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Nouman Ali Khan

Basics We Forget Easily

Nouman Ali Khan

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan delves and contemplates the meanings of the verses of Surah Al-Asr and what profound implications it has in our own lives. The Prophet ﷺ was most compassionate, loving, kind and caring. Yet, when he is advising people on the path of truth, he faced a lot of criticism simply because the ... Read more

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0:13.0

When Allah Azawajev describes the fundamental truth in the Surah

0:17.2

that all human beings are drowning in loss.

0:21.0

That means what they say in technology terms the default position right the natural position for all human beings is actually to be in loss. We are not naturally

0:31.0

successful. We are naturally failures. We are naturally

0:32.7

failures. We're actually naturally, you know,

0:35.9

succumb to failure.

0:37.3

And the only way out of that failure,

0:39.2

and I don't just mean failure in the worldly sense.

0:41.6

I don't just mean failure in the worldly sense. I don't just mean failure in the monetary sense.

0:44.3

Emotionally you're going to be a failure. Spiritually you're going to be a

0:48.2

failure. In your goals and aspirations you're going to be a failure. In this life you'll be a failure, in the next life you'll be a failure

0:54.8

if you don't meet the criteria of the exception.

0:57.8

Allah Azowajal gave us a profound exception in this Surah. First he said

1:01.3

in the insana-Lafi-Housal. What I wanted to highlight first is that when Allah in this

1:05.0

a singular word

1:08.0

is in the insan is a muffra, this is a singular word, which means Allah is describing every person

1:11.0

as if they're on their own.

1:12.0

Right now we're sitting among

1:13.3

hundreds and there are crowds of thousands listening online or whatever, but

1:18.2

every one of us is actually being spoken to as if there's no one in the world but

1:22.2

you. The old there's no one in the world but you. There's a conversation just

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