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Nouman Ali Khan

How The Devil Attacks From The Left

Nouman Ali Khan

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan elaborates on how Satan attacks us from the left side. The basic idea that is postulated by the scholars is that right is associated with the good and left is for that which is bad which means it makes us lazy, delaying doing good things, etc. What keeps us connected to ... Read more

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Today's club is dedicated to the fourth direction by which the chatan tries to attack us according to his promise he will

0:13.8

absolutely come at he said I will absolutely come at them I will absolutely

0:17.6

attack them from right in front of them from behind them from their right and from

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their left and today we speak about what he's going to do when he

0:23.8

attacks us from the left. The Arabic word for that is the word Shama, which comes from the Arabic

0:29.6

verb Shamala. It's an interesting verb of the Arabic language because it actually means two things basically from that word

0:35.3

You get the meaning of inclusion like shamil or mush Tamil the idea of including something or the left side

0:42.9

Actually the word shimal is not used for the left side,

0:45.2

it's used for the left hand.

0:47.0

And a lot of words in Arabic that come from this

0:49.6

are related to things that get covered up,

0:51.8

like a bag, or actually they use

0:54.0

sham ala for some hunters who used to get covered up in the dirt so the animal

0:57.8

doesn't see them so they're camouflaged so the idea of covering something

1:02.3

and the idea of including something in its entirety,

1:04.8

immersing something is that word. So what does that have to do with the left?

1:09.0

Well, the basic idea that's been postulated by some is that you know in Arabic

1:14.5

in Arabic culture like in many cultures your basic hand is your right hand so most of

1:18.9

the tasks you do normally for most people or for many people is the right hand and culturally you

1:24.6

know you get work done with it you write with it you do whatever task with you carry

1:27.8

things with it but if you have so much to carry that your right hand is not

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