Are You Abandoning the Quran
By Nouman Ali Khan | 2026-01-08T19:29:10.676458+00:00 | Topic: Quran
Are You Abandoning the Quran - Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan - 2013
Opening: The Call to Prayer
Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Come to Prayer. Come to Prayer. Come to success. Come to success. Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest. There is no god but Allah.
The Day of Judgment: A Day of Difficulty
That day, judgment day is going to be difficult, especially difficult for the people who disbelieved, for the kafireen, for the people of kufr. But in this next ayah, Allah does not say الْكَافِرْ يَعْضُ يَوْمَ. He says
The wrongdoer, that's the common English translation now, the wrongdoer is going to be biting his hands that day. The wrongdoer is going to be biting his hands on that day.
The Meaning of Biting Hands: An Expression of Regret
Now, biting the hands, you may not be in the habit of biting your hands, but this is an old Arabic figure of speech. This is the way they used to say, this guy is going to be full of regret, he's going to be crying, wailing, he's going to be desperate, what have I done? Now, the equivalent of biting your hands nowadays is somebody holding their head like that, oh my God, what's going on? What happened to my car? What happened to the house? What happened to my job? At that shocking moment, when you're completely full of regret, then the expression in old Arabic is used to bite the hands. So if you don't bite your hand, that doesn't actually mean that you shouldn't be able to relate to this ayah.
But I tell you on judgment day, the frustration, the frustration a person goes through, it makes them do irrational things. And you may have experienced some of that, if you know people that are, for example, really stressed out, or they're standing outside a hospital room, the family members inside the surgery, and they're standing outside in the waiting room, are they sitting still? No. They're walking around, they're holding their hands like this, they can't sit still, they're constantly making motions, they're in a state of unrest.
Or they're holding their mouth, when they hear the news. Judgment day, Allah describes, this person is gonna be biting his hands, both of them, not even one يَدَيْهِ. He's gonna be biting on both of his hands.
The Regret: Wishing for the Messenger's Path
Why this shock, and why this regret? He says, Allah Azawajal describes
If only I had taken a path, if only I had taken a lifestyle, alongside the Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). You see
يَا لَيْتَنِي آمَنْتُ بِالرَّسُولِ - No, no, no. If only I believed in the Messenger. That's not what it says. It says, if only I took a path along with the Messenger.
What is being highlighted here, is not that just we accept the Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) which we already do, alhamdulillah. But actually that we pick up the lifestyle of this man (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). That we pick up his habits, his mannerisms, his character, the way he was grateful, the way he was kind to people, the way he smiled at others, the way he dealt with others in business, the way he dealt with non-Muslims, the way he dealt with Muslims, the way he dealt with elders, the way he dealt with young people, the way he dealt with the wife, the way he dealt with a friend. This is his path.
This is a sabeel. The modern translation of sabeel if you will, it's not a linguistic translation, it's a sociological translation, would be lifestyle. If only I had a lifestyle alongside the Messenger.
The Mission Beyond Personal Development
If I lived the way he lived. If I took that path. But the word path also means something else. The Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) on the one hand came to make us better people. To make us realize how good human beings can actually be. But on a second note, he also came to put us on a mission. To not just become better people ourselves, but to help the rest of humanity become better people. That's part of the mission of our Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). And that's a long road. That's a sabeel.
So not only do you change yourself, now you identify because of that change in yourself with that mission, and you want to share that goodness with the rest of humanity.
Lessons from Hajj: The Disconnect Between Belief and Action
Before I go on, I want to share with you why I'm having these thoughts. Why am I referring specifically to what happened after hajj? How is this tied to what happened after hajj? Hajj obviously is an expression of people's iman. It's not easy to go to hajj. It's a huge financial strain. Some people save their entire life and they can't go.
We were particularly sad this last year because the Syrian government didn't allow the Syrian Muslims to come. And usually there's a huge delegation of Muslims from Syria that go to hajj every year. But they weren't even allowed to come to hajj. May Allah (عز وجل - azza wa jal) relieve them from the tyranny and the suffering that they're going through. And may Allah alleviate them and the shuhada among them. May Allah accept them.
But you know, when you go to hajj, you see people that are 92 years old. You start feeling tired and you see a 100-year-old guy jog by you and you're like, oh, I should be ashamed. SubhanAllah, these people are making hajj for the first time in their life. And they're having this grand... Allah has invited them. So it's obviously a show of iman. But you know what? At the same time, it's not just supposed to be a show of iman. It's supposed to be a show of our loyalty to the Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam).
The Problem: Cleanliness and Respect
It's ironic to me. It's particularly ironic that the Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), one of his missions was to clean up the house of Allah. One of his missions was to clean up the idols, get rid of them and clean the house of Allah so only Allah can be worshipped at the Kaaba. That was one of his missions. And when you go and you find Muslims, forget cleaning the idols, that's a far problem for us. You have hajjaj, people that are doing hajj, knowledgeable people, educated people, drinking a bottle of water and chucking it on the street.
Right? And they're going like... They're not waiting for a trash can or something. Somebody eats a banana peel, throws it down. When you leave Muzdalifah, when you leave the field of Muzdalifah the next morning, it looks like a trash dump. You can't step without stepping on trash. You can't do it. And these are people who believe this is sacred territory.
Right? It's shocking. That's shocking to me. Nobody will go to the Washington Monument. Nobody's gonna go to the 9-11 memorial and throw a Pepsi can. Nobody's gonna do it. That's sacred ground. This is something a nation respects. We should have, you know, dignity for this place. But you go to Mina and you go to Muzdalifah and you go... Even in the streets of Mecca, what do you find? You find trash.
And who's throwing that trash? Don't blame the government. Don't blame the Saudi government. What? There's millions of Muslims. We're the ones. We don't even have the simple etiquette of the messenger's lifestyle, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, of how much he cared about being clean. How much he cared about not being a source of adding to the filth in a society, spiritually and physically speaking.
The Disconnect in Our Communities
And physically speaking. And yet, at the same time, we can say that we went for the sake of Allah. So there's a disconnect in our minds. There's a disconnect between what we think we're doing for Allah, and what we're actually supposed to be doing for Allah (عز وجل - azza wa jal). You can't keep that. We have to bridge that disconnect.
We have to become people that embody, that live the example of the messenger, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, not just in the ibadat, not just in the acts of doing hajj, not just in the act of making salat, not just in the act... You know, there are so many times announcements are made, I don't know if they're made anymore, inshallah, they're not. About people parking their cars improperly, or blocking other people's driveways. Brother, if you come for jummah, don't park your car improperly.
Don't park on other people's lawns, and things like that. You know, all over the country these announcements are made. Isn't it like a sunnah of our messenger, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to worry about the rights of the neighbor? Isn't that a sunnah? Like, weren't the neighbors of the Rasul, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, extremely happy with him? You know, the best of neighbors, the best of friends.
And if there was ever something wrong done, it was done by the neighbors, never by him, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. How many times he gave us wasiyah to take care of our neighbors. And you go around the country and you'll find people that are in the neighborhood of the masjid, in America, educated Muslims, right? You can't even say, oh, this is the ignorance of the Muslims that don't have a good education.
All across America, you have big masjids that are built, and guess who's really unhappy by the masjid? The entire neighbor. The whole neighborhood is unhappy. Why are they unhappy? Oh, because they hate the Muslims and these kuffar? No, because we park on their lawns. Because we block their driveway. Because we don't care when we make a mess. That's why.
The Problem of Waste During Ramadan
And then even in the months, you know, a couple of months down the road, inshallah ta'ala, the month of Ramadan is coming. May Allah give us the rizq of Ramadan once again. When the month of Ramadan is coming, we go have iftars. Even the masjids hold iftars. I'm talking about the religious community. We hold iftar.
And what do we do? How much food is wasted? Every time. How many bags of garbage? And how much food is in those bags of garbage? Is this the sunnah of our Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam? Is this what we're supposed to be doing? And then we complain about the state of the ummah. We're not even taking care of the simplest things that mean that we are following the path of the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
The Fundamentals Before the Heights
This guy will regret it on judgment day. You know, we talk about the high goals of Islam, how we have to give Islam to America, how we have to give Islam to the world. I believe in those goals. But you know what I also believe in? You can't talk about the 100th floor until you enter the first floor. We're still in the basement. We haven't even come to the first floor yet.
We have to deal with the basics, the fundamentals. And fundamentally, our deen requires us to become responsible people, ethical people, people that care about their surroundings, people that care about their family members, their neighbors, their neighborhoods. This is what they do.
Respect in the House of Allah
I should not go into any masjid, even masajid. I should not go into any masjid and see people like, you know, they take their shoes off and they just throw them wherever and they go. Why? Do you do this in anybody else's house? Would you do this if you go to somebody's house? They invite you as a guest to their house and you take your shoes off and you just throw them wherever? Would you do that? It's a show of disrespect, isn't it? Isn't it? And here we are guests of the house of Allah.
Here we are. Allah invited us to this house. This is not your house. This is not my house. This is Allah's house. It deserves respect. It deserves something. Some sentiment is supposed to be inside of us that we show it this honor, you know. The way we carry ourselves, the way we greet with each other.
These are small, small things I'm talking about. But they're not impossible for us to change. We just don't even think about them when we think about Islam. We just think Islam is about, you know, you should recite more and more of the Quran, which I believe you should. You should memorize as much of the Quran as possible, I believe you should. Absolutely.
But you know what? The more Quran we recite, the more it becomes a hujjah on us that we change ourselves. That we change the way we carry ourselves. That we have a different tone in our speech. That we have a different level of brotherhood among each other.
Brotherhood and Community Building
How many Muslims come to the masjid? You guys come, every Jumu'ah you come, probably every Jumu'ah you're at this masjid. And when you come and as you're leaving, how many people that you don't know you say salam to with a smile? Or you're just looking at the guy like, when's he gonna get out of the way, saying, get to my shoes man, I gotta get out of here. Is that your attitude? You know, you're together as people of la ilaha illallah. There should be a natural love among you. And that's something the messenger put inside the believers.
You know
He put love between your hearts. I don't even know you as a Muslim, I shouldn't give you a dirty look. Just cause you're in New York a dirty look is standard, doesn't mean you give a dirty look to another Muslim.
You know, I know you're living in Queens, I understand, I live there too. And I know when you go outside of New York and you're walking down the street in North Carolina or like Memphis, Tennessee, and some random stranger with a cowboy hat on looks at you and goes, how's it going? Nice day, isn't it? You're like, shocked, why is this guy smiling? Is he got a gun in his pocket or something? Why is he smiling at me? And then you realize those people are closer to a prophetic way. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) his standard was to be smiling, not to be frowning.
You know, to be friendly to others, to care for others, to look out for others. These are the kinds of things we have to value and bring back into our communities, into our personal lives, into our characters.
The Cry of Regret: Ya Waylata
So this believer says on that day, I wish I had taken a path, a lifestyle along the Messenger (مَّعَ الرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًا - m'ar-rasuli sabila)
"(Quran 25:28). One of the great scholars of the Arabic language, Dr. Fadhil Saleh Hassan Ibrahim, very impressed with his work. He described in one of his lectures the difference between (يَا وَيْلَتِي - ya waylati) and (يَا وَيْلَنَا - ya waylana). And actually normally you say (يَا وَيْلَتِي - ya waylati) and this is (مِنْ أَسَالِيبِ التَّعَجُّبِ - min asaalibit-ta'ajjub) he says. It's from the forms of shock.
When you see something you can't believe what's happening, you say (يَا وَيْلَتِي - ya waylati) Actually even nowadays in modern Arabic, they say (يَا وَيْلي - ya wayli) when something shocking happens. But the تًا is used to express even more shock and when that shock is actually mixed with sadness. When there's hasrah in it when there's huzn in it when there's ghamm in it, when there's batth in it, when there's sadness mixed into your cry, then you say (يَا وَيْلَنَا - ya waylana). And that's what the ayah begins. Then it says laytani if only.
There's two kalimahs, one of shock and one of like depression. Why did I mess up? I had such an opportunity to make better decisions and I'm looking back now and I couldn't have done it. The Urdu, in English it's not really a word, we say, if only, that's the expression for layta The Urdu speakers, they say kaash but even who uses kaash anymore? Most of your kids don't know what kaash means, right? But it's looking back in sadness, laytani if only.
The Wrong Friend
And what does he say looking back?
- Beautiful words. He says, if only I didn't take so and so, some dude as a friend. Look at thisالرسول in the previous ayah, I should have been alongside the messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم - salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam). And in the next line he says, man, I wish I didn't take that guy as my friend. Which guy? The guy that took you away from the messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم - salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam).
The guy that made you do things that the messenger would never do (صلى الله عليه وسلم - salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam). The friends that made you talk in a way that the messenger would never approve of (صلى الله عليه وسلم - salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam). You have those kinds of friends.
There are some of you that are good people, but you have bad friends. And when you hang out with your friends, you become bad people. And you will not be able to blame your friends on that day like this guy is doing. It won't work. And by the way, those friends are so useless, even though you call them everyday, you check their Facebook posts everyday, you text them everyday, you check their tweets everyday, you're following them on Twitter, you care about them today. But on judgment day, you can't even remember the guy's name, you call him fulan
fulan means so and so, etc, etc. What was that guy's name again? That's how this is described on judgment day. And by the way, on that day, because you didn't care about the messenger, (صلى الله عليه وسلم - salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) in this life in this life, the messenger was nobody to you. But then the messenger is (لَيْتَنِي اتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ الرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًا - laytani it-takhadhtu m'ar-rasuli sabila). If only I took a path with THE messenger. But when it comes to his actual friend, he can't even name him.
That's the reality of those kinds of friends. You won't even know their names when judgment day comes. They'll just be fulan to you. fulan just means so and so. That's what they'll be to you and to me.
The Importance of Good Company
We have to make a really good assessment of who our friends are, and what kind of lifestyle they're leading us down. Wallahi, I don't speak from theory. I know good brothers, good brothers that I used to meet, they used to be the first people at the Salat al-Fajr at the masajid. They used to be people that were pioneering some of the da'wah work at MSAs, and putting volunteer work together, and humanitarian efforts, and this and that and the other.
And then something happened, and they got into the bad company with their friends, and they disappeared. They just disappeared. And what took them away? The wrong kind of friend. The wrong kind of friends. That's it. That's all it was. Bad company. Those people are not your friends. Get that through your heads.
Especially the young guys that are sitting here. Those guys are not your friends. You know the guys that use foul language, and you realize it's a bad thing to hear, or say. So you don't say, I mean they say it, but I don't say it. No, it has an impact on you. It's tearing your soul down from the inside. It's eating away at you, and eventually they will pull you away, and eventually those words will come out of your mouth. You know (الإناءُ يَنْصَحُ بِمَا فِيهِ - al-'ina'u yansahu bima fihi). They say in Arabic, a container only gives out what it contains.
If bad words are going into your ears, bad words are going to come out of your tongue. If you're seeing evil all the time going in, then evil actions will come out. They will come out. They don't just stay in. You can't just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go, will not have an impact on your character. They will.
And we don't want to be of those people who regret having the wrong kinds of friends on judgment day.
Building Good Character Through Family
What this means then is, you and I have to make a solid effort to find people, find the company of people that make us more respectable. They make our manners better. They make our speech better. They make us more courteous. They make us more patient. You know, they make us better people. And my personal advice to you is, if you have elders in your family, spend more time with them. You'll learn patience. You will learn patience. And if you have an ego problem, if you have a pride problem, spend a lot of time with your parents. Because they will put you down all the time, and they will burn you, and you'll become humble.
Spend a lot of time with your parents. I know you don't like spending time with your parents, because your dad is always telling you stuff. You're like, I want to hear this. It's good for you. It's good for you. It will build your character, build your humility.
Now, there's a reason Allah told us to spend time with our parents. And there's a reason Allah told us to be patient with them. Allah does not tell us to be patient with our friends. He doesn't give us a specific ayah in the Quran to be patient with anybody else, but with parents. And He tells us, be patient with the enemies of Islam, and He tells us to be patient with parents. Why? Because parents can say things that test your patience. Allah knows. And that's why He told you to do it. And it builds your character.
The Friend Who Led Astray from the Reminder
Anyhow, coming back to this beautiful passage
- He made me slip away from the remembrance, the Quran, after it had come to me. He doesn't even say (عَنْ ذِكْرٍ - 'an dhikrin). He says (عَنِ الذِّكْرِ - 'anidh-dhikr). Even Quran he remembers specifically. The Quran used to be recited, there were halaqat being offered. I could have been in company, that could have brought me closer to Allah's word, and therefore closer to becoming a better person. But I said, nah, go to the Quran halaqa or go catch a movie tonight, I don't know. I'll just go catch a movie.
He kept putting me away from the remembrance. Even after it had come to me (بَعْدَ إِذْ جَاءَنِي - b'ada idh ja'ani). You don't even have to go to the remembrance, it comes to you. By the way, this part of the ayah is even more true today than it was then. Back then, somebody might hear the Quran, somebody might hear the Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم - salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam), and somebody might not hear. But today there is no excuse. How many apps? How many downloads? How many books? How many websites? How many YouTube videos? That you can access Allah's message? That you can access explanations of the Quran? Recitation of the Quran? You know? There's no excuse, it's coming to you.
It's coming to you and you're ignoring it, and you're saying, no, I'd rather search for something else. I'd rather go some other way. And this guy on Judgment Day is blaming his friend for doing so.
Shaytan: The Ultimate Abandoner
- Very interesting word Allah uses. Allah's commentary at the end, some say this is Allah's commentary at the end. Shaytan, when it comes to the human being especially is khadhul
khadhul is a kind of friend who leaves you at the right moment. Like there's a friend who always like, he's hanging out with you, he's chilling with you, he's your bro. You know, he's always there for you until the time comes when you need him. And when the time comes when you need him, he's gone. Nowhere to be found. And when the time of need is over, then he's back again, he's your bro again.
That kind of friend is called khadhul. Allah says that's what Shaytan is. He's always there with you. And you don't see Shaytan. It's not like the cartoon Shaytan with the horn sticking out, and the tail in the back and a pitchfork. That's not Shaytan. Shaytan comes to you in waswasa. Shaytan comes to you through your friend. Shaytan comes to you through your screen on your mobile device.
That's how he comes to you. And he says, I'm giving you what you want bro. I'm looking out for you. Until judgment day shows up and he leaves you and you're like, where did he go? I thought I was doing this for myself. I thought he was looking out for me. This is the trickery of Shaytan. Don't be fooled that the urges you have. And all young men have urges. They have temptations. They have feelings inside that are raging. And Shaytan comes and says, come on, act on your feelings. Come on, it's not that bad. It's not that bad. You could do whatever you want. It's not so bad.
And we fall into that trap. And this is the khidhlaan of Shaytan. This is the deception of Shaytan. That he'll leave us on the right moment. He just gives us so much motivation to do the wrong thing. To get us to that point.
And this guy is giving... This is not... Allah is recording the speech of an average person who ignored the reminder. And he's giving the khutbah now, on judgment day. Oh man, Shaytan got me (لَقَدْ أَضَلَّنِي عَنِ الذِّكْرِ بَعْدَ إِذْ جَاءَنِي وَكَانَ الشَّيْطَانُ لِلْإِنسَانِ خَذُولًا - laqad adallani 'anidh-dhikri b'ada idh ja'ani wa kanash-shaytanu lil'insani khadhula).
The Messenger's Complaint: The Abandoned Quran
And this is the ayah that I want to conclude with.
- If all of this wasn't bad enough, the messenger himself, (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam - صلى الله عليه وسلم), addresses Allah directly.
- This nation of mine, no doubt about it. هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ . There's a beauty in even the use of the word, hatha here as opposed to thulika. Like when you start reciting Quran in the beginning, Alif Lam Mim (ذَلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ - thulikal-kitabu la rayba fih) (Quran (2:2). Allah does not say ذلِكَ الْقُرْآنَ . He says هذا الْقُرْآن . This Quran was right here. It was right in front of you.
And you still wouldn't take it seriously. And the messenger on judgment day, (sallallahu alayhi wasallam - صلى الله عليه وسلم), complains, this nation of mine took this Quran, not that Quran, this Quran. One of the other rhetorical benefits, balaaghi benefits, of the word hatha in this ayah, is on judgment day, it will be like the Quran will be brought as a witness. You know how in court, you bring the witness, and then the witnesses or the evidence is brought, and you point at the evidence and say, this is the evidence that that guy is a criminal. So the evidence itself will be the Quran on judgment day. Your case is bad enough as it is.
And then the Quran is brought as the witness, and the attorney bringing the evidence as the messenger, (sallallahu alayhi wasallam - صلى الله عليه وسلم), and he's pointing at the Quran and saying, these people, this nation of mine, they took this Quran, mahjoora they took it hajran mahjoora they say in Arabic (هَجَرْتُهُ هَجْرًا، يَعْنِي تَرَكْتُهُ، أَغْفَلْتُهُ - hajartuhu hajran, ya'ni taraktuhu, aghfaltuhu) - you made something forgotten, you completely ignored something, you left it way behind. I
think even the Urdu speakers here know the word hijra everybody knows the word hijra to migrate something. The ayah doesn't even say matrukan matruka means left behind, mahjoora means left way behind.
They didn't just leave the Quran, they left it way behind. They weren't even close. They just migrated away, away, away from it.
The True Meaning of Abandoning the Quran
And I want to remind myself and all of you today, the character that the Quran wants from us, if we are away from that, even though we're reciting the Quran, it's still a hijra from the Quran. It's still a hijra from the Quran. We're migrating away from the Quran if we're reciting it and we're not seeing any change in our character.
That's the quality of Bani Israel. And that's why this by the way is suratul-furqan the 25th surah of the Quran. It's not a long surah, so you can read it in translation when you go home.
What's remarkable about this surah, this is the middle of it. When you get to the end of it, the whole ending is about what kind of character is required from a Muslim. What should the personality of a Muslim look like? Why is that mentioned? When the messenger complained, they abandoned the Quran. Because the person who does not abandon the Quran has a different kind of personality. Their personality is different, their character is different, their actions are different, even who they hang out with is different. (وَإِذَا مَرُّوا بِاللَّغْوِ مَرُّوا كِرَامًا - wa idha marru bil-laghwi marru kirama) (Quran 25:72) - In the same surah, when they walk by useless conversation, they walk by in a dignified way, they don't get entangled in it.
They stay away from useless company even. It affects every part of their personality. That's the abandonment of the Quran.
Personal Reflection: The Reality of Our Relationship with the Quran
I feel that the ummah is becoming, you and I are becoming more and more guilty of, and we have to be worried about it. I was reading this ayah, my daughter recites Quran to me at home. And she was reading this ayah, and I was just checking her tajweed, and she was reciting the ayah, and I sat there and I started crying.
She said, I said, "Cause of what Allah said." "Cause of what Allah said." She said, what did he say? And I said, you know, he says, the messenger will complain about a group of people who left the Quran. And she says to me, but we didn't leave the Quran, we're reading it. And I said, beta, if only it was just about reading, it would have been easy.
It's not just about reading it. You have to love this. Can we prove to ourselves we love this book more than any other movie that comes out? More than any video game? Do we want to spend more time with this book than anything else? Do we want to be like what this book wants us to be? More than we want
to be like anyone else or anything else? How many younger guys want to look like ripped because they see a picture of a guy with muscles? Girls want to look like someone? People want to make money like someone? People idolize these people? Who idolizes the character that the Quran embodied? The messenger of Allah, (كَانَ خُلْقُهُ الْقُرْآنَ، صلى الله عليه وسلم - kana khuluquhu alquran, salla allahu alayhi wasallam)
Who like goes to sleep and I think, man, I wish I had a six pack, instead of thinking, man, I wish I had more sunnah in my life. Who says that? How are we not abandoning it? How are we not abandoning it?
Conclusion: Returning to Allah's Book
We have to be a people that take coming back to Allah's book seriously. May Allah (عز وجل) make us a people that love this book and make it a big part of our lives so everything in our life is given blessing and given life through the barakah of this book.
May Allah (عز وجل) help the Muslims understand this book as they should understand it. May Allah help you as parents not only love and understand this book yourselves, but give you the ability to teach it to your children so your children can testify for you on judgment day. May Allah (عز وجل) help the masajid, the schools, the madaris of hifz, all these kids that are memorizing Quran.
May Allah not just help them memorize Quran, but to help them understand every word of it and to live that word of it, and to pray with their hearts, not with their tongues when they pray. May Allah make us of those people that really live the Quran, and the Quran lives inside their hearts.
ayaat that live in the chests of those who've been given knowledge.
Quran lives in the person's heart. May Allah enter this Quran into all of our hearts.