Surah Al-Asr Redefining Success and Failure
Nouman Ali Khan
Muslim Central
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🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This audio is brought to you by MuslimCentral.com |
| 0:07.4 | Now Allah essentially in this Surah after talking about how some things you you take very seriously and you have no |
| 0:14.5 | You can't wait you just want to get them right away and some things you're distracted and you you put aside |
| 0:19.6 | Allah says you can't just keep going this way because your time is running out |
| 0:24.6 | Well, I said and then he makes a further argument |
| 0:28.0 | There's two things we want we want better and we want more |
| 0:33.0 | The the argument for better is in Sultal Adiyat the argument for more is in Sultat Takasur from Qathra |
| 0:40.2 | Those are the two things that drive humanity we want better you want a better life you want a better house |
| 0:45.7 | You want a better car you want better clothes you want a better phone you want a better better better better better better better |
| 0:51.0 | Anything everything has to be better and even if you have it you want something more |
| 0:57.3 | So it's quality and what? |
| 0:59.3 | Quantity those two things are constantly obsessing if you have everything you want more money now |
| 1:04.2 | Because I might want something better later |
| 1:07.6 | Right so and if I want something better I need more money |
| 1:11.0 | So it's either quantity or quality or quantity or quality if I had more money |
| 1:15.1 | I'd have a better quality car a better quality house better quality clothes better quality travel better quality vacation |
| 1:21.3 | That's what these two things are they bounce off of each other now those two things |
| 1:25.8 | We feel if we had those two things we'd be successful |
| 1:30.5 | We'd actually be successful and the more we're getting the more successful |
| 1:35.0 | We are someone who has a higher salary is considered more successful than someone who has a lesser salary |
| 1:39.5 | The one who has a higher education and more degrees is more successful than someone who has less degrees |
| 1:45.2 | The someone who has a better quality life |
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