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00:00Why was the Qur'an revealed in Arabic?
00:02What is so special about it?
00:04We know that the Qur'an was revealed through the tongue
00:07of the Prophet Muhammad ,
00:08so he was speaking the Qur'an.
00:10How can we distinguish the difference
00:11between his own speech and the Qur'an?
00:15Why does Allah use sounds like
00:17Elif Lam Meme, like ABC in the English language,
00:20or Taha, like Huruf Muqatta'a,
00:22in the beginnings of some surahs?
00:23What do they mean?
00:25And then I said, okay, then the Qur'an
00:28could have been revealed in Hebrew.
00:30And then I found that because they saw
00:33that the Qur'an is different.
00:35It's like a different language using the same letter set
00:39and same words of their language,
00:41but it's like a different language.
00:42They don't know.
00:43So it's a different formula,
00:45different construction of the language.
00:49Allah said,
00:50A blessed book that I have sent down to you, O Muhammad,
00:57so that they may ponder its signs.
01:06As-salamu alaykum, Shaykh, Father Suleyman.
01:08Thank you for accepting us and inviting to your house,
01:10even in London.
01:11And we are very honored to be interviewing with you.
01:13I want to start with, who is Father Suleyman?
01:16And can you tell us briefly about yourself?
01:18Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.
01:19Thank you very much.
01:21Father Suleyman is a Muslim from Egypt.
01:25I live in London, in the UK.
01:28I'm a game developer.
01:29I have four games.
01:30I am a Qur'an translator.
01:33I'm the director of Bridges Foundation, of course.
01:35This is not the gas station I work for.
01:36This is an organization that introduces Islam to non-Muslims
01:41and to Muslims as well, and also train Muslim public speakers
01:45and presenters, mainly in electronics engineer,
01:48a survivor of 9-11, many things.
01:50So why was the Qur'an revealed in Arabic?
01:53What is so special about it?
01:54Okay, well, that's an amazing question
01:56that I did not find the answer for,
01:59except when I studied the qira'at.
02:01Qira'at are the 10 modes of recitation of the Qur'an.
02:05And in my opinion, it is the main miracle of the Qur'an.
02:11One of the miracles of the Qur'an
02:13is the different modes of recitation.
02:16And only the Arabic language,
02:18because of the diacritic marks,
02:22which is the Fatha, Dhamma, and so on,
02:24only the Arabic language can accept the qira'at.
02:27Recently, I took a Hebrew course,
02:30and I found that in Hebrew,
02:32there is also diacritic marks,
02:33like Dagesh and stuff like that.
02:35And then I said, okay,
02:37then the Qur'an could have been revealed in Hebrew.
02:40And then I found that diacritic marks
02:42were recently added to the Hebrew language
02:44by Maimonides, Moshe ibn Maimon,
02:46at the time of Salahuddin, al-Ayubi.
02:48So it's only the Arabic language
02:51that can embrace the main miracle of the Qur'an,
02:56which is the modes of recitation, the qira'at.
02:59There are two main types of variations
03:02between the modes of recitation.
03:05Like 70% of the variations, they are just performance.
03:09They do not affect the meaning.
03:11Like, for example, saying al-ard, or l-ard, or al-ard.
03:17Okay, this is just performance.
03:19At the end, it just means al-ard, al-ard.
03:22At the end, it just means the earth.
03:24But there is also some variations that affect the meaning.
03:30Like, for example,
03:31ููุชูููููู ุขุฏูู
ู ู
ููู ุฑูุจูููู ููููู
ูุงุชู
03:34ููุชูุงุจู ุนููููููู ููุชูููููู ุขุฏูู
ู
03:36Adam here is the subject.
03:39But there is another qira'a.
03:41Qira'at Ibn Kathir al-Makki,
03:44Imam Ibn Kathir al-Makki, it says,
03:47ููุชูููููู ุขุฏูู
ู ู
ููู ุฑูุจูููู ููููู
ูุงุชู ููุชูุงุจู ุนููููููู
03:51The first qira'a, which we usually read,
03:54means then Adam received words from his Lord and repented.
03:59The second qira'a makes Adam the object
04:02and the words of the Lord the subject.
04:05It means Adam was received by the words of his Lord and repented.
04:10What does that mean?
04:11How can words receive a human being?
04:13It's very artistic.
04:15And at the same time, it affects your tarbiyah,
04:17how you upbring yourself and your heart,
04:21how you purify your heart and mind.
04:23The first one, you know, Adam is our representative in the Quran,
04:27tells you that it is the duty of the human being
04:29to use the words of God and repent.
04:32It is your duty to repent.
04:33But even if you repent, the second qira'a tells you,
04:36even if you repent, it's not you who did it.
04:39It's the words of God that received you to repent.
04:42You see, mind blowing.
04:43So different meanings, but they do not contradict.
04:46And the whole meaning is the combination of the layers of the meanings.
04:53This is mind blowing.
04:54And that's what we did when we pondered the Quran live during the pandemic.
04:59Actually, we pondered the differences of the khira'at.
05:01So couldn't this be done before the Quran in the Arabic language?
05:06This many layers of meanings in poetry, for example?
05:08Well, it was never done.
05:10But if you want to speak about what happened before the Quran,
05:13before the Quran, there was no Quran.
05:15There was only poetry and prose.
05:17And this is the main miracle of the Quran.
05:19Before the Quran, there were two types of Arabic language.
05:22Poetry and prose.
05:24Prose.
05:24It's normal text.
05:25Yeah, when you write an article, this is prose.
05:28You can write, some people write like Shakespeare.
05:30He wrote very eloquently.
05:32Yeah, but this is not poetry, it's prose.
05:36So either poetry or prose in any language.
05:39The Quran was added as a different type.
05:43It is neither poetry nor prose.
05:45That's why in our translation of the Quran,
05:47you will find that the unit of text is not called verse.
05:52Ayah is sign.
05:53Verse is the unit of text in poetry.
05:56Sentence is the unit of text in prose.
05:58The Quran is neither poetry nor prose.
06:00It's a different type.
06:02So what happened is when God challenged the Arabs
06:06to bring a Quran like it, they couldn't.
06:08So he gave them a discount.
06:09Okay, bring 10 surahs.
06:11They couldn't.
06:12He said, more discount.
06:13One surah.
06:14One of the surahs of the Quran is only 10 words.
06:18They still couldn't.
06:19Actually, it's not they couldn't.
06:21They did not try.
06:22So they did not even try.
06:24They did not dare to do it.
06:26Though many of them were great poets.
06:29Why didn't they dare to do that?
06:31Because they saw that the Quran is different.
06:33It's like a different language using the same letter set
06:37and same words of their language.
06:39But it's like a different language.
06:40They don't know how to do that.
06:43So it's a different formula, different construction of the language.
06:48So you said that Allah challenged the kuffar.
06:51And also, of course, it's in the Quran.
06:52And even with these new technologies, artificial intelligence,
06:56no one can meet this challenge.
06:57So how can this happen really?
06:59AI, artificial intelligence, does what?
07:02It uses the existing information to come up with the best solution.
07:07Let's assume that, okay?
07:08Which is true to an extent.
07:10So if AI existed at the time of the revelation of the Quran,
07:16it would challenge with the existing types of Arabic language,
07:21which is poetry and prose.
07:23It would have never also met the challenge by telling the Quran
07:27because the Quran didn't exist before.
07:28You understand?
07:29So that's actually the poets of the Arabs.
07:33They are like artificial intelligence or even more intelligent
07:37when it comes to Arabic language.
07:38And they did not even try to challenge.
07:40It's a different language, but with the same words and the same letter set.
07:44So artificial intelligence cannot even meet that.
07:47Okay, it's not about rhyming.
07:49It's about the new renewing formula in the language, renewing constructions.
07:56Show me how can you renew something,
07:58but don't quote me and tell me that you're challenging me.
08:01Let someone do that.
08:02No one did that.
08:04Even those who tried to do something,
08:06they just used the formula of the Quran.
08:08No, the Quran renewed formulas, made new construction formulas.
08:14Show me how can you do that.
08:15You have the language, show me.
08:18Why does Allah use sounds like Elif Lam Meme,
08:21like ABC in the English language,
08:23or Taha, like Huruf Muqattaa in the beginnings of some surahs?
08:27What do they mean?
08:28Well, these separate letters that come in the beginning of 29 surahs in the Quran,
08:37there are many opinions about it.
08:39And because the Prophet did not tell us what it means,
08:44no one can say for sure what it means.
08:47But there are nice opinions that I'm going to tell you,
08:50is that it has to do with the challenge about the Quran.
08:53Allah challenged the Arab poets and masters of the Arabic language to come up with a Quran like this,
09:00or 10 surahs, or even one surah, and they couldn't.
09:02So Allah is challenging them in those surahs,
09:05by starting with the same letters that they are using in their poetry.
09:11And then what actually strengthens this opinion,
09:16is that nearly in many of these surahs,
09:19actually exactly 26 out of 29,
09:22Allah speaks about the book,
09:24about his ayat,
09:25after the, after he mentions these letters.
09:28Alif, la, meem,
09:29dhalika alkitab wa la rayba fi,
09:31and so on.
09:31But there are three surahs that Allah does not mention the book,
09:35like surah al-rum, surah al-ankabut, surah Maryam.
09:39But if you look, Allah speaks about miracles,
09:42directly after the letters.
09:44So the letters not necessarily about the miracle of the Quran,
09:48but they are about the miracles.
09:50So for example,
09:51in surah al-lum, alif, la, meem,
09:52ghalibat al-rum, ghalibat al-rum fi adana al-arzi,
09:56wa hum min ba'di ghalabihim sayagliwuna fi bid'i sinin.
09:59It means the Romans were defeated,
10:02but after their defeat,
10:03they will be victorious within bid'i sinin,
10:06means that less than 10 years.
10:09Exactly.
10:09Yeah, about nine years.
10:10Let's say nine years.
10:11Bid'i sinin?
10:12Why are you putting this,
10:14or, you know, restriction?
10:16If the Prophet is authoring the Quran,
10:18don't put that limit.
10:19It's a miracle that Allah, number one,
10:21foretold a future event
10:23at a time that no one could have said that.
10:26And the Prophet was just making this Quran himself,
10:29or authoring the Quran.
10:31He should have avoided saying this,
10:33and if he says it,
10:34he should not say within a few years.
10:36Because like that,
10:36what if it didn't happen?
10:38Actually, the Quran says within less than 10 years.
10:40The Romans were collapsing everywhere,
10:43and the Persians were taking over.
10:44They took over Egypt itself.
10:46They took over everything from the Roman Byzantines.
10:48So it's like saying at the time when the USSR is vanishing,
10:52that the USSR is going to be back within less than 10 years.
10:57Oh, that's a big responsibility,
10:59and you are risking your, actually, credibility like that.
11:03Alif Lameen here had to do with this miracle.
11:08What comes after it?
11:10What comes after it?
11:12It speaks about the miracle of Prophet Zekariya,
11:17having a baby while his wife was barren,
11:22and he was like 100 years old or something.
11:24Oh, come on.
11:24That's a miracle too.
11:25And the last one is Surah Al-Ankabut.
11:28Allah speaks about the resurrection of all human beings to be tested.
11:41Actually, that's a miracle actually.
11:42This shows the might of Allah.
11:43How can billions of people after death be resurrected all together at the same moment,
11:48to be tested at the same moment?
11:50This speaks about the might of Allah.
11:53So again, the 29 Surahs spoke about miracles and about the might of Allah,
11:5926 of them about the Quranic miracle,
12:02three of them just about miracles.
12:04For 1400 years, thousands of tafsir have been written.
12:07Some of them are 80 volumes.
12:09What gives this depth to the Quran?
12:11Couldn't Allah have sent us his tafsir by wahy?
12:15So for example, Surah Al-Baqarah could have been like that.
12:19286 ayah descended with Jibreel.
12:23And then the meaning of the difficult words by wahy also from Jibreel.
12:28And then we could also have like lessons from the Surah by wahy from Allah through Jibreel.
12:35And we can also have some exercises fill in the blanks also by wahy with Jibreel.
12:39Don't you think the Quran could have been much more clear?
12:43Definitely.
12:44It could have been one million times clearer than that.
12:47But that's only one problem.
12:49We will read it once.
12:50And read the explanation by Allah once.
12:52And fill in the blank.
12:54Finish the exercises.
12:55Give me something else to read.
12:57But this style of the Quran is sent by Allah to people who are different in the way they think.
13:04Because our minds differ.
13:06And every one of us can jump and dive and come up with some pearls.
13:12And you jump and you come up with something else.
13:15And it keeps talking to our hearts.
13:19I'll tell you something.
13:20Any book in the world is suitable for a certain level of education for a certain age.
13:25The Quran is the only book that is suitable for all ages and for all levels of education.
13:31A very uneducated person or we can say even an illiterate person who just hears it benefits from it and likes it.
13:41And someone who holds five PhDs also reads it and benefits from it.
13:46Any other book, no.
13:48So we know that the Quran was revealed through the tongue of Prophet Muhammad .
13:53So he was speaking the Quran.
13:55So how can we distinguish the difference between his own speech and the Quran?
14:00What are the differences between them?
14:02Actually, one of the ways of proving that the Quran is not the word of Prophet Muhammad is that,
14:10you know what, if I find a book that doesn't have a cover and the cover is lost,
14:15if I know the author of this book by reading the style of how the book is written,
14:20I can tell you, listen, this is the style of Shakespeare.
14:22This is probably written by Shakespeare or Charles Dickens or whatever.
14:26But Prophet Muhammad, his style is known.
14:29It is the sunnah.
14:31It is the thousands of hadith that are narrated.
14:35This is his style.
14:36Okay.
14:36He learned things, al-hikmah, wisdom, and he gave it to us verbally.
14:41This is his style.
14:42But the Quran is a completely different style.
14:44Any child, any Arab child can tell you the difference between,
14:48or any child who knows Arabic, actually to be accurate,
14:51can tell you the difference between the Quran and the sunnah.
14:54Because they are completely different styles.
14:56No one can talk in a completely different style like that.
15:00So the style of Prophet Muhammad is expressed in the sunnah.
15:03And the Quran is only by Allah.
15:05And the Prophet ๏ทบ was so truthful to the extent that when Allah told him to tell us something,
15:12he said, tell them.
15:14Say, he is Allah, the uniquely one.
15:19He didn't say, he is Allah, the uniquely one.
15:21No, he said, say.
15:23So even the imperative verb, the command of Allah was given to us by him.
15:28Because he was so truthful.
15:30He doesn't have the right to omit one word.
15:34And there are things in the Quran that could have been actually omitted,
15:40if it is his own handiwork.
15:42I am right now, by the way, preparing a reply
15:45to an Australian bishop that attacked Prophet Muhammad recently.
15:49And he said that the ayah that speaks about Jesus,
15:52that says he is
15:53You know, the spirit of Allah and the word of Allah is actually copied from John,
16:00from the gospel of John.
16:01And I'm telling him, thank you so much for giving me another proof.
16:06Because if it's Prophet Muhammad's decision what to put in the Quran, what not,
16:11why would he actually copy from the gospel something
16:15that sounds exactly the opposite of his teachings,
16:18that Jesus is not God and is not the son of God.
16:21He should have stayed away from something that may sound like that.
16:25And that's why we keep explaining what the word of God means.
16:28And there are several words of God and so on.
16:31And what does, like, for example, word of God means miracle.
16:35So Adam was considered a word of God.
16:38And Jesus was considered a word of God.
16:39So it's not only one word.
16:41Actually, there are words of God that are infinite.
16:44God said that had the ocean been ink,
16:48it could have exhausted even seven oceans with it before the words of God run out.
16:55See here.
16:55So there are words of God, not only Jesus.
16:57So, but Prophet Muhammad could have stayed away from this.
17:01That will create some issues.
17:04So that's the issue.
17:05Prophet Muhammad did not have any role in choosing what to say and what not.
17:10And many ayahs were actually doing tarbiyah for Prophet Muhammad, purification for him.
17:15Actually, this ayah is a message to us.
17:18He is telling us because Allah is telling him,
17:21So Allah is actually here like blaming Prophet Muhammad for giving more attention to the
17:35leaders of the kuffar, okay, over a blind believer.
17:40If you think about it, what the Prophet did is very logical because it's a very important meeting.
17:46Had the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam succeed in convincing the leaders of the kuffar,
17:50there could have been no better or other no one dying.
17:54It's very logical what he did.
17:55But Allah is telling him the weakest companion is dearer to Allah and more important for Allah
18:02than all those disbelievers.
18:04So give more attention.
18:05It's like Allah is sending us a love message.
18:07I love you.
18:08And I'm telling your Prophet to take care of you
18:12more than he cares about convincing the non-believers.
18:14Amazing.
18:15It's like messages of love.
18:18So how does, sorry, why does Allah use we for himself in the Quran?
18:23It's the royal we.
18:24One of the names of Allah is al-Malik, the king.
18:28When the king speaks, he says,
18:29We the king of England are opening the museum.
18:33Allah is the king, the real king.
18:35So it's called the royal we.
18:37In English, the royal we, it exists in every language, by the way.
18:40So that's, it doesn't mean that Allah is more than one.
18:42It's only one definitely.
18:44But he is al-Malik and he can speak in this form also.
18:49Allah shifts to ana, to I, when he speaks about himself as that, as, and speaks about Tawheed.
19:00But he goes to nahnu, khalaqnaakum, speak with the royal we, when he speaks about his might,
19:06his mightiness, his ability to do things.
19:10Inni ana rabbuka, inni ana Allah, when he speaks about himself, about Tawheed many,
19:16that there is no lord, no god except him, because there cannot be two gods.
19:20There cannot.
19:21Yeah, but the issue is, why not?
19:23Because if there is more than one god, then this means that either both of them cannot do everything,
19:30and like that, none of them is god.
19:32Or, one of them is not needed, and this makes him not god.
19:37How can a book that was revealed 1400 years ago in Arabia appeal to this day and age?
19:42Do you believe that the Qur'an is universal and timeless?
19:45Well, that's the miracle of the Qur'an.
19:47I told you that, you know, yeah, every book has a certain level that it is suitable for.
19:55So even, you know, children books, it says this is three plus, this is seven plus, this is 12 plus.
20:00So a three-year-old will not benefit from a book for a 12-year-old.
20:04Of course, a PhD holder will not benefit from a three-year-old book.
20:08The Qur'an is the only book that is suitable for all ages and for all levels of education.
20:13And that's the miracle of it.
20:15But the problem is, when we don't use it properly, the Qur'an is a medication.
20:19Allah said,
20:20ููููููุฒูููู ู
ููู ุงููููุฑูุขูู ู
ู ูููู ุดูููุงุกู ููุฑูุญูู
ูุฉู ููููู
ูุคูู
ูููููู
20:24And we descend from the Qur'an what is a shifa, what is a cure for the believers.
20:29So it's a medication.
20:31Okay, we know people who memorize the whole Qur'an and it did not help them.
20:36They have the grudges, they have hasad, they have envy, they have hatred, they have, they even,
20:42some of them even supported, you know, treason, supported inqilabat and so on.
20:47Okay, why did this happen? Because they were using it like this guy the wrong way.
20:51Allah said,
20:56A blessed book that I have sent down to you, O Muhammad, so that they may ponder its signs.
21:04If you don't ponder the Qur'an, it's not going to help you.
21:06Go memorize it all, it's not going to help you.
21:08I actually do counseling for atheists.
21:14Nearly half of the cases I have are memorizers of the whole Qur'an.
21:18Yeah, it didn't help them. Why?
21:20It's just memorizing, not understanding.
21:22Which ayah of the Qur'an has improved you the most in terms of balag, eloquence?
21:27Well, the whole of the Qur'an is eloquent and is amazing.
21:32But again, it comes back to the qira'at.
21:35When I find that the difference of the Qur'an can give you four different meanings in one ayah,
21:42and you put them as layers of the meaning and it gives you a big meaning that could have not been
21:47expressed except if you add a whole page to the Qur'an.
21:52Listen to this.
21:53This ayah has four different ways.
21:54It's when Fir'aun was speaking to the al-malak, to his assistants.
22:01And he's telling them,
22:02Ah,
22:02ุฐุฑููู ุฃูุชู ู
ูุณู.
22:04Allow me to kill Moses.
22:05ุฅูู ุฃุฎุงู ุฃู ูุจุฏู ุฏูููู
ุฃู ุฃู ูุธูุฑ ูู ุงูุฃุฑุถ ุงููุณุงุฏ.
22:10I'm afraid that he may change your religion
22:14or he may make corruption appear on earth, in the land, not earth, land.
22:19Because here al-ard is the country.
22:22Okay.
22:22It has four different ways.
22:24It can be ุฅูู ุฃุฎุงู ุฃู ูุจุฏู ุฏูููู
ุฃู ุฃู ูุธูุฑ ูู ุงูุฃุฑุถ ุงููุณุงุฏ.
22:30I'm afraid that he may change your religion or corruption would appear.
22:35But this one doesn't say that Moses will make it appear.
22:38Okay.
22:39There is ุฅูู ุฃุฎุงู ุฃู ูุจุฏู ุฏูููู
ูุฃู ูุธูุฑ ูู ุงูุฃุฑุถ ุงููุณุงุฏ.
22:43And corruption will appear.
22:46And there is ุฅูู ุฃุฎุงู ุฃู ูุจุฏู ุฏูููู
ูุฃู ูุธูุฑ ูู ุงูุฃุฑุถ ุงููุณุงุฏ.
22:49I'm afraid that he will do this and do this, not or.
22:53Okay.
22:53What does that mean?
22:54And why didn't he kill him?
22:56Nothing tells you in the Quran except the Qur'an.
22:59If you understand those four meanings and you put them as layers over each other,
23:02they mean what?
23:03They mean that the meeting started by allow me to kill this guy.
23:07And then they said, okay, let's see.
23:10Let's brainstorm together.
23:11And in a long meeting, they have put every single possibility that can happen.
23:18And they came up by that, no, he should not be killed.
23:22He should be challenged and embarrassed.
23:25Send and bring whatever sorcerers, magicians.
23:30You see here.
23:31You can never understand this except if the Qur'an added one whole page telling you
23:38they found this option and this option, this possibility and this.
23:41Four possibilities could have happened.
23:43And then they found that this is omitted.
23:46The Qur'an is concise because of the Qur'an.
23:48And you will not understand it except if you understand the Qur'an.
23:51I'm telling you, the day I went to understand the Qur'an,
23:54I had good understanding of the Qur'an.
23:56So my Shaykh told me, listen, forget all.
23:58What you have is only one face, one dimension.
24:04Now you came to read the...
24:05But of course here, some people say, doesn't this make the Qur'an difficult?
24:09Yeah.
24:09Why don't you?
24:10Why do you want the word of Allah to be very simple?
24:13Every book was written in this world for the world to read it.
24:16But this book descended upon the world from outside the world for the world to read it.
24:22It's not simple. It's not a normal book.
24:25Can you name one ayah from the Qur'an that, you know,
24:29made you 100% convinced that this cannot be a word of a human being?
24:32The one that mesmerizes you the most.
24:34I'll tell you something that affected me a lot.
24:37And an incident that happened to me, that proved to me that the Qur'an is not ink on paper.
24:45He is a living being.
24:46So which one you want to start with?
24:48Okay, I'll start with this incident.
24:49That's a strange one.
24:50Before coming to this house, I lived in the 36th floor in a building in East London
24:58that oversees the Olympic village.
25:02And it sees all of London.
25:04It's very panoramic.
25:05There isn't one brick in this building.
25:07It's all glass from everywhere.
25:08So I want you to imagine the midnight on the 31st of December,
25:13with all the fireworks of the new year.
25:17It looks amazing from everywhere.
25:19It's amazing.
25:20I attended that like three times.
25:22I lived there for four years.
25:23And the fourth year, I had an idea that,
25:27okay, well, you have seen that before three times.
25:30Yes, beautiful.
25:30But you have seen it.
25:31You took even videos.
25:33Why don't you do something different this year?
25:35Well, the number of people who are worshiping God at this moment is very few.
25:40Most people are watching the fireworks and some people are dancing and clubbing and drunk.
25:45Why don't you become one of the few people who will be worshiping at this moment?
25:49I said, okay, that's a good idea.
25:51I put down all the shades.
25:53I darkened.
25:55I turned off all the lights.
25:56And I turned on the Quran app on iPad and I put it in front of me.
26:01And I started doing Qiyam al-Lil, beautiful at 11.30.
26:0410 minutes before 12, I was in the second Raka'ah, after the Fatiha, reciting the Quran.
26:09And then the explosions of the fireworks were so loud.
26:14And still there are some colors coming from between the shades, yellow, blue.
26:18It became very tempting for me that I'm losing a lot.
26:22I'm missing a lot.
26:23So I said to myself, okay, guys, listen, it's not haram.
26:27At the end of this ayah, just say Allahu Akbar, make ruku, two sujoods and go watch, enjoy it.
26:34And then come back and pray until fajr.
26:38You'll do both.
26:39I said, okay, let me finish this ayah and say Allahu Akbar.
26:42You know how the ayah finished?
26:43The ayah ended like that.
26:44ูููู ุงูููููู ุซูู
ูู ุฐูุฑูููู
ู ููู ุฎูููุถูููู
ู ููููุนูุจูููู
26:49Say Allah and leave them in whatever they are busy playing.
26:55I'm sorry, this is not a coincidence.
26:59Out of 6,234 ayahs, this is not a coincidence.
27:04This is a living being that talks to you.
27:06And it's just you need to establish a relationship with it.
27:11It's going to talk to you.
27:12It's about the Qur'an dealing with your feelings.
27:17I'll tell you another ayah that affected me a lot.
27:21And it's an ayah that I love so much.
27:23And I recite nearly in every prayer.
27:26It is an ayah in Surah Al-Imran.
27:28ูููู ุงููููููู
ูู ู
ูุงูููู ุงููู
ููููู
27:30ุชูุคูุชู ุงููู
ููููู ู
ููู ุชูุดูุงุกู
27:32ููุชูููุฒูุนู ุงููู
ููููู ู
ูู
ูููู ุชูุดูุงุกู
27:33ููุชูุนูุฒู ู
ููู ุชูุดูุงุกู
27:34ููุชูุฐููู ู
ููู ุชูุดูุงุกู
27:36ุจูููุฏููู ุงููุฎูููุฑู ุฅูููููู ุนูููู ููููู ุดูููุกู ููุฏููุฑู
27:38At a certain night, it was the night when actually someone that I don't like became a ruler
27:51in a country.
27:52And I think that he took the rule there unjustly after an inqilab and stuff like that.
28:00I really wasn't feeling good that night.
28:02And I went to pray in the mosque, Fajr, and the imam didn't come.
28:07So they pushed me to lead the prayer.
28:09So reciting this ayah, I felt like I'm reciting it for the first time in my life.
28:14I never noticed this.
28:15Listen.
28:16ูููู ุงููููููู
ูู ู
ููููู ุงููู
ููููู
28:17Say, O Allah, the owner of the authority or the dominion, the owner of authority.
28:22You give authority to whoever you will, and you take authority from whoever you will,
28:28and you honor whoever you will, and you humiliate whoever you will.
28:32Excuse me, why four times whoever you will?
28:34The Qur'an should be more concise.
28:37The Qur'an is concise.
28:39Why didn't Allah say it like that?
28:41Say, O Allah, owner of authority.
28:44You give authority and honor whoever you will, and you take authority and humiliate whoever you will.
28:51We could have saved two whoever you will, but he didn't say so.
28:55Why?
28:55He didn't link authority with honor or humiliation.
29:01So Allah can give authority to someone and humiliate him when he is in authority.
29:05And Allah can take authority from someone and then honor him after authority was taken from him.
29:10You see the beauty here.
29:11It's mind-blowing.
29:12And you know what?
29:13I read it like 10,000 times before, and I never understood it like that.
29:16Except when I was in a certain psychological status, and I understood it.
29:21And that's amazing.
29:22This is mind-blowing.
29:34Mind-blowing.
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