Nouman Ali Khan – Advice to New Islamic Teachers Q&A

Nouman Ali Khan
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The speaker discusses the importance of learning from multiple sources and being aware of one's limits. They also advise against being in a bubble of people who are similar to one another and encourage students to engage in learning the Quran. The speaker emphasizes the need to be a part of a larger community and offers resources for learning the Quran.

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			Been,
		
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			listening to your, like,
		
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			from the beginning of my Islam journey,
		
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			and I have a few questions, like, 2
		
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			questions. Okay. I'm gonna try to keep it
		
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			short. First off, I'm a Daia as well,
		
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			and I'm I have a team here. I
		
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			give, lessons.
		
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			I just repeat what I learned from my
		
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			teachers.
		
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			And I wanna ask you, like, you're, for
		
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			example, a role model to me. I live
		
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			in role. Allah, may Allah bless you. And
		
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			I wanna ask you, like, if you have
		
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			advice
		
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			on this journey,
		
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			like, which mistakes should Adaiyah avoid if you
		
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			wanna be successful?
		
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			Like, what are the things
		
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			you would avoid if you have started new
		
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			again?
		
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			I would have spent a lot more time
		
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			on learning. Yeah.
		
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			Like, I would have so that that would
		
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			be probably the one of the big ones.
		
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			Well And,
		
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			I would have
		
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			I would've appreciated the value of
		
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			collaborative learning.
		
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			What that means is
		
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			when I learn something from a teacher,
		
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			I learn it I I I, learn it
		
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			to the best of my ability, but I
		
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			do my own research and my own investigating
		
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			and my own asking questions. And then sometimes
		
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			I end up finding that what my teacher
		
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			shared with me, I'm not so convinced of
		
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			it.
		
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			So I need to learn from multiple sources
		
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			before I am at because that when I'm
		
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			when I'm gonna share something with someone,
		
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			I have to be I can't just rely
		
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			on one person.
		
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			I need to be able to say I
		
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			did justice
		
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			to my
		
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			examination before
		
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			I talked about something. Wow. There are surahs
		
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			in the Quran right now that I don't
		
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			talk about
		
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			because I haven't done my work. Subhanallah.
		
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			I've studied them. I've I've studied the tafsir,
		
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			but that's not enough work.
		
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			So, like, my biggest advice would be knowing
		
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			limits.
		
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			That would be 1.
		
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			Another advice would probably be
		
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			the
		
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			dua'at end up in a circle of people
		
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			that are similar minded to them
		
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			or are in the similar space. Mhmm. And
		
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			the more they do that, the more they
		
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			start getting cut off from the rest of
		
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			society. Yeah. Because they're in their own little
		
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			bubble. It's become their own the Islamic world.
		
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			Their own little Islamic world.
		
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			And
		
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			the more you do that, the more it's
		
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			hard it's harder for you to understand
		
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			what people outside that world feel,
		
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			what they go through, what they experience.
		
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			You can't
		
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			genuinely talk to someone if you don't understand
		
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			them.
		
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			Sometimes end up becoming more distant from their
		
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			own family, from their own parents, from their
		
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			because they don't see the religion the same
		
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			way. I think
		
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			if if someone's gonna be in this space,
		
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			they should actually engage the most difficult
		
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			family
		
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			more
		
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			and understand that perspective more.
		
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			Because that's what the Sahaba had to go
		
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			through.
		
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			Not to give Dawah to them, but to
		
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			but to not distance yourself
		
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			from them. Yeah. That would be,
		
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			I wish I didn't do I wish I
		
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			did that solo. It's fun. Yeah.
		
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			It's hard sometimes to keep that balance Yeah.
		
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			Because on the one side, you wanna be
		
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			successful, and on the other side, you have,
		
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			responsibilities
		
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			for family as well. And Yeah. Yeah.
		
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			K. Thank you so much.
		
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			It was very nice to meet you. May
		
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			Allah bless you and inshallah, we'll see you
		
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			again.
		
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			I hope you guys enjoyed that video clip.
		
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			My team and I have been working tirelessly
		
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			to try to create as many resources for
		
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			Muslims to give them first steps in understanding
		
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			the Quran all the way to the point
		
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			where they can have a deep, profound understanding
		
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			of the Quran. We are students of the
		
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			Quran ourselves, and we want you to be
		
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			students of the Quran alongside us. Join us
		
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			for this journey on bayinatv.com
		
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			where thousands of hours of work have already
		
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			been put in. And don't be intimidated. It's
		
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			step by step by step so you can
		
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			make learning the Quran a part of your
		
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			lifestyle. There's lots of stuff available on YouTube,
		
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			but it's all over the place. If you
		
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			want an organized approach to studying the Quran
		
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			beginning to end for yourself, your kids, your
		
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			family, and even among peers,
		
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			that would be the way to go. Sign
		
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			up for bayinatv.com.