Can you imagine being in Mecca and the Prophet ﷺ is walking in your midst? Can you imagine being in that time frame? And you have, you know, the icons of Islam, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, Umar al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan radiallahu anhum, Ali ibn Abi Talib, you have all of these. And on the other side, you have those evil people of the Quraysh, you have Abu Lahab, you have, you know, Abu Jahl, you have all of these evil people. And the Qur'an tells us one of the conversations, one of the...
back and forth that took place. The Qur'an tells us that these Quraysh, Abu Jahl and others, they came to the Prophet ﷺ and they said, how do we know that you are a Prophet of Allah? Show us some miracles.
And the Qur'an records some of what they said. So for example, Allah says in the Qur'an, that, وَقَالُوا لَنْ نُؤْمِلَ لَكَ حَتَّى تَفْجُرَ لَنَا مِنْ الْأَرْضِ يَنْبُوعًا We're never gonna believe you until you just point your finger and say, and water should come from the ground in front of us. Or you snap your hands and create a big garden. Or send down some treasures from the heavens.
Or even, تُنَزِّلْ عَلَيْنَا كِتَابًا نَقْرَأُهُ Bring down an actual book, so that we see it from our eyes coming down. So they're challenging the Prophet ﷺ to show them a, what is the English word? A what?
A miracle. They're challenging to show the Prophet ﷺ a miracle Show us a miracle And by the way Allah mentions in the Qur'an That even if we had revealed that type of miracle Even if these amazing things happen They wouldn't accept Allah says in the Qur'an That وَلَوْ أَنَّنَا نَزَّلْنَا إِلَيْهِمُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ وَكَلَّمَهُمُ الْمَوْتَىٰ وَحَشَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ قُبُلًا مَا كَانُوا لِيُؤْمِنُوا Allah says, you know, this is just talk. If we actually sent all of the angels down and they saw it with their eyes. If we resurrected the dead and the dead said to them, believe in the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. The most amazing miracles. Allah says, in reality, مَا كَانُوا الْيُؤْمِنُوا They wouldn't actually believe.
It's just arrogance. They're challenging. But still, Allah wanted to show them the one miracle.
that should convince anybody who is sincere. Allah wanted to give at least one magnificent miracle so that their mouth should be quiet. So that anybody who is sincere will be able to see and say, okay, this man is a true Rasulullah ﷺ.
Allah has actually sent him. And Allah mentions in the Qur'an, وَقَالُوا لَوْلَا نُزِّلَ عَلَيْهِ آيَاتٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِ They say, why don't we see miracles? We want to see miracles.
Allah then says, أَوَلَمْ يَكْفِهِمْ أَنَّا أَنْزَنَّ عَلَيْكَ الْكِتَابَ يُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ Isn't it enough of a miracle that we have sent down to them the book that the tilawa is done of? The tilawa of the Qur'an is the miracle that Allah has revealed. The tilawa of the Qur'an that you guys are doing day and night.
The recitation of the Qur'an that we just listened to, the beauty of the Qur'an, that is the miracle that is bigger than the miracle of sending all the angels. It is bigger than the miracle of resurrecting the dead. It is bigger than the miracle of causing water to come out and to gardens to form. The Qur'an, the tilawa of the Qur'an, the recitation of the Qur'an, it is the biggest miracle that indicates that our Prophet ﷺ was a true prophet.
And in fact, when you grow older, another question will come to mind. People are gonna come to you when you go to university. Non-Muslims are gonna come, and they're gonna say to you, how do you know Islam is true? You were just born a Muslim. You went to madrasah.
Your parents sent you to madrasah. And your response is going to be, memorize this, I know Islam is true because I have the miracle of the Qur'an. The Qur'an is the miracle.
The Qur'an demonstrates and proves that this religion is true. The Prophet ﷺ is true. that my deen is correct.
And the Qur'an explicitly mentions this in so many verses. You're memorizing these verses. Allah says in the Qur'an that, do you believe, أَمْ يَقُولُونَ افْتَرَاهُ Do they say that he has fabricated the Qur'an? Do they say that he is writing it himself?
Allah says that, فَأْتُوا بِسُورَةٍ مِّن مِثْلِهِ Bring one surah like it. وَادْعُوا مَنْ اسْتَطَعْتُ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ إِن كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ And get all the help you want. Get your chat GPT. Get your AI. Get all of the leaders and the thinkers and the intellectuals and the professors.
And Allah says, bring even one surah like it. In another verse, Allah says, فَأْتُوا بِعَشِرْ سُورٍ مِثْلِ مُفْتَرَيَاتٍ Bring ten surahs like it. In another verse, Allah says, قُلْ فَأْتُوا بِكِتَابٍ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ وَأَدَامٍ Bring a book like the Qur'an. And by the way, some scholars say that Allah wanted to show how incapable they are, how weak they are.
So Allah first said, bring a book. They couldn't do it. Then Allah said, bring ten surahs.
They couldn't do it. Allah says, bring even one surah. They couldn't do it.
And then Allah revealed Surah Al-Baqarah, which is the last of these surahs when it comes to these verses. By the way, for the students studying Islam, there's five verses like this in the Qur'an. These are called the verses of challenge. Ayatul Tahaddi, the verses of challenge.
There's five verses like this in the Qur'an. Four of them were revealed in Mecca. One of them was revealed in Medina.
One of them, the last one. And that is in Surah Al-Baqarah. What is the verse that challenges mankind to produce the Qur'an in Surah Al-Baqarah?
Some of you know. Who's gonna say it? The verse that challenges mankind to produce something like the Qur'an is Surah Al-Baqarah. You can hear my sipping right from the microphone. I know some of you know this.
I'm not gonna move on until one of you tells me. Because it's right at the very beginning of Surah Al-Baqarah, the first few pages. I'm not gonna move on.
This is a challenge to all of you now. Yes, be brave. Sisters, be brave.
Yes, excellent. But what's the beginning? You're right, but the beginning, you gave me the end of the ayah, I want the beginning.
Yes, excellent, our sister gets it. وَإِن كُنْتُمْ فِي رَيْبٍ مِّمَّا نَزَّلْنَا عَلَىٰ عَبْدِنَا فَأْتُوا بِسُورَةٍ مِّمِّثْلِهِ Right? This is the last of the verses that came down. If you have any doubt about the Qur'an, then bring one surah similar to it.
And then Allah seals the challenge. This is the ceiling of the challenge. Allah says, فَإِن لَمْ تَفْعَلُوا وَلَنْ تَفْعَلُوا Then, فَإِن لَمْ تَفْعَلُوا وَلَنْ تَفْعَلُوا What's the difference between لَمْ and لَنْ? I'll teach you some Arabic. فَإِن لَمْ تَفْعَلُوا وَلَنْ تَفْعَلُوا If you cannot do it, لَمْ وَلَنْ and you shall never be able to do it in the future.
If you cannot do it in the past, up until now, وَلَنْ and you shall not, this is a prediction. لَمْ is for the past. لَنْ for the future. فَإِلَّمْ تَفْعَلُ If you haven't done it, then Allah says a statement of fact, وَلَنْ تَفْعَلُ and you shall never be able to do it. Then Allah says, you are rejecting the truth that is known to you, so beware of the punishment of Allah.
Now, my talk today therefore, is to help us appreciate to make us understand the job that all of us and especially all of you are doing. You are helping to preserve the miracle of the Qur'an. You are living the miracle of the Qur'an. You are demonstrating that the Qur'an...
is the ultimate miracle given to our Prophet ﷺ. How is the Qur'an miraculous? What is so miraculous about the Qur'an?
There's many things, I'm just gonna mention three or four and then finish off inshallah with the one that is the most important for all of you over here. Of course, of the most obvious miracles of the Qur'an, of the most obvious miracles, is how powerful, how beautiful, how eloquent it is. There's no other speech like it that is similar to it in its beauty. And there's so many stories from our seerah, from the interactions of the Prophet ﷺ. Have you heard the name of Khalid ibn al-Walid?
You know the famous companion Khalid ibn al-Walid? His father, whose name was, what was his father's name? Louder.
Al-Walid, obviously very good. Khalid ibn al-Walid. What's his? Al-Walid, yes.
Al-Walid ibn al-Mughira. The sisters are winning the brothers. You guys, you need to up your game.
MashaAllah, good job for your sisters. Al-Walid ibn al-Mughira. And who was Al-Walid ibn al-Mughira?
He was the chieftain of the most popular and the most famous and the most rich tribe. He was a politician, Al-Walid ibn al-Mughira. And the Prophet ﷺ was reciting Qur'an in front of the Ka'bah.
And Al-Walid walked by. And Al-Walid was the most respected poet of the Quraysh. He was a politician and an author and a poet, a very... Respected intellectual, when he heard the Prophet ﷺ reciting the Qur'an, he paused, he stopped walking, and he was in a trance.
Can you imagine the Prophet ﷺ is in front of the Ka'bah, he's doing his tilawah. By the way, imagine your favorite qari, right? Imagine your favorite qari, and how we love listening to our favorite qari. Can you imagine listening to the Prophet ﷺ's qira'ah? Can you imagine that beauty?
Inshallah, one day we hope in Jannah, we hope to listen to the Prophet ﷺ. All of these qaris that you love, good for them, we all love them. But we miss the one voice that would have been the queen of all voices.
And inshallah, we hope inshallah in Jannah to hear that voice. So can you imagine, al-Walid is listening to the qira'ah of the Prophet ﷺ directly. He's in a trance.
As if he's transported to a different time and place. And the whole Quraysh are looking at him because they see he's been affected by the Prophet ﷺ's recitation. Then the whole rumors began to spread.
Is he gonna convert? Has he been influenced? Is he gonna become Muslim? And Abu Jahl, who was his cousin, Abu Jahl comes to him.
And Abu Jahl, who was younger than him, he's an older man, Al-Waleed, Abu Jahl says, your whole tribe is in... Fear, they're shaking. Are you gonna convert?
And of course he never converted. He goes, no, no, I'm not gonna convert. So Abu Jahl says, but you were affected by the Qur'an. You were affected.
And he said, why should I not be affected? I have never heard anything more eloquent than the Qur'an. This is somebody who is an enemy outside of Islam, who is the best.
And he even said to Abu Jahl, you know that I am your best poet. You know that nobody can compete when it comes to poetry. And yet I have never heard... anything like the Quran. This is the father of, the father of who guys?
Khalid ibn al-Walid. This is the father of Khalid ibn al-Walid. Abu Jahl says, no, we will not let you leave in public until you say something against the Quran.
Until you say something against the Quran. Abu Jahl is threatening him because people are scared. And so here's the beauty of the Quran itself.
I'm telling you something that goes back to the Quran itself. This is a private conversation between Abu Jahl and between Al-Walid ibn Mughir. Nobody's there. Nobody's there. And Al-Walid says, let me think, what can I say?
Let me think. Leave me. Leave me alone.
And let me think about what I can say. And Al-Walid then begins walking in his house. All along, nobody is there.
Al-Walid begins walking, his face, is frown he's thinking what should I say what should I say what should I say and subhanallah listen to the story before al-waleed comes out of his house to tell the people what he was about to say Allah revealed in the Quran exactly describing what had just happened and saying what he would say before he said it so when he came out not knowing Allah had revealed Quran subhanallah it was another miracle from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through the Quran. And who can tell me which surah Allah revealed? Yes, very good. At least the brothers have one, guys. Okay, mashallah.
One to two. Right now the score is one to two. Don't worry, I'll give you more opportunities. You can up the game.
Surah Muddathir. Which section of Surah Muddathir? Which section of Surah Muddathir?
Tell me the ayah. Yes, sister. Raise your voice. Excellent, but go to the beginning. Excellent, you got again to the middle.
Go to the... Where does the scene begin? Where does the scene begin? Yes.
Yeah, the sister says something similar. You're right. Keep on going. ذَرْنِي وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا وَجَعَلْتُ لَهُ مَالًا مَنْ...
So, Al-Waleed said, Leave me alone. to Abu Jahl, leave me I need to think Allah says leave me alone with Al-Waleed, I will take care of him he quoted Al-Waleed against him ذَرْنِي وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا وَجْعَلْتُ لَهُ مَالًا مَمْدُودًا وَبَنِينَ شُرِحًا And then Allah describes Al-Waleed in the privacy of his house. إِنَّهُ فَكَّرَ وَقَدَّرَ فَقُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَ ثُمَّ نَظَرْ ثُمَّ عَبَسَ وَبَصَرْ ثُمَّ أَدْبَرْ وَاسْتَكْبَرْ فَقَالَ إِنْ هَذَا إِلَّا سُحْرٌ يُؤْثَرْ إِنْ هَذَا إِلَّا قُولُ الْبَشَرْ In other words, and by the way, the beauty of these verses itself is a miracle. You don't even need to know Arabic just to listen.
You all love Surah Al-Muddathir because it has these powerful verses. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala used His words against him. And Allah quoted him against him. And Allah described him in the privacy of his house. He's walking around, he's in a frown, he's thinking, he doesn't know what to say.
And the max he can say, in hadha illa sihrun yu'thar. This must be some type of magic I don't understand. So when he exited the house, he was gonna say, this is a magic I don't understand. Too late.
Allah had already revealed the Qur'an and Allah had exposed what He was gonna say. Do you see the miracle of the Qur'an? Do you see how powerful the Qur'an is?
That Allah describes His own inner thoughts and Allah describes in His own household. And Allah describes what He was gonna say before He says it in a language far more eloquent than anything humans can produce. And this is just one story out of hundreds and thousands. The Qur'an is a miracle.
Now, how is the Qur'an a miracle? So, we said one of the ways the Qur'an is a miracle is that it is in its most beautiful language. The eloquence, the rhetoric, the balaqah of the Qur'an, the words Allah uses.
And if you listen to any scholar doing tafsir, you will come across this that, Why did Allah use this word? Why did Allah Azawajal choose this phrase? What is the beauty of this sentence structure? And that is, you know, it's an ocean that has no shores.
You keep on going and going and going. So that's one aspect of the miracle. Another aspect of the miracle of the Qur'an, we just gave it in the story. Allah is describing knowledge that no one can know except Allah.
Allah is describing ilm al-ghayb. Allah is describing something no human can ever understand. No human can ever have access to. And in fact, can you imagine, before there was internet, before there was cell phones, imagine a hundred years ago. Can you imagine if an explorer went into the jungles of Brazil, the jungles of Africa.
And this is a tribe that has been cut off from the whole world. And that tribe has current information about what is happening around the world. That tribe seems to have knowledge of your civilization and of your histories, even though it is cut off.
and it has no mechanism of communication. You would wonder, how is this happening? You have to understand the Qur'an exemplifies, it illustrates this miracle when it came down.
The stories of the Qur'an, the realities of the Qur'an, the descriptions the Qur'an is giving of other civilizations. Remember, there was no cell phone, there is no internet. Arabia, Mecca, Medina, this is disconnected from the rest of the world. There are no, even if a traveler came from Syria, it would take...
six weeks, two months. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is revealing literally knowledge as it happens. Between the Romans and the Persians, there was a battle that took place. And the day of the battle, the same day of the battle, minutes after the battle finished, alif laa meem ghulibatir room fee adna al-ardi wa hum min ba'di ghalibihim sayagliboon Allah told us, the results of the battle, and then Allah predicted, don't worry, right now the Romans have been defeated, but the next battle, the Romans will win. And that's exactly what happened.
Nine years later, this is well known in history. You can look it up. Nine years later, the Romans attacked the Persians. And like Allah predicted, في بضع سنين it's just a matter of a few years, they're gonna win again.
Also the stories, remember, again it's difficult for us to understand. You guys are born in the era of cell phones and internet. You can't imagine a world without communication.
This is all new. I grew up and there was no cell phones. This is absolutely new.
And there was no communication. And there was no printed books when the Prophet ﷺ was there. There's no library.
There's not a single library in all of Arabia. The Bible had not been translated into Arabic. Nobody knew the Bible in Arabic.
And the Qur'an is giving you stories of Jesus, of Moses, of Abraham. The Qur'an is giving a whole story of Yusuf ﷺ. And Allah is saying that you were not there. ما كنت لديهم You were not there when Zakariya was casting the lots.
You were not there when Isa. You were not there when we spoke to Musa. وما كنت بجانب الغربي إذ قضينا إلى موسى أمره وما كنت من الشاهدين ولكن أشأنا قرون Allah is telling us.
Allah is describing to us events that happen on Mount Judi, on Mount Tur. Allah is describing in vivid detail. And this is another miracle of the Qur'an. Where does that knowledge come from?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. No human. in Mecca could have had that knowledge the way that we have it in the Qur'an. The third miracle of the Qur'an. The third miracle of the Qur'an is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in the Qur'an that, وَلَوْ كَانَ مِنْ عِنْدِ غَيْرِ اللَّهِ لَوَجَدُوا فِيهِ اخْتِلَافًا كَثِيرًا أَفَلَا يَتَدَبَّرُونَ الْقُرْآنِ When you read the Qur'an, the Qur'an is internally consistent, there's no contradiction.
Anybody who would write a book over 23 years, describing realities, talking about aspects, you would find contradiction. And Allah is saying there's no contradiction in the Qur'an. The fourth miracle, there's so many miracles we can do.
The fourth miracle that we can say, and Allah mentions this in the Qur'an as well, is the effect the Qur'an has on those who listen to it. وَإِذَا سَمِعُوا مَا أُنزِلَ إِلَى الرَّسُولِ تَرَىٰ أَعِينُهُمْ تَفِيضُوا مِنَ الدَّمْعِ مِمَّا عَرَفُوا مِنَ الْحَقِّ When they listen to the Qur'an, وَإِذَا تُوْلِيَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتُهُ زَادَتْهُمْ إِيمَانًا To listen to the Qur'an is a source of comfort and a source of peace. You don't even know the words. So many of you in this audience are not Arab. I am not Arab.
And by the way, even the Arabs, you don't understand the Arabic of the Quran. You and I both know this, right? You're Amiya, you're Masriya, you're Shamia. your whatnot, your maghribiyya, your darija, it's totally disconnected and you don't understand the Qur'an the way that it was.
And yet still, the impact on you, even though you don't understand the Qur'an, the tilawat, the beautiful tilawat of our brother and our sister that just recited right now, it impacted all of you, even though you don't fully understand the words. No other, I mean, give it a try. Go listen to some poetry in a language you don't understand.
It might sound good. It's not gonna affect the heart. Your heart is not gonna go soaring in the clouds. It's not gonna be impacted at that level.
Why? Because the Qur'an is not the speech of a human. The Qur'an is the speech of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So when Allah speaks, the heart is attracted.
When Allah speaks, the heart... is impacted. When Allah speaks, the heart is connected.
Even if you don't understand the words. And that's a miracle that every one of you understands and appreciates simply because the impact of the tilawah is so powerful. And we have this again from the seerah. So many stories from the seerah.
The famous story of the companion Jubayr ibn Mut'im. Jubayr ibn Mut'im, his father was Mut'im ibn Adi. I have a whole lecture about Mut'im ibn Adi.
You can listen to it. Jubayr, Ibn Mut'im was taken a prisoner and he was taken to Medina in the battle of Badr. And he was taken a prisoner and they didn't have a jail in Medina. So where would the prisoners be? The prisoners would be in the masjid.
That's literally in the back of the masjid. You had all the prisoners of Badr. There was no jail in Medina.
And they stayed there for a few days. Jubair Ibn Mut'im said that he came you know, in the day of the battle of Badr, he came back to Medina, he was a prisoner. And he said, the Prophet ﷺ came into the masjid to lead us for Salatul Maghrib, to lead the Sahaba. He's not a companion at the time. To lead the Sahaba for Salatul Maghrib.
And he said he recited Surah At-Tur. Surah At-Tur. Jubair ibn Mut'im said, that as I heard the Prophet ﷺ recite, my heart began feeling a sense it had never felt before. before because he had never heard the Quran. He had never heard the Quran.
They're rejecting Islam without even knowing what it is. And he says, I heard the process and recite Surah At-Tur until when he came to the ending of the Surah am khuliqoo min ghayri shay'in am humul khaliqoon. And if you read Surah At-Tur, again, it's building up to a magnificent ending.
It's a crescendo, we call it, right? You literally build up hype. It's asking questions, right? This, that, this, that, one question after another.
And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, where did you come from? Who created you? Were you created out of nothing or did you create yourselves?
Rather Allah created you. And imagine the process in reciting Surah At-Tur and Salatul Maghrib. Jubair said, my heart felt it was about to break open my chest and fly into the air. And that was when Iman first entered my heart. To listen to the tilawa of the Prophet ﷺ reciting the Qur'an.
Goes back to the miracle that we're talking about. Again, Again, much can be said. I want to finish on one point and leave some time for Q&A as well.
Of the miracles of the Qur'an, and I want to finish on this point. Of the miracles of the Qur'an is the miracle that all of you are a part of. A miracle that is so miraculous.
No other book, no other poem, no other literature even can compete in any category. And that is the miracle of how easy it is to remember. memorize the Qur'an sentence by sentence, word by word, letter by letter, haraka by haraka, pause by pause.
Now you guys take it for granted, as I took it for granted when I was your age. You don't even understand that it's like drinking water. Literally, you all know this, that once you get in the swing of things, once you learn how to do it, you memorize a page a day, two pages a day, then you move on to the next sabak, then the next sabak, then the next sabak, next thing you know, mashaAllah, you finished a juz, next thing you know, know 10 juz next thing you know the whole quran sure little bit of effort yes but very doable You've already graduated hundreds of hufadh, you are another batch, another batches will come after you.
Because it's common, you take it for granted. Because you're doing it, you don't even realize it's a miracle. Now think about it. If I were to give you a 600 page book in ancient Japanese, and say, hey, memorize this, word for word, letter for letter, haraka for haraka, who could do it? It's impossible.
It's not possible to do. You guys literally are... You are living the miracle.
That's what I'm trying to impress upon you. You are demonstrating the miracle of the Qur'an. You're living it because there is no other book on earth that is memorized like the Qur'an.
The Christians don't memorize the Old Testament, the New Testament. The Jews don't memorize the Halakha and the Mishnah. The Hindus don't memorize the Gitas. They don't do that. Sure, you'll find one person out of a billion that he has that memory, he might do it.
But it's not a tradition is what I'm trying to say. It's not something that is done in every single masjid from Alaska all the way to Indonesia. It's not done only in our religion. with our culture and our faith and our holy book.
The fact that you can memorize, you don't even know what you're memorizing. You don't even understand what it is. And yet, mashaAllah, tabarakallah, you recite the entire Qur'an with minimal mistakes.
You do some marajah, we all make mistakes, it is human nature. But yes, once you make it pakka, mashaAllah, then khalas, it is pakka, right? And I want to impress upon you that you doing this, frankly, is a proof that our religion is from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. You are a living miracle. Appreciate this.
Allah is using you to prove the truth of this religion. Because it's not possible to memorize this book cover to cover unless it is a real divine book. Do you guys understand what I'm saying? Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes or no?
You all need to feel a sense of honor and pride. Allah has chosen you. I know some of you would rather at this stage not be chosen. I get it. I know some of you will be here because of your parents, right?
You don't understand. It's fine. It's fine to feel that right now.
But when you grow older, inshaAllah, inshaAllah ta'ala, you will appreciate this blessing. Because not everybody... is a hafidh.
Not everybody has memorized the Qur'an. In fact, our sister who recited the tilawa, she reminds us that Allah chooses those who He wants to memorize the Qur'an. What did our sister recite that demonstrates this?
Come on, I literally am pointing out what she recited. So give me the verse she recited that proves this point. Yes, our young brother, yes. So sisters two for two, sorry.
ثُمَّ أَوْرَثْنَا الْكِتَابَ الَّذِينَ اصْطَفَيْنَا مِنْ عِبَادِنَا ثُمَّ أَوْرَثْنَا الْكِتَابَ Now I know by the way, many of you don't know Arabic, that's fine. I'm kind of teasing you to encourage you. The goal is to make you realize, I will tell you this because inshaAllah ta'ala, I have the right to tell you this. Memorizing the Qur'an is a very important thing. Be happy, be proud, be humble.
But it's just the beginning. I know your parents think it's the end. That's because your parents, good for them. I will tell you, it's just the beginning.
That's just kindergarten. That's just grade one. Memorizing the Qur'an is just the beginning of a lifelong study. You don't have to go full-time Islamic studies, I'm not saying you have to do that.
But you have to study yourself the Qur'an. Even if you become an engineer, a doctor, a nurse, or a professor, doesn't matter. You will never stop studying the Qur'an. And a part of that study is to understand it and appreciate it.
A part of that study is to understand what Allah is saying. So, our brother correctly pointed out, ثُمَّ أَوْرَثْنَا الْكِتَابُ أَلَّذِينَ اصْطَفَيْنَا مِنْ عِبَادِينَ We gave this book to those whom we chose from our servants. اصْطَفَيْنَا مِنْ عِبَادِينَ Allah has chosen you and given you this book.
Allah has... اصْطَفَ You know the name of our process is مُصْطَفَ مُصْطَفَ مُجْتَبَ What does مُصْطَفَ mean? The one whom Allah chose. مُصْطَفَ And Allah uses the same adjective for those who memorize the Qur'an.
ثُمَّ أَوْرَثْنَا الْكِتَابَ الَّذِينَ اصْطَفَيْنَا مِنْ عِبَادِهِ So right now, I get it, you think you'd rather be on the outside playing. You know, I don't know the latest games, I'm sorry. Is it Xbox or is it something beyond that?
What is the latest one? Huh? PS5. I remember PS3 from some years ago. Is that outdated now?
You don't know PS3? Okay, PS5. Okay. So I know you, you know, what do you guys want to play instead? I don't know, but...
whatever it is, you know, you want to do something outside. And you're like, oh my God, those kids are lucky. I wish we could do this.
And I get it. I'm asking you to trust your parents and your elders and to trust me as well. This phase will go away.
And within a few years, you will be so grateful and thankful to Allah and then to your parents and your teachers who encouraged you to take on the magnificent job of... preserving the living miracle of the Qur'an. Because you are an elite group. That doesn't mean you should feel arrogant.
You should feel humble. You are an elite group. Allah says, I chose you. اصطفَيْنَا مِنْ عِبَادِنَا Allah chose you.
So Allah chose you. Appreciate that. Thank Allah that your parents wanted you to come here. Thank Allah your teachers are spending this time with you. Thank Allah you're in this environment that is mashaAllah one of the premier Qur'an.
teaching academies in this country. Thank Allah. Allah has chosen you.
And insha'Allah ta'ala, as you grow older, you will begin to appreciate more and more this great responsibility that you have. And that responsibility is to demonstrate the beauty of our religion, to demonstrate that Allah has given us the best book, sent us the best prophet, chosen us with the best faith. And we know this because the Qur'an is a miracle.
and we know the Qur'an is a miracle because of many factors. One of them, every one of you is demonstrating the Qur'an is a miracle. Do you understand this point? Do you understand how? Yes?
Yes? Inshallah. Okay.