The Final Miracle by Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan (PART 1)

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

SEPTEMBER 2013

Last Friday, aku dan suami pergi ke sebuah talk, refer tajuk post ni. Ada yang pergi talk ni sebab memang kenal Ustadh NAK, dengar his talk on youtube. Tapi aku tak. Aku tau nama Ustadh, tapi tak pernah dengar lecture kat mana2. So sebelum pegi I made research on his background.

Nouman is the founder and CEO of Bayyinah, as well as the lead instructor for a number of Bayyinah courses including the ‘Fundamentals of Classical Arabic’ and ‘Divine Speech’. His first exposure to Arabic study was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where he completed his elementary education. He continued Arabic grammar study in Pakistan, where he received a scholarship for ranking among the top 10 scores in the national Arabic studies board examinations in 1993. But his serious training in Arabic began in the United States in 1999 under Dr. Abdus-Samie, founder and formal principal of Quran College, Faisalabad, Pakistan who happened to be touring the US for intensive lectures in Tafsir and Arabic studies. Under Dr. Abdus-Samie, Nouman developed a keen methodical understanding of Arabic grammar. He further benefited from Dr. Abdus-Samie by internalizing his unique teaching methods and later translating his work into English for the benefit of his own students. Nouman served as professor of Arabic at Nassau Community College until ’06 and has taught Modern Standard and Classical Arabic at various venues for nearly 7 years with over 10,000 students nationwide. Currently he has dedicated himself to a seven-year-long project, of conducting a linguistic & literary focus Qur’anic Tafseer series in English. Recordings of sessions conducted so far can be downloaded at www.bayyinah.com/dream.

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Sebenarnya tiket dah habis, it's Free Admission, tapi Alhamdulillah, memang Allah nak aku dan suami pergi, Kak Amy inform ada tiket extra. Jazakillah khair akak!

Alhamdulillah jugak, we get the best seat, front row untuk perempuan, betul2 depan straight mengadap stage. :D

 So I'll share some stories, some of my notes and what I learned from Ustadh, insya Allah.

1. Miracle means something that touches the heart. Miracle makes the heart feels tranquil and at ease. Miracle always touch the heart not the mind.

2. Miracle means "it's so powerful", "it can overpowered its opponents. Masa ni Ustadh nak explain yang miracle ni doesn't mean something yang magic je. Dia sampai buat orang tu terduduk and daya nak bangun. Lebih kurang macam tu la. So we have the ultimate miracle tapi tak pernah betul2 faham apa messages in the miracle.

3. So Ustadh NAK sangat arif  dalam bahasa Arab dan tafsir. Ustadh cerita, ada satu masa ni dia dengar lecture from one of the scholar tentang tafsir Quran, the lecture is in Arabic, masa tu UStadh tak berapa fasih lg, hanya faham about 30% je, tapi masya Allah, apa yang UStadh dapat dari lecture tu sangat mind-blowing. Benda yang dia tak pernah tahu ada dalam quran. So he decided to learn about it seriously and deliver back to community dalam satu silibus yang he called "Divine Speech"

4. He's been delivering lecture on "Divine Speech" kepada hampir 60,000 students world-wide. At one time, ada seorang ibu ni, datang kat Ustadh and cakap anak dia 17 tahun, taknak attend talk Ustadh tapi boleh pulak attend tournament, siap beli tiket front row lagi. Tapi the mother paksa2 anak dia pergi, and anak dia attend jugak la kan. He attended the "Divine Speech" lecture. And bila dah habis tu anak muda ni datang jumpa UStadh and cakap,

This is the first time I believe that the Quran is not from human being.

5. Ibu tu seorang Muslim, dan anak beliau berumur 17tahun juga seorang Muslim. Ustadh betul2 nak semua orang learn the Miracle sebab Ustadh tau ramai lagi yang macam dorang. We're Muslim tapi tau surface je about the Quran because when you know the Arabic language, your whole understanding of the meaning of the Quran is changed.

6. Ustadh start bagi contoh; spikes of corn dalam Arab "Sumbula" So in Arabic, ada singular, plural, super plural.

Singular:       Sumbula
Plural:           Sumbulaat
Super Plural: Sanabil

Dalam surah Yusuf ayat 43;

Ayat kat atas masa peristiwa Raja zaman Nabi Yusuf a.s mimpi kemarau. Ayat kat sini guna perkataan "sab'a sumbulaat" which means SEVEN spikes of grain. Jom tengok contoh kedua yang Ustadh bagi,

Surah al Baqarah ayat 261;

Dalam ayat ni, Allah tengah cerita tentang kelebihan infakkan harta ke jalan Allah. Allah sebut SEVEN spikes of grain tapi Allah guna perkataan "sab'a sanabil" . Bilangan yang sama, tujuh tapi perkataan berbeza. Kalau surah Yusuf tadi guna plural, surah al Baqarah pulak super plural. And why so?

Sebab Allah nak tunjuk bilangan tujuh masa kemarau tu sikit, dan bilangan tujuh dalam barakah menginfakkan ke jalan Allah tu pulak sangat BANYAK. Tu yang guna super plural. Kalau baca quran translation sama je, 'tujuh', 'seven'. Bila kita faham bahasa Arab and what message Allah really wants us to get and understand, memang ubah all the understanding. Masya Allah. Sebab tu tak ada makhluk yang boleh buat ayat macam ayat2 dalam Quran. The Quran is from Allah, is a miracle, sangat powerful.

Ustadh ada bagi contoh; kalau khatib yang bagi khutbah based on script dengan khatib yang bagi khutbah tanpa skrip, kita boleh dengar perbezaan. Kalau skrip bahasa dia formal, nada dia lain. Macamtu jugak dengan tanpa skrip. So bila Rasulullah delivered the wahyu kepada para sahabat, dorang dapat rasa that apa yang Rasulullah sebut is not from him. It's from Allah. They believed. Ustadh NAK mention lagi the differences of level iman kita dengan para sahabat. Dia kata cuba bayangkan perasaan pengikut Nabi Musa a.s yang sama2 lalu laut terbelah tu. Yang ada di tempat kejadian. Betul2 manyaksikan. Kiri kanan the ocean, tengah2 ada jalan. Allahuakbar. Dengan betul2 belajar and faham messages yang Allah nak kita betul2 dapat insya Allah boleh sampai stages tu. Note to myself. Baca quran hari2, belajar dan fahamkan.

On the other note, don't forget al-Kauthar's next course! Boleh google untuk register.

Next points yang Ustadh NAK shared were about Surah al Jumuah, Ayatul Kursi, Surah al Insan.Next entry insya Allah.

Wallahua'lam