Intro to Tafseer course at Masjid Darussalam, Singapore.

1. Introduction

2. • The Weight of this Matter
And The Prophet said, “Oh My Rabb, surely, my people
have taken this Quran to be something abandoned”
(Surah Furqan Ayat 30)
Introduction: The Holy Quran

3. Introduction: The Holy Quran
• Rights of the Quran
1. To be recited and memorized
“Recite the Quran, for surely, it will come on the day of
judgement interceding for its companion” (Muslim)
2. To be recited with correct tajweed and as beautifully
as possible
“He is not from us, the one who doesn‟t beautify his
voice with the Quran” (Bukhari)
3. To be understood and reflected upon
“Do they, then, not reflect on the Quran, or are there

4. 4. To learn it and teach it to the Muslims
“The best of you is the one who learns the Quran then
teaches it” (Bukhari)
5. To act according to it: Enjoining the Halaal and
forbidding the Haram and in cleansing the heart
“Oh those of you who believe, why do you say that
which you do not do” (Surah AsSaf Ayat 2)
Introduction: The Holy Quran

5. Our Companion
Establish the prayer from the declining of the sun to the
darkness of the night
And (the recitation of) the Quran at Dawn
For surely, (the recitation of) the Quran at Dawn is
witnessed
(Surah Al Israa Ayat 78)

6. A Companion that Attracts
• From a part of a hadith related by Abu
Hurairah r.a., that Rasulullah s.a.w. said:
• “…Whosoever follows a path seeking
knowledge, Allah will make his path to
Paradise easy.
• A people will not gather in a House from
the Houses of Allah,
• Reciting the book of Allah,

7. • And studying it amongst themselves,
• Except that the angels will descend onto
them,
• And Mercy will envelop them,
• And the angels will surround them,
• And Allah will mention them to those who
are with Him…”
• (Related in Sahih Muslim)

8. Relationship with the Quran
• Why do people have very different
experiences from the Quran?
• Imaam Ibnu Qayyim said that the main
factor here is basically the Heart.
• It only warns those whose hearts are alive,
those with taqwa (a fear and awareness of
God)

9. How do we benefit more from
the Quran
• Repent often
– Removes the veils between yourself and Allah
– Knowledge is a light, and the light from Allah
will never sit in the heart of the unrepentant
• Have a teacher/companion who will
remind you of realities of life
• Train the nafs to fight desires
– In order to be alert and awake, physically and
spiritually

10. Focus of the Course
• Tafseer (context, sentence structure, word
usage, tone, nuances of classical Arabic)
– Additional resources:
1. Tafseer of Juz Amma
Word by word analysis of the Arabic
– Useful resources:
1. Dictionary of the Holy Quran (classical
definitions)
2. myQuran app for Iphone and Andriod
3. http://corpus.quran.com/

11. The Last Hizb of the Quran
• All the surahs it includes are Makkan, except
two, namely, and .
• Surahs were targeted mainly at 3 different
audiences
– Majority: A disbelieving audience
– Minority: A believing audience
– Rasulullah s.a.w.
• They form a single group with the same theme:
The Oneness of Allah, the truth of the Day of
Judgement , the Afterlife, and doing good.
• Spending a lot of time with Juz Amma will really
cause the sense of the temporality of this world
to be very strong in the heart of the believer
• And it strengthens the „Aqidah of a believer