Nouman Ali Khan – Surah Al-Jumuah #16 Allah’s Warning to the Complacent
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The concept of "farticip" in the Bible is used to express pride in the owner of a property or business. It is also discussed that Islam was meant to be for everyone, not just certain cultures. The speakers emphasize the importance of finding a transparent connection between parents and children, sharing one's views on religion to avoid criticism, and finding people who have a strong desire to be replaced by Jesus. The segment also touches on the challenges of learning in a classroom and the importance of sponsor students.
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This idea of the sense of superiority over
others
afflicted this ummah.
And this is the exact thing. Oh, I
am telling you, Allah pointed out that the
Israelites had this mentality
and Allah corrected that mentality and gave this
this deen to the entire world.
And now, each one of us became mini
Israelites.
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Then we get to this next ayah where
Allah says,
That is that is the favor of Allah.
He gives it to whoever He wants.
And Allah is the owner of the ultimate
favor. I want you to first understand the
meaning of the word fadr the favor, what
I'm calling favor. Fadl alizar means if somebody
has a really long dress or a cloak
like royals used to wear clothes, but they
used to drag behind them.
Right? Or you might see you don't watch
movies, but you'll have a royal holding up
his garb or the servants holding up their
garb when they're walking.
That excess stuff is called fadl actually, the
excess long part is called fadl. Fawadlululmar
is basically profits from your property or your
business. So your bonus is a fadl,
your bonus or your extra profits, your extra
sales are a fadl.
Or sometimes in America, I don't know how
taxes work here, but
sometimes the government actually gives you back some
money
after you pay them taxes. You get a
tax return,
right? And when you get that return, it's
a little bit of a fadl.
Okay?
So that fadl is extra. You didn't expect
it. It's more above and beyond.
Fabbalahuhu,
this is reversed in
text sequence.
To raise someone above someone else, to give
someone an extra advantage over somebody else. This
is an important word and I'll show you
why
before I get to this ayah.
What did Allah say about the Israelites?
He said,
I gave you an advantage, I gave you
an extra advantage, and I gave you a
preference over all other nations.
That's what Allah told Bani Israel
He gave them more prophets than anybody else.
He gave them more chances than anybody else.
They lost the tawrat multiple times it was
restored for them multiple times.
Allah is now using the word fadl after
saying
first of all he sent a messenger among
the Ummyeen
and then he opened the door to all
nations.
And that is the of Allah.
The word fadl is particularly important now because
now the fadl has moved.
Oh, what just happened?
The fadl has moved from one to the
other. Now I want you to see one
more thing in Surat Al Hadith, this series
of surahs. I'll just highlight the bottom of
your actually.
I'll tell you something brief about sultan hadith
57. This is 62 that's surah number 57.
Allah there talks about how
nations that came
the people of the book, the Jews and
the Christians
are so
confident
that you have nothing,
that your book and your prophet is nothing.
And they have dismissed it because they don't
think it's possible that the Umayyin,
his Arabs,
they're gonna have a Prophet? Come on.
Why would they be blessed? What do they
have?
You know, they couldn't accept that someone from
that lower nation
could be blessed
because of that, they will never even give
it time to think about the word of
Allah that you've been given.
They won't even consider it. It's not even
on their radar.
And when it's not on their radar, Allah
says, one of the punishments of those arrogant
people is they don't even get to know
that they no longer control or they have
never have any control over the favor of
Allah and He gives His favor to whoever
He wants. At the Mufasool said, The favor
of Allah hears the Quran.
They don't even know what they're missing.
They have no idea. And Allah says, Part
of the goal is they won't even get
the arrogant one amongst them, they will not
even get to know. They won't even know
what they're missing and that's a punishment on
them.
The ones among them that are curious, Allah
will expose them to it and he describes
that in other places. But this is among
them the ones that are very,
you know, they have a sense of supremacy
and what has been given to Muhammad is
inferior.
It's less than what they have. So they'll
never consider it. Allah says, yeah. You won't
consider it, and I I will no longer
let you consider it because of your attitude.
So that's the fuddl of Allah that they're
missing out of. Now look at what Allah
says about his fuddl. He says,
other places in the Quran. He
especially chooses with His love and care whoever
He wants.
And Allah owns the ultimate father.
He brings into his
whoever he wants.
Now this idea that this Prophet is not
just for the Arabs,
he's actually for all of humanity and the
doors have been opened for all of humanity.
A couple of times in the Quran, Allah
says this about his prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. Wabaarsalnaka
illa Rahmatan dila aalameen. We didn't send you
except as a Rahma for all nations and
all peoples.
An important thing and another one
We didn't send you except as a as
as except for all of people
to give good news and to give warning.
Most people have no idea.
Now the thing I want you guys to
hear, especially the younger students here, the younger
college students and young men and women that
are here, I want you to understand something.
Islam became global. Islam was meant to be
global,
not Arab culture.
Arab culture is Arab culture,
and Allah created Indonesian culture. And Allah also
allowed for Sri Lankan culture to develop, and
Indian culture to develop, and African cultures to
develop. Islam did not come so everyone around
the world wears thobes,
and everyone says, Hey, what are people in
Sarudia wearing? Let me copy that because I
want to be more Islamic.
That's not why Islam came.
Asadida come for that reason.
The you know, we developed this idea that
the more you look like an Arab, not
even every Arab, the more you look like
an Arab from the Gulf,
the more Islamic you are.
I don't know where you got this idea
from but it's definitely not the Quran.
The Sahaba themselves, they went to Rome.
Arab Sahaba went to Rome and put on
Roman clothes.
They did that.
Quran gave guidelines on how you should dress,
but not what you should wear,
how you should wear,
how you should wear.
And this idea, it makes me sad sometimes
because you know sometimes you beat young men
that don't know any Arabic, they don't know
much about their deen but they're rocking like
the most Khadija.
You're from Kosovo bro.
Why are you wearing that? I was like,
Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Akhi.
No, no, no, that's all I know. I
just wanna sound like
Oh you could just say bro, you don't
have to say Yaq he's not more Islamic
than bro.
It's okay
It's good.
So we we became,
you know,
the the idea that somehow copying
Arab culture
makes you more religious or somehow that's a
superior culture is actually what Islam came to
end.
Allah says they began as what? Right?
Not
They were a culture with no heritage,
and Allah decided to elevate them. And by
result, he's decided to elevate other nations. But
then, here's the tragedy,
Who was being taught a lesson in these
ayat? I've showed you now. Who was being
taught a lesson? Who thought they were better?
The Israelites.
So alhamdulillah, we learned that lesson. Now no
Pakistani thinks that they're better than Bangladeshis.
Alhamdulillah.
No Indonesian thinks they're better than the Malaysians,
or the Malays think, that the Malay Malays
think they're better than the Indian Malays. They
don't think that ever again.
The Albanians and the Kosovans equal in every
way.
Anyway, the Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians, best friends.
Nobody thinks they're better than anybody else,
you know.
The and the
you know, everybody gets along.
We don't think anybody is less than us
or more than us, but you know Muslims
in India, Muslims in Pakistan,
best friends
forever.
Right?
The whole point of this was now humanity
will see
a people
that come from different cultures, different backgrounds, different
clothes,
different food, different language,
but one thing unites them and makes them
equal like nothing else and that's their Islam.
And if we don't hold on to that,
and by the way, that doesn't mean we
should all dress the same way, or look
the same way, or talk the same way.
Allah's design was diversity, that was his design.
But when we start
celebrating
our culture, our heritage as somehow superior
to somebody else's.
And then what we did is, it wasn't
enough that this was happening in our home,
or it was happening in our country. We
wanted to bring that into our masjid,
to Allah's house, Allah's house. So now you
can have a Masjid in in in certain
countries, you can have a Masjid where it
could be that there's a one community there,
the majority in that neighborhood. Right? So you
go to Steinway Street, there's a lot of,
you know, Moroccans. And so there's a Moroccan
Masjid. You can say the Moroccan Masjid. But
other people go there too.
Right? It's just it's Allah's house, but now
when what starts happening in some places is
when other people go there, they look at
them like,
brother,
that's not how you pray.
They won't talk like that to one of
their own, but they'll talk like that when
there's a foreigner
or somebody else.
They'll do that.
So one thing that became is
certain races started becoming uncomfortable with certain other
races.
But then there's another kind of Fadl. The
Israelites developed the idea that the ones among
them who have knowledge are better than the
ones among them whom don't have knowledge.
The knowledgeable ones
are better than the ones who don't have
knowledge. And then they had strong disagreements with
each other. So what did Alhamdulillah Muslims never
do?
If you walk into a masjid and you
don't look like, you don't pray like everybody
else in that masjid is praying,
your beard does not fit the uniform beard
standard for that masjid
or you you know,
we start
this guy, I see.
Unfortunately, he's going to *
because he's not wearing the he's not wearing
the gender uniform.
Clearly, nobody gave him the memo.
This idea of the sense of superiority over
others
afflicted this Ummah
and this is the exact thing. I'm telling
you Allah pointed out that the Israelites had
this mentality
and Allah corrected that mentality and gave this
this Deen to the entire world.
And now each one of us became mini
Israelites.
That's the sad thing. It's hard for me
to say that, but we have to you
can't fix something if you don't identify the
problem. There's a hadith of the prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
the believer is a mirror of the believer.
If there's a stain on here, the mirror
will show there's a stain. And the stain
that I see that hurts me is that
we became either nationalistic,
tribal, we became extremely tribal,
or we became extremely arrogant in terms of
our own religious understanding.
I learned from my shaykh, this is the
hap, which means that all of you are
ba'til heads.
You know, the all of you are wrong.
None of you can be right.
This kind of like us versus them,
me versus everyone else, this kind of mentality
is what Islam came to eradicate.
And just think about early Islam for a
moment.
Just sometimes you should just stop and think
about early Islam
and you'll be amazed.
When Rasulullah
gave his final speech,
and he
said, The ones who are here should spread
to the ones who are not here. How
many people were in front of him? 1,000.
Are they all the same level of knowledge?
The thousands of people. What do you think?
Same or no?
Some people know more. Some people know less.
Then we say, by the way, when you
share with someone else, make sure you bring
them back so they learn from the proper
highest knowledgeable people and then only and don't
only otherwise don't share anything, don't say anything.
Islam spread organically
and Islam somebody knew 2 Surahs, they went
and shared what?
2 Surahs.
Somebody knew the entire Quran, they shared the
entire Quran.
Somebody
knew how to pray, they just taught somebody
else what? How to pray. That's it. That's
what I learned and they shared it. And
the knowledge organically started spreading. And that's the
early victories of Islam.
They spread in this way. What did we
do centuries later? No. No. No. No. No.
You can't pray.
Well, I can't teach you how to pray.
I'm not certified. I didn't get 4 master's
degrees in how to pray.
I can't tell you how to pray.
Me? Teach you Fatiha?
No. No. No.
When it comes to Fatiha, I know as
much as a Christian
or a Jew or an atheist. How can
I teach? You need to get a certified
PhD to teach you how to recite the
Fatiha.
Crazy people.
This this is insane.
This is not how Islam began.
We took the Fafal of Allah and removed
it. People started, they learned a little, and
then it puts pressure on me if I'm
gonna share it with someone else, I should
try to learn some more.
And everybody took personal responsibility.
What did we do? No. No. No. No.
Responsibility goes only to scholars.
I don't have to do anything.
The average Muslim had to be a minimum
level of educated so they can be a
contributor.
You see?
So they can be helpful.
You didn't have to all become scholars. We
didn't have to become scholars, but we did
have to become learned.
And you have to find somebody you can
learn from and they can and then they
get asked so somebody comes and asks me,
I don't have the answer. Now I have
to go learn from someone else and then
share back.
And it wasn't about pride or ego.
The problem is when you have one group
of people that says, we have all the
knowledge, come and ask us, if you don't
ask us then you're you're gonna get misguided,
then those people develop their own kind of
arrogance.
They develop their own kind of elite status,
which happened in previous religions.
There needs to be a
a transparent
connection between scholars and the people
and everything in between, an open transparent connection.
And that was what was that's what's missing
so far. Okay. Anyway,
look at the open invitation. I'll wrap this
up quickly.
Whoever would obey Allah and the Messenger, whoever
Did Allah specify which ethnicity, which nation?
The open invite, whoever would obey Allah and
the Messenger, then they are among those who
Allah has blessed from among the Prophets, and
the ones who accepted the truth, and the
martyrs and good people.
And what a beautiful company that is. Meaning,
if you join these people, you're good people,
you are considered in the same group as
the shuhada, the siddiqeen and you can even
join the company of the prophets. You can
be with them in Jannah too.
(QS. Al Fadhul Ghazal Khademillah 3:5) That is
the favor from Allah. Before fadhul again, that's
an open invite from Allah. It's not just
an invite to accept Islam, it's an invite
to eventually be in the company of prophets.
What a fadhu of Allah!
All the heroes of our history, we can
join them.
We can be among them.
Now the the other side of the fadhan.
This is the scary side of the fadhan.
Please listen to this. I know it's towards
the end of the hour. Listen to this
part carefully,
please. Those of you who claim to believe,
Whoever among you starts walking away from his
or her religion.
You start taking steps back from your religion.
Then Allah will bring a new nation.
Allah will bring
a new nation.
A nation who He will love and they
will love Him.
Meaning Allah is saying you're taking steps back
because clearly you don't love Me enough.
That's why you're taking steps back. And if
you don't love me enough, there's plenty of
people that I will love and they will
what?
They'll love me back.
And if you, if you want to take
steps back, that's fine. That's your choice. But
the word, the invitation is open to the
entire world. You're not a special race
that only has to be you. Now it's
open to the whole world. So on the
one side that's a good thing. On the
other side it also makes us replaceable. Do
you understand?
It could be that the the Pakistanis,
the Bangladeshis,
the the Egyptians, the Moroccans, they don't uphold
Allah's book and Allah decides, No. You know
what? I'm gonna replace you with the Germans
in a 100 years.
They're they're all gonna be they're gonna carry
my religion
now. I'm gonna replace you with the Italians.
They're gonna carry my religion. He could do
that.
He's done that before.
He's done that before. The tataar,
the vast majority of them who slaughtered Muslims
were then basically carrying Islam for the next
few centuries.
Allah will replace one nation with
another nation completely.
He then describes, what is it that about
them that I will love? Why will they
replace you? What quality will they have that
clearly you don't have? They'll be very humble
before believers
and they'll be tough against enemies.
You know what Muslims became?
Really tough against each other,
very humble before enemies.
Isn't it?
Allah says, (QS.
3) They'll struggle in the path of Allah.
And they will not be afraid of the
criticism that comes from anyone who criticizes.
They will not be people who fear criticism.
Now just internalize these words. How many people
take steps back from Islam because they are
afraid of what?
Criticism.
Criticism from the family,
criticism from the workplace, criticism from the university,
criticism from people riding on the bus, criticism
of grit I can't do this thing. I
don't you know, Allah says right? You want
to take steps back? Your choice.
Allah will bring about new people
that He will love
and they will love him.
I met somebody who told me they have
a really hard time where they
women, for example, they struggle with hijab for
different reasons. I've realized that after talking to
hundreds of sisters,
it's not one reason.
And I empathize.
One reason though was really epic.
I've never heard that one before, so I'll
tell you. I just think that because I
come from a country, the women that wear
hijab are all villagers,
so they're uneducated. So when I see a
I see a hijabi woman, I think of
an uneducated woman. I don't wanna be associated
with uneducated people. That's why I don't wear
hijab. I'm like, oh, that's a new one.
You're I mean, just honest enough to share
with me because most people when they have
that kind of an ugly opinion, they don't
share it. They just say, I I just
you know, something in me.
But that's pretty raw. That's, that's honest. I,
I respect it.
I respect it.
And
I'm like and on the flip side, you
have a young woman who, you know, wears
the hijab, gets rejected from college university applications,
gets rejected from job offers because she's wearing
the hijab
and then doesn't Allah keeps opening. He closes
a 1,000 doors and he opens a new
door
from where she couldn't even imagine and she
gets her education, gets her education and she's
some of the highest ranking PhDs
in many countries are hijabi women.
Right? And I I look at that and
say, okay, here's a person who says, I
don't wanna be associated with what?
Uneducated people, and that person wasn't able to
complete their education.
And on the flip side,
you got people that are ignorant villagers,
the Ummiyyin apparently
that are reaching the height of Heights,
right?
So
Allah will replace
He will replace individuals, He will replace nations.
If that's our attitude, Allah says I don't
need your attitude.
Take it somewhere else, take it to TikTok.
Okay. That's not what he says, that's what
I'm saying. Okay.
Same words,
that is the favor of Allah. He gives
it to whoever he wants. Isn't that the
word we're studying?
Here he said, I've opened it up to
all nations. That's the favor of Allah. There
he says, by the way, you take steps
back. I have many other nations to choose
from.
That is the favor of Allah. He gives
it to whoever he wants. And now
the words
and because they are both Huwa, I'm being
technical but that's okay. You'll get over it.
Both Huwa, it gives you two meanings at
the same time. What it one gives you
one meaning it gives you is that is
the favor of Allah. He gives it to
whoever Allah wants.
The other meaning is that is the favor
of Allah. He gives it to whoever actually
wants it.
I'll say that again. That is the favor
of Allah. He gives it to whoever
actually
wants
it. So that you don't get to say,
He chooses whoever he wants. What what can
I do?
No. You didn't want it
because if you want it there's no way
he won't give it to you.
There's no way he won't give it to
you. SubhanAllah.
Yeah. There's
let me just see, oh we are we
okay I want to finish this ayah because
I want to start the next session with
the next ayah because that's heavy.
So Allah's intention
Allah wants I translate it Allah wants. Yeah?
The want in Arabic is 2 words
and
So the of Allah is the intent of
Allah and the of Allah is also the
intent of Allah. But what's the difference between
them?
I want you to it's a subtle Quran
thing because you know in translation you'll just
see Allah wants, but I want you to
know the difference between them, yeah?
So the word comes from shay,
shay. You know what shay means in Arabic?
A thing, something solid.
When Allah has decided something and it's set,
it's solid, then you see what word?
If you see irada, you'll see Allah wants
something but it will depend on you.
For example,
Allah will
say
Allah wants by teaching you the laws, Allah
wants to make your life lighter.
Allah wants to make your life what?
Lighter. But whether your life becomes lighter or
not depends on who?
Depends on you. Because if you don't follow
the laws, your life will not become
lighter. But if Allah has the
if He does
that means whether you apply it or not,
your life will definitely become
light, it's guaranteed, it's done, it's solidified.
But
means Allah has made the intent,
but now it's up to you whether you
want that intent to be fulfilled. (QS. Al
Mujadilah: 3) Allah wants to make things clear
for you.
Allah says, Allah wants to make things clear
for you. Is there a part of that
that depends on you?
It does, doesn't it? You have to go
learn, you have to seek that clarity.
If you don't do your part, then it
will not become what?
Clear. If that was the mashiyyah of Allah,
whether you try it or not, everybody would
have clarity
without any attempt at themselves. So that's the
difference between and
and here, guys, you're distracting everybody.
It's okay.
What happened?
Nothing happened? This is nothing?
3 people I would have tolerated. 4 or
5 then everybody's like,
what are they talking about?
God, this is this is the tragedy of
education.
I don't get tired of telling the same
jokes as you may have already known
so I'll tell you the same old joke.
It's not a joke. It's actually it's my
jokes are actually my trauma is what it
is.
K.
So I made the mistake
of teaching an Arabic program,
Arabic class
in a classroom
where imagine my class, my my podium was
there and behind me was a giant window.
And my students are looking at me and
they're also
looking out the window.
And behind the window in the distance there
was a highway.
Cars,
I kid you not,
my students,
I could look at their face and tell
if there's traffic.
When there's traffic, they're doing this.
When there is no traffic, they do.
One of my students really likes trucks.
I can tell if there's a truck on
the highway. He's looking at me, look at
me, and there
he goes.
When you're in a lecture, everything other than
the lecture becomes interesting.
Poor Balaam comes and talks to Osman about
some issue and you're all like,
what are they?
I want to know.
I want to know what they're talking about.
If this was not a lecture, you would
not care.
That would not be important to you. But
just because it's a lecture, this becomes zul.
You guys know this in Jumah Khudbah. Jumah
Khudbah
is you know, it's mashaba. Some of you,
you hear
Like that's in between your Ashabul Kahf. Right?
That's it's Friday, so it makes sense. So
But what do people do? They're like, Now
who's gonna walk in?
And this Masjid is especially challenging because the
carpet is very simple. So you can't even
look at the lines that go like this
and that and make up your own faces
in it, you know.
So
That is the favor of Allah. He gives
it to whoever He decides to give it
to and whoever makes the firm decision to
get it. Shaa strong decision. Will solid will.
And Allah possesses the ultimate favor. Many Mufasirul
have commented over and over again that the
Fadl of Allah is also referring to the
Quran.
Allah possesses the ultimate favor that is the
favor of Allah is the Quran.
Is the fadl of Allah.
Yazakihim is the fadul of Allah. Yazakihim is
the fadul of Allah. Abba'asafil umbeeena Rasulan Rasul
himself is in Quranu Yamshi. The Quran walking
around is the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam. Right?
So all of it boils down to the
word of Allah and that is the favor
of Allah that they're missing out on.
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