Quran Study 21 Jan 1983 By Dr Rashad Khalifa
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0:03 Well, I do, I have something to say, because this ākhiru da`wāhum, Alhamdulillah, I don't know how to say it, but it's not before Salah, it has to be after Salah, because it has to be the last of things.
0:30 If they come up with a du'a, and they come up with the taslim, then the last du'a will be this du'a.
0:37 According to 10:10, the final thing, the last thing to be said is Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen.
0:42 Yeah, but when you say As-salamu alaykum, As-salamu alaykum, this is, yeah, just a tradition that has no basis.
0:51 They have to explain it away.
1:01 but it's not
1:02 directed at God.
1:03 I mean,
1:08 you say the tradition
1:10 is that the angels
1:11 and others say, well, it's the people
1:14 on either side.
1:15 The last thing
1:20 you say
1:21 in their prayer.
1:29 the last thing or the ultimate,
1:33 can also be the ultimate.
1:35 The du'a is between
1:40 oneself and God.
1:42 It's not just about anybody else,
1:44 not the angels, not other believers.
1:45 We can have that,
1:47 but it seems to me,
1:52 No, but I'm saying that part there, I can't see how it can be considered in any way a part of the du'a or a part of the prayer.
2:01 I'm just telling you my opinion.
2:02 No, that's it.
2:03 The verse says, the last thing they say is, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.
2:07 Seriously.
2:11 You know, I...
2:19 there's nothing wrong with that
2:20 at the beginning and the middle and the end.
2:27 My impression is that
2:28 it is good to pray as well
2:30 in Heaven.
2:39 Remember there is no laghw in Heaven.
2:41 There is no time frame, there is no effort.
2:48 I mean, there is a specific reason given for Salah.
2:51 23, I guess.
2:56 The purpose of Salah is to remain in heaven, in a state of communion,
3:02 but you are not there.
3:08 Thank you very much.
3:37 I think of it now as the ultimate, the ultimate 'ubudiyyah, the highest form of prayer.
3:42 That's what I mean.
3:46 I am ahead of my time.
3:48 But for me, I think it's the ultimate, without a doubt, it's the highest form of prayer.
3:54 It's the highest form of prayer.
3:55 You have to, you have to do it.
3:58 When you stop, you do it.
4:00 You say it at the end of your du'a.
4:02 Do you remember how I first derived it?
4:04 You were talking about it.
4:06 Ahsan?
4:06 Yeah.
4:07 It means the highest form.
4:08 It's always the best.
4:11 You don't have to do it.
4:13 You should have done it last year.
4:14 Yeah.
4:16 So that's why I thought,
4:17 I'm coming.
4:18 But that's right.
4:19 You need to understand.
4:21 When you end up in error,
4:23 you can't.
4:25 You can't do it again.
4:27 You can't do it again.
4:40 I was thinking, if we start with that, it's very nice, and the basis of faith is good, to
4:48 end up on top.
5:16 All right.
5:25 Thank you.
5:50 In heaven, we will be praising God.
5:52 And we'll thank Him for putting us in heaven.
5:55 And we'll ask Him for help in prayer.
5:57 Amen.
6:33 Thank you.
7:09 I remember you said last week your sister's in the hospital.
7:12 I don't think she'll come here.
7:14 Really?
7:15 Oh, really?
7:16 You'll come?
7:16 There is a new...
7:18 member.
7:18 He was sitting.
7:19 He was sitting.
7:20 Oh.
7:20 He's the one in the suit.
7:23 A new member.
7:25 I cannot be staying tonight.
7:26 I need to go.
7:27 I need to go.
7:28 I need to go.
7:31 But yesterday I met somebody in my department.
7:34 He's a new member.
7:35 Yes, he is.
7:36 How are you?
7:37 I thought that...
7:38 How are you?
7:38 How are you?
7:39 Are you happy, Brother?
7:44 With you, I've decided to forget my problems.
7:49 Thank you, sir.
7:50 Thank you, sir.
7:52 That number of churches...
7:54 People too, brother.
7:56 You make it?
8:01 Where's your brother?
8:04 Oh, he was in Turkey?
8:06 No, in New Jersey.
8:07 Oh, in New Jersey.
8:38 They want to consult me, so they need me.
8:43 Let me pay for the ticket here by telephone.
8:46 This is not what I want to do.
8:48 So, I think they will send me a ticket by phone.
8:53 They'll take care of my stay.
8:56 It all depends on...
8:57 When I met you here.
9:00 Are you going someplace?
9:01 New York City.
9:03 Just for a week, maybe.
9:05 Okay.
9:06 One week, maybe.
9:07 I don't know.
9:09 You know when...
9:13 No, it's just for a few weeks.
9:15 And then maybe,
9:18 because if you give me a ticket to go back,
9:21 I might use it to...
9:23 to go to...
9:24 Yeah.
9:29 Take advantage now.
9:33 Yeah.
9:33 Jameel and I believe.
9:34 Yeah.
9:35 More soup?
9:36 Yeah.
9:39 There's a guy.
9:43 For somebody.
9:45 Maybe, but.
9:46 From Michigan?
9:46 Yeah.
9:51 Oh, he had a fight with Wali or something.
9:58 And then he quit?
9:59 Yeah.
10:00 What's the story?
10:01 What did he do then?
10:03 Yeah, he had a fight with Wali... no, not Wali, Dawood.
10:16 Yeah, he hit him in the chest.
10:20 He's Mustafa.
10:22 Yeah, but what if he doesn't do it, and he's not coming here?
10:28 Well, I think he went home and he found Mustafa talking with his wife or something, so that
10:32 he won't be seen here again, never again.
10:34 So he said, if they come in here, we're going to ask.
10:39 It's a family affair.
10:44 Now, Daoud and Samira didn't come either.
10:47 They flunked the test.
10:56 Oh, that's who's over there.
11:02 He's a young guy.
11:11 I've never seen him around.
11:15 I've never talked to him.
11:18 You're losing weight. You've lost weight. Now you look well.
11:21 Very good. I want to lose weight again.
11:27 Well, I should gain some weight. I shouldn't lose any.
11:30 I'm already underweight.
11:32 But this is very good.
11:38 You know, I want to lose weight
11:40 for one simple reason. Because I thought my suits, my woolen suits
11:45 And you don't want to make a new one?
11:51 I don't want to buy a new one.
11:53 How can you?
11:55 You gained some weight?
11:57 Yes, about ten pounds.
12:00 Remember, I'm retired.
12:06 So now you're going to try to sweat it out in this Hajj.
12:11 My wife told me to jump.
12:13 As-salamu `alaykum.
12:14 Wa `alaykum as-salam.
12:17 I told my wife she has to oversee my exercise.
12:20 She is very hard.
12:21 She told me to jump.
12:25 Very good exercise.
12:26 For the heart.
12:29 But if your heart is already bad,
12:31 you cannot jump.
12:33 Just walk, I guess.
12:35 Walking is the best.
12:36 I think of how young people can die of that.
12:39 Richard Harrell,
12:40 one of the most
13:06 I'd be 36 next year.
13:13 He was very... he wrote several dictionaries and grammars inappropriately.
13:23 Maybe God willed him to go before he messes up the Arabic language.
13:32 Because the development of colloquial Arabic in the long run is a fight against classical Arabic,
13:39 which is, in the long run, a fight against the Quran.
13:43 And the Western orientalists have been trying to develop,
13:47 they want Arabic to be like Latin, it became French, you know,
13:50 French and Italian.
13:54 But I mean, it happens naturally anyway, they're merely recording what's happened.
13:59 Yeah, but in formalizing it,
14:04 they institutionalize it, which is
14:06 not very good.
14:08 It will cut the Arabs from Al-Islam.
14:11 There's the Egyptians,
14:12 there's the Syrians.
14:14 What is it?
14:15 A problem for them to
14:18 understand.
14:19 It's a form of imperialism.
14:21 Yeah, but they do it themselves.
14:23 I mean, Arabs do their own grammar.
14:24 That is true.
14:25 There has been no grammar written
14:28 in the world like it before.
14:30 There's some.
14:31 Yeah, there are.
14:32 This author is the one who
14:33 He was an Englishman, and he went and studied the language, you know, from the outside.
14:40 Collected the data and wrote a grammar on it.
14:42 But it was a grammar for non-Arab speakers, not for Arab speakers.
14:48 It was a, it was a, it was a grammar.
14:51 And of course there have been comparative work done.
15:00 When they have the modern students, they mix it up.
15:04 Okay.
15:09 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:12 Because of the Muhkam and Mutashabih.
15:17 Another development.
15:20 Those are missionaries.
15:21 Yeah.
15:22 That's very interesting.
15:24 Oh, yeah.
15:25 He's trying to make a division.
15:26 Yeah.
15:28 So, you know, people who could read it, could read it very, very well.
15:35 The same people, the same people were taught how to pronounce it.
15:38 Yeah.
15:39 That's a different matter.
15:41 They just change, like, even English into colloquial English because it doesn't fit the grammatical
15:49 rules.
15:50 Every language has grammatical rules.
15:52 Even slang, dialect.
15:54 And you have a standardized English, so you have a standardized Arabic.
15:59 That's the accepted form.
15:59 That's the accepted form.
16:00 What I'm saying is, you can say they're colloquial dialects, like the Pidgin languages.
16:04 When you talk about a grammar, it doesn't necessarily mean correct or incorrect.
16:08 You're only talking about the structure of the language.
16:11 So you can have colloquial, you can talk about the grammar of colloquial Arabic.
16:16 And you may say, well, this grammar is pervasive.
16:26 And if you're being purely descriptive, then you can think about the grammar and structure
16:31 of the Quran and the life of the believer, but you don't have to write that.
16:37 That is the truth.
16:39 Because I remember my father.
16:42 Some have written it in a manuscript.
16:45 Some have written it in an article.
16:46 It's really a rule.
16:46 The writing is still there.
16:49 But even the writing
16:50 wouldn't follow the rules of the Arabic language.
16:52 You'd have to make up the new rules.
16:56 ...
16:56 ...
16:57 ...
17:00 Yeah, you can say, I want to write this.
17:02 You write it, it doesn't follow the rules.
17:05 ...
17:05 Oh, the spelling is different, yeah.
17:08 ...
17:10 ...
17:11 For example, colloquial language uses
17:14 ...
17:14 It's a short form.
17:17 There's a word in the classical language.
17:19 There's a word in the classical language.
17:21 It's a short form.
17:23 It has a prefix, a root, and a suffix.
17:25 It has three things in it.
17:28 But you can write it down.
17:30 So you can see.
17:32 It's only when you say this is the standard
17:34 that you can go to the correct grammar.
17:36 I'm sorry.
17:39 I use an example from my father.
17:45 He started to read and write, in accordance with the rules of literary art.
17:51 Because that's the only way he knew things, right?
17:58 He was taught in the literary art.
18:03 As time went on, then his father said,
18:06 Please write this letter for me to Mahmoud.
18:09 So he tells me.
18:10 the details.
18:12 My father said,
18:12 No, you cannot write it.
18:14 He said,
18:15 no.