Introducing Allahﷻ

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

https://youtu.be/Sd-8jKCk80w Auto-generated transcript: My dear brothers and sisters, I'm standing on a little hillock in Mactayo Park which looks down on the Connecticut River which you see there in the middle distance and part from snow melt, part from rain, the river is full back to back. It is very cold. It is right now it says feels like minus 11. I think the actual temperature is about maybe five or six degrees which feels much colder. Alhamdulillah today I want to talk about and remind myself and you. The question that people ask me, Allah bless them, they say how can we and how should we introduce Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to people? How can we kindle or we can't kindle or obviously even torment when we present Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as the glory and majesty in a way which kindles in the hearts of people the love for Allah, the love for His Rasul, alayhi salatu wasalam and the desire to follow this beautiful religion that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed us with, al-Islam. I can do no better than to take lessons and share my lessons in this line from the Quran. So the first three ways of introducing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The first and foremost is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's introduction in the Quran al-Kareem. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala introduced Himself. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us who He is and for example Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said qul hu Allahu ahad, Allahu samad, lam yaleed wa lam yulad, wa lam ya qullahu kufwan ahad. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said say to them, Ya Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam, that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala He is one and one not as in a number which is which can be multiplied or divided but one as in unique. Hu Allahu al-Ahad, al-Ahadu samad, lam yaleed wa lam yulad and He is complete and He has no needs and He has no offspring and He was not born and He wasn't He didn't begot He didn't have any son or something and this is a shout out towards Isa alayhi salam and the belief that they have the false belief that He is son of God. Allah is making this very clear. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying no it's not this and wa lam ya qullahu kufwan ahad and they're saying He is free from all needs and desires and everyone needs Him and He doesn't need anybody. This is Allah unique. Allah is Allah. Lay saka mislihi shay'un, wa hu wa sami'ul basir. There's nothing that can be compared to Him and He is the all seeing and the all knowing. So and there are many other ayat in the Quran. There are take from for example ayat al-kursi, take the last parts of surah al-hashr, take the beginning of surah al-mulk and many other surahs all of them introduce us to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. All of these are introductions of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala which Allah gave. So that is one very very very powerful way of introducing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Simply quote what Allah said because no one can introduce Allah better than He introduced Himself. So just quote what He said. Who is Allah? This is who Allah said He is. Now for that it's very important to be able to recite the Quran correctly. That is very important. Don't take the time and trouble to learn how to decide the Quran al-karim correctly. I'm not talking about so much about the the lahm, the tune, the qiraat. I'm talking about tajweed. I'm talking about reciting it correctly so that the meaning doesn't change and so that people when they hear and they listen to the Quran they are clear in their minds and they can feel the glory and majesty of the kalam of Allah. That is very important right. So don't recite the Quran in a way that people do not feel its glory and majesty. So very important to be able to recite the Quran al-karim correctly and recite. So say introduce Allah by simply reciting the Quran. This is what Rasulullah did all the time. When people asked him about Allah SWT, he recited Quran and people came to Islam because they heard the Quran and these were linguists, these were people who were the people of the la...