Nouman Ali Khan – Ramadan 2023 – Surah An-Najm #07 – The search for guidance in the dark

			connection becomes, look the stars are on the verge of falling I swear by the stars that are about
to fall. This person talking to you. You're sorry. He's serious about what he's saying he's not
making this up
		

			when nudging me
		

			now what NASA he will come Why
		

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happening in the question has to be asked about when Najmi either haha I swear by the star as it
vanishes or as it falls or as it rises? What is its relationship with my blood Asahi? Bukom balmaha.
Why am I Antiguan in our in who I love you? What is the relationship between these two things?
That's what we're going to try to wrap our head around. There's there are actually seven items here
		

			in my own study. But the seventh item, we'll have to wait until tomorrow. If if you're not ready for
that yet, and I'm not ready to share that with you. Yeah, that's the big one. But six items we can
discuss today. Some of this we discussed yesterday, but I want your minds to be clear on some of
these things. So one of the early opinions on when Najmi either Hawa is that this is referring to
stars when they start falling on judgment day. Right? And Allah does describe stars falling on
Judgement Day in other places. In fact, that's also one of the opinions about Surah Rahman when
nudge mu was shedule. Yes, Sudan. Yes, Sudan is also falling down on the ground and the stars are
		

			gonna start it's as if they're falling off, as if the judgment day has begun. Right. Now,
interesting. When those people were sheltered, we shudder and the idea then being Allah swears by
the moment of judgment A and then he's saying the man talking to you right now is not lost. He's not
deviated. He's telling you something very serious. What's the most serious thing that he's telling
you?
		

			The coming of Judgment Day, which will determine how you will live your life who you're about to go
meet. Not only will you meet Allah, you will meet your own deeds, all of it, the kind of the center
of the message of Islam, and the center of the message of makin Quran is actually judgment a that is
when everything converges. Allah, this life, human beings, their deeds, the devils, the angel, all
of it is all in one, this one union that we're all heading towards, right? So then the connection
becomes, look, the stars are on the verge of falling, I swear by the stars that are about to fall,
this person talking to you, you're Sahib, he's serious. He's gonna keep us up. He's not making this
		

			up on his own. Well, my uncle Anil haha. You know, this is not from his own feelings. This is This
is urgent. So that would be a connection between the custom and the Java Wilkerson. Now let's look
at another one, the piece by piece descent of the Quran, the najem I told you comes from the verb
net Gemma which means to send down in installments.
		

			And Allah is saying as these installments that come and they keep coming on down, which is a
secondary meaning of one Najmi that our swearing by that saying the fact that the Quran keeps coming
at the perfect occasion, the fact that the Quran keeps answering all of your questions, and Allah
says and they say this, tell them this and they say this, tell them this, right? And it keeps
stomping you over and over again. And then you ask questions. Oh, I bet he doesn't know the answer
to this. And the Quran comes and gives an answer to it. The fact that that keeps happening is itself
clear evidence that he's not making any of this up. Marble does Sahiba Komazawa are my antico,
		

			Angela, you see the connection? Okay. The other is the arrival of changing realities, the stars, the
fall of the Pleiades constellation, was actually associated with changing seasons I told you, and
Revelation has gone through many seasons and they've come and gone the season of the soccer for
Ibrahim came and it went the season of the Torah was given to Musa came and went, the the NG came
and went, those seasons are now over. And now you know when the stars ultimately disappear when the
sun rises, right? When the sun rises, doesn't matter how many stars are in the sky, they all
disappear. So you know what now all those seasons are over the morning has begun. And the morning is
		

			an illusionary reference to the coming of the Quran. This is not some man's own wishes and desires.
This is the revelation that is the climax of all those seasons all those nights. And by the way,
there's a beautiful comparison between previous revelations and the Quran.
		

			On previous revolutions have light in them they had light in them to Allah says V field and renewed
Allah even says that there is some light even in what is left of previous scriptures however, it's
being compared their light is being compared here to the light that the stars give at night. And the
Quran is light is being compared to the sun. Now how much are the you could see the light but the of
the stars but the light of the stars is not enough to illuminate the reality on this earth. You
can't see far into the landscape you can't see the dangers that lie ahead. Your your view is limited
though you can see them they cannot show you the way as clearly anymore. Yes, you can get some
		

			guidance from the stars because the North Star is there and you can navigate your way right you can
get when we nudge me home yet I don't by by by way of the stars they find their guidance. But man by
comparison, what has come finally is like the disappearance of the stars. They're no longer
relevant. They're no longer needed. They're the ultimate light has now come you know it's
interesting the prophets I saw them in another place in the Quran is compared to the sun you guys
know that the sun is called Siraj in the Quran, right but you're gonna see Raja Raja sila inshallah
another. And resource iclm is also called with that en Illa. He believed me he was the raja Munira.
		

			So the prophesy Islam is also called that brilliant lamp like the sun. Anyway, let's keep going.
Now,
		

			the reliability of the stars for direction, and then the reliability of the stars for coming
seasons. I separated those two, but I'll combine them when I discuss them. The idea here is they
knew the stars are reliable when they travelled at night. And by the way, stars are still used for
navigation at sea. And stars are still used in navigation by pilots. Pilots have, you know, GPS
navigation systems. And basically many of the satellite systems that we rely on for navigation are
actually based on constellations, they're based on the positions of the stars. And when sometimes
navigation systems on planes, they don't tell you the pilot doesn't get on the on the speaker and
		

			say, by the way, our nav system has failed. If you know any Surahs you should recite them now. Like
he doesn't do the head. But sometimes their nap systems actually malfunction. And they are trained
that when they did malfunction, what are they supposed to do?
		

			Look at the stars, they actually trained to look for navigation in the stars. So stars are a
reliable source for finding guidance in the darkness. Right. And so in that there's also an another
kind of comparison to what the Prophet SAW Selim is saying, you're thinking the prophet is lost and
misguided. Actually, his role is much like the stars that are so reliable, that you navigate through
the darkness with them, what he's been given isn't, that will something that will get him lost and
will get you lost. In fact, this is the only way to navigate life. It's the opposite. Then finally,
the second to last are the reliability of the stars for coming seasons. And this is actually
		

			something that I talked about when I talked about the the you know, the changing realities, it's
similar. They didn't associate the stars with the changing seasons. They were very the way actually
I was talking to Professor socket was saying today about this. He said something remarkable. He said
the way we talk about cars, and sports, and tournaments and movies. That's how they used to talk
about stars. That's what his finding is from scouring through poetry and nothing and literature.
They were so in tune with the position of the stars, the names of the stars, when somebody just made
a reference to the star. Everybody knew what they're talking about. You know, they will talk they'll
		

			when they we even when they used to roast each other. This is a oh, he thinks he's like serious.
Serious, not serious isn't serious, but serious. The star Shara. Oh, this guy thinks he's sherif.
Now he's a big deal. Oh, what do you think your uncle a Sagittarius. That's how they used to talk
smack to each other. This is found in their poetry. You know, oh, when this guy gets super drunk, he
thinks he can run with dulu they lose the constellation that looks like a bucket like he thinks is
high up among them. They were really connected to that. And so the idea when Allah presents this, is
that they were so aware of which stars are most villas visible in which season, and which stars are
		

			associated with which season? And it's similar in a sense to the Quran, which AI is suitable for
which occasion which Surah should come down at what time and when should have the final revelation
come? Where should it come? Why should it come in the Arabian Desert? Why should it come to this man
Mohammed Salah
		

			Allahu alayhi wa sallam, why should it come now? Why should it take piecemeal? Why shouldn't it come
all at once though that New Zealand has the Quran June letter and then he has have the Quran jungla
Tanwar Haider, how come to Quran doesn't come down one shot be done with it. Give me the whole 604
pages give me the whole 114 solos in one go. Why is it coming little by little by little? You don't
say that about the stars, you wait for them in the right season and the right occasion. And the same
way the sutras are coming at the right times. By the way, when sometimes the the ayat of the Quran
would not come to the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, what would they say? Oh, what happened? Ran
		

			out of wires? What happened? No, no good Wi Fi connection with the revelation? What's the what's
your deal done? And they will start mocking and Allah would reveal you know, even those Fatah
Catarratto of why he the gaps in Revelation, there's documented evidence in the Sierra even know
Quran, you know, Allah azza wa jal saying to the Prophet sites, that he did not leave him now with
that I gotta bucola Right. So that's also kind of captured inside here. And finally, and this is a
really important one, and we'll come back to this one at the end of the surah also, and that is
stars have been part of the mythology of almost every religion outside of the scriptures. And stars
		

			have a very close relationship with the angels. The angels travel across the stars, the Bible
actually compares the angels to stars. The biblical references actually make a metaphorical
comparison between angels and stars. The Arabs considered stars angels themselves, many of them and
they considered stars also gods. And those of you that are watching documentaries or read up on
ancient civilizations, many temples around the world including the pyramids in Egypt, and you know,
the Mayan temples and they're actually designed to face particular stars in the sky. Because the
ancients clearly believed in these stars as some kind of gods that we have to show proper homage to
		

			we have to show reverence to them. And so when Allah swears by the star he didn't just say I swear
by the star he says I swear by the star as it falls as if to say I swear by all the religions of the
world that have been based on schicke that are now what falling because this has come
		

			it's incredible. Like just one match me either haha MALBA Lhasa Hey, welcome mama our is mind
blowing. And I haven't even shared the mind blowing one with you yet. That's going to be tomorrow.
Because that one, oh, boy, you gotta just take a break and just take it in What is Allah isolated
saying here, but this is
		

			this is why understanding that seven concept there's a relationship between the oath and the job
will cause the person and the job will cause the object and the subject of the oath. Right? That's
actually a really important thing for all of us to wrap our heads around. Okay, what how much time
do I have left? I gotta keep track of time. I don't have time left. Let's go pray. So I'm already
going.
		

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