 you know actually I'm very proud of the sisters what they are doing their love of Qur'an their teaching of Qur'an and like Dr. Rania Masha'Allah it's looking look at this beautiful Mejlis Masha'Allah so I'm very proud of what they are doing in the Baye area Masha'Allah of course those are the students of Imam Zaid and Sheikh Hamza so they grew up with Imam Zaid and Sheikh Hamza or their alimat Masha'Allah their scholars they were teaching this is makes me very very happy and there are more scholars in here this year they've been we're doing actually I I feel like they are doing better than man actually alhamdulillah so we want to see more of that we want to see more ladies memorizing Qur'an reciting Qur'an teaching Qur'an inshallah so and we have more like Sheikh Hamza and Imam Zaid and Dr. Rania and the others inshallah so this year one of the sisters you know during the pandemic everyone choose to stay home or do something she decided to recite the Qur'an for me and she recited the whole entire Qur'an during the two years almost in Hafs the Qur'an she recited it in Hafs Anasim and she's been calling me every Saturday for some times reciting for me until she Masha'Allah recited the whole Qur'an she got to surat al-Falaq al surat al-Ikhlas so I asked her to stop don't finish the Qur'an until I choose good place and time for you by the way she doesn't know it's surprise for her so if she knows I don't think she's gonna come here but I want every sister to know that everyone can do it so now it's Ramadan by next Ramadan probably I want few sisters to do the same thing huh to recite Qur'an not even with me I don't have a lot of time but we have many other people who are Ijazah in Qur'an they can few sisters they can go the whole Qur'an reciting from surat surat al-Fatiha all the way down so learning every time this is guna this is qalqala this is mad water especially this sister this is exactly what she is doing in the beginning she was making some sticks I said if I tell you you missed something you should be able to know what you missed and tell me the name of it alhamdulillah in the end if she can still make some small mistakes but if I told you miss this she will go back to it right the one she corrected that level is the level there's good level of Qur'an at least you know what if I say you missed the guna you don't say oh I live around about the guna what is guna is it gina no it's not a gina it's something else it's the role of jinn so if we love the Qur'an ah the Qur'an is the from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the highest thing we have in this world Qur'an kitab Allah see the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so we should if we love Qur'an we have to get in and recite it so we don't immigrate the Qur'an as the Qur'an said wa qala rasulu ya rabbi inna qawmi it taqadu haaadul Qur'ana mahjulah so tonight I'm very happy to have sister Hussain Mujaddidi so I want you to come here sister Hussain Mujaddidi I want you to recite this is not showing off I know you don't know about it this is just I want everyone to be encouraged and do this I know she's me she's there doing her lessons but Alhamdulillah she decided two years to recite the Qur'an on me so I just want to honor her tonight with something small and not only me MCC is doing this Alhamdulillah please we want you to recite the end of Qur'an and al-Fatiha and five ayats of al-Baqarah and make dua for all of us inshaAllah duaat khatm al-Qur'an is mustajal so we're listening to you inshaAllah I'm sorry I'm so sorry I will just say thank you I had no idea that this was going to happen seriously Fadwa you're in trouble I love you for the sake of Allah so she got me to come here under totally different frequencies I had no idea oh my god Allah what an honor I'm so humble Qadi Amr you have no idea how much I um I just feel so unworthy of the time that you have given me may Allah increase you and reward you with everything you wish for in this life in the next you are so beloved to our community and I'm just so honored wallahi that you took the time I know how valuable your time is and you are so generous so generous may Allah bless you hey Allah I'm sorry I'm very shaken right now but inshaAllah I want to get through this I've been waiting for this moment for years Qadi Amr by the way was counted as one of my first quran teachers before I left for Southern California I moved in 2007 and I was studying with him so my studies got completely disrupted and then I had children and I never finished the Khatim so he was so generous to finish with me I also have to mention because there were so many people who've been a part of this journey with me Sheikh Muhammad Ali Akhubi of course I he's my first teacher of Tajweed I have Qadi Subhaatullah Amin who is my first teacher of HIFS may Allah increase him and reward him Nasreen Ustada Nasreen Tadebaghashi was also one of my first teachers Ustada Suzan Dinani I count her among my teachers Ustada Nihat Mashallah Khadadi had I love you for the sake of Allah you you were so patient with me may Allah bless you my beloved Uzma Ustada Uzma Hussaini she's not she's part of this community but she's so busy Mashallah so many people have been on this journey with me and Qadi Amr is the one who took the time to just let me finish and I am so you have no idea how much I've been longing for this moment right now so the fact that it's happening thank you I asked him just yesterday the day before when will we finish the Khatim and he didn't tell me I was going to be here in front of all of you from I'm so sorry can we close the door thank you la hi al-rahman al-rahim al-hamdulillahi rabbil alameen al-rahman al-rahim maliki yawm ad-deen iyaka na'budu wa iyaka na'sta'een i-ndina as-surat al-mustaqiim sirataal-lathina an-na'emta aleh chewing gayir al-maghdubi talehim wal-ad-daali bi xemillahir-rahman ir-rahim niflā That is the Book that is not hidden in it guidance for the righteous Those who believe in the unseen and establish prayer and of what we have provided for them and those who believe in what is sent down to you and what is sent down before you and in the hereafter, they will be convinced Those are the guidance from their Lord and those are the successful God has granted the great Can I do that quietly? Ya Allah, please forgive us and please guide us Ya Allah, we are completely lost without you Ya Rabbi al-Alamīn, we need you Ya Allah, we need you, we need you May Allah please guide us to love your book put the love of the Qur'an in all of our hearts and in the hearts of our family and in the hearts of our children Ya Rabbi al-Alamīn Let our tongues be moist with your remembrance and with the words from your book Ya Rabbi al-Alamīn Ya Allah, please for everyone who is a witness to this please grant them forgiveness and these last 10 nights we seek your forgiveness and protection from the fire Ya Rabbi al-Alamīn we seek your mercy Ya Rabbi al-Alamīn we ask that you please accept our fasts, our prayers our Qur'an recitation, our zikr, our charity every good deed that we've done, every good deed that we wished we could have done Ya Rabbi al-Alamīn, we ask that you please accept our efforts and our intentions Ya Allah Ya Allah, please reward our amazing teachers who give us so much of their time, Qari Amr, please Ya Allah reward him with everything that he seeks in this life and the next and exceed his expectations Ya Allah, please Ya Allah reward Dr. Rania she gives and gives and gives and gives of her time Ya Allah, please bless her please bless everyone at MCC the leadership at MCC all of the people behind the scenes who have made this incredible community for us so that we can come and enjoy these offerings day after day night after night Ya Allah please reward them in their family Ya Allah for all the congregants who come who partake in the prayers who support in the iftar the toy drives the pantry all of the efforts of MCC Ya Allah please reward them for every soul who's here before you Ya Allah we ask that you please accept our tauba Ya Allah for all of our mistakes that we've made many people here are coming with heavy hearts burdened hearts from past misdeeds and mistakes Ya Allah forgive us protect us Ya Allah do not take us to account Ya Allah we seek your mercy we seek your we seek your forgiveness Ya Rabbi al-Alamīn and for all who are who are who are suffering with illness or any problems with their health Ya Allah please give them shifa Ya Allah please for those who have problems in their marriages Ya Allah please bring Sukun and Muadda and Rahmat to their marriages Ya Allah guide their spouses and their children so that their homes are places of vikr and your remembrance in your worship Ya Allah for all who are who have who are going through a divorce or who are single and who are struggling Ya Allah please bring them ease bring them ease Ya Allah whatever difficulties they have facilitate for them Ya Allah for anyone who has trouble with finances with money and wealth Ya Allah please purify their wealth for them and give them an income that is halal that you are pleased with them inshallah so that they may nourish their bodies and their families with halal income so that they may worship you Ya Allah and for all everyone else Ya Allah who is struggling with anything that they're struggling with please Ya Allah remove their burdens make things easy for them and grant them your ridah in this life in the next Ya Allah please forgive our loved ones who have passed on and and and please Ya Allah guide our children Ya Allah this this world is increasingly becoming dark please Ya Allah shine your light upon our children shine your light so that they only see what the guidance that you give them Ya Allah and they are protected from the evil forces around them Ya Allah and bless this community bless our umma Ya Allah Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen Jazakum Allah khirin please forgive me good going on thank you Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen I will suggest few sisters to do the same thing start Quran this Ramadan have a list sign up inshallah next Ramadan you come to us in here to Dr. Rania or to me or order sister Khosy I give her permission to teach now as you see her Tujweed is beautiful her pronunciation is beautiful we are not here Tujweed is not a voice don't say I don't have a good voice never say that Tujweed as Dr. Rania know is not a voice is the roles of Tujweed roles of Quran they've been syrup from Jibril to Prophet Muhammad to the Sahaba so young girls in here if you're not reciting Quran fluently slowly maybe you never recited the whole Quran you're still in the beginning you recited few sisters and I am my Quran is not fluent what's the solution solution is to get in and have intention of reciting Quran for learning learning is you get more reward than just for worshipping because the knowledge is something mashallah noble something is is high so get in and recite the whole Quran start you know half an hour every day when you recite the whole Quran you're gonna be fluent and also Tujweed roles you have to ask every time what is this what is this do some work inshallah and read the whole Quran by the next Ramadan with intention of learning inshallah consult with Dr. Rania and the others there is many other sisters who have Ijazah in Quran inshallah allow me to give something for sister this is for you and this is the yeah please forgive me I take your time Dr. Rania and the others I don't surprises don't happen very often to me Allah always reveals something and they get spoiled this is the first time I think in my life I've ever been this shocked and surprised I had no idea wallahi not even a single idea inkling I would not have come here sitting first row thank you I'm so overwhelmed with so many feelings right now as I was saying wallahi first of all jazakillah had it I know mashallah you you and Sadaf had to have coordinated I don't know how you do this yeah I am telling you ask my family I do not get surprised like it doesn't happen so I'm sitting here as soon as Qari Amr came and he started describing I was like oh my god oh my god oh my god what do I do if I run out of here I'm gonna cause a scene I just I don't know what to say other than Alhamdulillah I feel like I have been my story with the Quran is is a I don't know where to begin but I feel like Allah really put me on a path where I had to prove my love for this for his book which I love his book but I had to really work for this moment mashallah when I first started learning the Quran I had a form of dyslexia with with Arabic I really struggled I really struggled I had mixed letters up all the time and I thought I'm never gonna read I thought I'm never gonna be able to read I actually ended up memorizing a good portion from the first juz without any ability to read and my teacher had no idea he thought I could read but I didn't know how to read I just was I have you know the oral like I could do it from listening and then Alhamdulillah Allah brought our beloved sheikh Muhammad Ali Qubi to the Bay Area and his wife Allah Yerhamah but he's a may Allah bless her she saw that some of the women were teaching but we didn't know tajweed and she couldn't believe it because mashallah those who've studied abroad know these are foundational sciences you learn them early you learn them as children you have her father and people you know children who complete their tajweed so she was shocked that she had all these women teaching but none of us took tajweed so may Allah bless her she asked her husband who you know he's a giant of a sheikh if he would be willing to teach a handful of us and he he said yes so um at that time in my life personally I was going through a lot I was in a previous marriage and um and that person he he did not let me go and study he prevented me from studying my dean he actually forbade me to go and study but Alhamdulillah this is the benefit of knowing your rights in Islam because I knew that if he forbade me from the book of Allah I don't have to obey him so I did not obey him I in fact did the opposite and I um I studied with sheikh muhammad for one month it took and so I share this because I want to give all of you hope it took one month for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to help me overcome my dyslexia to help me go from really struggling with basic breeding to fluency I was able to actually read and I credit the barakah of sheikh muhammad and the way that uh the the the syrians in particular I'll give credit where it's due the syrians and and the maraq is actually he's gonna know all of them everyone but the syrians have a system I think mashallah that just for me anyway it was just solid um but one month I was able to read with fluency and Alhamdulillah he did actually allow me to teach because we went through all of the rules but he said you have to do a completion of the khatam you have to to get the written ijazah and be part of the senate you have to do a completion of the khatam but you can teach so for years I taught without having this I've been dying to get this but you know children and life and you can't um to find someone to read consistently with this difficult because things move and people are busy so alhamdulillah may Allah bless qadi amir because I studied with him and when I came back to the bay area I asked him um you know if he could teach so I took some of his tajweed classes by the way if you have not taken tajweed please he teaches here Saturdays or he did before COVID those are probably one of some of the best classes I've ever taken qadi amir is a phenomenal teacher he's an amazing teacher he knows how to teach the quran beautifully very effective but he's also hilarious so it's like comedy hour eight o'clock in the morning um I'm not kidding I swear there were times where I had to leave because I was cracking up I was like this is I am we're studying quran but he's got these quips and like really witty come oh yeah like oh he's hilarious like if you make a mistake he just he just sounds really funny thanks for my qadi amir I'm supposed to be serious but I love those classes I love those so come to his classes if he's teaching um and then alhamdulillah COVID happened and I reached out first to Mashallah may Allah bless you because please I have to credit you I mean my um I was going to the teacher she's the one who put you know who made her time available to me as as busy as you are Khalid you made you made it so easy to to join you and in this love affair together we were we were just Mashallah going over verses and her recitation we all know it's so beautiful I just wanted to really listen to you and come any excuse to come and learn from you and listen to you but your love for the quran is so contagious so it just made me yearn for it but then subhanAllah COVID happened I think you you went to travel so when that happened and you were gone I needed to finish the project that I started so that's when qadi amir may Allah bless him I turned to him and said I just need to do a please can you read with me can you listen to me and he was so generous with his time allowed me every weekend um Saturday morning I read with him and then some days on Mondays and Thursdays he would read with me too I was very um just excited to finally get you know through through through a good portion of it and then my goal was finished before Ramadan but he we finished Alhamdulillah before Ramadan and I I'm thinking like I think it was Shabbat and I said okay can I get my ajezah can we finish and he's like what are you rushing for he was like no and he had Mashallah the intention of making of making me wait for this moment he wanted me to do my Khatim in the month of the Quran and I didn't even think of that because I was so impatient but I I have to credit him because he's he's just an amazing teacher an amazing human being able to increase him and bless him so Alhamdulillah thank you for being a part of this I have no idea I would have to I would be here sharing all of this with all of you but the fact that Allah brought us all together and that you were witness to this moment I will cherish this wallahi forever I was just saying Dr. Rania this is probably one of the most important or exciting nights of my life wallahi I don't say that with any exaggeration my children are here their births yes my wedding yes but this really like the the years that it took to get here Alhamdulillah so if I can do it anybody can do it so please inshallah take inspiration and they're beautiful teachers of Quran in our community take advantage inshallah and may Allah really connect our hearts to the Quran this is this is it for me the more I age I just and you can ask my my kids to how often do we have the Quran on the smile at the house the Quran is on always we're we're now Alhamdulillah gotten to the point where that we're just going to be a house of Quran and I wouldn't have it any other way I just I want to hear it all the time I want to listen to it I want to read it I want to read its meanings because you find the more you it's an ocean the more you you go you find all the jewels right of the Quran and it just your heart just flourishes and that's why when you see someone like Khalil recite you you hear the love in her voice that is from love that is genuine love so may Allah increase all of us in the love of the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wa lahi jazakum al khid I'm so sorry I feel like I've taken way too much of tonight's program my dear sisters I want you to all make an intention right now that Allah make you a person who one day will receive Ijazah and put it on to say Allahumma I mean this is Ramadan it's an odd night Allah is listening to dua there is no ask of Allah that's too big for him or anything that's too small for him so don't say oh it can't it can't be me it will be you inshallah ta'ala as we see here Alhamdulillah so please take this moment of inspiration to be inspired and empowered inshallah and one thing I have to say inshallah there's a lot of excitement here one thing I have to say inshallah from what we saw over and over and over again from all of our teachers when you hear their stories and it's very fun actually to ask the teachers what is your story how did you get to this point what happened you will be amazed how every single time there is usually a story of hardship there is usually some sort of struggles or difficulty in fact a lot of the I'm not about to go into too much research but I just want to say this quick point some of the research that we know about psychology is that when people say such and such got to such a great place and people will say despite their hardships you've heard this right people will say despite the difficult things look how much they accomplished whether it's an athlete or whether it's somebody high up in leadership or whether it's somebody in tech or so on and so forth actually it's not despite their hardships it's in spite of their hardships it's because of the hardships that you get to these points reframe it cognitive reframing of how you think about these things subhanallah allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that he teaches us that if we have hardships in the beginning of the path it's a sign of success so if you feel like you've been having hardships connecting with the quran reading the quran finishing your husband going to finding a teacher when the teacher starts the teacher ends the teacher started there's so many stories about how people have struggled with this right or you feel like your accent or the way you pronounce it or how it's or you just don't feel very connected or motivated there's so many reasons but all of these are potential hardships that will get you to where you need to go inshallah with a sincere intention because all you have to do is make that intention and suddenly Allah opens the doors allahi he opens the doors one time i said this till i'll just say this really quickly then we'll go to prayer inshallah one time i said this till it was a class of little kids and i said make your du'a and then Allah will open the doors can you imagine what the little kids said they were like like it'll just open it was very literal you know in their heads like very black and white very literal and i thought oh okay maybe i need to explain it differently to kids inshallah but for us as adults i hope you understand that as the hadith al qutsi which is a hadith of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says it's from the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that if you take this first step what does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala do he comes walking and if you walk what does he do he comes running and if you what happens right if you go quickly he comes an immense speed so it's really a matter of us taking that first step and that first sincere step and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us from the people of the Quran in the month of the Quran and make us from people not only who can read the Quran but actually implement what it says we don't want to be people who can read a cover to cover but you know our actual um insides and our actions that pour out of it don't reflect the Quran we want to be people who know the Quran and do upon the Quran Allahumma Ameen thank you so much Astaghfirullah what a blessed night for the rahmah foundation or for all your sisters here alhamdulillah when our teacher is being honored in addition to also being a teacher inshaAllah what a blessed night this is alhamdulillah may Allah bless you all Ameen Ya Rabbi Al-Anameen all right my dear sisters