Nouman Ali Khan – I’m Not Able to Recite the Quran

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			another what I thought was a really important question that was asked in my tutor was by a young man
who had a hard time reading Quran. He said, you know, I'll keep trying to include on and I don't
read it that well, and this young man had a really sense like a very sensitive personality. And one
time he was listening to the radio somewhere in Pakistan or something and he was listening to
children recite Quran, right? And this young boy recited so beautifully. And the teacher said,
Subhanallah you have a really pure enough's you have a really pure soul, a really pure person. And
that's why Allah gave you the ability to recite the Quran. So, you know, so easily. And this young
		

			man heard this and got really disturbed because he felt maybe I can't recite hold on because I don't
have a good person. I'm not a good person, something missing in my soul, you know, and you really,
really took it to heart. Now I'm sure that's not the intention of the teacher who was talking to the
child that was a means of encouragement. But let's understand, I might have to call on NASA for a
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			told us the experts in the Quran are among the highest ranked angels. But the ones who stumble in
it, keep keep stuttering, they can't pronounce words properly, they can't read properly, and they
find it very difficult every time. These are people that could get twice the reward. The people who
get twice through or another shorthand that Hadith is different discussion. Is it twice the reward
of a regular person? Or is it twice the reward of the expert? And I'm personally inclined to think
it's twice the reward of the expert. There's no reason to think otherwise. Because Allah does not
value accomplishment. Allah values effort. The thing that Allah values is effort we value
		

			accomplishment. Human beings are different from Allah, human beings value accomplishment even means
value, results, profit gain, you know, how much do you know how much have you memorized? How can you
read quantitative stuff? Because we want to be able to see it allows the widget is not concerned
with any of these things are less concerned with how much effort did you make put this in
perspective, somebody who's a billionaire, they give $1,000 in charity, it's a good amount of money.
That's worth something. But you know what, somebody has zero, they have nothing, and they give 50
cents, they only have $1 and they give 50 cents, that 50 cents is worth more to a lead than the
		

			$1,000 a billionaire.
		

			It's not about the quantity to Allah, it is about the quality. The same thing with the effort. You
can recite Quran you're not a bad person. The fact that you're trying to recite the Quran the fact
that you're struggling through every single letter and going through it that struggle Allah put you
in a lot had a low wanted he could have made it easier for you had a low wanted Masada Salam would
not have a stutter. Had a low wanted for at all would never had a reason to say well, I cuddle up
and he can't even talk clearly almost people have disabilities or challenges or difficulties in
life. Some people have a physical disability. Some people have, you know, a psychological disability
		

			challenge in their lives. These challenges are actually given by a lousy religion, and we don't know
why we know that that's not because Allah curse them, or they are lesser than us. Maybe that's the
reason they're better than us. That those disabilities are actually maybe the reason they are far
superior to what we will ever ever be. You know, so we have to be mindful of the fact that our
standards, thank Allah, our standards are not the same as the lowest standards. People put other
people down. People look down on people that haven't accomplished. You know, I keep telling my
Arabic students because you know, Arabic class you judge by accomplishment, right? How would you
		

			score on the test? How well can you speak? How can you read? You know, how much do you understand
grammar? I have this one student man, this guy, he, uh, you know what I like to say about him. I
like to say Allah didn't create him for Arabic.
		

			So I like to say, guy's a genius. He's so smart in this profession. He's so smart at work. He's so
smart. And anything he touches turns to gold. guy's a genius. When it came to Arabic, homeboy could
not get past a 30 on a test just couldn't do it.
		

			And this guy is straight. He literally studied more than any other student I've ever met. More than
any other students. hours and hours, hours and hours, day after day, day after day. And he's failing
the test and anybody else who fails the test gets depressed. They don't study for a few days. This
guy goes through all of his mistakes, does review that he does and he was a friend of mine even
before he became my student. And every other time I'd be like, call him like, Hey, you want to hang
out? No, I gotta study. I must teacher during the day. At night. I just want to hang out with him.
And he goes, No, no, I got to study. And you know what, even though he didn't score nearly as much
		

			as some other students who got hundreds I respect him. When
		

			And I know Allah azzawajal rewards him way more. Because for some people, it's the struggle. That's
that's the thing. That's the that effort. That difficulty is what Allah values and sometimes it will
put you in difficulty, because that's how he raises your ranks. That's how he puts you high, you
know. So don't let the assumptions that people make about you, or compare you're comparing yourself
to others and what little you know or what little you can do. Don't let that deep belittle what
Allah thinks of you. You know, this is this is the real value. We know an economical Mandela has the
most noble of you are the ones that have the most Aqua, taqwa will never be known by another person.
		

			It'll just never be known. So I pray that we're not judgmental of others. And especially we are not
judgmental of ourselves that we don't think of ourselves constantly in respect to others, in
comparison to others. barakallahu li walakum wa salaamu Alaikum wa rahmatullah Africa.