one of the most beautiful gifts of allah to humanity is the book of allah the quran
you see my dear brother my dear sister
the tool of speech is a very powerful tool it is speech that ends up convincing people's
minds when it comes to politics it is speech that ends up causing a person to be married to another
and also to be divorced from another it is speech that ends up changing the hearts of people
and it is speech that ends up dominating people and dominating societies dominating
cultures it is the power of speech it is through speech that the rich become richer because they
are able to convince people and it is through the lack of the ability to speak that the poor
may remain poor at times because they may not be able to convince people
into deals into trade and so on and so forth speech my dear brothers and sisters is one of
the most powerful tools and because of this allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent the quran
which was the miracle given to the prophet sallam the finality of all messengers
in the form of a speech the most powerful of all speeches and since it is that powerful
it only makes sense that we have to draw from the speech learn from the speech take from the speech
and that's why time and time out allah he tells us in the quran to ponder the book of allah yet
do they not ponder the quran or are their locks upon their hearts as well so allah tells us to
ponder the quran within the sentence over here now the question is and this is a very important
question it is a question that is pertinent and people ask this question all the time
i am neither a scholar nor am i a student of knowledge how can i ponder the quran in fact to
add to the question sometimes people will say that i don't even understand the language of the arabs
for me to be able to understand and ponder the quran so how can this idea of pondering the quran
be applicable to me i have a glad tiding for you firstly every single person can ponder the quran
and now we have to detail in terms of how a person can ponder and what level a person
can be pondering at you see within the book of allah subhana wa ta'ala there are those meanings
which are absolutely glaring meanings okay allah subhanahu wa is one there is no god but allah wa
that a person shouldn't be associating partners with allah subhanahu wa
that a person is to worship allah and allah alone and that muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam
is his messenger and that allah wa ta'ala said messengers and that these messengers
were the most noble of the creatures of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and the creations of allah
and that those messengers were sent with books and that those messengers were sent to
different nations and that some of those nations obeyed allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or better yet
some people within those nations obeyed allah subhana wa so allah subhanahu wa allah will reward
these people who obeyed and rewarded these people who obeyed and that among the people to whom the
messengers were sent some people disobeyed allah subhanahu wa so allah subhanahu wa
will punish these people and did punish these people as well such meanings are glaring meanings
within the quran that every single person who allah has honored with an intellect can understand
so at that level every single one of us can ponder the quran those glaring meanings that are within
the book of allah you don't have to be in arab to know this you can even read the translations
of the quran and still be able to understand those glaring meanings then after the glaring meanings
there are meanings that are a bit more complicated that are only known through the language of the
arabs and that can only be recognized to a person who studied not only does he happen to be by birth
arab or by tang era but rather he is a person who studied within the language so he understands the
art of the language as it used to be during the time of the prophet salla sallam and during the
time of the companions the time at which the arabic language was at its peak and its epitome
thereafter there's also another level of understanding the quran and pondering the
quran and that level of understanding and pondering the quran is the level
which is given only to the ulama the people of knowledge this is because they are the ones that
also understand understand the quran along with the sunnah as well so they understand the quran
within the light of the sunnah they are the ones who know what happens to be abrogated and what
is not abrogated they understand what is general what is particular what is the generality which
has been particularized what remains general what does not remain general they are the ones who know
what's restricted what isn't restricted these technicalities are known to ulama they're after
and last but not least there is an angle of the quran which is not known
except to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and ibn abbas he summarized all of this and he said
there is one angle of the quran which the arabs know from their tongues and
he said another angle of the quran and then he said
another angle which is recognizable to all and last but not least another angle is
chose to keep this knowledge to himself so within the capacity of the basics of the quran
every single one of us can ponder and every single one of us
has been asked by allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to ponder the quran
so take a moment now pick up the book of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala read and ponder sallallahu
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