 we begin with the thanks and the praises of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, thanking him and praising him. What we must do as we recognize our Obudiyah has laid to him subhanahu wa ta'ala and subhanahu wa ta'ala begins the Quran by saying Alhamdulillah, teaching us the best way to praise him. Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah means that he is the Lord of the worlds. He gives us an appropriate title to call him, to call upon him. He's teaching us what is the best way to address him subhanahu wa ta'ala and then he chooses subhanahu wa ta'ala out of all of his names and attributes, the ones that he wants to put at the forefront, the ones that you're going to be reminded of every single time you stand up to pray. He says Al Rahman Al Rahim, the most merciful, the one who gives his mercy vastly to everyone and then also the one who very selectively chooses certain people to receive special parts of his mercy. And so when we understand this Rahman, this Allah who is merciful, we recognize that we wouldn't want anyone to judge us when our eternity is on the line except Al Rahman Al Rahim. And so he says, don't worry. The one who owns that day, he is Al Rahman and Al Rahim. And so we completely submit to him. He is the one who told us how to praise him. Then we praised him. We have fear and he consoles us. And then so what can we do other than rely only on him and worship only him and seek help from only him? And when we submit wholeheartedly, completely to him subhanahu wa ta'ala, we are completely his slaves, not doing anything except that he wants us to do it. We only ask that he does with us what he pleases as well. And the path of those who he has chosen, who he has blessed, who he is the one who picks, who he wants to succeed. We learn so many beautiful things, so many beautiful things from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And one of the most blasphemous things that we hear today in Muslim circles is that the Qur'an is not enough. How can you imagine a Muslim say that the Qur'an is not enough? Yet Muslims are saying this on public platforms, on open audiences, to the masses of people, to young individuals who don't know right from wrong. And they are given this alternative lifestyle and they are being told that the Qur'an sometimes is not enough for you. How blasphemous of a saying. Rather the Qur'an is always sufficient. And when people say that go and learn the Qur'an, go and engage with the Qur'an, if someone doesn't come out of this benefiting from the Qur'an it's because the fault is in the person, not in the Book of Allah. How dare someone say that there is a fault in the Book of Allah. How dare someone say that there is a deficiency in the Book of Allah. Rather it is perfect and in it are all the answers to the mysteries of the universe. So much so as we briefly discussed whatever an individual is suffering with, whatever calamity is faced, whatever tragedy someone has to go through, any anguish that comes upon our hearts or fear and we turn and we're not able to say any words. People are sometimes lost for words. They don't know what to say. It's impossible for them to speak. How merciful is Allah that He teaches us in the Qur'an the correct things to say when we are troubled. When someone is struck with despair, Allah gives us lessons in the Qur'an to learn and to ask properly from that despair. When someone is struck with fear or anxiety, when someone is struck with some sort of difficulty, Allah tells this person in the Qur'an how to respond. Exactly what to say. Not only what to say but He gives examples of people who have been in your exact positions going through things much worse than you can imagine. And He tells you how they made it through to the other side. Rather the person who says this does not know the Book of Allah. This person does not know Allah as the most merciful. This person has gone to the Qur'an but they have been led astray. We need the Qur'an because Allah teaches us through the Qur'an. Allah teaches us the best way to live. And for many people, for many people hearing a verse of the Qur'an, it's not going to move your heart. Hearing the hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, it's not going to affect our hearts. But that's okay. That's okay. When you hear the words of Allah and your hearts are not moving, it's okay sometimes. Sometimes you need something else. Sometimes you need a motivational talk. Sometimes you need a word of inspiration. Sometimes you need an event to occur in your life. Allah gave us many avenues through which our hearts can be affected. A sign of this is that some people are guided through sight and that moves their heart. Some people are guided through their ears and that moves their hearts. Some people are guided through taste and that moves their hearts. Some people are guided through the mind and that moves their hearts. No single person here is the exact same. And so no remedy is going to work for every single person. But the beauty of the Qur'an is that it takes all of the things that you can possibly be exposed to. And if you interact with the Qur'an properly, it will give you what you need and the way you need it. It will give you what you need and the way that you specifically need it. That is the miracle of the Book of Allah. The miracle of the sight of the Qur'an. So even for the hafiz, one who knows the heart in his heart, knows the Qur'an in his heart. When he sits to read the Qur'an, he shouldn't just sit and read from memory. He shouldn't just sit and read in his head. He should look at the words of Allah by opening a mus'ah, recite out loud so that his tongue is engaged, so his eyes are engaged, so his ears are engaged. And most importantly, so his heart is engaged. Touching the book, feeling the book, being with the Book of Allah. So in these days when people are going through trying times, do not let people and shaitan deceive us into thinking that the Qur'an is not enough for us. The month of the Qur'an is upon us yet people say the Qur'an is not enough for us. The month of the Qur'an is upon us. We need to ask ourselves, what is my relationship to the Qur'an of Allah? Do I read it? Do I memorize it? Do I study it? Do I understand it? Does the Qur'an speak to me? Because the truth of the matter is, Allah is speaking to us through the Qur'an. When we recite his words, he is speaking to us directly. This month that is coming upon us, and we are not guaranteed to survive till this month. So we should start with the Qur'an today. What is my relationship with the Word of Allah today? What is my relationship every morning and every night with the Word of Allah? And may Allah never include me in the one who turns back towards the Qur'an. May He protect me from ever being amongst the foolish person who dares to say that the Qur'an is not sufficient for me. May we be people of the Qur'an. We ask Allah to be of those people because that is a miracle in and of itself. That is intimate companionship with the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Because his character was the Qur'an. He was like a walking Qur'an. So your relationship with the Qur'an is your relationship with the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. And both of those are your relationship with Allah. We ask Allah to be amongst those people and to never turn our back to the major signs of this religion, and to the dignity and to the honor of this religion.