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In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. My dear brothers, sisters, respected elders, Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala jalla jalaluhu sent his kalam, his word, his speech with one purpose only, purpose. Al naqsadul nuzoorul kalamullah, huwa wahid faqad. That we should reflect on it, tadabbur fiha, and change our lives and live according to it. The reading of the Quran, the writing of the Quran, the tafsir of the Quran, everything to do with the Quran, to learn to read it well and properly according to the usul of tajweed, to read, to learn the different qara’at, beautiful calligraphy, writing of the Quran, printing of the Quran. You name it, all of those things are important, but they are not the maqsad of the revelation of the qalaq. There is only one maqsad, there is only one reason, there is only one thing that the Quran came for, and that is to be lived by. When we think about these two things, we don’t look at them as two opposite. We don’t say it is not important to learn to read, but it is important to live. That’s a stupid statement. To be able to live by the Quran, you must also know how to read it properly, you must understand it, and so on and so on. But none of that is the purpose of the revelation. The reason I’m saying that is because this is what has happened to us, the Muslims, after the time of the blessed generations, the generation of the Sahaba, the Tabain and the Tabatabain, people became experts and they focused on one aspect of the Quran, and illa mashallah, they left the issue of living by it. They put that aside. Obviously, this is a generalization, it doesn’t apply to everybody, but we have people who are ufaz, we have people who are qurra, we have people who make tafsir, we have people who do all kinds of things with the Quran, but if you look at their lives, and may Allah make you and me separate from that, you do not find a reflection of the Quran in the life of the person. One of the great Tabain, Anaf Bil Qais, Tahaatul Ali, he read the ayah, لَقَتَنْزَلْنَا إِلَيْكُمْ كِتَابًا فِيهِ ذِكْرُكُمْ أَفَلَى تَعْفِلُونَ In Surah Al-Anbiya, Allah swt said, indeed, we have sent down for you, mankind, a book in which you are mentioned. There is your zikr, there is your reminder. Will you not understand? I’m talking about people who understood the purpose of the Quran. So Anaf Bin Qais, the son of Anur Ahmad, read this thing, he said, Allah said, I’m mentioned in the Quran, so where am I? Where is my name? Where have I been mentioned? Allah said, فِيهِ ذِكْرُكُمْ, you are mentioned in there. Where am I? Now we know of course that Allah swt did not mention anyone by name, except the Anbiya and among the Ba’ad al-Anbiya, Zayd bin Harithah is the only one who is mentioned by name. So we know that your name, my name is not in the Quran. But we know that Allah swt mentioned people and their qualities. And Allah swt mentioned what would happen to people with those qualities. So Allah swt mentioned people with certain qualities, and then he said people with these qualities, this will be their ending, this is where they will end up. And therefore we need to look for ourselves in these quality definitions and say, where do I fit in? If I fit in with the people whose qualities are good and whose ending is good, then Alhamdulillah. But if I fit in with people whose qualities are not good and whose ending is not good, then it is time to change. So when Anaf Bin Qais, Rahmatullah Ali searched in the Quran, he found that with some people Allah swt said, He said they are the people, Allah said these are people who sleep but little at night. And the rest of the time they are praying, they are making sujood, they are making salah, rukuh, between a state of fear of Allah swt, punishment and hope in Allah swt’s forgiveness. And in the hours before dawn, they are found asking and seeking Allah swt’s forgiveness. And in their property, Allah said there was the haq, the right of the sa’il wal mahroum, of the one who asks for help and the one who needs help but does not ask. See the haqqu lisa’iri wal mahroum, Allah is not saying they give to the sa’il and the mahroum, Allah said no, they consider it to be the right of the other person. So I am not doing a favour, I am only fulfilling the right of the other person. Now think about this, Anaf Bin Qais, Rahmatullah Ali, Allah, Allah of course knows best, but if you ask me and say did he not fit this, was he not among the people who prayed extensively in the night, was he not among the people who made istighfar lots and lots of times, was he not among the people who were generous to a fault as far as their charity is concerned, I would say yes, without a doubt. But see the inkisar, see the humbleness, the humility of the people of truth. Anaf Bin Qais, Anaf Ya Allah Anur, Rahmatullah Ali, read these ayat and he said, Ya Allah, I am not from these people. He said, I am not from these people. Then he read this ayah, تتجافى جنوبهم عن المضاجغ يدعون ربهم خوف و تمع و مما رضقناهم ينفقون In surah sajda, Allah SWT said, their sides forsake their beds, which means they get up from their sides and they make dua to Allah SWT, يدعون ربهم خوف و تمع, between the fear of Allah’s punishment and hope for Allah’s reward and forgiveness and they spend in charity out of what we have bestowed on them. And once again, Anaf Bin Qais, Rahmatullah Ali said, I am not from these people. And then he said, he read where Allah SWT said, الذين ينفقون في السراء والضراء والقاضفين الغيضة والعافين عن الناس والله يحب المحسنين He read the ayah where Allah SWT said, they are those who spend in the cause of Allah, in prosperity and in adversity. They give when they have and they give when they don’t have, who repress and control their anger and who pardon, who forgive people. Verily Allah loves the muhsinun, the people of Ihsan. Once again, Anaf Bin Qais said, Ya Rabb, I am not from these people. And then he read where Allah SWT said, And he said, and he read where Allah said, and those before them, they had homes in Madinah, Allah is talking about the Ansar, and they had adopted the faith, they had come to Islam and they love those who migrate to them and have no jealousy in their hearts for that which they have been given. And this refers to the, as well as the Nuzul of this have to do with the booty of Banu Nadir, and who give them, who give them, hajj their own preference over themselves, even though they were in need of whatever they were giving themselves. And that whoever is saved from his own greed, such are they who will be successful. And once again, Anaf Bin Qais said, Ya Rabb, I am not from these people. And then he said, he read where Allah SWT said, And he read, and those who avoid the greater sins, the Kabair and the Fawahish, adultery and all kinds of promiscuity, and when they are angry, they forgive. And those who answer the call of their Rabb, the Jalal Jalaluhu, they worship only Allah, and they do not make shirk and they establish Salah, and who conduct their affairs by shura, by mashura, by mutual consultation, and those who spend from what we have bestowed on them. And once again he said, O Allah, I am not from these people. This is the level of humility of the people of Haqq. Then he looked for other mentions of, about people. And he found where Allah SWT said, And he said, Allah said truly when it is said to them, La ilaha illallah, that no one has the right to be worshipped except Allah. They puffed themselves up with pride. They denied it, and they said, are we going to abandon our gods for the sake of a mad poet? Naudhu Billah. And then he read where Allah said, And when Allah alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who believe, they who do not believe in the Hereafter are filled with disgust. And when those whom they obey or worship besides Him, that is deities other than Allah are mentioned, behold, they rejoice. And then he read, What caused you to enter Jahannam? These people, the melaika will ask those who are being led into the hellfire. They say, what caused you to enter Jahannam? And they will say, we were not among those who used to pray. And nor did we feed the poor. And we used to talk falsehood all the time. All that which Allah hated with vain talkers. And we used to deny the Day of Judgment until there came to us death, which is certain. And when Hanif bin Khais, Rahatul Ali, read these ayat, he said, O Allah, I seek your protection from such people. I am not from them. Then he came to this ayat in Surah Al-Tawbah, where Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said, He saw this ayat where Allah said, And there are those who have acknowledged their sins, and they have mixed a deed that was righteous with another which was evil. Meaning they have both good deeds and bad deeds in their amal. And they make istighfar, they ask Allah to forgive them. Perhaps Allah will turn unto them in forgiveness. And surely Allah is oft-forgiving and most merciful. I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala jalla jala to make us among those who constantly and continuously seek His forgiveness. And I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to forgive us and to save us from ourselves and our nufus and from shayateen and from the agents of shaitan. And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to open the doors of His mercy and glory on us. I say to you, for this I ask Allah to forgive you and the Muslims. I ask Allah to forgive you and the Muslims.
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