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Alhamdulillah.
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All praise is due to Allah and may
Allah's peace and blessings be on the
last prophet Muhammad Sam. alaihi
wasallam
and on all those who follow the path of
righteousness until the last day.
The topic
who is your lord
addresses the issue
as to whether
belief
is really enough.
Is it enough just to say we believe
our Lord is Allah
or
do we have to have
a sufficient level of knowledge
to justify that claim?
Because
we have a hadith
narrated by a number of companions
among them alibi
Malik, Abu Hurer and others
who narrated from the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam
that after a person dies
and he enters into the barak
that is
the spirit world.
A world
from which he cannot come back.
A world
which prevents him from contacting those
who are living.
When he enters into that world,
Allah causes him
to hear the footsteps of those who walk
away after his burial.
And
he will be sat up
by two angels,
jet black in color with bright blue
eyes.
And they will ask him,
"Who is your Lord?
And what was your religion?"
And who was your prophet?
These three questions.
Tonight the topic of this lecture is
manuk.
Who was your Lord?
If the answer was simple, as simple as
we might want to look at it right now,
we everybody here can say Allah.
But if it were really that simple
then
for these two angels
and nakir to ask us that and this is the
beginning of the trials of the grave of
the state of the grave then
the question that they would ask would
be meaningless.
So obviously
understanding
what
our Lord
really is
in this life so that we'll be able to
answer that question in the next life is
critical
because those questions that are coming
to at us in the next life
they are not like the examinations that
we have in this life where if you get
50% you pass. No,
this is the beginning of the trials of
the grave.
Those who knew who their Lord was in
this life and knew what their religion
was and who their prophet really was,
they will answer with ease
and the state of the grave will become a
garden from the gardens of paradise for
them. Whereas those who are unable to
answer
because they really didn't know who
their Lord was in this life, the prophet
sallallaihi wasallam said they will only
be able to say ah ah
I don't really know
when they're asked what was their
religion
even though culturally
where they were considered to be Muslims
but in fact they really weren't. Their
answer will only be a
and who was their prophet?
Because they didn't understand who
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam
really was.
He had no meaning in their lives.
So when they're asked who their prophet
was, they will only be able to say,
"Ah."
So
we must come to grips with this reality.
Knowledge of whom our Lord is is the
foundation of our faith. How can we
believe in our Lord
if we don't know who
he is?
Furthermore,
we have in the 12th chapter of the Quran
verse 106
a severe warning, a grave warning
in which Allah says,
Most of those
who claim to believe in Allah
worship others besides him. They're
pagans,
idol worshippers, but they claim to
believe in Allah.
So it means that this issue of who our
Lord is
is quite
detailed. There are details of it that
we must be clear on
otherwise we can end up like others
Christians
who believe that their Lord is Jesus.
They address him as dear Lord Jesus
and they believe that he is God
and he and God the father are one
yet
he was born
yet according to them he died.
That is their belief.
And others, Buddhists and Hindus and
others
believe in God,
but their belief in God
is so distorted that they end up
worshiping idols while claiming to
believe in God.
So
tonight
I am going to raise for you some
questions
by which you can use
to judge
to what degree do you know who your Lord
is?
The first question.
Do you agree with those who say
that belief
is a matter of blind faith?
Do you agree with those who say that
belief, belief in God is a matter of
blind faith? You can't prove it.
It's just either you believe or you
don't believe.
If you agree,
then you don't know who your Lord is.
If you are asked the question,
if everything has a creator,
then who created God?
and you scratch your head,
I really don't know.
Then you don't know who your Lord is.
If somebody said to you,
if God can do anything,
we believe God can do anything.
Why can't he have a son?
And if we scratch our heads again and
say
I think uh he could have a son but he
decided not to
then we don't know who our Lord is.
And if somebody puts the idea to us that
if God is all powerful,
can he create a stone which is too heavy
for him to lift
and our head spins
and we don't know what to say. If we
said he can
then something greater than him. If we
say that he can't, then it means he
can't do everything.
What's the answer?
If we are there, we don't know who our
Lord is.
And
if somebody raises the big question,
if God is all good
and he's able to do all things,
then where did evil come from?
If our answer is human beings, they're
the ones that made the evil and Satan,
he made the evil.
then we don't know who our Lord is.
Now
these questions require an answer
so that you don't walk away from the
lecture tonight and say
we came to learn about Islam and Dr.
Bilal confused us.
He left us confused
so that you don't walk away that way.
I'm going to give you the answers. But
this is only an introduction
to understand
where we need to be
because if these questions are unclear
to us truly we don't know who our Lord
is and it means that we will be open to
false da'wah false calls
to other than Islam to misguidance
We will be susceptible to these false
ideas and fall into them because we
didn't know who our Lord was. So let us
go back to number one.
Is belief in God a matter of blind
faith?
No,
it is not.
This is the claim that the atheists
make. Those who deny the existence of
God. Belief in God is a matter of blind
faith. Whereas our disbelief in God is
logical. It's reasonable. It makes
sense.
We can't see him. We can't smell him. We
can't touch him. Therefore, he doesn't
exist.
That is reasonable. That is logical. As
for your belief in this unseen God, this
is illogical. Well,
we say,
who
were those who recorded
the rules of logic?
who were the first people in history
that we know about who wrote down the
rules of logic.
If A equals B and B equals C, then A
must equal
C.
Who wrote those rules down?
The Greeks.
And the most famous philosophers amongst
the Greeks, Plato and Aristotle,
they be both believed in God.
Both Plato and Aristotle
argued logically for the existence of
God.
So we say
belief in God is in fact logical and
reasonable and it is the disbelief in
God which is illogical and unreasonable.
It's the other way around. It's the
disbelievers in God whose disbelief is
bla based on blind faith.
Belief in God is logical,
reasonable,
natural.
Disbelief in God is unnatural.
That is why the vast majority of human
beings in the world throughout history
have believed in God. Those who denied
God's existence are a minute number.
That's why in the Quran when a when the
Quran addresses belief in God, it
doesn't begin from those who don't
believe in God's existence. There are
few verses which address them, but the
vast majority of verses address those
who already believe in God, but they
have a confused idea about who God
really is.
So
if we look at the argument
of those philosophers, the Greek
philosophers,
first among them, Plato,
Plato's argument
for God's existence
is the same basic argument we find
throughout the Quran.
That argument
is primarily
that design
indicates a designer.
Design
indicates a designer. What does that
mean? It means that if we go walking on
the beach
and we see a footprint in the sand,
we don't stop to think and to wonder how
amazing it is that the tide came ashore,
sunk into the sand, and made the
impression of a footprint.
That could happen.
But do we think that? No, when we see
that footprint, what automatically comes
to our mind is somebody stepped here.
That's number one.
Automatically,
that's common sense.
It is illogical and unreasonable
to assume that that footprint was a
product of chance.
Though we can say it is not totally
impossible
but that is not what comes to our minds.
Our reasoning powers tells us otherwise.
However, those who deny God's existence,
this is their argument.
It's possible.
It's by accident. Our very existence
here is a product of a huge accident.
A huge accident which began with the Big
Bang.
The Big Bang.
The big bang which
ex was an explosion of matter
compressed in a very small point. Of
course those who talk about this don't
explain where the matter came from in
the first place but they start from this
point of matter exploding.
And this huge explosion
produced you and I complex human beings
from a massive explosion.
However,
all of our common sense tells us that
explosions produce destruction, not
construction.
Explosions are not constructive. They
don't produce
results that are meaningful. They are
chaotic. They create chaos, not order.
So if we are to believe as they claim
that this huge big bang created us,
think for a moment if somebody were to
take an atomic bomb
and drop it in a junkyard.
The junkyard where you have bits and
pieces of old cars. You can buy spare
parts. The junkyard. You drop an atomic
bomb in the junkyard and it explodes
like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Massive
explosion.
And when the cloud settles,
we see in front of us a Rollsroyce
engine purring
door open. You just have to step in and
drive away.
What do you think are the chances of
that happening?
We say zero.
Those who think logically and
reasonably, they say zero.
But for the illogical atheists, they say
no, it's possible. If you drop enough
atomic bombs in enough junkyards,
eventually one time we'll get a
Rolls-Royce coming out of there.
It's possible.
So we say, what kind of logic is that?
What kind of reason is that? A person
with any degree of common sense will
tell you the billionth time that you
drop that bomb is no bit different from
the first time you dropped the bomb. The
chances of it happening are zero.
So the atheist turns to the
mathematician
and he asks the mathematician
what are the possibilities of this
happening? Can you give me a formula for
that? So the mathematician tells him
well it's chances of this happening is
one to the minus
billion zeros with a one at the end of
it.
He says, "Ah, there is that one chance."
The mathematician said, "A billion zeros
with a one at the end of it.
There is the chance." We say to him,
"Please,
this is mathematics."
Does mathematics
define
100% the real world? Say yes.
Mathematics is supreme.
It tells us the realities. We say no it
doesn't. Mathematics is an approximation
that we have placed as human beings on
this world and we calculate and it works
to a great degree. So we depend on it.
However, it is not 100%.
Because
according to mathematics,
think about this.
According to mathematics,
if I were to walk out of here through
that door over there
100 meters away, I will never be able to
reach the door.
According to mathematics,
I will never be able to reach the door.
Why? Because
100 m when I walk towards the door, I
must walk through the 50 meter midway.
Right?
After I walk through the 50 midway, then
I must walk through the 25 midway
between the door and the 50 m. Right?
And after I go through the 25 midway,
I must go through the 12.5
midway.
And after the 12.5
midway,
I must go through the 6
And then the three point and then and
then and you can keep dividing on your
computer and never reach zero.
Zero is the door.
That's mathematics.
According to mathematics, you will never
reach zero. You can keep dividing
infinitely.
So what does that mean? We go to doors
all the time. We go through them all the
time. That's the real world.
But according to mathematics,
we never go through the door. So one to
the minus billion zeros with a one,
forget it. That means zero. No chance.
It's not going to ever happen.
These atheists usually give another
example. They say, "Okay, if you put a
100 monkeys in a cage
and you give them 100 Arabic typewriters
and let them, of course, with new with
paper, you have to put paper in the
typewriters, right? Let them beat away
at the keys with their elbows, their
heads, their feet, knees, jumping up and
down, everything.
Eventually,
one of them will type out the whole
Quran for you.
The whole Quran
from Fata to Nas.
What do you think about that
possibility?
Zero. No. The atheist said, "No, it's
possible. If you give them enough time,
eventually one of them will do it." we
say
illogical,
unreasonable,
doesn't really make sense.
So belief in God, as Plato argued, is
necessary for us to understand
the design that we see in the world
around us. In his time,
before the time of Christ,
he saw just gross elements of design.
Since then, science has gone into the
atoms. It's gone into the heavens. It's
gone all over the world. And everywhere
that science goes, it finds design.
Every snowflake
which falls
has a design
different from every other snowflake.
Every grain of sand on the beach has a
form different from every other grain of
sand.
This design, this form was not a product
of accident.
Accident may produce design one time
may on a limited scale but design
everywhere that you look in the
universe.
No, that is unreasonable.
That is unreasonable.
On the other hand,
Aristotle argued
that if
the creator had a creator,
who had a creator, who had a creator,
who had a creator, and we keep going
back infinitely
to infinity,
then there's no way to explain how we
got here Because if the origins are in
infinity, that's the same as saying
there are no origins.
Without an origin, we cannot be here.
Our very existence is proof that things
began at one point. And it was begun by
one who was not himself a part of that
same process of creation.
Were he a part of that process then he
would have been in need of a creator who
would have been in need of a creator and
so on and so forth. So no beginning
that
was Aristotle's argument
and that is the reality.
If we define God
as one without a beginning to ask who
created him is ludicrous.
Any question
which involves
God doing ungodly things,
doing things which make him no longer
God. These are ridiculous and ludicrous
questions.
So once we said God is without beginning
and he is without end to ask can God be
born Can God die? These are ludicrous.
We have already said he has no beginning
and no end.
Similarly,
the question,
if God is able to do all things, can he
create a stone which is too heavy for
him to lift? That is ludicrous because
it implies that there would be something
greater than God.
So you don't ask the question in the
first place because it is a ludicrous
question.
Now the question with regards to evil
that is a more precise question which is
important for us to understand.
If we said that evil was created by
human beings and Satan, then we fall in
the realm of those who believe in more
than one God, more than one creator.
Like the Zorastrians
of Iran, of Persia, the Pharisees who
believe in a god of good, Aurora Mazda,
and a god of evil, Angra Manu.
Because they didn't want to assign evil
to God, they gave the creation of evil
to
Satan, elevated to the status of God.
Allah tells us very clearly in the
Quran,
he is the creator of everything.
Nothing takes place in his creation
except by his permission.
So who created evil? Where did evil come
from? It came by the permission of God.
It came from God.
God permitted it to take place.
So what does that mean? Do we have an
evil God here? No. God is good.
And every
evil incident which takes place has
behind it an element of good for which
God permitted that evil to take place.
As they say, every cloud has a silver
lining.
The silver lining. This is the good that
is behind the cloud.
This is what is illustrated in the story
of Moses and
surah al kah which we are supposed to
read and reflect on every Friday.
in it. Alr
seeks to learn from or seeks to teach
prophet Moses
some of the knowledge which Allah had
revealed to him.
And Moses
promised to be patient with so that he
could learn properly from him.
He and Moses crossed a river in a boat.
The boatsman kindly took them across.
When they reached the other side and the
moesman walked away, Alther took an axe
and broke a hole in the boat.
Prophet Moses was a gasast. He said,
"Why did you do this? This is not a good
thing."
Aled told him, "Didn't I tell you you
weren't going to be able to be patient
in order to learn from me?" Really? He
said, "Oh, sorry."
Then he later explained to him that
after they left, there was a tyrant
coming down the river. a ruler who was a
tyrant who was snatching the boats of
everyone. All of the boats that were
morowed at the shores of the river, he
was capturing them all. And of course,
when he came to that broken boat, he
said, "Oh, don't need that one. It's got
a hole in it."
And he went on and took the others.
And the owner of the boat, of course,
when he came back to his boat and he saw
the hole in it first, he would have
said, "Ah, what a horrible thing. Hey,
somebody made a hole in my boat. Who
would have done such an evil thing?" But
then when the tyrant came and left his
boat, what did he say then?
Alhamdulillah, there was a hole in my
boat.
Turned around. what he thought was evil
turned out to be a good thing. And how
many times in our lives have we not
experienced things similar? I remember
there was an article
in the newspapers from Egypt
where it showed a picture of a young man
standing
with his father kissing him on the right
cheek and his wife kissing him on the
left cheek. and he had both thumbs up
and he had this huge smile on his face.
I read the article. The article said
that this young man was
about to board a plane in Egypt.
The last flight going to Bahrain. He was
a teacher in Bahrain.
and he was to catch the very last Gulf
Air flight flying back to Bahrain.
If he missed the flight,
then he would lose his job.
So when he rushed to the airport the
previous morning with his bags all
packed, he rushed through, he got his
tickets, everything. He went to
immigration
and the immigration officer as he opened
his passport looking at the various
stamps he said you're missing one stamp.
One stamp said all the stamps are here.
He said no there's one stamp missing.
Oh no
he's shattered.
Can I get some money? Can you take £100?
Can No,
you can't get on this flight. You're
missing one stamp. He's crying.
My job.
He falls on his knees begging the man,
"Please let me."
Man said, "No way."
He finally gets up shattered
going home meeting his family everybody
crying he was the one who was working in
Bahrain earning money which was coming
back benefiting the whole family then
the next morning in the newspapers
the news came
that flight that Gulf Air flight crashed
no survivors ers. So the next evening
edition of the paper, you saw him there,
thumbs up,
big grin,
happy.
What he thought was a calamity
half a day ago turned out to be a mercy.
He was very happy about it. And that's
life, isn't it? We find many many
examples like that in our lives where
something seems to be evil and we find
out shortly or sometime later that in
fact it was a good thing. That's one
example of good and evil. There's
another example of good and evil where
you can't figure it out.
evil happens and you can't see the good
that's in it.
And that was in the story of Moses and
after they left where the boat was, they
went along the shore and he came across
came across a boy, a boy about 11 years
old and he grabbed the boy's head and he
tore it off. He tore the boy's head off.
Moses was shocked. How could you kill
this innocent child? A child who hasn't
even reached puberty is not held
accountable. How can you do this?
Told Moses, "Didn't I tell you you
wouldn't be patient?"
Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Anyway, he went
on to explain to him that the parents of
this boy were two righteous people who
this boy would grow up
to create such a trial for that it would
drive them to the verge of disbelief.
He would make their life a living hell.
So Allah instructed
to take the boy's life.
Of course in the case of the parents
when they saw their son decapitated dead
they would have been shocked. They would
have been hurt. Allah gave them another
child a girl who loved them, stayed
close to them etc. And they appreciated
that. But they would always remain that
hole in their heart for their son was
murdered. And it would not be until the
day of judgment
when they stood before God and the truth
about everything was revealed to them,
they would realize then it was a good
thing.
Some things are like that.
And we can see an example of this with
our own children
where the first time you take your child
to the dentist, before you take the
child, you build him up. You tell him
how nice the dentist is. He's a good
man. He likes you. He's going to give
you a lollipop. Whatever.
So, the kid is happy to go see the
dentist.
Then when he gets in the chair
and the dentist takes out that big
needle,
kid is looking at this needle and he
takes it and he sticks it in his mouth
and the kid screams.
Then he pulls out this drill
and he starts digging it into his teeth.
A kid is balling. Tears are running down
his face.
And when he leaves with his father at
the end of all that, he says, "Dad, you
said he was a good man. He's a bad man.
He's not a good man. He's a bad man."
And of course, the next time you have to
take him to the dentist,
he's going to be fighting you tooth and
nail. He won't allow you to take him.
He'll be kicking, fighting, screaming.
You try to explain to him, listen son,
what the dentist did was to remove a
greater pain that could come. The little
pain that he did to you was to prevent a
bigger pain.
Bad teeth, root canal, all these other
things that can come out of it. You
think your son can understand that? No.
All he can understand is the pain that
the dentist did to him. All of that
explanation is way above his head. Can't
see it.
And that's how it is.
Things
we can't see the good behind.
Some people assume there is no good and
so they fall into atheism.
This is the common
disease that happens to some people who
haven't understood God and how God
operates in human life. So when tragedy
occurs in their life, they fall apart
and the only conclusion they can come to
is that there can't possibly be a god.
You see people like
Dawkins Professor
Dawkins in the UK considered a genius,
mathematical genius, who wrote about the
world and time, basically a defense of
atheism, arguing why there is no God.
If you see him, he is a shriveled up
individual in a wheelchair who can
hardly move anything.
his eyelids. That's it.
So what happened
when he was in his prime? He was 18
years old, mathematical genius in Oxford
and
Cambridge.
He was stricken by a disease which
affected his spinal cord and he slowly
just shriveled up.
So when he came to India and he came to
India, traveled around India and he saw
all of these
billion Indians,
most of whom had little or no education,
living lives healthy,
while he who has so much to offer the
world is shriveled up. He said, "There
can't be a God. This is just not fair.
Why shouldn't I have a healthy body and
one of these millions be shriveled up?
That makes more sense."
He couldn't accept his state. So, it led
him to disbelief in God. And this is
what you hear at the bottom of the
statements of many atheists. When you
ask them, how did you become an atheist?
Why are you an atheist? They tell you,
well, listen, I had this aunt.
She was a wonderful person. She used to
do so many good things for everybody.
She used to come and visit me and take
me to the park and take me here and
there and give me money and ice cream
and everything. And then one day when we
were walking across the street, a truck
came, hit her and killed her.
Why? She was a good person. Why should
she be killed like that? There's so many
other bad people who are walking around.
They're fine. They're not dead. Why is
she dead?
He doesn't have an explanation. So where
does he go?
There can't be a God.
this stuff is just happening anyhow
anyway.
So this kind of
understanding,
misunderstanding
leads to disbelief in God itself. When a
person doesn't know their Lord,
there is a further question which I
would like to raise for you.
And that is the statement of those who
say
God created this world and left it to
run by itself.
He's not involved. It's too
insignificant. He just created it and
left it to run by itself. They accept
there's got to be a god. So they are
what they call deists. They believe in
the existence of God, but they don't
believe that God conveyed his word to
humankind.
No, they say that's
fairy tales.
There's so many religions around the
world. Everyone claims that he is right.
They're all wrong. They're all made up
by human beings. Of course, the
possibility that one is right and the
rest are all wrong, it doesn't
reflect on that one. He just sees all of
them claiming to be right
and they have different teachings.
Therefore, he can only conclude they all
must be wrong.
So
if one accepts that then of course he
also doesn't know who his Lord is. He
said he believes in God, but he doesn't
know who God is.
Because
common sense tells us, practical common
sense tells us that if a man set up a
factory
and he put an advertisement in the paper
for people to come and work in his
factory. and he hired all of these
people.
And then on the day when the factory was
supposed to begin operations,
they all came down to the factory and he
didn't tell them what they were there
for, what was their individual jobs, and
they walked into the factory.
What do you think they're going to do?
Is each one going to go and find his
place in the factory and slot in and
just be working and the factory is just
humming and working well? Or is he going
to go to the canteen where there is tea
being served, sit down with his friends
and chat until somebody comes along and
tells him what he supposed to be doing
here?
If nobody told him, what do you think
would happen to that company? It would
be a
resounding success or a stupendous
failure. It would have been a failure of
course. And what do we say about a
businessman who did that? We'd say he is
an idiot.
He's a fool.
He's dumb, stupid, unwise. We have a
whole string of terms for him.
All of them indicating
foolish.
Now, if we can accept that with regards
to a company, what about the world? And
what about the God who created this
world?
For us to say he didn't tell us what
we're supposed to do here is to make him
like the owner of that company.
He is the most wise as Allah describes
him in the Quran.
The most wise of the wise.
One of his names is Alhim,
the absolute wise.
So wisdom demands
that he would inform human beings of
their purpose on this earth.
Beginning with the first human beings,
they would be informed why they are
here.
That's what wisdom demands.
We accept it in our own lives for sure
on the scale of God who is all wise. It
is beyond him. It is beneath him to have
created this world and not inform people
what their purpose is. So true belief in
God
where one knows who one's Lord is
requires the belief that God sent
messengers
carrying his message to humankind
informing them of their purpose here.
That is without a doubt
absolutely
necessary. Belief in God requires that
we believe in him sending messengers
with the message that he wanted to
convey to humankind.
So
in the end
we know that
God's message was create was sent to the
first human beings
referred to as Adam and Eve.
That message which was sent
was in fact Islam.
We can say that the religion of Adam and
Eve was Islam while a Christian cannot
say it was Christianity.
Nor can a Jew say it was Judaism.
Nor can a Buddhist say it was Buddhism.
But we can say it was Islam because
Islam means submission to the will of
God.
which encompasses
all of the messages which were sent by
the prophets of God to humankind.
Submission to the will of God.
There is
only one God
and he created only one race of human
beings. I know people say no there's
different races. There's the Mongaloid
race.
There's the negroid race.
There's the Caucasian race. And so no,
this is nonsense. There is only one
race, the human race. One the proof of
that Allah left amongst us.
where
if a man from the quote unquote
Caucasian race from the north
from Norway,
whiter than white,
blonde hair and blue eyes. He needs a
transfusion
and his blood type is O negative. His
family
is all positive.
Their blood can't save his life.
But another man
from
South India,
blacker than black,
whose blood is O negative can save him.
So what is that saying? Who is closer to
him? His own family who look like him or
that person from South India who seems
to be the total opposite of him.
These are the signs which Allah left
amongst us to remind us that we are one
human race. And as such, God revealed to
that human race one religion.
He did not reveal a bunch of different
religions thereby confusing human
beings. No, he only revealed one
religion. human beings changed it and he
would send more prophets and they would
change it again and he would send more
prophets
but all the time it was one message as
Allah said
I've sent to every nation
to every people a messenger
calling them to worship
Allah alone
and to avoid the worship of false gods.
One God,
one human race,
one religion,
Islam.
That is the message that I wanted to
share with you tonight.
knowledge of who our Lord is
takes us ultimately to knowledge of
Islam. So as we need to go back and
understand who our Lord is by reading
the Quran, Ramadan is around the corner
and it's the month dedicated to the
Quran. As Allah explained, it was the
month in which the Quran was revealed.
So we dedicate our time to reading the
Quran but we should read it with
understanding.
Read it and reflect on its meanings not
read it as a ritual.
So that we fall into the category about
which Allah said,
will they not reflect on the meanings of
the Quran
or are their hearts locked up, sealed?
Let us not be among those with sealed
hearts in this month of Ramadan before
us. Let us open our hearts to the Quran
and read it with understanding and come
to know who our Lord is
because at least a third of the Quran is
dedicated to explaining who is our Lord.
And that is why
Surah Alasu
this surah,
this chapter as small as it is. The
prophet sallall alaihi wasallam said one
who reads it has read a third of the
Quran
because that surah is dedicated to
explaining
who our Lord is.
Say
he is Allah the uniquely one.
Allah,
the one who depends on nothing and all
depends on him.
He does not give birth
nor was he born
and there is nothing similar to him.
So I ask Allah
to let us walk away tonight
with a renewed
desire to want to know Islam
and to know who our Lord is
and to implement that knowledge in our
lives so that this nation,
this nation of the Maldes can rise again
and be counted among the nations of this
world that have contributed
have contributed to human civilization.
It is with Islam that we will achieve
that. Without it, we never will.
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