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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu wa barakatuhu. As-salamu alaykum wa barakatuhu wa barakatuhu. Wa ma ba’du. My brothers and sisters, today, 9 o’clock in the morning, we had 60 students and 10 teachers. From the Hildale Charter School of East Hampton. All Christians, some Jews, all white. I think maybe a couple of them were probably Spanish or Sontobalahan. And they came here, they sat here. I’m always amazed at the level of adab that there is in these people. They all sat, they insisted on sitting on the ground. All of them sat on the ground, including the teachers. We told the teachers, if you want to sit on the chairs, most welcome. They all sort of sat on the floor. Everyone had covered. And absolutely still, not moving, not fidgeting. These are all maybe 9 years up to about 15 or so. No? Both of us were here, everyone. Completely wrapped attention. So anyway, I spoke to them about Islam and so on. And then they said questions. So they asked various questions. They asked about the funerals. How is it done in Islam? They asked about, is there a sabbath, a day of rest? And so on, so on. I won’t tell you all the questions and all the answers. But one question which really hit me in the heart. One kid asked me, that kid must be maximum maybe 8 years old. He tells me, what gives you the greatest joy? A jeep. 8 year old child. He says, what gives you the greatest joy? So I said, reading and reciting the Kalam of Allah. This gives me the greatest joy. Because then I feel closest to Allah. That’s the next question he asked me. He said, what makes you feel closest to God? I said, this makes me feel closest to Allah, reading and reciting the Kalam of Allah. We should really reflect. And these are all completely, they have no exposure to Islam. Whatever they are hearing about Islam, you know what they are hearing or what they would be hearing in the public media and so on. So I say to you and myself, see the glory and magnificence from the Kalam of Allah. See how this sort of the number for example, Allah swt, it starts with a question, what is all this confusion? What are they asking? What are they arguing about? And they are arguing about Nabai-il-Hazib, the great announcement, the great day of judgment. And then Allah swt, series of ayats from Alam Najal, Lardha, Mihadha all the way to where Allah swt starts talking about the Akhira. So that whole series of ayats have to do with this dunya. Things which we see on a daily basis. Allah says the night for sleep, Allah gave you sleep, the day for to earn your living. Allah sends rain from the heavens and your crops grow and so on. Daily things which we see on a daily basis, which we ignore mostly because we see it every day, it doesn’t strike us, we don’t reflect. But Allah swt is pointing those things out as His signs. And then Allah swt talks about the yarat. Inna yawmal fasli kaana miqaata, yawma yunfa qufis suri fata toona afwaaja. Fawti hati samaw, fa kaana abuwaaba, like doors. Allah will open. I don’t know how many of you remember I mentioned a book called Hyperspace by Michio Kagu. He’s written the book. In that he argues, he says that when you look at this expansion theory which is called the Big Bang, which fundamentally basically the theory says that there was a big explosion as a result of which planets were created and they are moving away, expanding away from that center. And this expansion will continue until they run out of the original energy which was there to make them expand and then they will come together, contract. And the logical reasoning is that when they come to contract they will all come together and they will like a black hole become one and complete annihilation. Michio Kagu says the only way to escape that annihilation is to find a way of going out of this dimension, finding doors to leave this dimension. And Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala used the word door. Kaana abuwaaba. I remind myself when you let us read the Quran, let us reflect on the Quran and reflect on the fact that this is Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala talking to me. Allama Iubal Rahmatullah is a great poet. He says that his father had a routine for him and it’s something for parents. It’s what you should do. It’s how you raise children. You know we talk about, on a side note, we talk about all these great names. Imam Bukhari, Imam Malik, Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Shafi’i and so on and so on and so on. Khalid bin Walid. They were like, they didn’t, they were not born as adults, so they were children. Khalid bin Walid at some point in time was running around like a little kid, like Muhammad. So what made him Khalid bin Walid? How did he become Khalid bin Walid? How did Imam Malik become, Imam Malik, you know, how did he become the great Imam? Malik Bin Anas. So there is something, there is some parents, somebody did that for them, right? We don’t remember the name of the parents. We don’t know who the, most of us don’t even know who the parents were. We don’t know their names, but they were there. That is the real thing. That is the real thing we should focus on and say, how does this happen? How do you create an Iubal or how do you create Malik Bin Anas and how do you create Nawawi and so forth, right? So Allah my Allah says that his father had a routine for him. He said every morning after Salatul Pajar, he said he had to sit there, he said there was a long veranda in the house. He said my father used to walk up and down and I would have to sit there and I would have to read three Jus of Quran every day. And I could not leave until I finished reading three Jus, no breakfast, no going anywhere, nothing. You sit there, finish reading, then only go. And he said the whole time while I was reading, my father would be walking up and down listening because he was also having Quran, so he stood. He said one day my father while walking he stops there and tells me until that Quran is revealed to you on your heart, until the Quran is nasil on your heart, you will not understand what the Quran is. It’s a until it is revealed on your heart. He’s not saying the Jibri Laihsaan will come. He means that that connection with the Kalam of Allah. You’re not just reading for the Usul of Tajweed, you’re not just reading because okay how is this in front of me, I have to repeat my lesson, no. This is a direct connection with Allah. This is my Rabb’s people. This is my Rasul of Allah. This is my Rasul of Allah. This is a direct connection with Allah. This is my Rabb speaking to me. So Allah is saying Allah is asking me, have you not spread the earth out? He’s asking me. I’m asking myself. I go for a walk. The earth is spread out in front of me. I’m walking on this earth. Allah has created gravity which keeps me there. Otherwise with the centrifugal force of the planet spitting out I would have flown off. Right? Wajahana navmakum thubatha Wal ayw wajahana layla libaasa One night if you do not get sleep for whatever reason, next day is destroyed. Right? You can’t think straight, you can’t walk straight, nothing else. Allah says we gave you sleep. What niyama is this sleep? Here you reflect, reflect on the kalam of Allah. Ask Allah. Ask Allah when you stand before Allah, when you are reading the Quran, before you open the Quran. I say this word, when you open the Quran, don’t just open the Quran suddenly, no. Open the Quran, ask yourself what is this? This is Allah talking to me. This is the kalam of Allah, this is the speech of Allah. This is the closest that we will get to Allah in this life. We can’t see Allah, but we can see the speech of Allah. We can hear the speech of Allah, figuratively speaking. To ask yourself what is this thing? And then make dua and say, Yaarab, this is your kalam. Make this get into my heart. Only Allah can do it, believe me, you can’t do it, I can’t do it, no. We have to beg Allah. And say Allah nafakhir, anta ghanir. Ka wa anta ghal? Here you are naas, anto mur fukhara. Anna min hu? Anna fakir min fukhara. Inna Allahu wa ghanir w’al hamid? Anta ghanir w’al hamid. Fratini. Fratini. Asqan la bayla laha la kimbi. Open my heart. Na wa shayli saduri yaarab. Asqan la yalla gibbi. You’re khashiyat in my heart. Gibbi your kalam in my heart. Gibbi the sense of that you are with me. Anta ma’ee? Faw anta ghal? Faw ma’a qu bayna ma’a kuntum? The sense of that. Asqan la subhanahu wa ta’ala jalla jalal hu. To open our hearts. To his kalam. To his khashiyat. To his glory. To his majesty. To his izzah. To his rahma. To his maghfirah. Allahumma anta waliyyina. Fil hayadi duniya wa fil akhirah. Yaarab tawaf. Faw anta ghal. Faw ma’a qu bayna ma’a kuntum. To his kalam. To his izzah. To his izzah. To his maghfirah. To his izzah. To his izzah. To his izzah. To his izzah. To his izzah. To his izzah. To his izzah. To his izzah. To his izzah.
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