Surah Saad.......Prologue; ayat 1 to ayat 16

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[ surah sad, recitation by qari shaykh mishary rashid al afasy ]




friends , dato and tansri,

i have many friends: medical consultants, engineers,lawyers ,even close relative who still ask [ even in their sixties and fifties! ]: " doc , why tafseer? , i am already quite happy  with abdullah yusuf ali...and what is tafseer by the way?"

OMG !

another big group of malaysians [ why does it has to be malaysians all the time, escape my wild imaginations! ]will go to great length in their retirement and pre-retirement, attending classes for tajwid . very few go to some length trying to comprehend the qur'an, study hadiths etc and etc
give another 20 years they will still be stuck at ' alif ba ta ' of tajwid.
qur'an........''.no comprehendo! "
hadith...NO
or join the tabligh.....why!? join that group of ignorant , uneducated people!

finding a tok guru in tasawuf or 'attacking' the qur'an in major way by reading the big comparative tafseer volume etc etc  are not for them...tajwid, 
YES, it seems like a big malaysian love affair with tajwid, just tajwid.

i have no querrel with 'tajwid' but some years back i had a conversation with a 'tajwid' tok guru, and i asked him," do you understand the qur'an, i mean do you study tafseer of the qur'an ?" 

NO!......and this is from a tok guru, going round masjid and madrasah giving lessons in selangor.

we are as if stuck in a time warp, i term as 'ablution phase islam', and do not seem to want to move anywhere else. 

it is as if you are running on a threadmill, you whole life....you are not going any where!

yes , accepted that allah promise a lot of barakah in reading the qur'an.
there is even as much barakah in just listening to someone reading the qur'an!

i, for instance like to listen to shaykh mishary rashid and his 'friends' so much on qur'anexplorer.com, to the point i read little, but listen more, esp with pickthal in the background giving the translation , after every ayat.
thanks to the internet!

in a well known tradition, nabi [ pbuh ] liked to listen to ibnu mas'ud's rendition of the qur'an,
even though nabi is the walking qur'an.

but  my friends, to move 'mountains of dirt collected over decades of relative ignorance' of the qur'an; to change hearts...to reignite the spirit.....one need to comprehend and think about the content of the qur'an....' tadabbur alqur'an '

otherwise my friends, hearts remain unmoved, and eyes remain dry and spirit hollow for your own  whole lifetime.
at the end of your time, you become g25 material.....! 
by the time one realize this , it is already , "man rabbuka?"

we are starting on surah  saad today.
we will start with shaykh tawfique chowdhury. midway, ustd nouman ali khan will join us, insyaaalah.

dr nik 


" why, why why...why him , a simpleton, and not us, tan sris, dato sris and movers and shakers of  quraish society?......"

allah is ya fattah, ya razak, ya wahab, ya gahniy , ya mughni......
ya ghaniy, ya hamid, ya mubdi , ya muid, ya rahim, ya wadud....

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[ shaykh tawfique chowdhury  ]