{"id":12937,"date":"2019-05-13T18:41:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T08:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/?p=12937"},"modified":"2021-04-15T07:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T07:05:14","slug":"a-true-connection-with-the-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/au\/quran\/a-true-connection-with-the-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"A True Connection with the Quran | Questions with Dr. Omar Abdel Kafi"},"content":{"rendered":"<amp-jwplayer layout=\"flex-item\" height=\"600\" data-player-id=\"bKajWAhe\" width=\"700\" data-media-id=\"718McCsv\" class=\"wp-block-amp-amp-jwplayer\"><\/amp-jwplayer><em>ENGLISH TRANSCRIPTION<\/em>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omar Ibn Al-Khattab was once late to the Fajr prayer in Madinah,<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The companions started thinking that he must\u2019ve overslept. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Abdulrahman Ibn Awf led the prayer instead of Omar. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And after the prayer, the companions went to check up on Omar Ibn Al-Khattab at his house. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His wife said to them that he went during the night time to check up on the people of Madina and hadn\u2019t returned yet<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So the companions split up and started searching for him in the streets of Madinah. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They found Omar lying on the floor unconscious.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They woke him up. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He woke up and asked, \u201cHave the sun risen yet?\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They said, \u201cNo\u201d.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So he made wudu\u2019 (abolution) quickly and prayed. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So they asked him afterward, \u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said that while he was walking around checking up on people he heard a woman reading the Ayat,<\/span>\n<blockquote><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201c By the mount\u201d, \u201cAnd [by] a Book inscribed\u201d \u201cIn parchment spread open\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8230; Till she recited the ayah \u201cIndeed, the punishment of your Lord will occur.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Quran 52:1-7)<\/span><\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Omar said, \u201cI felt that the punishment is coming to me so I didn\u2019t realise that I fainted till you came and woke me up.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those people had a great relation and connection with Allah and His Book.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If you don\u2019t get goosebumps when reading Allah\u2019s book, or your heart doesn\u2019t move when reading the Quran <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know that your heart has become hard and start fixing your heart immediately. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLISH TRANSCRIPTION Omar Ibn Al-Khattab was once late to the Fajr prayer in Madinah, The companions started thinking that he must\u2019ve overslept. So Abdulrahman Ibn Awf led the prayer instead of Omar. And after the prayer, the companions went to check up on Omar Ibn Al-Khattab at his house. 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