Nouman Ali Khan – Reflections On Surah YASEEN – Part 01

			salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

			hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa Salatu was Salam O Allah say the MBI even Muslim Allah Allah He was
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			to be let him in a carnival Jean Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim yacine palparan Hakeem in academical
mousseline, Allah serata. Mr. Kim published it so today we are silly Emily White will rock that
Amina Sania Coco de manera bellami. So I want to start today in shallow Tyler, first of all, for
thanking you for coming in so early. I know this is almost full time for a lot of you on Saturday.
		

			I understand that it's difficult to make the kind of sacrifice and I appreciate the amount of time
inshallah that you'll be putting in. Hopefully, the day that we spend together is going to go by
rather quickly and we're not going to get born in sha Allah, I'm actually pretty excited to have the
opportunity to be here and to be able to teach some lessons from this incredible incredible surah I
was actually done preparation, preparing completely and then I decided I need to prepare again. So I
just finished preparing a 1030 this morning, I almost didn't sleep last night so but that's just how
excited I am about sort of a scene I wanted to do it as much justice as I possibly could. Even
		

			though the best of my efforts don't even come close to the infinite wisdom in every I have the
Quran. Now I want to start today inshallah by giving you guys a little bit of a, an introduction to
the approach for today's program, not just the schedule, and the breaks and all of that, but
actually the what we're going to be doing and how I'm going to be approaching the study of the soul.
So when I study a surah nowadays, in depth when I try to study it in depth myself and some of my
assistants and research partners, we take on as many as we can we look at different Mufasa rune and
what they've said, we look at different linguistic sources, dictionaries, etc, etc. and put all
		

			these massive notes together under each ayah. So there's lots and lots and lots of information under
every aisle, what did he even get to say, what did he say about him? Or what? Or who should say,
What did Rosie say? What does this have an autopsy, etc, etc, etc. So when you're studying one if
there's like 20 pages of notes, okay, and then you have to kind of study all of that and make sense
of it. But that's not what we're doing here. That's actually my job. My job as a student is to do
that. But my job as a teacher is completely different. I'm not here to tell you, this book says
this. And that book says that, and that book says that that's actually not why I'm here at all.
		

			Okay, my job is to study that stuff, process that information, and think about how I would take the
best of that information that I've understood. And then talk to my if I had now she's in her 20s,
but my younger sister, okay to talk to her who has no Arabic background, who has no, you know,
Islamic Studies background, and I want to take all this stuff that these great scholars talked
about, and these incredible insights, but I have to talk about it in a way even if there was a non
Muslim sitting in the audience, they get it, they understand. So it's a pretty tough job taking, you
know, heavy academic stuff, and then putting it in language that is easy to understand. I don't you
		

			know, and I don't want it to come across as even though I'm not quoting a lot of information,
because some of you might have I have background in Islamic Studies. So if you hear me talk, and I'm
not going to quote a native seed, or tell you which Sahabi said what, or which, which you know, is
what's the snout of that Hadith, etc, you might think that it's coming from nowhere. It is actually
coming from somewhere. And hopefully, the intention now, because all of that research is being
compiled, is that these lectures can be supplemented with all of those notes for those people who
want to do the studies. Because the research is already done for those people that want to do the,
		

			you know, the heavy lifting and the geeky studies, and go through the Arabic sources. Welcome to
you, and Charlottetown. But that's not for the rest of us. So that's the first thing about the
approach of today's program, I'm going to try to simplify things and try to make them as accessible
as possible within the law. The second thing is, just to give you an outline, the sutra that we're
studying today, sort of your scene is made up of six sections. It's made up of six parts, which
means that we're going to try to do at least six sessions, each section will try to cover in one
session, that's what we're gonna try to do, even though there are more sessions after that when we
		

			finish the six sections, then we have to look back again and figure some things out that we're
missing. So we probably have one or two sections to cover after we're done with all six of the
sections of this beautiful surah. So let's just get started right away because we do have a lot of
work to cover. It's 83 is it's a lot a lot of work. So let's begin in childhood Allah Sula DRC. This
will a half man Rahimi has seen a surah that was revealed in the Macan period before the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam migrated to Medina. And in this surah Allah begins with the letters
Yeah, and seeing which is the only time these letters occur. You've heard of Alif laam Meem before
		

			or, you know, gaff hyah, inside etc. So there are many suitors of the Quran that begin with these
letters, what they all have in common, or at least what most of them have in common is that they all
begin with these letters and then they say something about the Quran. Like you get these letters
Alif Lam Meem and then Allah says something about the Quran like Vatican kitamura or UEFI or tilka
takita
		

			mean something. In some ways, all of these are introductions to the Quran. Like one of the things
these letters have in common, for the most part, they are introductions to the Quran. One obvious
exception, of course is, you know, holy battle room Alif laam Meem, holy battle room Rome was
dominated, Rome was overcome. And in my mind, even though that's an exception, it's actually along
the same lines. And you know why? Because even that is the description of a miracle of Allah
		

			when Rome was dominated, and then eventually the Persians, you know, and Persians had taken over
them, and Allah said, within 10 years, they're gonna win again, within 10 years, they're going to
make a comeback, even though they were completely annihilated. And that was a prediction the Quran
made well in advance, it was talking, it made a challenge to humanity. See, if this doesn't happen,
it put its entire validity on the line, like, you know, if Allah says in the Quran, that the Roman
empire that was defeated by the Persian Empire is going to make a comeback within 10 years. And the
only place that's talking about this is a man in the desert in Arabia.
		

			And if he if this doesn't turn out to be the case, then everything about the Quran can be
questioned. Everything can be questioned. So you've put the entire credibility of the message of
Islam on the line with one statement, you know, with just 111 claim, and actually, that's exactly
the same with the Quran itself. Why don't you produce something like this? Or
		

			why don't you show that it's not from Allah, it actually challenges you to question its credibility
every time. So in that sense, it does have it in common with all of the other gurus. One more thing
about this sort of look at art, even though I don't want to spend too much time on the word Gesine.
I know some people you guys have heard that sort of seen as the heart of the Quran, you must have
heard that before. Actually, maybe some of you are. Mostly, that's the reason you're here because
you're Pakistani, and you've heard that your whole life. So
		

			that's actually not an authentic narration, even though it's beautiful. And we're not rejecting it,
because it's part of our tradition, but it's not actually something authentically proven that it's
considered the heart of the Quran. It did become famous, though. And it's good. At least we know
when we care about one soldier, at least, that's good. You know, it turned out great for the
subcontinent. So
		

			but in any case, what did you know, the thing about the letters Is that something to keep in mind is
that these letters were unfamiliar to the Prophet himself. So this is really important. Our Prophet,
proudly the Quran declares is incapable of reading who
		

			he is as as unlettered, as someone who just came out of their mother. That's where the word means
used, you know? And so the one who cannot read where moto Toby and Enoch makuta Tacloban calmly
haven Kitab and Roberto Tobia, meaning you didn't write this with your own hands, and you didn't,
you didn't read anything, but before this ever, and you didn't write it with your own hands, and
someone who doesn't read and write doesn't know anything about the alphabet.
		

			If you only know how to speak a language, and somebody says to you, who
		

			was I mean, do you mean anything to you? So the fact that he's saying, Yeah, a scene which in Arabic
doesn't mean anything except to someone who knows what? Reading and writing so they know that's a
letter? Yeah. And that's a letter C, for someone who doesn't know that this is completely beyond his
capability. So the very use of the letters Yes, scene is telling the audience that Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi. Salam seems to be getting an education. Because the only time you learn letters
is when you're receiving an education, which makes the question Who's educating him? Because if you
say he's new, he knows these letters. That means he's getting taught, and then arrives the question,
		

			well, who's teaching him? And so every time these letters occur, the question pops up, who taught
him that one? Who taught him this? And then every time What does he do? Or at least with one
exception, what does he do? He answers we taught him.
		

			It's the book. It's the revelation, it's coming from Allah. So that's some some things about the
words. Yeah, see, now let's get to the heart of the matter. This is really going to be from the
beginning to the end. This is the idea that we're going to keep coming back to what Hakeem Allah
swears. He says, I swear by that, so I'm going to translate the word while I swear by the Hakeem
Quran. I'm not going to translate it as wise yet. I'm going to say I swear by the Hakeem Koran so
even though you guys don't know Arabic, many of you, it's okay. I'm going to try to explain the word
Hakeem to you. Because that's going to play a big role. But before I do, what does Allah do with the
		

			the wise Koran or the Hakeem put on Rather, he says he swears by it. So we have to understand what
does it mean to swear by something? Why would he do that? The Quran is special in why it swears by
something and I'm going to highlight the only the only thing about taking an oath or swearing that
is unique to the Quran, because you and I take old stew, oh my god, I swear to God, I'm gonna, you
know, we do that too. But when the Quran does it, it does it for a unique reason. And I want you to
understand that first. The Quran does it
		

			First of all to get your attention to get your attention. And it gets your attention using something
unique.
		

			Something that you want to think about. But there's more. It gets your attention using something.
And whatever that is, becomes evidence for what he's about to say. Now that sounds complicated, but
let me make it simple. He says, I swear by time when I say yes, I swear by time, so he swore by what
time you could call it out. It's not it's not awkward, but your good deeds will not be burnt away.
Okay. So he swears by what time which means time he is he it's almost as though he's saying, I am
making time itself evidence. I'm turning time into evidence, evidence for what? In an incentive
because that no doubt the human being is in loss, the biggest proof that human beings are in loss as
		

			what time you see. So the statement that will come later, is being proven by the earth. So when
Allah says one Coronel Hakeem the Quran is being used as a proof
		

			it's being used as evidence just like time was being used as evidence. Now the Quran is being used
by evidence for something we'll get to what that is. But right now let's talk about one Quran in
Hakim.
		

			Al Hakim actually has three meanings in Arabic. It can have three meanings, and all three of them
apply to the Quran. The first of them it slipped out as I was talking to you is wisdom. The Quran is
full of wisdom. You know, wisdom comes with old age, wisdom comes in very complicated language.
Wisdom is always appreciated by those who it's relevant to like if I talk to you about some wisdom,
and it flies over your head, you don't really think that's wisdom. But if I give you some advice
that really benefits you, then you appreciate its wisdom. So in order to appreciate wisdom, it has
to be relevant. And the fact that every time the Koran that is recited by the Prophet salallahu
		

			alaihe salam, somebody listening can immediately get hit with it and say, Whoa, that's talking about
me. It's giving me advice. It's relevant to me. It's giving me counsel that I totally needed. So the
Koran calls its wisdom, one of its proofs, its evidence to something something bigger. It's way too
wise to be a human beings effort. That's the second now the second meaning. Hakeem also has the
meaning of the hokum, meaning the thing that has the power to give verdicts or judgment. In other
words, hokum or Hakeem, Hakeem also means ruler or governor. So the Quran that is full of judgment.
		

			Now, the thing is, me as a human being, I can tell you personally, even in my life, have put on
studies, there are opinions I used to have that I no longer have. There are things that I used to
hold to be absolutely true. I don't see them anymore. That way. As you study, you learn more and
your opinions change. Even lawyers that eventually become judges, if they remember back when they
were lawyers, they studied the same constitution, but the way they thought about a change or no
change, they mature over time people mature and think differently over time. The Quran, however,
gives judgments. And over the course of these 23 years did anything change? Is there any maturity?
		

			While you know we used to say that, but we don't say that anymore? No, no, no, no, no. It's constant
in its judgment. It doesn't, you know, waver from its verdict. And sometimes when you have an
opinion, not even a verdict, when you have an opinion, it can get you in trouble. If the media is
coming to your machine asking you for an interview, you have to think really carefully about what
you're going to say.
		

			Because you know, they they might outfox you or something. So you have to be really careful. But
when the Koran speaks, does it actually consider the consequences? Maybe I should not say this, it
might get me in trouble. Maybe we should kind of circumvent it, maybe avoid that question. The Quran
just takes it on and gives an open verdict. Like it's in a position of authority. Now, the thing is,
you need to understand here there are two opposite things. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
is just one man, very few followers. Not really in any political position, not really a military
behind nothing.
		

			And allies, the Almighty, all powerful who's in the unseen.
		

			But when when the Prophet speaks Elisa to Salaam, he speaks on behalf of Allah. So he speaks like a
judge with hokum. But he's not in a position to talk like that. Because he's not a governor. He's
not he's not ruling the people. He's not in a position of power. But when he speaks, he speaks like
he's in a position of power, because he's speaking on behalf of Allah. But when someone who is not
in a position of power, speaks like they're in a position of power, they get in a lot of trouble.
		

			You cannot talk like that unless you have power. But the Koran says it speaks like this from the
mouth of this messengers on the lung or that he was alone.
		

			And it does so constantly, you know, maybe sometimes a student acts out and speaks up against the
teacher, or an employee raises his voice against the employer, or, you know, plaintiffs sitting in a
courtroom raises his voice against the judge,
		

			or a police officer raises his voice against the police chief, or one of the staffers at the White
House raises his voice against the president. But that happens one time, and then he just
		

			didn't realize it got out of hand happens or No.
		

			But with Docker on it raises its voice. And there are those in leadership that get offended. But
does it apologize? No, it does it again. And that is again, does it again, this is the second
meaning of the word, Hakeem. It's authoritative. It gives verdicts and it doesn't care. And it does
it every time. What was the first meaning?
		

			wisdom, it's full of wisdom, constant wisdom. And then the second it gives verdicts without
consideration.
		

			And then there is a third meaning my favorite one, it has to do with the word calm or MFG comm in
Arabic, calm actually means to tighten something, and to make a weave.
		

			You know, like knitting and things like that there's a pattern. So when you have a long pattern,
it's actually called a gun. When things are tight together, they're also called gum, when something
is, you know, completely finished. Like, for example, they have some work done on these walls,
right? So if this wall if it's unfinished, it's not Muslim, but it's completely finished. And all
the corners are perfectly done. And it's completely symmetrical. Then it's called, Hakeem also.
That's one of the meanings of it. In other words, the Quran is way too well knit. everything
connects to everything else way too perfectly, you know, in sometimes in politicians give speeches,
		

			they have speech writers,
		

			right? Like the president doesn't write his own speeches. He has a speech writer. But his opposition
can take a speech from five years ago, take out a clip and say, Hey, in 2010, you said this, and now
you're saying this, even though that one had a speechwriter to when he messed up? And now they're,
they're holding it against him? Does that happen? But you know, what this hold on is too tightly
knit. So you can say, Hey, what about this, you said that over here, but you're saying this over
here? It all just connects perfectly. And all of what he what the Quran says connects perfectly with
what the prophet himself says some of them, it's completely well knit. That is the third meaning. So
		

			let's review this again. What are the three meanings of well Coronel Hakeem
		

			wisdom, it's, it gives verdicts and it's to well knit. It's perfectly knit together, it's tight
together. There's no looseness in it, there's no one word that kind of slipped out everything is
perfect and tight and exactly where it's supposed to be. It is way too perfect. Now by all of this
is proof of something. What is it a proof of it is a proof of the fact that you no doubt some of the
law where it was hidden. You meaning Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam are no doubt from those that have
been sent.
		

			This Quran is the ultimate proof that you have to have this could not be yourself. There's no way
this is your on your own.
		

			So now we have to understand why is this proof This is way too much wisdom for one human being. It's
impossible.
		

			There are way too many authoritative verdicts. No human being ever does that and does it year after
year, day after day getting himself in more and more trouble. Any human being that speaks and gets
in trouble. The next day they speak more or speak less, they speak less they back off, or they
change the subject or they move to another town. He keeps going after the same people offending them
more and more and more. There's no way you're doing this because you want to you are being told to
do this, you are from those that have been sent. Not even on your own, you have been pushed to go.
You've been given a mission sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And the third was it's too tight. In other
		

			words, people know how you speak. But this speech, this Quran is not like any speech. I want you to
appreciate that. From a communication psychology point of view. It's really cool. Right now I'm
speaking to you, I'm not reading to you.
		

			But if I actually opened up a book, right? Or if I had google glasses or something, and they were
just scrolling in front of me, and I was reading the seer book, or I memorize some Shakespeare and I
was reading it to you.
		

			Would you know that that's not my speech?
		

			Would you know that I'm actually not talking but rather reading, you will know because the way I
speak and the way Shakespeare speaks, or the way the constitution speaks, or the way my own essay
speaks is different. Actually, the way I speak is not even the way I write. When I write it's much
more formal. And when I speak, it's much more informal. The profits or someone has papers in front
of him or no, no, there's nothing he can even if he did, it wouldn't matter. Why not. You can read.
But when he starts reciting core on, everybody can tell this is way too tightly knit. There are no
there are no Let me repeat that. There's nothing it's true.
		

			Perfect for this to be a human beings speech. This is this is not him this is some other author. So
Now in this ayah another thing to understand is that Allah says you have your though you are among
those that has been sent. But that creates a question. The question that it creates is sent by who
Allah does not say in Mecca. Amina mursaleen, I mean Allah, he doesn't admin ally doesn't say you
are the what you are among the sent from Allah. Allah has not yet been mentioned at all. All that's
been mentioned in this Koran. It's an incredible recital. It's so full of wisdom. It's so bold in
the way it gives vertix. It's so tightly knit, this can't be his he has to have been sent by
		

			somebody. We don't know who that is yet, you understand. So the mystery has been created, but it
hasn't been answered. And before we go on one more thing about this.
		

			This are three more things, actually. Three more things about like aluminum or say here's here's a
second thing. Who is talking to?
		

			He says no doubt you are from those that have been said. So Who's he talking to? He's talking to the
Prophet sighs
		

			instead of talking to the kurush
		

			and tell him no doubt he is from the messengers. He's from the ones that are saying, He's not even
talking to them. He's not even talking to the disbeliever. He's talking to the Prophet himself.
sallallahu alayhi wasallam You know why? Because the disbelievers call him a liar. The disbelievers
called him insane. They call them all these things. And you know, when somebody calls you crazy, how
can you do that? But another person calls you crazy, then another person calls you crazy, then 100
people call you crazy. What might you start thinking? Maybe I am crazy. One person calls you a liar.
Another calls you a liar. Your uncle calls you a liar. Your cousin calls you a liar. A business
		

			partner calls you a liar. Your neighbor calls you a liar. People who don't even know you on the
street call you a liar.
		

			You it might start affecting you, isn't it?
		

			You need someone to say you know what, don't listen to what they're saying. I am telling you, you're
not a liar. I am telling you, you're not insane. I am telling you, you're not evil.
		

			You need to listen to me and forget everything else. They're saying.
		

			You know, this is the idea of propaganda. They say on the news, Muslims are this this, this this
this. I mean, there's a long list of things Muslims are, you know, we make people really nervous at
airports and in elevators, people get even the flight on an elevator is uncomfortable for people.
		

			And just just yesterday, I got in the elevator, and there was a family, and I press the floor for my
elevator and they didn't press anything. So I assumed that they're on the same floor. And when I
when the time came as a courtesy because they're just women and kids. So I said, you know, go ahead
and said no, no, go ahead.
		

			I was like, Okay, and then they press the button and press the clothes multiple times, like, Okay.
		

			Propaganda works, dude.
		

			Propaganda works. It's pretty awesome. You know?
		

			So now what I'm saying is it can even affect you do by the way, or even Muslims affected by
propaganda against themselves? Do we start seeing ourselves in a negative image? Sure. We start
apologizing for being who we are.
		

			We start asking our own moms questions that usually non Muslims ask us. Why are we like this? Why do
we say that? You know, they say why does the Quran say that? And then you could unpack saying this.
And you know, like the same question. Why are you asking the same question, as you know, but you
know, what the prophets being told some of them, he's being told you don't need validation from
anywhere else, I am telling you, you are from those who have been sent. You don't need anybody
else's validation, you have mine, that's enough for you. None of the peer pressure counts anymore.
But he didn't just say you are this my third point now, he didn't just say you are a messenger. He
		

			said you are from among the ones who are sent.
		

			What does that mean? That means that he's not alone. Because if I tell you you are from among the
Muslims, that there's a large group of Muslims, when you tell them you're from among the ones that
are sent, then there must be others that are sent. So now the Prophet is being told sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam as alone as you feel there are people that I will introduce you to or that I am
introducing you to that are part of the same team, you are part of a larger brotherhood.
		

			And you and when you have people that belong to the same group as you, then you find support in
them.
		

			Like if you live some people live in United States, there's like they don't see any Muslim in the
university or they don't see any Muslim at all at workplace.
		

			Then they're going grocery shopping and you know, they see one guy,
		

			one guy who clearly visibly looks Muslim is like reviewing fat to * or something.
		

			And they get so happy because I have some support.
		

			Somebody else like me, when the province iclm is the messenger, he's the only messenger. But ally is
saying, Yes, previous messengers went back, they're gone a long time ago, but he will bring them
back to life with his words, alone will bring previous profits back back to life, when he will talk
about them, and you will find your support and your comfort in them. So the first validation or
comfort is from Allah, I am telling you, you're from among those who are said. And second of all,
he's been given a hint, listen, you're part of a team, you're part of a brotherhood, and you will
find support in them. Obviously, you need support when people doubt you. And that's why the word is
		

			used in the beginning, no doubt about it, you are from those who have been sent because there are
people who doubt, but you should never doubt. Now, the last point about the word desire in academic
University, not all the IRS will be dishonest, don't get overwhelmed. We do have 83 I have to get
to. But I do want to establish the the thought process of the surah in the beginning. And I also
like to highlight how things are flowing from one to the next to the next to the next to the next.
That's part of the job I have in shaba. So the last thing I want to tell you about this ayah
		

			is that the word motorcyle is different from Rasul toward Rasool means messenger. That's an easy
translation messenger. And some poor translations of the Quran also say you are from among the
messengers. That's actually not correct. More Southern Arabic and Islam of rule means the one who
has been sent someone who has been sent now there's a difference between a messenger
		

			and someone who's been sent.
		

			If I'm a messenger, then I could be delivering a message on my own behalf.
		

			I could be, I could be the messenger of my own message. But if I'm someone who has been sent,
		

			then necessarily it means that the message I have is from somebody else, it's not from me. It's been
I've been charged with something. So now though, the prophet is being told something.
		

			There is no doubt about it, you are the you are among the group of people that have been given a
job, you have been sent with a mission, this is not something you're reciting because you like to or
because you want to or because you have another agenda. Your primary objective is to be the slave of
Allah, and you are fulfilling his commandment, he started the book with me Robic read in the name of
your master from the position of authority you are under as authority when you speak.
		

			Now, this is going to be really important later on, but when it gets actually the next is I'll hold
off to them. So this the idea of the profits are sort of having a duty, not just that he's being
comforted. He's also being reminded that he's on a mission. So no matter how much pressure he feels,
he still has a job to do. And then you know, when you have a tough job, you need two things. You
need someone to back you up and support you and say, we're gonna get through this, I got you, I got
you. And that's done in the side. But at the same time, you need somebody to remind you listen, you
only have four hours left, get the job done. That's done in this ayah to both dimensions of your
		

			what you need to get your job done or are covered, on the one hand, the comforting and the support
and the validation. And on the other hand, the reminder that Listen, this needs to get done. I know
it's tough, but we're gonna do it. That's it. There's no choice in the matter.
		

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