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Nouman Ali Khan

Our Deep Desire For Attention

Nouman Ali Khan

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:06.8

The universe, the physical universe as we know it, physicists tell us it's existed for about 13.9 billion years.

0:14.7

This planet has been around for maybe four to five billion years, the formation of this planet.

0:20.8

In all of that endless ocean of time, I was not being talked about.

0:26.2

I was not mentioned I didn't exist.

0:28.2

And even when this world came into existence after this endless period of time,

0:33.2

when humanity started on this planet, so much human history has passed and no one in that history knew who I was.

0:41.2

I was never remembered I was never mentioned.

0:44.2

You can read about history and those people are relevant. The only one not relevant is you.

0:50.2

You don't exist for them.

0:52.2

They exist for you. You don't exist for them.

0:55.2

Using this as a reminder, Allah says, the vast majority of time has passed,

1:01.2

where you and I were completely irrelevant.

1:05.2

We were not part of the story.

1:08.2

And this is Allah's way of reminding us that the few moments that we do exist,

1:13.2

after I come out of my mother.

1:15.2

In fact, even when my mother was pregnant in the beginning, she had no idea that I was inside,

1:21.2

Marlots be he. She's walking around with the baby. She doesn't even know.

1:25.2

And then when she notices her body changing, then they both start making dua,

1:30.2

then in Ataita Nassalihan.

1:32.2

If you can just give us a good child.

1:34.2

They don't even know who this child is.

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