Juz 25: God Is Not A Mystery | Sh. Ibrahim Hindy | Season 7

“God is too mysterious.” 

Many people feel this way, but often it stems from not understanding who Allah is and how He has described Himself in His revelation. Sh. Ibrahim Hindy joins Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro to shed light on how we can get to know Allah by understanding His Names and Attributes. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:04

They suppress our da'wah and they turn their algorithms against us and they try to extinguish the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says this Quran is going to be this light is going to be extended. It doesn't matter what they do. And when we align ourselves with the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we gain some of this power as well.

SPEAKER_01 0:22

There's going to be numerous times when you hear the name names of Allah, subconsciously we may think, well, how can he do that? Because we're thinking from a human paradigm. But for Allah, that's not even an issue, right? Because there's nothing like him. There is nothing like him.

SPEAKER_02 0:37

When someone wraps the concept of God in so much mystery, and they use that as an excuse, right? To say, like, I can never understand God. I can never, so why even try? I can never come close. What do you say to people like that? Asanam aikum warahmatullah everyone. Welcome back to Quran 3430. Alhamdulillah Brameen. We are in Juz 25, as tonight is an odd night, and it could possibly be there al-Khadr. We encourage you Bidna Naitarah to please donate to Yacheen, support the work that we're doing Bidna Naitana as well as the many noble causes that are out there. And keep us near dua as well. We really do hope that you've benefited Bidna Naitana from all the work that's been put out there, and inshaAllah ta'ala, with your support after the help of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we'll continue to generate more resources to the benefit of the world Bidna Naitana to show them the beauty of their Lord of this religion of our noble Prophet. So may Allah Azaj accept it from you all and grant us all the ajar of layut al-khadr. Please do click the link below and give at least what you've given in previous years, inshaAllah. And if it's your first time, then inshaAllah that won't be the last time. Plug in whatever you can bidna. May Allah bless you all. We're blessed alhamdulillah to have with us Shaykh Ibrahim Hindi, Alhamdulillah, Kifharaki Shaykh. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Shaykh, where do people think you're from, man?

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Uh people think I'm from anywhere, from India, first of all. Hindi uh because of Hindi, and then uh can't of course I'm Canadian, but people might think I'm American at times because I talk about US politics a little bit. Alhamdulillah. Uh I like to say I'm from the Ummah in Japan.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

From the Ummah, mashallah. Also, like I always think you're Palestinian because like Hindi, Dar Hindi is like a huge family in Palestine.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

Yeah, we have a relationship any few generations between us. Egyptians and Palestinians. Yeah. So Alhamdulillah, but of course, we are a family first in Iman.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. Allahu Akbar. May Allah bless you, Shaykh. Um I wanted to ask you before we get started, in this very moment, what's your favorite name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?

SPEAKER_00 2:52

SubhanAllah. I would say that Allah's Kareem. Allah's generous. SubhanAllah, how many times that in life things are up and down, and you just remember that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is being generous to you, and often in ways that we're not even thinking about. So alhamdulillah, and in sickness and health and difficulties in life, you just remember Allah Kareem. And uh I remember Shaykh Alhamdulillah, he mentioned once he's in a taxicab, and the driver is not Muslim. And he keeps saying Allah Kareem, Allah Kareem. He's like, why are you saying this? And he said, I keep hearing it from the Muslims. He said, but it's so true. Every time in life there's a problem, I just remember Allah Kareem. Allah is generous.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

So beautiful. MashaAllah. So beautiful. MashaAllah. So alhamdulillah, we are in just 25. Um, sometimes there's just a sentence that I feel like summarizes, as we're kind of doing an exploration of how Allah talks about himself, uh, the jizz. And this one is I'm not like you, but I'm with you. That's what I got. Uh, this particular uh ayah, uh Sutashura, Laysa Kamithrihi Shait, Uh Samia al-Basir, right? It's one of the most famous ayat where we talk about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that there is nothing like unto him, and he is the all-hearing, the all-seeing. And so this is actually incredible because Allah Azza, in the same short verse, affirms his transcendence and his awareness, right? So nothing is like him, but by the way, he's fully acquainted with everything, right? Because hearing and seeing are the greatest forms of acquaintance, right? So I hear you and I see you. I'm not like any of you, but I hear and see all of you. Uh, you also see in the same surah, Allah Azza says, Allah ibaadihi. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is gentle with his servants. Ya ruman yesha, he provides for whom he wills, and he is the strong, the mighty. You don't typically think of latif and qawi in the same sentence. Right? Like lutf is gentleness, and then kuwa is strength. Right? And Allah once again he puts them in the same ayah. So it's it's very, you know, subhanallah uh tender, right, in the pairing, like that gentleness does not cancel his power, his power does not cancel his gentleness. Just like transcendence does not cancel awareness, awareness does not cancel um transcendence. And this is who he is, subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then he says in a Zuhruf, wahu ⁇ Sama'ihun, wafil ardi ila. Right? So he is the one who is God in the heavens and God in the earth. Right? So he is the one who encompasses all realms, right? The the seen and the unseen. Every one of these words, subhanAllah, is so profound, right? So uh he is the wise, he is the knowing. Blessed is the one to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them. All right? Uh so'i nahuma, in and of itself, right? There's so much to talk about there. And then on top of that, waindah in Musa'a, he has the knowledge of the hour. No one else has the knowledge of the hour, not a single one of his creations. And in that process, all of you will come back to him, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and then just the name of the surah, al-Jathiyyah. You know, the nations are on their knees. Everyone's before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on their knees. Al-Jathiya. Uhillah ilhamdu Rabbi Sama'wati, Rabbil Alameen. To Allah belongs all praise, the Lord of the heavens, the Lord of the earth, the Lord of all existence. Rabbil alameen. So it's just constantly putting it out there, and then how does he end this particular part? Wallahul, kibiriyahu, fisamawati, wal art. Right? Like every word, I just want to sit there and ponder upon it, right? To him belongs, how do you even translate kibiya? Like majesty, power. You can't. It's such a it's such a profound word, subhanAllah, with everything else that's there, but to him belongs the glory, right? The majesty, the power of the honor in the heavens and the earth. And he is, al-Hakim, once again, he is exalted in might, exalted in his wisdom. So Allah praises himself, which happens in many of these avza, many of these ayat, but he praises himself for his majesty and the power that doesn't remove him. The power that we're all accountable to, the power by which he is still acquainted with all that we're doing now, and ultimately the power to forgive and to show mercy, uh, and no one else can interfere. Right? So it's it's such a it's such an incredible uh juz. And of course, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions um, you know, his being beyond your imagination, but he also mentions, you know, how close he is to you, it's closer to you than your jugular vein, even though he is as removed from you in terms of his names and his attributes and his essence as can be, subhanAllah. So we ask Allah to allow us to not fail in that acquaintance and in that awareness and to connect to that majesty and to not be uh punished uh by that by that majesty. Allah Ameen. Uh Shaykhabdullah, any thoughts you have on us?

SPEAKER_01 8:14

SubhanAllah, I mean that that that verse is foundational. And you mentioned it very eloquently how it's a foundational verse that when you study names and attributes of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this is one of the pillars and your introduction to approaching your how you properly understand uh a name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his attribute. And like how you mentioned Latif al-Khui, because you know, sometimes we as human beings, as soon as we hear these two, our subconscious says, Well, wait, they're polar opposites for creation. Go back to that verse, Laysa Kamitli She. There's gonna be numerous times when you hear the name names of Allah, not only when you hear them, but when you think of his actualization in your life, subconsciously we may think, well, well, how can he do that? Because we're thinking from a human paradigm, a created form. How can creation be both of these things together? It would probably be difficult for a human being to manifest that simultaneously. But for Allah, that's not even an issue, right? Because there's nothing like him. There is nothing like him. And that's what's so beautiful here. And there's a verse right after Hoyun Aziz, is uh it's very beautiful. Whoever wants the harth of the akhirah. And hearth is like, you know, the harith is like the farmer, the one that invests in his investment is planting for something, putting his seed in the ground and waiting for something to happen. But even with that, he waits on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to to to irrigate, to, to, to provide this um this this plant, this seed. So Allah says, Haratil aqhira, nazidilahufi hartih. Whoever wants it and desires it from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we will increase him. But then he said, Whoever wants harth al-dunya, whoever wants this worldly life, which which is interesting here. Nazidilahu will increase him and then nutti mini, we'll just we'll give give him this dunya. But that is kind of scary at the same time because if whatever you use in this dunya is not for the Akhirah, then you need to be aware. If you do not make a connection from what I am trying to get in this life, the faculties that Allah has given me, how am I using these faculties? Am I aware that there's a connection on what I have and what I use it for and what I obtain from what I have been given? Am I making that connection and that all of this is from Allah and I'm trying to give it back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the different avenues and ways that He has furnished for me from sadaqah, from righteousness, from being good to people, from forgiving people, you know, from overlooking people's faults and from giving charity and things of that nature. And you just do it for something temporary, Allah's going to give it to you. And that's why the term of istidraj always comes to my mind. It's like when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give and grant people that want the dunya, and they're not even they're heedless, they're not even thinking about God, to where they reach a point of belying the message, belying God and being totally ungrateful and then being with a kabir, they reach the element of shaitan to where they they're very arrogant upon what with with with what they have, and it increases them in wanting more of the dunya. And that is the chain reaction that if we don't watch ourselves, if we don't remember the greatness of Allah, the profundity of Allah's names and attributes, and that they are not like his creation, we can fall victim to just relying on what we see in front of us.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

Absolutely. SubhanAllah, like that's so true that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling you if you want the akhira and you're harvesting for the akhirah, he will give you more, meaning he'll give you dunya too. But if your heart is in the dunya, he'll give you dunya, no problem. But don't expect the akhira. That's just a reminder for all of us to keep our intentions clear. And Allah will give you a good life inshaAllah in this world and in the next world. And like you said, Shaykh, anyway, we talk about the greatness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. One of the beautiful things about the Shuz, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions two of his names, but he refers them to the Quran. In Nahu. That this book, this Qur'an, in our master record, it is La Aliyun, it is the most high, has the great highness in it, the most esteemed, um Hakim, the most wise. And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, through the Quran, he is reminding us of himself, subhanahu wa ta'ala. And he's reminding us to look to the greatness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala by looking at the Quran itself. Um and I think sometimes subhanAllah, we feel a bit removed from understanding the real power of the Quran. And if you understood the power of the Quran, you understand the power of its author. Um, and I think sometimes if we don't speak Arabic, or even if we do speak Arabic, those of us who speak Arabic, sometimes we're a bit divorced from the original Arabic. Um, and I'll give you an example. This is uh something happens pre-Islam, two poets. One poet says a line of poetry and the other one hears it. So the first poet says, that we have the white platters that shine in the morning, and blood drips from our swords with our valor. And this is you know pre-Islamic poetry. It's about our tribe is the best, we're the most generous, we have the platters, we're you know great warriors, we fight. The other poet, she hears this and she says, You made eight mistakes in what you said. He said one line. He said, You made eight mistakes. He said, How do I make eight mistakes? She said, You said, Den al-Janafat, we have the platters. But Janafat is plural, but it means like five or six. She said, You should have said Dan al-Jifan, the many, the tens and twenties and thirties. And then she said, You said that the plates are white. If it's white, it means it's brand new. It means you haven't been serving people for a long time. It should be stained with food, so it should be red. And then she said, You said uh Yelumunnah, which is to shine. These plates are so amazing, these platters, they shine. But it's like a quick shine. You should have said Yushrikna. It's a shine that fills the horizon east to west. And she goes through one by one and she picks all of these mistakes that he makes. These two poets, by the way, are sahaba. They accept Islam later on, Hassan ibn Tabit and Al-Khansa'. But my point is, look at how she hears one line and she said, You made eight mistakes. These are the people who heard the Quran. And sometimes, you know, we tell our kids, you know, when the Prophet would teach people and talk and recite Quran, they would tell them, put your fingers in your ears. And we think, you know, we hear that story, we're like, oh, maybe this is exaggeration. No. It's because when they heard the Quran, they knew this is not human, this is divine. And you know, subhanAl Wahiddin Murira, one of the leaders of Quraysh, they went to him, they said, You are a master of poetry. Go talk to the Prophet and hear his Quran and tell us what we say about this, or give us poetry better than it. And he goes and he hears the Quran from the Prophet. He comes back, he said, You know, no one is more knowledgeable of language, of poetry than me. And what he said is not from a human. He says that it has a sweetness, it has a freshness to it. And then he says, that it is has a aboveness, it rises above, and nothing can come above it. SubhanAllah. Um, and that's how Allah refers to the Quran, that it is al-Ari, that it is the high, it rises up above everything, subhanAllah. And I think there's a lot we can take from that, subhanAllah, even from the perspective of how they try to silence us and silence our speech and silence our da'wah, and they suppress, I'm sure Shaykh Ummar, they suppress your Twitter account and they suppress our words, and they suppress our dawah, and they turn their algorithms against us, um, and they try to extinguish the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and they increase all the accounts that are speaking against the Quran and insulting the Quran. Wallahu mutim munurihi, al-kafirun. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says this Quran is going to be this light is going to be extended. It doesn't matter what they do. And when we align ourselves with the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we gain some of this power as well. As we see subhanAllah with our brothers and sisters in Ghazzah, so much of their strength comes from the Quran. And when you are hafad of the Quran, as there are so many in Ghaza, you are Ahlullah, you are the people of Allah because you are people of the Quran. And this gives you a highness, this attributes you to something that is so great and so high, subhanAllah. And this is what allows them to survive no matter how difficult things are because you are attached to the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

So subhanAllah, you know, on that note, Shaykh, like um there's something really interesting here, right? Which is the fact that Allah Azza is unlike any of his creation, and also his word is unlike the word of any other creation, and dua to him is unlike du'a to anyone else, and revelation is unlike anything else. And some of that is obvious to someone who doesn't speak any Arabic or whatever it may be, right? That God is unique. Um there's a fitzal element to that, right? Like recognizing that. Uh, and that's why you'll see many people who embrace Islam and they'll say, you know, I just knew that God couldn't be this and couldn't be that, right? It never sat right with me. You know, this never sat right with me, this never sat right with me. It just always made sense, one God. Like Islam was so intuitive in that sense. And Allah says uh also, Sura Shura, ma'am, yi bashar, and you kalimahullah illa wahian, uh mi wara'i hijab, oh Yurasira rasurah, right? So Allah Azza gives these three possibilities that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it's not for Allah Azwajal to uh or for anyone to be spoken to by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala except for revelation, or Allah Azwaj speaks to them uh from uh behind a veil, or Allah sends a messenger, right? That even the idea like how come you know Allah doesn't just speak to all of us the same way, right? How come we don't have these things? And by the way, this particular ayah also ends with innahu aliyun hakim, the same names that we just spoke about, right? That verily he is aliyun haqim. How come Allah doesn't just talk to all of us this way? How come Allah doesn't just appoint all of us in a particular uh you know distinction? Why this? Why that? I guess I'll pose this question to to both of you, inshaAllah ta'a, to maybe reflect upon. When someone um wraps the concept of God in so much mystery, and they use that as an excuse, right? To say, like, I can never understand God, I can never, so why even try? I can never come close. What do you say to someone who like raps God and raps religion and so much philosophy and and uh and and language, right? In order to distance people. Like what do you say to people like that? And how do you kind of reflect on that and this and the capacity of this juz and beyond?

SPEAKER_01 19:17

I think you know there is a capacity that God gives you. I mean, the fact that he created you with these faculties to be able to ponder over his creation, firstly, knowing the fact that he is a creator and that he has created everything, but then on top of that, he says he doesn't do it abathan. And understanding that abathan means haphazardly or means just for no apparent reason. There is a purpose. So when totally cutting that off and saying, okay, as a result of you saying, you know, there's so many things we cannot understand, or it's beyond our understanding, or it's beyond our comprehension, therefore what though? Like what is that really requesting from you? Because Islam is for you to know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, but then that requests from you something. It requests from you to act. So what is your action? What do you want from this? Is it for you to do ittikal, is it for you to just to rest and not to do anything? What is the result of that? And the ultimate result of it Islamically is for you to submit to him, knowing that you will not fully lay heat will be he'nman. You will you will not be able to totally encounter and encompass every single intricacy of those names and attributes, but the generalities of some of them you can understand, which should promote or should provoke you to do actions of worship and submission to him. So the ultimate goal is submission to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So if you're submitting to him by the system he has given you, that's the goal. And the system that he has given you, these actions are a means to show that devotion to those abstract concepts that you are talking about. Sometimes we subconsciously think we have to know the how of everything, and that's not upon us. What's upon us is to just know the what and then to submit to that through the descriptions that he's given us to entice us, to encourage us, or to warn us. So ultimately, the shari'ah is that which is there for us too. And I'll just leave, I always mention this point. My man Khaled when I embrace Islam, I used to ask him about I used to believe in uh martial law in Area 51 and these types of things and new world order. And then when I became a Muslim, I was like, what's gonna happen when Big Brother comes to us and the martial law and the aliens? And he said, I don't know what the aliens. He said the aliens better be making salat. So it doesn't even matter. If there's aliens, they make a salat. It doesn't matter all that. He said, are they making salat? Because I know Allah's in control of all of that. You got a face you're gonna say something I can do.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

You know me too well. Because in my head right now, E.T.'s making a dun. He knows me too well, Shah. We've been doing this too long, man. There's uh he gets me now. He gets me too. Sheikh Abdullah will tell me after, like he'll he'll actually tell me after we finish. Finished an episode. It's like, you know, I read your face and I was like, how did you know, man? MashaAllah, man. We've been together that long. Inshallah, man. But Shaykh, let me let me throw something back at you. Serious serious note on da'wah, right? And of course, Shaykh Ibrahim would love your feedback because this is something I'm sure you've heard, and I'm sure you've heard as well. Anyone that's doing da'wah and talking to people, we need a God that looks like us, a God that suffers with us. God had to come in flesh and be man in order to get man, right? Like that idea, and and even in the Ramadan series, I talk about this idea that similarity is not always comfort. Like, I need a God I can relate to. Well, when you talk to a friend that has the same problems as you, they can only help you so much because they got their own set of problems, right? You actually need a God that is ghani and hamid and completely removed from problems, right? Uh, and and not with your concerns in order to be able to solve your concerns, right? Acquainted, but not the same. You know, like that's not comfort, you know. Like what do you say to someone's like we need a God that can suffer, that we can see, that we can we can feel with, you know, so that we can we can actually relate. Like, what would you say to someone that comes up to you and says that?

SPEAKER_01 23:07

I mean, exactly what you just said, you know, subhanAllah is well acquainted, but he is not, you know, he you're going to you're going to seek a solution from someone that can provide it for you. And that would require them to have a little more knowledge, a little more power, a little more authority, a little more of those characteristics that you can somewhat rely on. But when it comes to creation, even our own parents at times, there may be some things that you would expect for them to do, but you realize after they were not able to do it, they're not fully capable of doing it. And I don't blame them, but now I realize they're not fully capable of doing it, right? But when it comes to Allah, He is capable of all things. So therefore, someone that's like you, well, they're like you and their limitations as well. Maybe in this particular aspect, they may be able to help you because they have more experience, more knowledge, more years, but were they creator of that? Those when we look at the creator of all of these things, his faculties, it's important for us to know that if they're like us, they're gonna have similar limitations. Not to discount the fact that there may be someone that's like you that can help you along the way in a particular aspect, but they will never be, like they say, seek, the end result that will help you at all times in all situations, in in every encounter that you may face. So I would say it's I don't know who you translate, nisbi. It's maybe contingent upon their limited characteristics. So if you're relying on that person for everything, that's where it can be problematic.

SPEAKER_02 24:29

You all have dawah boots in Canada?

SPEAKER_00 24:30

We do, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:31

Alright, so if someone came out to you at the dawa booth and said that, what would you say?

SPEAKER_00 24:35

I think you know, subhanAllah, like you mentioned, there's these two extremes, which is the one extreme of like philosophizing God to the point of uh presenting God as because he's beyond our human understanding, it's so so so you know wrapped in mystery and sophisticated that they make the average person think you can't actually know God at all. And then the opposite extreme, which is like we have to know God in order for us to really know him, we have to, you know, uh, you know, make him not a deity anymore, make him a human being, make him flesh and bones, make him have human experiences. Uh and Islam is this perfect middle, this perfect wasat that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reveals himself to us through his names and attributes, that we can understand him, that we can connect with him, that we can have an emotional relationship with him while remaining the deity, remaining high above us, remaining in all of his glory and all of his greatness. And subhanAllah, like that's the perfect balance because when you make him a human, as some people do, you lose his adama, you lose the greatness, right? All of a sudden he becomes a human being. Well then he has the deficiencies of a human being. Uh and if you make him so wrapped in mystery that's ununderstandable, then people no longer have a relationship with him. So Islam gives us this beautiful understanding of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala while telling us, yes, there are certain things beyond our human capacity to understand about Allah and but we still know that he's Rahman and He's Rahim and He is Kareem and He is Natif and He has all of these beautiful, amazing attributes of mercy and kindness and generosity and power and greatness. And like Shaykh Abdullah said, you know, yes, you can you can turn God into a human to say, look how loving he is and look how close he is to you. Okay, my mother is very loving and she loves me, but she's not necessarily somebody I trust all the time, even though she loves me, because she doesn't have the capacity to help me and everything, even though she loves me so much and is so merciful. And on the same time, like if I have a problem, I might go to a lawyer and he's capable to help me, but he might not love me, right? He might not have his interest, you know, the my interests at heart. I want the one who has the perfect love and mercy for me, and also the perfect capacity and power for me. So that's the person who's worthy of my tawaqr, worthy of my trust, worthy of my saying, I leave everything with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and whatever he wants for me, I'm happy with.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

There's a saying I struggle, I say this that the Salaf used to say, Al-Kha'edufil Qadri can now lifishamsi. Like the one that delves too much into the qadr and predestination is like the one that looks at the sun. And it covers in numerous aspects. The sun, you know it's there, you know you rely on it, and you know it has an effect on you, but you know you don't know all the intricacies of it. But it does have an effect on you. And if you were to stare in the sun too long, it could harm you. So when it comes to delving into these issues too long, it could possibly harm you. Just what you see, you know that it's there, it can affect you. You trust in that, and subhanAllah. I think that's what's important.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

Zakmaqah and Shaykh. Shaykh, just to clarify, so your mom doesn't get mad at you. You trust your mom. Not her power.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

I trust her, just not, yeah. Yeah, there you go. Just making sure, man.

SPEAKER_02 27:38

I'm not trying to have any issues with your mom. You know, we don't want your mom in the comments to say that, like, you know. She would beAllah. Zakallah, Sheikh. And um we look forward to welcoming you as the 51st state. You wanted to be American, like be part of the Ummah, man. Be part of America too, you know.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

The American Ummah I don't know. Inshallah, you guys can be our uh 12th province. 11th province. 12th territorial.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

12th territory. Sheikh Adol, you want to be Canadian? Why are you gonna be you you're the one that roasted them, not me? I'm out of this. I'm out of Europe. You always I'm inquisitive, Sheikh. I'm just before the cameras are on, what are you saying about there's a reason why the cameras were still off. Zakmaqhir. Alive Arikfiq Shaykh. Um, may Allah bless you, Zakla Khair, for your valuable insight. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow you and all of us to accept uh to be accepted and to uh attain the reward of layrath al-Khadrullah. I mean we got one minute, just 30 seconds each, inshaAllah. Like, what's your take-home advice last four or five nights of Ramadan?

SPEAKER_00 28:47

You know, subhanAllah, this you know, I was talking about the Quran and the greatness of the Quran, and one thing that we should never lose sight of, Ramadan, how amazing it is, how it's full of mercy and full of barakah and full of closeness to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This month is only this month because of the Quran. Shaqru Ramadan al-un Zirafi in the Quran, right? So this month is a reflection of the greatness of the Quran. And the Quran, of course, is for us the whole year, but especially in this month, we should be connecting to it because realize every beautiful thing about Ramadan is only here because of the Quran itself. And so we don't want to be people like imagine you get invited to a party and you have no idea or an occasion, you have no idea what it's for. So you walk into a funeral, but you think it's a birthday party, or you walk into a birthday party, you think it's a funeral. Right? We don't want to be in Ramadan.

SPEAKER_02 29:39

Birthday parties and funerals, man. Come on, man. Is that what happened when you walked into this man in the right place?

SPEAKER_00 29:48

I thought this was right place at the wrong time.

SPEAKER_02 29:57

Sheikh. You're still thinking about ET making it on? ET making it on. Come on, Shah. Think about it.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

Everybody's gonna be what's what's ET? People will look it up. And then someone's gonna AI it. Everyone's gonna AI it's gonna AI it. AI E T. That's interesting. Making it up. Making it.

SPEAKER_02 30:21

We'll see you all tomorrow inshallah.