 فشرف بالاشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيمي سكشن it is recommended that one turn towards the fibla while reciting the Qur'an and it is also narrated that the best motivations are those which face the fibla the author now talks about the issue of when I am reading the Qur'an how should I be here he mentions that when reading the Qur'an face the fibla when reading the Qur'an face the fibla and the way to sit down how should one sit down he says because the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ says خير المجالسي the best of gatherings is مستقبلا به القبلا that which the fibla is faced the scholars have spoken about the authenticity of this particular Hadith نعم so that is where you face if you are reading the Qur'an don't turn your back towards the qibla or sideways towards the qibla and you tend to find that a lot in masajids you find people having their walls back against their wall facing away from the qibla it is better to face towards the qibla that is number one number two the recitation should sit with humility tranquility and serenity the second thing is the way you sit down ويدلس موتخ الشعن sit with humility بسكينة ووقار this goes against how we are Somalis and Asians صح we move you know back and forth and this you Asian brothers I'm not going to lie صح because I used to go to school I can say that I can say that because I used to go to a Pakistani secondary school and a Bakr it was a good experience you know but the way they did it their heads would touch the floor that's how close they would get to the floor am I lying? we Somalis we do rukor no it's rude صح so no when you read in the Quran you should be متخشع بسكينة ووقار and you need to be humility with his head bow forward as though looking at the space in front of him مطرقا رأسه مطرقا رأسه is that the person's head is forward and they're reading they're looking down this idea of looking right, left, right, left turning around keep just looking in both directions are like as though you know foxes how they are and this is not a good character the person reading the Quran just fully focused on the Quran and reads it نعم he's recommended that the mannerisms he assumes while teaching alone be similar to those he assumes while teaching after his teacher as this is better the person he should try to be alone when reading the Quran don't just be by yourself when reading the Quran make these your norms this idea that many people have adopted which is I can't do something by myself to have to do with other people it's a bit weak it's a bit of a weak character that you're unable to do anything by yourself you can't every single thing you have to do with people if I don't do with people then I can't do anything to the extent I had some people they said they wanted to read books I said everyone read a couple of pages كيف I mean it's good الحمد لله if you want to do that but you can't read by yourself 42 حديث نوي 42 حديث just one volume of جام علوم حكم or نوي yeah you should try to learn to teach yourself to read by yourself and not always have somebody to do with you because what's going to happen is if other people are not there you're not going to do anything nurture yourself and cultivate yourself to know that I have to do everything there is however nothing wrong with him reciting while standing up or laying down on his side or on his bed are you allowed to read standing up نوي says yes are you allowed to recite the Quran so if sometimes in the message sometimes you feel like if I sit down my Khushu is not there so I'm going to stand up and he reads standing up he's allowed to okay if he sits down is he allowed to of course he is but if he lies on his side in the message he's lying down he's reading the Mus'haf he's lying on the floor and he's reading the Mus'haf is he allowed to yes all of those are permissible but if you do that in an Asian message lying there reading the Quran your head will go off until one time I remember I went to a moon district you know some Asian district there's a green light that comes on have you seen that green light that green light means you can't pray no Salat when it comes in even if you follow the opinion that this is only the Salat which is the word it's a story to the green light but I don't want to go into that but I remember a brother who was with he was reading the Quran for so long our plan was saying and he read I like sitting I can't read something lying down but he can sometimes he's reading sometimes he lies on his arm like this sometimes he does the other side so this time he flipped everything he lied on his back fully got the Mus'haf and he was looking upwards and he's reading the Mus'haf and he's going you know what I'm saying and he's for sure everything is there sometimes he's getting up he's in the moment you can see our uncle came walking saw him with the Mus'haf in his hand he came walking والله the thing is from the corner of my eye I can see his walking I know so he came to him he took the Mus'haf out of his hand are you a kafil and he said are you a kafil he said are you a kafil the brother looks and says no what are you doing he let it out on him so I told him about this no no but I said it's been the brothers reading the Quran it's in the Mus'haf no there was no way we could explain it to him so I asked him do you know Noe look how it works if I said him something like that it would be dangerous right do you know Noe he said yeah no Noe you know Noe he's not the Imam of the Mus'haf one of those uncles was always in the Mus'haf so anyways I said is the Imam in the Mus'haf here because he got the brother very upset why is he doing this to me so I had my phone we went into the Mus'haf we went in we called the the Imam of the Mus'haf we sat with him and I showed him Noe he's calm here he looked I said where is he where is he I told him at the beginning just to show you how sad this is I said I said I said I said I said I said الله I was sitting down sitting down and I drew a beam on their sight lying down they didn't want to take it when I said Noe he said it really that's the sickness in the community when I said Noe he said it he's like where did he say he wanted to know I said the eye that I used Noe used so when he looked he said okay sorry brother the old guy says I'm sorry I never knew we Hanafis we only Hanafis right so it's a problem Noe so the best is to sit down because again no doubt every single body use especially if you know if you come to a Mesjid this is going to cause a problem there's no wisdom to do it right there isn't and one thing والله I have to Mashallah admire the aging community for is the issue of respecting the religion respecting the Mesjid respecting the Quran that is honorable that is truly honorable right for us like in Somali that respect is missing we don't have it have you ever come to Somali Mesjid where you stuck out your leg in the Mesjid and anyone stopped you you put your leg back no one does it they don't care are you with me it's just no one the manners of respect like that it's also weak in the Somali community very very weak it makes sense as I told you before the issue of turning the Mosaf with your with your saliva it's a bad habit that we have even I have it I can't stop I've tried everything I forgot myself I'll probably do it after I finish this speech it's a bad habit when we do this we turn it صح we do that with the Mosaf if somebody took saliva and put it on your cheek we do that away why do you do it to the book of Allah صح I remember one of the Mashayikh mentions that somebody done saliva and he opened the he's turning the Mosaf with the saliva and the sheikh said don't do this and he said where's the evidence do not do it so the sheikh said he's about to put it saliva on his cheek he's moving back so why are you moving back he said I don't want it he said do you want it for the book of Allah though صح do you want it for what so that's another thing a lot of the times people come to these misajids they meet these uncles and these uncles say respect the misajids stop spreading your leg out towards the qiblah like that don't do this don't do that where's the evidence يا أخي عور فن this is not good for you to say everything everything it's not here this is very does that make sense because even if what you're doing is right legal if it's but he's telling you the best of ways صح he's telling you the best of forms not spread your legs out even if we say that's permissible if we do say permissible نعم الله says بردين the creation of the heavens and earth and the alternation of the night and day are indeed signs for many of understanding those who remember Allah are standing sitting and lying down on their sides and think deeply about the creation of the heavens and the earth it is authentically narrated that Aisha of the Allah who had said that the messenger of Allah of Allah who I knew who said that would rest his head on my back and recite even while I was menstruating so here this shows two things one it shows that the Prophet ﷺ he would read صلى الله عليه وسلم يتكع في حجري that the Prophet ﷺ would he would lie down he would put his head on my thigh and he would recite the Qur'an he would read the Qur'an و أنا حائر and I'm on my menace this shows two things number one that this Jew concept came from the Jews which is that when the woman's on her menace that she's boycott that she's left that the Prophet ﷺ was very affectionate even that even when she's on her menace that shows how affectionate he was ﷺ to his wife while she was on her menace that shows that one are you with me the other thing is that the Qur'an and him being on her thigh his head he would be lying on her and not sitting and still be reading the Qur'an he would ﷺ so it shows you even at the time when the Messenger was being affectionate with his wives he was still remembering Allah he was still he was still remembering Allah and the best thing that a couple can do with each other is to make whatever what they do with each other a religiously based matter that they do something that involves that involves the Deen of Allah because Allah سبحانه وتعالى will increase them in what in love and admiration so the Prophet ﷺ would rest his head on her and you have to remember this is a culture this is a community this is a people where women are giving no importance before the Prophet ﷺ there is no value these women were buried alive they were killed their existence was hated when the Messenger came though this is what he is doing this is not normal in the Arab culture not at all it's not known even look at the elderly generations that were from our parents it's rare to find the old generation seeing your dad his head on your mom's thigh reading the Qur'an or something like that they will shake each other's hands like the two guys friends like سلام عليكم I'm traveling mom's going there it's so official yeah it's very very official it's like a business trip he's just come back from سلام عليكم everything good I'm traveling tomorrow okay سلام عليكم he goes and she goes do you see you've never come across them eating together better than them you rarely see your parents eating together you rarely see them just talking to each other about things that are funny or you know he's instructing her he's instructing her what to do she's like okay that's how it works that's how the perception so even after سلام came people still don't want to implement that they put their coaches into it صح but look at him عليه الصلاة والسلام yeah he's Allah he came and this is what he did he read the Qur'an and I was on his thigh what did the Jews do when the women it was a menace they would take her out of the house that's what the Jews used to do they would take her outside the house and they would put her in a tent that they built for her she can barely mention in this Kitab أدابو الزفاف right رحمة الله تعالى they would put her in that tent and the mences they won't let her shower they won't give her anything and then when the time of the mences when she finishes her mences they would send to her a sheep and they would say to her dry yourself with this and they would throw her water and they say because of the smell and everything that comes from her the animal might die from it the way they dealt with them and the way they treated them so you have to realize sisters and brothers realize how Islam honored women when it came and what Islam came with was not forced by a union that came together a human rights organization was forced in Islam to do this it did it من قبل الله قبل الله was sanctioned by Allah the creator created men and the creator created women he is the one who sanctioned subhanahu wata'ala and whatever Allah subhanahu wata'ala said there is nothing better than it if people go beyond it والله they will suffer if they go below it they will suffer the amount that he said is what's good for mankind so whatever Islam gave you as a rights there is nothing better for you than that that's what your body was made to take your mind was to take and the same with look at men they say men and women who are stronger صح and they say men are stronger men are stronger physically right but how is it that a woman could be 9 months pregnant and give birth and go through all that pain something we just we never understand 9 months she's carrying that child that is strength so her power is different even from the power of the man you see هذا كله these things الله did subhanahu wata'ala حقي he divides هم يقسمون رحمة ربك are you guys the ones who can divide Allah's رحمة he divides he sanctions it this is for you people this is what's for you and then after the child comes out and she gives birth to that child look at the power that whole feeling goes after a year or two she wants to have another child again she's forgotten the pain has fully been taken away from her and the idea that the pain was there and disliking it there's another strength in order to want to have another child again and then when she becomes pregnant again and she goes through the cycle she's like this is the last one I promise it ain't gonna ever happen again صح just give it a year or two again صح the point is all of that and the power and the strength that she takes and how she breast feeds that child والله is عجيب the mother wakes up the child cries she breast feeds this one boots the power and the strength I feel like wow are men that strong has your wife ever left kids with you those of you who got kids and are married has your wife ever left 2 or 3 kids with you and told you look after them wow like every second on that clock if you can hear it like time does not move basically time seems like it stopped the minute she walked out of the house that's it it's a lot of work it really is so that's the strength right now so these are the companions عيشة she used to read her Qur'an whilst on her bed what do you call it أبو موسى الأشعار you would read the Qur'an whilst on his bed now we have an ayah we have the prophet's action and we have the companions and that's all we need to say that it's permissible for you to do this إن شاء الله be back at 9.30 إن شاء الله