YT13 Is the Quran like any book? Or any other object? by Dr. Hany Atchan

Summary

This video delves into the profound nature of the Quran, presenting it not just as a book, but as a live, divine instrument of communication with Allah. Through an insightful analogy involving a satellite dish, projection device, and energy source, the speaker explains how the Quran interacts with believers' hearts, offering personal, real-time guidance from Allah. The video encourages viewers to engage deeply with the Quran, cleanse their hearts through devotion, and appreciate the Quran as an unparalleled gift that provides continuous enlightenment and miracles in daily life.

Takeaways

• 📖 The Quran is described not just as a book but as a living instrument through which Allah (swt) communicates guidance and knowledge.
• 📡 The Quran is likened to a satellite receiver that must be correctly tuned and positioned with full belief in order to receive guidance from Allah (swt).
• 🖥️ The heart acts as a projection device that reflects the guidance received from the Quran, but it needs to be clean and ready to receive these signals.
• 🔋 Acts of worship and devotion are the energy that powers the heart and enables it to function effectively in receiving and projecting the Quran's guidance.
• 💡 Each engagement with the Quran can reveal new insights and guidance based on what is needed at that moment, as the Quran provides live messages from Allah (swt).
• 🧼 Sins and mistakes leave marks on the heart, which can obstruct the clarity of the guidance received from the Quran. Regular acts of repentance and worship help cleanse these marks.
• 💬 The Quran is unique in that it provides ongoing, live communication from Allah (swt) to each individual, rather than just relaying past messages.
• 🎯 Sincere engagement with the Quran, with the correct intention and belief, is crucial for fully benefiting from its guidance.
• 📝 Those who do not understand or engage with the Quran properly may dismiss this concept, but those who do will experience profound and transformative results.
• 🌍 The Quran is described as a precious gift from Allah (swt), and the speaker urges everyone to learn and engage with it deeply, especially by learning the Arabic language if possible.

Q & A

What is the central concept the speaker is trying to convey about the Quran?

The central concept is that the Quran is not just a book with words, but an instrument through which Allah provides guidance in real-time. The speaker emphasizes that engaging with the Quran should be done with full belief, as it serves as a live connection to Allah.

What analogy does the speaker use to explain the Quran's function?

The speaker uses the analogy of a satellite dish, a projection device, and a power source to explain the function of the Quran. The Quran is likened to a satellite dish that receives signals, the heart to a projection device that interprets the signals, and acts of worship to the power source that enables the system to function.

How does the speaker describe the heart's role in interacting with the Quran?

The speaker describes the heart as the projection device that receives and interprets the guidance from the Quran. For the heart to function properly, it must be clean, free of sin, and well-maintained through acts of worship and devotion.

Why does the speaker emphasize the importance of approaching the Quran with the right intention?

The speaker emphasizes that approaching the Quran with the right intention, such as seeking guidance and understanding, is crucial. Approaching it with a negative mindset, such as trying to find faults in Islam, will result in misguidance.

What is the significance of 'tuning' the Quran according to the speaker?

The 'tuning' of the Quran refers to aligning one's mind and heart with the intention of sincerely receiving guidance from Allah. Proper 'tuning' ensures that the person is ready to receive and understand the divine message.

How does the speaker describe the Quran's ability to provide new insights over time?

The speaker mentions that the Quran can provide new insights each time it is read, even if it's the same verse. This reflects the Quran's dynamic nature, as Allah provides knowledge and guidance based on what a person needs at a specific time.

What is the 'energy' that powers the heart and the Quran's function according to the speaker?

The 'energy' that powers the heart and the Quran's function is derived from acts of worship, devotion, and ethical behavior. These acts cleanse the heart and enable it to receive and properly interpret the guidance from the Quran.

What does the speaker suggest for those who feel disconnected from the Quran due to language barriers?

The speaker advises those who feel disconnected due to language barriers to invest time in learning the Arabic language, as understanding the Quran in its original form is a unique and unparalleled experience.

How does the speaker explain the concept of receiving 'live messages' from Allah through the Quran?

The speaker explains that the Quran is not just a record of past revelations but a means through which Allah communicates with believers in real-time. The guidance received through the Quran is tailored to an individual's current needs and circumstances.

What practical advice does the speaker offer for engaging with the Quran effectively?

The speaker advises listeners to approach the Quran with sincere belief, engage in regular acts of worship to maintain a 'clean' heart, and repeatedly practice this engagement to experience the full benefits and miracles of the Quran in their lives.

Outlines

00:00

🕌 Discovering the True Nature of the Quran

The speaker introduces a transformative understanding of the Quran, emphasizing that it is more than just a book of words; it's an instrument through which Allah guides and misguides people. This realization changed the speaker's life and how they engage with the Quran. The speaker uses an analogy involving a satellite dish, a projection device, and the power source to explain the Quran's role in guiding believers.

05:00

🔍 The Importance of Proper Engagement with the Quran

This paragraph elaborates on the first two parts of the analogy: the satellite dish/receiver and the projection device. The Quran must be approached with the right intention, or it can misguide. The Quran is a living source of guidance, providing new insights each time it is read. The speaker compares the Quran to a live transmission from Allah, emphasizing the dynamic and personal nature of this guidance.

10:01

💡 Preparing the Heart to Receive Divine Guidance

The speaker discusses the third part of the analogy, focusing on the heart as the projection device that must be clean and ready to receive divine guidance. Just as a TV needs to be clear of dust and marks to display images properly, the heart must be free from sins and impurities to understand the Quran's message. Acts of worship and devotion are the energy that powers this spiritual connection, ensuring the heart remains receptive to the Quran's guidance.

15:06

📖 Embrace the Quran as a Living Guide

The speaker concludes by urging viewers to engage deeply with the Quran, emphasizing that it is not a book of the past but a living guide offering personal messages from Allah. They encourage learning the Arabic language to fully appreciate the Quran's beauty and significance. The Quran is described as a unique and precious gift from Allah, one that should be cherished and fully understood.

🙏 Final Words of Encouragement

The speaker thanks the audience for watching and encourages them to apply the insights shared in the video. They express a hope that viewers will see the Quran as a living, dynamic source of guidance and experience the miraculous changes it can bring to their lives.

Keywords

💡Quran

The Quran is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from Allah. In the video, it is described as not merely a book with words and characters but as an instrument through which Allah guides or misguides people. It is emphasized as a live, interactive means of communication with Allah.

💡Kitab

Kitab is an Arabic word meaning 'book' or 'scripture'. In the video, it is mentioned as an approximation used in the Quran to describe itself. However, the Quran is presented as more than just a physical book; it is a divine instrument.

💡Instrument

In the context of the video, the Quran is referred to as an instrument. This means it is a tool or device used by Allah to guide or misguide people. The speaker likens it to a cell phone or a satellite dish that receives signals, emphasizing its dynamic and active role in a believer's life.

💡Analogy

The video uses an analogy involving a satellite dish, a projection device, and energy to explain how the Quran works. The satellite dish represents the Quran, the projection device symbolizes the heart, and the energy is the acts of worship and devotion that power both. This analogy helps illustrate the interactive and living nature of the Quran.

💡Heart

In the video, the heart is compared to a projection device that translates the signals received from the Quran. It needs to be clean, alive, and properly maintained to correctly interpret and reflect the divine guidance from Allah. The state of the heart affects how one perceives and understands the Quran.

💡Energy

Energy in the video refers to the spiritual acts of worship, devotion, and ethical behavior that power the heart and the receiving device (the Quran). These acts are essential for maintaining a connection with Allah and for the proper functioning of the spiritual 'receiver' and 'projection device'.

💡Tafseer

Tafseer is the exegesis or commentary on the Quran. The speaker mentions that traditional Tafseer does not fully capture the live, dynamic nature of the Quran as an instrument of divine communication. Instead, engaging with the Quran directly and sincerely reveals its guidance and wisdom anew each time.

💡Guidance

Guidance refers to the divine direction provided by Allah through the Quran. The video emphasizes that the Quran guides those who engage with it sincerely and correctly. It is a live source of knowledge and enlightenment tailored to an individual's needs at any given time.

💡Sin

Sins are actions that go against Allah's commands. In the video, committing sins is likened to putting marks or dirt on the heart, which hinders the proper reception and interpretation of the Quran's guidance. Cleansing the heart through repentance and ethical behavior is necessary for clear spiritual vision.

💡Engagement

Engagement with the Quran means approaching it with full belief, sincerity, and the intention to communicate with Allah. The video stresses that proper engagement with the Quran involves configuring oneself to receive divine guidance, akin to tuning a satellite dish to catch a specific signal.

Highlights

The Quran is not just a book but an instrument through which Allah (swt) guides or misguides people.

The Quran functions like a receiver that needs to be properly configured with faith and intention in order to receive divine guidance.

The analogy of the satellite dish, projection device, and energy is introduced to explain how the Quran, heart, and acts of worship interact.

The heart functions as the projection device, reflecting the light and guidance received through the Quran.

Sins and mistakes act like dust or marks on the heart, preventing it from clearly receiving divine guidance.

Acts of worship, repentance, and ethical behavior provide the energy that powers the receiver and projection device, enabling proper communication with Allah.

Engaging with the Quran properly, with faith and sincerity, results in personalized guidance from Allah that is relevant to one’s current life situation.

The Quran is not just words or verses from the past; it provides live, individualized guidance from Allah, tailored to the reader's needs.

Every time a person reads a verse, they may discover new insights, as the Quran continuously provides fresh guidance.

Maintaining a clean heart through acts of devotion and avoiding sins allows for clearer and more accurate reception of divine messages.

The Quran is described as a gift from Allah (swt) that should be valued and engaged with continuously, similar to how one would treasure a gift from a king.

The speaker encourages people to learn the Arabic language in order to experience the Quran in its original and most powerful form.

Allah is always with us, and engaging with the Quran is a direct way to connect with His live guidance and light.

The speaker highlights the importance of teaching the Quran and Arabic to children, emphasizing the need to preserve this gift for future generations.

Practicing this approach to the Quran will result in miracles unfolding in one's life, as divine guidance will become clearer and more impactful.

Transcripts

Salam Alaykom. Today, I'm going to share with you something very exciting about the true

nature of the Quran, something you're probably never heard before, and something that will

blow you away. I promise, and that will affect you for the rest of your life, when I discovered

this, it changed my life, it changed everything about my life, everything about how I dealt

with the Quran, how I approach the Quran. Now I'm going to speak to you from heart-to-heart

without any cutting or editing, so if I fumble a little bit, please bear with me, but this

is really worth it and I promise you, in order to understand this concept 1st, we need to

introduce an analogy that has 3 parts. So, if you are patient with me, we will understand

these 3 parts, and in time you will see exactly what I'm referring to. The question that we

are dealing with today is what is the Quran, what is the nature of the Quran? Is it truly

a book with some characters and some words in it, that people are describing as a book

or a scripture, the answer in the Quran is that Allah (swt), uses the word Kitab which

is a book, or maybe a message right, as an approximation but in many other places in

the Quran, Allah describes this Quran as an instrument. So, for example he says it's an

instrument through which Allah guides people, or misguides some people. In other words,

Allah (swt), is using this book, or this text, or the Quran, as an instrument.

Think of it as a cell phone. The cell phone, is an instrument what you receive through

it changes from time to time, of course all of Allah (swt), is alive he’s the continuously

alive, he’s never asleep, he’s never away, he’s close to you all the time, whenever

you reach out for this instrument of communicating with Allah (swt). Allah (swt), is always there

for you, now to go to the analogy. I want you to understand 1st that I live in a country

right now where we receive satellite television stations, using what's called the dish, it's

a metal round thing with a receiver connected to it, and the 1st concept here is that you

have to tune this receiver, and you have to install the receiver correctly believing fully

that you're going to catch the signal of a satellite to which you're pointing, if you

bring this receiver dish and you throw it somewhere and point it to the sky and leave

it alone of course it's not going to do anything, if you don't have full faith in confidence

that it’s going to catch a specific exact signal, coming from a specific exact satellite,

and you know how to tune it correctly, you're not going to be able to use that satellite/receiver

correctly, so that's the 1st concept. The 2nd concept is that, that receiver by

itself doesn't do anything it catches some microwave signal, and then you have to transfer

it to a television set, or a computer screen, or something right? And using that projection

device you're going to be able to see the signal translate into some visual images,

or some intelligible representation, of what those waves you receive through the satellite

mean to you, and therefore now we have 2 concepts right? Two elements of this analogy, the 1st

is the satellite dish/receiver, and the 2nd one is the projection device which is the

screen right? And the 3rd element of this analogy is that all of these things have to

be powered by something, you have to have some energy some power something to bring

them to life, otherwise they're dead they're just dark and sitting there as dead objects.

Now these 3 elements of this analogy are enough to explain exactly what the Quran is and our

relationship to Allah through this Quran. Fist the Quran is an instrument, it's a receiving

device, it's a device through which we receive the light from Allah (swt), that actually

gets reflected on our hearts. Our hearts are the projection device, let me elaborate a

little bit more Is Allah (swt), tells us very specifically that you affect the Quran when

you engage it properly. In other words, you set it up so that you start receiving through

it. That's the 1st Implication of this analogy, you know you have to know what the Quran,

is you have to truly believe entering into reading the Quran, and engaging the Quran

that you are about to communicate with the source of light or the source of enlightenment,

or the source of guidance coming to you through these words and these characters on a page

right? So, that's the 1st thing you have to really believe, and you have to tune it correctly,

you cannot be pointing this Quran against Islam. For example, if you enter this Quran

trying to find a way to attack Islam, you're going to be misguided, you're going to be

misled, and that's purely and truly clear in the Quran itself. The 2nd concept is once

you receive these guidance from Allah through this instrument called the Quran I used the

example earlier of a cell phone right? You look at the cell phone one day and you see

something, another day you look through the cellphone you see something else, if somebody

comes and tells you I'm going to give you the interpretation or Tafseer of this cell

phone it doesn't make sense at all. Or if I say I'm going to give you the Tafseer of

this satellite dish it doesn't make sense, what do you mean Tafseer, if you know the

true correct understanding of this analogy, makes interacting with the Quran beautiful

because every time you read a verse even if it's the same verse. And this happened to

me several times I read one verse and the same verse I read it again a month later,

or 2 months later, or a year later, and every time I understand something new from the verse

it is live, it is receiving guidance directly from Allah. Allah (swt), is right there giving

you knowledge, why should we be surprised by this because Ayah Al-Kursi Allah (swt),

tells us … They do not encounter any of knowledge from him except through his will,

and in the way he wills it. In other words, all knowledge comes from Allah live and this

is not surprising at all to anybody who deals with science, we get an idea out of nowhere

we discover something. We are looking at some data, and an idea occurs to us, or a design

occurs to us. The question is where did this come from? And the answer according to the

Quran from Allah (swt), live Allah (swt) is alive all the time, and he’s with us all

the time, and the instrument we use to communicate with him is this Quran, it helps us configure

the satellite dish in our heart, in our mind, in our body, so that we actually become ready

able to receive. Now let's move on to the projection device,

as I said the satellite dish by itself does not allow you to see anything it just brings

the signal, the microwave signal and then you have to translate it into a projection

device that actually show you that provide a representation of what you just received.

The representation as far as the Quran is concerned is imprinted on the heart, the heart

is described by some scholars as like a lens, and the lens needs to be polished it needs

to be cleansed, needs to be you know very clean and ready to receive, and you know if

it needs to be alive, it needs to be properly maintained, it needs to be prepared, and you

know if you cover the TV set which is a projection device, if you cover it with a blanket you're

not going to see anything, and Allah (swt), in the Quran describes the hearts as sometimes,

as covered with blankets, they’re not capable of receiving anything, even if it's dusty

you know you're going to see muddled images, you're not going to see clearly, you know

if you have a child and your child take a sharpie permanent marker and started drawing

on the television set, and then you try to turn it on you're not going to see clearly,

right? Same thing if you make mistakes or commit sins in your life Allah (swt), tells

us that that leaves imprints and prints, and marks and dirt, on that lens, on the heart

and then you're not going to be able to see correctly through the heart, so that's the

2nd part of this analogy. The 3rd part of this analogy is that the satellite

receiver and the heart require energy. The question is where do we get this energy? You

know like electricity you plug both in the wall, in the electrical outlet in order to

bring them to life, right? So the question is how do we bring the heart and receiver

to life? What's the energy that we provide them, and the Quran answers through acts of

worship, and through acts of devotion, so when you pray you’re cleansing your heart,

when you avoid mistakes you're cleansing your heart, when you regret some things that you've

done wrong and you ask forgiveness from Allah (swt), you're cleansing your heart, when you

avoid you know committing sins and you behave ethically, and you apply the morals, or the

values that Allah (swt), talked to you about in the Quran.

You're actually providing that energy to the receiver and to the projection device. And

this way you have a fully receptive instrument through the Quran, to actually receive. Without

these things functioning properly all 3 parts you know the receiving dish which is how you

engage the Quran correctly and how you configure yourself to receive, believing fully that

Allah (swt), is engaging you live right? That's the 1st part, the 2nd part your projection

device has to be ready, and powered you know turned on, and your electricity is stable,

meaning you're providing the sustaining acts of devotion, and worship, and prayers, and

Duaa making supplication to Allah (swt), asking forgiveness for the mistakes you've made.

Recognizing that you have spots on your heart that need to be cleansed, that's being regretful

for the mistakes you've made recognizing them 1st, and cleansing your heart on purpose,

all of these things combined, enable you to open the Quran and use it effectively, use

it properly. And Allah (swt), as he said in the Quran, he is with us anytime we call upon

him we open his book. In other words, this book is not a book like

any other book, all other books you know with words characters printed on paper, represent

things that people or their authors said in the past. The Quran does not bring things

that Allah (swt), said in the past, the Quran brings to you personally, individually based

on what you need today live messages from the source of all light, from the source of

all guidance, exactly what you need at this time, and therefore Allah (swt), reveals through

the Quran things that he knows you need today, he knows more than anybody else more than

yourself what you need today, just engage this Quran with this full belief, with the

sincerity, with the appreciation for the special unique unmatched gift preserved specifically

for you. And then try it and practice it I wish I can

get you to see this segment of video, to repeatedly see it again and again until it, becomes ingrained

in your psyche, in your spirit, in your soul, in your understanding, in your consciousness,

so that every time you open the Quran, you open the Quran with that intention. I hope

I've been able to deliver the message to you, I hope you practice this because you're going

to see amazing results, and miracles unfold in front of your eyes every single day.

Now before I close, I'm going to leave you with a practical reality, some people are

going to call me crazy for sharing this with you, in this way that I shared it, to be honest

with you I feel sorry for them because they don't understand the Quran. Others are going

to feel elated and happy and they're going to practice this, and they're going to see

amazing results, a 3rd group are going to feel sad, because they have not been able

to touch the language of the Quran, the actual expressions of the Quran in its original form.

And to those people I say as long as you have time in your life work at it, learn it, engage

it, you know spend time instead of watching television, or watching all sorts of things,

and playing games, and you know doing other things that will not connect you with Allah

(swt), spend time, learn the Arabic language teach it to your children teach it to those

who you love, whom you love and don't allow life to end without having you experience

this special gift, unlike anything else that Allah (swt), provided to us.

If a king has sent you a gift, and you don't know how the gift operates, you probably would

not sleep, would not lose a moment of your time until you figure out how this gift is

going to be affecting you, and what it means to you, this is the most beautiful gift from

the king of kings, from the Lord of the universe, from your creator, and my creator, from the

one who has placed our ability inside us to receive knowledge through this unique device

called the Quran. May Allah (swt), allows us to make best use of this.

Thank you for watching!