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Nouman Ali Khan

When Purpose is Missing - Surah Ar Rahman

Nouman Ali Khan

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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The Quran is not talking about happiness. What's the Quran talking about?

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Purpose. You know why? Because when you live a life of purpose, then you get some byproduct.

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You know what the first byproduct of that is?

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Happiness.

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct. Allahman.

0:29.0

Allah gives and he gives and he gives and guess what happens?

0:32.0

People become entitled and the amount of audacity it takes to say I didn't

0:36.5

ask to be created. I didn't ask to be alive. Why are you so depressed? Because I used to have a lot of friends and now they don't like me or

0:46.1

because she left me or he left me that's why the universe shouldn't have created me.

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You see how like absurdly petty we become and we this is what happens when purpose is missing, by the way.

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When purpose is missing, the smallest thing becomes your purpose.

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And when that smallest thing goes this way or that way,

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I don't want to exist.

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I don't want to believe in God.

1:16.3

I don't want to believe in anything.

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Because I didn't get my way.

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Yala. This is that when human beings forget who made the Arrahman made you with guidance.

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When you follow that guidance you will not live a miserable life and this is an incredible

1:31.8

secret in the Quran.

1:33.0

You know Allah doesn't talk about happiness in the Quran?

1:36.0

People can ask me,

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