fight him, to come back to him, subhanAllah. JazakAllah khair, Shaykh, subhanAllah, ameen. What you mentioned is about the whole concept of tasbih, we say subhanAllah. It\'s actually, it\'s tanzih, which means freeing Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala from any imperfection, distancing him from any imperfection. So in the context of the ayah that you quoted, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala speaks about the clouds and the rain and the creation of man and this and that, including, of course, the fire. So all of these things can be looked at being imperfect on their own. But in the scheme of things, they\'re all perfect. And obviously, that perfection has to become from the most perfect. And therefore, when we say subhanAllah, in our mind, we put that tawheed, that we say the one who created all of this, he is all perfect. We look at all of these things together, he creates that beautiful picture of this universe, of this world. We say subhanAllah, there is no way the maker of all of this can be imperfect. And that\'s why we say subhanAllah. But that challenge can come at times. It does. Even with our prayer, when we come, we say allahu akbar, we keep reciting over and over again. Sometimes you can just have the ghafla. It\'s cathartic. Which brings me to the ayah I would like to share with you guys over here right now and with everybody is from Surah Al-Hadid. Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, alam ya\'ni allatheena aamanu an takhsha\'a qulubuhum li dhikri Allah wa ma nazala minal haqq wa laa yakunu kallatheena utul kitaba min qablihim fa taala \'alayhimul amadu fa qasat qulubuhum wa kathirun minhum fasiqun In which Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says in translation, hasn\'t the time come for those who say we believe? Allah is speaking right now to the believers. Alam ya\'ni allatheena aamanu
So the talk is not the conversation, not with the non-believers. No, those who believe. An takhsha\'a qulubuhum li dhikri Allah That their heart should humble themselves to the remembrance of Allah. Wa ma nazala minal haqq And what was revealed to them from the truth. And they should not be like those who were before them from the people of the book who were given the scriptures. A long time passed over them and their hearts hardened. Completely. And Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala now in this ayah is warning the believers that they shouldn\'t get used to the dhikr. So my message here is really is about never, never get too comfortable with your dhikr routine. Never get too comfortable with your dhikr routine. Because here Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala in this ayah he\'s not talking to the non-believers who don\'t do dhikr. He\'s talking to those who do dhikr. Just like in the other ayah, qal fa waylun lil-musallin Woe to those who pray. Subhanahu wa ta\'ala and here is also again he is approaching and this is actually is called mu\'ataba. And in the hadith al-Bukhari Ibn Mas\'ud (رضي الله عنه) wa rada he says that that\'s one of the interpretation about the nuzul of the ayah. When the ayah was revealed early in Mecca according to one interpretation. He said that it wasn\'t more than four years between we became Muslims and Allah revealed this ayah to us. Like even the early Muslims when you read the history of early Muslims obviously and what they had to go through the challenges and the sacrifice. I mean their belief is so solid. They went through a lot of things too and they still remain believers and there was nothing really for them to gain from the world from this world because they strongly believe in the akhira. And now Allah subhan revealing this ayah to them according to Ibn Mas\'ud in this actually hadith he says that Allah send this mu\'ataba basically. Mu\'ataba is admonishment. Admonishment it\'s more like reproach but in a what you call it in a gentle way. You only do mu\'ataba with someone that you love. Someone you care for you care about. You don\'t do mu\'ataba with someone you don\'t like
and you hate actually no. But someone you care for you do mu\'ataba. So that like an endearment word when you say come on I mean shouldn\'t you be remember by now? Don\'t you make sure you need to make sure that your heart is soft right now to the truth. So this ayah is talking to us today never ever get too comfortable with your dhikr routine. Many people alhamdulillah they do the Quran wird regularly. They do the sabah al-masa regularly. They do the tahajjud prayer regularly. But then they come and they complain they say I don\'t feel it in my heart. Because it became routine. The message here is to make sure that you revive your heart with conscious dhikr. It doesn\'t matter how much dhikr you make. How much conscious dhikr are you making? The dhikr that you make you\'re gonna get the reward for it no doubt about it. Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala guarantee the reward for you. But how much of that dhikr is really reviving your heart? If the dhikr become like you said include your conversation when you said becomes a lip service right? So yeah we do dhikr after salah and I see that as an imam when you finish your salah and you look at the people as they make their tasbih you can tell no one is paying attention to what they\'re saying. Their eyes are just kind of staring in the front and you can tell that their minds are somewhere else and they wanna go back to work and so on. So if you interrupt someone to tell them what are you saying right now on which part of your tasbih they probably wouldn\'t pay attention to it. So here we are making the dhikr but is it conscious dhikr or not? So Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is reminding us that you know what your hearts are not there and I want you to be conscious of that. And he says subhanahu wa ta\'ala don\'t be like those who were before you. They got the scripture as well. They studied the scripture. Ta\'ala alayhimul amit. It will become too long for them and that\'s what we do. We do our dhikr routine for too long. Faqasat qulubun. The heart become hardened because it\'s no longer affected by that dhikr. Wa kathirum minhum fasiqun. And many of them unfortunately they finally become disobedient which means you will find good people
who do their salah, their ibadah, their dhikr but unfortunately they\'re not abstaining from the haram and the wrongdoing. So that dhikr is not really affecting their heart so some of them they fall into the wrongdoing. Is there hope for these people? Absolutely. Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala in the following ayah he says i\'lamu anna Allah yuhyi al-ardha ba\'da mawtiha Know that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala he revives the earth after it\'s dead which means if your heart is dead, it\'s okay. If you think that your heart is not where it\'s supposed to be right now Allah can revive it for you. Qad bayyanna lakumul ayati la\'allakum ta\'qilun We made it clear. We made the signs clear to you so that you might understand. So my message here is to remember again never get too comfortable with your dhikr routine. Make sure to keep it conscious inshallah so your heart is always alive and it\'s always active and always connected to dhikr of ibadah of Allah. So that ties to what you said about the Quran that is there. But now because we\'re too comfortable we\'re not benefiting from it very much as we should really. Even last time I had a discussion with people who wants to do taraweeh at home holding the mushaf. I said look you can do that but please don\'t do it. Read from what you\'ve memorized because if you always gonna read from the mushaf you will never feel compelled to memorize more and you will never feel compelled to memorize longer surahs. So make sure to do your part inshallah. Tabaraka wa ta\'ala. That\'s amazing Shaykh. The next is surah al-jumu\'ah kamathal al-himari yahmilu asfara Allah talks about donkeys with books stacked on their back. You\'re not absorbing. It\'s also amazing about that ayah. There are ayahs that you find in history, Islamic history that non-Muslims heard and they became Muslim. That ayah in surah al-hadid is known as the ayah that brought back the tawwab and it brought back the repenters from the Muslims. Abdullah ibn Mubarak rahimahullah changed because of that ayah. He went from being someone completely lost to becoming one of the greatest scholars in history.
Hudayla ibn Ayyad rahimahullah. A highway robber who heard the ayah and became one of the greatest scholars in Islamic history. Malik ibn Dinar rahimahullah ta\'ala. Goes from being an alcoholic to being an imam in the masjid of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. One of the greatest scholars. All through that ayah they heard that ayah. It\'s not like it would be the first time they heard it, but the first time they really heard it. Right? This is just like the seeds in the ground. You know, you look at the earth, it\'s dead. Like many people, they look at the mountains in Mecca, they\'re dead. But subhanAllah, after the rain, like the heavy rain in that past season right now, everybody just sharing the pictures of Mecca, a completely different view. All green. These mountains are dead, but they come back to life. Same thing, the hearts might feel dead. For the believer, right? Because they got used to it. Becomes routine, it\'s no longer conscious dhikr. But subhanAllah, in the perfect moment and the perfect dose of that dhikr, it can revive the heart completely and goes back again green and lush. I love how, subhanAllah, at the very end, it\'s kind of like how you speak to your children even. Allah encourages it. He mentions that, he gives them mu\'atiba, the endearment. But look, Allah, yuhyi al-ardha ba\'da mawtiha, something mushahid, that you can see, you can encounter, you can touch. That same way Allah subhanAllah does to your heart. And it\'s the way Allah is encouraging you. Don\'t give up. You see the seasons, how it just changes over and over again. That same way with your heart. It\'s a huge form of encouragement. And that\'s why I love how Allah uses agriculture numerous times to talk about the death and the life of the heart, and that it\'s still possible. So like you mentioned, Shaykh, Allah\'s giving you that mu\'atiba. What are you doing in these nights of Ramadan? What are you doing? There\'s still an opportunity to have your heart livened. Even in the last few nights of Ramadan, inshallah, we\'re coming to the finish line. There\'s not a time to drop your guards down right now.
Keep doing and make it better than what you did so far. If we talk about seasons right now, there\'s no time in which the rain is pouring on the last part of Ramadan. May Allah subhanAllah give life to our hearts and may Allah subhanAllah allow us to be amongst those who observe it. Allahumma ameen. JazakAllah khair. It\'s a pleasure. We love having you on. We love having you. JazakAllah khair. May Allah subhanAllah reward you. May Allah accept all of our ibadat. Ameen. BarakAllah fikum everyone. Please once again, go ahead and donate inshallah ta\'ala and keep us in your du\'a tonight. May Allah subhanAllah bless you all. Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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