Nouman Ali Khan – Amazed by the Quran – S02 – EP03 Company in Paradise

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah Welcome to amazed by the Koran, a series in which I like to share with
you things I find amazing about the Quran and today inshallah, it sounds geeky, but I'll talk to you
about the difference between singular and plural in the Quran and actually sometimes different kinds
of plurals. In the Quran, which, yeah, it sounds grammatical, but I'll make sure that it's easy easy
to understand. Our first case is actually a description of judgment. A Allah says about people who
are lamenting on judgment day there, they're about to be thrown into devastation. They didn't make
it to heaven. And they're saying family, and I'm in chapter 18, well, as a defense, I mean, we don't
		

			have people that are going to make a case for us, we don't have any friend that is intimate and
close. Now in this in this language, the first group that they complain, they don't have in their
favor, on their side is shaffir, in which is plural people who will make a case for us. And then
they say, we don't have a single friend that is close to us. So you can have him an intimate, close
friend. So they go from people who will make a case for us, which is plural, to a single friend,
which is really powerful. Because, you know, if you ask around somebody, hey, what do you think of
this person? You're right, they're cool. You know, it's, you can find lots of people that are okay
		

			with you, you know, they don't know you well enough. And if they seem like a good person that says
shafia, that's someone who came and said, Yeah, you know what, you're not that bad. But then to find
someone who's close and intimate and knows you deeply well, and then cares about your well being and
stops and tries to plead on your behalf that please don't let him go into the hellfire. And, you
know, I'll vouch for him, etc, those are not going to be a lot of people, there's not a single one,
right. So the the ones you tend to have many of the plural is used. And the ones that are maybe if
you find one, even if you could just find one, that would mean a lot, the singular is used. So this
		

			is an immediate switch from the plural, to the singular, it's very powerful and beautiful thermal
and diamond sharpening. When I said you can have even in doing so let me just describe something
that happens on judgment day. As a matter of fact, he described the nature of relationships, you
know, casual relationships, where people have good opinion of you are lots of them, there's
acquaintances that think highly of you or think okay of you, they don't have a poor opinion of you,
they're shafia, you know, but then, to have people vouch for you that are the closest, most intimate
friends, that's actually a testimony of character, because people that are very, very close to you,
		

			they know your flaws, they don't just know the good things about you, right. And so when they speak
highly of you, that's actually it means something, it actually genuinely means something that when
they speak highly of you. So that's kind of a subtle lesson that's taught just by the switch between
the plural and the singular. Another example of the plural, the single singular that I find really
beautiful, is actually about, again, the day of judgment, where there's a comparison made between
heaven and *. And in describing Heaven, Allah says, you'll feel who Jonathan, demon, Tatiana, and
how, Holly Deena here. So it begins with whoever would obey Allah and the messenger which is
		

			singular, whoever would obey Allah and His Messenger woman, Allah who you will he'll who he will
enter him, all singular, enter him not enter them, enter him jannatul drymen tequilana in gardens at
the bottoms of which even at the bottoms from the very bottoms of which rivers flow, Holly Dena, Fie
her in which they will remain forever, so that he will be entered, he will enter him into the
garden, but they they will remain in it forever. Holly dielines immediate switch. And if you compare
this to the next aisle, many as a la hora de la da, da, da, who, you who are on holiday, and whoever
would disobey Allah and His messenger and cross the limits that they've said, He will enter him into
		

			a fire in which he will remain. So there's they will remain, and then there's he will remain
immediate switch. Right. So what's really fascinating even about the first one is it started with
he, like, he will enter this person into heaven, where they will remain so it went from here to
there. And the second one was he and then still remains he. So I want you to appreciate this, this,
this switch that happened, especially when talking about heaven. Allah is describing the scenario of
someone who didn't have much company in this life, perhaps because of their faith, they were left
alone, perhaps because of their faith, everybody around them, abandoned them, their family disowned
		

			them, their friends left away from them, you know, and maybe because even when even if they were
around Muslims, they were the they were the only one who took their Islam seriously or something.
And as a result, they felt isolated, they felt pushed away from other people, you know, and these
are people who did not let go of their commitment to good deeds and obedience to Allah and His
Messenger, regardless of the pressure that came, regardless of the isolation that they felt. And
alone. One of the first gifts he gives them when he enters them into garden and into the garden of
heaven, in general, is that they're in company they're not, they're never going to be alone again,
		

			they will remain. So I'll actually put
		

			In the reality, it gives them a new family. It gives them company things that they lost out on
missed out on as a result of their Islamism as a result of their submission. Subhan Allah. Also
Additionally, the subtlety here is that we're being told that one of the joys of Heaven is company.
One of the joys of genda is actually friends hanging out with each other talking to each other for
Aquila Babu, Hamada berlinetta saloon, they're going to be facing one another, asking each other all
kinds of questions, man where you been? Haven't seen you forever? Well, you made it to her like
things like but you know, they'll be asking each other hanging out. They're going to be reminiscing
		

			about old times in Kanaka, Bluefin Alina machine, man, we used to have such a hard time with our
families, man. Like literally, they're not like that. Like they're they're reminiscing about old
times. And that's one of the joys of heaven. On the other end, though, Ally's describing the
disbeliever No matter how much he thinks he has company, no matter how many people he or she
surrounds themselves with, no matter how many people are dancing around with them in the club,
they're actually always alone. They're never, they don't never, they never genuinely have someone
with them, or relationship that will last you know, especially now it's not just any disbeliever The
		

			one who violates the laws of Allah and His Messenger, you know, that we're not just talking about
any non Muslims here, we're talking about culprits, who go out of their way to disobey Allah and His
Messenger, they they take the one thing that will give them peace, they never find peace in other
people's company, they just don't. They're always out only for themselves. And then what happens?
One of the one of the, like, the torments of * for them, is that they are in it. And they feel
like they're the only one in it. You know, one of the worst kinds of prison evil in this world is
solitary confinement. It's like, it's, it's prison itself is torture. But on top of that, the
		

			solitude and the loneliness that you are, that is imposed on you for months on end, you lose track
of time, people lose their sanity as a result, you know, and that's actually the feeling these
people get. There is not even the constellation at least I'm not the only one being burned. At least
I'm not the only one being punished. No, it's not like that. They're gonna feel like they're the
only one Holly Dunphy, her mother who are double mahina and he will have humiliating punishment May
Allah make us from those who are punished, you know, so that these are just a couple of quick
examples of the singular and the plural, and how these quick switches create such beautiful lessons
		

			and such powerful insights barakallahu li walakum wa Salam Alikum See you next time.
		

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