 أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا ونبينا محمد وأهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين اللهم صلى على محمد وآل محمد قال تعالى في كتابه الكريم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اقرأ بسم ربك الذي خلق خلق الإنسان من علق اقرأ وربك الأكرم الذي علم بالقلم علم الإنسان ما لم يعلم my dear viewers السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته سلام as a religion gives heavy emphasis on the process of learning and acquisition of knowledge in fact, سلام ranked people based on the quality and quantity of their knowledge he prefers those who know more than those that do not know وحد واحد في قرآن القرآن ، قرآنه يقوم باستخدام قرآن ، where God questions our intelligence whether those who are knowledgeable versus the uneducated and not knowing are in equal footing The ayah says قل ، هل يستوي الذين يعلمون والذين لا يعلمون؟ إنما يتذكروا قرآن الباب Oh the prophet, ask them whether those who are knowledgeable scholars Are they in equal footing with the uneducated and not knowing people? Only those with realize who can comprehend can use their mind In another explicit verse in the Holy Quran God explicitly says that those who know the scholars, the knowledgeable Have multiple degrees of a preference over those that do not know The ayah says يرفع الله الذين آمنوا منكم والذين أوتوا العلمة درجات Multiple steps The scholars, the knowledgeable, the scientists are in advance to those that do not know The uneducated people When you look at the tradition of the Prophet The words of wisdom of the Prophet again he emphasizes on this fact The Prophet basically upon him says أكثر الناس قيمة أكثرهم علما وأقل الناس قيمة أقلهم علما If you want to see the most valuable people then look at those who are the most knowledgeable And people with the least value in community are those with the least amount of knowledge It is not wealth, it is not political and military power that gives value to people Rather it is the scope and degree of their knowledge Their knowledge would set the value of those people and the stature of these people علي ابنة يطالب علي السلام has again a beautiful word He says قيمة المرء ما يحسنه The value of a person is in the what he knows Embedded of the capacity of his intellect and his intellectual power This is the word of علي ابنة يطالب Look at the Holy Quran There is a very significant verse and surprisingly significant verse That the Almighty الله سبحانه وتعالى gives a directive to his messenger Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و آله Who is the most perfect and most infallible creature on the face of the planet He tells him وقل رب زدني علما Even you the prophet The perfect human being The most infallible person on earth Still you need to widen the scope of your knowledge Even you need to increase the level of your knowledge This tells that the learning process Acquiring knowledge is a dynamic process It is not limited It is not limited to age It is not limited to gender And not limited to geographic locations When you look at the prophet peace be upon him He says اطلب العلمة من المهدي إلى اللحظ Start acquiring knowledge from a very early stage of life From your cradle if you can do that Until the last moment of your life This is the scope of acquiring knowledge It is not limited only to 12 years in higher school And 4 years in college And then another 4 years as at higher education No Rather the acquiring knowledge The learning is an ever going process That is continue to go with us Until the last moment of our life Again He says طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم و مسلمة It is a mandatory that both men and women Would seek knowledge And then you cannot find and execute Say that I am in a place That there are not much knowledgeable people There is not many schools Therefore I cannot find knowledge And I cannot seek knowledge Again the prophet peace be upon him Says اطلب العلم And what about Palestine Go to China if that requires you To acquire knowledge Well at that time The farthest land was China Probably if that was known to people That people at that time Could have an idea about the Oceania in Australia Or South America The prophet would refer to them as well But at that moment فقط يجب أن نعرف الشينا فكثيراً أن المفتاح يفتح على المعرفة مالذي أفضل من المعرفة المعرفة المعرفة المعرفة من all kinds of methods of learning يجب أن يقوم بعمل المعرفة المعرفة المعرفة المعرفة المعرفة المعرفة المعرفة لذلك ، مالذي المعرفة المعرفة المعرفة المعرفة المعرفة المعرفة المعرفة عندما يصمين بفناء الإصدار فاكش时 لذلك ، سبحانه وتعالى ، المملكة الله سبحانه وتعالى when he descended his holy Quran he started with those beautiful five verses اقرأ بسم ربك الخلق ، برسم ربك الذي خلق اقرأ وربك الأكرم الذي علم بالقلم again multiple times the Almighty uses the word اقرأ today the Islamic nation is nicknamed with the word اقرأ it says أمة اقرأ the nation of reading this is how scholars describe the Islamic nation why because out of all religions worldwide the beginning and start of our religion started with those beautiful five verses that emphasizes reading but unfortunately when you look at the state of Muslims today you see that they are far away from seeking knowledge and education in fact the Islamic and particularly the Arab countries at the bottom list of the literacy rate when the countries are ranked and fortunately despite so much emphasis in the holy Quran and in the tradition of the Prophet the Islamic nations are very behind and lagging behind other nations in literacy rate when you look at the universities despite the fact that the first university and second university were established in the Islamic world the first one was in 1088 AD in فاس مراكو that is called university of قراويون and the other one the second one is جامعة الأزهر the university of أزهر in Cairo those were the first and second universities in the Islamic world after 250 years the first university was established in ballona italy that much difference between time between the first university that was set in the Islamic world and later on in Europe but today when you look at the universities the advanced and top of the ranked universities you see none of those are in the Islamic countries out of the first top 200 university you do not see a single Islamic university in them while only United States has 87 universities that they are ranking you know top 200 Israel has two universities but none belong to any Islamic countries out of 500 top universities they are only four universities two in Turkey and two in Iran when you look at the amount of books that is published in the countries worldwide the new titles that get published every year again you see that the Islamic and particularly the Arab countries are in the bottom list the entire Arab countries almost 40 countries they publish less than what is published in Indonesia Indonesia publishes 24,000 new titles every year the entire Arab countries publish 23,000 new titles per year despite the emphasis on book reading and handling the books when you look at the literatures and studies you see that there are multiple values for book reading number one is that it increases the creativity it increases the power of imagination if you take a few consecutive hours of reading in depth about any book that will widen your scope of imagination you become a better thinker you will come to see new ideas and those ideas will be visualized easily you can visualize those new ideas visually it will give your power of imagination a big boost and this is how people become creative especially at a very young age when you start with your children teaching them to read more and more books you see that the power of their imagination will widen so the first value of reading books is increases creativity and the power of imagination the second one is that it increases the judgment power you become better judges when you see a scenario you will start to discern between the right choice and the wrong choice and especially when you put yourself in the same scenario given that you read a book and you see a similar scenario to yourself it would be easier for you to judge and choose your way you become a better analyzer you will see from your own perspective how you get out of a difficult situation by choosing, by having a better judgment the third value it ignites the curiosity instinct within people when you read more you will try to explore more about others explore more about the universe, about the world therefore it ignites this curiosity instinct within people and this is how people develop this is how people flourish and this is how civilization advances when you have curious people who go and search and look for new ideas, new things so this is a third value a fourth value reading is the best medicine to boredom unfortunately we have a plenty of time that we don't know how to use we kill it aimlessly with using, you know, when we use our time on something very futile on something useless especially with the technology products with these iPhones and iPads and iPods and II and keep saying so those are the best way to kill our times book reading will save us from this idle time that get killed when we use it aimlessly venturing around the last benefit besides getting the knowledge it is studies, scientific studies evidence based studies have shown those who are reading more they are less prone to fall into the problem of mental diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer the reason is very obvious because they keep exercising their minds the minds keep exercising and exercising therefore they are less prone to have mental problems these are the five beautiful values of reading books I should leave you with this important message when we read we should be careful that we do not blindly accept any idea Quran doesn't want you to accept any idea that you read rather you need to think about it carefully and see the reasoning behind this idea as the Almighty Allah says in the Holy Quran فبشر عباد الذين يستمعون القول فيتبعون أحسنه أولائك الذين هداهم الله وأولائكهم أولو الألباب give good news, tidies to those who first listen read, they comprehend, analyze then they follow on the new ideas so the word of caution when you read any book and I encourage everyone to read any book but remember do not accept anything blindly until you analyze it carefully we will come back يا فاطروا يا كاسر يا جابر يا ذاكير يا ناظرو يا ناصر سبحانك يا لا إله خلصنا أهمنا اللهم صل على محمد وآل محمد يا من خلقى فسوى يا من قدرى فهدى يا من يكشفوا البلواء يا من يسمعون نجوى يا من ينقذوا العرقاء يا من ينجيل هلكاء يا من يشفي المرضى يا من أضحكى وابكى يا من مات واحياء يا من خلقى الزوجين الذكرى والأنثى سبحانك يا خلصنا من النقى يا من في البرى والبحر سبيله يا من في الآفاق آياته يا من في الآيات برهان يا من في المات قدرته يا من في القبول عبرته يا من في القيامتي ملكو يا من في الحساب هيبته يا من في الميزان قضى يا من في الجنة ثوا يا من في النار سبحانك يا خلصنا من النقى يا من في المات قدرته يا من في القيامتي يا من في الحساب يا من في النار يا من في اللم ي interval يا من في القيامة، so Allah, for whom I enter in Your Name . Oh, Forgiver! Oh, Concealer! Our mighty Supreme Creator! The creator, the Shatterer, the Joiner, the Rememberer, the Seeing Helper. I have choosen two vocabulary. The first one is the Concealer. God Conceals the Pugnacious things. أن يتفعل الضخم والأجل للأسداء أذا أ Remember لقاوم قليلا في مجددا نقول ياما أظهر الجميل وستطر القبيع أن يجعل الأشياء السبب المنزل while يتكلم الأشياء السبب يتكلم when he keeps away and conceal the misconducts اللعنة اللعنة لقد قلت هذا العالم باستخدام الإجتماع أظن أن هذا العالم is a courthouse أفضل على اليوم المحاول أننا سنبقى على إجتماعه now the feature of a courthouse or a courtroom is that there must be witnesses this is how a just court should be there must be witnesses for or against the plaintiff the Almighty has chosen four witnesses that they will come on the day of judgment either they speak for us or they speak against us here it is the first set of witness is the ground that we live on the same planet God will make this a planet speak on the day of judgment إذا أزلزلت الأرض وزلزالها وأخرجت الأرض أثقالها the earth reveals on earth whatever it has contained وقال الإنسان مالها what's wrong with this planet this ground يوم إذن تحدث أخبارها this ground will start talking and articulating words therefore they reveal those secrets this is one kind of witness the other kind of witness is our body parts our skins our hands our legs our eyes يوم نختم على أفواههم وتكلمنا إيديهم وتشهد أرجلهم our mouths are sealed while our hands and our foot and our leg will keep talking وقالوا لمشهد وقالوا لجلودهم لمشهدتم علينا they talk to their skins and say why did you witness against us they say أمطقنا الله الذي أمطق كل شيء God has made us speak this is second kind of witness the third kind of witness are كرام الكاتبين those two angels that God has instilled them on our shoulders that they record every single thing as the ayah says وإن عليكم لحافظين كرام الكاتبين يعلمون ما تفعلون those are the angels who write everything and the last witnesses are the infallibles the prophet we speak of in him the imams who come on the day of judgment and they witness on our deeds الله سبحانه وتعالى says وقل عمله فسير الله عملكم ورسوله والمؤمنون مؤمنون here means the infallible imams who will witness our deeds and our action again our word was satir concealer God can make all of those four witnesses unaware of our mistakes unaware of our sins if we repent if we conceal the mistakes of others this is how God help us on the day of judgment by concealing our own mistakes and our own sins and mishaps the second words that the Almighty الله سبحانه وتعالى says يا كاسروا or the dua says يا كاسروا يا جابر but before that caught my eyes the beautiful words of Imam Hussein عليه السلام in دعاء عرفة where it says يا من سترني من الأضاء والأمهات oh you God you have concealed my mistakes even from my parents من الأضاء والأمهات أن يسجروني from reprimanding rebuffing and snubbing me ومن العشائري والإخوان أن يعيروني from my tribes and my brothers to scold and ridicule me ومن السلاطين أن يعاقبوني the governments if they find out about my misconducts they will punish me ولو اتطلعوا يا مولاي على ما اتطلعت عليه مني إذا ما أنظروني ولا رفضوني وقطعوني if they know if they witness what we have what you have witnessed from me they will abandon me they will reject me this is the meaning of concealer God will conceal our sins from everyone going back again to the word يا كاسروا يا جابا the breaker and the healer do you see brothers and sisters God they break our hearts and the stamina of our hearts by the fear that he instills in our hearts and he rejoins them by the hope by being optimistic and longing for his mercy this is a divine strategy the almighty and one side he makes us fear him and the other side he makes us long and hope for his mercy in one beautiful ayah the almighty says ودعوه خوفا وطمعا إن رحمة الله قريبا من المحسنين when you pray to him when you deal with God always keep this in mind these a balanced way one side is the fear of his punishment if there is no fear of his punishment then we do everything everything negative all bad behaviors but remembering that there is a fear that there is جهنم waiting for us that there is punishment in the grave waiting for us this feeling of fear make us abstain from sin but that should be counterweight with longing for the mercy of الله سبحانه وتعالى طمعا we wish and we long for the mercy we should be optimistic always that the mercy of God will contain us in another verse الله سبحانه وتعالى تاقسبات يحيا and زكرية he says إنهم كانوا يسارعون في الخيرات ويدعوننا رغبا وراهبا they would they would have this relationship of longing for our mercies and fearing our punishment this is how this is an ideal relationship this is an ideal encountering of God's order always we should fear the punishment of God at the same time we should long for his mercy then segment number 41 that is two disperse poisonous words it says يا من خلق فسوة يا من قدر فهدا يا من يكشف البلوة يا من يسمع النجوة يا من ينقد الغرقة يا من ينجل هلكة يا من يشفل المرضى يا من أضحك وأبكى يا من أمات وأحيا يا من خلق الزوجين الذكرة والأنثة again this beautiful words of he he created and perfected he who made everything to measure and guided يا من قدر فهدا when he created something when he created us he didn't abandon us the blessing of a creation by itself is a huge mercy to us but again remember the maintaining he kept this maintaining a life the Imam in دعاء عرفة الإمام الحسين عليه السلام says that oh you God out of your mercy you didn't even you didn't give me one blessing while you took away another blessing you gave all the blessings and mercies in one package ثم إذ خلقتني من خير الثرى لم ترض لي يا إلهي نعمة دون أخ دق دون أخرى ورزقتني من أنواع المعاشي وصنوف الرياش you when you created me you didn't give me only few of those نعمات and blessings while you took away and deprived me from the other blessings rather you gave me everything sufficient complete order everything came into order creation then once I was created in the womb of my mother you gave me food sustenance then I was brought to this life you taught me how I stand up walk talk and take care of myself this is an ever going process until the end until death the blessings of Allah سبحانه و تعالى are ever continuing and continuous they never stop this is how Allah سبحانه و تعالى make sure that the blessing continue and we receive those blessings in a continuous man he doesn't create us and leave us to our own then another words يامن أضحك وأبكى he brings to laughter everyone at the same time he brings to wailing and crying everyone the reasons for laughter is when we are elated happy and humorous when we see a humorous moment we laugh when we are elated and full of joy we laugh and when we are saddened by something we cry and wail what is the reason behind those it's all in the hand of Allah سبحانه و تعالى he made the background conducive for me to laugh or to cry we should always look at those moments the behind the scene reasons for our laughter if he brings laughter to me I should be careful that one day I will end up crying and wailing because all matter are in his hand segment number 42 it says the theme is to avoid calamity where Allah سبحانه و تعالى says يامن في البر والبحر سبيله يامن في الآيات آياته يامن في الآيات برحانه this is that look at the horizons look at this universe look at the planets look at yourself everything that you turn you will see the sign of Allah is very vivid يامن في القبور عبرته يامن في القيامة ملكه the lesson that we take from this life is all in the graveyard eventually we will end up in the graveyard therefore we should search for God's signs in this universe within ourselves within the creation within the animal within the nature as Allah سبحانه و تعالى says سنرهم آياتنا في الآفاق وفي انفسهم because one day we will end up in the graveyard and if we have not acted it would be too late to act at that time may Allah سبحانه و تعالى guide us in this holy month in these holy days and nights to learn more about these words of wisdom والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله و بركاته سوف أعطيكم جميعاً جميعاً جميعاً ما هو تستخدم as your share إذا لم يكن لديكم سنة في حياتك فلماذا يجب عليك أن تقلق لما ليس لك لا يوجد سيكاً سيكون لديك حياتك حياتك ولا سيكون لديك حياتك في حياتك وضعاً ما هو تستخدم as your share سيكون لديك