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Juz' 30 with Sh. Yasir Fahmy | Qur'an 30 for 30 Season 2
The final and most oft-recited section of the blessed Qur'an is full of lessons that were taken to heart by the Prophet ﷺ and that apply more than ever to all of us. As we finish out Ramadan, the many short surahs in juz 30 remind us to absorb the deepest lessons of revelation and to internalize the reality that Allah's presence and promise are true and will always be with us. Sh. Yasir Fahmy joins Sh. Abdullah Oduro and Dr. Omar Suleiman for one last session of Qur'anic reflection.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Everyone, welcome back to Qur'an 30 for 30. Sheikh Abdullah, how are you doing? I'm good, how are you? I guess the voice is there, but Sheikh Yasser, How are you, Sheikh Yasser? Alhamdulillah, I'm doing well. Sheikh Abdullah is somewhere. I'm right here. I hear him. You hear him, huh? Someone did steal my light bulb in the back. Someone saw the light bulb and then the frame, Muhammad Rasulullah frame. Someone stole my light bulb. I can hear him. I don't know what Sheikh Abdullah is doing. I don't know. You did the angel series, so I don't know what, you know, That's the jinn series. In all of the glory, I need to, then, we decided, you know, because this is the last one, the last one, we need to do the last one. We need to do the last one. We need to do the last one. We need to do the last one. We need to do the last one. The Eid edition, the final edition, Sheikh Abdullah, I mean, in person, in the flesh, you need to scoot in more. Alright. Can you all see him? We're backstage, Alhamdulillah, just want to make that disclaimer so that no one worries about us violating anything. We wanted to, obviously, be together for the last one, and, you know, wish everyone, inshaAllah, a blessed Eid, and say JazakumAllah Khayran together for everyone that's been tuning in. We formed the Little Quran 30 for 30 community, Alhamdulillah. MashaAllah. That's been here all the time, and we got none other than Khitam Homsk, the best of the best, the cream of the crop, Sheikh Yassir Fahmi, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. How are you, Sheikh Yassir? Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, it's so good to be here, and sorry I haven't been here more often, but I'm so blessed to be at least in the last one, Alhamdulillah. May Allah bless you. I hope all of you are doing well, inshaAllah, Alhamdulillah. We know you've been very busy, Alhamdulillah. May Allah reward you for all of your efforts. Are you going to pop in? We've got a third space here.
Yeah, I was just thinking, I was like, how do I get in? I want to do one of those moves where I go like this, and then suddenly I'm in the middle. May Allah bring us together soon, Ya Rabb. I like that picture. How's it going, man? I'm good, Alhamdulillah, no complaints. I'm here, I'm here, alive and well. I'm in the flesh. JazakumAllah Khayran. Everyone's really enjoyed, Alhamdulillah, the insights. Honestly, we know it's a time, SubhanAllah, honestly, we start off with, obviously, our brothers and sisters in Afsar and Palestine. We know it's a time of great stress and distress in the Ummah, and we have to keep that connection, bi'dnanahi ta'ala, to our brothers and sisters. And we celebrate the rahmah of Allah, SubhanAllah ta'ala, that comes with Ramadan, and at the same time, we celebrate that Allah, SubhanAllah ta'ala, has given us a promise, and bi'dnanahi ta'ala, we hope to see that promise, inshaAllah. And we hope to see that promise, inshaAllah ta'ala, soon, in regards to our brothers and sisters in Al-Aqsa. And we will make a du'a for them, inshaAllah ta'ala, at the end of this session in particular. But, you know, studying the Quran has been bringing something into our lives, and Alhamdulillah, it's been such a joy, honestly, to sit with Sheikh Abdullah, to sit with the mashayikh, to sit with all of you, to see the consistent community that's formed around us, and we wanted to just send our appreciation to you all. So, jazakumullahu khairan. Jazakumullahu khair, Sheikh Abdullah. Jazakumullahu khair, Sheikh Yasser, for agreeing to be the final special guest, Alhamdulillah, that we have. And obviously, because things are a bit different, Sheikh Abdullah, you want to say anything before we get started? No, Alhamdulillah, I mean, it's been a pleasure to go through this Quran with all of you, mashaAllah, to go to the reflections with the mashayikh, mashaAllah, just seeing faces that I haven't seen in a while. And the best way to do it is remembering the book of Allah, SubhanAllah ta'ala, and the world, and hearing the beautiful compliments from you all, and reading them, and mashaAllah, just glad that we have a part in inspiring others to reignite the Quran in the hearts of the people.
So, we're going to do things a little different today, so you all will forgive us. This camera has never had two people on at the same time. So, you'll forgive us for being a little tight and snug, but the frame's going to be not as professional as usual. But, inshaAllah ta'ala, we'll have a discussion about the most frequently recited juz' in the Quran, which is juz' anna. And we're going to all just stay on screen together the whole time, inshaAllah, and just have a discussion. And we want to start actually with you, Shaykh Yasir, because your portion that you're covering is actually the first revelation, the first revelation, subhanAllah, even though it's in the last juz', the very first revelation to our beloved Prophet, salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. So, Shaykh, why don't you get us started with the na'hi ta'ala. InshaAllah, bismillah walhamdulillah, wa salatu wa salamu ala rasulillah wa ba'd. Alhamdulillah, you know, when we think about the Quran, and we think about, if you will, the story of the Quran and the narrative of the Quran, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala He takes us through so many valleys and so many ridges and so many plains, and we explore historical accounts and legal discourse and spiritual discourse and philosophical discourse and all sorts of, you know, discourses in the Quran that really animate how we think and feel and practice and behave and consider. And, you know, Surat al-Alaq, this surah that's nestled in the middle of the 30th juz', commonly known as Surat al-Iqra, it is a chapter that I think in the Muslim parlance it has a quality about it that is very intellectual. So people say, oh, we are the ummah of al-Iqra, that means that we are an intellectual ummah, that's an ummah of read, ummah of you know, critical thought and analysis. And insha'Allah, Ya Rabb, that is a quality. But I feel like something is lost on us when we take and treat Surat al-Iqra in that vein.
Because in it, really, is the sirr, is the secret that unlocks the truth and the reality of the Quran. What is the access point, what is the critical access point to process everything we've just studied over the past 30 days and really you know, have it gel with our spirits, have it something that is functional in our lives. And the secret is, I believe, in Surat al-Iqra. Because I challenge, and perhaps I would love to hear the masha'ikh's insights on this, that it's not an intellectual surah, it's a deeply spiritual surah. And what do I mean by that? Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala sent down Sayyiduna Jibreel in that early moment, in that initial moment in the cave of Hira, the example, the story, the incident that we are all intimately familiar with, so I won't repeat its details. But the Prophet ﷺ is grasped, and he's grabbed, and he's held, and he's constricted by Sayyiduna Jibreel. And the Prophet ﷺ had enjoyed being in the cave of Hira for all those years, reflecting and contemplating fit-tahannuth. And then Jibreel comes and he shocks the system of the Prophet ﷺ. And it was a very, if you will, in many ways distressing moment, or an unsettling reality that he had experienced. And the command that he is commanded with, which is iqra, read, the response by the Prophet ﷺ is ma anabi qarib I don't know how to read. Now this is not just a negation of the lettered word. The Prophet ﷺ was not presented with exact letters of the Arabic language presented to him and told to read. This was not like a test in a school. This was
a command, an injunction to proceed to read, to process and to look at the entirety of the Divine Reality. To read, as Imam al-Ghazali says, Kitabullahi al-mastoor wa kitabullahi al-manthoor The Book of Allah that is penned and the Book of Allah ﷻ that is seen. And so when the Prophet ﷺ is negating his capacity to read, it is not an intellectual negation, meaning that I don't have the requisite intellectual tools to be able to do this. No, this is a negation of the fullness of his capacity not just intellect but also body and more critically, spirit. That I don't know how to actually engage this reality. You know, I don't know how to proceed forth. I'm paralyzed in my moment. And so he is commanded again Iqra, I don't know ma ana bi qara he is negating himself, negating his capacity. And a third time he negates and then the Prophet is told and the revelation is sent, that then becomes the essence the spiritual and theological essence that then unlocks the doors and the gateways and opens up the true vestiges of reality. And that is when he is told Iqra, Bismi Rabbik, read in the name of your Lord. And the article Ba'a, the letter Ba'a in the Arabic language, according to Ibn Hisham has upwards of 17 meanings. And so the letter Ba'a al-Sirru, the secret is actually in the letter Ba'a. You know, so you just put Ba'a as like a title of a book
and the whole story is actually behind the letter Ba'a. Why? Because it is only through the conduit of Bismillah that you and I can ever function or process or even conceive of anything. Because that means Iqra bi'awnillah you read by the aid of Allah. Iqra bi sababillah read because of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Read by the aid of Allah. Read by the support of Allah. Read by the opening of Allah. And read in the name of Allah. And so in the conduit of al-Ba'iyyah, you want to call it that, the Prophet ﷺ is then able to now see. Iqra, Bismi Rabbik allathee khalaq. Khalaq al-insana min alaq. You know, now O Muhammad you read. You notice after he was told Iqra, Bismi Rabbik, there's no more negation. There's no more recognition that I am incapable. No, Billahi Subhanahu wa ta'ala, I am very capable. You know. And it is that essential prism that I believe all of us have to internalize. Because if we want to unlock the truth of the Qur'an, see it's not an intellectual project. There are, you know, one of the things that I do is I teach a class at Harvard. There are people there who have studied Islam for decades. Right? For decades. And they critically analyze and they assess and they study fiqh and law and philosophy and theology. All sorts of things. But they haven't read the Qur'an. You know, they may have read it. Walam yaqra'uha. You know. They've read it but they haven't read it. And for you and I who actually want to read the Qur'an, we want to understand the Qur'an. We want to revel in the glory of the Qur'an. And not only in the book of Allah
that is revealed to us, the sacred text, but we want to see the maqroo, which is the reality of the divine revelation in creation, which is we want to perceive and understand and internalize and process, then it categorically requires Bismi Rabbika Lathi Khalaq. In the name of your Lord, the One who created you. And that's why Prophet ﷺ says, Amrin dhiba la yubda'u bi-bismillah fa huwa aqta' Every matter of concern that does not begin with in the name of Allah. Don't forget now, the ba has many meanings to it. Anything that does not begin with that it is cut off. Cut off from what? From the barakah of Allah. From the aid of Allah. From the support of Allah. From the tawfiq of Allah. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one who teaches us. He shows us. He helps us to perceive. He opens up our eyes. He opens up our hearts. He gives us perspective. He gives us certainty. He gives us confidence. He gives us understanding. It's all a divine reality that has to then be facilitated for us. We can agonize with our minds all we want, but if there's no fatah if there's no bismillah it will always be just a function of my very simple logical capacity. And so I pray that as we're exiting Ramadan and we're exiting the Quran just this iteration of our going through the Quran that we take this spirit of the bismillah to govern how we read and to bring life to the Quran because, and I'll pass off the mic with this the surah, what's the name of the surah in the Quran? Al-Alaq. Al-Alaq is aqlaat. Lifeless. It's aqlaat. How do you bring life to aqlaat? Bismillah. We are all just aqlaat. We are this meaty entity
that's lifeless, soulless, has nothing in it. It is only billahi by the spirit of Allah, by the aid of Allah, in the name of Allah that we come to life. And so it's a powerful metaphor for if you want to engage these lettered words because you're reading letters, you're reading words, you're reading sentences if you want life to come into these words it's only dhan billahi subhanahu wa ta'ala. Nasa'Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala an yuhyi qulubana bil khair JazakAllah khair SubhanAllah that's a rich start and honestly a rich ending to the entire series of Quran 30 for 30 One of the things I always reflect on with people is that, you know, a lot of people don't know how to make dua anymore so they're kind of waiting for someone else to make dua so I can say ameen and when it comes to tadabur on the Quran, contemplating upon the Quran and its meanings you're not supposed to do tafsir as an average Muslim but to sit with it and to bismillah open it and open your heart to it and ponder upon it and read it very carefully and then reflect those meanings into your daily life and bring that meaning into your daily life. SubhanAllah there's life and you will, you will truly find the Quran giving you life on a consistent basis and so when we just sit together and do tadabur on it, we reflect upon it. Obviously we do the tafsir background of the ayat and then we reflect on it together. This is how we're given life through this revelation... Was he not dead and we gave him life. The life that comes through the Quran gives us light and the light in the heart allows us to receive the life of the Quran. So it's this constant synchrony that we have to find between the two. SubhanAllah I know Sheikh Abdallah you were going to talk about surah Duha. So the whole Juz Amma is tafsira, it's all sira, it truly is all sira and surah
Duha is also talking about and we know it's this long period where the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam does not receive revelation after this moment strikes him after some of these moments and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam does not get to dictate when Jibreel alayhi wa sallam comes to him. So it's not just like Bismillah now I can receive it so now we have a schedule with Jibreel alayhi wa sallam where you're going to come to me every day at this time and you're going to give me the next chapter. It is still... We don't come except by the command of your Lord. So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam now knows Jibreel alayhi wa sallam, he misses him and he wants him to come to him more frequently because he needs the next chapter to unveil for him so that he can take the next step in his own prophetic life and he does not... he doesn't speak or act from his own salallahu alayhi wa sallam... Surah Al-Duha, Allah reminds the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam as he reminds us as a human as a human creation you were a alaq, you're a clot and Allah gave you life and in the case of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam the revelation that gave life to the world through his example. Al-Duha is also then reminding the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam it reminds the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam of the favours of Allah upon him...... So truly we're always coming from nothingness to something Bismillah, by the permission and the grace of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so Shaykh can you share some of your reflections on Al-Duha for us inshallah ta'ala as well JazakAllah khair...... Mashallah you hit it on the nail on the head I mean subhanAllah it's really when I think of Duha I think of comfort, you know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala comforting all of us but you know when he speaks to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam it's a Risal and it's a message for all of us and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala starts off by swearing by his creation as we know Allah is the only one that has the authority to do so but he's showing you the importance
of it, it also shows the nobility of these created things and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says after Ardh bin Laden and Shaytan al-Ajeem Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim... by the daybreak as some scholars have mentioned there's different opinions of what Duha would mean either it's the daybreak when it starts or it is the whole day time or some even mention Salatul Duha, in any case we understand that Allah is swearing by something that he has created to show the importance of the matter and to show the greatness of that which he has created then he says...... and by the night when it grows still or when it covers... it covers the earth, I mean the night time is dark so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is swearing by two different time frames or two different events that take place then after that he comforts all of us, he comforts the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam where he says... your Lord has not forsaken you, he hasn't left you he hasn't left you and he hasn't shown any distress or he hasn't... some scholars with translation would say hate but it's more if he hasn't distressed you or shown any dislike towards you he hasn't left you, he is here and he will always be here, SubhanAllah so when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala swears by these forms of creation and shows and comforts him, look I am still here and I am going to give you this revelation, I am Al-Hafidh I am the preserver, I am the one Bismi, you know in my name all of these beautiful attributes will be showered upon you and those that take the characteristics that you exemplify within your life so then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when mentioning that he did not leave and he did not leave the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and that he will never show any hatred or distress towards him, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says... so to remind him that the next life is better than that which is in the beginning or that which is Al-Ula, in the past, so when understanding that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala swearing
by these time frames and showing and bringing the reality to him and reminding him to stay the course and reminding all of us subhanAllah to remember the blessings of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and to remember that Allah will never leave us as long as we do whatever we do Bismillah, as was mentioned before, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala continues on and he says... Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you and will provide for you to the degree that you will be pleased to show you that look I will always be here don't ever give up Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is always there but to remember as Shaykh Omar mentioned earlier when it comes to when the revelation will come it comes... it comes by when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants it and when he chooses for it to happen so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala continues on and he says...... now that he mentions you know he mentions that he will always be there and that you will be pleased with what is coming up next to comfort and console the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam it should be a wakfah for us it should be a stopping point for us to pause and say you know what all of these things that I'm facing in my life I should realize from what I take a step back and when I say Bismillah as Shaykh Yasir mentioned so eloquently and beautifully you know...... and your names and your beautiful attributes to be showered upon me based on the particular context so when you read Bismillah......protection from the Shaytan all of these beautiful names and attributes when we have that we recognize the promise of Allah is true and it will always be there and that's important for us to remember
especially in times of hardship when we hear with what is going on with our brothers and sisters and Masjid al-Aqsa and all around the world we have to take the step back and remember and have our trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because if we didn't have Allah......as the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said when they were digging the trench you know laulallah if we didn't have Allah......we wouldn't be guided we wouldn't give charity and we wouldn't even pray you know so remembering that it's ultimately with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then transitions and reminds you of the ni'm as-sabiqa he reminds you of the previous blessings......did were you not found or did we not find you did he not find you as an orphan and then he he he he he gave you a place of sleep a place of refuge for our what's interesting here is that Allah mentions for our well when he says and he did not shelter you he doesn't say shelter you in the Arabic language he says for our he didn't say for our work and what scholars mentioned here is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala it wasn't cost it wasn't specific to the......prophets of all Allah who I was selling them that sheltering is for all of creation and all of those that may find a particular situation to where there may be sadness in their life it's for you to remember what Allah has done remember that he has sheltered you and others in you as scholars say......so as he mentioned you know she he asked and I'm here one of my my my my she was teaching me Arabic he said the is them her for German also a chef a little out of the using of the for lack of better words prepositions you know in Arabic we call her for job this is the hardest science in the hardest discipline within the Arabic language when studying it because it has so many different meanings within them so when we see here a lot of analysis shelter you and sheltered with you...
...meaning that you brought shelter to the companions with the hijra you know you brought this shelter with them so then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he mentions after that......and he found you lost and then guided in the translations we understand guided you like in hadaka wahada beka he guided you and used you as a means of guidance to the people......hidayat al irshad showing the people the way not enabling them to go the way as we know Abu Talib in the galatah deem and I but you know he didn't even become Muslim so we see here subhanallah that the prophets are there to show the way it's up to that person to actually go the way so when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reminds him of his second blessing that he found him as a subhanallah someone that was lost and he guided him so you know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says.........so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying here that the iman of the tawheed of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in this shari'a that some would say is that which was not there with the prophets of Allah alayhi wa sallam but he was always the muwahid as shaykh yasser said......you know in in the cave he would always call to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone and even some of the companions such as some scholars mentioned Abu Dhar radi allahu anhu and others but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is......reminding him of that past and it's important for us when we see these three blessings the first of them being that he was lost and then the second.........and did he not find you in need and he made you self-sufficient.........that he made you self-sufficient and he made you be a means of the self-sufficiency for others meaning that they were those people that had Islam they had the blessings of Islam so Allah......reminding him of that second that second blessing and then he says...
......so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling him now the responsibility so as some scholars say he reminded him of the previous blessings to show him the blessings that are coming in the future so now that he reminded him of these blessings there's a responsibility just as you were a.........as you were like that in the past or you are that there are those that there are your team so do not be of those that are harsh with the orphan let's talk about what I'm a.........and also for the one that is asking do not try them or to be rude to them when they ask you know a lot of......mentions that blessing when he said......just as you were misguided or you were the one that was lost at that time when someone comes to ask you and as some scholars mentioned when they ask you about the......or ask you about Islam don't turn away from them don't turn them away so remember the previous blessings when it comes to people that may ask of you or may have the characteristics that you once had.........remember those previous blessings and do not allow those blessings to make you of those that are arrogant and then Allah.........so when Allah mentions......just as he made you someone that was in need and made you self-sufficient that self-sufficiency that self-sufficiency that has been given to you by Allah......speak about it to the people mention the blessings of Allah that Allah has given you but make sure when you mention it it is in praise of Allah...
...mention those times that you were the team or something that was your team like or you were someone that was lost as many times of those that convert to Islam or those that were Muslim and they had an epiphany......they remember those days but use that as a means don't leave the conversation with that stop and say you know what if it wasn't for Allah we would not be guided so using that as a means to praise Allah......to where hopefully what we do in the future is always inshallah......so mashallah that's a beautiful a beautiful chapter for us to remember that we should remember the blessings of Allah upon us and use that as a means to thank him and to tell others to thank him to remind others to thank him as well......I see you......I'm downloading now I mean I hear my mind went in like maybe 70 directions as he was speaking.........I'll give you a percentage of the directions yeah no I you know subhanallah.........you know when she had I was talking about my what that I could have become a color I felt that you know that's a very you know that I think that's a very powerful all the meanings are very powerful it's and I think that meaning is something that perhaps resonates with a lot of us you know the idea of because we feel......that we feel alone you know we feel that we are out there kind of you know not able to figure things out and we feel distressed whether it's the circumstances of our own home our own lives or just watching something like Palestine transpire we feel you know.........
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... SubhanAllah, we didn't plan it this way, but my reflection actually builds on the reflections that you all have. And I think before, SubhanAllah, before I even start, like, any time you measure the Prophet ﷺ against any trait, you find him to have the best of it. And sometimes we might not make those connections. So for example, khayrukum man ta'ala min al-Qur'an wa al-lamah. The greatest blessing a person can have from our perspective is to learn the Qur'an, right? And then to teach the Qur'an. And the Prophet ﷺ said, the best of you are those who learn the Qur'an and then teach it. There's no greater gift than guidance, and so giving guidance, right? And Allah gives guidance through you, of course, in that regard. But the Prophet ﷺ was taught the Qur'an by Shadid al-Quwah through Jibril ﷺ. And look how the Prophet ﷺ took that blessing and dedicated himself to giving it to the world. So, adam yajid kayateeman fa'awa wa wajadika dhwanaan fa hada. It's more material, for example, when you think, or easier to quantify when you think about the way he took care of the orphans, alayhi salatu wassalam. He really responded, you know, his whole life, even before Revelation, Rasulullah ﷺ loved the aytaam, he loved the orphans because he was an orphan. So it wasn't like he wasn't acting on that blessing. Him and Khadijah radiAllahu anha, the Prophet ﷺ and Khadijah radiAllahu anha were known for the way they were taking care of the orphans. I mean, look at Zayd radiAllahu anha, though he wasn't an orphan, even a lower position in society, an orphan and a slave. And the Prophet ﷺ, you know, he was given ghina through the house of the Prophet ﷺ, wealth and self-sufficiency. And beyond just kafala, beyond just taking him in, the Prophet ﷺ adopted him and loved him and taught him in that regard, subhanAllah. So the Prophet ﷺ was acting on these blessings.
He was a very faithful person, as you said, very, very truthfully that he didn't need to be humbled out of a sense of like an arrogant person being humbled, but to be open to the full capacity to receive Revelation. And so the one way that really shows is, wa wajabaka dhalan fahda, you were seeking and Allah guided you. So look how the Prophet ﷺ took this Quran and then tried to give it to the world through speech and through action, alayhi salatu wassalam. falaAAalaka baakhyu AAannafsaka AAala atharihim Like subhanAllah, to a point where you're going to hurt yourself or it's like you're so grieved, so deeply grieved about their destiny now, about them receiving the warning properly, receiving the glad tidings properly, receiving this revelation properly. So the way he channels that alayhi salatu wassalam so beautifully. And what I was going to reflect on subhanAllah is that the Quran, if you have not fully come to appreciate, and we can never come to really fully appreciate the blessing of how coherent the Quran is, because sometimes it just it hits you when you're reading it over and over and over again. Juz'a amma is not random. Like it's not like not just every surah connects to each other and it tells a story, but juz'a amma basically packs the entire 29 ajza' that come before it, the 29 chapters that come before it. And here is your simplified guide, right? Like everything comes back. Now that you've read all this, here's your reminder. So how does the Quran start? After al-Fatiha, alif laamim thalik al-kitabu la layba fee. This is the book in which there is no doubt. How does juz'a amma start? Amma yatas'alun AAan anaba'il AAadheem What are they asking about? They're asking about this very consequential great news that's coming to them, that's telling them about the reality of that which they see and the reality of that which they don't see yet. Allah ﷻ tasks them with that.
And basically this news dropped, the Quran comes, and it sends society into a scramble, right? Because now you have to respond to this news. Alladhina yu'minuna bilghayb, those who believe in the unseen. Wayuqeemuna as-salah, and they establish the prayer. And what do we find? Waylun lilmusallim, alladhina hum AAan salatihi yamsahum. Allah warns the people who pray in juz'a amma, those who are forgetful in their prayers. Alladhina yura'una wayamna'una anma'un. They show off with their prayers. And they're not just inhibited from receiving the full meaning of prayer, but they are inhibitors to others receiving the blessings that prayer is supposed to unlock within a person. So the connection of al-ghayb, the belief in the unseen, to now establishing the prayer. Wayuqeemuna as-salah, wa minma razaqnahum yunfiqoon. And they spend on this message. They invest. They give of their wealth, of themselves, of their families, of everything for the sake of Allah ﷻ. Read Surat al-Layl about Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, Allah ﷻ. The greatest response that you could have to revelation, right? He does not do anything. Wama yu'ni'a anhu maalu. When we talk about the person who tried to buy himself out of things, his money cannot avail him whatsoever, right? So the Abu Lahabs of the world, the Abu Jahas of the world, their money did them no good. Waynun li kullihum mazatin lumaza. Woe to those people who thought that they could get away with their wealth and their connections. With Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he does none of this. He spends everything he has for what? illa bitigha'a wajhi rabbihi al-'ala wa la sawfa yawda. Seeking the pleasure of his Lord the Most High and Allah will please him. So it's like you have the manifestation of Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu in Surat al-Layl. Alladhina yu'minuna bilghayb wa yuqeemuna as-salahu wa mimma razaqnahum yunfiqoon. Walladhina yu'minuna bima unzila ilayk. Those who believe in that which came before you. Inna hadha lafas suhufil ulaan.
Suhuf li Ibrahima wa Musa. Surat al-A'la. This is in the previous books, this same message has been embedded in the words of Abraham and Moses peace be upon them. It has come through the ways of the prophets and the scriptures that came before. The same message over and over again to believe in Allah and the last day and to exert yourself in that regard. And subhanAllah, what does Allah do in the beginning? He categorizes people, categorizes the believers, categorizes the disbelievers, categorizes the hypocrites. And what does Allah tell us that the disbelievers are going to do? The ones that insist on their disbelief. Sawa'un AAalayhim a-anzartuhum amnam tundurhum la yu'minun. You warn them or you don't warn them, they're still not going to believe. Who's the first example Allah gives us in Juz Amma? Go to Fir'aun. Idhha bi'ila Fir'auna innahu tagha. Faqul hal laka ila anta zakka? Wa hadiyaka ila rabbika fatakhsha? Just say to him, speak to him these good words and say, look, are you... interested in purifying yourself and being guided to your Lord? And so you'll have the all of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Fa araahu al-ayatul kubra. And he gave him all the signs, right? But what did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala say? Sawa'un AAalayhim a-anzartuhum amnam tundurhum la yu'minun. So you warn them or you don't warn them, they're not going to believe. So what does Fir'aun respond with? Fakadhaba wa asaa. Thamma adbara yasAAa fahashara fa naadaa fa qaala ana rabbukum al-aAAala. Like literally a madman. A madman. Allah gives us Fir'aun as a madman. And it's like, are you crazy? He immediately, instead of being purified, he loses it to the point that he says, I am your Lord, the Most High. Instead of al-aAAala, I am your Lord, the Most High. Like the opposite of that. SubhanAllah. So it's like, that's your example there. And then finally, like from a seerah perspective, the two most highlighted personalities, right? To a point that there are surahs that are very clearly about them.
Abasa and Tabat yadaa bi laaha been wataab. People, you know, that will take this reminder, expand themselves to it, and so Allah will expand them individually and expand the ummah through them. Expand the blessings and the victory of this ummah through them. Allah says to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, Wasbiru nafsaka ma'a al-ladheena yad'uuna rabbahum bilghadati wal'ashi yureeduna wajhaha. Early on and throughout the Quran, keep patient, O Messenger of Allah, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, with those people that call upon Allah day and night. They have listened to this revelation. They want this revelation. They want to grow with this revelation. To grow and to grow. To grow within and to grow outside of themselves. To grow and to grow. Right? The way that you were talking about surah al-duha. Keep patient with those people. It doesn't matter if they don't have status. Allah will give them status through this Quran. And what does Allah tell us, subhanAllah, abasa watawalla an ja'aahu al-a'amum wa ma yudreeka la'anahu yazaka. SubhanAllah, like the opposite of Fir'aun, the lowest person from the superficial standards in society, Abdullah ibn Umm Ktum radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. A person of low economic status, disability, looked down upon in every way. And he comes to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, while the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, is speaking to these elites who have shut their hearts to the revelation. And Allah says, wa ma yudreeka la'anahu yazaka. He was coming to you to be purified. Focus on him. Allah honored Abdullah ibn Umm Ktum radiAllahu ta'ala anhu in this juz, right? He puts him up on this high pedestal to the point that the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, would say, welcome to the one on whose behalf Allah admonished me. What an amazing person you are. The Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, elevates him because he was elevated through the Quran. And then what happens?
Abul Ahab, the one who stood up in the very beginning and cursed the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and said, may you perish. Allah humiliated the most honorable man in society from those superficial standards, put him down, sealed his fate, and sealed his name with disbelief and rebellion until the end of times. Remember, the revelation started with the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, or the revelation to the public, the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, standing on Safa, calling the people. Abul Ahab stood up, proud, arrogant, and challenged the Messenger, salallahu alayhi wa sallam. And no one was with the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, that day except for Ali radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. And subhanAllah, that's how the da'wah of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, started. The Quran ends one of the last surahs with, now what happens? Abul Ahab perishes. Abul Ahab remains in a state of regret and remorse, in a state of punishment, because of the way that he did not take this Quran seriously. And so we end with, obviously, fastaAAith billah. When you hear the Quran being recited, seek refuge in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from anything that will get in between, min al-jinnati wa an-nas. The human devils, the jinn devils, the whispers, the distractions, the wealth, the palaces, the superficial titles, seek refuge in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so the Quran ends with, right, istiAAal. It begins with it and it ends with seeking refuge in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to whom there is no escape from except to. There is no refuge from Allah except to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us amongst those that receive the Quran and that are given life through the Quran and that give life through the Quran and make us those people of Quran. Allahumma ameen.
So any reflections, thoughts, inshaAllah, then we'll say yes. InshaAllah. So Kiasi, you need to come here physically. Yeah, I'm trying. I'm trying to figure out how to do that right now. I was going to ask Sheikh Abdullah to give me some of his powers because he......powers that he used in the beginning of the session. You know, subhanAllah, I really hope and pray that all of us are internalizing. Sheikh Omar said a lot of very beautiful things right now in terms of taking us through kind of the types of people who engage the Book of Allah, who engage revelation, how we process, how we think of it. And the buttoning up of this story, if you will, is what he ended off with, which is the refuge. And really, it's so beautiful that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ends this entire very powerful narrative of the Quran with all of its machinations. And he ends off by telling us, always be in my refuge. Always come and seek me and find your comfort with me. Find your protection with me. And we spoke about the Basmala being this prism, this gateway into ma'rifah, into knowing, and the humility that we take in using and utilizing that prism. But then it's a journey that must be in the refuge, in the divine refuge. We can never really be alone in this world, and we can never be alone in the afterlife. We always need His refuge. We need His comfort. We need His protection, jalla fi'ulaa. Allahumma la takkilna ila anfusina tarfata'ayn aw aqalla min thalik O Allah, do not relinquish us to ourselves, even for the blink of an eye or less than that.
So as we're exiting this time in our journey through the 30 ajza' please make sure that what you take away is, number one, I really know nothing. I really understand very little. Perhaps my feelings that have been cultivated within me over the years, my ideas of morality, my ideas of justice, my ideas of virtue, my ideas of good and bad, right and wrong, perhaps these have all been just subjective, relative developments over just the time that I've spent going to school, going to work, whatever, living in society, consuming media. And now maybe I make a decision to say, okay, I'm going to completely humble myself in front of the Divine. I'm going to latch on to His reality, say, Bismillah, as a permission, say, Ya Rabbi, Bismika, I enter into this world of the Qur'an by Your name. By Your permission, by Your aid, because of You I'm surrendering to this reality. And then as you're going throughout the journey, I seek refuge, I seek Your comfort, I seek Your security. And when you envelop yourself outwardly with Divine refuge and inwardly with the Bismillah as a spirit that's driving you, I believe that we can soar through this dunya, bi-idhnillahi ta'ala, and we can not only make sense, because you see the Prophet ﷺ initially, he was just trying to make sense of things. Was he not? Was it not the case, Mawlana? Was he not just trying to make sense? He was going to Ghar Hirat to make sense, but what he exited the Ghar with was something far more profound than just having now the ability to understand.
Wajadaka dhalam means found you seeking, and so he gave you guidance, but he gave him much more than that. He gave him purpose, he gave him identity, he gave him now a mission, a driving force, and an unwavering commitment to the path of the Divine. And that's the difference between Hidayah and Rushd. Rushd is when you are, I liken it sometimes to people like this way, see it's one thing, Hidayah is to know that guidance exists, or to know that that's the pathway, or to have been on the path and off the path, etc. But to be Rashid, to be on the path of Rushd, is that you're on the path firmly grounded, your feet are not going anywhere, you're fully confident, you know exactly where you're going, it's unwavering, it's profound, they can throw anything at you, offer you every offering, threaten you with every threat. Wallahi if you put the sun in my right and the moon in my left, I'm not going to leave this. That's the reality of Rushd. And so perhaps the Prophet ﷺ, he entered in seeking Hidayah and he received Rushd, he received a profound reality, and that's what's in store for us. We come to Ramadan, I think with a very low bar of Mutatallibat, like give me health, give me a family, give me a wife. Alhamdulillah, Ya Rabb, Ya Rabb, Allahumma razukna jami'an. But there's something far greater for us. And Wallahi there's something far greater for us than just emotional well-being. Don't lower your bar so much. There's something far more profound than just understanding clarity. There is Rushd, there is a driving force, a purpose to live through and towards, and that's why the Prophet ﷺ was able to give, and to give not just to his generation, but to give to the entirety of creation, ila yawm al-deen. And that's Allah ﷻ that He makes us a truly Qur'anic people and a truly prophetic people
because the themes of Yaqeen are the prophetic orientation, right? And so it's a prophetic reality that is immersed in the Qur'anic spirit. May Allah bless us all with that, Ya Rabb al-Alamin. JazakAllah. No, mashaAllah, beautiful point to mention, alhamdulillah. MashaAllah, I'm speechless. JazakAllah khair, Shaykh. SubhanAllah, it's been a journey, and I think with everyone we just hope in the night that you will continue to stay connected to the Qur'an throughout. Last Ramadan we had, after Ramadan was over, we did Keeping Connected with the Qur'an for a month. We did some things there as well. And the reality is, subhanAllah, that it's very easy to kind of fall off now, right? But the way that you ensure is just like right after Eid, you get back to fasting six shawwal, you finish your Ramadan khatm, get back to your shawwal khatm, or your next khatm, whether it's going to take three months, two, three months, four months, whatever it is. But let me start, arifna ameen, dhariqal kitaabu la hayba fee, once again, and get back at it and revisit these lessons. SubhanAllah, this, I don't know, man, you just need to come here. I think next year, so yes, first of all, we have a commitment next year for Qur'an 30 for 30, inshaAllah. Okay, inshaAllah, bismillah. Season three, inshaAllah, if Allah gives us life. See, as I brought him here, if I give him a commit on camera, inshaAllah. Shaykh Yasir, we have a commitment from you that you're not going to leave us till Juz Amma to come join us? Yeah, no, inshaAllah, next year we'll do much earlier. But at this point, I mean, given the fact that it's Qur'an 30 for 30, so you need a minimum of 30 seasons. Because you have to have the 30th anniversary of the 30 for 30. You never know. It'll be our children.
My Khadija and your Khadija and all of them reflecting inshaAllah. You never know. Allah is generous. Allah is most generous. So yes, we'll be back inshaAllah next year if Allah gives us life and the ability to do so. But I honestly want to share with everyone, revisit these lessons frequently. So just like you're not going to do Qur'an only in Ramadan, revisit these lessons. Like this Juz, I'll probably go back and watch this one a few times, honestly, just to fully perceive what both of you shared, because it was really profound and impactful. So I hope this Juz Amma doesn't get lost. After the 27th night, everyone kind of takes it easy. By the way, all of you that are watching and have been part of this, share this inshaAllah, this particular reflection, and tell people to engage in the nighttime. Go back and engage the lessons from the various mashayikh that we've had, Alhamdulillah, Rabbul Ameen, Sheikh Abdullah. And keep connected inshaAllah. Keep connected and keep making du'a. And we hope in the nighttime that we will continue to take a few days off inshaAllah, let Sheikh Abdullah relax or eat. But no, we'll continue inshaAllah to do as much as we can inshaAllah, to keep connected with the Yaqeen community that's online. We really appreciate your support. We appreciate your du'as. We appreciate all the support that you've given, Alhamdulillah, Rabbul Ameen. We appreciate the comments that you've sent in. And we ask for your du'as for everyone on the team inshaAllah, Sheikh Yasser, his whole family, Sheikh Abdullah's whole family, my family, all the people behind the scenes. I had shared about Brother Fawzi who was actually producing the Meeting Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam series and his father passed away, subhanAllah, on the 27th of Ramadan. SubhanAllah, I mean that's really something.
May Allah have mercy on him. He's one member of this team. And there's a bunch of people that have been producing these different series and a bunch of people that have been producing curriculum and working on engineering and creative, make their a'at, please, for all their families. And of course, make their a'at for Al-Aqsa, for all your brothers and sisters, for our brothers and sisters that are striving and struggling all over the world. And inshaAllah, as we wish everyone to finish Ramadan strong, take advantage of these very last moments, and we wish you a blessed Eid, we also want to once again impress upon everyone, keep Al-Aqsa and the people of Al-Aqsa, these murabitun in your du'a. And inshaAllah with that, Sheikh Yasser, can I ask you to close us off with the night's a'at, our last session of Quran 30 to 34, a du'a for our brothers and sisters in Al-Aqsa, and for a du'a for all of us to also keep connected to the Quran after Ramadan. Yeah. Bismillah. Bismillah, let's everyone raise your hand because when you raise your hand, InnaAllaha yastahi an yaruddahuma sifran kha'ibatayn Allah is shy to allow our hands to descend without having put something in them, so we pray in our humble disposition with our hands raised as beggars to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah al-Wahid al-Ahad, al-Fard al-Samad, al-Ladhi lam yalid wa lam yulad wa lam yakunnahu kufwan ahad Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barik ala Sayyidina Muhammadin fil awwalin wa fil akhirin fil malail a'la ila yawm al-deen Ya Allah we come to you in these last remaining moments of Ramadan, we come to you in this sacred time, a time that you have destined and decreed as being sacred and beloved to you. Ya Allah we come to you as humble servants, asking you by your infinite wisdom and your boundless mercy,
and your beautiful grace to shower us, our families, our loved ones, and this ummah with your manifest and beautiful mercy. Ya Allah ya kareem, ya Rahman ya Raheem We ask you to envelop us in your mercy and your tranquility and your lutf. Ya Latif ul-Tufbina, you are the subtly graceful one, and we ask you Ya Allah to exact your lutf upon all of us. Ya Allah we come to you in this month and we have all sorts of difficulties and realities that we are struggling with in inwardly and outwardly. We have difficulties and issues that are weighing heavily upon our hearts and our minds and our souls, and heavily upon our communities and our societies, and we ask you Ya Allah, the one who brought relief to your prophets, we ask you to bring us relief, to bring us wellness, to bring us shifa, to bring us healing, and to grant us tawfiq, success. Ya Allah ya kareem, ya Rahman ya Raheem We ask you to make the Qur'an the spring of our hearts and the light of our chests. Ya Allah, make us a truly Qur'anic people, who live by the Qur'an and who die by the Qur'an, who are motivated by the Qur'an, who are inspired by the Qur'an, who contemplate the Qur'an, who memorize the Qur'an, who live by it and die by it and are resurrected with it. Ya Allah, allow it to be our anis in the afterlife. Allow the Qur'an to be our close companion in our graves. May the Qur'an be a shafia for us on the day of judgment. Ya Allah, ya kareem, we ask you to envelop us in the prophetic reality. Allow us to truly be a prophetic people who live in the way of the walking Qur'an, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Allow us to walk his walk and talk his talk and behave as he behaved and act as he acted and have his beautiful character, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Ya Allah, fortify our hearts and our minds and our spirits the way that you fortified his heart and his mind and his spirit, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Ya Allah, make Islam, Iman and Ihsan beautiful in all of our hearts and beautiful in all of our children's hearts and allow the guiding principles of the Qur'an and the Sunnah and the reality of the Qur'an and the Sunnah, the way of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to be what animates and informs and dictates every single thought, action and behavior in all of our lives, in our homes, in our hearts, in our institutions, our organizations, our masajid, our nations, our ummah and the entirety of the creation. Ya Allah, ya kareem, ya rahman, ya raheem. We ask you, Ya Allah, to bless our organizations, our institutions, to allow Yaqeen to truly be a prophetic organization and institution, one that truly seeks to serve your deen and attain your pleasure. Ya Allah, bless every single person who works in this space, every single person who's volunteered, every single person who's donated, every single person who's shared something or has advocated for something. Ya Allah, we ask you to elevate the rank of every single person who seeks to serve your deen, Ya Allah. And we ask you to use us for your deen and choose us for your deen. Guide us and guide through us and make us a source of guidance for others. And Ya Allah, we ask you to grant al-Masjid al-Aqsa sacredness and sanctity, one that is palpable in a way that everyone around it will tremble. Ya Allah, You are Al-Kabir Al-Muta'al, You are the Almighty One. And You know the haqiqa of what is transpiring, the reality of what's transpiring in that land, and the aggression and the oppression and the abuse and the evil that is transpiring on that land, the desecration of Your sacred. Ya Allah, Anta Rabbu Dhaka al-Bayt, Wal al-Bayti Rabbun Yahmi. You are the Lord of that house and the house has a Lord that will protect it.
We ask you to protect al-Masjid al-Aqsa and to protect our brothers and sisters in al-Masjid al-Aqsa and around al-Masjid al-Aqsa and allow the international community to see how evil what is transpiring there is and use us all, Ya Allah, of good hearts and good minds and good consciences. And Ya Allah, to serve Your Deen and to serve Your sacred sanctuaries. Ya Allah, use us, use us and do not replace us, use us and do not replace us. Protect our brothers and sisters across the world, east to west. Our Uighur brothers and sisters, our brothers and sisters in Kashmir, our brothers and sisters in India, our brothers and sisters in Yemen, our brothers and sisters in Iraq, our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan, our brothers and sisters in the Balkans, our brothers and sisters from east to west, the ones that we know and the ones that we do not. We ask you to protect them and to envelop them in Your sacred grace and mercy and lutf and to rid this world of tyranny and oppression and a vile, vile, evil abuse, Ya Allah, Ya Karim. Ya Rahman, Ya Rahim. We ask Ya Allah to grant us a Husn al-Khitam, a beautiful ending to this Ramadan and a Husn al-Khitam, a beautiful ending to our lives, Ya Allah, Ya Karim. And allow the happiness that the Prophet ﷺ spoke about to be the one that envelops us at the end of Ramadan and grant us, Ya Allah, the greatest of joy and the greatest of happiness and that is levdatun nazari ila wajhika al-karim, the day that when we all meet Ya Allah, we ask You to be, to allow that to be the greatest moment of our lives when we, the beatific vision when we see You, Ya Allah, Ya Karim, grant us that reality, Ya Allah, Ya Karim, Ya Rahman, Ya Rahim. Wa sallillahi ala sayyidina Muhammad wa ala akhir da'wana and alhamdulillahi rabbil alamin. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Allah ibarak fikam. I really appreciate that and I think that's the most beautiful way to end. Khadijah was trying to come in to get in on your du'a, subhanAllah. Sayyidina Khadijah is always present. She indeed is. So make du'a for her.
I apologize for any disruptions, but next year she might just take over the chair and start teaching. JazakAllah khair, Sheikh Abdullah. I really appreciate you coming in. This was the last minute idea, by the way. Sheikh Abdullah, why don't we actually get together for the last one. We appreciate everyone. Barak Allah fiqh. I don't want to spoil the end of that beautiful du'a. May Allah bless you Sheikh Yasir and bless all of you. May Allah allow you all to have a blessed Eid and we will see you all around inshaAllah. Keep us in your du'a. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. And we've structured these conviction circles over the period of a semester so that these modules actually take into consideration that student's schedule. So that you feel like there's something that you're working towards every time you start a module. And by the end of it you feel like you've gained some literacy in that topic. And at the same time you've identified the proper parameters that are given to us through the tradition as to how we should look at these issues. And then you also have some mature discussion. And the bonding that takes place through that mature discussion with other classmates and other students that probably have the exact same concerns and the exact same questions about our tradition. Our goal is not just to have a place for critical thinking. We also want to encourage self-reflection. This is not just some sort of intellectual playground. This is meant to be a camp for self-development
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