![]() None of these people know what they are talking about! I went through divorce, I lost my kids, I have this and that problem, and when I went to the mosque to find some type of basic support system, what I found was doom and gloom." So I asked her how come you have decided to take him as your imam? She answered: " I have visited many mosques in America, and I have come to the conclusion that you don't know what you are talking about. A woman once came to me once in this community and told me, "I have decided to take Joel Austin as my imam."Īre you aware who Joel Austin is? Audience: "Yes! He is a Christian TV preacher." That is a disaster! There is a separation between the scholars and the students of knowledge, and the masses of the people. Those of us who study overseas, we have the tendency sometimes to come back and say things that nobody understands except us. How do we develop an intimacy with the Qur'an that will empower us to transcend our own weaknesses and articulate our religious expression within the confines of Northern California? If we can do that, alhamdullillah! The word 'tafsir' comes from a word which means "to be clear, to be apparent," so Tafsir al-Qur'an means "Explanation of the Qur'an." The goal of this tafsir is not to make things simple.Īs Imam Sirti, who died 911 years after Hijri, mentions in his book, that the tafsir al-Qur'an is the tool needed for someone to be able to gain a scholarly connection with the Qur'an and understand its meanings, its application and context, and also to derive rulings.įor us here in America, especially those of us working 9 to 5, struggling to pay $4.50 at the gas pump, what we need from tafsir al-Qur'an is basic application: how to practice the religion correctly, how to preserve the religion amongst our family and how to do something good in the society-that is what we need. There are some important tools that we should have when we talk about the Qur'an. Tafsir itself began at the time of the Prophet. This is a great blessing of Allah who sent the Qur'an and promised to protect the Qur'an. ![]() I'm sure that we've read it so many times that we've started to actually memorize it. The goal is to understand Surah Al Kahf, a surah that most of us read every Friday. ![]() Surat al-Kahf takes its name from the ninth verse of this chapter ( 18:9). This is the eighteenth chapter of the Qur'an. ![]() Insha'Allah we start the tafsir (exegesis) of Surat al-Kahf (the Chapter of the Cave). ![]()
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