Nouman Ali Khan – Friday Sermon 02-02-2024

			So you need sense, or you need government support, or you need funding for your project. If you're
doing good, we will let you do good. We're not going to get in the way, we're not going to give you
money, we'll leave you alone.
		

			And you're and if you're sincere, your reward is with Allah anyway. So you see, because sometimes
corruption doesn't just happen from criminals, people come to the people of power. And they say,
Hey, we're doing so much higher, give us some money. And he says, No, if you're doing Hey, Allah
will reward you anyway. And Allah will provide. I'm not going to endorse one project over another. I
don't know you people enough. I don't know you enough. So there's actually there's a there's a
takeover. But there's also a level of independence is he's hands off also. He's not he's not
meddling entirely. This is one situation. This is not a war. This is he's taken over, but he's taken
		

			over in a soft way. When he continues his journey.lu Isla, you know,
		

			our common lemenager, Nahum, Indonesia cetera, Gallic, very different approach. They'll complain
with all of his army, all of his resources, all of his technology, he comes to a place where there's
basically no real, they're so backwards, they don't even have real buildings. You can think of it
like that, because they don't even have safety from the sun, which means they don't have real
architecture.
		

			And he tries to see what's going on with these people and realizes these people have a long way to
go. There's no way I can force them to become like us. I'm going to have to let them be Catholic.
Because I have to now be Mullah de cobre. Some people have to be just left alone. Just leave them be
let them do this policy to some people just leave them to their own devices. They can't be helped
right now, maybe some other times, if we can help them right now. It doesn't look like we can help
them. And he let them be. You would think everywhere he goes, he applies the same policy. He
doesn't, because one place different policy, another place different policy. And then he goes to the
		

			third place. And we know the famous story. He goes to this third place, he's barely able to
communicate with these people, which also shout at them suggests he went very, very far from his
homeland. And he's out in the mountains somewhere, apparently, because Venus Dana's mentioned.
Right? So he's out in some mountain region, hard to access. And when he gets there, he can, he can
barely communicate with these people. And when he finally is able to communicate with them, they
tell him that there's this group of bandits, these, you know, Raiders, huge, huge. They come and
they just kill and they take our animals and they burn our village or whatever. And they come every
		

			now and then, and they read, and then they disappear into the mountain, they come from that valley.
They come from this pass.
		

			Now Allah says about gold company that he's been given suburb, which means he's been given a
military. He's been given the power to fight, he could stay there, wait for them to come and fight a
war with them. You could do that.
		

			He chooses not to do that. He chooses, he realizes if he dedicates an army here, you can think of it
this way, if he dedicates an army here, he can no longer continue.
		

			Because Allah only mentioned three of his stops, doesn't mean he only had three stops.
		

			But also he has his own empire to take care of.
		

			And he's not going to take run a proxy war from a distance for people he doesn't know.
		

			So instead of getting involved directly in the military fight, he says, Look, right now, the best we
can do is we need to build a defense so they can't come and attack you anymore.
		

			We need to build a wall.
		

			But he could have built the wall himself. He had the people he had the resources. But he says
attorneys Uber al Hadid hepatitis our Vanessa Fein Colin for who had Dinah Jana, who now don't call
the attorney of Nicola, he ketra. All that description in the Quran is what? It's what you can call
an engineering process. First, let's bring the metal then let's bring the copper then let the the
process of melting it, turning it into sheets and all of it. Why is he saying this to them? He is
teaching them how to build. He's teaching those people how to build, he could build it himself. Now
what happens for example, nowadays, China, for example, is making trade agreements with Muslim
		

			countries around the world. Right? So many ports in Indonesia are being bought by the Chinese
Indonesia, you hear the Adan all over Indonesia, except in the ports. You're not allowed to hear the
other and it's also the most populated Muslim country in the world. Right there. China is buying up
highways and building roads in Pakistan. They're making investments in Africa. They're going
everywhere, right? But when they go, guess what the workers, the engineers, the technology all comes
from where it comes from China, they do the work and then they take all the money they take all the
salaries and they go back and
		

			Now you keep paying them for the rest of your existence and your next generations. That's the plan.
Sounds good for now. You pay for it later. The point the point isn't to bring jobs and bring
prosperity to the locals, to bring technology to the locals. Actually, the technology remains with
them, the resources remain with them. The local name comes and says to the local people who barely
know how to speak Remember, these people barely know how to speak. But before you know it, he's
teaching them while engineering.
		

			And he's teaching them the process of building this. And why teach them the process of building this
because anything you build, over time can deteriorate. And when it deteriorates, if they know the
process, they can keep fixing it. And if there's a huge, huge on the other side, they're trying to
break the wall. And every time they try to break the wall, there's damage to it. Now these people
can keep fixing the damage and maintain it because he's not going to be there to maintain it.
		

			So now he's empowered these people to build for themselves to learn for themselves. Allah azza wa
jal gave us a remarkable example of a powerful figure who employed different strategies in different
locations, different situations, different solutions, there is not one solution in the Quran, if you
have our you must do this. No, you got to look at the reality, the welfare of the situation, and
then decide what is the best course of action. What Muslims have done, unfortunately, a lot of times
is we see a problem. And we see we know one story that inspired us. And then we use that one story
and say, here's the solution, pick up the sword. Here's the solution, do this, this this because I
		

			know this one story, that's the solution, this one profit use, or that's the solution. This one's a
hobby use, we take one solution, and we think it fits every problem.
		

			The Quran is teaching us through this remarkable story. Even when you have power, you don't have to
use all of your power, you have to be strategic in your use of power.
		

			And you have to build power in a way that sustains it sustained. So when he established justice in
one community, justice is one of the foundations of a real society. When you build technology in one
community, if you don't have technology and science and development in a community, that community
can never prosper, if they don't know how to build for themselves. If they don't know how to
construct and develop for themselves, they can, they will always be dependent on someone else. And
someone who has better technology will them than them will always be able to attack them and
overtake them. So they have to advance themselves. This is part of the message of the Quran.
		

			And after all of that, after all of this empire building, you know, the British Empire used to say
the sun cell shall never set on the British Empire. That's what they used to say. And funnily
enough, they ended up in only in England now, where it's always cloudy. So the sun's practically
always on the British Empire. But you know what, at the end of all of that Volker reign is not
looking back and saying, and this empire shall last until forever.
		

			Glory to the emperor, he says, you know, how it will be, it will be the Allahu dukkah what kind of
adorably haka, he is not in love with his own empire. He's not worshiping his own accomplishment.
He's saying this wall that we've been able to build, and this progress that we've been able to make
all of this is from my Rob, and when Rob decides, this wall will be gone.
		

			But in this and why, but this is the last message I want to share with you in this hotbar today, why
go through all the trouble to build this giant wall? And at the end of it, say, well, Allah is gonna
destroy it one day, it's okay.
		

			Then you could just say, Well, what was gonna destroy it anyway? Why am I even building it? What's
the point? Right? It's kind of a nice, holistic a negative view of the world. Why do you want me to
try it? It's all going to end anyway. It's all going to be finished anyway. What's even the point?
No matter what we do, he realizes that Allah has expected from human beings to do their best
spiritually, but also materially, also the resources Allah gives you is an Amana and you have to
make the most of them. Human effort has to be at the maximum. It has to be at the maximum. And then
Allah decides when he decides that it will be replaced with something else. But that's not your
		

			problem. Don't make Allah's problem yours. That's Allah's, that's Allah's mandate. Your mandate is
key buildings. Your mandate is keep expanding. Your mandate is think huge. What is the inspiration
that especially young people sitting here should take from the story of local nine?
		

			whatever resources we have to really look at the resources Allah has given us. You know, America is
in an amazing place and people complain about this place. I am
		

			Good, I've had a chance to travel so much of the world. And when I come back to the United States, I
think Allah that I live here with all of its problems, but all of us, I think, a lot that I live
here. And I think a lot for the Muslims that live here. And I'll tell you why there are you have an
opportunity here to get an education that you don't have in most of the world, you have an
opportunity here to start a business like you cannot start in most of the world. There are places in
the world, if you hear you want to start a hello pizza place, you could do it, you can pull it off,
you want to start a hello pizza place in some Muslim countries. You know how many politicians you
		

			have to bribe? You know, how many bigger pizza places are going to come? Kill your coworker? Kill
your workers or buy them out? Or somebody's gonna come and say this is my land? No, it's not. Yes,
it is. I decided today that this is my land.
		

			And my uncle is the governor. So what you're gonna do.
		

			And this happens every day, you can do it. And how many people can get it, they're getting
education. They're They're young men and women all over the Muslim world, getting a bachelor's
degree, getting a master's degree, getting a PhD becoming dark medical license, doctors driving
Ubers
		

			selling bananas on the street, medical doctors, you don't see that here. You have an opportunity.
You have sub people that are much smarter than you and me, Allah did not give them these as Bob.
		

			They're much more. And I've seen them. I've seen the youth and the Muslim world. They are superior
in their intelligence. They are incredible. But they don't have the resources.
		

			And here we are sitting on some of the most abundant opportunity and resources in the world.
		

			And when we have those resources, our responsibility isn't just to build here. But in fact, we
should expand east west and in every direction.
		

			And we should be thinking about how to expand and enhance our influence. I'm not going to go down
the road of naming other countries or other other ethnicities or minorities. But I can tell you,
there were other minorities that came to this country.
		

			100 years ago, 150 years ago, minorities came to this country. And when they came to this country,
they were treated like dogs.
		

			They were not treated like VIPs. They controlled nothing.
		

			And they decided that whatever suburb they have, they're going to build more as Bob with it.
		

			For at barrel suburban, that's what they did. And you know where they are now. They influence
government, domestic policy. They influence education, they influence media, they influence
multinational corporations, they influence international politics and funding.
		

			They went from that to that. How do they do it? Well, there's not some formula in The Hague. Allah
has given us the formula already in his own book. We believe in Allah, we follow the book of Allah,
we have to call in Allah. But while we have to according Allah, we are also supposed to be strategic
people thinking bigger than our own locality.
		

			You know, you can now who fell out, it was not enough for him. That was just the starting point.
He's in his land, and he's gotta go, he's gonna go far and far and far and keep going farther and
farther and farther. Wherever he goes. He wants to make those people independent. Can you imagine
those people that learn how to build a wall using that same technology, they'll also learn how to
build something else, they'll build swords. They'll do other things with metal, they'll build other
tools. By the time he comes back and 50 years, they're the metal resource in the entire region. Who
knows, he started something, he started something that will expand into something colossal,
		

			something absolutely massive. This is the kind of building and thinking that Muslims need to develop
all over the world.
		

			This is an I argue, unlike the situation of Musa alayhis salam where he was entirely helpless. He
was entirely helpless. The Muslims, no matter how much they tell themselves, that they are entirely
helpless. They are not that is a lie, that we tell ourselves. We do have resources. We have the
human resource, we have the intelligence, we have the talent, we have the opportunity, we have the
risk, even if it's small or big, we can invest into each other, we can build with each other. There
are neighborhoods of Muslims. I see I just came from Sydney, the last thing I'll share with you, I
came from Sydney and Australia. And I went to a neighborhood which has like, you know, the Muslim
		

			neighborhoods like you know, we have in New York, we have like Jackson Heights or Steinway street or
whatever, right? The Muslim neighborhoods. If you go to a Muslim neighborhood in Queens
		

			in 1995
		

			and you come back to that Muslim neighborhood in the same neighborhood in this area,
		

			and 2005 and then you come back in 2015 and you come back in 2025. And I've done it not 25 yet, but
I've done it. I can't tell the difference.
		

			I look at that place and I say men time stops here.
		

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			Doors are still hanging outside on the street. The street is still as dirty as it always was, the
neighborhoods still exactly the way it was. Everything's exactly the same, Mashallah. And then there
are other neighborhoods with other ethnicities and other communities that were a certain way. And
now they become some of the most elite developments in the entire state.
		

			Why does that happen? Because they're not satisfied, keeping things where they are, they're thinking
about expansion and making things better for everyone. This is not just about you growing your own
pizza shop. It's not just about you. He's going and empowering other people, they empower each
other, they help each other, they give each other business advice, they don't see each other as
competition. They cooperate and build and build and build together. They do that with each other.
And this is election, he describes this and says, Well, Latina, Cafaro. But
		

			this is Wilaya. And they do it. And this is the kind of thing that local nine was described as doing
in his journeys across the world.
		

			It's remarkable that this is this is the culminating story in the Surah. And, you know, there's lots
of ways to analyze these stories and social gohealth and lots of ways to compare them. But one way
you can certainly think about is the youth, the US How will come up in the beginning or powerless,
right? And Allah miraculously helped them, Allah helped them in a way that we can, we can't, you
cannot expect to go into a cave, and Allah will put you to sleep for 300 years, that's not going to
work for you. Okay, so that's not that's not a formula for you. Sometimes Allah helps nostril min
Allah that comes from Allah fine. The second story is the gardener who had resources, but he misused
		

			his resources. He was selfish in his resources, and Allah took away his resources.
		

			So the misuse of power is in the second story. When you get to the third story, again, you find a
situation of helplessness, just like in us, how will you find a situation of helplessness and this
time, no Nussle from Allah came?
		

			No, okay, just the situation's happening. And you have to watch it happen and be frustrated. And
finally came the situation where you have some power, and you're going to use it properly. So one of
the ways of the dynamics of the surah is actually power and lack of power, power and lack of power.
And we have to think about where are we in that scheme of things? Where am I in that scheme of
things? And what kind of mentality do I have to put inside of my children and coming generations?
What kind of impact are they supposed to have? We keep talking about us as being a united onma. We
cannot be a civilization a powerful civilization. If we don't learn to think big, if we don't learn
		

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			As was mentioned, inshallah I'll be here starting tonight, from seven to 10pm, we're going to be
doing a deep dive study of a single Surah of the Quran, it's going to be sorted out.
		

			And it is, I know that I made this announcement in the last year or two. But I want you all to know
that of all the rules that are mentioned in the Quran. The one area the one subject that Allah talks
about more than any other law in the Quran is divorce. It's the most detailed subject in the Quran.
Allah puts everything in the right balance Allah revealed Amis on so clearly there's an importance
to the subject that Allah says that we need to see also. And for that reason, it's not just
important to people that are going through it or have gone through it and things like that, that
need to understand this subject. This is something that the entire Muslim community really properly
		

			needs to understand, because it's that pivotal and that important. So inshallah tonight is when I'm
going to be starting that study some of the some of the cool things that we're going to be covering
just I want you to know, we're going to be looking at how the Christians looked at marriage and
divorce, how the Jews looked at marriage and divorce. How did the Arabs look at marriage and divorce
before Islam? How did the Americans look at marriage and divorce? You know, through the Constitution
until now, how did England look at marriage and divorce? And how is the Quran? Looking at the same
thing? What is it adding? And what is it taking away? How is the Quran saying something different or
		

			the same as all of this literature and all of the societies that have the same institution and then
we're gonna go aisle by aisle through the entire Sora and channel dialogue. So that's our adventure.
Hopefully it will create an interest in you family members, even non Muslims are welcome to come to
get an idea of what the Quran is actually talking about. You know, so hopefully I'll see you guys
tonight in sha Allah, there's a registration but you don't need to worry about that tonight just
come and see how the program goes when I do recommend the program for at least 1112 years and older
because it's an adult subject inshallah. So I'm
		

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selected Asha Inshallah, from today this week will be at eight o'clock. salata Asha, only this week
from today from tonight. Until next Friday.