Nouman Ali Khan – When You Meet Allah In Janna – Highlights – Surah Al-Insan
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You're going to meet with Allah himself.
You're getting dressed in Jannah to have a
meeting with Allah himself.
Now,
when you have that meeting with Allah and
may Allah grant every one of us that
meeting with Him, when we have that meeting,
He's giving us a drink.
And so,
I and you have to make a decision.
As you're leaving the school, as you're graduating,
you're thinking about a job, you're thinking about
a career, you're thinking about the next chapter
of your life.
Every one of those chapters has to have
one title.
How will Allah remember this?
Was there ever a time
that from the endless oceans of time, the
endless oceans of time, was there ever even
a simple small episode of time
when human beings used to be something
that wasn't even worthy of being talked about,
wasn't even worthy of being mentioned, and also
wasn't even worthy of being remembered.
Allah is asking you and me a very
simple question.
Was there ever a time when no one
remembered you?
Was there ever a time
when no one talked about you? Even after
I came into this world, you'll notice something.
Human beings, by their design,
one of the words for human the origin
of the word is actually
and means love and compassion.
Human beings
don't just give love, they also want to
receive love, and they want to receive compassion.
So even from childhood, the moment you become
a little bit self aware, you are looking
for attention. If your mother is not looking
at you, mama, mama, mama, mama. Those of
you that have kids know this already.
Kids need attention.
They're always looking for attention. When they get
a little bit older, they draw something. They
wanna show you because they watch your attention.
They want to be acknowledged. Look at how
I'm dressed. Look at what I did. Look
at what I can do. The kid can't
even jump yet. This is his jump, but
he says, look at me. Look at this.
Now look again because he wants that attention
for himself. He wants to be
The word
is someone who is mentioned, someone who is
remembered. This is put inside the nature of
a human being. And as you grow older,
you wanna when you're a teenager, you wanna
dress nicely.
You wanna look good because you wanna be
seen and noticed.
Also, You
wanna be mentioned. You wanna be talked about.
And as you grow further, now when you're
in university, I know there's a convocation happening,
there's it's a big deal to graduate, and
what happens? Peep one day people get their
certificate,
you're gonna get a lot of uploads on
Instagram and on Facebook
of pictures of certificates that nobody cares about
except you.
But you have a need to be madkur.
You have a need to be mentioned. Masha'Allah.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
We live our life
looking for acknowledgement
even when people get married.
There the wife is looking for the acknowledgement
of the husband. The husband is looking for
acknowledgement of the wife. We're looking to make
our parents proud. We know when you graduate,
everybody's congratulating you, but you wanna be Madkur
to your dad. Dad, I graduated.
Dad, it's done.
Dad, did you see the picture?
And you need to get that congratulations from
your father or your mother because there's always
someone who we want to be remembered by.
You know, there are studies now
that people are now more isolated and feel
more lonely and alone than ever before in
history.
It's interesting, I was at an Islamic school
in a in a another Muslim country, and
I was talking to a number of boys
and girls. There were about 300, 400 boys,
304 100 girls,
13, 14 years of age.
And I gave a lecture, and the principal,
and the teachers, everybody was there.
So they had a question answer session, and
nobody asked a question. 800 children in the
room, nobody asked a question, and I said,
they're not asking a question because the police
is watching them. The teachers are there. The
principal is there. The cameraman is there. They
don't wanna get in trouble. So what I'm
going to do is I'm going to go
into the crowd and talk to these kids
with no camera, no microphone.
I just wanna talk to them. I went
inside the girl section just talking to these
young girls
2 hours,
they couldn't stop asking their questions.
And on the other side, the boys, another
2 hours, they couldn't stop asking their questions.
And the most common question was, what do
you do if you feel alone all the
time? What do you feel what do you
do if you feel invisible,
if nobody sees you? Human beings have such
a deep desire to be madkur
that a teenager
sees all their other friends online,
and they're like, I'm I don't have an
online account. I don't I don't have that
many followers. I'm not being seen. I'm not
Madkur. I better take another picture. No. I
better change the filters. I better do something
else. I better change the background or the
light wasn't good enough and then post it.
Somebody will put a heart emoji. Somebody will
put a thumbs up. I'm lazgour.
I can exist now.
And if you don't post it, if you
don't post your next slice of pizza, if
you don't post your, you know, where you're
standing, what park you're in, or some
wisdom from Abu Jahl or something. If you
don't post that,
then all of a sudden nobody knows you
exist, so you become Ghayr Mathkur.
You know in the same surah, Surah Al
Insan,
later on at the very end,
Allah describes
or towards the end, Allah describes people who
make it into Jannah.
May Allah enter all of us enter all
of us into his Jannah.
When we make it into Allah's jannah, eventually
there's a point
where Allah describes that his believers
are being dressed up especially.
You
know, He's saying, you
know, They're getting dressed with different kinds of
silk.
Their special bracelets are being put on them.
You could think of it like a Rolex
watch or something or a brand watch is
being put on them. Bracelets are being put
on them. Nice suits are being put on
them. Why are they getting dressed up? You
get dressed up because there's a special occasion.
Right? You get dressed up because you're gonna
meet somebody special. And the very next part
of the ayah Allah says,
and their reb Allah will give them a
pure drink to drink. You're going to meet
with Allah Himself.
You're getting dressed in Jannah to have a
meeting with Allah Himself.
Now
when you have that meeting with Allah, and
may Allah grant everyone of us that meeting
with him, when we have that meeting, he's
giving us a drink.
Allah is giving us the drink. And while
he's giving us the drink, he's talking to
us. And what is he saying? He says,
This is your pay,
this is your reward,
and your effort
was
appreciated.
Your effort was acknowledged,
meaning
human beings were created,
not remembered.
Human beings will die, and people may or
may not remember them.
But Allah says,
Longer than the age of the universe,
and longer than the existence of a samawat
wal ard Allah will remember my efforts. Allah
will acknowledge them, and Allah will say, You
did good effort, and you're getting rewarded now.
Allah acknowledges
me. I become Madkur,
and Allah.
I am remembered by Allah Himself.
There's one thing to do, dhikr of Allah.
This is an ayah where Allah is doing
dhikr of you. He's mentioning you.
He's remembering your effort. He's acknowledging your effort.
So now I learned something about my need
for validation. My need to be acknowledged.
My need to be seen. Allah put that
need inside us and no human being can
ever ever fulfill that need.
When you want somebody else's attention or somebody
else's acknowledgement, you will always be disappointed.
And then you just you you realize if
you're truly grateful,
if you're truly grateful then you're looking for
Allah's acknowledgement and that's it. That's enough for
you. And when that's enough,
in Jannah, Allah says, Here is your here's
the acknowledgement.
And so
I and you have to make a decision.
As you're leaving the school, as you're graduating,
you're thinking about a job, you're thinking about
a career, you're thinking about the next chapter
of your life. Every one of those chapters
has to have one title.
How will Allah remember this?
How will Allah remember this? I know when
you're getting a job, what will my mother
say? What will my father say? What are
people gonna say? How much am I getting
paid? Where did I get the apartment? Am
I gonna get this? Am I gonna get
that? Who's you know, you have all these
questions about prestige and acknowledgement and being Madqur
in society.
1st, if you can just put on top,
how will Allah remember this? What impact am
I leaving behind?
And am I leaving behind something that can
continue to make me be remembered by Allah
If I'm doing that, then I have succeeded.
What am I trying to get at? Yes.
Human beings were made
We were made not remembered for most of
history. Yes, we have very little time in
this world. And in that time, after that
time, we might become
You might even become
at IIUM next year.
That might happen to you. So that's the
reality of my life and your life. In
fact, even if you do a lot of
good for someone, a year later they'll forget.
They'll say, what did you ever do for
me?
They don't remember. You're not remembered.
The only one
with whom you will be forever madgkur
is going to be Allah
and the opposite of remembrance is forgetfulness.
So Allah says,
To some people he says, today
we are forgetting you like you forgot this
day.
We have a choice. We wanna be the
people that are forgotten by Allah and remembered
by people
or we wanna be the people that are
remembered by Allah no matter what people think.
May Allah make us those that are truly
remembered by Allah azza wa jal and given
that drink on judgement day.
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