Welcome to “The Human Manual” – Finding Guidance from the Holy Qur’an. Let’s embark on a journey trying to find the purpose of life. Questioning who has the ultimate rights of determining right from wrong. Searching for the True God. Wanting to be guided by God Himself.
Most people will not bother to ask oneself what is the purpose of being alive. They just follow what society does. When there is a problem in life, most will fall into depression and started thinking that life is meaningless. If a person believed in God and knows why God created him, then he has a purpose in being alive even though society think nothing of him. Most materialistic people will be conscious of what people think of him and he will put on a show that he is better than the next person while belittling a person that he is jealous of. This person does not understand the purpose of life.
A product created by human, eg. the Washing Machine, will come with a manual on how to operate the device correctly. If you keep doing it incorrectly, it will destroy the device.
The Quran is a manual for human to refer to. If human keep doing the opposite of what the Quran has stated, it will make human being becoming a miserable species.
The goal of the Quran is to guide people towards achieving Taqwa and the result is Jannah, Paradise for eternity.
God consciousness. Fear, hope and love of the Master with acts of worship, obeying His commandments, refraining from His prohibitions. Refer here.
The Quran is Allah’s divine message to all mankind. The words are His words. The Quran was revealed to the last Messenger for mankind. There had been previous Divine Messages (such as the Torah and Injeel) before the Quran which were limited to one nation at a time.
The whole of Quran was sent down from Lauh Mahfuz (اللَّوْحُ الْمَحْفُوظُ the preserved tablet) in the heavens to the worldly sky "Baitul-‘Izzah" on the night of Al-Qadr. ("Lauh" = Tablet, "Mahfuz" = Preserved)
From "Baitul-‘Izzah", the Quran was revealed to the Prophet s.a.w ayah by ayah by Jibril a.s. for 23 years beginning on 17th Ramadhan when the Prophet was 40 years old at the Hira Cave on Jabal Nur. Revelations ended at the passing of the Prophet s.a.w at 63 years old of age.
[Quran 54:40]
"And We have certainly made the Quran easy to remember. So is there anyone who will be mindful?"
Allah made the Qur’an easy for remembrance. Easy for remembering Allah and remembering the Deen. Easy to get advice from it.
Surah Al-Hijr (15:1): "Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the verses of the Book and a clear Qur'an"
تِلْكَ آيَاتُ الْكِتَابِ وَقُرْآنٍ مُّبِينٍ
However, someone engaging in deep learning of the Quran will find that it is not that simple. He has to put lots of effort to learn everything about the Quran. Allah never said it is simple. But Allah said it is clear. Just like a professor who wrote lots of mathematical formula on the whiteboard. Those formulas were not easy to derive, but the students found his solutions and teachings clear. Clarity is when something make sense. A complicated thing is easy when you find clarity.
The scholars writing Tafseer of the Qur’an is not easy. But when we read the Tafseer, it is easy for us to understand clearly the guidance. Humanity has so many problems. The Qur’an ease their burden and guide them out of the problems.
[Sahih al-Bukhari 5027] Narrated `Uthman:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The best among you (Muslims) are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it."
Learning and teaching is not only about recitation but more importantly is about understanding.
A good teacher is when students understand what is being taught using simple everyday examples. The aim is to get guidance (“huda, hidayah”). A bad teacher is when he is using bombastic words to impress people but nobody understands what he is teaching.
A scientist will not be able to teach kindergarten kids as good as a kindy teacher will. The kindy teacher may not have the knowledge of the scientist but she can achieve much more with the kids.
The students in turn need to know the skills of learning. There is only so much a Teacher can teach but it is up to the student to personally know how to study.
> Increase in knowledge is not proportional to increase in “iman” (guided faith).
> Increase in sincerity is proportional to increase in guidance.
By only glorifying knowledge will lead you away from guidance.
By glorifying guidance is a start of getting both knowledge and guidance from your Master.
An Ayah is almost like a sentence but it is not a sentence. Refer Here.
A Surah is almost like a chapter but it is not a chapter. Refer to Here.
If you were with the Jews who saw the sea parted into two, you would be overwhelmed by that miracle. However we did not see this miracle. The Qur’an is an on-going miracle. Therefore the same feeling that was felt by the Jews during the time of Moses (a.s) should be experienced by the Muslims nowadays when reading the Qur’an.
Benefits or reciting the Quran. Refer here for list of Hadith.
We need the virtues from our deeds in order to add on to our "Good" Scales on judgement day.
Refer to Scales of Justice.
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كِتَـٰبٌ فُصِّلَتۡ ءَايَـٰتُهُ ۥ قُرۡءَانًا عَرَبِيًّا لِّقَوۡمٍ يَعۡلَمُون
A Book whereof the ayaat are detailed (clear): an Arabic Quran: for a people who know
(Surah Fussilat – 41:3)
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