Al-Zubilalim al-Shaydani al-Rajim. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. As-salamu alaikum and welcome to tonight's live show on Imam Hussein TV. First and foremost our condolences on behalf of Imam Hussein TV to everyone who has parted away those families who have lost loved ones unfortunately in this stricken era as it were that is continuing to prevail. Our topic tonight, quarantine and what on time as it were. As you all know the corona quarantine isolation has affected everyone. Muslims and non-Muslims but how do Muslims reset themselves? Spiritually one of the ways to connect to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is through of course the Holy Quran in quarantine but how close are we to the Holy Quran? Have we neglected our relationship here? Do we need to rebuild this relationship? What are we doing about it? How are we self-evaluating? How are we actually looking to seek to improve ourselves and maintain our faith as it were? Tonight we wish to explore and take a different stream and add some excitement as it were a different dimension to the tonight's program through evaluating the Quran through the letters from A to Z. Using all the key words as it were from A to Z as it were. With that in mind inshallah I'd like to introduce you once again to our distinguished guest Dr. Seyed Aman Akshwani. As-salamu alaykum Dr. Seyed Aman Akshwani a privilege once again to have you on this show. Thank you, good to have you back as well. There's been condolences as I said you know to Muslims and non-Muslims actually who have been you know affected by this virus and unfortunately it has taken its toll and we must be obviously weary and respectful of their time as well. With that in mind said now where are we actually in our relationship with the Holy Quran and what should our boundaries be today? If there are any. Well I think Alhamdulillah this is one of the positive points and the blessings that a person is able to take from this difficult time that you would have noticed last week in our series on the Imam that so many people feel a reconnection Alhamdulillah with the Imam of our time and so many people are furthering their knowledge, their reading, their analysis of the Thaqalain of the Ahlul Bayt alaykum as-salam and likewise of the Holy Quran and there is a need for us to reconnect with the Holy Quran and even those who are connected with the Holy Quran there is no limit to how much you can explore the Holy Quran naturally because if you were to put two poles for a person to look at one pole I would look at the verse about the donkey that carries luggage and the other pole I would put on the day of judgment as to what the Quran says. So on the one side we have the famous verse in the Holy Quran which talks about those nations who had the revealed book which they neglected which they didn't explore which they didn't realize the benefit of in their lives. In Suratul Jum'a you'll find that Muslims every Friday will hear this verse but hearing and taking heed of the verse is too completely different thing absolutely totally different there may be someone who hears this verse on a weekly basis who had the Torah the nations before us the children of Israel were given the Torah and in being given the Torah you found that some members of the children of Israel kept the Torah protected the Torah wouldn't disrespect the Torah in the sense of leaving it laying on the ground it would always be looked after but they were carrying it and the similitude is given of the donkey that carries luggage okay or the donkey that carries a book with it if you for example in those days imagine that a book wholesaler has asked somebody to be their courier to deliver a set of books from one place to another a set of holy scriptures from one place to another and the donkey that carries these will carry them all the way but will not reflect will not ponder will not examine as to what exactly they are carrying they're carrying it yes the book is in their position absolutely but then donkey just simply carries the book until it reaches its destination sure we may also be of those who may carry the Quran until we reach the grave without having ever explored it explored the Quran yes yep and there is no limit to the amount of exploration that can be done this example of the donkey is a striking example and it's one end of our spectrum spectrum tonight yeah where we don't want to be those who have this Quran at home and may carry it with respect but without bothering to ponder and reflect then you've got the other end of the spectrum which is the Quran complaining about being abandoned on the day of judgment right right so you've got the holy prophet saying that my nation has abandoned this holy book I told them that I'm leaving it behind with them not just for them to bring it out in weddings and funerals there are many who may bring the Quran out in a wedding yes or in a funeral but the rest of the year there is no relationship with the holy Quran we do have some who have bothered to memorize we have others who are wonderful of the holy Quran you love listening to their recital in Egypt you have wonderful reciters in Iran you have wonderful reciters but there is the striking verse in the holy Quran where the holy prophet says that my nation has abandoned this book and we don't want to be of those so therefore in this period of quarantine take from quarantine the word Quran sure alhamdulillah and try and somehow build that relationship because building that relationship stands us in good stead at the end of the day spiritually there is a connection with the divine breath yes alhamdulillah what is the Quran but the divine words of Allah swt between those two covers sure I continuously build my relationship with my lord and in this period where I may not have many friends and I may be in isolation let me make the Quran my friend in this difficult period yes where you don't have many around you build your relationship with the holy book let that holy book become your friend because when that holy book becomes your friend your life changes completely right there are ordinances in that holy book which are striking there are verses in that holy book when you open it and you have a conviction that Allah has going to speak to you a verse will come in front of you there and then and I'm sure this happened to you yes yes alhamdulillah where you've had moments where you've just wanted a message from the holy Quran yeah some sort of guidance some sort of guidance and not just leave that for the world of istikhara no no no some people leave it for the world of istikhara not just the world of istikhara every day every day as muhsin feyh of kashani in zada salak he would he would teach us that of the spiritual stations or the stations that you pass in your journey one of them should be to recite 50 verses of the holy Quran a day a day no more if you could do more do alhamdulillah but 50 and then hopefully you will not be of those who the prophet complains about or who the Quran complains about on the day of judgment subhanallah thank you for that academically academically how much interest is there in the holy Quran specifically in non-muslim circles Muslim and non-muslim circles in particular because this is really important in in terms of myself and yourself we've come here on air many times now alhamdulillah and we're really looking to promote the message of the holy alhamdulillah not just really to cover you about awareness or awareness as it were for Muslims but non-muslims as well what would you say about that well there's been a great interest in the Quran I would say in non-muslim academic circles since the 1970s okay right albeit I would argue that in the 1970s there was a real skepticism and a downplaying of the role of the Quran there was a revisionist school represented by the likes of John Wandsboro Patricia Corona who had in a way attacked the Quran through the attack on the position of the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him in his family so these were academics they were a school of academics that saw us university and their method of downplaying the Quran was to highlight that look there is a lot of inconsistency about the way Muslims depict Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wali there's a lot of inconsistency about the position of Mecca in early in Arabian society and they downplay therefore the role of the Quran through an attack on the prophet and on Mecca to the extent that they say that this text in reality is not a text dated back to you know the prophet Muhammad's time and so on rather this is possibly a text that one can date too much later okay so that particular school was a school that academically look down at the Quran there was definitely no belief in this being a word of God let alone one of the holy scriptures that yes there may have been more of a case for Judaism and Christianity than there was for the Quran yes however on the first level there were academics who did reply back to that revisionist school in looking at early Islamic literature so there was a back and forth I would say as well the likes of you know a particular article in 1999 Toby Lester's article what is the Quran I think that is an important article that signaled possibly a change right in interaction with the holy Quran that could be seen becoming more striking after September the 11th so after September the 11th now it wasn't just an academic circles there were non-Muslims outside of academic circles who are now asking about the Quran yes yes and I'm sure you remember there was I think an increase in the sales of the Quran absolutely after September the 11th there was you know a lot of people were more interested in what is this book you know what does this book lead to violence is this book a book which is brought about you know hatred and anger how does this terrorism occur what is the verse that's the basis of this sure so I would say that since September the 11th in the academy as well as outside of the academy there's been a lot more interest in the origin of the Quran right the message of the Quran and the sciences of the Quran okay okay so the actual text of the Quran and the relationship with the context right in which these verses were being revealed I see I see so you have this interest had increased and not just an increase in interest with non-Muslim academics but also Muslim academics were willing to theologically re-examine the Quran and its context and its revelation right so the likes of Fazlur Rahman or Nasir Abu Zaid or people like this they were ready to re-examine the historicity of the Quran the context of the revelation of the Quran the eternal message of the Quran versus the message that was relative to the community at that time what was the position of the Quranic message in Mecca versus the Quranic message in Medina are all Quranic laws applicable in every context or was it just for that context right so there definitely has been a resurgence in a willingness to discuss the Quran and actually have a discourse centered on the Quran rather than the Quran being a means to a discourse on whether Islam is the religion of God or whether the Prophet Muhammad was a false prophet this you I'm saying yes now there's actually a willingness and a fervor to discuss the actual content yep and context of the holy Quran right so it's not just non-muslim academics who were having a back and forth the likes of Wansbara or Krona or Sargent or you know others in the field rippin who were looking at the Quran and trying to see you know whether this book was a book that can be relied upon as being revealed in that particular context in relation to Mecca and the Prophet now we were actually looking at the content of the Quran now we're looking at its verses its chapters its development sure so I think there's been a great resurgence and I think Quranic studies in the in the academic world will only go from strength to strength there was a period where as Fred Donner talks of the fact that you know Quranic studies was in disarray you know you may have had very strong you know scholars of philosophy or strong scholars of law or theology but Quranic studies there seemed to be maybe a negligence maybe disarray maybe a back and forth between orientalists yes and those who are traditional or holding on to a particular tradition right but now I think you're seeing more of a willingness to look at the Quran okay thank you for that as viewers I did mention in the beginning of this show we're looking to explore this show this particular show in a different way hopefully let's make it entertaining and as I said you know that we're looking at the letters A to Z you've seen naturally on TV game shows people play Scrabble so with that in mind let's start with the letter A say enough A for Arabic why is the Arabic language and how important is it to learn for our communities as it were yeah why was the Quran revealed in the Arabic language you know is a question that people ask until today right and it's interesting that you've picked you know A for Arabic you could have had so many other options but yes yeah the Arabic language first and foremost we don't believe that the Quran is the only book that was given to mankind by the Lord no no and every single nation as the Quran says in Sura 14 verse number four we have not sent a messenger except with the language of their people their community yes their community therefore if we believe that prophets were sent to every nation yes there may be 25 who are mentioned in the Quran but how many prophets do we have 124,000 people talk of in narrations and so on that means there were prophets who spoke Indian those who spoke Chinese those who spoke Aramaic right those who spoke Hebrew those who spoke Arabic so therefore if someone says why would God reveal a text in the Arabic language is God therefore saying that I've got to learn Arabic for me to understand what is the correct path of guidance to follow no no the Lord was not just choosing the Arabs before the Arabs you had Aramaic right before the Arabs you had for example other languages in which the Lord spoke to the people through the prophets who he had sent to them so therefore on the first level let's not just imagine that the Arabs and Arabic are the chosen languages of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala right and nor the chosen people and nor the chosen people yeah but it's so happened that the last message of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala went to an Arabian prophet amongst the Arabs right okay Inna and Zalnahu Quran and Arabian yeah we've sent down this Arabic Quran so that you people may be able to comprehend the holy prophet peace be upon his family was raised amongst the Arabs now if he speaks Chinese to them there's a problem yes he speaks order to them or Farsi to them there's an issue yes you're obviously going to speak the language which the people can relate to which by the way baffles me when we have Majalis in certain languages in certain cities which the youth cannot relate to yes yeah people say why our youth don't come to the mosque which city are you in says London now the main language of the speaker of the mosque or the Imam of your mosque is what it's Arabic so how's the youth going to come well the Imam's going to try and speak some English well if the Imam's not going to speak English fluently that youth is on WhatsApp or on any other app very shortly there was a lesson that when the holy prophet emerged who was the one who sent a prophet from amongst them yes therefore on the first level Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not racist no the prophets were sent with the Lisan with the tongue with the language of their communities the holy prophet therefore being amongst the Arabs it's not like Moses and Jesus for example being amongst their people yes yes of course the community that the holy prophet goes to may have different dialects there are discussions about the difference in the dialects between those of North Arabia and South Arabia naturally naturally yes there are certain people in that community who are the best of poets that you'll find there's a particular type of poetry that they understand sure there's a particular structure to the Arabic language that they understand particular rules that they understand hence many times in the Quran the reply back to him when he recites the verse of the holy Quran these are the words of a magician or these are the words of a poet if it's the words of a magician they're admitting that the Arabic that he has is a bit higher than this because magic is something extraordinary not ordinary that's right yes or they would call him Shahar poet they know their poetry right so they know that what's coming from him it's different it's different unique Walid ibn al-Mughira his Arabic was above everybody else then yes quite right and yet Walid ibn al-Mughira could not take it when he heard the verses of the holy Quran could not take it how is it that he is able to speak in this way now he recognized that there wasn't no real formal education of a let's say a Harvard or a Princeton or Cambridge or Oxford in Mecca at that time sure there were certain people proficient in the Arabic language yes certain people brilliant poets yes very bright intelligent people people who are writing contracts as well sure in terms of trade because you know rock graffiti is able to show us inscriptions that there were people in Arabia who were able to read and write maybe more than we assume because the numbers that were normally given where there's only 15 16 17 there's a possibility that there were more than that more yeah but what you have is that Walid ibn al-Mughira cannot believe what's coming from the holy prophet peace be upon his family and of course the Quran is not the words of the holy prophet peace be upon his family it's the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala misconception because when we do a to z of the Quran this a to z is useful for non muslims as well as muslims yes because you're right in choosing a for arabic yes it's an arabic book but they were aramaic yes there were books revealed to people in other in other languages he emerges amongst the Arabs but they noticed something different about what's being offered to them yes some of them call him Shah and some say in hadha la sahran yotta so that would be the second reason quite logical that if you're emerging amongst the Arabs then if you reveal to them in so many different languages they're going to be thinking what's going on of course yes yes before in aramaic there was a community that was chosen by god but sadly neglected the bounties which god kept on giving them by killing prophets of god who kept coming to them yes yes i think on the third level the grammar of arabic okay it's a rich rich quite unique rich unique believe you me when when you're when you're looking in in the arabic of the quran and you see simple english translation adela just both of them are translated when you see english translations justice what do you see justice but there is a difference between qist and ad in english one word justice yes some might add another word some might say equity and so on majority of the time you will see the translation justice one qist is referring to a distribution of shares the other may be referring to giving a judgment with justice yeah akma aama right if i was to say to you someone's blind in english blind in terms of their heart blind in terms of their eyes it's the same word blind absolutely yes in arabic the one who is physically blind only right akma i see the one who is physically blind and lacks insight right blind in the heart sure sure akma physically blind aama blind physically and in the heart precise the precision the word formation the grammar the rules are intricate if if in english simple if yes arabic low in either each one of them it's slightly different it's slightly different and we could go on with the word arabic but we want to get through another 25 letters inshallah thank you subhanallah thank you so much for that deep insight as it were just on a letter a now moving on to b b for bismillahir rahmanir raheem the magnificent introduction as it were to every surah of the holy quran except so atoba 113 times god begins the chapters of the holy quran in the name of god the most beneficent the most merciful the most kind the most merciful and even that if i may add is slightly low and diluted even that translation is not going to help yeah what's the difference between rahman and raheem sure and english you might say beneficent so we could go on about translations not stop but bismillahir rahmanir raheem god begins every surah of the holy quran the 114 surahs god begins every single one with bismillahir rahmanir raheem in the name of god and there is this central understanding of mercy our existence is due to mercy divine mercy yes divine mercy rahman mercy to all his creation raheem to particular believers yes yes except one chapter of the holy quran that does not begin with bismillahir rahmanir raheem which chapter surah toba the ninth chapter surah nine of the holy quran is the only chapter that does not begin with bismillah and rather begins with a particular dissociation yeah from the meccans who had continuously broken the treaties which the prophet peace be upon his family had made with them however it's mentioned a hundred and fourteenth time yes we're in the letter has it salaman so layman's letter sent to the queen of sheba and he highlights all of us whenever you begin any amal begin with bismillahir rahmanir raheem so they thought bismillahir rahmanir raheem was not only in the holy quran but previously previous ascent okay subhanallah see now for compilation and we can have many words for each letters but just taking one in short compilation compilation of the holy quran is one that scholars continue to debate and disagree over and even within the shia school there are disagreements within the other schools in islam there are disagreements about the compilation of the holy quran right amongst the opinions in the shia school okay is that the quran was compiled in the time of the holy prophet peace be upon him and his family the holy prophet peace be upon his family supervised the compilation of the holy quran okay i'm saying it's one of the opinions yes yes if we had longer we could talk about all the other opinions those who say differing opinions or this but let's say in the time of the holy prophet he supervises the compilation right of the holy quran and supervises the likes of imam al ibn al ta'ala as-salam who knows the order of the quran order of revelation of the quran the intricacies of the quran and therefore the holy prophet says i leave behind for you right now you can't leave something behind if it hasn't been compiled yet no quite true i leave behind for you the quran and my ahlul bait as-salam also when the prophet asks for a pen and paper yes when he is in his final moments the calamity of those the calamity of thursdays and one of the companions was present that you are delirious yes the quran is sufficient for us hasbuna kitab the kitab is only that book chapters cover to cover that's sufficient for us that is used by a number of shia scholars to highlight that we believe that the holy quran was compiled in the time of the holy prophet peace be upon him and his family other schools in islam say that the quran was compiled possibly after the holy prophet peace be upon him and his family had passed away some say in the time of the first caliph or others in the time of the second caliph because there was a number of the hufadh of the quran those were memorized the quran were passed away and there was a need to compile the holy quran or that certain people were allocated the task of compiling the holy quran okay okay um so now we're just going to go for a break in the next few minutes but before we do letter d now diacritics dhamma kasra fatha the little small symbols as they were on each of the letters if you can highlight that as it were the formation of it and we could go on and on as we like so hopefully a pleasing show and an entertaining show of all the views the application of the diacritics yeah dhamma kasra fatha has had a number of stages okay the first stage one may argue is a stage which is credited to abul abu aswad al doali abu aswad al doali was a person who had learned arabic grammar from imam ali ibn abu talib alayhi as-salam and at the beginning these fatha kasra dhamma or we could say in the laws of grammar nasb jar right because if something for example is mansoob or the once one of the scholars was asked what is the alama of nasb and he replied hatred to ali ibn abu talib anyway nasb normally you'll see a fatha okay something which is majroor you might see the kasra and so let's say with abu aswad al doali what you have is that say that there was a fatha or there was nasb that had to be there right that would be at the beginning because in the time of the holy prophet you don't have kasra fatha dhamma tenwin and these things you know they literally they knew the laws yeah they knew how to recite yes this is fatha and then abu aswad al doali is the one who puts the structure at the beginning right but that structures with a dot okay but the dot where it goes gives you an understanding of whether there is nasb or there is jar for example right right so if for example it went the dot was at the top of the last letter then that is nasb if it was at the dot at the bottom of the last letter then what was it then it would be jar and if the dot was at the end after the last letter then for example it would be related to a dhamma let's say okay so if it's at the bottom you've got the kasra at the top you have the fatha and then you've got the dhamma 100 years or so later wow we developed so now we were at the end of the first century we're moving on to the end of the second century with khalil the son of ahmed al farahidi right who helped us move towards the introduction let's say dhamma with a wow we're getting a bit more used to it yes and rectangles which may symbolize the other okay okay fatha kasra and so on yeah okay or thad may come in for succune and so on so now you had that introduction yes so we had abul aswad at doali we had khalil the son of Ahmad right al farahidi then you had these schools of syntax which emerge i see you mentioned earlier one of your questions about the importance of learning arabic yes we cannot be a community that stops learning arabic you know we have to introduce these to our children from a young age there are people who reality is the greatest minds in arabic and some of the greatest scholars of the quran were non-arabes and we're introduced to for example the school of basra with sibaway okay okay you're introduced to the school of kufa with kasai you're introduced to the school of bagdad so now we have three stages with the fatha and the kasra and the dhamma and the tanwin the first stage of course the holy prophet peace be upon his family with his companions then after that abul aswad at doali khalil bin ahmed al farahidi and then the schools that emerge in basra bagdad kufa and the development continues from there okay okay just before we go and break just for the viewers benefits what sayena has mentioned is and again it's the weakness of english as it were it's not just the apostrophe as it were it's the way you enunciate the words the sounds the symbols how to pause when to start and put emphasis on the prefix or suffix and so and so forth so these are some of the actual diacritics am i right accent on those coming later exactly exactly so with that in mind we'll join you again in the next few minutes inshallah salam aleikum and welcome back to our live show tonight quarantine time say na two quick questions i'd like to put forward as it were from viewers if the Quran the holy Quran is not just for ours why is there so much importance around arabia at the moment what's what's going on there problems and stuff what what would you say about that well the importance to arabia is because the context of which um in which the book is revealed well otherwise it talks about prophets who never came near arabia as well you know there are discussions of prophets of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who never lived in mecca or in madina uh so the Quran is not only talking about you know arabia or arab prophets right and it also talks about journeys of the likes of the karnayn and people like this and that was certainly um you know not necessarily all taking place in arabia yeah exactly that's along the meetings with yet george and met george and some yes okay the next question uh salam aleikum dr syed um can i read the Quran in english translation to understand it better or is it advisable to read and recite the chapters in arabic thank you definitely perfect that you're arabic okay reach a level of eloquence with your arabic but simultaneously read the translation of what it is exactly that you're reciting okay a lot of material to get through too so letter e now e for exegesis as it were tafsir tafsir according to the great scholar the martyr sayid muhammad baqir al sadr may Allah bless his soul is an act of unveiling okay okay the meaning right not just the manifest meaning but to unveil the different layers of meaning the batani meaning batana and zahir zahir is there yeah zahir should be then clear but batan as well um that will take us towards a world of ta'wil and in the world of tafsir you found that that provides for us more knowledge and understanding of a particular verse of the holy quran um the grammar of the verse may be explained the reason for the revelation of the verse may be explained okay the lessons may be explained right and you find that this act of tafsir is an act that used to take place from the time of the holy prophet peace be upon his family where he was the first to explain the quran who was the one who sent the messengers from among them and he taught them his verses and he teaches them the book and then after him of course imam ali bin abi talib alayhi salam is the gate to the city of knowledge and you had also the likes of ibn habbas and habidullah bin masood who were also um providing us with the tafsir of the holy quran then in shia scholarship we have many great tafasir of them we have mejma al bayan as an example of tabarsi may Allah bless his soul you have the tafsir of ali bin ibrahim al qummi the tafsir of al ayyashi the tibyan of tosy so there are a number of great tafasir that were written by the early scholars and by the contemporary scholars and sometimes these tafasir may focus purely on the arabic grammar okay others may look at historical analysis you know if you look at ar dabil is zubdat al bayan that is a legal examination to look for the legal verses in the in the holy quran i think you know qatbar rawendi fiqh al quran as well highlights another text for you when it comes to legal tafsir so you have different genres of tafsir you may have mystical tafsir philosophical tafsir right legal tafsir historical tafsir yes generally in the world of exegesis and then from there if you want to go to deeper levels you'll go to the world of tat wil right right thank you for that letter f now 500 legal verses and you said something like as it were under legality as it were versus you know broken down by one prominent tafsir but what would you say about letter f it's it was known in the earliest days of islam that um there are 500 legal instruments verses in the holy quran ayat al ahkam are normally numbered at 500 oh scholars of course have differed but you've stressed on 500 yes um and all religions would have had a certain number of legal verses you know you may find that there may be another religions which have similar number of legal verses but in the quran 500 legal verses and in many cases these verses you will not find them repeated possibly a qaymus salah wa atu zakat in terms of establishing prayer and paying the poor rate to maybe something we hear repeated quite often as reminders but there are many verses which provide us with the laws which are not repeated and you find that they tend to number 500 but you'll find other scholars may differ okay g now most commonly known obviously for god god god allah sometimes when people non-muslims hear allah they imagine that that is someone completely different to the god they believe in allah has the name of the lord and of course the quran focuses on the oneness of god you know the major focus especially speaking to the polytheists of that time with central verses of the holy quran one particular sora called monotheism we know very well that in their trade routes the Arabs would have met the christians they would have met the jews and they were christians and jews living in arabia at the time there's a big jewish community in madina uh some may for a certain period have had certain polytheistic elements or believing that jesus is the son of god for example and so the quran tries to discuss a rejection of ozer being the son of god according to the jewish opinion or that jesus was the son of god according to the christian opinion for there is a belief that god the oneness of god means that he has no partners there is no way that god has a son or a daughter whatever accusations the arabs wanted to make about jesus or they wanted to make about the angels there was this pure monotheism that emerges within the holy quran a god who also cannot be seen fundamentally yes yes in contrast to other beliefs at the time where images of god were very apparent on the quran talks of allah and manat and ozer and the idols of quraish that were there so there is a major focus in the belief in the oneness of god okay okay let's say h now i mean we refer to h perhaps two examples i can give um holding on to the rope of allah holding um on the head on the night of later qadr what would you say about that what's that sorry holding holding the holy quran holding the holy quran on the head on the head also holding on to the rope holding on holding on to holding the quran on the head yes is an act which is mentioned within our main books of hadith right on the in the last you'll find in the nights of qadr people will either put the quran in front of their face or the quran they'll place it on the top of their head yes because we are asking allah by the right of the quran on us on this night of forgiveness because many of our youth would have grown up and they would have seen so we used to always ask allah first by reading that short dua a dua which al-qutbah rawendi narrates and the act of placing the quran on one's head can be found for example sheikh al-kulayni in a tradition in al-kafi from imam al-baqir alayhi salam he has this tradition which clearly mentions open the quran place it in front of you and ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala by the right of this quran on me so this act my dear brother sisters are placing the quran in front of us on our heads on the night of qadr it's not an act which is culture this is religion because what else do i want to intercede for me except the thakalain either the quran i wanted to intercede for me because i've come with so many sins on that day of judgment i've not come back so i'm going to need help on that day so either the quran is going to intercede for me or i'm going to call allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but by mentioning the most beloved to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and there is no one more beloved to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala than muhammad and al muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so holding the quran on the head right is an act that can be found imams but let's not be a community that places the quran on the head and says and then we don't open that book until the next month let's make this month which is now only 10-12 days away let's make it a month in which we get closer to allah through the holy quran okay before i go to letter i two very quick questions salam can you please recommend an english tafsir bearing in mind al-mizan hasn't been translated in full yet first question second question because obviously we've got a lot to get through salam alaykum wa sallam alaykum wa sallam my question is does the recitation of the quran benefit are deceased my father passed away on hajj and is buried in makkah i will never know what grave is his as it were is there any fathail of being buried there as it were i benefits can you share some light in terms of an english tafsir of the holy quran i would say an enlightening commentary right which is available in 20 volumes it's available online a team led by the scholar faqih imami that is available online an enlightening commentary that would be one which i would recommend in the english language certainly right secondly of course recite the holy quran is that which has great benefits for our deceased okay china side surat yasin right or if you'll buy the grave the brothers that i'm not sure where the grave is those who know where the grave side surat al qadr right but recite surat yasin inshallah the thawab goes towards your deceased okay well there's more questions we'll go go through them one by one inshallah soon little i now iqara iqara read yes the first word revealed to the holy prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi and a great choice for the letter i iqara read in the name of your lord recite in the name of your lord that has its own analysis as to the incident but it highlighted that the holy prophet peace be upon him and his family wanted a community that was a literate community right a community that placed the special importance on reading on literacy right on writing if you notice the first surah to be revealed to the holy prophet peace be upon him and his family was iqara iqara and that surah ala which we all have recited surah 96 of the holy quran the first surah to be revealed to the holy prophet and straight away there was a command of iqara the second surah was which one qalam pen human being their worth as a human being yes is their reading and their writing right otherwise the human should be called an orphan according to him imam sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi imam sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi said an orphan is not one without a father or a mother and orphan is one without literature we don't want to become the community of la naqara we don't read have you seen we want to be the community of iqara when you said letter i iqara it's because the quran straight away wanted that community of reading and writing the holy prophet peace be upon his family wanted to build a community like that even if prisoners were called from the battlefield teach our people how to read and write or release you was as simple as that the last thing the holy prophet peace be upon him his family wanted was a was a community which had neglected reading and writing and i love it sometimes when we go to recite in certain mosques when i've lectured in certain mosques in the world and there's a couple that deserve a mention of them for example at the haider islamic center in south london two people deserve a mention haji amir laqa and haji martah the huda who both recognize the importance of a community that loved literature haji amir was the one who was so adamant on the haider islamic center having a library at the front of the center and haji martah the huda was adamant on having books for sale as soon as you walked into the haider islamic center on the right those two deserve a special mention a second place that deserves a special mention for their love of ikra and their love of the qalam is the saba center in san jose on the bay area right they under the guidance of maulana abidi have done excellent work and i remember vividly that there was books which were available for a person to buy as well as other artifacts in the center so they highlighted that a community center a mosque should always have a bookshop or a library right the bookshop so that our youth on the way out are able to buy the books so that just in case they are on their way out and they remember a topic they need a book on likewise hujjat stanmore deserves a mention for they have the port cabin outside where you have the books which are available for us the books available for us on sale as well as a library that's available there from which i benefit right al haji murtaba bandali alif international yes an amount of work that he has done to ensure that publications book titles are available for people to be able to learn about the al-bayt and i personally remember reading my first books at alif international okay all those years back and truly we have to be a community that recognizes the value of ikra right okay we're going to go for a short break in the next two three minutes say now letter j for justice though first before we go for justice fundamental in the Quran fundamental now you said adalah we could also say qist as he mentioned initially as the beauty in the Quran there is this focus on justice god is just and the establishment of justice on the earth even if it means that you establish justice by having to witness over yourself or your family members yes how the quran mentions they say that at the harvard law school sora four verse 135 yaiyuh alladina aminu that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling the believers no mankind he wants all of us to be the ones who establish justice not just the believer the nas all of you establish justice be a witness to god because true justice is when a person is ready to recognize that the main witness on their life is not the cctv nor the speed camera it's allah subhanahu wa ta'ala i can dodge the cctv and i can make sure that the speed camera doesn't catch me but when i recognize allah is the witness then there's no way that i'll be acting unjustly or unjustly while the lord is watching me yes and that's why in the quran and in islamic ethics the greatest ethical attribute is justice why because every other attribute can have a negative to it generosity could be over generous true knowledge can lead you to arrogance justice wherever it's done is perfect so jay for justice the quran stresses on justice throughout and allah allah orders you to establish justice and goodness that in mind uh we're going for a short break views just join us again in the next couple of minutes inshallah sallallahu alaykum sallallahu alaykum and welcome back to the live show tonight say now sallallahu alaykum okay for qarun as it were um if you could share the qarun was the cousin of nabi musa alayhi salam and um and was also very jealous of musa's success so if you look within the holy quran he's mentioned alongside fer'un and haman so in the quran in surah 28 allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions the triumvirate of qarun fer'un and haman and that triumvirate that is mentioned are the ones who show animosity and hate to musa now having animosity and hate from people outside of the family you can understand you know uh let's say fer'un has a particular hate for musa's with the message that he has haman is his advisor but qarun you wouldn't expect from your own family to have a backstabber this qarun was extremely wealthy and a real lesson with those who sometimes think that they have everything that in a moment they could be swallowed literally by a virus and before you know it they're gone and this person what he had done he had tried to attack the reputation of nabi musa alayhi salam when nabi musa was giving a lecture one day and when nabi musa alayhi salam was giving that lecture you found that he asked the lady to go and slander nabi musa in the middle of the lecture by shouting out that moses is committed zina with me and you found that of course nabi musa didn't lose his cool he knows that this is slander he knows he hasn't done such a thing and nabi musa just looked at and said who told you to say that she said qarun the earth swallowed qarun so qarun is given as an example to those who had everything wealth wise but they lacked taqwa they lacked iman the earth swallowed them and that money was of no avail to them okay um we've been on swiftly now alpha light light would probably the most stunning ayah in the holy quran you know allah nurus samawatu al-arth allah is the light of the heavens and the earth what do we mean when we say allah is the light of the heavens and the earth what we mean by that is something which scholars of tefsir have given monograph after monograph and classical works and analysis of allah being the light of the heavens and the earth now in one moment you stop there and you think okay allah has the light of the heavens and the earth yeah but then he gives you this parable a parable which involves a lamp sure and an olive tree so nor the east nor west which continues to light up and what is this parable that's being given so if you ever want to see a wonderful verse in the holy quran surah 24 verse 35 the verse of light it's a stunning ayah yes and you should just try and see how many scholars have tried to give an interpretation of that particular eye of the holy quran how allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is light pure light pure light how that light emanates how it radiates subhanallah it's a phenomenal verse subhanallah okay we've been on now quickly for letters m muhaqam and mutasheb muhaqam and mutasheb surah three verse seven of the holy quran allah subhanahu wa ta'ala divides verses into two right some verses are clear in the holy quran some are ambiguous okay okay and without a doubt the ones who will make clear for us which verses are clear and which are and how the ambiguous relate to the clear those who allah has endowed with knowledge and they are muhammad and al muhammad salawatullah wasalamu alayhimah the muhaqam verses therefore are clear the mutasheb verses are what mutasheb verses are ambiguous right sometimes of course you may find classical examples given as to how to make this easier to understand right for example in the quran i may read an ayah that says for example about allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that seemingly ambiguous one may argue in this trivial example sure that what does it mean that allah's hand is above their hand does it mean allah has a hand okay no and then you have a doubt maybe allah has hands and some said well yes maybe he does and this verse is literal that allah has hands and there are certain actual theological schools that believe in anthropomorphism and that allah on the day of judgment we will see many as hands yeah and there are some of them even said that well his hands might be bigger than our hands and all of a sudden now there are question marks that when allah says yadullahu wa ta'ala Allah's hand is above their hand what does that mean but then we look at a clear verse in the quran it says there is none like allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you might find a verse in the quran where a person sees that says that on that day the faces will be looking towards their lord looking towards our lord that means we're gonna see allah that means allah may be sitting on a kursi on a throne and we may see but then we see a clear verse in the quran when moses asks that the children of israel want to see you allah says means forever nobody will ever be able to see me whether it's in dunya or in akhira so in the quran there are ayas which allah divides them into two the clear and the ambiguous i can easily turn around and say well how will i know what's clear what's ambiguous that's why allah subhanahu wa ta'ala left for me the quran and the ahlul bayt to explain these things to me okay naturally moving on after letter m n for nasik and mansook as it were nasik and mansook nasik and mansook is about a verse that abrogates nesch is a form of abrogation right okay a verse that abrogates a temporary ruling which may have been there for a certain period of time but now it's been abrogated with a new verse being introduced which shows that the quran is growing evolving with the community as they are evolving it's dynamic dynamic it's dynamic you find for example scholars differ about how many abrogations took place how many abrogations took place for example let's say one abrogation according to some scholars was that there okay for a widow was one year the waiting periods for a widow was one year one year how long currently in islamic law is the idda for a widow currently four months and 10 days if the idda origin was one year and in islamic law it's four months and 10 days so what's happened here is an example of abrogation nasik mansook okay okay some scholars say there were 20 moments of abrogation that have occurred others say no there was only once only once was there an ruling that was temporary and then removed when paying sadaqa to see the prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa ali wa sallallahu in the name of Allah the Most Gracious the Most Merciful if you're going to go and have counsel with the prophet i it's a najwa this one right sadaqa companions used to all go and sit with him yes Arabs if you tell them don't pay they'll run if you tell them pay they'll run you tell them don't pay they'll stay pulls love for sometimes depends on whether you put a price to the conference or not if you put a price to the conference that there's 20 pounds per ticket no no you make it free the whole you put food the whole of dunya comes so now yes with the holy prophet peace be upon his family these guys would come and they sit with him now prophet wants his private time others are coming in there's other guests coming in some of these guys will not move quran said oh you believe you're gonna come and see counsel the prophet pay sadaqa the moment that was revealed nobody came except one man because for imam aleem namit abu alayhi sallam paying that amount to sit with rasul allah what is it what is it what is it it's a blessing i asked any muslim out there who's living today has not met rasul allah i asked him i asked her how much would you pay to sit with the holy prophet peace be upon his family i asked sura 58 verse 11 if i'm mistaken sura 58 11 yeah are you having a dinner if i'm a jaytum rasul afa kandimo baina yadina joakum sadaqa no only one man the moment he paid the sadaqa it was abrogated never again as a sign there's a clear difference between the son of abu talib and the rest of you there is no coincidence i am the city of knowledge and alize it's case no coincidence sure who paid that sadaqa in ayat najwa except the son of abu talib nobody amazing thank you thank you in the first half of our show we mentioned letter c for compilation bridge in that now letter o order the order of the quran the quran is not revealed or the quran is not structured in order of revelation otherwise the first sura should be the only man who compiled it in order of revelation was imam alaihi salam in what we have known as the mashaf of ali but that is with the imam otherwise the quran as we have it is not in order of revelation and this was a structure ordered by the heavens okay p for parts parts split into 30 parts yes which came a lot later if i'm not mistaken yeah and you know these we spoke about the orders earlier yeah split into 30 parts and you'll find that the 30th which is known in many circles as juzur amma because it begins with amma yatasalun sort of never it so yeah that's split into 30 parts and even the idea of ejzah is even mentioned in some of the traditions of ahlul bayt al alayhi salam okay q now for qadar so yeah layla til qadar the grand night 23rd according to some others practice the odd nights yes yes inna anzalna hufi layla that the quran was revealed on the night of qadar some say well if it was revealed on the night of qadar and the prophet's be'athab began on the 27th of rajab and the night of qadar is in shahram is there a contradiction because if the prophet's prophet would be gone on the 27th of rajab and he was told iqra but the quran says inna anzalna hufi layla til qadar so what's the contradiction yes scholars have given different opinions okay different opinions from a a question as to whether the 27th is the day iqra was revealed b that 27th was the beginning of the gradual revelation whereas qadar is when the whole quran is placed in the heart of the holy prophet there are discussions on this between the scholars right uh moving on quickly now letter r reminder and also reflection no doubt in the quran one of its names is zikr inna anzalna zikr Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that we are the ones who have revealed the reminder and truly those who get close to the quran it becomes a reminder for that when i'm about to perform an act automatically the quran acts as a reminder for me before i perform a certain act should i shouldn't i when how to so when Allah describes it as a zik it's a reminder to me and to you and to all the creation reflection is represented no doubt many times in the quran afa la yatadabbarun al quran am'ala qulubin akfaluhah do they not ponder over the quran or are they heart locked are they heart sealed and that shows us that what opens our hearts right right because our hearts can have diseases yes naturally yep i want to go from the world of our heart which has a marath to a world of our heart which is salim what did nabi ibrahim aleyhi salam pray for qalb salim yawmala yanfa maalu wa la banoon illa man atallah bi qalbin salim so i want a qalb at salim not a qalb that has fi qulubin marath zada hum Allah marath not a hadas marath i want a hadas sin peace yes yes and show what better than to double on the quran so the quran is our reminder and the quran has to be reflected upon subhanallah subhanallah thank you um as for satanic verses now the satanic verses salman rushdie and written a book in the 80s called the satanic verses and with that book was a reference to whether the prophet a question which arose whether the prophet was affected by shaytan in the revelation of the quran there are some schools in islam that narrate astaghfirullah that our holy prophet peace be upon him his family was affected by shaytan made a mistake in the revelation by listening to shaytan and not listening to Allah swt if my prophet is can be affected by shaytan then how do i know he's not being affected by shaytan at other moments that's why for us infallibility is fundamental salman rushdie wrote the satanic verses not on the basis of his own imagination only but because there are hadiths in muslim literature sure yes and again we let every tom they can harina rate hadith the one who met the prophet for a couple of years the one who was a rabbi or a priest the one who fought amir al-mu'mineen at battle after battle all of them begun to tell us about rasul allah sallallahu alaihi wa aleh the son of a cannibal told us about the holy prophet peace be upon his family the ones who fought his family told us about the holy prophet his family i'm not surprised they'll say shaytan affected him how did he affect him he affected him that he's sitting amongst the qaraysh and while he's sitting amongst them trying to bring them towards allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he suddenly talks about the idols of the qaraysh lat manad and huzzah mentioned in surat al-najm yes yes but then supposedly shaytan affected rasul allah sallallahu alaihi wa aleh sallallahu alaihi wa aleh shaytan himself in the qaraysh says yes how could shaytan if when shaytan himself admits in the qarayn in surat 32 plus 82 to 83 not by your majesty by your glory i'll affect deceive all of them except those who are purified and yet they say that when rasul allah sallallahu alaihi wa aleh was trying to preach towards the qaraysh shaytan affected him that when he heard allah manad and huzzah said that these are the highest of the lords and it's their intercession that i seek people said salman rushdie salman rushdie is the one who has written the santa sanik verse okay you making fun of the prophet of a religion is something which is without a doubt disrespect for yeah but what happens if the muslims themselves are saying this about my prophet i've never waited it yeah our own books of hadith in some muslim schools disgusting shahab ahmed wrote on the satanic verses you can read it online using sources from other schools in islam rasul allah they say was affected by shaytan astaghfirullah honestly i don't know honestly i don't know there are certain people if you say a single thing about them they'll call you sectarian but saying rasul allah sallallahu alaihi wa aleh there's no issue so those were the satanic verses yeah okay um t for tarif and with this there's a question to come after that but t for tarif if you can shed light on yeah it's a harif is this belief that has been there amongst certain muslims okay that an alteration occurred with the holy quran in terms of uh for example omission right and so my it's allah el-khoi may allah bless his soul has a discussion on this and in his discussion on this he says there are different types of tarif there are tarif where they say that there may be a verse missing like some who don't believe bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem is part of a surah so they'll straight away say alhamdulillah rabbal a'lam some might whisper it but some don't believe bismillah it's part of a yes yes some believe that there may be verses missing if you read a book i recommend to all of our viewers the reason i'm saying is because the people who are normally labeled with tarif that we believe in a different quran apparently there's a surah called wilayat which we believe in i wish there was a surah which make things a bit clearer to some people but even i guarantee you if there was that surah there'll still be people like from jamal and syphine's children alive anyway so what you have is that people always say shia okay go to this book jalal al-dina's suyuti has a book called al-itqan all the viewers i would be delighted if you're able to read this book if you can just spell it out everyone well in english itqan right itqan of suyuti shows all the different traditions where non shia have said the quran is missing verses goat at some i don't know goats were clearly hungry at the time and you know others who say that this verse was there and that verse on stoning and this verse on suckling and god knows what else and mointa if you're gonna keep throwing this shia have different quran shia have different quran i'm not gonna deny that muhadith noori in fasl al-khitab may have said certain things i'm not gonna deny that there were scholars of the period of the suffer with empire who have their questions about the quran about the compilation of the quran about the recital of the quran i'm not gonna deny but you tell me that when you're coming to the majority of shia scholarship from the beginning from imam sadaq until today you'll see our scholars tell us to abide by the laws of the quran tell us about the rewards for reciting this whole surah of the quran if these surahs are missing verses and so on how do these things then fit in i may be following a law there was a verse but i don't know where that verse is so why am i following the law we spoke about nasaq and mansook earlier suyuti shows the number of muslims who are not even shia or belong to the shia who believe that there are verses of the quran which were missing which are missing surahs which were longer i will leave it with ayatullah this could be a very long discussion i'll leave it with ayatullah to say for us we believe tahrif alteration happened in the tefsir of the holy quran let's go there you know i don't want to open the kind of worms here because we're going through a to z and we're only a few letters away from finishing and i know we're coming towards the end of the program i told i said yes the tefsir of the quran there was tahrif there were people who manipulated and altered the tefsir okay in relation to that say now um salam aleykum there's a question here uh do you say now um there are hadith as you were in al kafi where the holy sixth imam aleyh salam i'm jaffa sadaq al-salam recite certain verses with different words such as umma as aima what is the meaning behind these hadith as well if an eye of the quran says kuntum khaira ummatin and in brackets next to it it's written aima okay tefsir of umma tefsir you can write on the margin or next to the word you can write that this word the tefsir of it is that the best people people you were the best leaders which came to mankind who enjoyed the good and forbid the evil even if someone tells me that there's 17 000 eyes in the quran and we know there's six and a half thousand but if someone says there's a hadith that says 17 yes if you add the tefsir of the holy quran with the quran it'll come to 17 000 further than that even if you show me something in al kafi of show me who the narrator is is everybody who is within al kafi to be taken as reliable and as trustworthy in their narration there might be someone there in al kafi who some scholars have looked at and said this person is not someone we take narrations from okay now going to the last six letters as it were um you for utmani codis yeah it seems that um you know in and around um in and around the period of uh utman's caliphate um i would say in the late 20s after hijrah obviously you've got the the quran has spread far and wide now there are muslims who are reciting different recitals and so on and they wanted to come to one uniform codis right which everyone follows okay and that uniform codis is the one that we have with us until today okay different chains of transmission asam and hafs are prominent in the transmission and the most famous one that reaches us until today and they have their relationship with the companions and with the imams alayhum salam okay v now for violence yeah sometimes people say that the quran is a book of violence it encourages violence i'm not going to deny that there are verses in the holy quran which if a person takes them out of context they're harsh they're quite harsh they're even violent you know when the when the sacred months have passed kill the disbelievers wherever you see them yes and if someone who says islam's original peace and you've got sora nine verse five saying kill the disbelievers wherever you see them it's going to run someone's going to therefore say that the quran is violent and why are we surprised then when isis and al qaeda and other groups emerge when their holy book says kill the disbelievers wherever you see them first and foremost i don't think i don't think it's just the quran that has a religious text may have certain lines or verses if we take them out of context they seem quite violent the bible has a few you know the Torah and there's other texts as well secondly there may be people who are not people of faith but may adopt a worldview of violence people who led countries and ended up destroying and killing people who never had faith thirdly these verses do not appear in a vacuum there's a context the context as well should not be taken without looking at the verse before and after it when these Arabs had made a treaty with the prophet Muhammad peace be upon his family that they will look after the rights of the muslims living in mecca and there would be 10 years of peace between the prophet peace be upon him and his family and the Arabs one night they ambushed the group of the muslims and beheaded the whole tribe when they when they did this the narrations very clearly mentioned to us that if you look at verse number four verse number four says those who made a peace treaty with you but have not broken it don't punish them right verse number six says and those of the ones who have done this but have come to you seeking to talk to you right talk to them okay so that they may listen to the words of Allah yes yes verse number five said that there's a number of months that have to pass if these people still are adamant that what they've done by beheading a group of people is correct then you are to go and kill them i think there were countries before islam after islam who would believe that if you go and ambush a whole area and you kill a group of people then even the chair or execution was to be there for you so a person who was to turn around and say well therefore this is preaching violence not at all because if you put it alongside and do tafsir of the quran by the quran then no doubt there are verses when you do tafsir of the quran by the quran which highlight there is no compulsion in religion disbelief there's a balance okay alhamdulillah thank you w for women a whole chapter of the holy quran and probably islam is the religion which is seen as the one that is the worst towards women in the community towards the female and yet there is a whole chapter called nisa do i deny that muslims have had atrocious periods of behavior with the females in their community no i cannot deny muslims have been at times male chauvinists they've been mysogenistic just like non muslims have been in their history as well we know the prophet Muhammad peace be upon his family came into a context that needed reform and a reform that was not or is not to be expected to happen overnight um some people were like well why hasn't this all happened there are some countries that took a thousand years after islam for them to give women the rights to own property there are some countries that took a thousand years where it gave their woman the right to have education there are some countries that took a thousand years for them to give their woman the right to be able to vote so to say that the quran is a book which is you know which is which gives no rights to women and so on a whole chapter was named after a woman maria the mother of christ the whole chapter was called nisa about women but we also have to realize that in the history of humanity not just in the history of islam there have been people who've taken verses out of context there have been people who have abused verses and hadiths to suit their own worldview and inshallah things will change okay x was xenophobia yes the quran definitely wanted to speak out against all forms of xenophobia and racism racism might be more focused on the physical outlook of a person whereas xenophobia is this as if worldview of clash of civilizations we're a greater race than the rest of you we're more noble than the rest of you why are you people even mixing with us you're lower you're inferior you're we're Aryan you're not we're a pure birth you're not islam did not want that to be the atmosphere in society right um and so a lovely message we created you from male and female different races different tribes so that you recognize each other let's get to know each other recognize engage in dialogue sure isn't it a shame now we're talking of eugenics now we're talking that they actually want to breed a master race and they want to kill off the black community and the indian community the africans with vaccines and they want to destroy people this is what's being talked about currently that you know what there are certain races soviet they die even the elderly who are bedrock of our society now it's okay so well if the elderly have to die so be it you know they're not they're of no use that type of attitude is not that attitude the Quran did not want us to have an attitude looking down at people you're inferior to me your colors inferior to me you shouldn't be mixing in my society that xenophobia no way was what was within the holy Quran thank you thank you for that why now penultimate letter why for yasin yasin surat yasin the heart of the Quran there's no way that we could do an a to z of something without mentioning the heart and it is the heart of the Quran the rewards the benefits the lessons from that surah are immense and definitely one which we are honored that we learn to recite from a young age hopefully to keep our heart beating by reciting the heart of the car okay finally zed what would you have chosen for zed zakat zakat purification and one of the ways in which you purify your soul according to the Quran is by giving away of certain amount of charity and you know people don't like to give they like to take so one way you purify yourself is by giving away from oneself there are different forms of zakat there is zakat which is wajib and there is zakat which is mustahab so the zakat at the end of the holy month of ramadan zakat al-fitrah is wajib and zakat 2.5 percent is wajib on certain items and then you have zakat which is mustahab a form of sadaq maybe which is mustahab which you want to give to anybody but also other forms of zakat are for example saying something nice to someone yes that purifies you and society smiling smiling that no doubt purifies you and society so all the central basis of zakat was to purify oneself in turn purifying society and hence who alladhi ba'athafil umneena rasoola minhum yatlu alayhim aayatihi wa yuzakki im there was a major aim to be able to purify those who lived around the holy prophet peace be upon him and his family and that's our a to z guide to the holy Quran okay okay so now we've run out of time and viewers I do like to apologize on behalf of Imam Hussein TV for the technical issues that we've been encountering this episode as it were on tonight's live show saying just one last point there's a quick question from Fiddar and she just wanted to know that what would you recommend in terms of a tafsir in English is there one available in Imam Hassan al-Islam in English if possible yeah it's not complete yeah um but we do have the first few chapters and it's attributed to Imam al-Islam that's available it's translated online okay I mentioned earlier an enlightening commentary which is the full tafsir of 20 volumes al-islam.org hasn't okay so we've now come to the end of our program tonight which was on quarantine to Qala on time um I'm deeply indebted to Dr. Sayyid Ahmad Naqshwani for his presence tonight and you know really going in depth actually from letter A to Z from Dr. Sayyid Ahmad Naqshwani and Mashaf Muhammad Ali see you again next time inshallah salamu alaykum