 فشرف بالشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يدى بدلى وياله من شراف عظيمي الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وشدوى الله إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهد السبيل وشدوى النسيد ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعليه وعاله واصحابه والتابعين لهم بيحسانين إلى يوم الدين أما بعض الطريقة التي أريد أن أتحدث عن الموضوع بإذن الله الكريم is in the following points the first point is I'm going to define what تدبر is and I'm also going to speak about the commands that have come regarding pondering on the Qur'an and the third point that I'm going to speak about is the pillars in which تدبر stands on and the fourth one is the relationship between knowing the objectives of the Qur'an and pondering on the Qur'an and last but not least I will be speaking about the means in which if a person takes a componder on the Qur'an and all of these points when I mention them I will be mentioning how the Salaf were in regards to these particular points so my topic is more generic and more comprehensive than the title that was given to it what does تدبر mean and I always like us to give importance to definitions because if you don't understand the definition if you don't understand the definition then you can't come with the thing in order to come with the reality of something what do you need to do you have to understand it first what does تدبر mean in the language تدبر in the language it comes from the word الدبر the back the ending وهو آخر الشيء the Arabs they say دبر الدابة meaning the back the tail of the riding beast so from this we can realize that تدبر and تدبر in a matter is looking at the ending of this matter it's basically when you look at the final ending of a matter so you're not looking at what it is right now but what is the effects that come from it after and etc this is what تدبر is in the language in the إصطلاحي meaning so there's two times before I go to the إصطلاحي meaning there are two times generally people kind of confused with one another what's the difference between تدبر and تفكر تدبر is looking at something based on the final ending that it's going to lead to it's another في عواقب الأمور looking at the matter from its final conclusions but تفكر is another it's to look at something with evidence it's when you look at something based on evidence that's what تفكر means what does it mean in the شرعي meaning when the شريعة commands you to point what does it mean it means what we just mentioned it's another في عواقب الأمور it's to look at the finding ending of a matter and that's not it and the effects have to show on your limbs and that's the additional meaning that the شريعة added to what تدبر is and we're going to expand on that later so it's not just looking at the Quran and saying wow سبحان الله this verse told us this and it's leaving it there rather it is that the understanding and the benefits that you've taken it starts to manifest and show on your limbs so I hope now we know what تدبر is we're now going to move on to the second point which is الله سبحانه وتعالى He commanded us to ponder in the Quran الله said in the Quran أفلا يتدبرون القرآن do they not ponder on the Quran أم على قلوب أقفالوها or are there locks on their hearts الله says in the other verse أف لم يتدبر القولة have they not ponder on the speech أم جاءهم or has it come to them ما لم يأتي آباءهم الأولين that which has not come to their forefathers الله says in the other verse كتاب أي بك أنزلناه which we sent down إليكة to you محمد مبارك when this book is full of blessings and it's full of baraka why ليتدبروا آياتي so you can ponder on its verses وليتذكر أولو الألباب and those who are wise and intellectual people can also take a lesson from it also الله سبحانه وتعالى He says in the other verse أف لم يتدبروا أف لا يتدبرون القرآن do they not ponder on the Quran ولو كان من عند غير الله لو وجدوا فيه اختلافا كثيرا and if they were to receive this Quran from other than الله سبحانه وتعالى they would have found a lot of contradiction in it this Quran doesn't have a contradiction in it because it comes from الله سبحانه وتعالى الإمام الأجرير رحمه الله he says in his كتاب أخلاق وحملت القرآن a powerful statement I'm going to read on you he says ألا ترونه do you not see رحمكم الله may Allah have mercy on you إلا مولاكم can you not see may Allah have mercy on each and every one of you و الله سبحانه وتعالى is doing كيف يحث خلقه على أن يتدبر كلامه the way Allah is urging His creation to ponder on His speech ومن تدبر كلامه anyone who ponders on Allah's speech this is the benefits that come out of it عرف الرب عز وجل that person is going to know Allah if you ponder on Allah's speech you're going to know him there is nothing better to explain Allah to you than Allah Himself so he's telling you about himself pondering on the Quran is the greatest way to know him سبحانه وتعالى وعرف عظيمة سلطاني وقدرتي then the person starts to gain knowing the supreme power and ability and strength الله سبحانه وتعالى has so you start seeing that person not seeing in private it starts to affect him وعرف عظيمة فضوله على المؤمنين and the person starts to know how Allah has bestowed never ending mercy on us how kind and generous he is to us سبحانه وتعالى وعرف أن the person also comes to know ما عليه من فرض عبادته the things that are obligatory on him to come with he starts to know it because he now is connected to the Quran فأل زم نفسه الواجب so that person sticks to the obligatory things he makes sure he comes with it فحاذرا مما حذره مولاه الكريم and the person stays and withholds from that which his Lord prohibits him from and tells him to stay away from ورغب فيما رغبه في and he also pushes himself to that which his Lord pushes him towards ومن كانت هذه صفته الإمام العجوري you said anyone who these characteristics are his characteristics عند تلاوته القرآن when he reads the Quran وعند استماعه من غيره and when he hears the Quran from other than himself anyone whose characteristics are like this كان القرآن له شفاء this person for him the Quran is a cure فستغنى بلا مالن he becomes rich even though he has no money وعز بلا عشيرة and he becomes honorable even if he has no family members even if he doesn't have friends وانسا بما يستوحش ومنه غيره he finds company when other people are lonely he finds company because the Quran gives him company وكان همه عند تلاوته صورة إلفتتها his aspiration is the continuation of the recitation of the Quran this is what he asks himself he says to himself متى التعظ بما أتلو when am I going to take a lesson from this verse so whenever he is reading the Quran and every time he continuously carries on reading he says to himself when am I going to take a lesson from this verse ولم يكون مراده متى أختم صورة and his objective is not going to be when am I going to finish the surah وإنما مراده rather his ultimate goal is متى أعقل عن الله الخطاب when he comes across a verse he doesn't understand what it means he says when am I going to understand what this means when am I going to know what Allah is saying to me here متى أزدجل when am I going to withhold from what I'm doing متى أعتبر when am I going to take these verses this is the lesson لأن تلاوته للقرآن عبادة because he believes reciting these verses it's a form of عبادة for him و العبادة لا تكون بغفلتن and a عبادة cannot occur with heedlessness والله الموفق لذلك and Allah is the one who is able to make you one who attains this so this is what comes with pondering on the Quran and Allah commanded us in many places to ponder so these are the pillars in which pondering stands on the first one is التفكر to think و التفاهم and it's to understand the first pillar in which التدبر stands on is التفكر is to think and التفاهم trying to make yourself understand the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى you're reading a verse what does it mean what is Allah trying to say to me and as we said before what does it mean thinking it means نظر في عقبة ما يقول إليه هذه الأمور you look at all of these matters which are mentioned in this verse what's the final conclusion of it if you don't take it what's going to be the final abode for you if you take it on board and you do it what's your final abode if you leave it off what's your final abode you ponder and you think this will increase in your heart التصديق believing in Allah والمعرفة recognizing Him and it will also increase in your heart التعظيم لأمري الله honoring and venerating الله سبحانه وتعالى's commands number two the second pillar is حصول أثر ذلك that the effects of these verses that you're reading it shows on your الجوارح your limbs it's not just you read a verse you read an ayah but it becomes something that your body starts to implement you become a trustworthy person you become a sincere person you become an honorable person it changes you the day you become the people of the Quran you're changed you're a totally different individual و لذلك the prophet told us عليه الصلاة والسلام in the hadith اليمام المسلم المبخاري both narrated في صحيحهما من حديث أبي موسى الأشعري رضي الله تعالى عنه that the prophet said مثال المؤمني the likes of a a mu'min is الذي يقرأ القرآن the believer who reads the Quran كمثال اترجه he's like a citrus ريحوها طيبون its fragrance is nice و طعموها طيبون and the taste is very nice و مثال المؤمني الذي لا يقرأ القرآن and as for the believer who doesn't read the Quran كمثال he's like a date لا ريح لها he has no the date doesn't have no smell و طعموها حلون but this taste is very nice so the believer who doesn't read the Quran he tastes good like the date he's good but there's no fragrance to him like there's no fragrance to the date و مثال المنافق and the hypocrite الذي يقرأ القرآن who reads the Quran مثال الريحانة he's like a tree that smells nice but ريحوها طيبون its fragrance is nice و طعموها مرن and its taste is very bitter و مثال المنافق and the hypocrite الذي لا يقرأ القرآن who doesn't read the Quran is like the Hanbala the Hanbala it has no taste and it has no smell to it so this Hadith what does it teach us that the believer he reciting the Quran and reading it comes for him two things a good smell and the taste being good و لذلك as many people they haven't even understood what is meant by reciting the Quran مجاهد من جبرين when he came to the ayah يتلوله حقا تلاوته because the Hadith mentioned they read the Quran right what does it mean read in the Quran يعملون به they implement it حقا عمله the way it should be implemented so the Quran is not مجرد it's not just mere words that are read but it becomes actions and things which a person does عبدالله المسعود said إنا و the companions صعوبة علينا it was very hard on us if the Al-Fadr of the Quran memorizing the words of the Quran و سهولا علينا العمله عمله به and implementing the Quran was very easy for us we the companions memorizing the Quran was very hard the wordings but memorizing its boundaries was very easy for us و إلا من بعدنا and those who are going to come after us it's going to be very easy for them to memorize the wordings and it's going to be very hard for them to implement what's in the Quran عبدالله إبن عمر وضي الله و تعالا عنه he said كان الفضل the virtue in the companions of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم it was not in the memorization of the Quran it's surah rather it is was in the virtue the one who memorized it and implemented the meanings in it so when we say in the Hadith مثل المؤمن the example of a believer who reads the Quran ماذا يعني ؟ حفظة ام احقارة احروفة الذي يقرأ الوضع ويأتي with the implementation ويأتي مع حقيقة ويأتي مع ماذا ؟ التدبور هذا هو التدبور الآن سوف اتكلم about the relationship between the Maqasid of the Qur'an and the Tadabbur the objectives that the Qur'an set and also pondering ما اتكلم عن تدبور ؟ تدبور هو تظهر الوضع ويأتي مع ماذا is it right اذا كل وضع في القرآن يقرأ في one of these اذا هذا وضع تقرير التوحيد وقومور العقيد هذا وضع تدبور توحيد او تدبور عقيد نموان فالقضية الاساسية التي ترونها ويضعها is تقرير الأحكام الشمعية تقرير جولس بونورولين أحكام حلال حرام وامر النهي ثلاثة is ذكر القصص يتكلم عن الامبياء السابقين ومسانجة التي وصلت و أخبار الكفاري والمشيكينة and the stories of the disbelievers and the pagans and the politists and how their situation was with their prophets and their messengers. So when the person is reading the Qur'an and he comes to the ayat that I talk about he reads observing how Allah is talking about it. When he comes to the verses that are talking about he ponders because he knows what he's been told to him here is that this is Halal he needs to submit and follow. He also ponders on the places which has been told to him that it's Haram to stay away from. And when he comes to the verses that are talking about the stories of the previous prophets and the messengers he looks at it wisely and he observes it. And many of the people if you look the reason why they are unable to ponder on the Qur'an is that they don't know the maqas and the objectives of the Qur'an. And these are the three things that the Qur'an talks about. These are the three foundation in which the Qur'an is dealing with. For example when Allah سبحانه وتعالى يتكسب أمور العقيدة He says قل هو سيت ذا محمد هو الله سبحانه وتعالى إذا القادر the one who has the ability على أن يبعث عليكم for him to send out onto you عذابا من فوقكم a punishment from beneath you أو من تحت أرجلكم أو from above you or from beneath your feet أو يلبسكم شيعا أو الله سبحانه وتعالى He makes you into groups ويوذيق بعضكم بأس بعض and part of a group makes the other group taste pain and agony أنظر الله سبحانه وتعالى كيف نصرف الآيات the way we are changing the verses for you ودلالة المفهوم دلالة المطابقة دلالة التبم we are talking to you indirectly we are changing the ways that we are approaching every speech لعلم يفقهون so that people come pondering and understand and take on board what has been said to them So when Allah spoke about this matter related to عقيدة automatically what did He tell us pondering and think هذا الشيخ يقول لنا أن أمه سيكون منطقة والله يتكلم هنا أن الناس سيكون منطقة إلى جميع والجميع سيكون منطقة لأمه هذا الجميع سيكون منطقة لتخفير على الجميع أو تبديع وتدع كافر وإنه سيكون منطقة لأمه ونقل لماذا لا يحدث؟ وفي ورائع الكافر يقضي الله ويسأله يقول هو القادر الله هو الذين يمكنوا على أن يبعث عليكم عذابا من يفوقكم من ينبأك المفرد أن الله يكون منطقة أو يوجد رفوج في مقربك لا تفعل هذا إلى أمه ويكون منطقة أو يقضي على أيضك أو يقضي بجميعك ومفرد أن أو لا لا يجب أن أمه يذهب على هذا او يلبسكم شيعاً ان الله برقصك في المشاركة و يذيق بعضكم بأس بعض فهي يقول اخبر الله و الله يخبرني انه لا يستطيع أن يعطيني هذا المشاركة امامهم يمتلون في المشاركة صحيح و يفعلون بعض المشاركة في المشاركة فهذا هو عاقيد عقيدة شخص يفكره و يفكره و يفهمه و الله سبحانه وتعالى يتحدث عنه مثل احكام الحلال والحرام الله يقول لي ايه احل لكم ليلة الصيامة ليلة الصيامة رفث انتمسي with your wives الانسائيكم to your wives هن لباس لكم your wife is a garment for you و انتم لباس لهم you are a garment for your wife you are going to ponder here what does the garment do for you what does the following number one the garment it covers your aura so your wife doesn't tell the people your mistakes and your shortcomings the husband doesn't tell the people his wife's shortcomings he doesn't talk about his wife to the people about it he's a garment the garment doesn't tell the aura of the person the person is pondering here also the garment makes you look beautiful when you dress nicely if you take off your clothes you don't look good when you wear your clothes you look good you have you're chubby you're fat but you wear a type of clothes people go and say to you subhanAllah you lost a lot of weight so the wife is like that for the husband she beautifies him when he's out and about and he's facing she puts cream on his face the same as the husband he makes sure that when he buys himself something from outside he buys something for her as well the point is we're pondering on the verse this is what the ayah mentions and the ayah goes on so these verses when Allah سبحانه و تعالى mentions it كذلك he says at the ending you bay you know Allah clarifies for you آياته his verses للناس لعلهم يتقون and he does this for you so you can come with piety I'm clarifying the verses for you I'm explaining these matters for you and this is أحكام شرعية which is حلالة حرام when Allah talks about the stories he says to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم واتلو عليهم نبي الله محمد ويدرنم واتلو عليهم نبأ الذي آتيناه آياتنا the one who we gave him our vases فنسلخ منها he went out of our vases he turned away from it فنسلخ منها فأتبعه الشيطان فكان من الغاوين and he followed the path of shaitan he took that path and he became one who became deviated Allah then says ولو الشيطنا لا رفعناه بها ولكنه أخلد إلى الأرض واتبع هوا فمثاله كمثل الكلب انتحمل عليه يلهث أو تتركوا يلهث this is the story of a man who Allah gave him سبحانه وتعالى the book he understood the book that Allah sent down on him he had knowledge but he turned away from the book he chose the world the glamours and the glitters of the world and then what did Allah say his example is his example is the example of a dog if you give the dog the dog's tongue is still out if you don't give it to him his tongue is also still out so this is the story that you ponder that the person who turns away from the Quran his reality in this world is like that so these قصص and these stories are lessons for you also we move on to the final and last point إن شاء الله و تعالى which is the means in which a person can attain a dabbur the first one is قراءة القرآن reciting the Quran is a way to attain and again pondering studying and learning the Quran and trying to understand it whenever we say reciting the Quran here we mean what مجاهد said reading it understanding it and digesting it now some people may say that the understanding here that you're saying that we need to come with does it mean that we have to understand it تفهم العلماء المجتهدين like the noble scholars the way they've understood it مصيلا but it means that you understand من جهة دلالتها العم the overall general meaning that the verse is giving you و لذلك العلمة محمد المين الشانقيطي رحمه الله when he talks in the ayah فلا يتدبرون القرآن أم على قلوب أقفالها he goes and he mentions many benefits regarding it and he mentions in there العلامة محمد المين الشانقيطي و he mentions that it is not a condition that you understand the Quran the way the مجتهدين understand it and he also mentions أفلا يتدبرون القرآن أم he means بال that it means rather they are looks on their hearts and it's not a question رحمه الله رحمة واسعة so I advise you all to go to his explanation of the verse the second one is العملو بما فيه implement what's in it if you want to attain a تدبر of the Quran implement what's in it و لذلك عايشة when she was asked the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم خلق how is his characteristics he said كان خلقه القرآن he was what he was what his manners was the Quran now sometimes you find people say the prophet was the walking Quran this is wrong this is wrong because what that entails is that the Quran is created the prophet is created and the Quran is not created okay brothers but the Quran the man is that are in it the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he took it on board he implemented the commands and he stayed away from the prohibition و لذلك حديثة said يا معشرة القرآن all those of you who read the Quran إستقيموا be steadfast فقد سبقتم سبقم بعيدا you have what you have truly been placed very far ahead فإن أخذتم if you take the Quran on board by implementing it then you will find success and if you turn towards your right and left meaning you deviate from it لقد ظلل then become misguided a clear kind of misguidance the third part my beloved brothers and sisters is تعليمه teaching it و دعوة إلي and calling the people to it this is the third way to attain التدبر of the Quran the prophet said خيركم the best amongst you is من تعلم القرآن and the one who learns the Quran و علمه and teaches the Quran و لذلك عبد الله بن عمر it said عليكم بالقرآن your opinion is the Quran فتعلموه و علمو أبناءكم و علمو أبناءكم و علمو القرآن to your children فإنكم for you are عم who you to saloon you will be asked about the Quran and you will be asked about your children و به جرون and the Quran you will be rewarded based on it و كفى به و عظن the Quran is enough for reminder لمن عقلة the one who actually understands and ponders on it number four is قيام الليل standing at night and reading و لذلك الله says إن ناشئة الليل هي أشد وطعا ممعن وطعا اي للقل it's the thing that can most affect the heart the Quran being recited at night قيام الليل is a what it's the best thing for the heart و أقوى مقيلة and it's the best speech to spend in the night it's embarrassing a person who claims to be practicing and he doesn't pray قيام الليل even a little portion at night and if a wife is married to a husband and he doesn't pray at night she should wake him up and tell him to pray and if a husband has a wife and she doesn't pray قيام الليل he should try to wake her up and make her pray this is the relationship the spouse need to have it's embarrassing and it's wrong that you don't pray قيام الليل and you don't have a portion at night و الله it's embarrassing و الله it's embarrassing because Allah comes down سبحانه وتعالى the last day of the night and you're sleeping and it's the time you want to ask him for so many things and you want to connect with him سبحانه وتعالى and this is the best time for you to ponder on the Quran because there's nobody else to show off to and there is nobody else to read the Quran for و لذلك عبد الله و مبارك he said قَيَا أَسْتُفْيَانَا فَوْرِيْ أَيْسَتْتُهِمْ أَرْرَجُلْ إِلَا قَامَا إِلَا صَلَاتِيْ أَيُوْ شَيْئِنْ يَنْوِيدْ بِقَرَاتِيْ وَصَلَاتِيْ إِفَا بَرْسِنْ هِيْسْتَانْزْ عَتْعَتْ نَيْتْ هِيْ بَرْسِنْ أَذَرْ يُوَيَتْ هَفْشُونَ that he's referring to at night و what is it that he intends he reads the Quran 4 he says he reads it the intention behind it is to converse with his Lord speak to his Lord and the best time for that is the late night because Allah comes down سبحانه وتعالى five is استحفار القلب عند قراءة reading the Quran with a mind that is clear it's a distraction people read the Quran sometimes and they are playing with something or they are laughing or they even what's up in a texting و لذلك عبد الله بن مسعود سيد من أراد العلم anyone who wants knowledge فالي يثور القرآن فإن في علم الأولين والآخرين عبد الله بن عمرين said as ابن حزم الرحمة والله narrated من طريق شعبة الله بن عمرين said anybody who wants knowledge of the early people and the ones to come all of knowledge you don't need philosophy فالي يثور القرآن what does he mean by فالي يثور القرآن let him turn his eyes regarding on the Mus'haf and the Quran let him turn over the pages let him read this Quran بالتكرار والتدبر observing and pondering on it الله anybody who wants it's in the Quran for him because the Quran contains any knowledge that you need the people who read the Quran are one of three types the first one is the first type of people are those who read the Quran and they want to get a worldly gain for it second type of people is a group of people who have published its wording when you hear the Quran and then reading it the letters are correctly pronounced the مخارج, the مد is it lazım, is it غيرو لازم how much حروف is the مد here they will tell you, they know it they're very good at it but it's boundaries they have forsaken it no implementation on it his bid is cut after he finishes the recitation in reading the Quran and we see many of those in in Egypt reciting the Quran and when they read your hair stand الله نزل أحسن الحديث كتابة متشابهة تقشعروا من وجلود الذين يخشون ربهم their hair stand the way that they're reading but then when he goes out when he goes out this is a problem the third type of people are when they went to the Quran they went there for a reason they want cures from it أمراض القلوب the illness is on the heart and the illness is on the body they want to cure themselves they want to mentally cure themselves they want the Quran to be a solution for their problems these are the people we want الله سبحانه وتعالى to make us from amongst anything which I have said while I was speaking any mistakes, any shortcomings when Allah has messaged our free from it the best of speech is that which is short and it's to the point الله مغفل لنا دنوبنا وإصرافنا في أمرنا وثبت أقدامنا وانصرنا على القوم الكافر الله مغفل لنا هزلنا وجدنا وخطانا وعمدنا وكل ذلك عدنا يا رب العالمين اللهم لا تجعل الدنيا أكبر همنا ولا مبلغ علمنا ولا تصليض علينا بدنوبنا من لا يخاف كفينا ولا يرحمنا لا تفوصنا تقواها وزكها أنت خير من زكاها أنت وليها ومولاها اللهم ربنا آتنا في الدليا حسنة وفي الآخرة حسنة وقنا عذاب النار سبحانك الله مزحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفرك وأتوب إليه