PREFACE

Praise be to Allah whose grace, perfection and bounty are endless., Pray and peace be upon His chosen and beloved our sir Mohammed, the light of this life, the light of Mokar’rabeen (people who are near to Allah), the secret of those who reached Allah’s satisfaction and the rescuer of all people from the terrors of resurrection at the day of judgment, Allah prays upon him, his family, his companions and his followers.

Believers nowadays feel a lump in their throat, great heartache in their chests and sadness in their hearts for the conditions of Muslims around them, unbelievers are collected altogether against Muslims, as Allah says:

“They intend to put out the Light of Allah with their mouths. But Allah will complete His Light even though the disbelievers hate (it).“ (Surat As’Saff, verse 8).

There are lots of distress, affliction and disunity among believers; they are so great that they may make the patient confused.

Unfortunately, those who made what is called the Islamic wakefulness only cared for the apparent in clothes, exterior and acts of worship, whereas the only way for Muslims to get out of their retardation from the present civilization, their weakness and their poverty is by:

Following the Koran as the companions of the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) did, it was narrated that the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said:

“Be Koran going among people.”

So they lived by the Koran, ate, drank, slept by the Koran, got the treasures of the land out by following the Koran and fought their enemy by the weapons of the Koran, such as the fear in their enemies’ chests and throwing terror in their hearts before using weapons. The Koran was their speaking guide even if it was silent; it made them move even if it was still.

Allah gave them by this the good life in their societies and honor and victory upon their enemies, they were as Omar Ibn Al-Khat’tab said about them:

“We are people Allah honored us by Islam, if we seek honor away from it, Allah will lower us.” [1]

So we try to draw Muslims’ attentions in these lectures to the reality of understanding the Koran and our good ancestors’ way of reciting and worshipping Allah by the Koran in order to clarify the true worship as it came in the noble Koran, the Sunna of the merciful prophet and the deeds of our good ancestors.

Thus we refer to the real life of believers in which all their movements and settlement even their trade, agriculture and all their deeds become acts of worship.

I beg Allah to make these lectures useful for everyone who reads them, to make the life of believers full of belief and blessed by the Koran, He is The All-Hearing and The One who answers invocation.

May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon our prophet

Mohammed, his family and his companions.

Thursday evening, 13^th Zel-Hejja 1427 (lunar calendar), 2^nd Jan. 2007.

Fawzy Mohammed Abu-Zeid

[1] Tarek Ibn Shehab said: When Omar came to Al-Shaam, the soldiers came to him and saw him wearing a garment, shoes and a turban, he was directing his camel in water, they said to him: O Amir Al-Mo’meneen, the soldiers and patriarch of Al-Shaam see you like this. He said: We are people Allah honored us by Islam; we won’t seek dignity away from it. Mosan’naf Ibn Abi-Shayba in different narrations.