AI And The Challenge of Creativity - Sheikh Abdulrahman Cherri | Ramadan 2025 - Night 1

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[0:03]respected brothers and sisters may Allah subhana tala accept your prayers your

[0:10]fasting on this first day of this holy month of Ramadan that

[0:14]we have been given the pleasure and the to the success to

[0:19]attend a lot of us who existed between us last year did

[0:25]not make it to the Ramadan of this year so it's a

[0:29]great blessing that we are here that we together that we're given

[0:33]another chance to take advantage of this beautiful month this month where

[0:38]we can repent we can purify ourselves we can improve our lives

[0:42]and what's most important is that we take advantage of this month

[0:48]and here we are gathering together in order to remember Allah subhana

[0:51]wa ta'ala and to make this a beneficial month inshallah by coming

[0:57]here by congregating as brothers and sisters and Believers after we've breaken

[1:03]our fast we come here in order to listen to the words

[1:09]of Allah subhana and the words of the IMs who take the

[1:12]wisdom from the prophet Sall Al and what I'm going to be

[1:17]trying to talk about in the next few nights that I'm going

[1:19]to be at your service inshallah are hopefully things that are related

[1:22]to contemporary issues and the topic that I chose for today is

[1:30]a topic related to the the artistic element in Islam now a

[1:34]lot of you who went to University might not have been very

[1:38]interested in taking art you might have taken it as an elective

[1:42]but something that you just take like the history of Art and

[1:47]things like that just to get an A and improve your GPA

[1:49]I'm not going to make this into a history of art lecture

[1:54]this is not my objective but I want to talk about what

[1:56]Islam teaches us about art as opposed to what we understand as

[2:02]art in the modern sense that we live in if you go

[2:06]to the university or you you've heard about the word art you

[2:09]think of you know it being some type of subject that you

[2:14]go to university and you learn about art is probably about painting

[2:19]something it's about making a design for something it's something you go

[2:25]to school for to learn either you're talented you're born and you

[2:31]have this Talent since your birth or you go to school and

[2:35]you learn it this is not how art was viewed in the

[2:38]human history this is something that developed later on it wasn't too

[2:47]long ago almost during the time of the Renaissance when Art became

[2:50]a separate thing from the human life in the past if we

[2:56]look at the Nations that existed before art was a way of

[2:59]life it was how you lived your life there wasn't someone who

[3:05]went to school to become artistic in order to draw a painting

[3:08]or to make a special design that they can post on a

[3:13]flyer or something like that art was a way of life art

[3:18]was seen as the way to express the higher truths of reality

[3:23]every person was expected to be an artist and art was reflected

[3:29]in every part of our life the way the people spoke was

[3:35]Art the way they built their homes was Art the way they

[3:38]built their Furniture was Art the way they slept was Art the

[3:44]way they function in society was artistic and Allah subhana wa tala

[3:50]in the Quran talks to us about himself fashioning things creating things

[3:55]in a very beautiful fashion in a beautiful way so that every

[4:01]everything in our lives should also mimic that Divine activity when I'm

[4:07]speaking to other people how do I speak with them it's very

[4:11]important for a Muslim individual to have an artistic way of speech

[4:16]what was IM aliam known for what was the prophet sallam known

[4:23]for they were known for their eloquence in speech when they talk

[4:28]everybody would listen to them there was Beauty in the way they

[4:34]express things when they describ things they used beautiful words and beautiful

[4:37]expressions and a beautiful voice to express them that was Art when

[4:44]the Quran is recited it's recited in a melodious fashion this is

[4:49]a form of art when people used to worship in the Masjid

[4:54]and masjids were built if you go to the ancient cities where

[5:00]Islam had was flourishing in the civilization you go to um countries

[5:04]where you can see things that were built 500 600 700 years

[5:06]ago and you look at all of those tiles that were put

[5:12]all of those geometric designs that were used the way the masjids

[5:16]were built it was all a form of art as Muslims today

[5:22]have we continued this tradition or have we lost it even those

[5:29]who go into modern art modern art has distanced itself from the

[5:33]real objective of humanity which is to orient yourself towards Allah subhah

[5:38]wa taala you come to the postmodern world if you go to

[5:43]art class they teach you that art is supposed to be the

[5:45]self-expression of the artist you have to describe what's inside of you

[5:53]as an individual and if you go to even an extreme form

[5:56]of postmodernist art if you go to the art museums they they

[6:02]focus on chaos they focus on fragmentation they focus on the dark

[6:07]side of humanity you can see that reflected in the movies as

[6:10]well there's a lot of dystopia a lot of confusion a lot

[6:15]of things that we see around us talk about the inability to

[6:18]understand one another the inability to reach peace with one another we're

[6:27]so diverse and things are so subjective that we cannot understand anything

[6:31]we can't know the truth anymore any event that used to be

[6:34]clearly wrong before nowadays you find people debating and they're not sure

[6:38]about it there's confusion and this is part of the postmodern movement

[6:45]is to cause people to become confused by saying that there's no

[6:50]truth it's all subjective and a lot of times this coincides with

[6:54]Nations that want to earn wealth if you look at the Arabs

[7:00]during before Islam the Arabs before Islam they used to have pilgrimages

[7:06]one of those pilgrimages was to Mecca everybody's aware of Mecca right

[7:11]the Kaa being over there the Muslims go perform Hajj over there

[7:16]now the Arabs didn't have only one CA Caba means any building

[7:23]or structure that is a square or a cube that's what a

[7:26]Caba is and the Arabs back then they didn't have one Caba

[7:32]they had multiple Cabas there was one in Mecca which was very

[7:35]famous and there were other ones that were to the south of

[7:39]Mecca one that was very near to Mecca there was one in

[7:41]Yemen and S if you go to Yemen if anybody wants to

[7:46]go there you go to S there's an old Kaa over there

[7:51]and it belonged to a very famous individual whose story was mentioned

[7:54]in the Quran his name was abaha abraha was a Christian King

[8:00]he went to Yemen and he took over that region he was

[8:07]very powerful and he wanted to have the power in the region

[8:09]so what did he do he saw that everybody's going to Mecca

[8:15]and Performing the pilgrimage remember this is before Islam so he built

[8:21]himself his own Caba and he wanted to tell the people to

[8:24]not go to Mecca anymore and to come to his and he

[8:28]designed it in a way that made it even more beautiful and

[8:32]attractive his Caba wasn't a simple structure that was a cub and

[8:39]placed over there no he adorned it with gold and he made

[8:43]it so luxurious he thought that anybody who looks at this is

[8:46]going to be so attached and attracted to it that they're going

[8:50]to leave Mecca and they're going to come here and he noticed

[8:53]that people were not coming to his Caba he only got a

[8:59]little attraction to it most of the tribes that were surrounding Mecca

[9:03]that had their own Cabas were also angry at Mecca because they

[9:08]weren't getting all the customers Mecca was getting all the customers because

[9:13]Mecca was placed in an area where it was very strategic for

[9:15]those who were trading at that time anybody that wanted to trade

[9:19]Mecca was in the perfect position those coming from the East coming

[9:24]from the south coming from the north coming from the West Mecca

[9:27]was in the middle of the area and it was the best

[9:31]place to go so it was flourishing all the money was there

[9:33]if you compare it to nowadays A lot of the countries over

[9:39]there in the same region are competing with one another over who

[9:43]can get more tourists and who can make more money this is

[9:48]like history repeating itself again every country over there in the Gulf

[9:53]region wants to become the Hub and their behavior is similar to

[9:57]what these people used to do the people of Mecca it wasn't

[10:03]only because their position was strategic that people used to go there

[10:07]they also had a different mindset the people that were running the

[10:10]Caba in meca they said look we don't care about religion it

[10:16]doesn't matter what people believe in we're trying to bring everybody here

[10:22]to spend their money so what did they do they put Idols

[10:25]for every single tribe that comes and trades there they said okay

[10:33]we're very open-minded we're a pluralistic society if you worship hub for

[10:38]example we'll put you an idol there if you worship will'll put

[10:41]your idol there if you worship Al will'll put you there you

[10:43]worship Jesus Christ we put a we put a picture for him

[10:48]there when you worship Virgin Mary put her picture there whatever you

[10:52]are we're going to allow you to place your idol or your

[10:56]imagery or whatever you worship you can put it in the Caba

[10:59]or around the Caba and this made it very attractive anybody was

[11:03]able to come and then they found a representation for themselves over

[11:08]there there's no Allah there's no truth according to the heads of

[11:12]Mecca the ones who govern there they didn't care about religion they

[11:15]only cared about money so they allow this on the outside in

[11:22]the name of being a pluralistic society they said whether it's Allah

[11:25]they worship whether it's Jesus they worship whether it's h they worship

[11:32]to us it's all the same we don't care about who they

[11:33]worship we just want them to come here and spend their money

[11:37]so this is one of the main reasons why people used to

[11:42]go to Mecca and trade over there because they found that they

[11:46]had some representation abar abaha in the South he was a Christian

[11:52]the cabba that he made represented a church so it was called

[11:56]a Caba but it was also referred to as the Church of

[11:59]Abraham so he wasn't able to attract a lot of people that

[12:01]were non-christians so AB said you know what if I can't beat

[12:09]them with my design and location let me go attack these people

[12:12]and it's true he decided to go and attack Mecca the very

[12:16]famous story that a lot of you have heard of when he

[12:20]gathered the elephants a lot of you must have heard of that

[12:24]right the chapter of the elephant in the Quran he gathered the

[12:28]elephants and he went to attack Mecca he wanted to destroy the

[12:34]Kaaba and he thought by doing that he'll be able to bring

[12:38]everybody to Mecca so as he began to attack the other tribes

[12:45]camea to know that AB is going to destroy Mecca and destroy

[12:48]the Caba over there nobody stood in his way and nobody defended

[12:53]the meccans because all of them thought if Mecca goes away if

[12:56]the Caba is destroyed then all of us are going to benefit

[13:00]all the customers that we're going there they're going to stop going

[13:03]there and they're going to come to us but Allah subhana wa

[13:06]tala had a different plan he went with his elephants and the

[13:10]chapter of Ali is very famous with the story where Allah had

[13:13]sent birds with stones stones that were burning and they cast them

[13:19]on the elephants and the army of abah and he wasn't able

[13:22]to go and destroy the Kaa he lost Allah subhana T has

[13:29]protected that after this event Islam was revealed the prophet sallallah alai

[13:34]wasam came and he wanted to bring Humanity back to the origin

[13:42]and the source to reorient them if you look at the world

[13:45]we live in now is almost the same way it's scattered people

[13:51]have a lot of different thoughts people don't know what's right and

[13:55]wrong anymore any discussion any topic you find people justifying this side

[14:01]and justifying that side it's like one of these Greek skeptic philosophers

[14:05]used to say for every argument that you give for one side

[14:09]there's the one that's equally valid on the other side skepticism is

[14:13]becoming very dominant and people are beginning to accept everything the Quran

[14:19]came at a time when the people's mindsets in Mecca was like

[14:23]that and it came to alter that it was telling people that

[14:28]if you live this way you don't have any standards you don't

[14:32]have any values you're not oriented towards Allah subhana wa tal you're

[14:35]going to destroy yourselves as human beings this is not going to

[14:42]bring you any good if you go by your whims and your

[14:44]imaginations and your false thoughts and your false ideas then you're going

[14:48]to suffer as human beings and look at us it's 2025 and

[14:54]we still bomb each other we still kill each other we still

[15:00]destroy each other we still murder children women men older people younger

[15:04]people it doesn't matter the whole world is watching massacres happening and

[15:09]it's not changed over time so the Quran came to say that

[15:14]this is a problem not of your thought you might think to

[15:17]yourself well we're in 2025 we're so Advanced we have technology we've

[15:21]gone so much forward and advanced as humans we shouldn't be doing

[15:26]any of this right this is your assumption but in reality we

[15:31]might have advanced technologically but humanistically we haven't Advanced a bit there's

[15:38]still the same disease and the same problem inside of us in

[15:42]fact this technology that we've invented to improve our lives as human

[15:45]beings to make us more aware and to make us more understanding

[15:50]of one another people now we live in a world where we

[15:53]can see videos from others that come from all over the world

[15:58]where more understanding of different cultures right in the past people were

[16:03]closed up right they belong to a tribe they belong to a

[16:05]country they didn't know who the other was everyone else was a

[16:10]threat to them but nowadays we're open to the whole world yet

[16:13]we couldn't resolve and we still don't resolve this one issue of

[16:17]difference so what is the problem what's the issue over here if

[16:22]we look at the verses that Allah subhana T mentions in the

[16:26]Quran when it comes to these idols that people worshiped the Quran

[16:33]wants us to focus on what the main issue is over here

[16:37]Allah subh says have you considered and and man the third one

[16:49]these were three Idols that the Arabs had been worshiping at that

[16:53]time God was challenging these individuals telling them this Idol worshiping that

[16:58]you have I'm going to challenge it this is all incorrect these

[17:05]individuals believe that these Idols were either Angels female angels this is

[17:11]why in the Quran Allah subhana wa T talks to these individuals

[17:14]telling them that you've given God the female daughters and you've taken

[17:17]the males because they used to have this negative perception of females

[17:20]at that time so God mentions all of this he says these

[17:31]are but names which you have coined you and your fathers there's

[17:39]no reality Behind These Idols you invented something and you and your

[17:43]fathers gave that thing value it doesn't have real value it has

[17:49]no objective value I come here and I I I make a

[17:54]shape uh a structure let's say and I say that this is

[17:56]a superpower structure does it make it a superpower structure if I

[18:01]build a car just a model car and say that this is

[18:04]the fastest car in the world and then can turn into an

[18:07]airplane and fly and do this and do that but if it

[18:08]really can't would it make it do that just because I said

[18:15]so no and the time that we live in now people are

[18:18]rewarding things and trying to make reality whatever they feel and whatever

[18:23]they think well I feel that this is this and that just

[18:27]because you feel something it doesn't change the reality of that thing

[18:32]if you feel that lying in this situation is good it doesn't

[18:37]make lying a good thing yes you can lie to yourself these

[18:39]people used to perform pilgrimages to Mecca worship these Idols thinking that

[18:44]these Idols are bringing down the rain they're controlling the wind the

[18:51]seasons are under their control they believed it but just because you

[18:55]believe something and you give a name to something and postmodernism is

[18:58]very good at giving names to things everything that's supposed to be

[19:04]a bad thing suddenly has a good name that's given to it

[19:09]we call things human rights let's say we call things democracy but

[19:12]in the name of democracy we go and Destroy nations in the

[19:17]name of Human Rights we go and murder children you can call

[19:21]it human rights you can call it democracy you can call it

[19:23]whatever you want there are just names that you have invented and

[19:26]you put to justify your behavior if there's no truth and objective

[19:32]reality behind it it means nothing so Allah in the Quran says

[19:37]they these are but names which you have coined you and your

[19:42]fathers for which Allah has not sent down any Authority God is

[19:47]the only true power if God didn't reveal this message and didn't

[19:52]send this messeng and did it give that thing power then it

[19:56]has no power whatsoever all of humanity can get together and say

[20:00]that this thing has power it will not give it any power

[20:04]the real orientation we have as Muslims and what Islam tried to

[20:09]do is to direct us towards the source the origin of existence

[20:12]which is God as a Muslim your heart should be attached to

[20:18]the only real thing which is Allah subhah wa ta'ala your hopes

[20:21]should only be attached to that one real thing which is Allah

[20:25]subhah wa ta'ala you attach yourself to something else you're going to

[20:29]ruin yourself and ruin the rest of humanity the verse says they

[20:41]follow nothing but speculation conjecture and the desires of the Soul they

[20:48]created these Idols because they had they were the reflection of their

[20:52]own ego a reflection of their own desire and this is what

[20:58]postmodern art is also doing you go to a museum you go

[21:02]to the architecture that we have here the designs we have at

[21:05]home a lot of it tells us to do our self-expression and

[21:10]there's nothing wrong with expressing yourself the problem is when you believe

[21:16]that you are everything the ego The Pride the arrogance is the

[21:23]problem then Allah subhana T says while there has already come to

[21:29]them guidance from their lord and then he says how many an

[21:38]angel there is in the heavens whose intercession is of no avail

[21:42]in any way except after Allah grants permission to whomever he wishes

[21:45]and approves he said that if there's anything that can help you

[21:48]it can only help you if Allah allows it to help you

[21:52]so what Islam was trying to do here it was trying to

[21:57]bring the minds of human beings to tell them remove these imaginations

[22:02]that you have of reality don't build the civilization based on your

[22:09]whims and your desires you're never going to bring up out a

[22:12]just society that way you're never going to be able to do

[22:18]good for yourself or others if you do it this way a

[22:20]lot of these guys that were living there in the name of

[22:24]pluralism and the name of goodness they were spread spreading corruption and

[22:30]evilness and this is what we see repeating nowadays so art is

[22:37]a very important thing in our lives to go back to the

[22:39]main topic expressing yourself is very important but not expressing your ego

[22:45]per se expressing that Divine Beauty that's inside of you what art

[22:53]is supposed to do is supposed to help you transcend yourself to

[22:57]go beyond yourself Muslims have developed sacred calligraphy all of you have

[23:03]been to masjids and areas where you find that there is very

[23:06]beautiful caligraphy drawn on the Masid walls it's amazing what kind of

[23:13]beauty there is in this calligraphy this art was passed down from

[23:17]one master to another alhamdulillah when I was in Iran I was

[23:22]studying in theza when I was learning the farsy language at that

[23:26]time there was one teacher there he was on the roof of

[23:32]the building and he was the teacher of calligraphy every time you

[23:36]had free time you could go up there and he would teach

[23:38]you how to draw and how to write this beautiful it was

[23:42]one script one font that he knew how to draw but he

[23:45]knew it very well and when you go there you think to

[23:49]yourself I'm going to learn how to draw better right I'm going

[23:54]to learn how to write a very beautiful script of Arabic language

[23:57]but then you see that this teacher himself is a person who

[24:02]was very spiritual a person that doesn't just pass down the ability

[24:07]to draw and write beautiful handwriting no he was teaching you how

[24:14]to purify yourself and as soon as I began with this writing

[24:17]you begin with writing letters first the first letter was Al if

[24:20]you take it and you start just repeating it over and over

[24:25]and over again and this practice teaches you how to be patient

[24:28]teaches you how to admit your faults and your mistakes when you

[24:33]finish it you bring it back to the teacher and he looks

[24:34]at it and he says okay this was an error here this

[24:37]was an error here and he corrects it but the amount of

[24:43]patience it takes to perform such an art imagine you're writing a

[24:46]whole verse this is one letter a whole word of calligraphy on

[24:53]a poster one wrong move and it's ruined you can't fix it

[24:56]there's no eraser there's no delete button there's no Photoshop there's nothing

[25:00]it's a poster you're writing on it whatever's on there is on

[25:04]there it's not going to be fixed so you have to be

[25:08]so accurate and you think to yourself I thought to myself it's

[25:11]impossible no way like I can write one letter and I can

[25:16]get it right but to write a whole word I'm bound to

[25:17]make a wrong curve I'm bound to go a little bit above

[25:22]where I'm supposed to be you have to hold the pen it

[25:27]was a wooden pencil it was made from a plant that grows

[25:29]in Iran in Iraq they also have these pens as well their

[25:33]pencils that you have to cut them at a certain angle and

[25:35]dip them in ink and then write with them if it's not

[25:39]at that correct angle it's going to make it too thick or

[25:41]too thin or too much ink on the paper so many possibilities

[25:47]of making a mistake but when you do it and you realize

[25:50]how much practice it needs how much dedication it needs how much

[25:55]Focus you start realizing that this is not just something that you're

[25:58]writing and it looks good this is a spiritual act it's teaching

[26:03]you patience it's teaching you how to focus all of your energy

[26:11]and attention on that one thing over there A lot of these

[26:14]new age spir spiritualist movements talk about the power of the now

[26:17]right the now mement live in the now live in the now

[26:21]right they take these from these religious teachings and this calligraphy used

[26:26]to teach you how to live in that now because all all

[26:30]of your attention and focus is placed on writing that correctly and

[26:35]drawing it correctly now you go on Photoshop or you type in

[26:40]a prompt in AI write me a calligraphical sentence of this and

[26:46]that they even have apps I keep getting them on my on

[26:48]my phone download this app buy this app subcribe in this app

[26:53]you just drag the letter it's already drawn for you and you

[26:55]put it next to the other one and you get the most

[26:58]beautiful calligraphy what does that do to me it doesn't do anything

[27:01]yes it looks good on the outside but does it have the

[27:07]effect that writing that thing on my own and drawing it on

[27:09]my own half no it doesn't have the effect so traditionally speaking

[27:15]humans had invented these things to assist them on a spiritual level

[27:20]too and as we're progressing with the c progress as humans we're

[27:26]moving towards this world where we become less and less creative we

[27:30]have less activities in our life that help us Focus I need

[27:35]to develop Focus I'm already have a million thoughts in my mind

[27:38]every single day that are not allowing me to live a good

[27:40]life I finish from one thought I jump to another but someone

[27:45]who is a calligrapher doesn't have the problems of being attacked and

[27:50]bombarded with a million thoughts why because he or she mastered how

[27:54]to place all of their focus on one thing and remove all

[28:00]of their thoughts from other things this requires training so calligraphy was

[28:06]a spiritual act and we still have people that exist in this

[28:09]world that are calligraphers and master calligraphers but the amount of calligraphers

[28:14]has shrunk they're being replaced by machines and robots and computers so

[28:20]what do we do as humans do we do we go with

[28:24]this flow it's a decision that we make right how did people

[28:30]invent computers and Technology we didn't wake up one morning and and

[28:33]we had all of this technology in front of us right it's

[28:38]a conscious decision that humans have made they can also make a

[28:43]conscious decision of rejecting this okay not everything that we can invent

[28:47]we should have as human beings the atomic bomb is an invention

[28:50]it's a possibility right should we have invented the atomic bomb no

[28:55]would the world have been a better place if we did not

[29:00]have atomic bombs yes of course it would have been weapons of

[29:03]mass destruction would the world have been better if we didn't have

[29:07]a bomb that you can drop on one area and kill thousands

[29:09]of people at once yes the world would have been a much

[29:14]better place not everything that we can do we should do so

[29:18]as Muslims who are aware of this and have teachings in the

[29:23]Quran and from the prophet and the imams that tell us that

[29:26]we have to live a life of meaning a life of orientation

[29:35]turn your face towards the religion of God this is your orientation

[29:45]you shouldn't be moving chaotically with no goal in front of you

[29:49]every day you wake up my goal is known I want to

[29:53]move towards Allah subhana wa tala I want to perfect myself this

[29:56]is my goal I'm not someone who wakes up in in the

[30:00]morning and doesn't know what to do sometimes I think I want

[30:03]to improve my career sometimes I think I want to do this

[30:05]in my life sometimes I want to do that yes these are

[30:08]all good if they're moving towards Allah subhana wa tala you need

[30:11]a goal in your life you need an orientation as a human

[30:15]being you can't live chaotically you can't live without a goal otherwise

[30:19]you're going to be going through fluctuating emotions every single day so

[30:26]Orient yourself as a Muslim Community we should be the ones who

[30:33]are developing solutions to human problems everywhere you go everybody has mental

[30:39]health issues all of us even the psychiatrists have mental health issues

[30:44]everyone the doctor and the patient all of us have issues right

[30:51]what are these the result of is that the result of us

[30:55]not living the way we should be living or is this just

[31:00]a natural thing that humans have because there's an argument on both

[31:03]sides right you know you tell people how come 50 100 years

[31:07]ago there wasn't so many issues like they are today they'll tell

[31:10]you what people weren't aware of these problems people had them but

[31:14]we didn't have names for them that might be true for some

[31:21]things yes but it's not true for everything no because we know

[31:23]people who are living in different nations who have not been exposed

[31:27]to to a lot of things that we're exposed to over here

[31:32]and honestly they're living a very good life a lot of people

[31:34]are deciding to leave as well every time you have your phone

[31:39]in your hand from morning to night and you're going through reals

[31:41]and you're going through all this imagery and colors and things that

[31:44]are bombarding your brain all the time that doesn't have any influence

[31:47]on you doesn't have any effect on you of course it does

[31:51]so what do we do as Muslims we have to be the

[31:57]Pioneers we have to change things we have to bring about solutions

[32:00]to people everybody in this community is supposed to be an inventor

[32:05]an artist in their own right Allah subhana T created every individual

[32:09]unique in this world all of you you have your own week

[32:15]of own method and your unique method of expressing yourself Allah created

[32:20]you special for who you are each and every one of you

[32:26]is an artwork of God and God wants you to show that

[32:28]artwork how by reflecting it in the way you live and how

[32:35]you benefit other people so as a community we need more people

[32:38]who are able to develop their talents in this regard to encourage

[32:42]people okay we have people that suffer from so and so problems

[32:47]let us develop this course for them let us go out and

[32:53]learn things that really bring good to the society we have to

[32:56]be Pioneers in this regard we we can't always be the ones

[33:00]who are following other people and imitating other people whatever is thrown

[33:04]on us we take with no thinking whatever is Flowing we go

[33:12]with it we go with the flow now as Muslims those who

[33:16]have this Dean of we have to be ahead of everybody if

[33:20]humans are going in the wrong direction we have to fix that

[33:24]how well there's many ways to do that firstly we have to

[33:31]focus on ourselves to understand what the human problem is to go

[33:34]back to our Quran to go back to the Hadith and in

[33:38]this month you're reading the Quran every single day inshallah maybe you

[33:42]can't read a whole chapter or J but anything that you read

[33:48]any page when you read it this month try to read it

[33:50]consciously don't try to finish the book just like that it's very

[33:55]good to finish the whole Quran but it's even better to read

[33:59]the Quran consciously think about what is God trying to say in

[34:03]this verse because in ouri people used to come to the IMs

[34:10]and tell them how is it that every the later imams how

[34:13]is it that every time we read this Quran we feel that

[34:17]it's it's fresh even though it's been 200 years 100 years since

[34:21]the Quran has has been revealed it was revealed to people 100

[34:23]years ago but everybody who reads it feels that it's speaking to

[34:32]them how the IM says that this is the beauty of the

[34:35]Quran it has such a special trait it has an eternal value

[34:41]that no matter who's reading it whether the verse came down now

[34:46]or in a thousand years people read it it's addressing the same

[34:53]problem because it's a human problem the Quran wasn't speaking to people

[34:56]that lived at a certain time only humans are humans whether they

[35:01]lived a thousand years ago or they live now we have the

[35:04]same exact problems the same exact issues yes things on the outside

[35:08]change they didn't have cars before we have cars now but who's

[35:14]driving the car the human who was riding the horse and the

[35:17]camel the human things around this changed but the human is the

[35:23]human and the Quran came to address the human problems what is

[35:27]your issue you man and woman why is your life terrible here

[35:32]what is going to make you suffer it doesn't matter what time

[35:36]you live where you live whether you're in China or you're in

[35:39]Africa or you're in Russia or I don't know why I'm mentioning

[35:43]all those regions that are supposed to be the bad guys in

[35:45]in the news but listen the US South America everybody the Quran

[35:51]is addressed to everyone yes on the outside it was speaking to

[35:55]people that were living at that time but the spirit of the

[36:01]verses is for all of humankind everybody no matter the time no

[36:06]matter the place so when you read the Quran remember that God

[36:09]is the one who fashioned this Quran he created it he revealed

[36:13]it this is these are the words of God and God is

[36:17]not me or you or a human being who is trying to

[36:20]sell you something or trying to convince you about a very mundane

[36:24]or simple idea this is the creator of existence these are his

[36:28]words so when you read them bear in mind who's talking to

[36:31]you if you have someone who's a very big thinker someone you

[36:37]know is very intelligent and smart and they tell you something you

[36:40]would assume that there's some wisdom in what they're saying even if

[36:44]it sounded very simple to you why because you know who's speaking

[36:46]to you no way this intelligent person is telling me this very

[36:53]simple idea so when you read the Quran keep in mind that

[36:55]is Allah subhana is speaking to you that the creator of the

[37:01]universe the one who understands the small things and the large things

[37:04]in the human being every intricate detail inside of us God is

[37:09]aware of so when you read the Quran always keep that in

[37:12]mind what is this being who knows everything about me trying to

[37:19]tell me so read the Quran consciously try to see what the

[37:23]objective is become creative individuals use the teachings of the Quran to

[37:28]bring about about inventions the one who invented the car who invented

[37:30]the the the the ship the airplane whatever it is these were

[37:33]humans who invented them us as Muslims at one period of time

[37:39]we were inventing everything in the scientific world was in the Islamic

[37:42]world but there was a difference the inventions of the Muslim scientists

[37:45]was with purpose was to serve Humanity to bring about goodness in

[37:49]their life and it's about time for us to pick ourselves up

[37:55]again to use the knowledge that we have to improve our lives

[37:58]and the lives of humanity as well I won't take more of

[38:04]your time this is the first night inshallah um we'll see you

[38:06]on on the next nights as well during this month fasting is

[38:12]a challenge and it's very difficult for a lot of us but

[38:14]always keep in mind that fasting is also something that God has

[38:19]ordained inside of us in order for us to purify ourselves and

[38:22]clear our minds I ask Allah subhana tala to bring us the

[38:25]awareness to awaken ourselves awaken our souls [Applause]

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