Qur'an by Sheikh Gabriel Keresztes No. 17

Today I learned about The Qur'an:

All] praise is [due] to Allah, who has sent down upon His Servant the Book and has not made therein any deviance.

Be good to people.

[He has made it] straight, to warn of severe punishment from Him and to give good tidings to the believers who do righteous deeds that they will have a good reward

Paradise.

In which they will remain forever.

And to warn those who say, " Allah has taken a son."

People think that Allah has a son, but he does not.

They have no knowledge of it, nor had their fathers. Grave is the word that comes out of their mouths; they speak not except a lie.

People say Lie all the time, don't lie.

Then perhaps you would kill yourself through grief over them, [O Muhammad], if they do not believe in this message, [and] out of sorrow.

The prophet is sad the people don't' want to believe, but they are following their desires.

Indeed, We have made that which is on the earth adornment for it that We may test them [as to] which of them is best indeed.

It is a test, everything in life is a test, to live, we have a purpose to be good, to be good to Allah.

And indeed, We will make that which is upon it [into] a barren ground.

He has the right to destroy the earth.

Or have you thought that the companions of the cave and the inscription were, among Our signs, a wonder?.

[Mention] when the youths retreated to the cave and said, "Our Lord, grant us from Yourself mercy and prepare for us from our affair right guidance."

This was in a certain king, they left the right path, youths are confused today, we have youths who don't' believe in Islam, people worship idols, not Allah.

So We cast [a cover of sleep] over their ears within the cave for a number of years.

Not only are they confused, these boys called the king to god, then they enter the cave.

Then We awakened them that We might show which of the two factions was most precise in calculating what [extent] they had remained in time.

After the boys wake up, after years.

And We made firm their hearts when they stood up and said, "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. Never will we invoke besides Him any deity. We would have certainly spoken, then, an excessive transgression.

These, our people, have taken besides Him deities. Why do they not bring for [worship of] them a clear authority? And who is more unjust than one who invents about Allah a lie?"

People are scared, but be scared of Allah.

[The youths said to one another], "And when you have withdrawn from them and that which they worship other than Allah, retreat to the cave. Your Lord will spread out for you of His mercy and will prepare for you from your affair facility."

And [had you been present], you would see the sun when it rose, inclining away from their cave on the right, and when it set, passing away from them on the left, while they were [laying] within an open space thereof. That was from the signs of Allah. He whom Allah guides is the [rightly] guided, but he whom He leaves astray - never will you find for him a protecting guide.

We look at the place of the cave, the sun was inside the cave, and the boys sleep for 9 years, we need to do our part, the cave is amazing, light and air will maintain the bodies.

And you would think them awake, while they were asleep. And We turned them to the right and to the left, while their dog stretched his forelegs at the entrance. If you had looked at them, you would have turned from them in flight and been filled by them with terror.

If you stay in the same place, you will be paralyzed, you think they are awake, but they are asleep, dogs are not bad, the Angles don't go into a place with a dog inside, but that doesn't mean dogs are bad.

And similarly, We awakened them that they might question one another. Said a speaker from among them, "How long have you remained [here]?" They said, "We have remained a day or part of a day." They said, "Your Lord is most knowing of how long you remained. So send one of you with this silver coin of yours to the city and let him look to which is the best of food and bring you provision from it and let him be cautious. And let no one be aware of you.

Life goes by very fast, they sent one person with money to buy things, make it a priority to be a good Muslim,  Islam is a gift. 

And similarly, We caused them to be found that they [who found them] would know that the promise of Allah is truth and that of the Hour there is no doubt. [That was] when they disputed among themselves about their affair and [then] said, "Construct over them a structure. Their Lord is most knowing about them." Said those who prevailed in the matter, "We will surely take [for ourselves] over them a masjid."

It doesn't matter how many of them were there, the Qur'an is not an argument, it a guide.

And never say of anything, "Indeed, I will do that tomorrow,"

If you forget something ask for forgiveness for it.

Except [when adding], "If Allah wills." And remember your Lord when you forget [it] and say, "Perhaps my Lord will guide me to what is nearer than this to right conduct."

Ask for forgiveness.

Say, " Allah is most knowing of how long they remained. He has [knowledge of] the unseen [aspects] of the heavens and the earth. How Seeing is He and how Hearing! They have not besides Him any protector, and He shares not His legislation with anyone."

And recite, [O Muhammad], what has been revealed to you of the Book of your Lord. There is no changer of His words, and never will you find in other than Him a refuge.

And keep yourself patient [by being] with those who call upon their Lord in the morning and the evening, seeking His countenance. And let not your eyes pass beyond them, desiring adornments of the worldly life, and do not obey one whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance and who follows his desire and whose affair is ever [in] neglect.

People look like they have everything, don't look that way, these have a lot of things, but he is telling us to stay on the right path.

And say, "The truth is from your Lord, so whoever wills - let him believe, and whoever wills - let him disbelieve." Indeed, We have prepared for the wrongdoers a fire whose walls will surround them. And if they call for relief, they will be relieved with water like murky oil, which scalds [their] faces. Wretched is the drink, and evil is the resting place.

People who follow Islam will go to Jannah, but the Disbelievers will go to Hell-fire.

Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds - indeed, We will not allow to be lost the reward of any who did well in deeds.

Always ask for forgiveness from Allah.

Those will have gardens of perpetual residence; beneath them, rivers will flow. They will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and will wear green garments of fine silk and brocade, reclining therein on adorned couches. Excellent is the reward, and good is the resting place.

In Dunya, you can't drink wine, but in Jannah, you can drink wine but it won't' make you drunk.

And present to them an example of two men: We granted to one of them two gardens of grapevines, and We bordered them with palm trees and placed between them [fields of] crops.

Each of the two gardens produced its fruit and did not fall short thereof in anything. And We caused to gush forth within them a river.

His companion said to him while he was conversing with him, "Have you disbelieved in He who created you from dust and then from a sperm-drop and then proportioned you [as] a man?

But as for me, He is Allah, my Lord, and I do not associate with my Lord anyone.

And why did you, when you entered your garden, not say, 'What Allah willed [has occurred]; there is no power except in Allah '? Although you see me less than you in wealth and children,

It may be that my Lord will give me [something] better than your garden and will send upon it a calamity from the sky, and it will become a smooth, dusty ground,

Or its water will become sunken [into the earth], so you would never be able to seek it."

And his fruits were encompassed [by ruin], so he began to turn his hands about [in dismay] over what he had spent on it, while it had collapsed upon its trellises, and said, "Oh, I wish I had not associated with my Lord anyone."

And there was for him no company to aid him other than Allah, nor could he defend himself.

And there was for him no company to aid him other than Allah, nor could he defend himself.

Arrogance is bad, be humble.

There the authority is [completely] for Allah, the Truth. He is best in reward and best in outcome.