IQRA (READ)

By: SHEIKH ABDULLAH HAKEEM
TOPIC: IQRA (READ)

Dunya

• Is a stepping stone to Akhirat
• It is a test to enter Jannah or Jahannam
• Choose the greatest example to be followed.
• Read and understand the Quran to build a connection with ALLAH and everything else will fall to place.

REVALATION

• Build the connection to ALLAH, learned to LOVE ALLAH. Once you learned to LOVE ALLAH you will stay away from Syaitan and know what to avoid the HARAM and ZINA of the Dunya. In shaa ALLAH you’ll be safe. 
• The heart that absorbs the LOVE of ALLAH will throw away all that is HARAM. 
• ALLAH loves us more than a mother LOVES her kid. Would a mother throw her kids into fire? NO right. ALLAH too don’t want to throw us to be thrown into fire of HELL.
• KNOW ALLAH & PROPHET MUHAMMAD by heart and there will be no problem in worshipping ALLAH and also no issues in knowing the deen of ALLAH.
• If there’s a will there away. If you keep giving excuses then you don’t really know ALLAH and Prophet Muhammad by heart.

Example: How many kids these days know the name of the soccer players in a team? Or even the famous celebrities? The questions is HOW MANY KIDS THAT KNOWS THE NAME OF THE 25 RASULS or even the name of PROPHET MUHAMMAD in FULL??

Syaitan is planning how to defeat us, how to get rid of us here in the Dunya. Therefore we need to plan better how not to be defeated by Syaitan.

How to measured it:
S - Specific
M - Measured
A - Achievable
R - Realistic
T - Time

SPECIFIC 
Quran:

• We can learned SPECIFIC knowledge from the Quran.
• The relationship of Sahabat Rasulullah with Quran is like our relationship with the phones. 
• How we constantly look at our phones is how they look at the Quran.
• If we do that today, we won’t have issues.
• Quran is the soul of knowledge.
• Memorize the Quran.
• Understand the Quran

MEASURE:
How much you want to read or memorize the Quran : 

• 1 Juz eveday or may be 1 juz every week.
• 1 page every day or 1 page ev week 
• 1 hadith every week.

ACHIEVABLE:
Can you achieve the desired number you wish to complete.
Can you read or memories as minimum as 1 ayat a day may be.
The answer is : YES. It is achievable. Recite every day after Subuh prayer. The best time.

REALISTIC:
It is realistic to spend 1 hour a day to gain the knowledge of ALLAH.
ALLAH like ibadah that is little but consistent.

TIME:
Give yourself a time period to achieve it for example, memories the Quran in a year or may be Khatam the Quran every month.

"WHOEVER TRADE THE PATH TOWARD KNOWLEDGE, ALLAH TRADE THE PATH TO JANNAH EASY FOR YOU"