 Bismillahirrahmanirrahim Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen Thumma Salatu wa Salamu Alaa Ashrafil Anbiyaa wal Mursaleen Habibi Ilaha Al-Alamina bil Qasim al-Mustafa Muhammad Dear viewers, Asalaamu Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Alhamdulillah, by the grace of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala we have started this series of the interpretation, commentaries of the Holy Quran starting with the first chapter of the Holy Quran and insha'Allah will continue to the last chapter, insha'Allah we are still with introduction to this series we asked in the previous episode that why do we need to go back to the Holy Quran for every problem that we have, for every challenge that we face why do we need to go back to the Holy Quran there is a beautiful hadith by Rasulullah Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi which states what will this Quran do to us if we take it as a guide this is the important part, if we take it as a guide not only leaving the Quran on the shelves respecting the Quran, making sure that the Quran doesn't fall on the ground make sure no kids touch it and we come to it once a year during the month of Ramadan making sure that we read it cover to cover understanding it or not understanding it but we make sure we read it this is not the purpose of the Holy Quran the purpose of the Holy Quran it's much, much, much greater than only reading within the holy month of Ramadan cover to cover and then we leaving it until the next month of Ramadan Rasulullah says man jaalahu amamah qadahu ilal jannah whoever places Quran in front of him takes him as a guide a two guide will be always in the front walks and goes to the, goes and we go behind him because and we probably have when we go to someone's house and based on respect and formality they tell us okay you go in we tell them you know the way you lead, you go and we follow that should be our perspective when we get to the Holy Quran every minute of our life every day of our lives every month, every year, every second we have to leave the Quran to the front of us we tell the Quran you lead you take us and we will follow not we say to the Holy Quran with our action verbally we don't unfortunately communicate with the Holy Quran this way we don't say to the Holy Quran okay Holy Quran you stay on the shelf insha'Allah next Ramadan I'll see you no we don't say it but in our action some of us, not all of us unfortunately some of us we leave the Quran on the shelf until the next Ramadan Rasulullah says whoever places the Holy Quran in front of him what will happen what will be the result what will be the conclusion where this Quran will take us it will guide us it will take us it will lead us to the heaven don't we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala all the time who Allah we want to insha'Allah end up in heaven everything that we do from the wajibad and obligatory act we do it so insha'Allah we will end up in heaven and all the sins that are there that we don't commit and we get away from it it's for us to again end up in heaven and not end up in hellfire if you place Quran in front of you to lead you to take you as we said in the previous episode it has solution for every problem and challenge that we face within our lives and Rasulullah continues this will guide him this act of him putting Quran behind his back will guide him to hellfire this is the guide Quran is the guide which will guide us to the right path to the best path the most convenient and easiest path to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala definitely mean you are completely aware that we mean Quran and Ahlul bayt alaykum wassalam one of the meanings that I was reading within the commentaries of it's that if you remember within the first episode we mentioned that we should not get to Quran having something in our mind basically we put our Quran behind us as a backing our point of view backing our perspective backing our agenda backing our ideology no Quran should be in the front of us for example I remember one day I was surfing the face Facebook I was going and going and I saw a post from a sister that she brought a verse of the Holy Quran that talks about the Hajab she's not wearing Hajab herself I'm not saying right or wrong right now we're just trying to analyze this Hadith and bring it to the life bring it to the life of our talk she said well this verse from my understanding was revealed about the wives of the Prophet and it's about those people those women who lived 1400 years ago it's not about us this day and age in the 21st century so she has an ideology that Hajab it's not wajib and it's about people who lived during the life of the Holy Prophet so she has this ideology she has this concept she has this belief and she comes and she puts Quran behind her back and she wants to prove her point that Quran does not say anything about Hajab it says anything it's about the people who lived during the life of the Holy Prophet this verse this Hadith says when man jaalahu khalfahu saqahu ilan naar don't come to the Quran trying to find verses that will prove your point of view that will prove your ideology that will prove your argument not having complete understanding of the Holy Quran and the Hadith of Ahle al Bayt we see unfortunately many people argue and have a very strong argument to themselves and they say ok well this verse of Quran said so and so this Hadith said so and so well have you read the complete Quran do you understand the complete Quran first of all they don't speak Arabic they don't understand Arabic they cannot read Arabic so they read the translation which some of the translation if let's say some of them not most of them they have not done justice not that the translators were bad no Arabic language and the word of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in Arabic format still people have a hard time understanding it that's why we need the Qalaam and the words of Ahle Bayt a.s right now I read the Quran one or two or three or five or ten or hundred verses of the Holy Quran in English which I'm not sure if I have understood it completely then I bring those verses of Quran to prove my point to someone if this is Halal or Halam Quran said so and so and if you remember our first action plan from the previous episode was that we should not interpret the Holy Quran the verses of Quran based on our understanding we should refer to those scholars who have interpreted the Holy Quran based on the narrations of Ahle Bayt a.s so an action plan the second action plan will be our action plan for this episode will be insha'Allah that everything that we want to say we make sure we find in Quran solution for this issues that we have and we won't go anywhere else we will leave Quran in front of us we will place the Quran in front of us as a guide we ask Allah SWT and the Quran the words of Ahle Bayt a.s you lead us take us anywhere you want me to be or Quran again with understanding of the Holy Quran by the understanding of the narrations of Ahle Bayt a.s this is very important it is very very critical that we place Quran in front of us and we follow the Holy Quran we follow the verses of Quran that requires what? that requires for us to understand the Holy Quran to understand its meanings to understand its interpretation and commentaries of the Holy Quran that is why this endeavor it's coming to you dear viewers brothers and sisters we are trying to because again as we have said in the promo and within the first episode that many youth argue that we don't have access to an English interpretation of the Holy Quran how can we leave Quran in front of us we place Quran in front of us for it to lead us where we don't find the Quran you have a point insha'Allah you will follow us within every of these lectures that insha'Allah will bring the words of Ahle Bayt a.s that explains the Quran so we have more understanding and we see that within the Hadith of Ahle Bayt a.s where Imam al-Baqir a.s says if I told you something if I stated in a statement if I stated in a statement so ask me from the Book of Allah ask me where did I find this and I will tell you this is the verse that I am referring to the words of Ahle Bayt a.s was all based on the Quran action of Ahle Bayt a.s it was all based on the Holy Quran they were the spoken Quran every movement every gesture everything that they uttered it has based in the Quran because Imam said if I said anything to you ask me from the Book of Allah ask me where I got this from the Book of Allah and I will bring the Book of Allah as a reference so it is very very important Rasulullah also states that this Quran it is like a feast a dinner table it is a meal within the Arabic grammar it is the meal that they prepare for the newlywed couple the morning after newlywed couple they get married and they are together the next day within the eastern culture they prepare a good meal for them a good breakfast which has everything in it that one can imagine so Rasulullah says this Quran this is the feast that Allah has brought for you so learn learn it as much as you can learn from this Quran as much as you can take from this Holy Quran don't pick and choose just take as much as you can for example you've been fasting all day and you've been invited to someone's house and they have twenty to thirty different kinds of foods fruits, desserts all whatever you can imagine it's there you just come there and you just take a piece of bread and you just okay this is enough for me Rasulullah says take from the Quran as much as you can another Hadith we are trying we are bringing narrations that emphasizes the importance of reading Quran and paying attention to Quran and understanding from Quran and applying the teachings of the Holy Quran Imam S.A.W. narrates this is in Tafsir Al-Aiyashi Volume 1 Page 5 where Imam says Imam says take care of the Quran learn from the Quran be with the Quran understand the Quran try to ponder on the verses of the Holy Quran and look at the verses of Quran every verse that you see that brings the stories of a nation that they did something and they were rescued apply those if you find a story that has a lesson about a group of people that they did something that they were destroyed don't do it basically what we do for our kids if somebody did something wrong and felt into trap of something and they face a challenge we tell our kids well if you do this this is the challenge that you will face for example very very tangible if we have our kids eating a lot of candies and sugar and we see somebody has diabetes we tell them see this one maybe he didn't eat that much candies or he didn't eat that much sugar but he has this illness in him we say see he ate a lot of candies a lot of sugar and he has diabetes if you eat a lot of sugar and a lot of candies you will get diabetes so Imam saying for lack of better term see the Quran see the verses of Quran that talks about those people who did something and were successful and were victorious and they were they attained and achieved their goal do what they did and if you saw a group of people within the holy Quran their story has been mentioned they are going completely against the will of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and they were destroyed do not apply those verses those actions that they did another hadith that Imam says that Allah didn't give a thing that He would need for his nation until the Day of Resurrection that He sent down in His Book what a beautiful hadith what an amazing hadith where Imam says Allah has not left anything within the holy Quran until the Day of Judgment anything that we are in need of it any problem that we face any challenge that we face any difficulties that we go through until the Day of Resurrection Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has brought its solution within the holy Quran and Allah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has not left anything that His Ummah this nation it's in need of it until the Day of Resurrection the Day of Judgment except that He brought it within the holy Quran and He brought us He placed for us guidance which will teach us and guide us to the path of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala where He wants us to be for our own benefits let me open the parenthesis here before I go to the next hadith we have to really keep this in mind by us following the path of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala which is the Rasul Allah the path of Rasul Allah the Quran we are not doing them a favor some people when they do something for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala they look at the sky and they say oh Allah did you see this I did this for you we must do everything for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala no doubt seeking nearness to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala no doubt but we should not have the mindset and the mentality that we are favoring Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that we are favoring Rasul Allah that we are favoring Ahlul Bayt we are not by us following the right path we are favoring ourselves we are doing something good for ourselves this hadith of Ahlul Bayt that they try to push us toward and there are tremendous amount of narrations I found but for the short period of time that I have I brought only couple of them how much we see within the narrations of Ahlul Bayt a.s. that they emphasize on Quran go back to the Quran read the Quran understand the Quran memorize Quran try to bring it into your lives and so on and so forth so we are not favoring them so the action plan of this episode will be we will place Quran in front of us to lead us and we make sure we follow Quran by our action not only by reading Quran and putting on a shelf no we will dedicate insha'Allah every day at least bare minimum where Imam says at least read 50 verses of the Holy Quran we read it in Arabic and also a page or two an English translation trying to as much as possible insha'Allah to understand the Holy Quran we conclude this episode by asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to hasten the opinions of our beloved Imam Mahdi a.s. ta'ala in the name of Allah the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Allahumma kulli waliika al-Hujjat ibn al-Hasan salawatu ka alaihi wa ala aba'ih fi hazeh sa'ata wa fi kulli sa'ah waliyaan wa hafidah wa qa'idan wa nasirah wa dalilan wa aina hatta atuskinuhu ardaka tawa'a wa tumatta'ahu fiha tawila barahmatika ya arhaman rahmeen