Let the Quran enter the heart

Auto-generated transcript:So the thing that strikes my mind is what is the result of that?
What change does the Quran bring in ourselves, in our actions?
And I want to tell you two stories. One story is with regard to the Quran changing somebody's
life and the other one is the result of that.
The first story is narrated by none other than Imam Al-Awzaie, Rahmatul Ali. Imam Al-Awzaie
was one of the great Imams of the Sharia and he was the Imam of the Zahiri Masab and he
is ranked on the same level as Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Shafi' and so on.
Allah swt spread some things and doesn't spread some things so the Zahiri Masab is
not a big Masab but Imam Al-Awzaie is very hugely respected, he is fatawar in the books
of fiqh and he is very very well known and very respected Imam.
So he says that they were going for Umrah and so in a caravan and those were the days
when there were people, bandits used to loot these caravans because people went for Umrah
and so on. Usually they would go for Umrah just before Ramadan and then they would stay
on and so on until Dhul Hijjah. So they would do Hajj and then they would, after Dhul Hijjah
they would come back. So they had all sorts of provisions and stuff with them so it was
good loot for the people who were the highway robbers. So Imam Al-Azai says that we were
in this caravan and we got raided by this bandit group and of course there was chaos
absolutely, some people were getting wounded and beaten up and some people, maybe somebody
got killed or what not. Imam Al-Azai says that in the middle of all this I suddenly
found myself the head of that gang of thugs, gang of robbers. He said he was standing in
front of me, he had a naked sword in his hand and he said to me, who are you? Imam Al-Azai
said, I am so and so. He said what do you do? Imam Al-Azai says I teach children Quran,
I teach children how to read Quran. He does not say I am an Imam of fiqh and I am this
and that. He said I teach children to recite Quran. So this Robert Chief says, okay so
recite some Quran for me. Decide some Quran for me. I am talking about the effect of the
Quran on the heart. Who is this guy? He is the head of bandits, you are not talking about
some great sheikh of Tasiyyat-ul-Nafs. The worst of the worst, he is a man looting people
and killing people and so on. Al-Azai, may Allah have mercy on him, recites only one ayah.
He says, that's it. One little ayah from Surah Dhu Zariyat, and in the heavens is your rizq,
your sustenance and whatever you wanted and want and need is in the heavens. Al-Azai said the man
started shivering. His sword dropped from his hand, fell from his head.
And he says, this is the Quran? Al-Azai says yes. He says this is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah said this.
He said yes. He said then why am I doing this?
Then why are we doing this work? If our rizq is in the heavens, why are we robbing people?
Allah said, I did not say anything. He said the man picked up his sword and put it in the scabbard.
He called his people and said, they all came. He said Allah says that our sustenance is with him.
In the heavens. So, I am making taba now. This work we are doing is haram. We should not be doing
this. He said we knew this. Now this is proof. And I am leaving this work. You decide what you
want to do for yourselves. His followers said we are your followers. Whatever you do, we do.
You are our sheikh. You are our chief. So, if you leave this work, we leave this work.
So, Alaudah and Haath-ul-Aal says they returned everybody their things and so on. They apologized
to people who were hurt. They gave some money and whatnot. They left. The effect of the Quran
on her made it. Then Alaudah and Haath-ul-Aal said well then we hamdillah we thanked Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala and so on and we continued. And we reached Makkah. We went to Omra. All this
happened. He says that one day after Salat-ul-Fajr I am making taba for the Kaaba and I hear somebody
weeping with such a broken way. Not just crying.