Qur'an City - Session 1

28 Bekeken· 24/06/21

Wessex Jamaat
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Wessex Jamaat is delighted to host Sister Ummulbaneen Merali on the first Sunday of every month at the Al Mahdi Centre, to take us on a journey through Qur'an City, exploring the various Suwer of the Noble Qur'an!

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Transcript

[0:09]foreign [Music] all right come to all of you know I must

[1:24]say thank holiday weekend uh just before half term and I've seen

[1:31]I'm thrilled to see uh such a good turnout so uh it's

[1:35]a good start alhamdulillah so just a few points are really uh

[1:40]it's not going to be a long speech this time so the

[1:43]Russian Alpha this series started off back in Ramadan because every time

[1:46]we have a Ramadan month we start the the committee Center is

[1:52]very very much enlightened and and obviously towards the end we always

[1:59]tend to say we should carry on the spirit and it happens

[2:01]every year obviously not so we thought this time we follow through

[2:03]it and the the idea behind this series essentially as an as

[2:09]the name suggests it's a family event so we would love to

[2:12]see children it's an event to to have uh under increase our

[2:19]understanding about the Quran and obviously we try and keep it regularly

[2:23]so that the session there is some sort of continuity on it

[2:27]so we we're hoping once a month which is sort of just

[2:32]about the right time to to keep to keep up the enthusiasm

[2:36]we will make sure at the moment it's set up as the

[2:40]last Sunday of the month inshallah we will stick to that the

[2:45]only if there are any changes I'm assuming the last in July

[2:48]or because leader will correspond to the other but we will let

[2:51]you all know way in advance when there are any changes but

[2:54]we are hoping to keep it the last Sunday of every month

[2:56]so inshallah we look forward to seeing you all throughout these sessions

[3:02]and the next ones as well and we keep this link in

[3:04]terms of the speaker uh the coordinator umianti obviously is well known

[3:11]to the community uh even before my times so asking her to

[3:16]bring back was mutually just re-establishing a lost Link umanti is does

[3:21]a lot of work as you can see with the with the

[3:27]text and reference in front of you and she's a co-founder of

[3:29]Q Fatima we started in 1991.

[3:34]so without further Ado I would pass the the mic back to

[3:36]meant to conduct this session thank you very much for attending please

[3:45]please so you should each have one of these a map if

[3:56]you are over 12 years old then you should have one of

[4:04]these and if you're under 12 years old you should have one

[4:06]of these and each of you should have something to write with

[4:09]so you don't write it it's not going to work okay so

[4:13]we started for NCT in 2013 which is 10 years ago we're

[4:20]actually challenging the Norms basically because looking at the children that we

[4:25]used to teach at Workshop I found that as far as the

[4:30]Quran goes they knew the stories the stories of the prophets so

[4:33]if you wanted to illustrate something they would know the stories of

[4:36]the prophets you know with Prophet no they'd make an ark with

[4:41]Musa that make the stick and so on and so forth but

[4:43]when it came to knowing an overview of the Quran they didn't

[4:49]know anything so if you ask them what is Surah number 50

[4:52]they would go um don't know they may know the surahs that

[4:59]were recited in Salah but know them as parrots so as I

[5:03]call it in my cordial language they would bare in body so

[5:08]in Salah for example when you recite the surahs it would be

[5:14]and that was it and that is where Quran was used or

[5:19]maybe when somebody died or in the month of Ramadan so we

[5:22]were challenging the norms and we tried to find a way in

[5:25]which we could get these children especially and when I say children

[5:29]I'm actually saying parents but you can get to them through their

[5:33]children by being able to understand the Quran so the first thing

[5:38]we did was build a Lego City so we took a board

[5:44]it wasn't like this by the way it was just 114 buildings

[5:50]now Quran city has 114 buildings it will never grow it will

[5:56]never downsize the 114 buildings represent the 114 sewer of the Quran

[6:04]one Surah so many Sur I say surahs because at that time

[6:10]10 years ago when I used the word sewer because in the

[6:12]Gujarati language it means something else they wrote to all the mirage's

[6:15]office and said she's swearing but in the Arabic language it's one

[6:19]Surah and so many sewer but I'll call it sures so Quran

[6:24]city is 114 surahs will never downsize will never grow we made

[6:28]the buildings the height of the buildings according to the number of

[6:34]the ayat in the Surah so obviously the longest building or the

[6:39]tallest building was Surat al-baqarah and the shortest building was right so

[6:43]they're made in proportion so in the first instance it was just

[6:47]like a whole row of buildings then we thought we got to

[6:50]distinguish between makkhi and madani now maybe here you will see that

[6:54]we got all the teachers and the students to build and maybe

[6:57]we can do that one day in one of the sessions as

[7:00]well where you'll build it with Lego and it's really interesting so

[7:02]we thought we've got to make a distinction between Maki and madani

[7:06]because it's really important to know which are Makin which is madani

[7:13]so we decided we'd have yellow tops for madani and green tops

[7:16]for no yellow tops from Maki and green thought so madani why

[7:20]because the embroidery on the Kaaba is yellow and the Derm of

[7:27]the Prophet is green now there's 86 monkey and 28 madanisuras if

[7:32]you look there which are 86.

[7:36]talk about the why of religion madani talk about the how of

[7:45]religion so the usul is basically is maki and the furu is

[7:49]in madani more emphasis is done on makki 86 verses 28.

[7:54]now yes there are some madani ayat in makisura and there are

[7:58]some monkey ayat in madani Surah but this is the general categorization

[8:03]that the ulama have done so if you look at your map

[8:07]and the children can look at it as well you will see

[8:09]green and yellow can you see green and yellow there's green squares

[8:14]in yellow squares now if you're not 12 you need to Crown

[8:17]all the green squares and put the number on top and count

[8:21]all the yellow squares and put it on top and hopefully I

[8:23]haven't made a mistake so there will be 86 yellow and 28

[8:28]green now if you look at the screen that you have it

[8:30]will actually tell you what Maki and madani are so you will

[8:36]see matki Surah as the ayatar brief you will find this invitation

[8:39]to basically it is see usul is three dohit nabua and Imam

[8:48]go together so in essence there are three adala is part of

[8:53]so I will call it recognizing divinity then you have Divine guidance

[9:00]and then you have accountability so most in fact almost everything in

[9:05]the makisuras will be focused on that which tells me and you

[9:08]that there is a major differentiation in the way we teach because

[9:13]we teach more of the how than the why when here 86

[9:19]Ry and then comes the how so modern you will find the

[9:22]verses are long they're formal there's a lot of while here there's

[9:28]the ayuhan nas or you who of all people and all you

[9:35]who believe so that's my key and modern just jump some general

[9:38]stuff now what you need to know just general stuff the 6236

[9:41]ayat in the Quran it's good to know these numbers 6236 114

[9:47]sewer or suras it was never revealed as sipara or Jews it

[9:52]was much later on that it was done into like people divided

[9:58]it into exactly 30 parts so they'll be able to finish a

[10:01]recitation in a month if you look at your Quran at the

[10:05]bottom you will see manzil or monazil so there's seven manasil so

[10:09]if you wanted to finish the recitation in a week you would

[10:13]follow what's written at the bottom then this Quran was sent to

[10:17]Russia to a place called bukhar now in buhar the ulama bear

[10:23]wanted to finish the Quran in tarawiya the rawya finishes on the

[10:27]27th of Ramadan do you know 20 20 times 27 oh come

[10:33]on sorry I gotta wake you up bank holiday weekend 500 and

[10:36]40.

[10:37]so they wanted to divide the Quran into 540 sections so they

[10:43]did sort of a general subject Division and they called it Ruku

[10:47]you know there's an iron we call it a Makara in Gujarati

[10:52]or Urdu right now the makra in inverted brackets is actually called

[10:56]a Ruku has three numbers one at the top one in the

[11:02]middle and one at the bottom the top is the Ruku number

[11:04]in the Surah the bottom in the Jews and the middle tells

[11:09]you how many ayat in that Ruku so these people in buhar

[11:11]did a sort of General if I can say they went through

[11:16]topics and they put it in a generalized way so they had

[11:18]540.

[11:18]but the Indians didn't like the Russians as usual so they made

[11:28]some more rukus and their rukus come to 558 so if you

[11:31]have an Indian Quran it will have 558 if you have a

[11:38]Russian or an Arabic Quran it will be 500 and 40 okay

[11:42]there are Indians also stole the Arabic numbers so the Arabs told

[11:47]the English numbers but that's another story altogether okay but this is

[11:52]basically some general bits about the Quran so we had this Quran

[11:55]and we thought okay now what do we do because it also

[11:59]has a chronological order so the order you and I have is

[12:04]the order the prophet put of the Quran one two three four

[12:06]and so on while if you look at the chronological order the

[12:09]marquisuras and then the madani so the first Surah that was revealed

[12:15]obviously you know Surat Al fatih was revealed twice because it says

[12:18]but the first one was which is revealed to the prophet when

[12:29]he was on the mountain you all know that right so you

[12:31]have 96 and then 68 and then 73 so what we did

[12:36]was if you look at your books as adults you speak any

[12:38]Surah let's let's just turn your books Let's Speak Surah to Noor

[12:44]which is Surah number 24.

[12:44]okay page 68 and 69 I've just turned the page so when

[12:50]we teach children we tell them each Surah has a postcode so

[12:54]the postcode of Surah donor is 110 2422 can you see what

[13:00]110 24 22 because that's the chronological order the Surah that was

[13:06]revealed before it and the Surah that was revealed after it have

[13:11]you got it look at the bottom you at the bottom there

[13:16]you've got early monkey then you've got middle Marquee late late late

[13:20]late um Marquee and then you've got madani can you see that

[13:24]at the bottom page 68 and 69 is that you see where

[13:29]the postcode comes from so that basically taught the children that there

[13:32]was a chronological order as well and hopefully somewhere in the future

[13:38]if we have life and and time allows we'll be able to

[13:40]do a whole sort of connection because each one sort of if

[13:44]I can say dovetails onto the other but that's that's something else

[13:48]too then we thought okay now what do we do the first

[13:53]thing we thought was would build this city now you've got to

[13:57]have some rules in entering this city so if you look at

[13:59]your map you've got a little gate there can you see that

[14:04]it says on it and then near the gate it says to

[14:08]be able to enter this city you have to do wudu you

[14:11]have to be able to recite in Arabic or learn how to

[14:15]recite in Arabic or be in the process of reciting in Arabic

[14:17]because that's the language of the Quran right you have to seek

[14:22]protection from shaytan so every time you recite every time you go

[14:25]to Quran you say then you will start in the name of

[14:32]Allah which is Bismillah then you would say Lila now this is

[14:37]a schedule of what you need to do because that takes you

[14:39]into a zone of of saying he is the one and then

[14:44]the Dua of the prophet and the Dua of the Prophet is

[14:46]which is make my heart if the guitar so basically I want

[14:52]to fall in love with your book it literally it says teach

[14:58]me or make me internalize the Quran into my heart as you

[15:02]have taught me okay and that's every time you start looking at

[15:08]this book okay then we have a road Network so we divided

[15:13]this this Quran into different sections and I'll go over them in

[15:18]a minute but each one needed to be connected by a road

[15:21]Network and we call that road Network M14 which is the 14

[15:23]masumin so you could not be able to understand any of the

[15:29]chapters or any of the surahs unless you referred to the Hadith

[15:33]of the masumin okay right now if you look at your city

[15:39]and I'm gonna go into camera in a minute in fact let

[15:42]me go back to the city there we go if you look

[15:47]at that City you have a city center and the City Center

[15:52]is the chapters that are directly referring to the Quran look at

[15:55]your maps and you will see it right in the middle I

[15:58]think I've got you got these that one that's the city center

[16:02]so we first created a city center and you can see the

[16:04]city center is a queue oh by the way when we were

[16:07]doing this we looked at the morphology of Medina which means how

[16:10]did the prophet build Madina so we went through the whole structure

[16:13]of how he built Medina what he did where he put the

[16:18]industries where he put the parks so on and so forth okay

[16:21]so we started the city center and the City Center is four

[16:23]surahs and we'll go on to these as we go to the

[16:28]different sections and around the city center we've got 19 suburbs all

[16:31]around there and I'll tell you each one as we go along

[16:35]because it's just an introduction but we're going to start with suratul

[16:37]Kamar which is right at the top and now I'll try and

[16:43]get this little camera so right at the top of Quran City

[16:47]you have surital Kamar the reason why we put Kamar there was

[16:50]a the Moon and you and I as Muslims identified by the

[16:53]moon the moment somebody sees the moon they say Muslims right so

[16:58]we put it up there but also four times in this Surah

[17:02]Allah says does anybody know what he says think go to your

[17:08]book go to your Quran good and I'm gonna make you think

[17:11]a little bit here because otherwise you're all going to go to

[17:15]sleep Surah number 54.

[17:15]can you see that it's page one to eight so basically if

[17:34]I translate this in in very simple language he says is there

[17:38]anyone who wishes to understand the Quran or let me put it

[17:45]a bit I'll put it paraphrase it we have made the Quran

[17:47]extremely easy for Anyone who puts a tiny bit of effort yes

[17:58]so in the Quran or rather in Arabic you have is somebody

[18:05]who puts in a lot of effort in Remembering then you have

[18:10]somebody puts in a little bit less effort but the the word

[18:15]used here is somebody who puts a tiny bit of effort he

[18:17]says just put a tiny bit of effort and you'll be able

[18:21]to internalize it I'm gonna stress again that maybe all of you

[18:23]remember this Ayah because when you went into inverted brackets big Quran

[18:28]it is this book no doubt is a guidance for those who

[18:40]believe it didn't say it is just a book of recitation so

[18:45]it's supposed to take me somewhere and when we go to certified

[18:49]we'll see it so the reason why I put Gummer there was

[18:50]because tiny bit of effort he doesn't even say a lot he

[18:57]just emphasizes just a little bit of effort then the city center

[19:03]for surahs 25 96 97 98 now if you go onto the

[19:08]website I don't have time today but I would have loved to

[19:10]do mnemonics with you if you only start for an hour maybe

[19:14]one day in the future in an hour I guarantee you you

[19:19]would know the names of the Surah in their order within an

[19:22]hour by learning mnemonics mnemonics are really really easy okay so right

[19:28]now 25 96 97 98 furukan tells you who you would become

[19:32]if you recite the Quran and who you would become if you

[19:39]didn't so there's who then you have 96 which is Alec which

[19:41]is how the Quran was revealed which you all know when the

[19:46]Quran was revealed and finally you have suratul baijina which tells you

[19:50]what the Quran is in essence it tells you it's a crystal

[19:55]clear message but the Quran and the prophet go hand in hand

[19:58]okay so we put a city center around the city center oh

[20:05]okay so before cities before around the center right at the bottom

[20:09]you've got Viewpoint Terrace can you see it this is the order

[20:14]that the admin have put okay not me so I'm doing what

[20:16]they've said so Viewpoint Terrace is an aspiration of every Muslim so

[20:23]each of you each of us all of us want to be

[20:26]a moment we want to believe we want to be put in

[20:28]that group so it's by the way these two sures also we

[20:31]didn't know what to do with them so we put them in

[20:34]Viewpoint Terrace so you want to be a mop mean but Zoomer

[20:40]is Companions of Jannah and jahannam but my children tell me that

[20:43]you want to be a man who wants to zoom to Jannah

[20:45]can you remember that so Viewpoint Terrace Zoom Zoomer is companions Companions

[20:51]of Jannah and Johanna but you want to go to Jannah inshallah

[20:55]when we do Zuma you will see how beautiful that is so

[20:59]now we started with Divine Center in other words now we started

[21:05]with usul tohid which is recognition of Allah then we went obviously

[21:08]to Divine guidance and then we went to Kiama so if you

[21:12]look underneath City Center you've got Divine Center and atuseras we've put

[21:21]here 55 and 67 55 is 67 is Mulk the only Asma

[21:24]that is used as the title of a chapter is Rahman what

[21:30]we're developing this year we've got it somewhere here is the same

[21:33]thing but a small husna maybe some years later we'll do it

[21:37]if if life gets there okay so that's Divine Center either side

[21:41]of divine Center you've got two things you would harm me that

[21:46]Center Crescent and you've got Musa bihad Crescent hamidad Crescent is all

[21:53]those chapters that begin with you know when you say alhamdulillah is

[21:58]Not Just Praise It's a combination of praise and gratitude okay so

[22:05]all the chapters and this is divisions that have been done by

[22:08]the olama by the way they've called these all hamidat we've just

[22:10]put it in a city and call it amidad present so there's

[22:14]1 6 18 34 and 35 not gonna go in each one

[22:19]don't get scared but hopefully you will read them in the book

[22:21]and go through them my favorite ones are these seven chapters seven

[22:27]days in a week they all start with Subhan Subhan comes from

[22:33]the Arabic word sabaha which means to swim or to float you

[22:37]can only float if you have a perfect balance so that's what

[22:43]Subhan is about the prophet would not sleep until he read one

[22:46]of these every night so what I tell the children is at

[22:52]least memorize one Ayah the first Ayah of each of these obviously

[22:54]on Thursday night you will do jamoire so you could start Thursday

[22:58]Friday Saturday so Israel on Sunday Hadid on Monday hasher on Tuesday

[23:07]stuff on Wednesday July on Thursday on Friday and Saturday is a

[23:12]Allah they're phenomenal surahs the prophet used to say they have Islam

[23:16]in them and if you want to reach Heights these are the

[23:19]surestary site as in every night before you go to sleep so

[23:23]say you find it difficult to recite all of them at least

[23:25]one Ayah and slowly it'll build up as you go along now

[23:30]we come to Divine guidance which is what you call nubowa and

[23:35]imama and if you look at that if you look at your

[23:36]Maps here which it just cut out a bit from there we've

[23:40]called it Muhammad Square and in Muhammad Square you've got various things

[23:46]I'm going to start with circle can you see that you got

[23:50]and suratul Go sir are you gonna do that because the heart

[23:54]talks about the you know the story when they fasted for three

[23:59]days and then the poor man came you know the story yes

[24:01]no maybe but oh thank God for that okay so that is

[24:04]the Surah of the bed and cother is basically about Fatima so

[24:12]gotha is Lam so we put both these in a holiday Circle

[24:15]then we had 47 48 and 49 which is literally talking about

[24:22]the prophet it's respect to the prophet I won't go into each

[24:24]one right now then we have nidar street again this is what

[24:30]the ulama have called the surahs Nida means to call out so

[24:34]each one will say except 73 and 74 would say directly calls

[24:44]the prophet now there are two surahs in Muhammad square that we

[24:49]put on the street halfway and I'll tell you when we get

[24:56]to Jerusalem there were Taha and yeah scene because those two start

[25:01]well which is the cut letters and there's 29 surahs which we'll

[25:04]go into in a minute okay and then obviously Kiama clothes so

[25:10]you can see how it builds up you've got tawheed you've got

[25:13]nabua and then right at the top you've got priyama and although

[25:16]there are many other sewer of the Quran that talk about Kiama

[25:20]these are the ones we put in Kiama clothes which will give

[25:23]you a vivid picture of the day of judgment okay I'm not

[25:27]going to go into each one right now okay now you have

[25:31]four corners start with kulkona there are five cools although we only

[25:35]know four the other one that we don't normally know is Jin

[25:41]suratul Jin starts with actually means okay if you say it means

[25:52]eat if you say ah it means say so it's cool even

[25:53]when you're praying all right so maybe one day then we have

[25:59]woman's corner so all the Surah the Tena talk about women who

[26:03]had titles with women in them we put them here there was

[26:06]Maryam there was Nisa muja de la and mumtahana and you can

[26:11]see Maryam we sort of put at the edge because it goes

[26:14]into Rufus because it starts with so we put it there okay

[26:21]if ever in life you have a problem that's not moving away

[26:25]it could be a person who people are not problems normally but

[26:30]if they are readila three times has a phenomenal effect in fact

[26:35]I would read much every day if I were you it just

[26:39]prevention is better than cure um just one more thing actually talks

[26:43]about a woman who changed hola her name was who changed the

[26:49]whole law literally by talking to the prophet and Allah changes the

[26:53]law because of her but when we come to the Surah we'll

[26:56]get to it then we have karbachona is coming up this is

[27:01]so you've got a Hajj coming up and these are the three

[27:03]we're doing at workshop for this term which is if you go

[27:11]on the website that you've got a full explanation of each of

[27:16]them okay then we have exiled Corner the children call it noticona

[27:19]you see noticona right at the top so naughty corner has all

[27:25]the sower they're not very good so you can see in that

[27:28]corner the yellow ones are he frowned when you've got mutafeen you've

[27:32]got takarthur you've got homoza you've got my own and lab but

[27:37]when they go to Medina they couldn't Express their Badness straight out

[27:41]so you can see now they're to hide it so you've got

[27:45]munafikun there can you see you couldn't outright be bad because you've

[27:49]declared yourself as Muslims so now you've got to be covert about

[27:53]that now if you're an exiled corner you need to come out

[27:55]because you're in prison right to come out you've got to go

[27:58]to Toba turn now these two surahs are linked through to unfal

[28:02]and sorted tawba and there is always an ability to make a

[28:09]u-turn so to come out it's like Monopoly you're going to come

[28:11]out you need get out of jail you need certain things you

[28:15]need Toba okay that's all that's why we thought every city needs

[28:17]an energy source it needs power so in energy Zone because nor

[28:26]is all about energy positive energy okay and then you need somewhere

[28:32]to chill somewhere to sit down and chill so when the prophet

[28:34]was really really upset he would go for a walk and in

[28:39]Medina he built Gardens where you could actually walk and sit down

[28:42]somewhere but the true story that took him through the most difficult

[28:48]times of his life in which he would say later on that

[28:49]If Ever I was stuck these are the two sword I would

[28:54]recite is the ha and and Shira by the way you talk

[28:57]about okay so I'll just use surahs for to make it easy

[29:03]and these gave him comfort so every any time you find life

[29:07]is getting a bit difficult these are the two who are too

[29:09]or the two who are attained to recite and there we go

[29:14]we had a healthy zone they're all about healthy eating these days

[29:17]we actually moved it out it was somewhere else where we created

[29:22]another Zone because it's got milk fruits and honey and it talks

[29:25]about the Bee by the way do you know how you remember

[29:28]16 is knuckle so in the English language you say sweet 16

[29:34]right what is sweet honey and what is this at least you

[29:38]know what Surah number 16 is right okay great begin with letters

[29:48]that just the Arabs had never heard the Arabs were Masters are

[29:53]literature but they'd never heard of something like this before and suddenly

[29:57]Allah brings these letters in they're all abbreviated right so you have

[30:01]tasin you have the singles which are noon cough and oh by

[30:09]the way through what rhymes with cough house and what's half in

[30:18]percentage 50.

[30:17]so what is Surah number 50.

[30:19]ass okay this is methodologies to remember but these were 29 sore

[30:26]and it's easy to remember because Kata means to cut but in

[30:28]English Cut means to cut as well there's 29 of them and

[30:36]you can now see why Maryam Taha and Yasin were placed over

[30:40]there okay now we had some swords that were left over these

[30:45]two ambian knew we didn't know where to put them so if

[30:48]you look at raat place in place you've got you knows who

[30:55]the use of Ibrahim can you see them and we thought Noah

[30:58]would feel a little bit lonely if we put him separately so

[31:03]we put him near there near our art place so we called

[31:05]it Ambia Annex and we put them there but also you will

[31:09]find have a look and see what suratul ambiya begins with any

[31:13]idea anyway I'll leave that up to you these are some things

[31:17]that you need to look and have a look at then we've

[31:18]got custom place I gotta explain a little bit about custom place

[31:23]okay so these are surahs where Allah swears now in you if

[31:26]you have a book here I also make notes in the book

[31:29]which sort of helps a little bit I haven't added a lot

[31:31]of stuff here now the Arabs if they wanted your attention pre-quran

[31:37]pre-islam used to say so if they wanted a headline they would

[31:44]say I swear by the flower and people knew that that person

[31:47]wanted to tell you something interesting using that same concept Allah changes

[31:54]it so basically the object becomes the proof of the subject the

[31:58]object which is being sworn about in the Quran Allah doesn't need

[32:04]to swear to prove its truthfulness it becomes the in in actual

[32:07]word if I can say it becomes a proof of the subject

[32:09]let me give you an example um have you got your qurans

[32:13]here have you got a book here have you got a phone

[32:15]with your Quran go to through Ayah number 74 75.

[32:22]you've got lots of ground at the back okay uh number 75

[32:31]says I swear by the placement of the Stars this is what

[32:40]Allah says I swear by the by this by the placement of

[32:46]the Stars if only you knew this is a huge custom a

[32:54]huge thing I'm swearing by now what does he say Ayah number

[32:59]77 he says in getting indeed this is an honorable Quran the

[33:07]stars were used by the Arabs in the desert the placement of

[33:12]the Stars showed you Direction it was navigational purposes so here the

[33:18]object of the swearing of the qasim is a star the placement

[33:23]of the Stars placement of the Stars means navigation the subject is

[33:28]the Quran so he's telling you and me that just as the

[33:31]stars are guiding you physically in the desert the Quran will guide

[33:37]you in your life can you see that every single bit in

[33:39]that place in cousin plays every oath in there will talk about

[33:45]it while us questions are inshallah we'll do all of these when

[33:48]we get to the Sewer then we have Victory Circle which is

[33:52]if you look at City Center at the top you've got Victory

[33:56]Circle and I mean this is a no-brainer is Victory is you

[34:07]all know that and then we put caramel clothes we had to

[34:12]because at the end of the day that is where the last

[34:16]Revelation is this day I perfected your religion for you so he

[34:23]called it Carmel close and we said that was the last revelation

[34:27]every single building that you've got here if you've got a book

[34:30]you will see it there's a color directory and that is literally

[34:35]the color directory but when we go to the buildings you'll understand

[34:38]what I'm doing there but today I'd like to take you through

[34:43]a building and I'll take you through before I go there what

[34:46]I suggest you do is you turn your map round and we've

[34:51]got a blank one there can you see that so that's your

[34:56]homework hopefully before next week now next month yeah sorry not next

[35:01]week you will try and fill in those blanks do you think

[35:04]you could do them yeah so you just go back and forth

[35:10]like that we've got lots more here if you want to take

[35:12]them okay but just see if you can manage to do that

[35:16]go on the website learn the mnemonics and see if you know

[35:19]all 100 and 114.

[35:22]are you good no you'll try you'll try but you know what

[35:27]if nothing else at least try maybe just Quran City Center maybe

[35:32]those that you can you can manage that whatever you can do

[35:35]okay so that's basically your homework but I'd like to go through

[35:38]through and this is basically how we teach so we went through

[35:45]a modular process at Q Fatima the first thing is Q read

[35:50]Curie teaches you how to recite Quran Arabic nothing replaces the beauty

[35:54]of the Quran and you can only experience Quran in Salah you

[35:58]have to move away from the KOJA methodology or mentality whereby you

[36:02]only recite the short surahs in Salah if you ask amokoja I

[36:07]love being a KOJA okay so I'm not taking that away from

[36:11]it I mean I am really proud of being a kojo but

[36:12]as coaches we recite Surah Fatiha and then maybe it's I mean

[36:21]maybe you know the days that we're a bit maybe maybe on

[36:26]Eid Shams and Allah but that's it and if you've you know

[36:33]say I'm reciting suratul I don't know today they'll tell you to

[36:38]sunicho it's not like that and that brings me to another thing

[36:41]five prayers five times a day it was convenient to pay three

[36:47]five prayers three times a day so good to know the times

[36:49]good to recite different Source anyway different story all together right now

[36:53]this is how we teach so the module thing was first cured

[36:57]second it was having an overview of the Quran like this keep

[37:00]it in front of you okay and then to look at it

[37:04]and to be able to know all the sore so if I

[37:07]were to tell you where is Surah number two you'd immediately know

[37:10]it's in Mima to place if I asked you where's Surah number

[37:15]63 you tell me it's definitely in the exiled Corner if I

[37:19]ask you where 62 what would you tell me if I asked

[37:26]you I don't know 76 and 108 come on you got to

[37:33]know those 76 riddle in sun and suratul kova a little bait

[37:36]Circle so like that just test yourself and keep on learning them

[37:40]as you go along but do it or not not like most

[37:43]of the children do their bags from a dress I don't know

[37:47]about your children but the ones I see the bags of my

[37:48]dress that go in the boot of their mom's cars and come

[37:52]out the following Saturday or Sunday okay this should be done on

[37:54]a daily basis for you to be able to do it so

[37:57]I said Q read learning how to recite having an overview of

[38:01]the Quran looking at this and then looking at each Surah and

[38:05]first of all knowing its axis axes is its focus so all

[38:11]the ulama all the scholars of the Quran some have called it

[38:13]some have called it all different things but in essence it's the

[38:15]focus of every Surah and then the key concept of that Surah

[38:20]we're not out here to make ulama that you go to HOSA

[38:24]for it's just a matter of knowing this book and then we'll

[38:26]talk about how you will Journal it but that's we'll go into

[38:31]that so let's look at suratrophatia which you recite every day and

[38:33]all of you know the Surah by heart so I don't have

[38:36]to worry about you looking at the Quran okay so if you

[38:38]look at the building it's open your books which you have here

[38:42]and turn to it's on page 22 okay so you've got surital

[38:49]fatihad there so the first thing you look at is right at

[38:57]the top we've put the focus of that Surah Surat al-fatya is

[39:02]in essence the summary of the Quran so imagine you went shopping

[39:08]for a God you didn't have a god you just started right

[39:11]go for a clean slate okay let me try and bring you

[39:16]into that mode um have you watched that movie what's it called

[39:24]you should know it about the fish what's he called Nemo yeah

[39:29]yeah so now Nemo is a fish right isn't he and his

[39:34]parents get attacked in a Barracuda attack is that right am I

[39:37]right okay so I remember when my daughter was little she's 22

[39:43]now 20 22 22 now okay she's 22 now the youngest one

[39:47]and I remember that's when Nemo first came out when she was

[39:51]five or six now when we were watching Finding Nemo is that

[39:54]what it's called Finding Nemo when we were watching Finding Nemo if

[39:56]you gave her fish fingers she won't eat it because there was

[40:02]a paradigm shift in her head that Nemo was real and eating

[40:05]fish fingers was like being a barracuda and that you were eating

[40:10]fish but as soon as that finished she would have fish fingers

[40:14]it was funny isn't it that's called a paradigm shift it's how

[40:18]you change right so right now change and imagine you have no

[40:21]religion at all and you were looking through everywhere to find a

[40:25]God so you went shopping for a God and you went through

[40:28]all the books and in this book you found that this God

[40:34]of of Islam had four qualities he was rub rub is someone

[40:37]who takes you with your hand step by step to your full

[40:43]potential that is my my rub have mercy on my parents just

[40:51]as they guided me to my full potential when I was little

[40:55]so Rob is someone who guides you to your full potential whatever

[40:59]you want to be you know he takes you that then he

[41:05]was Rahman and Rahim Rahman is somebody someone who is extremely incredibly

[41:09]merciful to everyone I would give the example of a dentist if

[41:14]I have a toothache the only thing I want to know is

[41:20]for that dentist to do something to that tooth take it out

[41:23]do whatever you want to do but get rid of my pain

[41:27]that is Rahman immediate now but if I want my teeth to

[41:34]be okay then I see a hygienist and I actually subscribe to

[41:37]the to the to the dental institution or whatever it is the

[41:42]dental practice so the hygienist is Rahim is exclusive Mercy for those

[41:49]who subscribe to Allah so those who connect to Allah so you

[41:52]have Rahman to all you can't say y'allah don't be Rahman to

[41:55]whatever because he's not a Muslim doesn't work like that so he's

[42:01]Rahman to all and then he's Rahim an extra Mercy to those

[42:04]who are connected to him now also Rahman is immediate Rahim is

[42:10]constant there are so many different types about it but in essence

[42:15]cover all aspects of incredibly kind okay so you found this God

[42:23]who was Rob he was Rahman and he was Rahim and thank

[42:24]God for that he's the one you are accountable to Maliki or

[42:30]Maliki yomid so if I had accountability I'd go to him Prophet

[42:33]Musa he says yeah Allah I just want to see how kind

[42:40]you are so it says Musa look at that Mom and mom

[42:42]was looking after a baby he was screaming and if you haven't

[42:46]had screaming babies then there's something wrong with you okay so screaming

[42:51]baby mom picks up the child feeds the child changes the child

[42:54]rocks the child by the child still screams so Mom puts the

[42:59]baby in a cradle and walks away for a minute for a

[43:03]breather and goes back to the baby and Allah says Musa did

[43:06]you see that mother did you see it I am 70 times

[43:13]more Rahman than that Mom so if you found that it is

[43:15]this this God whom you are accountable to no anybody else I

[43:21]mean I will subscribe to him he who is Allah I'd say

[43:25]that's the first section who is Allah so immediately that's the first

[43:36]section we've divided all the buildings into section the first section is

[43:41]who is Allah and immediately when I recognize these qualities I say

[43:45]is we wish to subscribe to you we want to enter your

[43:53]institution we want to be your up up and rubber sort of

[43:59]it's like a mirror like coal and fuel they say when an

[44:01]app is like coal and Rob is like like the like if

[44:05]you call the if you've called the Flames When the Call Comes

[44:08]near the Flames it takes the qualities of the rub right so

[44:14]but you know being alone is really hard so imagine for a

[44:21]minute close your eyes and imagine your house in Jannah go on

[44:25]it's called all your PlayStations go everything you ever wanted you imagine

[44:32]it okay but you're all alone in there what are you gonna

[44:40]do no Essex no pherom no oh God yeah nobody absolutely nobody

[44:42]just you and your beautiful home how many days will you survive

[44:47]one two five ten fifteen twenty maybe a month and then and

[44:55]no phone because you can't communicate with anybody else well that's that's

[45:00]hard isn't it no Facebook no Instagram no Snapchat no nobody just

[45:05]you and everything you wanted that is why you don't say yeah

[45:11]okay we we we wish to so whoever you want in your

[45:20]circle we wish to be those connected to you now there's lots

[45:26]of words for for help in Arabic but the word used here

[45:33]is is the Anna istiana is a word that is used for

[45:35]something you are already doing but you need help in you can't

[45:40]say nothing you can't say I want help for something you're not

[45:44]doing anything about is Ya Allah I'm already trying I'm trying I

[45:49]need your help or we need your help so he says what

[45:53]do you need help in so you say is guide us sirat

[46:01]by the way there are three words for us for Road in

[46:07]Arabic there's sirat there is Tariq and there's also sabil you probably

[46:10]have heard of them sirat has no plural sirat is straight so

[46:21]guide us on the path and mustakim sirat already means straight it's

[46:27]horrible when you read the translation because it says guide us on

[46:30]the straight path no guide us on the path that is vertical

[46:34]what do you say when you pray salahi basically the part that

[46:47]is going up from down to okay so guide me on the

[46:52]path which will take me closest to Divinity because the prophet said

[46:55]adopting yourself of Allah which means you're small husna I want to

[47:01]reach my full potential whenever you say guide us to our full

[47:07]potential so he gives you the answer in the third section he

[47:10]says very very simple I'm gonna go back in your books you

[47:20]have all this so we started with that we went there and

[47:26]we said it gives you an answer he said very simple follow

[47:38]the path of Those whom I have blessed past tense that's what

[47:46]he says that's his answer because you and I asked him so

[47:51]he gave an answer the path of Those whom I have already

[47:57]blessed not those on whom there is angry he doesn't say my

[48:00]anger his anger no he says on whom there is General anger

[48:04]and neither those who are lost so your first question or my

[48:12]first question as a human being who reads the Quran would be

[48:15]Allah who have you blessed isn't that the logical answer if you

[48:19]told someone show me the way to London and they say follow

[48:25]she who always gets there on time obviously obviously the question is

[48:29]who is she or who is he if I don't ask then

[48:35]that means I'm not even thinking so he says him follow the

[48:41]path of Those whom I have blessed simple question is Ya Allah

[48:46]who have you blessed he says simple read the rest of my

[48:49]Quran and you'll find out good yeah it's quite simple it's not

[48:55]not that difficult Okay so let me go back a bit that

[48:59]denotes desperation how many times do you and I say this 10

[49:03]times a day is guide us to our full potential okay and

[49:10]he gives the answer really well so what I'm gonna do is

[49:16]just take you very briefly through the and then we'll go to

[49:18]journaling through the one that the Surah that everybody says is really

[49:25]difficult longest Surah of the Quran if you ask somebody they say

[49:31]which means I have a headache just thinking about it like all

[49:35]right so I'm going to take you through this Surah because we

[49:38]need to learn all of them like this so This Surah basically

[49:41]if you look at it right at the top in your book

[49:45]it's on page 24.

[49:45]it's a long as Surah 1 12 of the Quran but in

[49:49]essence if you look at the Surah it is trying to understand

[49:53]Iman through history if you don't understand anything you got to look

[49:57]through history and that's how it takes you we are Shares are

[50:00]very very particular about this you learn from lessons of the past

[50:05]and then you move forward in life has nine sections you good

[50:10]with that nine sections easy it's got nine sections I'm gonna do

[50:17]it in about a minute okay section one it's a university imagine

[50:22]surusal bakar as a university and imagine you entered that University but

[50:26]they told you you choose the class we're not going to put

[50:29]you in a class you choose the class you want to go

[50:33]into because nobody can judge you you either believe or you don't

[50:37]believe or you're on the fence it's entirely up to you up

[50:41]to you you don't have to tell anyone there are three classes

[50:44]here either you cover up the truth which is what kafara means

[50:48]or kafiron means you know the truth but you cover it up

[50:50]or you believe or you're on the fence good with that first

[50:55]section first University first class second section he says this University belongs

[50:58]to me talks about Allah that's the second section the third section

[51:03]he says that's my first student who entered my University you're good

[51:09]I'm gonna go over it fourth section these are my naughty students

[51:13]they take up a lot of Surat al-baqarah all right let's not

[51:17]call them naughty they were my challenging students do you know why

[51:23]it's called bakra they were asked to sacrifice a cow what color

[51:26]how old where from what which what when all the rest of

[51:30]it just didn't go and do it straight away star student Prophet

[51:36]Ibrahim next section that was my star student now he says now

[51:40]you know the history of my University of how Faith came about

[51:43]I'm going to change your Qibla and inaugurate you into a new

[51:49]class because you can't go in a historical class that's where change

[51:52]of Qibla comes right section 7 that whole section is about what

[51:59]you do whether you fast or you you can see that all

[52:03]those different things in there what you eat and the most beautiful

[52:08]eye in there is beautiful have a look at it 177.

[52:13]next section he says all right so now you know what to

[52:18]do we need to look at some long-term Investments you can't just

[52:23]sit here and just have a ba you've got to do a

[52:27]masters that's Masters okay and there you will have Idol Kersey and

[52:30]it'll tell you all the different things and finally the last section

[52:34]is like a CPD it's a reiteration of your core beliefs is

[52:46]all right so let's go over this again without you looking at

[52:51]it I'm just going to go and select a diet Surah number

[52:55]two Focus Faith through history how many sections don't look at your

[53:03]books how many sections nine okay first section put yourself in a

[53:08]class believer non-believer or sitting on the fence second section who does

[53:13]University belong to Allah third section who was the first student Adam

[53:19]next section challenging students next section star student and you can always

[53:28]remember five Ibrahim is a star student okay next section six come

[53:31]on inauguration of a new class because change of Qibla seven what

[53:35]you learn in that class all the rules that you learn about

[53:41]eight long-term Investments nine CPD you know bakra now literally you know

[53:45]Baker in a matter of minutes it's literally that is basically the

[53:50]different different sections of Makara you can then go into each eye

[53:55]and we'll go into journaling and I'll show you what to do

[53:57]are you comfortable with that okay so each Surah we've done like

[54:01]that and I've taken you to the hardest one which is backer

[54:03]so you can imagine all the others are like I mean they're

[54:05]really easy okay we've picked some selected eye out here so there's

[54:15]a dwell Prophet Ibrahim Direction um you all know that 2156 we

[54:22]say it all the time what it means to be a good

[54:26]person so on and so forth you can read all those as

[54:28]you go along and you can you can put them in we've

[54:31]also done children's books you've got one there but these were kaswa

[54:35]visits so we took a little camel called kaswa we gave all

[54:37]the children a soft camel and we've done all these books that

[54:41]go into it again they're all on the website and you can

[54:43]access them from there but this is what we're working on this

[54:47]year which is A99 this is the latest version and hopefully we

[54:53]will look at it at some point in the future or you

[54:57]will look at it on the website and see as it grows

[55:01]okay so before I go on to anything else and this is

[55:03]literally the end have you got any questions anything at all ah

[55:18]maybe we will do a session only on Italy because then you

[55:22]can look at all that I'd hate to answer it in one

[55:30]it is freedom if you look at your book we've actually put

[55:35]itel corsi look at page 287.

[55:42]and if you go on the website I think they've superimposed the

[55:46]rainbow is supposed to go on top but it's actually a rainbow

[55:49]that takes you through Idol Kursi um okay maybe you've got a

[55:58]different have you got 287 so I'll take you through the rainbow

[56:09]at some stage okay but we've got a whole session on the

[56:11]on the website for it I don't answer in one second so

[56:15]what I want to talk to you about now is journaling I'm

[56:17]gonna put this down so hopefully your Quran looks like this you

[56:27]see that that's what we want that's what you would have so

[56:32]each of the surahs let's go into one into them you would

[56:37]have the building okay you can print it you can cut it

[56:42]out and do whatever you want and then everything is highlighted can

[56:45]you see them yes it's annotated so when you go through and

[56:51]read your Quran everything we've talked about today will come through so

[56:56]for example let's forget this so if you had something like this

[57:06]and you put all the notes in that you hear and you

[57:07]will have my jealous here you will have various sessions here every

[57:11]time you have a modalis every single Zakir ozakira starts with an

[57:16]eye of Quran so if you highlight that Quran in your when

[57:20]you go back home you highlight it in your Quran and you

[57:24]take a Post-It note and you take the key concepts of what

[57:26]she or he talked about you can see I have tiny little

[57:30]bits everywhere what she or he talked about you've built up a

[57:32]library from different speakers and different Scholars and it's phenomenal and it's

[57:39]amazing what it can work too and it doesn't go to waste

[57:45]this is a normal Quran which is um Shakir just anywhere I

[57:51]actually prefer one without a translation because the translations are really a

[57:56]bit different but this is shock in essence we gave it to

[57:58]each of our students at Workshop it helps in the first instance

[58:03]to look at the English translation but I'm sure we can find

[58:06]some to bring for you if you're going to do some journaling

[58:09]as well is another one yeah they're all different ones yeah my

[58:21]only problem with something of that so it was as I get

[58:26]getting older the words are too small so I struggle so I

[58:28]need something with large writing so near my muscle I have something

[58:32]that's got massive writing which makes more sense okay but I'll bring

[58:35]them all for you to have a look are you good oh

[58:41]you do okay so the translation is really good with those so

[58:47]that helps can we end with this is [Music] [Music] thank you

[59:13]for listening foreign

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