Nouman Ali Khan – Dignified Humility

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			it's an honor to be here. And I'm going to start by making dua for all of you and all of your
families that Allah azza wa jal to preserve you, protect you and your deen and put baraka and do
this and allow you to raise children that are going to be carriers of this deen and further Islam in
this part of the world.
		

			Today's hubbub in order to help me deliver its message, I want you to understand the concept. The
Arabic term for it is a Nyssa Association. But I will try to explain it to you by way of some easy
examples before we get to the idea that I want to discuss with you.
		

			If somebody says, Hey, you have a very famous scholar, and you meet a student of that very famous
scholar than the student, people point to them and say, you know, he's he's the student of Cher, so
and so. So they created a nice Bob, and association between the student and their teacher, and all
of a sudden your opinion of this person changed, because now they're associated with something high,
or someone prestigious, or you assume them to be more more knowledgeable someone you can ask
questions to because there's a connection. Similarly, if I were to say to you, this is this person
works for the President, all of a sudden, this becomes high profile, because he's got a direct line
		

			of access to the President. But this works in negative ways, too. If you know, you know, somebody
who has a criminal history and you say this guy is that guy's best friend, you know, the guy in jail
that says Best Friend, automatically, he's probably halfway guilty already. probably already done
something messed up because he's associated. You don't get it. You're you're either dignified by
association, you became a VIP by association, or you became a criminal by association. You're guilty
by association. You're honored by association, right? And people do this a lot and they make they
try to make an association with someone to maybe feel better about themselves. Right and we do this
		

			so much in our life that you know, if somebody ever got a chance to meet the President or got a
chance to meet I don't know, some some billionaire or something and they take a picture with them.
Then we'll just take the picture and keep the maybe print the picture, put it in their home anybody
walks in, really? And that's your that's your Facebook profile, or that's your background profile
image because people need to see who you are.
		

			are associated with, because they're like, oh, wow, let's try. This got some connections, you know.
So the idea of association everybody understands.
		

			But now think of it another way. You know, there's a lot of stories about Amazon, the company,
Amazon, and one of the stories about them is that they, especially in the United States, that they
have very gruesome, grueling working hours for their employees, and they don't give them any breaks
and they keep them on a timer and all of this kind of stuff. So when you say, Hey, this guy works
for Amazon, or he works in the Amazon warehouse, immediately you start feeling sorry for them.
		

			Like he must not have another choice what to work here because the way they treat you I know. Right?
So if you associate someone with working for somebody who is oppressive, who is you know, treats
them badly, Oh, this guy's a taxi driver in that country. Oh, I know how they pay. I know how to
treat taxi drivers in that country. Man, you work for those people. I feel sorry for you. Right. Now
I'm giving you all of this, these examples to get to the point and the point is the IRA that I
wanted to share with you from social for con.
		

			The association we have is with Allah, we are a rebirth of Allah, we're slaves of Allah.
		

			So we're connected to Allah by that relationship with Allah called us in this ayah about Obama and
we are servants and slaves of Ramadan. So just like if I tell you I'm associated with this kind of
teacher or that kind of person, you immediately have an impression of what that must mean for me. If
Allah is telling us there are some people who are associated with Allah and not just the name of
Allah, Allah associated them with his name or Rama. These are rotmans servants. If you know a really
nice man, a human being a really nice man, you say, you know that really nice man who's always nice
to kids. These are his kids. These are his children. Immediately you would think Oh, mashallah,
		

			these kids are so fortunate they have such a loving father. I've seen him around children. He's so
merciful and so kind. They're so lucky. They must be being they must be raised with so much love.
When I call now think about Allah azza wa jal, Melinda and my fellow Darla, when you say about
Obama, and these are the servants of a black man, that must mean Allah must have so much Rama on
them. Allah must give them so much of his love and his care and his protection, and must always be
taken care of them. These are special people to Allah, because they're connected with Allah Ahmad.
They've given themselves to a rough man, and man is associating himself with them.
		

			And so with this description at the end of Soto foregone, that association that's made, it says
something about Allah and it also says something about us. It says about Allah that he takes he
takes care of his servants he loves and cares for his servants. Allah is not just there to impose
his authority on the serpents if he wanted. He could make us like he made the ant and the bird and
the tree that follow Allah's commands, whatever He tells them to do, they do. He made us with
choice, he made us we get to disobeyed him, too. And yet, he's still a rock man to us. He's still
merciful and loving to us. But on the flip side of that, from my perspective, me being connected to
		

			our man means that Allah is so has so much llama on me. What effect does that have on my
personality? Like, what does that do to the way that I deal with people? What does that do to the
way that I see everyone in my in life? I mean, a random stranger, what goes through my mind? I deal
with my family do I am I aware of the fact that I, at this moment, I represent a rock man, because
I'm associated with a rock man? Right? You know, sometimes you go to a restaurant and the waiter
treats you badly. Miss treats you and then you complain to the manager and he gets fired because
they cannot tolerate somebody misrepresenting the restaurants. You get fired.
		

			I as a as a man, am the candidate for the rest of humanity. I have to become the representative of
our man. They don't know him, they know me. And through doing me they have a chance of getting to
know him. So my treatment of them will immediately make them say, where did you learn this from? Why
are you like this? Who's behind this? Oh, no, that's because I'm a slave of man. That's where I got
that from. You see, that's how this this connection works. And if we don't represent the Russia of
Allah and the way we carry ourselves, then what impression are we giving not just about ourselves?
What impression what wrong impression are we giving about Allah to people, to our own family, not
		

			even to non Muslims, even the other Muslims. The first description of rebuttal Rockman at the end of
Soto for pan and Surah number 25. This is the last passage of Surah number 25.
		

			The first description Allah gave, you will think that people that are closest to a rock man will
pray to Him.
		

			They make dua to him, they still stay up in the middle of the night and they do it, I bother to him,
they give sadaqa for it and they give charity for him. They sacrifice themselves for him. They
worship Him all the time. They remember him all the time. None of these qualities were mentioned
first in fact, and Athena yet whether they may be tuned in, they will be him. So JW Akiyama, they
spend the entire night staying up for their master in such the and standing was the second quality
that was mentioned not the first.
		

			That's not the number one thing that makes them a bad man. There's something that's the number two
thing, which is pretty amazing. They stay up in the middle of the night. That's a hard thing to do.
There's just worship Allah. It's hard enough to for us to pray in the middle of the day, no magic in
the middle of the night. And then to do that long hours of the night. That's an incredible,
incredible quality, but Allah considers something even more incredible. And he put that as number
one. And what is that? And then I am sure neither of the Hohner
		

			anybody will respond or people who walk around on the earth. And I guess the one way to translate
this is with humility, but I'll explain that a little more hone in Arabic, is neuroma, a neuroma
What are Hawa? Well, Adam, Macaulay Salah button, it means you walk softly, they're gentle, you're
easy to deal with. So I'm walking on the by the way, walking on the Earth doesn't just mean walking
in a desert. It means going to the market, it means going to work. It means going to school, it
means hanging out with friends, it means visiting family, it means sitting and talking to people, it
means dealing with a difficult post office worker, it means difficult talking to the police talking
		

			to every interaction you're having is walking on the earth. That's what it represents. And now Allah
is saying these people their standard when they when they deal with people, people they know people
they don't know, their standard is they are soft, gentle, easygoing, in the way they deal with
people. You come and sit in a restaurant with your family. And you sit down and the person comes in
to waters. Noise, okay.
		

			But it's not Honan the person you just told you, a napkins, hey, we need some forks over here. When
you talk to them this way, then you don't see them as a creation of Allah, you see them as your
servant, and they owe you and you have to talk to them, like you own them. And you forget, and I
forget that I'm the adult batman. And actually they are also even if they don't know it yet, they
are also have no Batman. And so I have to treat them with that respect. And I have to say, Sir, if
you kindly could, can I have a couple of napkins? Can I please have some water? And by the way,
what's your name? And then calling them by their name? You know, if you get into the habit of doing
		

			that, just asking somebody that it's some people who serve you, what's your name?
		

			Sometimes you do that, you know what people do? They start crying. I've experienced it. You know
what, they start crying. like nobody's ever asked me that before. People don't even see me. People
just see that I'm late. People that have seen I didn't do this or that or the other. You treat
people almost like they're machines. But treating your employees feeding your children to neighbors,
feeding servers, treating random people you eat us with just a kind smile, which is soft language,
soft body language, somebody bumps it to you, you could do one of two things a watch, oh, what do
you do it? Or you could say, and they say I'm sorry? This is perfectly fine. Do you need help? You
		

			can you can do you have a choice? You have a choice between those two options. And Allah is saying
the people that are recognize that they represent our man all the time, they are disabled on the
earth, that when they go around and deal with people that they don't have this kind of reaction. But
then the question is, if you're so soft, people will walk all over you. You're told man, if you live
in a tough world, you can't just be nice, because then people will take advantage of you. And you're
just gonna get robbed and stolen from and all of that. Look, your manners is something else. And
your principles is something else. Just because you're nice doesn't mean you're allowing yourself to
		

			be taken advantage of which is why if you look look at the early commentaries on this ayah on the
meaning of the word hound in the mammoth Tabari, he noted noted many many Sedef who commented on
this idea and they keep repeating two words a Sakeena to one worker was Sakina leatherworker. Yanni,
I'm sure another Sakeena way I'm sure I've been to ACOP which means they work calmly. They're very
calm. So people around them become calm to they don't escalate a situation to de escalate a
situation. And yet at the same time, they walk with dignity. They have self respect. I'm not going
to be so kind that allow you to install
		

			For me, that's not going to happen either. So I don't have to become like a porcupine, I've got
spikes all over me. But you could even come near. But I don't have to become so soft that you walk
all over me either there is that balance that is captured in the word Conan.
		

			And even then you can you can put someone in their place. But you could do that with a smile. You
could do that kindly. And that's, that's what you have to learn to do what I have to learn to do if
we're going to be about Obama. And the thing is, some people are easy to deal with. And some people
are hard to deal with. Take the example of a teacher, a teacher has students in their class, some
kids are very well behaved. They listen, they respect the teacher, they're eager to do the work. And
some kids want to talk back. They want to disrespect, they want to get up, they don't want to
listen. And as soon as they don't want to listen, the teacher says, Hey, you said Ah to this to the
		

			immediate reaction, right? And imagine this principle that the teacher calls that one child that is
behaving misbehaving, the son that's misbehaving. The young man who's misbehaving the woman, the
girl that's misbehaving, calls them over, sits them down, has a gentle conversation with them. Do
you not like me? Is there something that you're angry about? Can you talk to me? I really want to
understand, where's this behavior coming from?
		

			And all of a sudden, they're like, I thought you're supposed to yell at me. Why aren't you yelling
at me? Are you being nice? Where's this coming from? This is actually called Hidden and this is part
of the deceit of home.
		

			That yet I'm Aluna. And that's when when they deal with people, they, the people were expecting
anger, and you treated them with dignity anyway.
		

			You know, there's there's somebody that not recent recently, that was going somewhere, and somebody
wanted to ask me a question. And it was a very long question. It wasn't me late at night, and they
wanted a long question to be answered. And I said, My dear, my family's waiting, my baby's sleeping,
I have to go there. But this is a very important question. I really need to ask me. So they asked
again, and I said, I would love to answer this question. But I cannot do that in 30 seconds, I'll
probably end up giving an entire lecture on this question for you. I can do that. But I can't do it
right now. Because my family's waiting if you allow me, but okay. I'm back to the CEO. Again, you
		

			have to answer this question. And then he was he was holding my hand. And he wasn't letting go of my
usual news sheet, the shake your hand and don't let go. So now I'm trying to pull back and he's not
letting go.
		

			Because this is a really important goal. And then you repeated the question as if I never heard the
question again. And at this point, I have a choice, I could pull my head and say, You know what,
leave me alone, and walk away. Or I could say, if you could just let go of my hand, then I can go
take care of my baby. And Inshallah, I will not be answering your question right now. Because I
can't, not because I don't care, because I can't. And I hope you can understand that as soon as I
have the opportunity. I will. Can you trust me?
		

			And he said,
		

			okay, okay. Yes, yes, I understand.
		

			There's different ways of dealing with people. There's different ways, there's that that
conversation could go a very different way that could go, I could just pretend not to even see the
guy next to him, Brother, brother, brother, brother, I could just walk right by him and not even
look at it, I could do that. That's an option. But it violates home, it violates them shoot out of
the home, and I'm not going to sacrifice the needs of my family to take care of him. I'm not going
to do that either. So I'm going to have to find that middle. And that's a Sakina when we're calling,
they're both things at the same time. And you'll be put in those kinds of situations all the time.
		

			But what's the extreme case?
		

			The extreme case is where the club have a winter jacket.
		

			What about you eat people that don't control their emotions? Sometimes you eat people like a very
angry journal is actually not just anger, as John means in an inability to control your emotions.
Somebody has the inability to control their voice or to control their behavior or to control their
temper or the control their their place. You know, somebody just grabs you and says, Hey, I want to
talk to you. Well, they go, man, what are you doing? Right? In those kinds of situation? What do you
do with that you de escalate the situation and Allah says called New cinammon which means two
things. They say Sudan they say peace, meaning I need you to calm down. Saddam also means goodbye.
		

			You walk away from the conversation. And Carlos Robert can also be a howl, which means they speak
peacefully even though they're raising your voice. You're not raising your voice. They're
escalating, you're not escalating. Right? And so as the time wraps up, because I know many of you
have to get back to work so I don't want to take long overtime from from the foot but but I'll share
one more quick idea with you this was some sort of for con. But the other idea that I wanted to
share with you in this context belongs to sulcal Israa. So also considered very sorry, Allah says
that while I attempt chief and OB Monahan Well, I think she even oblique Mara.
		

			Ha, don't walk on the earth with Mara, which also gets translated as pride. But let me tell you
something about mother
		

			land where the the plants grow super quick, is called out a balloon Madiha. Actually, that's what
it's called. Okay. And then when you shoot an arrow, and the arrow shoots out quickly, that arrow is
called modal. It's modal. Okay, certainly it sorry, I call it sorry, to say the second. That's what
actually modal means. What does that mean for us as a person, Allah says, Don't walk on the earth,
quick to react. Don't jump to conclusions. Don't just explode. Don't just, you know, be spontaneous.
Calm down, understand the situation absorb before you decide to react. It also maybe even suggest,
don't be quick to open your mouth.
		

			Maybe you open your ears better than you open your mouth. Right? This is what Adam Schiff said of
the Mara Hab. These are the qualities of everybody, man, this is what they develop inside of
themselves. This is a quality I have to develop in me and I have to see, maybe it's easier for me to
have this quality with some people because I like them. And it's harder for me to have this quality
with some other people because I don't like them. But actually the test here is to have this kind of
approach, even in even when dealing with difficult people, even when dealing with difficult people.
May Allah azza wa jal make us people that live up to the beautiful teachings of his book Milazzo to
		

			make a study about the man that walk on the earth, when hone that don't walk on the earth with Mara
that aren't spontaneous and overreacting and you know, combust and explode in anger or any kind of
reaction. May Allah give us that maturity and that composure that when people see it, they say,
where did you get that from? I've never seen anyone that has so much self control. How are you so
calm? Anybody else would have gone crazy. Why are you so composed? And then you say, Well, this is
from my era, a rock man, let me introduce you. So you didn't have to give Dawa. The way you carried
yourself? Actually wanted them to know when what university did you graduate from? That's the
		

			University of the word of Allah. That's where I got this from, right? May Allah azza wa jal make us
that kind of representative of His Word. And may Allah azza wa jal keep us from becoming like the
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