Nouman Ali Khan – Surah An-Najm #25 – Don’t Declare Anyone as Misguided

			The first part of the IR Donica babalawo. Minella is a criticism of their ideas. But the rest part
the rest of the IR is about you can criticize their ideas, but you can't actually judge where they
stand. That's mine. When Neji me either
		

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			that's when a group of men surprise King doubt in his chambers. He's the prophet that had 99 wives,
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			You saw the previous iron, you know, turn away from someone, someone who turned away from our
remembrance, and that someone didn't want anything but worldly life, how many people were being
talked about? One. But now you see that Nikola Tesla, who home that is the extent of their
knowledge, we went from one person to lots of people, all of a sudden, this is called indentified.
Switching, the switch happened here from one person to lots of people all of a sudden, what's the
point of that? The point of that is Allah is making a making a connection between individual
emotions and societal trends.
		

			You have as a person, as an individual, you have your thoughts, your feelings, your emotion, but you
don't even realize how much of them are being controlled are limited by the trends and the dominant
discourse in the society in which you live.
		

			So then they come up the whole room, the culture itself, they've put a limit on how far knowledge
can go. Like, for example, universities in the university. I know many universities in the world,
especially in the science departments, Muslims, women that are doing their PhD in microbiology, or
neurology or engineering, and they wear the hijab, they're made fun of a lot. Why? Because they
clearly have a faith. And now the thing the trend in academia is if especially if you're in the
science fields than it does, faith and science are supposed to be, they've decided they don't go
together. So these they're always being criticized, ridiculed, mocked, etc. Because they have faith,
		

			while they're scientists, how can you be a real scientist if you have faith? So what have they done,
they've put a as a culture, in the academia, they've put a cap on what you can be and what you can
be what you can think about what you cannot think about, not only come up with the Home Minister in
know, the ironically, these are the people that talk about individual freedom. That's the that's the
funny hypocrisy of all of this. They talk about individual freedom, personal expression, this is my
truth, except your truth is not everybody else's is fine. You want to be a chicken or a skunk,
you're good. You want to be a Muslim. I don't know about that. That's barbaric. You know, that's
		

			barely human, this, this person who believes they're a fox is more human than a Muslim. Because they
believe in Islam. It's too barbaric. The Alikum mob, la Hoo, hoo, minute. But it's not just
individuals that have limits, culture, and society also starts placing limits that are based on one
thing that muted ill Hayata dunya. And this isn't just a philosophical discussion, this has very
real life application. I met doctors, for example, that see corruption in the hospital systems
around the world, in different countries, right. And if they call out the corruption, they will lose
their job. They can't be they can't practice medicine anywhere in the country.
		

			They can't do it. If they call out that they're giving the wrong kind of medication, or they are
Miss diagnosing, or they're doing this, this this and they're scamming the patients and all of it,
and it's happening in front of their eyes. And these are Muslims that pray five times a day, they
want to do the right thing, but their supervisor says you want the job or not. Because if I if I end
this career for you, I will make sure you work never anywhere else again.
		

			This person himself even if the person themselves doesn't have bad desires, who's putting a limit on
them? Culture is then you come up with a whole home in a line from within now, the culture puts a
limit on the knowledge and if demand of attorney Jimmy antibody Miranda who come to Florida who
could be limited by the law, we other say that this is this is where I'm not so convinced about some
of the decision literature. But anyway, I'm sharing it with you just as as a part of transparency,
that men can be used for the singular and the plural. So they're both possible. Yes, they will
possible but why would one be used still? Why would you switch anyway? So that's the second
		

			implication that's made here. The other interesting thing thing here is their manual
		

			Imagine that I mean, I'll explain without reading too much Arabic here.
		

			So when Allah was talking about these people, you notice the last thing I said is Allah was talking
about the most influential thought leaders of macaque that were selling one to the rest of society.
These thought leaders are the celebrities and the influencers of that society. Everybody knows who
they are, they are the leaders, the the THG with them. They're not just anybody, they're not just
somebody, they are the person. If they were the person in these ayat, you wouldn't see, you know,
men in North America, in the previous IR for men, our law, you will see in the veto Allah, Allah, it
would be a very particular person, but Allah calls them to turn away from this, whoever they are
		

			that turn away.
		

			Like, they're just a man, mobile home, they're not that important. Like Allah made them not worthy
of being specified.
		

			And this is one of the things they hate because worldly life one of its great desires is to be
recognized. You work so hard to lead us work so hard to become a millionaire. You work so hard to
become famous, and you don't know who I am.
		

			You know, somebody came up to me after today. I liked it. I don't know who you are, but I liked it.
		

			I was like, I like you. What's your name was Ron, I was like, well, now I know your name.
		

			But there's this desire for recognition, Allah deprives them of like Allah told the prophesy, salam,
ignore them, right. But in the word Mon, Allah ignored them to,
		

			like, Allah started himself lead by example. So he said, Man, so then you come up with the
Wilhelmina and M, they're all the same. They're not some individual special thing. The other thing
here that I've written is, inside versus outside knowledge. Notice the idea. Previously, we read
yesterday, we read, they have no knowledge at all. Remember, that might not have been in my mind at
home, be human. They have no knowledge whatsoever. But now he thinks something else. He thinks this
is the extent of their knowledge.
		

			They seem like two different things. Because if you say this is the extent of their knowledge, that
means they have some knowledge. It's just limited. So today's idea is about limited knowledge. And
the last I was about no knowledge at all, you see the difference? Now we're going to see an
interesting Quran makes equations that you don't find in mathematics and you don't find in
literature, you only find them in the Quran. Allah is equating limited knowledge of something with
no knowledge of something.
		

			I'm gonna give you a silly example, to help you understand this problem.
		

			My dad Hamdulillah, Allah has given him great recovery. He had a quadruple bypass a few years ago,
he had surgery. And this man is terrified of doctors before terrified. So when he started exhibiting
signs of weakness, and he has a having time, hard time going up the stairs and things like that.
took him to the doctor, they said, Maybe you should see a cardiologist to come to the cardiologist
who said, You're 80% blocked. We need to do something right now. And he said, No, I'm just going to
eat bananas.
		

			He did. This is the most Pakistani thing. By the way. Bananas cure everything. Even if you don't
know. You have a scaly Congress of people.
		

			You ended the doctors like
		

			no, you can eat bananas, but you still have to have surgery.
		

			The problem there was that dad has bananas are healthy, that's great. I'm gonna eat foods with less,
you know, oil or less oily food, less cholesterol, whatever, right? He has some knowledge. But
that's some knowledge in this situation is equal to what? No, no.
		

			No, I gave the silly example because Allah has given us a knowledge of the scene world. And combined
with the scene world is the unseen world starting with ourselves. Part of me is seen part of me is
unseen. There's a little hand side me. We talked about the AI the scene AI and the unseen, the scene
here and the unseen near the scene heart and the unseen heart. Remember that?
		

			partial knowledge in many cases, especially in critical cases is equal to what? No knowledge in a
court case because it's a serious issue. Somebody presents partial evidence, which in the end is
equal to what? No evidence, partial evidence, no evidence. If a research paper produces partial
results, practically it is the same as what no results. Actual results is not partial results or no
results. So Quran is building a thought process here. You cannot build a world view on something
partial.
		

			You cannot reach reality through a partial view.
		

			So he says about them. This is the limit of their knowledge explaining Yes, they do know some
things. But even though some things they know because they are partial, they equal nothing. So the
first statement Milea, whom behaviorism is actually true, and now it's even better explained. It's
further elaborated. This Quran explains itself. He says in Nara Baka Hua Namo Beaman, by the way
another ayah about this. He says yeah, la buena la Hera minute hayati, dunya. They know the outside
of this worldly life. Well, homebuilt Maha Manila say that the homograph alone and about the
afterlife, they have no knowledge about the inner reality of things, they have no knowledge, they
		

			only know the obvious. And that's what he's saying here, when he says that he come up with a whole
mineral.
		

			The implication of an M here is also really important. This is there. There's the limits in
knowledge, but the word knowledge has an L on it. And this is called animalistic rocks here. What
nominal step rock here would mean is that complete knowledge is one that takes into account the seen
and the unseen. Otherwise, it isn't knowledge and, you know, scientific advancement. We call it
advancement, based on research. Advancement means you're moving forward. They're moving up, right.
		

			Okay.
		

			The nuclear bomb was a scientific advancement. But did it take humanity backwards?
		

			It did, didn't it? Chemical weapons are a scientific advancement. But do they take humanity
backwards? They do.
		

			Science takes me create helps you create new inventions. But science is just the outside knowledge
		

			emaan in Allah eemaan in Revelation is the inside knowledge. If a scientist has emaan
		

			he won't create chemical weapons.
		

			If a scientist has emaan, he can create something that will pollute the earth for generations like a
nuclear weapon. He won't do it. He can't do it. He the scientific mind science is neutral. You can
research science in any direction.
		

			Sciences blind, explore anything and you can explore it and you can discover things emaan what does
it do? It puts it on a path, a Serato musta team, it gives it a direction. And now scientific
research has a direction. Business you can do any business. What is the Mon do gives your business a
direction. It did and that's true knowledge. True Knowledge is okay you have knowledge of business,
you have knowledge of medicine, you have knowledge of science, you have knowledge of politics, you
have all these knowledges but it's partial knowledge. True Knowledge will be when the worldly
knowledge is now guided by the spiritual knowledge that's when it becomes and
		

			they only have a piece of and not the whole.
		

			You see that? That's a very powerful, deep philosophical statement that's been articulated here. Now
		

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			in Europe, Becca Hua Allah will be on Wanda and Sabina he will who will be Minister that there is no
doubt it is your Rob. He in fact knows better, who is lost from His Path, and who is actually truly
committed to guidance. He knows who's lost and who he knows who's guided.
		

			First, rant comment on the site because I talk about this too much. So at least I should say once
they'll get it out of my system. Muslims are obsessed with deciding who's guided and who's not
guided.
		

			And when we're when we're when we get bored of deciding how misguided all of humanity is, then we
were like, who else can I deem a Kafir? So then they look at their fellow Muslim and say, Hey, you
look a little loss. Tell me everything you believe. And then I'm going to make a video about how
careful you are. And then we'll make a video about how how misguided you are and misguided you are,
are obsessed with declaring what, who's guided and who's misguided. We're obsessed with it. And I
don't I don't think there's anything wrong with criticizing the wrong idea. Like if somebody has the
wrong idea you can criticize. But we don't do that. We don't criticize ideas. We criticize people.
		

			There's a little difference between those two things. I there's scholars that I talked to that I
learned from that I strongly disagree with
		

			but I think their idea about something is completely off. That's what I think and I tell them that
to their face.
		

			But you know what? I never consider them what
		

			misguided cafe. I just know. To the best of my knowledge. This is what I find more convincing. I
don't have the guts to declare someone else misguided.
		

			Because misguidance isn't just here.
		

			Guidance and misguidance is also weird.
		

			I don't have any access to here, I have access to their paper, I have access to their lecture, I
have access to their ideas. I could say this idea that Lauf this this argument, kind of weak, okay,
I can do that.
		

			But even that is not for me to put on YouTube for you to say, Oh, this is what he thinks about him.
We you know what we like? The guys, you guys, some of you guys like UFC. Now we have Islamic UFC.
This one's doing this one, this one. And then you come after the lecture you say, oh, Stan, the man.
What's your opinion about this person? What's your opinion about that? Let me send you a video. Give
me your opinion.
		

			What are you going to do with my opinion? You're going to make salad with my opinion? What do you
what are you going to what do you get? You're going to become a better person because of my opinion,
your Islam you're gonna get closer to God because of my opinion, your personal problems will
disappear because of my opinion, and my opinion on this person. Why do you want this because you
like the entertainment of Muslim infighting. All of this has an obsession with what declaring who is
guided and who is guided. Allah says to His Prophet sallallahu, he says to His Messenger SallAllahu
Sallam you're Rob is the one who actually knows better, who has guidance, who's who's lost, and who
		

			truly has guidance, because someone would truly wrong ideas in front of you right now, like holiday
believe, is actually guided down the road.
		

			There could be a Hamza who hasn't accepted Islam yet will become a companion. You don't know yet.
There is an Abu Sufian, who will be on the battlefield against you multiple times. And we'll be
doing such dialogue with with the rest of the believers in Salah by the conquest of Makkah, there's
a bunch of people in Macau right now that hate your guts. But when Macau is conquered, these are the
people that are going to be doing Hajj with you. And not Baca Hua, and a movie Mangala and sabini.
Well, who are the movie manager, he knows, we can judge ideas. So there's a really interesting split
that happens inside this if we can judge the limit of their knowledge. We can't judge them. You see
		

			that? The first part of the ayah Danica Marbella, oho. Minella, is a criticism of their ideas. But
the rest part, the rest of the idea is about, you can criticize their ideas, but you can't actually
judge where they stand. That's mine.
		

			That's not for you. That's why it was put in the same aisle. Because what happens with us is, once
we criticize somebody's ideas, then we decide we are ready to now make judgment on the person to so
he's separate that line is drawn by Allah folks, unless you want to cut the ayah Lavina. Jacqueline
Khurana even those who take the Quran and tear it up, to tear it to pieces, unless you're interested
in that. Now I put the word last here. Because in the beginning of the Surah, Allah Wanda Sahagun
como Maha I gave you the several meanings of loss, I made the super small, so it's inconvenient for
you to read, but I'm going to explain the secondary meanings of last again, one was when two things
		

			appear as one, when two things appear as one, you know why that I wrote that because blah, blah. Now
for a lot of people also is because of the limits of their knowledge, they see all religions as a
cultural anthropological phenomenon. This Arabian culture developed Islam, and the Mediterranean
region developed Christianity and you know, the Judaism and Hinduism from you know, the East and the
eight, the, you know, the Asian regions, Buddhism, etc, 2500 years ago, all of these religions are
cultural anthropological phenomenon. So we're gonna study Buddhism the same way we study Islam the
same way we study Christianity, just as a historical phenomenon. That's what academics do. You know
		

			what that is, when two things are looked at as one, the right thing and the wrong thing are being
conflated as though they're the same. And that's one of the meanings of the law. When two things
appear as one remember, when the the body is buried under the dirt and it looks like just dirt and
that's called bond. Right? When two things become one, the other is wasted. And this is true. These
people that have great knowledge of the world, their intelligence is being wasted because they don't
want to think about what's going on here. That's a profound mine. I met a brilliant linguist when I
was in Italy. Among the 32 cities I was in since August, I was in Rome, and I was in Palermo to
		

			Palermo. There was a Quran conference of Orientalist in Palermo, the exact convention, so non Muslim
academics mostly, and some Muslims also, were there attending this conference. And I met a brilliant
group Marian and linguist of the Arabic language. I won't name him non Muslim loves the Quran that
did a PhD on the Quran because it's literature for him right? And the when you ask him Do you ever
think about it? Like whether it's from God and they go that's not my concern. My concern is the
grammar
		

			Valley come up level Hamina nine
		

			in Rebecca who Allah will be one Wanda wasted away so close. There are billions of Muslims who would
die to learn 1/10 of the Arabic that you know, bro.
		

			They would die to know it. And you have it. What a waste.
		

			Do what awaits us you
		

			just learned Chinese or something I don't know.
		

			Then destroyed the word will also means destroyed like advantage al Qaeda, let me attack okay don't
feel the need, but that also means destruction. The Allah knows who's headed towards destruction.
But while also you know Rajon bol is Kathy rota dumper
		

			so it also means a person who listens to just anybody. They're easily convinced they follow just
anything gullible people, Allah knows people that easily get gullible and turn away from his path.
It's interesting the word his path was used also, because a path symbolizes direction, right? And
while symbolizes his lack of direction, Allah is saying he gives direction, Allah knows people who
don't want to follow that direction anymore, but who will lead will be monitored, and he knows
better? Who truly does and doesn't have guidance. This is also a really important idea about judging
and not judging. I want to expose the hypocrisy that's happening in woke culture right now. Don't
		

			judge anyone, bro.
		

			You just judged me for judging this idea.
		

			Don't listen to anyone. Why am I listening to you right now?
		

			You're telling me that to listen to anyone. And you're like, thank you guys for listening to me.
Make sure don't listen to anyone.
		

			It's just internally, there's no direction in this new found freedom. We don't know what to do with
it. We're going in every single crazy direction. And Allah has given us the manager, the one who
committed to guidance. The path isn't path and guidance have been equated here for an important
reason. Because guidance is not one thing. Guidance is a journey. Somebody is on their way to
guidance, their Christian Right now they're reading the Quran. They're learning some things. They're
actually already on the road to guidance, even though they're going to church every Sunday, they're
still on the road to guidance. There is somebody who's just started just became Muslim, they're just
		

			starting to get into the prayers. They're learning them, you know, they're still having a hard time
committing to all five prayers. There's a process for them. They're on the road to guidance. It's a
journey for them. They'll get there. Allah didn't give five prayers a day, immediately to the people
who took shahada, even the Sahaba he could have been could have been the moment you take shahada,
food, alcohol, prayers, all of these restrictions would have been on day one like we do with Muslims
when they become Muslim, right? Take it easy, let them grow into it is it's a journey. And Allah
knows who's more committed. It could be the people who are struggling with their prayer but on this
		

			journey may be closer and guidance to Allah than the people who are praying five times a day and
judgmental about others because they're doing something blasphemous when they pass judgment on
others because it's only for Allah has to do it. Now Rebecca poor Allah will remember the
unsuitability for who Allah will be benefited up
		

			in our immediate fear is larger than man and kina Eva Maccon Jota Allah Allah medallic Fela, Moqtada
elitek Ed, McConnell, Fatah, Ben B and the B SallAllahu. alayhi wa sallam is really interesting,
even though it says, Why did Allah say certainly your Rob knows. It is is only your Rob who knows
who has guidance, who doesn't have guidance. He's talking to the prophet, the prophet is not a
doubtful audience. Remember, emphasis is used when you have a doubtful audience. And there's double
emphasis almost like a refusing audience. That's how he's been. And it's the Prophet who's being
talked to so why would Allah talk to his prophet in this way? Sometimes you talk to one person, but
		

			you're actually talking to someone else.
		

			So for example, if I tell you,
		

			these volunteers are so lazy,
		

			I'm talking to you, but I'm actually talking to the one the volunteers are amazing. By the way, I
was just came to shutdown, the shutdown gave me that example but
		

			but the point is, if I did that, I'm talking to you, but I'm actually talking to them. And the issue
is, they're not worth my time that I should talk to them directly.
		

			So there's an anger of Allah and these words, but it's not directed at the Prophet even though he's
raising his voice at the prophets. I some of some of you that are married know this, sometimes your
husband or your wife calls you very angry, not at you at someone else. I can't believe they're doing
dirt.
		

			And you know them long enough to know they're not mad at me. They're just mad at their uncle, or
their manager was and they're not throwing punches at you. If you early on in the relationship.
You're like, why am I receiving this? Why the hostility towards me later on, you understand? I'm
okay. Okay, I'm the sounding board. And I'm supposed to say yeah, yeah, you know,
		

			that.
		

			That was that was my role. So this is kind of the this is my
		

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