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Omar Suleiman

Ramadan 2017 - Khatirah Night 19

Omar Suleiman

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Am I a Pharaoh? The pitfalls of Narcissism – This talk was delivered at the Valley Ranch Islamic Center. 2017-06-13

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I don't know if you all notice but something very interesting in this part of the Quran.

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It's actually quite fascinating that we talk about two of the most powerful men that have

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ever walked the face of the earth, but that could not possibly be more different than they

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were.

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Who are those two men? Early on we talked about one man of power.

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For Aun, the Pharaoh. And then who did we get to after that?

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Solomon a Ali his Sala.

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Okay. So you go from the Pharaoh to King Solomon.

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Two people that were given much wealth and power in this world, but that reacted to that

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power in completely opposite ways. One of them was intoxicated by it. The other one was humbled by it.

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One of them used his power to only gain more power.

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The other one used his power only to do good and to spread the word of Allah

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Sahin al-Tah and to spread goodness. And Subhah Allah what it tells you is that

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it's not about that we as people it's not about what we have what's given to us or what our

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circumstances are at the end of the day it's about who you are at your core

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Solomon Ali his Salaam had his heart and his mind in the right place,

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and obviously he was divinely inspired by Allah,

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whereas Phraun, the Pharaoh, only distanced himself

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further from Allah Subhano It's a Allah.

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Now I want to talk about Fereaune,

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but I don't just want to talk about Fereaune

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