Nouman Ali Khan – Wisdom Ties It All Together Ep 4 – Hikmah in the Quran Dhul Hijjah Series

			This is the opposite of what we're told nowadays. Follow your heart. Follow your feelings, your
follow your truth, your truth changes from one hour to the next, depending on whether the aircon is
working or not. Right so, so but follow your truth is the opposite of following hikma. hikma means
I've made a decision to follow something whether it gets easier, it gets difficult, I'm sticking
with it.
		

			This new short series is based on the findings of Dr. Zakir Hussain in his PhD thesis wisdom in the
Quran, which was summarized and presented by iostat doorman in front of a live audience, the link to
the full paper is in the description.
		

			I want to start by saying I felt the need to do this lecture series because I think this is one of
the most fundamental teachings of Islam that is not focused on. We're not We're not emphasizing this
teaching. And by the end of this program tonight, I'm hoping you realize the value and the
importance of hikma and why it's like I said at the beginning yesterday, why it's not some
additional nice to have kind of thing, some additional, extra curricular thing in the study of
Islam. It's actually something that binds all of the teachings of Islam together. The word hikma is
associated as a verb with gum gum means stitching together, or tightening together. Remember, I told
		

			you about the jawbone yesterday, that holds the face together. This is the same way Allah says about
the Quran, or keymaps IR two from the same origin, the ayat of the Quran were stitched together. So
you have to look at the ayat of the Quran is bound together in common Arabic means you take a rope
and you tighten it, you tighten it and something that is well secure is something that is more stuck
gum. It's more stack gun. And from it comes the idea of even the word hokum which means to make a
verdict that's very well thought out. And from it comes the idea also of wisdom, which is based on
knowledge and thinking that is secure it's well thought through. It's not just a feeling you had and
		

			you just decided to do it. This is the opposite of what we're told nowadays. Follow your heart.
Follow your feelings, your follow your truth, your truth changes from one hour to the next,
depending on whether the aircon is working or not. Right so so but follow your truth is the opposite
of following hikma. hikma means I've made a decision to follow something whether it gets easier, it
gets difficult, I'm sticking with it, because I have this secure mind made up to follow through. The
reason I'm bringing this up in the introduction again, is in the Quran. Something I won't get to
talk to you about in detail, but it's there in my lectures on Soto Juma is that 1000s of years ago,
		

			Ibrahim alayhis salam finished building the Kaaba. And when he finished building the Kaaba, he made
a dua alongside his son is smile. And he prayed that people should come to this house, and they
should worship this house that's been built for the worship of one true God. And then he prayed that
from their children meaning the children of Ibrahim and his smiling, Ya Allah raise one Messenger
from among our children from the line of a smarty because Ibrahim Ali Salam has another child also
is Huck and he has his heart because yaku br goob has Yousuf and so on and so on and so on profits,
profits, profits, profits. On the other side, he has Ibrahim has a son named Smiley's Sudan and he
		

			says Ya Allah send one messenger among these my children from this line. What will he do? Yet lo
Allah him i Attica, he will read your Ayat on to you, while you Ali Mohammed Al Kitab al Hikmah, and
he will teach them the book. And what did you hear? And wisdom and hikma? Ibrahim alayhi salam 1000s
of years ago, after going through all the tests that he went through every test of the will and
Allah told him, I am making you an imam over people. I'm making you a leader. He passes the hardest
test at any prophet has ever given. And then Allah rewards him by giving him the responsibility of
building the Kaaba. Then he asked Allah Ya Allah make this a place where everybody can come, the
		

			people that live here, make them safe, provide for them. Allah says No, I won't. Some of your
children will not be believers and I'm not gonna give them I'm not guaranteeing anything for your
bad kids. Now you can do it the volume in then Abraham Ellison, even though he did so much. Now he
asked Allah DUA and Allah said, I'm only accepting it partially, not fully. Then Ibrahim alayhi
salam makes another doll. Right. And so he quote, he changes his dog a little bit, right? And he as
he adjusts his da, he finally gets to the final version of that dog which Allah then accepts
		

			And that accepted to I was ya allah among my children. Give them a messenger who will read your
ayat, teach them the Book and the wisdom and He will purify them. And he 1000s of years ago, Allah
accepted that door for him that finally a prophet will come, that will teach his people the book and
wisdom. The reason Ibrahim either his Salam is important to us than wisdom is important to us. You
understand? This is a religion of the book and the Wisdom. It's what it's what's carried from that
time that that die is echoed and then it's coming to our messenger Salallahu Alaihe Salam. And Allah
says Allah did a favor on the believers naka de mon Allah Who are the meaning is Bertha fie him
		

			Rasool Amin and fusi him when he raised a Messenger from among them yet no either him it will use a
key him or you Ali Mohammed githaba While hikma he recites the ayat to them, he purifies them, he
teaches them the law, he teaches them wisdom, meaning Allah answered the prayer of Ibrahim alayhi
salam by sending Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam Okay, so the reason I wanted to tell
you that is there's four things the prophet does yet Luanda, he Marathi, he recites the ayat will
use a key me purifies them when you are leaving home. Well, Kitabi teaches the law. Well, well, heck
mine he teaches wisdom. What's the last item? What's the fourth item? Wisdom. It's as if wisdom is
		

			the thing that ties everything else together. It's like, you know, you put bricks together, but the
bricks cannot stay together until you put cement in between the cement that holds the entire
religion together is actually hikma. hikma is the thing that binds in its meaning is to secure
something and bind something. And if we don't pay attention to hikma than the other parts of our
religion, they start falling apart. And some people hold on to this brick. Some people hold on to
that and brick some people hold on to that brick you understand? And what happens in the religion
then some people just recite the ayat. They just recite the ayat. They don't have anything else to
		

			do with the religion. Other people say no, I just want to purify myself. I want to purify my heart.
That's all I care about. I don't care about anything else. My heart, my heart and my heart. Other
people say no, you have to learn Fick, you have to learn the law. That's all this religion all it
is, is the rules. You just have to know the rules. So what happens people pick one piece, people
think another piece people think another piece and what is hiccup I do, it
		

			brings them together and it binds them and you you create the perfect balance between all of the
teachings of the religion. That's why Heckman is so important. And you can feel if you observe
what's happening in the way that we carried out our religion, the way you observe their Islam around
the world, may Allah protect all of the Muslims and guide all of us. You know, you can feel how
disconnected the religion became how we started holding on to pieces of it. Some people this peace
some people that piece, some people that piece, and it became this disjointed thing. And then you
start realizing maybe the thing missing is a is a conversation and a re revived awareness of hikma.
		

			Now, that's the introductory comment. Now I'm gonna get to something that I talked to you about
yesterday. Without it, he said um, and briefly would look mine will be Allahu Anhu. I'm not going to
go into detail about them. Because my plan is when I do a deeper look, study of sort of dogma and
deeper look, study of solid solid. When I talk about hikma when I talk about, you know, look, Mandel
the law, and then I'll talk about them in more detail. But the things I want you to know for this
discussion are as follows. From the old we learned, and I said, um, that you have to think about
life experience seriously, you have to learn from what happened in your life. And you have to
		

			observe the world, you have to know what's going on in the world. If he didn't observe what was
going on in the world, he would never have been able to say we're in NACA, Philomela Culatta Yummly
Brambleton. Baba, he wouldn't be able to say that it's his observation of the world around him. So
we the what does that mean for us? It's not really when somebody says I take my Islam very
seriously. It doesn't just mean I'm gonna pick up Islamic books and learn Islamic books are I'm
gonna study Tajweed I'm gonna memorize the Quran. That's Islam too. That's a pursuit of wisdom also,
but you know, what's equally a pursuit of wisdom together with that sociology, political science,
		

			history, anthropology, global economics, international relations, all that stuff, law, ethics, all
the psychology counseling. All these fields now become part of the pursuit of hikma. You see that?
So this is pretty serious because people say, oh, I want to study Dean, I don't want to study duniya
that statement is lacking in hikma and is lacking in an understanding of the definition of hikma in
the Quran. Okay, so that's one. The second is contemplating spiritual and moral principles. That's
in the teachings of Lookman. What Allah has taught us
		

			through the story of Lachman, a person can think deeply, and they will realize there is such a thing
as a god. And one must be grateful to that God, there is such a thing as an afterlife. And
everything I do has consequences, and I should treat people the right way. These basic ideas are not
coming from Revelation. It's such a truth that is inside every human being. And if they really
deeply look within themselves and the world around them and contemplate, spiritually contemplate,
they will arrive at that conclusion. You know, a lot of times there are Muslims or non Muslims who
arrive at these conclusions. Like look, man did, he wasn't exposed to Revelation, and he arrived at
		

			these conclusions. This look man is almost like Allah celebrating people that are officially non
Muslim, but they have refigured Islam out without ever meeting a prophet. Right? That's what the
Quran has done here. It's pretty amazing. So Allah is saying, there are people in the world that can
find out about Allah, they can find out that there is something called a judgement a, I know I need
to be treating people the right way. They've reached that basic level of wisdom on their own,
without any revelation. And a lot of those people, you know what happens with them, we find out
about them that when they heard about Islam, or they read the Quran, or they studied a little bit,
		

			they become Muslim. And when they become Muslim, if you serve in interview hundreds of them, 1000s
of them one of the common things you will find among them as they say it felt like something I
already knew.
		

			They say it felt like it's that it wasn't something new, it was already something inside me. And it
just like, oh, this is what I believed all along. You know, in the Quran literally says about some
Christians who when they heard about Islam, and they started crying, they heard the Quran and they
started crying, and they became Muslim. But what they said is so fascinating. They said in
condemning, probably he Muslim mean, we will already Muslim before this, we just, it's as if they're
saying we didn't even know that, that we were Muslim before this. And this is a pretty important
fact of the Quran because now I don't look at everybody in the world. As Oh, you see a Muslim Oh,
		

			Jana people, gender people, gender people. And then you see non Muslims in the grocery store or
Janome, Janome Janome. Right. This guy is ready for the barbecue.
		

			I don't see that because I don't know where they are inside in their journey. I don't know where
they are. That's with them and with Allah. So my concern about what's going to happen with this
person or that person cuz a lot of people say that the man what's going to happen to all the non
Muslims? Really, because on judgement day before Allah starts judging you, you can be like, exactly,
exactly. What about all the non Muslims?
		

			Can you help me with that first, because I know it's pretty serious right now. And the mountains
have melted and the oceans are boiling over and all that stuff, but I'm really concerned. This is my
question. Can you help me with that? Also, I was wondering about dogs, what happens to dogs?
		

			Are they going to be hot
		

			dogs and anyway.
		

			So the point is, what is the Quran teaching us you don't know who's on a journey towards the wisdom
that is actually endorsed by Allah Himself. You don't know that. So our religion made us humble to
the journey of those who haven't outwardly accepted Islam yet. We don't even know about them. And it
it made us humble towards them and even acknowledge that Allah can give them wisdom also, they can
have wisdom also. And that's, that's kind of captured and encapsulated in the story of logline.
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