Nouman Ali Khan – A Deeper Look – Surah Al Asr #3

			The thing of it is all human beings, some of them, some of us are rich, some of us are poor, some of
us are healthy, some of us are sick, some of us are strong and others are weak, some have better
opportunities, some have less opportunity, some are free, and some are caged. Human beings find
themselves in any variety of circumstances. But the statement that Allah has made is that every one
of us is in loss. Doesn't matter what state we're in, we're in loss. How is that's the common
denominator between all of us, whether the one who looks apparently happy, or healthy, or wealthy or
prosperous, or the one who looks miserable, it doesn't matter. Allah has made a unanimous
		

			declaration, all of you are losing all of you're actually not just losing, you are in loss already.
You're drowning in loss already. And that helps me appreciate what the previous I was, the biggest
proof that all of us are in a continuous state of loss is time itself. Because that's one thing you
and I can never gain more of. That is one thing we're always going to be losing. Today, we'll never
come back, McGraw will never come back. The moments that we've passed away, hi, yah, Touka. And
fast, your life is nothing but inhales and exhales. That's all they are. That inhale that went in
and the exhale that went out is not coming back. These are moments of our life that have gone and
		

			will never return. It doesn't matter whether you're sick, or healthy, or poor or wealthy. What part
of the world you live in there is there's one loss that is unavoidable. And that is of time. And
that loss as days go by is taking a toll on you. In the sense of physics, which is kind of creepy. I
was talking to a friend who's a physics major, you know, through the laws of entropy and all of that
the universe is constantly expanding. And by implication, it's actually constantly breaking apart.
Everything is tearing apart, everything is breaking. And people that have a purely scientific
worldview become very, you know, basically, they have this Annihilus kind of sense sense of the
		

			world, things are going to end anyway, we're all just going to be it's all going to be over the
universe is just gonna collapse. Everything's falling apart, everything around us is actually
breaking apart. Slowly. But surely, the decay and loss is the reality of the entire physical
universe around us. As a matter of fact, the human body, we're constantly losing cells, we're
constantly dead skin is falling off, hairs falling off, whether we realize it or not. We're
constantly losing physically also, even Allah mentions not only a reference to what happens in the
in the grave, cut the alumni Matan puzzle, or women who were in the Nakita will have healed, we
		

			already know what the earth keeps taking away from them. And we have a book that guards everything,
even though you're being decayed away, even as you're alive, there's decay happening. But even as
you after you die, your body is going through decay inside the grave. And Allah says, regardless,
what needed to be preserved will always stay Preserve. We're in the Nikita Boone Haviv. But this is
the notion of loss that I wanted to start off with that time is the ultimate loss that cannot be
escaped for any of us. Now I want to talk to you about the word choice for loss in this ayah and
that's the word hustle. It's a common word in the Quran. It's used many, many times it's used to
		

			describe for example, Al Hasan the losers like a human costume occurs in the Quran. You know
Alladhina casue those who those who lost hospital dunya will akhira Quran says they lost this life
and in the next they lost both. So the common word actually in the Quran for loss is this word or
the origin of this word hoster.
		

			As for the word loss itself, not as verbs and other forms, the verb the noun itself holster is used
in three forms in the Quran, you find holster and you find Hazara. Well, let me ask you who Milo who
are well I do who Allah Hazara, or you find Hassan Casilla dunya will Astra Lika Hua Hassan Al
movie, so you'll find three versions of the word loss and there's subtle differences between them.
Hassan is used for the worst possible loss. That's a novella that's not used here. The Asada is used
when you're already in a state of loss and it gets worse. That's why it typically comes with the
other in the Quran lemmya Xin who might know who or who Allah, Hazara, they were already losing, and
		

			then more loss on top of the loss. They already had. Things got even worse, that's Cassatt that we
don't recite in Al Insana la vehicles run. Nor do we recite in Delhi in Santa Fe kasar. We recite in
Del in Santa Fe hostel. The word cosa is the base notion of loss and what Allah is saying is by
using that word that there are degrees of loss, that there are some people are losing a lot. Some
people are losing a little. Some people are losing insignificant amounts. Some people are losing
terrible amounts. And by the way, just to put things in relative order, like you know somebody who,
you know, Lee loses $1 and is a millionaire may not Oh, was that mine. Oh, I didn't really realize
		

			and it's not a big deal for them. But somebody else who has barely any
		

			Many losers $1.
		

			And that's a huge deal for them. So it could look like the same loss but it's not felt the same way.
It's not felt by people the same way there are degrees in which we feel or sense feel the pinch of
loss, right? So Allah is making a comment that whoever you are, whether you realize it or not, at
some level you are experiencing loss, of course the ultimate loss being time itself, but it's not
limited to that. How do we know it's not limited to that? Well, we know that because Allah use the
word hosted in the in at the end that and when completes that I mean, all kinds of loss. It could
mean great loss and it can also mean all kinds of loss. So now I want to dig into this word loss
		

			before we go any further from the Arabic point of view. What's the origin of this word Al Asad
Allah, the apostle Miguel will resign when Casa de la Liga Mahalo, who are clue i hacia la Houma.
First of all the has had an Arabic is not just a loser is a cheater.
		

			Someone who deceives like you know, when people back in the day they had when they sold vegetables,
or rice or fruit or whatever, they had the scale of the weight on this side, and whatever you're
buying on the other side, and they put false weight or their tip the scale a little bit. So they
give their customer a little less. That person who would give a little less was actually called the
hassle.
		

			Meaning he causes Hassan, that's what it's called. So now, first of all human beings are in loss
implies also human beings are being cheated. Human beings are in a in a scam.
		

			They're in a scam. They're being deceived. This is a notion described elsewhere in the Quran, that
this is Malhotra dunya, Allah Mataro and highroad. worldly life is nothing but a means by which
people get deceived. And part of the meaning of course, is actually you know, the this idea of guru
of deception. So human beings are being cheated out of something. Human beings don't realize they're
they've got blinders on. They think they're running after something that will give them success, or
think they're running away from some some kind of loss. But actually, they're running right towards
it. They've been cheated all along. They haven't seen the truth for what it is. This is why that
		

			drive is so important. Allahumma allinial con was nativa Allah show us the truth as truth and give
us the ability to follow it.
		

			Well, I didn't know about the law about Elon was much the Navajo gave us the ability to see false as
false, and enable us to stay away from it. Because sometimes false is so attractive. You can't help
but be compelled towards it drawn into it pulled into its gravitational force, its field. And you
and I just go into it, blind it. And when someone tries to wake us up, we'd rather not wait. It's
too uncomfortable reality in that case, one is deceiving themselves, when chooses to stay happy and
deceive themselves. Also, Alhazred is also used for someone who's lost their mind as a result of
losing everything. So in a nutshell, if your question is actually in a set, in a sense, human beings
		

			are indulged in insanity. Human beings are crazy. What are we doing?
		

			You know, like you would think of someone running into a building on fire, what are you doing?
You're crazy. That's the comment made by Allah, I swear by time that's running out. If the human
being runs, they tend to run towards the wrong thing towards their own destruction. The hubba Malou
acclaro our clue they're running towards their own bankruptcy. And this perhaps is also an
illusionary reference to judgment day. When people wake up on Judgement Day. They can't believe
what's happening around them. And Allah says, Ouattara NASA Sue Cara Palma Hungary Socotra, you're
gonna see people they look like they're drunk, they're not drunk at all. You know, they're just,
		

			they're gonna can't believe what's happening in front of them. And they look just tipsy. That's what
they're going to look like. So now moving on, Hassan told me Xandra Sato Hoon Acosta who has Sarah
tagit will be our feet majority he that's the other the last meaning of it also, for a businessman
to experience hosel is actually for the business to collapse. Human beings are are drowning in
bankruptcy, they're heading or they're they've already been duped into bankruptcy. Well, Martin and
Mallory Knox are shaped by the hobby. Exactly. Minho. Falkland for it actually, the overall meaning
is when you are losing something continuously bit by bit by bit by bit by bit, that's actually
		

			closer. Which reminds me of the essential meaning of answer when something is squeezed away drip by
drip by drip by drip by drip. It's actually similar meaning to that when loss is happening, but it's
not all of loss all at once. But you're losing just a little bit at a time. I'm reminded of that
experiment. I think it was in Psych class. I couldn't remember what class it was. When we saw this
experiment of a frog thrown into boiling water. You know, it's just jumps out right away or towards
hot waters jumps out right away. And then you have this frog was just sitting in water. It's slowly
being heated
		

			and it's not jumping. It's just sitting there. And actually it gets to the point
		

			Word dice, but it doesn't jump. It didn't realize because the depth to it was coming slowly, the
slow poison got to it. If he saw the consequences of it all at once, he would have jumped. But no
human beings are just drowning more and more deeper and deeper and deeper. Allah will give this
energy this imagery in order to newer and describe a person drowning in the middle of an ocean and
say, you know, lum yada yada, yada. He a person who's drowning in the ocean and so dark underneath
at the bottom, he almost can't even see his own hand. Like that's the depth to which people can go
into Hosur. Now as far as you know, old commentators classical commentary like iblue cathedra, Hema,
		

			hola the Sahaba that I've been in, they had lots of things to say about what this loss could mean.
And I've kind of compiled all of them in one phrase for you. First of all, hostile Bill halacha.
They interpreted that to mean human beings are headed towards destruction, not just loss, what will
happen, which is loss itself, whether or Quba they're headed towards retribution from Allah will be
naxal muddy, and also towards even material loss, meaning human beings whatever they do in this
life, they can't gain they can only lose believer disbeliever that doesn't matter. It's not even
talking about heaven and *, in this life itself, we can only lose, we can only lose our youth. We
		

			can only like you can have the nicest home. But by the time you're 75 you can't you don't have the
back to go up the stairs. You can't use the six bedrooms upstairs, what are you going to do with it?
You have an amazing swimming pool, you could die if you fall into it. Like it's not anything for you
anymore. Young people will come see your mansion and say, Wow, I wish I lived here. And the people
who actually live there are like this is a curse. I can't you know, my children have all gone and
left me my grandkids can ever come and visit all I have this giant lonely house. That's all I have
that becomes a present for them. You know, so we, we can only experience loss because we ourselves
		

			are decaying and heading towards an end in this life. That's how Allah made us go lumen and I have
fun. Allah actually says everyone on this earth was meant to be discontinued. Like, it's not a flaw
of God that we get older and our skin gets wrinkly here and our eyesight gets weaker and our back
gets we you know, it's that's not a flaw in our design. You think you know, when a watchmaker makes
a really expensive Swiss watch or whatever it's supposed to last forever? Why couldn't God just make
us more durable? We could have just you know what, there's something wrong with us manufacturing,
actually, by design Quran says you were designed to deteriorate. Woman, your Amir who knocks over a
		

			fella Archelon whoever we give age to, we start reversing them in their creation, we start making
them weaker and smaller, like they were as kids. You know, I'm reminded of Lucy Ragamala. So many
years ago, I read this said, you know, when a child is small, they're always looking up, climbing
up, reaching up, and a man gets old. His back bends. And he's always looking down. Like to his
future home. Hala and you know, children, they keep us up late at night. They don't let us sleep,
they cry. They get stomach aches, they want to drink or whatever. You know, they cry because that's
their power trip. Like fake cry. You ever seen kids fake cry? Like that's faking? Yes, it is. I'm
		

			still gonna do it.
		

			But you get older and you can't sleep.
		

			When people can't sleep, they have a hard time and this is perhaps Allah's way of letting them stay
up for the night prayer you're about to meet God so he facilitates PM. You don't have to take pills
for that you can just and by the way, if you start drinking fianchetto is gonna come put you to
sleep anyway. So,
		

			so take advantage anyhow. So overall, when you study loss in the Quran, wasa Illuma Quran minute
Turkey will be mindful to Makana young Kenya foods or bohemian swabbing Monterey metal low on
		

			Crohn's commentary on loss is actually to miss out on opportunities that you could have taken
advantage of. That's how Allah describes loss. Loss is not about money loss is not about you know,
material anything. loss is not about loss of loved ones. Loss is actually in the Quran about
opportunity missed. That's all that you had you truly believed and had you follow the right
guidelines you could have availed from that opportunity. Okay.
		

			Have you been in Farahi talking about this loss? He says something really beautiful, can I let him
tell you that alpha Sufi Maha could be it says if Allah is commenting on the tragedy of human
history saying these people should have been competing with one another in things that are far more
worthy of competing in far more worthy of competition What were you competing with other other
people in looks money showing something off? What was that worth? While your interview how I know
Mila hui will reflect the couple filthy well hostility and it was income
		

			But on people to wake up from their sleep of being distracted all the time, and they're asleep of
being entertained all the time, and remaining heedless and asleep to reality, before all is lost,
and the only thing left alive is regret. Come, I began to learn Africa, he had the either
		

			one will note, I had the humble note, call out a big rule.
		

			Like Allah Himself says, when the time the moment comes, when death arrives, then he calls out God
my master, just send me back. I'll, I'm going to change. I got it. I got it. I know my time's up.
Just give me a little bit extra overtime. And I'm going to, I'm going to be different this time.
That's that's the only thing that's going to be left is regret because you realize you didn't do
anything with the time you did have. May Allah not make us from those people.
		

			In his commentary, just a summarization. Also, he uses time, meaning we'll also indulge in Santa Fe
hoster. This statement, he uses it to remind us of perish nations. You know, acid is the time that
passed away on very powerful nations who used to say, Allah even describes them olanta Kulusuk
sometime sometime in Kullu Mala Mala comienza Aren't you the same people who used to swear back in
the day there will there shall be no downfall or on our civilizations? Have you ever wondered like
people go you know, ancient Roman ruins, or Egyptian ruins, right? Or we go to like these, these
these palaces, and we take pictures next to them, these monuments around the world, we take pictures
		

			next to them in grave sites, etc. But what we're looking at are not just, you know, it's one thing
to visit the grave of a dead person. These monuments are actually the graves of dead nations.
		

			That's what they are. And we look at it like that's pretty cool. I took a picture next to this, you
know the pyramid or that but that's actually that's a graveyard of very powerful nation who at one
point believed there shall be no downfall for them. Were number one, number one forever baby.
		

			That's what they believe. That's what they held. They pride themselves in it. And Allah says time
came and ripped all of that to shreds and look at where they are now. They're just part of your
selfie. That's all they are now. We lost three Underland Santa Fe casa. And he use and uses this the
very same statement to remind us by looking at that history, you're still around you better not join
them. You better not become like that meaning learn from history and get your act together.