Nouman Ali Khan – A Deeper Look – Story Night – Why Muslim Countries Are Safe

			And that's the genius of this man. And he Salam, he takes very careful note of what Allah says to
him. And then he comes back with an adjusted prayer. Right? So he says, What if Calobra him when
Ibrahim Ali Salam said, about Bucha alhaja, rather than Amazon master make this meaning this land
this desert, a peaceful city, a peaceful city, a safe city. So the first part of this prayer has
nothing to do with people has nothing to do with his children or their faith. It just means that the
city itself should be safe. Now this is actually genius by Ibrahim alayhis salam. Why, because when
a city does not believe when a town does not believe, then they are not safe from the punishment of
		

			Allah.
		

			When you could have a great empire like the Egyptians had a great empire, the pharaohs had a great
empire, and it had its prosperity, but they were not safe from the punishment of Allah eventually is
not the case. So whenever he rather Islam says yeah, Allah, you make sure that this is a safe city.
This is actually a very indirect way of asking that the majority dwellers of this city are going to
be what believers it's actually a really intelligent way of putting that forward. Yeah, Allah just
make the city safe. And that's implied in it. Yes, of course believers are the ones that are safe.
That's why Allah says for example, you know, Yahoo doing any logistical inhibition, Elia phone,
		

			they're not going to be afraid, you know, well, no, but then under homebody, hopefully him Amnon,
when believers are given establishment in the land. Allah replaces fear with safety. So actually,
the security of a city is actually is directly related to the spiritual state of a place, that still
Quranic principle. But anyway, another interesting thing to note here, if we if you don't look at it
from a spiritual perspective, the first prayer is that the place where these people are going to
live, my children are going to live should be a safe place, not just from the punishment of Allah.
But as a safe place safe neighborhoods, Safe Schools, safe businesses, people's lives should be
		

			safe, people's homes should be safe, people's place of business should be safe, safe, people's place
of worship should be safe. These are the concerns of every society. By the way, we're not just
concerned about that, as Muslims, people want to live in a safe neighborhood. Right? I just found
out recently Plano counts as one of the safest neighborhoods in the United States. Right. So real
estate prices go up when a neighborhood is what is safe. And when a neighborhood is dangerous, what
happens to real estate prices, they go down. In other words, the safer a neighborhood is, the better
it starts doing economically, isn't that the case. And the worst neighborhood is the worst it starts
		

			doing what economically and vice versa. If a if a city is prosperous, that means they have more tax
revenue school, you know, school districts are better or whatever better jobs are being created, and
therefore they can afford better security. And when a neighborhood has a tough economy, people are
losing their jobs, people are getting desperate, then what starts increasing in those cities, crime.
So safety and prosperity go hand in hand, is that clear to everybody? safety and prosperity go hand
in hand. Another way of thinking about this is that you know, you can in order to have a sustained
healthy society, you actually need peace, what I call peace here or safety, and you need prosperity,
		

			you need both of them to go hand in hand. In other words, if home is safe, and businesses safe, and
the streets are safe, and the market is safe, and the school is safe, everything is safe, but you
can't find a job. There's no point that society is going to fall apart anyway. Because in order for
this society to be maintained, people have to be able to make money. On the other hand, if you have
all the money in the world, people can make lots and lots of money, but there's nothing safe. It's
the law of the jungle. If that's the case, that society will fall apart too, isn't it? So you need
both of those. So Ibrahim alayhi salam in just brief words, he says, rubbish. I'll have a Paladin,
		

			Amazon master make this into a safe city, a peaceful city. And what Allahu Mina Samara provide its
citizens from all kinds of fruit, provided citizens from all kinds of fruit meanness, Samara, which
is really beautiful. In other words, the part where he said make it safe is about the peace. The
part where he said, give them all kinds of fruit is about what? prosperity by the way, if these
people living in Makkah, that's where they are, if they're going to get all kinds of fruit, they're
going to have to import them because you don't exactly get oranges and Lukka
		

			or mangoes, or bananas or anything for that matter. Right. In other words, he's asking for a city
that can engage in international trade. He's asking for a city that's prosperous because he engages
in business and trade with other places that's already embedded within the prayer, isn't it? So now
what we're thinking about, we think about Ibrahim alayhis salam as a spiritual leader, as someone
who prayed to Allah azza wa jal, but now you have to think about another dimension of this man
Alehissalaam. Remember, I told you he's thinking generations ahead, right? Move into reality. If
		

			If you're gonna think generations ahead, you can't just be thinking about their emaan. Like, who are
they going to worship? That's important. Of course, it's important. But you know what there are
people are not going to have the peace of mind, and the ability to worship Allah as they should, if
their life is miserable. In other words, if they're constantly worried about the survival of
themselves and their family, if they don't know how to make ends, meet at all societies and utter
chaos and collapse, then you're not the dean is not going to prosper. So you need a healthy
functioning society, for religion to actually take, take hold, they need each other. In other words,
		

			you know, just like our human body, you have to take care of this body and you have to take care of
the rule. Right the prayer the DUA, the recitation of Quran, the fasting, all of that cleanses you
spiritually, it takes care of your rule. And the same way good food exercise, all that stuff takes
care of what your body we have this dual existence, you have to take care of both sides. The same
way in society, there are two sides. A lot of times people who worry about the emaan of our OMA and
the future of our OMA, all we think about is the spiritual side. We don't think about the economic
side, or the political side, the safety of the people, you know, and look at the genius of this man
		

			and he salaam, the first thing he does as a leader is he looks at the reality on the ground and he
says yeah, Allah make the city safe, make it peaceful, and make it prosperous, economically meaner.
Thammarat. And something you should understand about Arabic literature and the word Thammarat. I
translated somewhat somewhere out right now is fruits, provide them all kinds of fruits, but fruits
are literally Fruits like apples and oranges and stuff. But fruits is something else. Also fruits is
also the fruit of your labor. In other words, you do work and you see results. Yeah, Allah provide
them businesses that succeed, provide them institutions that flourish, provide them, you know, the
		

			teachers that can actually you know, see success in their students, etc. provide them the fruits of
their labor, give them success in these things. This is a Dr. Rahim Allah Islam is making for his
future offspring, but he adds a qualification and here's where things get interesting. Previously,
I'm reminding you again, his first prayer was can you give leadership to who?
		

			Who did he ask for leadership for all of his kids? Some are wrongdoers. Well if some are wrongdoers,
I sure hope they're not in leadership. Because if they're if the wrongdoers are in leadership what
happens in that society two things disappear peace and prosperity so he's starting at the bottom up
now Yeah, Allah make the city peed make this a peaceful and prosperous city provide them all kinds
of fruit, but actually provide the fruits and provide this prosperity to who men are men I mean home
villa, he was younger than only the ones who believed in Allah and the Last Day. In other words give
safety and prosperity only to believers. Don't give it to who disbelievers he's hoping that
		

			disbelievers are people of people that are violent because the opposite is not counterfeit. Here,
the opposite is not disbeliever the opposite of volume that's except establishing the wrongdoers
cruel people, unjust people ya Allah make sure unjust people are not established in society. Yeah,
Allah make them the criminal element that are in the on the fringes, I know they're going to exist,
but keep them on the fringes, keep them on the outside of society. Don't make them the main players
in society. Don't give them safety and don't give them prosperity only give safety and prosperity to
believing people now understand something else that so many Muslims are confused about. This is a
		

			literally a campaign that I'm on that you know so many things that I learned as a child and growing
up about Islam, I have come to learn from the Quran that we've just been looking at it the wrong way
or we've spread the wrong notions. So many people have demonized for example doing well. So they say
Why are you getting a promotion at your job of stuffing Allah or the you shouldn't be memorizing
Quran instead and saying no to that promotion, and don't go and do your PhD in the Catholic
University, you should actually go and you know, study Hadith instead and become an alum of deen and
I met college students that are doing really well in school. And they say, without no money, I feel
		

			really guilty because I'm top of my class in psychology and I should have been studying Quran and
Sunnah. And here I am studying you know, you know, clinical psychology and it's, you know, just from
these coffin professors and like, stupid.
		

			I mean, they caught me at the end of a program, so I didn't really have my reservations. So I'm
exhausted mentally. So I just said, stupid. What are you doing? Who told you this? Who came up with
this notion? The idea that Ibrahim alayhi salam wants you to be prosperous. He wants a city cannot
be prosperous if he doesn't have people that know what they're doing that know how to make a good
income. But what should these people have? They should have the mind in Allah and the Last Amen.
Amen. Abdullah he won't. You will. Not everyone that was a small glimpse from story night. I want
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