Nouman Ali Khan – Life’s Just Games & Entertainment

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			today's phobia is about an idea that belongs to SoCal and clubroot. It's similar Ayat occur in other
places in the Quran. Sometimes in the Quran, Allah will give us a comparison between this life that
we have these few years that we have to spend on this earth above the ground. And something that we
can observe, like to understand life itself, he'll give us a comparison. Sometimes he'll compare it
to rain and the growth of a plant. Other times we'll compare it to other things to give us some
perspective. This is one of those ions. But what's interesting about this idea is Allah did not
compare life to something, he almost made it equal to something this is in the Arabic language, this
		

			is called a test we had believed. And what that is in simple languages, you know, you see an
athlete, and you say, This guy is like a lion. You know, he's, he's like a lion on the playground,
but you use the word like, right, so when someone's listening to you, they can tell you're making a
comparison. But if you want to go really far, in your comparison, you just say this guy is a lion,
you don't even mention the playground, because that would make someone think you're talking about an
analogy, you equated this person to alive, right? So that's a very strong form of connection between
the lion and the athlete, even though literally, he's not a lion. Right. So this is the kind of
		

			thing that happens in the Quran, when two things are very closely related to each other. Or the more
the more you contemplate it, the more you will learn about the first thing, the second thing will
make you really understand the first thing So what Allah says about my life and your life that we're
living now, first of all, he says, my heavy hand here to dunya Javi is kind of Allah Fie, he feels
from a village a sense, you could just say worldly life. But he says this worldly life, he adds the
word this in the idea. And the idea of that is at the crib, what scholars of language call it
supreme. Meaning I want you to notice everything about this life of yours that you're experiencing
		

			this day, this year, this decade, you know, this experience these people that are in your life, this
work that you do this business that you do these friends that you have this family that you have,
every part of this life is kind of being focused, a lens is being brought on to it. And it's being
zoomed in on just with the word heavy. So when I when I had the hill, hacker dunya, he says, None
this entire life, this worldly life, amounts to nothing more. It's all it is, is loved one when it's
just two things, and a rough translation of loved one, whether it would be entertainment, law, who
can be translated as entertainment, you can also think of it as distraction. So two words, you can
		

			think about what the word level, Allah is saying this life has nothing but entertainment or
distraction. That's the first thing. And when he says we're live in a game, or a sport, or a match,
nowadays, we call it a match. Right? That's, that's all it is. So in this ayah, Allah has made me
think about entertainment. And he's made me think about distraction. And he's saying, delete,
connected between entertainment and distraction, and what's going on in this life, or what is
entertainment. At the end of the day, somebody's had a busy day at work, they're mentally exhausted,
they're tired, they get home, they're like, I just need to sit back and just watch some I don't know
		

			some highlights some sports highlights on YouTube or play some video games or watch a TV show or
something. Just need to let loose a little bit, entertain themselves or tell if kids want to be
entertained. Tell me a story, right? Kids want to be told a story or they want you to sing a song
for them or something like that. And of course when people get older you
		

			They just have the more adult version of the same thing. It's either the music industry or the movie
industry or the, you know, the the Netflix's and the Amazons, and all of that stuff, right? It's at
the end of the day, it's still the same thing that you want that as a child, you just want the
advanced version of it as an adult. When we're doing that, and somebody says, What are you doing?
Let me just relax, okay, I had a long day. Let me just can I just breathe a little, this is just my
take, this is me taking a mental break, right? This is me taking a mental break, you're not somebody
else's doing the work. And by the way, the difference between Lahu and Derek is that if you're doing
		

			the work, you're kicking the ball, you're taking the shot, you know, but in that hole, you're just
sitting back and somebody else is doing the entertaining for you, you're just watching and enjoying
or listening and things like that. But as you're doing that, you're what happens sometimes is people
get so lost in that, that they miss an appointment, or they get so lost, and that they forget to do
the groceries and the stores already closed now. Meaning the idea the Arabs associated entertainment
with distraction, because it's always taking you away from something that's more important.
Something needed your attention, something needed my attention. And I have lost track of time. And
		

			before I know it, you know, there's, you know, the time for it is over. Right. So the same thing
happens. For example, some of you students here you have an exam coming up or something, now there's
a break, but before the break, you had an exam coming up, and you're studying for something like,
oh, I need a break. I know the exam is in four hours, let me just turn on the PlayStation for a
little bit. And just let my you know, relax my mind. And before you know it, you're beating the
final boss and the game and you beat the entire game. And you're 20 minutes late for class and you'd
have you know, you forget the review, you almost missed the entire exam. I travel a lot. I've
		

			actually seen people miss their flights, because they were they had their headphones on. And they
were just watching something. And then they get look up and the there's a different city, this board
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			wasn't this going to Dallas, no, that flight already left, this is going to Miami now. You know,
		

			the idea of LA who is distraction, something that gets my attention and more important things that
had a limited time schedule, they passed me by the opportunity passed me by well Allah is saying
that life is full of this. In other words, in a 24 hour day between waking up and going to sleep the
conscious hours that I have, and you have there are priorities, there are things we have to get
done, every one of us has a to do list that we need to get done. And what happens is we get
distracted, and that To Do List barely gets touched, we get one or two things done, then the mind
gets distracted, we do something else and the things that you really had to do didn't get done and
		

			that's just one day, but then sometimes you're like this year I'm gonna learn some Arabic.
		

			This year I'm gonna memorize over sutras. But this year I'm gonna do this and you have people are
not in the in the modern world, people have all these new year's resolutions, right? We Muslims have
Ramadan resolutions or whatever. So we have these resolutions and they're like, I'm just gonna do
this. And then next Ramadan comes, it's getting closer. And you're like, yeah, yeah. So sad man.
I've been, I've been making this commitment for 10 Ramadan's now, and I just haven't gotten around
to, you know, this thought or this idea or this, this this commitment that I made or reading this
book, or learning more about the seal of the prophets like Selim or something, you made this
		

			commitment, you keep putting it off, putting it off, something else distracts something else calls
your attention, what the problem the problem with that is our inability to balance our inability to
say, Okay, this much time allotted for breathing room, but not enough not so much that it takes away
from important tasks, this needs, some things need to get done, they cannot be compromised, they
have to be addressed. Right. So Allah says, most people for most of our lives, we look back and we
say I wasted a lot of years, or I wasted a lot of time, or I could have done so much more with my
years, I could have done so much more with that time. And then life later on, you get you know,
		

			physically you you're less capable, financially, you're more strained, you're more responsible.
They're people depending on you, you don't have the kind of free time you used to have. Now you look
back and you're like I wasted my college years. I wasted my early, you know, pre married life and
all of that stuff I wasted all that time. And now when you have your children and they're hanging
out like you used to hang out, you're like, don't do what I did. Don't Don't waste your time.
Actually, you were a bigger waste of time in your years. But that guilt has piled up on you and
you're slapping it on to your next generation. Right? So this is what Lahu does. But more
		

			interestingly, Allah didn't just compare this life to love who he also compared it to learning, to
sports to games to a match. That's a really interesting comparison. Because a match is about
competition. You're trying to defeat an opponent, you're literally inside of that square if it's a
basketball court or it's a football field.
		

			yield, right or as a soccer field or something, you're at war with your opponent for those for those
90 minutes, or for those four quarters for that, you know, in that time, the only focus you have is
I have to defeat this enemy. That's all we have to do, we have to crush this enemy, right? So our
life is actually filled with a number of matches, you have some a challenge in front of you, and
you're going at it, you're focused on it. And while that match is happening, nothing else matters.
You just this is all that matters. But the thing with that is, you know, both teams, you, especially
when things get very serious, both teams have athletes that have prepared their entire life to be
		

			able to play that match. They took to get to the professional level to reach the finals or whatever,
right, but only one team is going to win, they can't both win. So all of that work is going to look
like it was completely gone to waste. After all of that effort, because nobody's going to clap for
you for great effort. Thanks so much nobody did, they'll just put the camera on you because they
want to see you cry. And then they'll turn the camera to the winner. Right? And everybody's cheering
the winner. And this is this is what this life is doesn't matter how hard you try to study for an
exam. If you failed, nobody's gonna say great effort, you know, they're gonna say you fail you all
		

			that matters is you failed all those 1000s of hours of study and preparation, and all of that none
of that matters not because the only thing that matters now is that you didn't pass. That's all that
matters. And this life is about a series of tests.
		

			We either pass or fail,
		

			or fail as a fail constantly on and off the field. Whether it's in school, whether it's at work,
whether it's in our relationships, whether it's literally on a playground, it's all of these events
over and over again. And by comparison, what Allah has given us is something so beautiful. In the
same vein, Allah says what and they said it in Sandy Illamasqua. And so to nurture, he says human
beings will have nothing except their efforts. He didn't say human beings will have nothing except
their accomplishments. He said their efforts. So unlike this life, where the only thing that matters
is winning the game, that's the only thing that matters. with Allah, the only thing that matters is
		

			the effort. That's what celebrated because what is the Quran teaches winning and losing actually
comes not from people, it comes from Allah. And the only thing that actually comes from people is
effort. So the only thing you get credit for is effort, you don't get credit for the victory. If
Agia Nasrallah it's attributed to Allah, when the victory from the aid from Allah, Allah, and the
victory came, right. So the same way they can iamu that we don't have enough when Muslims suffered a
defeat in a hood. Allah says these are days we flipped between people, we flipped between people.
It's not Muslims last and the far one Allah allowed them to have victory, just like Allah allowed
		

			the Muslims to have victory and better if the victory and loss is coming from Allah, the effort is
the only thing that is going to be commented on in 60 or so I author there in Silicon Valley, and
Brian, commenting on the loss of offered and all of us talking about his what effort could have been
made better? What were the gaps in the effort? And what did we learn from that? And how is it going
to modify our efforts. Another important thing about sports and this analogy of the game, is that
games are just another kind of entertainment. But you get so serious, in spite of a game, you know,
this just you just got a controller in your hand, and you're smashing some buttons, and there's a
		

			virtual thing that's responding to it. You're not dying. You're I mean, the boss is slicing away at
you with this giant sword, but you're not the one who's dying. But you could see pain on your face,
like, ah, oh, my God, and there's your you're projecting yourself onto the character, and their loss
becomes your loss and you're slamming things and oh my god, Mom, why did you call me You distracted
me. And, you know, Pete, some kids play online games. And it's like, they're actually in warfare
when they're playing warfare. You know, it's really passionate and similar to sports fans that are
watching a game, especially, you know, with the with the Football World Cup, people are watching a
		

			game and they're so riled up. And if their team wins, there's going to be a riot. And if they lose,
it's also going to be a riot. You know, there are there are cities that are sports cities, you know
what they do when they know there's a Friday night game, the restaurants and the homes and everybody
goes home early and boards up their windows because they know windows are gonna get broken and cars
are gonna get damaged, because there's a big game on Friday night. So what happens? It was just a
game, but it got taken way too serious.
		

			Sleep, you took it away, you made it a matter of life and death. If you took it too far, what do we
do in this life, sometimes things are just small. They're not that big of a deal. But we zoom in on
them, and we make them so important. We make them into life and death. And we do so much damage.
Because we made something small into something big, we lose our sense of proportion. Allah says this
life is just like sports. It's just like games. So there's a sense of proportion. And something
remarkable that we learned from from this analogy of Allah comparing life to sports, is that in a
match, like I said, one team can win one team can lose, right? Or is even a single like a tennis
		

			match or something, one athlete is going to win, what athletes going to lose fine, this athlete has
a championship cup in their hands, they get the applause, they won the match, they're the winner.
But it could be true that in their personal life, they're losing in their marriage, they're losing
with their kids, they're losing with their parents, they're losing to depression, they're losing all
these other matches, but the only match they won is the one on the field. And it couldn't be the guy
that lost really badly is winning in every other match. Some of that one coach I was talking to
because I was trying to understand this, I am contemplated better. So I spoke to some coaches and
		

			some sports coaches. And one of them told me that in my career coaching for 3040 years now, some of
the biggest losers I ever met are winners. And some of the biggest winners I ever met are losers. so
remarkable. In other words, Allah is telling us something incredible about life, it looks like
someone's winning, it looks like they have money, they got fame, they have looks, they have
popularity, they have everything, you will have charmed and everything you want. If I had that life
would be good. But actually, that's just one box. And outside of that box, they may be the biggest
loser. Some of you might not know that a Buddha, for example, which everybody knows I'm will have is
		

			like one of the ultimate villains in the seal of the prophets lesson was a really good looking
charming man, they were they were the celebrity couple, you know, he was actually you know, his, he
was, you know, colored hair tall, you know, brilliant skin tone, people used to compare, you know,
to talk about his physical beauty and things like that. And hemp was considered a beautiful, these
were these were the winners of that society by any standard. If you if you don't look at the Quran,
and you look at ancient Egypt, people still go there to take pictures of the marvel of what these
that civilization created. The pharaohs were winners in the world, they left their mark on the
		

			world. And we know from Krons point of view, there's some of the biggest losers in history, if not
the biggest losers in history, right? So the idea is
		

			still alive today. Just because someone is winning in one arena, doesn't make them a winner. And
someone just because you're losing in one arena, doesn't make you a loser, that cuts that stamp
doesn't stay on you. And you know, if you if you look at real athletes, after they lose a game, they
don't call themselves a loser. They're like, I'm going to train harder next year. And I'm going to
come back again. And I'm going to come back again, meaning a loss to them is just learning. That's
all it is. I learned what we did wrong, the Analyze, because if athletes, the ones that do play
sports, if they started listening to the commentaries of their fans, they listen to everybody's
		

			criticism and commentary. And if they took that defeat to heart, they will not be athletes anymore.
You can't. It's not just about physical toughness, you have to have a mental toughness to be able to
be good at something. In this life. Allah created this requirement of suburb, if you're going to do
anything in life, you have to be ready for mostly defeat. Mostly we're going to lose and there are
going to be pockets of victory. Edwin every time in fact, you can't win most of the time. Most of
the battles in our life are challenges that are conducted in Santa Fe covered in overwhelming burden
to Allah create a human being. Finally going back to level something interesting that some of our
		

			scholars have said contemplating on this idea is very beautiful. One of the ancient ways that people
used to entertain each other is they used to perform plays. So in the ancient Chinese civilization,
Arab civilization, others, they used to have like even puppet shows, or somebody would dress up like
the king and the other one would dress up like the Joker or two warriors, they would pretend to be
warriors and they've got like these these wooden swords, and they're pretending to die and somebody
throws leaves up to make it look like it's blood and stuff. And people are like, they get really
into it. This was all this was ancient special effects. By the way. This was ancient CGI. But now
		

			it's it's a modern version of the same thing, isn't it? It's all we're doing is we're watching the
story.
		

			But at the end of that play, the king wasn't the king. And the beggar wasn't the beggar and the
victim was in the victim. And the killer was in the killer. A lot of actors that play villains and
serial killers and things like that they have a hard time because people start cursing them out when
they go to grocery stores, murderer, no longer ones just to show. That's not the real me. I'm
actually a nice guy. But people get sold. They look at this role this person is playing. And they
assume this is who they really are. You understand, in this life, Allah has given people different
roles. Some people are presidents of countries. Some people are generals of a military, some people
		

			are billionaires. Some people are athletes, some people are popular. Some people are nobody, nobody
knows that. They're not famous. They're nothing. But you know what this life is like a play on a
stage. And one day the curtains are going to pull and the costumes will come up with Dr. Maha
welcome. Allah says, Your New Left Behind all the wrappings I put you put on you. And then the king
might be a beggar on Judgment Day and the beggar might be a king on Judgment Day, because this was
just a facade. This was just a distraction from the reality of things, while I'm either here to
dunya Allah Allah one, when they were in the data Hara, that he had higher one No Can we are the
		

			moon and the finite life? That is actually the ultimate life? Had they any knowledge, if only they
had known, we have to become people that you know, contemplate Allah's book, and look at our life in
that way, so that when you see someone succeeding, instead of becoming like, why can't I have that?
Why can't I do, it may be that they look like they're succeeding. And maybe you're not having that
is a gift from Allah to you, that may be the case that Allah is blocked, wants you to not feel in
the way that they might be feeling. So don't fall into that facade. Don't look at something on the
outside and assume this is what success looks like. This is the powerful message that this Ira has
		

			given us. And boy, are we in need of this message today. Because we are now in the age of filtered,
you know, fake Presentation of Self. And everybody the new currency is no longer money, the new
currency is social media following and interaction. And in order to stay relevant, you have to keep
putting things up that make you interesting, or make people want to hear what you have to say, or
make, you know, just entertain the world and entertain the world. And so you're becoming the puppet
you know, and the public has become your puppeteer. The this these people you've never met, they're
your puppeteer, oh my god, I I kind of post a new video the engagement is going down, Oh, I gotta do
		

			this. Otherwise, I'm not gonna get the following. Now the algorithm has become a new god. You know,
because we got to follow the algorithm if we're going to grow out of love, and any that in this new,
you know, virtual landscape that we find ourselves in, we have to step back and really contemplate
what Allah is saying to gain some perspective and to not be distracted by something that is taking
us away from something much more important but Allah azza wa jal to make us all people that
contemplate Allah's book and understand it in a way that betters our lives and bring light to
ourselves, our own hearts and to those around us. BarakAllahu li Walakum Quran is a key when a
		

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