Nouman Ali Khan – Counsel & Healing From 08-24

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			be shortly so the ciliary battle rock Tata melissani have called Kali hamdulillah salat wa salam, O
Allah, Allah Allah Allah He or savage pain so monokuma to light Hello with regard to everyone. So in
today's small reminder from the series counsel and healing, I wanted to talk to you about the 24th
of swords, and tile. Those of you that are not familiar, that's okay, we can do a quick introduction
to the slot. It was revealed to the Prophet social, I'm in Medina. And it was given to him after the
victories that were experienced in the Battle of butter. So it's post commentary after butter and a
lot of commentary on how we should process what happened and what we can learn from it and how to
		

			move forward from what happened.
		

			One thing about that is that Allah made a lot of demands that were precedented on the Muslims, like,
we didn't just accept Islam, we accepted the mission of the Prophet salallahu alaihe salam, and
these companions of the Prophet salacia are now asked to put their lives on the line and sacrifice
practically all of their earnings. For the purposes of furthering this mission of Islam, both
obviously, the Mahajan would have lost everything to come to Medina and even the Medina and unsought
were asked to make enormous sacrifices. So from the beginning, even our show and others actually
mentioned how Allah has made a lot of very serious demands from the Muslims that are not
		

			comfortable, they're not easy to follow. And in doing that, they okay.
		

			So in doing that, Allah azza wa jal then,
		

			you know, encourages Muslims to take that extra step in this idea, and he tells us something that's
universal, it's not just limited, obviously, to the companions that Allah was talking to. But he
gave us something very powerful and universal that I wanted to highlight. So let's go to the side,
this is the 24th Yeah, you have lived in Amherst ajibola, he will have a soul without the outcome,
demography, those of you who claim to have faith or have come to the faith, respond, and it's the G
will can also mean try to respond, do your best to respond and have a desire to respond is
different, you know, in quote, incorporates those meanings. So try to respond, respond, have a want
		

			of responding to Allah and His Messenger when they invite you when he invites you to that which will
give you life. So the prophet SAW Selim is calling them to the battlefield, and Allah is calling
that life.
		

			You think calling somebody to the battlefield is then being called to death. But what Allah has done
is rewired the mind of a Muslim, when Allah is asking you to make a sacrifice of what you think is
yours, like a person whose life they feel is theirs. And Allah is asking this, the Sahaba to
sacrifice their lives, you know, when it comes to this mission, or sacrifice their money when it
comes to their mission, actually, they're not sacrificing at all. They're investing into themselves,
they're building their own life. So we think of our obedience to Allah as doing something for our
lives, that which will give us life and not just in Lima your vehicle, he didn't even put a paid on
		

			it for the asset, meaning he didn't restrict it to the afterlife, but actually truly bring you to
life in this life. And in the next. So our response to Allah and His Messenger, our response to the
word of Allah, our response to the calls and the demands of the messenger social, are actually for
ourselves, and they really truly make us feel alive. This is actually our core of our belief. And
then he says this, this is the thing that I wanted to highlight today. Well, Allah and Allah Hulu
binal, Maria Calvi, you should know, you better know that Allah intervenes. And Allah comes in
between the person and their heart. So very strange expression, unique expression in the Quran,
		

			Allah intervenes between a person and their heart. So what I want to first tell you about the word
yahuda, kind of want to give you a visual understanding. There are two things I'm horrible at
drawing, by the way, but doesn't matter. So there's this, here's one box, here's another box, and
they were supposed to be joined with each other, but somebody placed something in between them,
right? So this, this would be the heart, this would be the heart.
		

			So it's too far up.
		

			Right that that's what comes in between. The thing is, it's touching this box, and it's touching
this box, without it in between, they would have been touching each other but now both sides of them
are touching what is in between. Allah says Allah comes in between a person
		

			and their heart and it's not literally Allah but Allah creates an intervention Allah
		

			creates an environment and Allah creates an influence that is between myself and my heart. Now what
in the world does that mean? It has several layers of meaning I'll highlight a couple of them for
you. One of them is that Allah is the one who inspired you to want to respond to this messenger, the
feeling of wanting to accept Islam, the feeling of wanting to do something for Allah, and to obey
Him. And to believe in Him is a feeling of love put inside you, but that feeling has to transform
into action, right? You can't just have that feeling and then not do something, it has to transform
into action and alive seeing from that feeling, and from those neurons firing and from that heart,
		

			feeling that warmth, to you actually saying and doing the right thing. It was Allah who was actually
in between that journey between intention and action, Allah actually intervened and empowered you
and empowered me to go from that intent to actually being able to execute and do something right. So
that that that was a high in between. So my intention and what we think of our intentions lead to
our actions, right? And our actions lead to results. But Allah is saying your intention, I endorsed
your intention, I blessed your intention. And then after blessing, your intention, I allowed it to
connect to your actions and the results of those actions. In fact, it wasn't just your intention and
		

			action, it was intention, Allah is intervention and then actions. So he's in between both of them.
So it's really powerful, that I don't even think of what I'm able to accomplish, except that Allah
allowed me to accomplish it. It wasn't just my intention. But he came in between both of them. And
this is a divine gift. It's like Allah saying Allah divinely intervenes in any good thing that I do.
That's divinely inspired. That it didn't just happen because I intended it or I thought about it.
But now the flip side of it, which is the scary side of it, oh, this is this part in between that
I've drawn so poorly. This is a divine
		

			gift.
		

			And if you don't appreciate this divine gift, then it won't work the way that you it's meant to
work. In other words, if Allah intervened and inspired you to take the right action and you still
didn't take that action because the I began respond to a lender messenger you felt the need to
respond Allah even give you the inspiration to respond and to connect it to your actions, but you
and I decided to get lazy you and I decided that Allah intervention No thanks. We took a step back
what is Allah do then that same Yahoo that Hi, actually Allah says nollie he moto Allah, you want to
turn the way you want to turn, I'll help you turn that away. I'll facilitate that wrong turn for
		

			you, that's fine. You go whichever way you want to go. You're you're in the driver's seat. So what
does Allah do? Allah then allow, you know, a person gets disconnected from their intention and their
ability to do good deeds. It says, if you've been you know, some scholars would even say like, that
maybe Allah inspired you maybe made you hear something good that you should be doing, like you have
money right now. And you could have given some charity, for example, right? Or you have health right
now and strengthen, you could have helped a family member move some furniture or something, right.
Or you have the ability to stamina right now you could have gone to the masjid and pray, you have a
		

			car, your fuel, you have opportunity, you have time, you don't have a tough work schedule, you could
have gone and prayed you could have done, you could have done this opportunity of good deeds, that's
Allah intervening between your heart and creating an environment where you can do good, right, so
that Allah being hired, opened up financial opportunity for you physical opportunity for you, maybe
some people came in your path, that you could have earned a lot of good deeds by helping them that
could have happened that was also loving her in between Allah, Allah will bring you a copy. But if
you didn't take advantage of those opportunities, it may be that Allah will then create a barrier.
		

			This is the scary part of this idea alone might create a barrier between me and the good that I was
gonna be able to do. And then all I'll be left with is an empty intention, and no opportunity or no
strength of will to actually do the right thing. So when you have the chance to do it, do it. Don't
say I'm not ready. I'm not sure a lot of people lie to themselves. I can't tell you if you're lying
to yourself. You can't tell me if I'm lying to myself. You have to be honest with yourself about
this. We have to self assess, and we have to be able to say Am I procrastinating submission to
Allah? Am I procrastinating doba to Allah? Am I putting off doing the right thing that I know is the
		

			right thing. I know I have the ability to do it. And I'm putting it off just because I feel
something in me says lazy enough that I'm not ready. When you act in that lazy way and lie to
yourself and I lie to myself, Allah might take that opportunity and that bless it into intervention,
that divine intervention that he has, he might turn that off for us. And we might create a schism a
gap between my intention
		

			And my ability and my opportunity and my will actually my eventual strength of will to do the right
thing. We don't want that to happen. It's, it's I explained this often with other analogies like,
		

			you know, some of we've been given the blessing of our eyes, right? We we open up our eyelids,
there's moisture in our eyes, we're able to see comfortably, right. But if somebody were to put a
bandaid on their eyes and keep it on for six months, a year, two years, not take it off, then when
they do take it off, they may not be able to see anymore, the muscle hasn't been exercised, they can
actually go blind. There's such such a thing called muscle atrophy, right? If you lie in bed for
two, three years, you're not going to be able to stand up, your legs won't be working, right? Allah
has given you an ability, if you don't exercise that ability, then the divine gift of using that
		

			ability can be taken away, it can be taken away, so avail the opportunity you have now I better take
advantage of what Allah has given me and make the most of it. Now, instead of saying, I got time,
not yet, I'm not ready and put you know, delay or consider ourselves weak. So let us sing bring
yourselves to light and you know, give give yourselves life by responding to Allah and His
messenger. And then you know, when when he calls you to that, which will give you life and finally
he says, well enough, we lay it off Sharon, and to him, all of you will be returned anyway. So and
then on that day, the excuses we tell ourselves aren't going to they're going to fall flat. The
		

			other really beautiful thing about the cya that I find very empowering, is that Allah is always
really saying that when you have the right intention, and you make the make the, you know, you
acknowledge that Allah is inspiring you that it's actually we are empowered by Allah Himself to do
amazing things in this life. Like you shouldn't have small goals, you should set high goals for
yourself, because Allah Himself, Yahoo, Lubin and Maria Calvi, divine intervention is coming between
you and your intent. And it will, if you if you use it in the right way, it will empower you. And
you'll be able to do things you never thought possible because it's Allah allowing you to do it.
		

			It's a lie empowering your effort, your effort, maybe this little, but the results will be divinely
empowered. Right. And that's not because of your effort is because of that divine intervention in
between that work that that works. It's divine, you know, a supernatural miracle and turns it into
something you could never have imagined. That's what we want from Allah. So have high objectives
have high goals for yourself, don't just, I shouldn't just think of myself as someone I just don't
want to do the wrong thing I want to get by just by doing the bare minimum, no have, you know a
higher objective respond to Allah and the messenger when they call you. In other words, there's a
		

			mission, there's a higher purpose, live up to understand it, and then make your life about it. My
language does really help us find meaningful purpose in our lives, and leave a good legacy behind.
And milazzo always be, you know, the highest between ourselves and our hearts that in that inspires
us to do and empowers us to do more and more good. And I pray Allah brings good out of your life,
for yourself, for your family, for your loved ones, for your community and for the world in ways
that you never imagined. And we'll accept all of those efforts from you. A lot of Kalani welcome. So
I want to come on over to my title.