Forward
During the evening commute last week, a young lady gave up her seat for me.
She had on her Hijab and I asked her why she gave up her seat.
And, she said that she thought I might need it.
We talked about what she studies at her School, UC Berkeley, and where it might lead her.
Knowing that she is likely sitting under good leadership, I asked for the names of some of her Teachers.
She offered up “Nouman Ali Khan” and “Mufti Menk”
I found containment in Brother Nouman’s work and so will not cover Mufti Menk’s work in this post.
Words
Nouman Ali Khan
- Power of Good Deed [REMINDER] | Nouman Ali Khan
Link - A Life Changing Motivational Speech by Nouman Ali Khan
Link - Pursuit Beyond Happiness [LATEST] | Nouman Ali Khan
Link - Cult vs. Community – Khutbah by Nouman Ali Khan
Added on 2016-08-16
Link - The Cost of Ignorance – Amazed by the Quran w/ Nouman Ali Khan
Link - Allah is Always Near – Amazed by the Quran w/ Nouman Ali Khan
Link - The Way She Walks – Amazed by the Quran w/ Nouman Ali Khan
Link - In Need of Wisdom – Nouman Ali Khan – Gulf Tour 2015
Link - This Lecture Will Change Your Life~ ᴴᴰ iA | Islam and Ego | Nouman Ali Khan
Added on Monday ( 2016-08-22)
Link - “We Ask Allah” Tafsir of Last Two Verses of Baqarah – Nouman Ali Khan – Gulf Tour 2015
Added on Monday ( 2016-09-01)
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Insight
Power of Good Deed
- A good and pure Word
- A tree whose root are very well planted
- Root that will last generation
- Provides fruit at every hour
- Trees only provides fruit at one season
- This tree on the other hand provides fruit in all seasons
- By special permission from it master
- Locust is about to lay eggs and build its next generation
- Example
- The Professor simplifies the subject
- I have given you this example, a good word and a good tree
- A good teacher provides good example
- The benefit of a good word benefits everyone, so that they may make an effort to remember
- A tree does not discriminate and say “Is it a muslim that is picking this fruit“
- Idea
- The idea of thinking long term
- I can not change this desert into a garden over night
- The idea of change that does not happen over night
- The idea of producing change that takes a generation
- The Power of a seed that will change into a Tree
- I have not being able to make my point yet
- The only thing the Prophet had is a good word
- All he had is the good word that Allah kept giving him
- A fifth of the World’s Population will hold these words in
- Underestimated the Power of spreading a good word
- Something must be missing in our confidence
- A good word carrying and resonating its effect
- Groups of People
- Groups
- Haters
- Love Incidents
- Business grows
- Spread Fears
- And, fear mongering
- Profit from Islamophobia Industry
- Group of muslims doing things in name of Islam
- Jihad
- The other extreme
- Middle – Non Muslims
- Do not hate each other
- Middle – Muslims
- Hugh confluence of muslims who do not know each other
- Haters
- Co-dependency of Haters and Jihadist
- Groups
A Life Changing Motivational Speech
Message to the youth
- Cultural Onslaught
- Pulling oneself out of cultural onslaught
- When life is in danger, one can pull back from Society
- We can not pull ourselves away from Society
- It is a defect to do so
- Hurl truth against falsehood
- Age is often not mentioned in the Koran
- people’s age is not mentioned
- Worship
- Get better at worship
- Sets targeted time
- Go to sleep early
- Deep conversation over Hookah?
- Wake up early
- Change the world … Can not even change the Day
- Whoever is scared to climb the mountain stays at the ditch
- Knowledge
- Get better at knowledge
- Study and Memorize the Koran
- Prophet Muhammed
- Take Surahs that target the Life of Prophet Muhammed
- Study other Koran Surahs
- Prophet Muhammed
Pursuit Beyond Happiness
- Happiness
- Cool
- Pursuit of Social Acceptability
- Kids
- Go to School and look different than others
- Look a way, talk in a way, that makes me look cool
- Girls
- Young Kids that wear Hijab
- Kids
- Pursuit of Social Acceptability
- Popularity
- Wear expensive clothes
- Need attention, live off attention
- Celebrity
- Any means necessary
- Prestige
- Pursue Prestige
- Brand of Clothes that you wear
- Which College they go to
- Btw, I went to Harvard
- What they have might
- Association
- By their association
- Money
- Self Focused
- Excellence
- Top percentile
- Always have to have an A+
- Impact
- Thing outside of Self Satisfaction
- And, unto helping others
- Life is bigger than my personal impact
- Help industry, help around the world
- Koran
- What the Koran will inspire you to do will be different for each person
- Pursuit
- Primary can not be towards impact, but pursuit
- Effort comes from you, impact comes from God
- Impact does not come from you
- Once pursuit is genuine, Allah gives impact
- Fruitless and Discouragement
- Prophet
- Muhammad’s visit to Ta’if
Link- Impact in the world of the unknown
- Muhammad’s visit to Ta’if
- Prophet
- Attitude
- Develop and Internalize a particular kind of attitude that is not discouraged
- Ironclad
- Messenger of Allah
- Single Heartedness
- Not always a new thing
- Sometimes just a reminder
- He is the one who selected you
- Allah did not pursue anyone outside of their own potential
- Knowledge
- If Knowledge is not helping your worship, then I don’t know if it is real knowledge
- Knowledge of Prophet is increasing as you are learning more about him
- Service
- If you want to help out with Habitat for Humanity, then it is good
- Whether it is being run by Christians, Jews, if it is good Service, then it is good service
- Parents should encourage kids
- Teenage years youths are the most self absorbed
- Petty
- Help them to come out of it
- Allow them to see suffering
- Goals
- What are your goals?
- Don’t aim to be a Doctor, aim to own a Hospital
- Run Doctors without Borders
- Don’t just go into Pharmaceutical, clean it up
- Think Big
- Part of thinking big is thinking entrepreneurially
- Acknowledgement
- We are slaves to Allah, we are lowest to the group
- Yet, when Allah gives you a gift, intelligence, education, and you say I am way too humble, then that is not humility, it is ingratitude
- Allah will not make you become materialistic
- Not here to serve the Ummah, here to fix the world
- Everyone should work with his own disposition
- One day I am going to make people come out of poverty in this neighborhood
- New Language of Power is Economics
- Develop Work Ethics for it
Cult vs. Community – Khutbah by Nouman Ali Khan
- When those who were followed, disown (declare themselves innocent of) those who followed (them), and they see the torment, then all their relations will be cut off from them.
[ Chapter (2) sūrat l-baqarah (The Cow) ]
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Ready to Withstand Challenges | Nouman Ali Khan 2016
- Surah – Hayat ( Life )
- Koran does not change
- Recite Every Friday
- Protect believers from the greatest trial that has ever hitting humanity
- Never blends
- Morality changes every year
- Recite Every Friday
- Koran does not change
“We Ask Allah” Tafsir of Last Two Verses of Baqarah – Nouman Ali Khan – Gulf Tour 2015
Quotes
- Spend in the path of Allah
- Every messenger is valuable to us
- We do make distinction between messengers
- Segment 54 minute
- Messengers valuable to us includes
- Messenger
- Abraham
- Joseph
- Moses
- Every message is timeless
- Messenger
- Our many people upset because of Charlie Hebdo
- Simpson
- Jesus was made fun of
- Moses was made fun of
- When Prophet is stressed, Allah encouraged him with examples of other prophets life
- Joseph
- How can Prophet find comfort and we don’t find comfort
- Allah is proud of those who believe and obey
- Two commandments
- Learn
- Obey
- Go sit and hear & learn what Allah has to say
- Angels are writing this down
- Two commandments
- I was raised in a Pakistani family
- Listen First
- If there is good in their live, then they have to obey
- Provide opportunity to hear in a loving way
- We keep complaining about obedience
- We complain they do not come
- But, we have to go to them
- I reached you, before you reached me
- I got to you through podcast
- I got to you through youtube
- Nothing is missing in the book of Allah
- If we do not reach them, then something is missing in your message
- They were told Allah will forgive your sin
- If a prophet has a right to have Sabbah
- Sample
- Then you are telling a woman, she does not have right to have Sabbah
- A man came and said that he stumbles when he reads Sabbah
- Allah wants to see effort from you
- Gets twice the reward
- Sample
- I have six children, I can talk through anything
- Goals
- You goal is not to learn arabic. You goal is progress
- We have made artificial goals
- Responsibility [ 1 hour 20 Minutes ]
- Allah does not put any burden unless it is within their capacity
- Extent to which you can do something, that is what is required of you
- Reach full potential
- Every person is different
- Identify your potential
- And, then you will be asked
- Social Friends
- Make friends
- Creativity
- Movies
Closing
Again, writing can be to proselytize.
But, the grace of good deeds, such as giving up a seat, goes far beyond that.
