Gems Of Ramadan ✔

DAY 15 - THE POWER OF THE QUR'AN

We are still talking about the relationship between this blessed month and our Qur'an.

The month of Ramadhaan in which was revealed the Qur'an.
(Surat al-Baqarah: 185)

Did you know that this Book that Muslims neglect and abandon today was a Book the non believers of Quraysh feared during the time of the Prophet sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam? They really feared its affect on their hearts and they really felt it would change them. They warned against it out of spite against the Prophet sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam and his message, but they also feared its affect. They feared it would change them and they feared it would move them just by merely listening to it. The reason is because they were eloquent masters of the Arabic language and when the Qur'an was recited to the non believers of Quraysh, it penetrated their hearts. That is the non believers.

When the verses penetrated the hearts of the believers, we have authentic narrations from our Salaf that some fell unconscious and some of them fell dead. Ath-Tha'labi was a scholar of the fourth Hijri century and he compiled an entire book of stories of those who the meaning of a verse killed them. They read a verse, it hit home and they fell dead. Some of the stories in that book are exaggerated but there are some authentic stories in there. Do not be surprised.

The Qur'an is so strong it kills? What are you saying Ahmad? It is deeper than that, it crumbles mountains down.

Had We sent down this Qur'an on a mountain, you would surely have seen it humbling itself and rending asunder by the fear of Allah.
(Surat al-Hashr: 21)

But how come I do not feel anything? Hearts have become harder than rocks and mountains when they do not understand the Qur'an.

Then, after that, your hearts were hardened and became as stones or even worse in hardness.
(Surat al-Baqarah: 74)

It is so powerful that our beloved sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam lived under the most extreme hardships but he did not get any grey hair because of those. Torture from Quraysh, the death of all his children before he died except one, the death of his beloved wife, the death of his uncle, companions dying and disbelievers mocking him and harming him, but he did not get any grey hair. A few Surahs in the Qur'an give him grey hair.
شَيَّبَتْنِي هُودٌ وَأَخَوَاتُهَا
Hud and its sisters gave me grey hair.

Do not be surprised. That is what happens when you understand the meaning of the Qur'an. The Qur'an swept the tyrants of the Qurayshians off their feet when they heard it. In Sahih al-Bukhari, Ibn Abbaas said the Prophet sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam prostrated in Surat an-Najm and the Muslims made Sujood behind him, the Jinn made Sujood behind him and the Mushrikeen made Sujood behind him. What? The Mushrikeen? This was after the fifth year from the Prophet sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam getting revelation, while tensions between our beloved sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam and Quraysh were mounting and they were at their peak. It was a time when Abu Jahl threatened the Prophet sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam and he said if I see you prostrating by the Ka'bah I am going to step on your neck.

One day the Prophet sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam enters by the Ka'bah. The non believers are there meeting and the Prophet sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam is making Salah. He raises his voice in recitation and just imagine how beautiful the Qur'an flows out of the blessed vocal chords of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam. Imagine with me how mighty, dignified and humbling the words of Allah were flowing from the lips of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam. You go on the internet and you see a clip of a child or a famous reciter reciting Qur'an and your heart trembles. You cannot turn it off and you listen to it a second and a third and a fourth and a fifth time, over and over again. That child reciting or that famous reciter got the Qur'an through a series of men over the course of fourteen centuries, so just imagine with me how beautiful the Qur'an flows from the first man Allah revealed the Qur'an to. Imagine how beautiful it was from the man who listened to the Qur'an from Jibreel 'alayhis-salaam.