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So that's essentially the purpose of this live cast and this lecture is to explain to you what the plan is for this Ramadan and where I want to start with is that, you know, given the last year and the kind of isolation that we've all been in.

It's been an opportunity to step back from my typical kind of career in, in Quran, study in Quran education. So, and a lot of that is with a lot of interaction with people, right? But now I'm, you know, a lot of times I'm speaking to a camera and I'm by myself for just a handful of people with me that are working with me here.

And it also gives you a lot of time to contemplate in isolation, not just think about what people are asking about the Quran or what people have concerns about or the comments that are received from others, but it's really kind of an isolated approach and an introverted approach to engagement with the Quran. And I thought a lot about, you know, really doing something different, this from a ton.

So, what I'm going to be doing is actually based on a single eye of Surat Yunus and maybe even by extension the eye after it. So, this entire Ramadan is actually focused on eyes 57 and 58 of Surat Yunus.

We'll be talking about many different places in the Quran, but in shade of these two ayat. So, Surat Yunus, for those of you who don't know, and that's okay that you don't know is Surat number 10 and these are ayat number 57 and 58 once again.

And they are the reason I'm going to be doing the series that I'm doing this Ramadan. So, what I wanted to do first is kind of lay the groundwork for this, these two ayat and kind of contextualize them where these ayat are placed in the Quran, what's going on in Surat Yunus because there's lots going on in Surat Yunus.

But I wanted to highlight at least a couple of things that really struck me and then inshaAllah I'll be able to explain my thought process better to you.

So, these papers I have with me are a collection of certain ayat that I think will help you see the placement of these two ayat and what Allah is saying in them.

So, in the very beginning, this is the second ayat, Allah says,

Has it been all together to strange for people that we inspired, we gave inspiration to a single man from among them, to go warn people,

those who have come to faith, those who have accepted his call, to give them good news, that they are going to have a first priority and they're going to have an honorable place with their master.

This believer said certainly this is an obvious magician.

This ayah is about how people thought it was very strange that the God of the universe who's got so much to run and he must be so busy,

why would he have time to make priority for some people, some specs compared to the rest of the universe that he's running, why would he make a priority out of them?

And he would pick one man among all of humanity and of all the people he could pick, it's you in this Arabian desert, he couldn't pick a king or ruler, somebody famous, he picked you.

This is all too weird, this is hard to accept and if he is such a grand king, why are you such a big deal to him?

These were the kinds of thoughts that the people who heard the Quran were sharing with the Prophet's life.

I mean, if there is a God and he is this magnificent being that runs the entire universe, why are you so important?

And forget you're so important, why would just us believing in him in the middle of nowhere, why would that make us important to him?

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