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ي�م� ح� م�ن� ار� ح� م� الله� ار� ب�س�Khutbah Al Haajah

ر� ه� و� ت�غ�ف� ت�ع�ي�ن�ه� و� ن�س� د� ه� و� ن�س� م� د� ال�له� ن�ح� م� �ل�ح� ا

ن�ؤ م�ن� ب�ه� و� ن�ت�و� ك�ل� ع�ل�ي�ه�.

ي�ا0ت� ن�ا و�م�ن� س� س� ��ن�ف أ ر� و� �ر �ذ� ب�الله� م�ن� ش ن�ع�و� و�

ال�ن�ا. ا�ع�م�

ال� ل�له� ف� ل� ل�ه� و�م�ن� ي9ض� ال� م�ض� د� ه� الله� ف� م�ن� ي�ه�

�اد�ئ ل�ه ه�

د? م� ح� �د� ا�ن� م ه� د� ا�ن� آل0ا�له� ا�آل0الله� ا�آل. و� ن�ش� ه� ن�ش� و�

�و� ل�ه �س اع�ب�د�ه� و�ر�All Praise is due to Allah: We Praise Him: We beg assistance of Him: We

ask Him for forgiveness. We have faith in Him: We have reliance on

Him. We fly for refuge unto Him (to deliver us) from the mischief of our

minds and from the evil consequences of our actions. Whomever Allah

directs shall not go astray: and whomever He allows to go astray, no

one can guide. We profess that there is nothing worthy of worship

except Allah, and we further profess that Muhammad is His Servant

and His Messenger.

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Oh you who believe! Fear Allah as He has the right to be feared, and

do not die except as Muslims.

(O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single

person, and from him He created his wife, and from them both He

created many men and women, and fear Allâh through Whom you

demand your mutual (rights), and (do not cut the relations of) the

wombs (kinship) Surely, Allâh is Ever an All-Watcher over you).’ [al-

Nisaa’ 4:1],

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(O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allâh and fear Him, and speak

(always) the truth 70 ز . He will direct you to do righteous good deeds

and will forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys Allâh and His

Messenger ( SAW ) he has indeed achieved a great achievement (i.e. he

will be saved from the Hell-fire and made to enter Paradise). [al-

Ahzaab 33:70].” (Sunan al-Nisaa’i: Kitaab al-Jumu’ah, Baab kayfiyyah

al-khutbah).

O you who believe! Fear Allâh and keep your duty to Him. And let

every person look to what he has sent forth for the morrow, and fear

Allâh. Verily, Allâh is All-Aware of what you do[]. (18) And be not like

those who forgot Allâh (i.e. became disobedient to Allâh) and He

caused them to forget their ownselves, (let them to forget to do

righteous deeds). Those are the Fâsiqûn (rebellious, disobedient to

Allâh). (19) Not equal are the dwellers of the Fire and the dwellers of

the Paradise. It is the dwellers of Paradise that will be successful.

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My brothers and sisters in Islam as talked about a few weeks ago on

the subject of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) marriage to Aisha RA. We

made the point that really all these secondary questions are just that

secondary compared to the main question of the truthfulness of Islam.

And that truthfulness of Islam is mainly shown, mainly manifest, mainly

made clear by the Quran being a book that proves itself to have a

divine source. We mentioned that if we look and examine the quran we

find that its divine properties touch many different subjects. Two of

these are the ayaat that science agrees with, and second is the

prophesies or events of the future that the quran made. So lets ponder

on a example in each subject.

But first lets look at the encouragement that Allah gives us in the

Quran to be of those who use our minds, to be of those who reflect, of

those who ponder.

Allah Tala say in the Qurran:

ل�ق� �ان� م�م� خ �نس� ل�ي�نظ�ر� اإل� ف�

86:5 So let man see from what is created!

Another locations Allah says

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30:8 Do they not think deeply about themselves? Allah has created not

the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, except with

truth and for an appointed term. And indeed many of mankind deny

the Meeting with their Lord.

In another location Allah Tala says:

3:190 Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the

alternation of night and day,- there are indeed Signs for men of

understanding,-

3:191 Men who celebrate the praises of Allah, standing, sitting, and

lying down on their sides, and contemplate the (wonders of) creation in

the heavens and the earth, (With the thought): "Our Lord! not for

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naught Hast Thou created (all) this! Glory to Thee! Give us salvation

from the penalty of the Fire.

These and other similar ayaat tell us my brothers and sisters that the

heavens and earth were created for a noble purpose, and not for jest.

These and other similar ayaat also are challenging us to look in the

creation of the heavens and in the earth for Allah’s signs, for Allah’s

proofs. So now lets look at a couple of examples of how the Qurran is

relevant in this age of science and technology.

Lets us start with a proof in our own bodies. Look at your fingertips and

look at the imprint on them. The Science of today tells us that no two

human being has the same fingernail. This fact was discovered first

by Sir Francis Galton in 1880.

That is why fingerprints are used to identify humans.

Now what does the quran say about fingerprints. Does the Quran say

the fingerprints of no two human are the same?

Well the Kuffar used to argue during Rasoolullah’s about being

resurrected after their bones were turned into dust and how each

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individual would be identified on the day of Judgment. In fact Allah

quote the Kuffar in the Qurran when he says in Surat An Naaziat:

79:10 They say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our)

former state?

79:11 "What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?"

Allah Tala answered these doubts by saying that not only will He

assemble our bones, but also reconstruct us perfectly, down to our

very fingertips. Allah says (75 3-4):

KبMسOحM Mي MجOمMعM عXظMامMهK }أ Mل_ن ن انK أ MنسX O3 اإل}[Yusufali 75:3] Does man think that We cannot assemble his

bones?

MلMى MهK }ب Mان Mن وjيM ب Mسl Mن ن {4 قMادXرXينM عMلMى أYes Indeed! We are able to put together in perfect order down

to the tips of his fingers.

So the question is who could have know at the revelation of the

Quran the uniqueness of each human fingernail, we already said that

this knowledge was not know to the world until 1880. The only logical

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answer is none except the one who created those fingerprints Allah

Tala knew of their uniqueness.

Now lets turn our attention to skies. One question that we could raise

is does clouds have weight. Many people think that clouds are

weightless, that they are just fluff.

Science tells us that clouds do have weight, and the density of the

cloud determines the weight. Density is weight per unit volume.

Science tells that a typical cumulonimbus cloud or thundercloud can

contain up to 300,000 tons of water. That’s equivalent to the weight of

150,000 – 2000 lbs cars.

Amazingly the book of Allah tells us that clouds have weight. In Surat

Raad ayah 12:

It is He Who shows you the lightning, as fear (for

travellers) and as a hope (for those who wait for rain)

And it is He Who brings up the clouds, heavy (with water)

(Qur'an, 13:12)

So who at the time of the revelation of the Qurran could have

known that clouds have weight, the answer again is none but the

one who created the clouds Allah Tala.

The Fate of Specific Individuals

Perish the two hands of Abû Lahab (an uncle of the Prophet), and perish he![] (1) His wealth and his children will not benefit him! (2) He will be burnt in a Fire of blazing flames! (3) And his wife too, who carries wood (thorns of Sadan which she used to put on the way of the

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Prophet (SAW) , or use to slander him)[]. (4) In her neck is a twisted rope of Masad (palm fibre).[] (5)

Perish the two hands of Abû Lahab (an uncle of the Prophet), and perish he![] (1) His wealth and his children will not benefit him! (2) He will be burnt in a Fire of blazing flames! (3) And his wife too, who carries wood (thorns of Sadan which she used to put on the way of the Prophet (SAW) , or use to slander him)[]. (4) In her neck is a twisted rope of Masad (palm fibre).[] (5)

Also, concerning Abu Lahab, a fiery opponent of Islam, the Quran foretold he will die opposing the religion of God:

“May the hands of Abu Lahab perish, and [indeed] he has perished.  His wealth and gains will not profit him.  He will be plunged in flaming Fire.” (Quran 111:1-3)

Specifically, three prophecies were made about Abu Lahab:

(i)   The conspiracies of Abu Lahab against the Prophet would not succeed.

(ii)  His wealth and children would not benefit him.

(iii) He would die opposing God’s religion and enter the Fire.

Abu Lahab also died in a state of disbelief as prophesized by the Quran.  Had Waleed or Abu Lahab accepted Islam even outwardly, they would have disproved its prophecies and thus its heavenly source!

In addition, Abu Lahab had four sons, two of whom died at a young age during his lifetime.  The other two sons and a daughter embraced Islam and frustrated his hopes!  Finally, he died of a plague; people would not touch his body out of fear of contamination and dumped mud and stones on him where he died to make it his grave.

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Waleed bin Mugheera was a staunch enemy who openly ridiculed the Quran:

“Then said he: “This is nothing but magic, derived from of old; this is nothing but the word of a mortal!” (Quran 74:24-25)

The Quran prophesized he will never accept Islam:

“Soon will I cast him into Hell-Fire!  And what will explain to thee what Hell-Fire is?  It leaves naught nor does it spare aught.” (Quran 74:26-28)

Waleed died in a state of disbelief as prophesized by the Quran.

A key foundation to believing that a scripture is actually a revelation of God is internal truth, whether it be in regards to occurrences in the past, to come in the future, or in contemporary ages.  As one can see, there are many prophecies mentioned in that which is to come, some of which were fulfilled in the Prophet’s lifetime, or have been fulfilled since his death, while others are yet to appear.

So we ask Allah to gives us the understanding, and blessings of

the grand Quran.

� ا ع� ي�م� و� ن�ف� ن� ال�ع�ض� ر� �ىل�ق ك� الله� ل�ن�ا و� ل�ك�م� ف� ب�ار�

��ي�اك�م� إ و�

tلك�م tر�ي�م�كtاد و� �ن�ه� ت�ع�ال� ج� ك�ي�م� أ باألي�ات� و�الذyك�ر�ل�ح�

tحي�م ء�و�ف�t ر� ر� ب�ر~May Allah grace you and us with the blessings of the grand

Qurr’an, and may it benefit us and you with the verses and

with wise commemoration, for He the Almighty is Generous,

Noble, Sovereign, Benign, Compassionate, and Merciful.

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My brothers and sisters in Islam the Quran is not a book of

science (spell it), but it is a book of ayaat or signs (spell), or

proofs. There a over 6000 ayaat in the Qurran over 1000 of these

ayaat deal with the science.

We have seen in the first part of this Khutbah how science

has congruence, agreement, and consistency with the

Qurran when it comes to the uniqueness of fingerprints,

weight of clouds, and the hydrologic cycle. Notice here I said

modern science has congruence, and not that the Quran has

congruence to modern science.

Our scholars have proven how the other fields that the Quran

addresses, how science is also consistent with those ayaat.

So the bottom line question is, how could our Beloved Rasool,

who could not read, or write, who lived long before modern

science confirmed the scientific ayaat how could he have known

about these scientific phenomenal. The only logical, rational,

plausible, answer is the Prophet (SAW) only knew what Allah the

King of the Universe revealed to him in the Qurran, which is the

very actual, real, direct word of Allah. Allah informs of this in the

Quran

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6:50 Say (Oh Muhammad): "I do not tell you that with me are

the treasures of Allah, nor do I know the unseen, nor do I tell

you that I am an angel. I but follow what is revealed to me."

Say: "Are the blind and the one who sees equal.(Meaning i s the

one who is guided, following the truth, equal to the one

misled' )" Will you then not think?

And as for the doubters of the Quran, Allah gives them a challenge

when he says:

4:82 Do they not consider, reflect, ponder the Qur'an carefully?

Had it been from other Than Allah, they would surely have

found therein Much discrepancy, contradictions, mistakes.

Gary Miller a Muslim revert to Islam gives a nice analogy when

reflecting on this challenge in his booklet “The amazing Quran”

This is a clear challenge to the non-Muslim. Basically, it invites him to

find a mistake. As a matter of fact, the seriousness and difficulty of the

challenge aside, the actual presentation of such a challenge in the first

place is not even in human nature and is inconsistent with man's

personality. One doesn't take an exam in school after finishing the

exam, write a note to the instructor at the end saying, "This exam is

perfect. There are no mistakes in it. Find one if you can!". One just

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doesn't do that. The teacher would not sleep until he found a mistake!

And yet this is the way the Qur'an approaches people”

In my conclusion my brothers and sisters in Islam, the bottom line is

that the Quran, is a light, a criterion between right and wrong, a guide,

an owners for you and I on how to live life so that we be successful in

this world and the hereafter. Allah in his infinite wisdom has givens

proofs of the Quran’s divine source through over 1000 ayat related to

the tangible world. These proofs establish without a shadow of doubt

as to divine source of the Quran. So what is your role and mine, well

my brothers and sisters Rasullah said,

Grab hold of, seize, hold on to five before five.

1. Your youth before you your old age,

2. your health before your sickness,

3. your wealth before your poverty,

4. your spare time before becoming busy,

5. your life before you death.

So one wisdom our beloved Rasool is telling us the two thieves

are yesterday, when we say I should, or I could, or I wish, and

tomorrow when we say I will do that, or I will do it tomorrow so and so

forth. The point is all we have is today (pause). So my challenge to

myself and you is do we know our book, do we ponder upon the

challenges that the Quran has, when was the last time you picked up

the Quran, read it, reflected upon it, and said I will use this or that from

the Quran in my life.

Maulana Maududi may Allah have mercy upon him, states in the

introduction of his Tafsir book that the Quran is not a book a person

could open in front of a cozy fire on a evening but rather that the

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Quran is most benefical to those live it. Because it is a practical manual

on how to live life.

So let us attend the halaqa, let us go to the tajweed sessions, let us

read the Quran in our homes, in our work places, whenever we have

time let us read pick up the furqaan, but let us do it today.

Qurr’anic Dua’as

ن�ة? س� ة� ح� ر� ن�ة? و�ف�ي اآلخ� س� ب�ن�ا آت�ن�ا ف�ي الد9ن�ي�ا ح� ر�

ن�ا ع�ذ�اب� الن�ار� و�ق�1. Our Lord! Grant us good in this world and good in the life to come

and keep us safe from the torment of the Fire (2:201)

�ن�ا ط�أ و� أ�خ�ين�ا أ� ذ�ن�ا إ�ن ن�س� ب�ن�ا ال� ت�ؤ�اخ� ر�

3. Our Lord! Take us not to task if we forget or fall into error. (2:286)

ل�ت�ه� ع�ل�ى م� ا ح� ا ك�م� ر? م�ل� ع�ل�ي�ن�ا إ�ص� ب�ن�ا و�ال� ت�ح� ر�

ب�ل�ن�ا ال�ذ�ين� م�ن ق�

4. Our Lord! Lay not upon us such a burden as You did lay upon those before us. (2:286)

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ل�ن�اب�ه�.و�اع�ف� ع�ن0ا�. ة� ا ال�ط�اق� ل�ن�ا م� yم ب�ن�ا و�ال� ت�ح� ر�

ن�ا ع�ل�ي ر� �ان�ص ل�ن�ا ف� و� �ن�ت� م� ن�ا�. أ م� ح� ر� ل�ن�ا. و�ار� و�اغ�ف�

ر�ين� و�م� ال�ك�ف� ال�ق�

3. Our Lord! Impose not on us that which we have not the strength to bear, grant us forgiveness and have mercy on us. You are our Protector. Help us against those who deny

the truth. (2:286)

180.

Glorified be your Lord, the Lord of Honour and Power! (He is free) from what they attribute unto Him!

181.

And peace be on the Messengers!

182.

And all the praise and thanks be to Allâh, Lord of the 'Alamîn (mankind, jinns and all that exists).

Ending Admonition

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ان� و� ب�ال�ع�د�ل� و�ال�ح�س� �ر �ب�اد�الله� إ�ن� الله� ي�ام ع�

آء� ح�ش� ي�ن�هى� ع�ن� ل�ف� بى� و� ر� ��ي�تآء�ذ�ىال�ق إ

ال�ب�غ�ى� . ن�ك�ر� و� �ال�م و�O servants of Allah verily Allah commands justice and the

doing of good and the giving unto kindred (what shall be

necessary) and he forbids wickedness, iniquity, and oppression

الله� ت�ع�ال�ي �و�ن� . و� ل�ذ�ك�ر �ك�م� ل�ع�ل0ك�م� ت�ذ� ك�ر � ي�ع�خ

�ا�ك�ب�ر ا�ه�م9 و� �ت�م9 و� ا ل9 و� ا�ع�ز9 و� ا�ج� ا�ع�لى� و� ا�و�لى� و�He admonishes you that you may remember (Him). And indeed the commemoration of Allah the Almighty is the loftiest of Actions, preferable, powerful, majestic, perfect, and most important and the grandest of all things.

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192. Our Lord, indeed whom You admit to the Fire, then surely You have disgraced him,

and for the wrongdoers there are no helpers.

193. Our Lord, indeed we heard a caller calling to faith (saying), 'Believe in your Lord,' so we have believed. Our Lord, so forgive for us our sins and remove for us our evil deeds, and cause us to die with the righteous.

194. Our Lord grant us what You promised us through Your Messengers and do not disgrace us on the Day of Resurrection. Indeed, You never break (Your) promise.”

195. Then their Lord responded to them, “Indeed, I will not let go waste the deeds of the doer among you, whether male or female; you are of one another. So those who emigrated and were driven out from their homes and wereharmed in My way and fought and were killed - surely I will remove from them their evil deeds, and surely I will admit them to Gardens beneath which rivers flow as a reward from Allah. And with Allah is the best reward.”

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3:196 Let not the strutting about of the Unbelievers through the land deceive thee:

3:197 Little is it for enjoyment: Their ultimate abode is Hell: what an evil bed (To lie on)!

3:198 On the other hand, for those who fear their Lord, are Gardens, with rivers flowing beneath; therein are they to dwell (for ever),- a gift from the presence of Allah. and that which is in the presence of Allah is the best (bliss) for the righteous.

3:199 And there are, certainly, among the People of the Book, those who believe in Allah, in the revelation to you, and in the revelation to them, bowing in humility to Allah. They will not sell the Signs of Allah for a miserable gain! For them is a reward with their Lord, and Allah is swift in account.

3:200 O ye who believe! Persevere in patience and constancy; vie in such perseverance; strengthen each other; and fear Allah. that ye may prosper.

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