Nouman Ali Khan – What Is The Difference Between QA
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The speaker discusses the different levels of sheikh sheikh Disney's culture, including the term "herikh" meaning a person who has a social clout, and the term "naive" meaning someone who doesn't know anything. They also discuss the term "naive" meaning someone who learns from someone and is not loyal to their group or their religion. The speaker emphasizes the importance of learning the Quran and being a part of one's lifestyle to achieve a deep understanding of the Quran.
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Basically, what happened in our cultures is first
you said who is a Alem and who's
not? Who's a sheikh and who's not? Then
well, the sheikh from this the one who
learned from this sheikh and this sheikh and
this sheikh, now that's a sheikh, but who
learned from this one and this one, that's
just a milkshake. That's not a sheikh. Right?
So that's just
so there there's different levels of sheikh
sheikhdom. Right? And then then they have you
know, they're taking each other down. They're doing
shakedowns.
I'll ask 2 questions in 1.
What is the difference between nastaz and nastaz?
And what is the difference between tadabur and
tafsir?
So what's the difference between an Ustad and
a Sheikh? An Ustad is simply the Arabic
word for a teacher.
In modern standard Arabic, in Arabic, it's used
for a professor in college also.
I started getting called Ustad when I first
got a job at NASA Community College teaching
Arabic, and my students called me Ustad and
my colleagues that were teaching Spanish or German
or professor or whatever else, you know,
So that's how I got the term Mustav
getting used for I'm not I don't have
a title. Is this this is a thing.
And for you guys, I'm not a start
anyway because you're not technically I mean, you're
kind of sort of students, but not really
because you don't have a notebook. And I'm
not I'm not you do. Okay. That's great.
That's I just so so for most of
you, you're an audience. You're not students. You're
actually an audience. Right? So I'm,
so the term just got became,
kind of formalized over time, but I don't
really ascribe to it myself. I'm just Norman.
I'm certainly not a shaykh.
Shaykh in classical Arabic means old man,
which I I'm becoming more of a shaykh
every year in that sense. But,
sheikh also means someone who has,
social
clout.
So, you know, the 2 women that Musa'adhi
said I was trying to help by the
waters of Madyan,
when they saw a strange man coming offering
them help, they
said, Right? We we don't feed our animals.
We don't give our animals water until the
entire flock of men is done feeding their
animals. And by the way, our dad is
a big sheikh,
sheikhun Kabir, which is two meanings. One meaning
is he's an old man. That's why we
have to do this. And the other meaning
is
watch out. Our dad's a big deal.
So they're they're kind of telling him back
off because our dad's a big deal. Right?
So they had that duality of meaning. Now
in Muslim culture, we developed a lot of
this terminology over the centuries.
Islam didn't came come with the term Sheikh.
There was no Sheikh among the Sahaba.
You understand? So these are later sociological
developments
that made it easy for us to understand
the word imam, the word, you know, sheikh,
the word Adam. These terms
are sociological in nature. And we, because the
more the more the religion spread, the more
we created formalities in our cultures. And so
we said, Oh, you have to be a
'alim to be able to speak about Islam.
Right? So, but, but if you went to
1st century Abyssinia,
and there were 100 of Muslims,
nobody was saying that and nobody even knew
what that meant. And in fact the word
Alem in the Quran
in the Quran the word Alem refers to
someone who knows that there's only one God.
Right? So that that's actually Alem.
Is actually referring to people who know there's
one God and people who don't know that.
Can they be equal?
You know, or
You should know that Allah is 1, that
no one should be worshipped and obeyed except
him. So,
these terms, yes, they do have value
in our civilization, Muslim civilization,
but they have also been abused.
They have also been overly magnified.
They've been turned into some kind of an
official,
designation
that takes away from the original beauty of
the term.
Our our religion was a religion of investigation,
of inquiry.
And
basically what happened in our cultures is first
you said, who is a'alim and who's not?
Who's a sheikh and who's not?
Then well, the sheikh from this the one
who learned from this sheikh and this sheikh
and this sheikh, now that's a sheikh. But
who learned from this one and this one,
that's just a milkshake. That's not a sheikh.
Right? So that's just
so there there's different levels of sheikh sheikhdom.
Right?
And then then they have, you know, they're
taking each other down. They're doing shakedowns. Get
out. Anyway,
so my dad jokes will go on forever.
But anyway, so the the the but the
point is then people become like,
associated with certain kinds of clergy. Oh, well,
what's your aapida? Where did you get your
ijazah from? What do you know? And they,
I, I adore the ijazah system. I have
tremendous
regard for the system, but when it starts
getting used for,
you know, inter religious,
intra religious polemics and people just dismissing each
other for it, then
you're loyal to your group or the Sheikh,
but you're not loyal loyal to the knowledge.
Right? Our loyalty is supposed to remain to
the truth.
And sometimes
to whoever I ascribe to, I learn from,
may have a lot of truth that I
learned from them, but some things I just
don't find convincing.
That doesn't mean I'm abandoning my sheikh, but
I can disagree with him on some things.
Right? And to this day, I I do
that. There are people I learn from so
much, and the few things I disagree with
them, I disagree with so much passion,
but it takes nothing away from my relationship
with them.
Okay. So yeah. That's the So to to
answer briefly, I'm not a shaykh.
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