Nouman Ali Khan – Amazed by the Quran – S02 – EP01 Sanctity of Life

			Salam Alaikum everyone welcome to amazed by the Quran where I share with you something I find
amazing about to God and today I want to share something with you about the value of human life and
how Allah describes that value by means of storytelling. And this little snippet is taken from the
story of Musa alayhis salaam, its social classes, where Allah describes that when the Egyptian the
soldier was actually about on the verge of killing an Israelite in the middle of the street. And
there was nobody else around and Moosa just kind of saw the scene happening to people going at it
against each other, and the victim was taking the beating, called on him festiva who, and let him in
		

			she it he the one who was from his own group, meaning in Israel, I called on him and asked for help.
And so when he did that, Moses felt like he has to intervene, and he jumped in, and he threw a punch
at the soldier for work as a homosassa he threw a punch towards him falcoda Lee and some linguistics
also suggests that the word workers that means to throw a punch to the chest, so it's not like he
hid his skull or you know, hit his head or something, but it's actually a punch on the chest. So he
throws the punch and fuck Allah, Allah, He all of a sudden the guy is down and out. Not only is he
down and out, he's dead, he dies. Now taking a step back, Musa All he did was try to help a victim.
		

			Secondly, it doesn't look like he intended to kill, he just wanted to throw a punch to kind of stop
this scene from getting any further and him the soldier ending up committing murder. Third of all,
you know, the Egyptian soldiers at the time Pharaoh's army, they were known for oppression and they
were known for oppressing, particularly the Israelites. So it's not like he's not justified and
trying to take some retaliatory action against what he considers an evil force, a military, a
military man trying to beat up on a civilian. All of this in the background, as soon as he throws
the punch in the Egyptian dies. What does musah say? Hi, I'm Alicia. And this is from the work of
		

			the devil. You know, immediately in the who are doing Modelo movie. This is from the work of the
devil. He's definitely an enemy that misleads and misguides over trying to get at is you can see a
person is a criminal, even someone on the verge of committing murder, which is what the case was
here. But it still didn't justify the taking of life. It still didn't justify it. As a matter of
fact, in the very next I have masani salaam says to ally turns to God, and He says, a lot of be in
the Volume Two enough seefeld fiddly Master, I have wronged myself, forgive me, he doesn't justify
Well, you know, he kind of asked for it. Or it's not my fault, I didn't really do it on purpose. In
		

			other words, you can't even take the kind of action that might jeopardize somebody else's life. Even
if even if you see them as a criminal, and not just any criminal, it's not just that he's stealing.
It's not just that he's pushing somebody around, he was on the verge of killing someone else, even
then killing them isn't justified. And actually later on in the soul, I mean, if you hear this much,
you might even think maybe the Quran is asking for us to be pacifist, like this kind of thing should
happen. And we shouldn't get involved. That's not the case either. Because the same thing repeats
itself the next day. And so when musallam is faced with the same scene again, actually he learns his
		

			lesson. So when eventually does he does decide to intervene. The Quran describes for Lama Radha and
yada, yada yada Villa de Guadalajara, when he went and he grabbed a hold of the enemy. Instead of
punching him, he actually diffused his weapon, his arms. In other words, he grabbed ahold of him get
involved, if you can stop the violence, not if you're adding to the violence, adding to the violence
is not going to stop the violence, it's only going to continue a circle a cycle that will never come
to an end. It's such a profound way of describing the value of human life, and how human beings us
as human beings cannot be quick to pass judgment. And that's the final thing I want to share with
		

			you here. There's been 1000 cases, if not hundreds of 1000s of cases of the Egyptians doing
oppression against the Israelites, and many countless Israelites have already died before the eyes
of Moses, he's seen this happen over and over and over again. And yet, he actually discovers that
that, you know, 10,000 in first case where he did intervene and did throw a punch and accidentally
kill someone. It's so happened that the Egyptian was actually in the right, and the guy he was
beating up was a con artist he was in the wrong. In other words, he misread the situation, just
because you've seen one thing 1000 times before or hundreds of 1000s of times before you that
		

			doesn't give you the right or me the right to assume what's happening in the next situation. You
know, the past is no indication of what's happening in the present. You know, you can at the most
make a best guess. But even in that circumstance, we're being told there is something called the
benefit of the doubt, even if things look obvious to you, especially when it comes to taking serious
action that can jeopardize somebody else's life. So I find these small excerpts really profound and
amazing. And what I find the most amazing about this is that people take action, sometimes even in
the name of Islam, and they say well retaliating because these are oppressors and we're supposed to
		

			do something about it. And yet if
		

			If you look at Moosa, who could have said exactly those words, his first response after having taken
such action was, this is from the work of the devil's panel but have them in our militia. So May
Allah protect us from being reactionary and mobilized, which had helped us gain more and more
insight about how the Quran preserves these cherished things like human life and how it gives us
value for them. Just like Camilla Hayden said, I'm already Kumara
		

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