Nouman Ali Khan – Ramadan 2018 – Nightly Reminder – June 8

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			At the end of about in the late 90s, early two hundreds of sootel bacala. There is a passage
dedicated to Hajj. And in this passage, Allah azzawajal describes that Hajj is actually a ritual
that was already in place since the time of Ibrahim alayhis salam, and the people that came after
Ibrahim al Islam, his children, many of them became misguided and therefore they change some of
those practices and confuse them with, you know, pagan practices. And they added rituals that
weren't Originally there, revealed by Allah, and it became a mixture of what was originally taught
and a mixture of what was, you know, later on deviations that were added to the faith and one of the
		

			roles of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was to actually decontaminate the ritual to bring
it to its original form. The prayer of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam was what arena monastic Anahata Valena
show us our actual rituals and accept our repentance. And one of the teachings to Our Messengers is
the actual rituals of Hajj. So the the passage is dedicated to not only fixing the rituals of Hajj,
but actually the spirit behind Hajj and Hajj is really important in the role of Our Messengers all
of our lives for them. In many ways you can appreciate it in that the entire mission of the Prophet
alayhi salaatu wa Salaam was to restore the place of the Kaaba and you the the ceremony that
		

			celebrates that the Kaaba has been restored to its original position is the ritual of Hajj, which is
why when the prophet SAW Selim was given victory eventually it is actually commenced by the so the
the ritual of Hajj itself. So now the Allah describes how the ritual itself got corrupted. And the
way it got corrupted is there are people who go even the ones who worship Allah, they go and they
pray for the wrong thing. And what is it that they pray for? He says Fermin, Khomeini, hula robina,
attina Fredonia. Among them are those who say, our master gives us in this life, give me good things
in life. Don't give me a job, get me married, get me, you know, take care of my children, remove my
		

			sickness, take care of my parents. These are all things that we're concerned with in this life. And
there's doesn't seem to be anything wrong with praying for things in this life. Yet in this ayah
it's so harsh. Allah azza wa jal says, There are among them who say give us in this life, well, my
Allah whom fill us a lot, even holla. And this person is not going to have at all, any of even the
smallest iota of goodness in the afterlife, they'll get nothing. All they get is in this life, they
will get nothing in the afterlife. That's a pretty harsh statement to make for someone who's
actually praying. They're actually praying to Allah. And they asked Allah for some good things. Why
		

			is this being, you know, responded to, with such an extreme response, it seems, at first glance, as
extreme response, that these people will have nothing to do with the afterlife. This is actually
referring to not just a change in ritual, but a change in mindset. For a lot of people, let's not
think about Islam for a moment, let's think about all religions. For a lot of people religions in
general, they're not about serving Allah, they're actually about getting What do you want,
		

			they just become about getting what you want, I'm gonna pray because I need a promotion, I'm going
to pray because I need this problem solved. I turned to God because he's going to help me with this,
this, this this issue in this life, just in this life. As a matter of fact, you know, the the
intermediaries between Allah and people, like people set up idols between themselves and Allah. Or
if some people elevated a prophet and made them the Son of God and set themselves before themselves
and Allah. Every time you have an intermediary, the point of it is they go to these intermediaries
for particular worldly problems. So the entire purpose of religion actually becomes to serve you in
		

			this world in some way. And as a matter of fact, when that spreads so much, the mindset becomes of
later generations as we find today, somebody will come and say, Well, what am I going to get out of
Islam? Like, okay, fine, you're telling me this religion is this, this, this and it's got these
prayers and this and that, but I already have a job. I'm already doing pretty good. What do I need
this for? How is this helping me? In other words, until it's self serving to me in some immediate
way, it has no relevance. And that actually became one of
		

			the disease's of religions that go away from the original teaching of Allah. That is to say that the
purpose of Deen is to serve me. The purpose of religion is to serve me. Yes, following a lot of
teachings makes your life easier. It's true. It's a benefit. It's you know, obeying a law makes your
life removes burdens from you, gives you protection, it blesses your income, it provides you
security even provides you help, all kinds of benefits come to you. When you obey Allah when you
follow the right religion. It's true, but that's not the goal. Those are actually you can consider
the perks the benefits, you know, and we now be what happens to people is, those benefits became
		

			become the goal. And that's very offensive to Allah, for people for those benefits to become their
entire goal in religion is actually offensive to Allah. And he this this ritual that we go to this
performance of Hajj, the point of it was to actually remember that your life is more than what you
have here. You're gonna go in clothes that you're going to be buried in. That's why we dress the way
we do it. hudge we go and stand in the land of alpha, as if we're simulating the day of judgment
when we're just going to be praying before a lion hoping for less mercy. The entire the entire
ritual is actually an exercise of a reminder, it's a judgment day convention, you can call it that.
		

			That's that's what it is. Millions of people gathered together dressed exactly the same way with
nothing to their name. The Millionaire and the bankrupt look exactly the same. They're standing like
that's judgment, isn't it? No ranks left, no status left, no VIPs left, no money left, nothing left.
That's all you have. And for us to go there and only think about worldly things is a problem. And so
a lot of responds by saying woman Khomeini Hola, robina, Tina Fey, dunya Hassan II at one word, the
previous prayer, what the false prayer was, give me in this life, Master, provide us in this life.
		

			The next prayer the corrected prayer from Allah what you should be praying instead, he says, and
among them is someone who says listen to these words will mean whom many upon among them, as someone
who says, Our Master gives us in this life has enough good and beautiful things. Just the addition
of that one word good and beautiful things you would argue I thought that's understood. Obviously,
nobody's asking for an ugly car. People are asking for a nice car. People are asking for a nice
house. So the good and beautiful is understood. But there's a more profound meaning of good and
beautiful here. And by the way, the someone who asks is actually the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
		

			sallam, and then he's asking not only for himself, that would be an upbeat, he's saying, robina all
of us are master which this is one of the most repeated prayers of the prophets of Allah harneys
Adam, this is also a prayer that we repeat every conclusion of every thought, or Mirage, and every
thought of you repeat this prayer, and what are you saying, give me good in this life, beautiful in
this life. Now what exactly is good and beautiful? I take you back to something Allah said about
shaitan. Allah said about shaitaan was a and Allahumma shaytani r mela home shaytaan beautified
their deeds to them. So one of one of the devil's jobs is to take ugly things and make them look
		

			good. And take good things and make them look ugly. Right so good deeds look hard, difficult. The
halau looks impossible. The impermissible looks alluring, it's attractive. Good lumen normal blue.
The Arab says the engineer says everything forbidden seems to be attractive. Right? So you that's
what he wants. That's what Siobhan wants. So on the flip side, Allah says no, yeah, like give us
things that are actually beautiful, not things that appear to be things that are through and through
good and beautiful for us that has an art of this world, the good and beautiful of this world. And
then he ties it to something else. He says, well, Phil herati has an end in the next life good and
		

			beautiful. So you're asking for two lives this one and the next one, and they're connected to each
other. The only way you can get good in the next life is you actually get something in this life
that will benefit your next life so now what I desire in this life is actually dictated by is it
just is it good for me just here or is it good for me here and there. This is what I'm praying for
y'all I make my mindset such first of all that I'm not diluted by false beauty. And second of all,
when I do want something that I'm only give me things that will benefit me here and I do want
benefit here. I do want a good living here. I do want good food here. I do want good clothing here.
		

			I do want all of the good things that Allah has made for me here I want them but I want of those the
things that will help me here and prepare me for this journey that I came to remind myself of at
Hodge robina Athena Fredonia, Hashanah. Assa t Hashanah. Both of those things go hand in hand.
Notice the word Hassan comes in describing the legacy of our Prophet salallahu alaihe salam, locka
Cana leconfield rasulillah. He also has an awesome word that in the in the Messenger of Allah, you
certainly find a beautiful parable, a beautiful example a beautiful role model, a beautiful leader.
Why is that mentioned because our prophets a lot of time didn't just go
		

			concern himself with what matters in the next life. If he's entirely spiritual, and All he cares
about is what's going to happen after judgment day and we just were supposed to be miserable in this
life, that's the other extreme, then you're not supposed to get married, just pray, fight your
temptations, your temptations are all evil. your desires are all evil. This religion didn't come for
that. Allah azza wa jal says he put those desires in us. He put those He wants us as a matter of
fact, the fact that you like a nice car, the fact that you like that is Allah put that in you. Well,
halal masala branded horses like branded horsepower. Right? That's that's what it is. And even to
		

			this day, the most expensive cars are the ones with horses on them the Ferraris you know, and when
somebody is really into cars, they go up to somebody, they don't say, hey, how many chickens you got
under the hood? No, they don't say that. They say how many horses you got under the hood, Alyssa
branded, literally branded horses is something he made us obsessed with. We like it. But he put it
there for a reason. Because all of what is beautiful in this world is actually a preview of what he
has waiting in the next.
		

			So that you know if Allah didn't show us beautiful trees, gardens, mountains, if he didn't show us a
beautiful spouse if he didn't show us these things. And then he told us about heaven in Gemini and
you're going to get gardens and trees and a beautiful spouse and fruit. And you never enjoyed any
fruit in this life. You're like, No, thanks. I'm good.
		

			What's your motivation? So this world is actually supposed to motivate you if this is so beautiful
here. What is he got waiting in the next life. And so this becomes a preview for the next slide.
Don't think of this as a goal. Think of this as a prep for the next slide. It should it's supposed
to motivate you to get the best of this in order to get the best of that. So this never becomes your
golden worldly life doesn't ever become your goal. That's what's reminded to us in robina. Athena
for dunya Hashanah ofin acid it has a Think of it this way. The ritual of Hajj I told you we go and
close that we're supposed to be buried in we look like pretty much that we're standing in judgment A
		

			this is supposed to be the most spiritual experience where you forget everything about worldly life.
You leave your your your desires, your temptations, your greed, everything behind. And guess what he
does? Almost Panama. What does he do? He tells us when you go there. When you go to HUD and back
Back in the day, people didn't take a flight to hedge, right? They walked the different camel, they
took a ship. They said farewell to their families as if there's a high likelihood they'll die on the
journey. That's what they did. And what does he say Lisa and a con una una de la mera become,
there's no harm on you. If you pursue some good when you go there for yourselves. In other words, if
		

			you want to go do some business there too, okay, take some goods with you and sell from there, make
some contacts, do some networking. It's okay. In other words, you're going there for the good of
your deen for the orchestra for the afterlife. But you're also there, if you have the opportunity to
build something also for this life. To do that, too. There's no harm in it. There's no harm in it.
It's incredible that a lot of the most spiritual journeys and he added this dimension to it. Look at
what he did in Ramadan. Ramadan is supposed to be a ritual in which we forget everything about
worldly life. We're supposed to of course, we're not like that. But anyway, but we're supposed to be
		

			highly spiritual denying the needs of our body and all of that right. And in the middle of it all a
lot of soldier says, he actually encourages that men be be more intimate with their spouses in the
night of the fast in the water fasting. Why? Why? Because it's dunia. Fredonia, Santa Clara de hacer
la and when when the relationship between a husband and a wife is reinforced, that actually benefits
their dunya and it benefits. There are a lot of benefits both Allah understands that Allah Allah
tells us that helps us understand that rather. And so he says, and thus working on a double knot
protect us from the punishment of the Fire. This religion is one that beautifies this life along
		

			with the next life. And those always go hand in hand every decision you make every major decision
you make you and I have to ask ourselves inspired by this dog. We asked it all the time. And by the
way, we asked how we think about this because I was I'm very Pakistani I was raised very back study.
So the way we think about this Dora is Yeah, like give me like the best stuff here. And then throw
me in Ghana to
		

			Indonesia, Casa de la sala de hacer una great deal. But we don't actually connect those two. We
don't connect. I'm saying that those two things are what? They're connected. And that's the only way
the last part of this will make sense working out. But not because if we were materialistic and
didn't care about what we got so long as we're enjoying ourselves, and then consider the next life
that we're not protecting ourselves from the punishment of the Fire. May Allah azza wa jal give us
the best of this life that is a means of getting the best in the next life and protect us from the
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