Nouman Ali Khan – 6. Youth’s attitude towards Quran

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			in the record, but today, as you all know, it's the final farewell Friday sermon of the month of
Ramadan, the month of the Quran, I figured it would be appropriate to share some realities in
regards to the book of Allah, and our times, and the attitudes that Muslims and non Muslims have
towards a less book and what needs to be done about it.
		

			First and foremost, I want to share with you something you already know we live in a religiously
pluralistic society, a society in which many different people follow many, many different religions,
you have people of different faiths that your work, people of different faiths, at your school, at
your college at your university in your neighborhood, pretty much everybody else's. It's a
diversified society in terms of religions. And when people live in such a society, there are certain
ideas that aren't even said. But they, they creep into the thought process of the people. And this
is something that creeps into the thought process of the Christian, the Jew, the Hindu, the
		

			agnostic, whoever, and even sometimes the Muslim. And this idea of you know, part of getting along
with everybody. And part of sort of respecting everybody else. One of the ideas that's pumped into a
pluralistic society is that all these religions, people follow these different religions, because
they come from different backgrounds. They come from different cultures, you're from Morocco, and
you're from Spain, you're from you're from Egypt, or you're from, you know, Bangladesh or something.
That's why you're Muslim. And, you know, I'm from the Philippines, or I'm from Sri Lanka, or
wherever else and I that's why I'm a Buddhist. So that's why I'm Hindu, or that's why I'm a
		

			Catholic, or that's why I'm a Protestant, etc, etc. So really, we're just learn to accept religious
differences almost as long as these are cultural differences, right? So there's all these ideas
presented that religious differences, there's no distinction between them. It's just you can think
of it like another cultural difference. So the fact that you fast in the month of Ramadan, and your
neighbors know that you fast, they think was such such such a cool thing to do in their culture. The
first thing that comes in their mind isn't religion, the first thing that comes to their mind is
these Eastern people, these brown people, these yellow people, these colored people, they fast it's
		

			a thing they do out there, right? That's what it is. And you know, sometimes the Muslim themselves,
especially the youth start thinking like that, yeah, we're Muslim because we were born in a Muslim
family. Over that's, that's our heritage. That's how we are. That's these are the kinds of things we
do because we come from that background. And the idea and the conviction that we are Muslim because
it is the truth. It has nothing to do with where we come from, or what our parents are the fact that
the deen of Allah, Islam is the truth. That idea becomes diluted. It gets reduced to just a culture
gets reduced to just a religious heritage. That's all it is. And when you lose sight of the fact
		

			that this is the truth, then you feel you don't feel the urgency to want to share the truth with
others. You're okay with the fact that somebody else is whatever other religion and you are this
really
		

			It's just traditional differences. You know, these are differences of heritage. But when you're
convinced this is the truth. And then when you're convinced of that, and you know, everybody else,
what they have is false hood, then you feel a sense of urgency to want to share the truth with
others. If there's a building on fire, and you're the only one who knows it's on fire, it's only
decency that you would want to let other people know listen, we need to get out of here. It's on
fire. And so there's a sense of urgency that creeps up into you. But the sense of urgency is gone.
It's gone because we don't associate the Dean of the law, the Book of Allah, the legacy of His
		

			Messenger, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, as being the ultimate truth that demands to be shared with
humanity. That's one problem, a change of attitude needs to take place. Here's another change of
attitude that I want to talk to you about.
		

			Those of us who do work in the field of Dawa, or organizations, groups, writers, websites, etc, etc,
dedicated to spreading and, you know, enlightening people with the message of Islam in whatever
capacity, my help all the efforts of that one big and small, local, international, May Allah help
all of them and put Baraka in their work and accept the work from them. And may Allah make all of us
contributors to the work of Dawa in all lengths, including this one. Now, having said all of that,
the work of Dawa of sharing the message of Islam with the larger society, let's just talk about it
in the American context, briefly, this work has a few obstacles in front of it. And this work has
		

			right now been reorganized, and it's been shaped not according to our liking, or according to the
principles of our book in our legacy, but according to a different agenda. And this is what I wanted
to bring before you, you know, in the prophets times on the left where it was seldom, the Quran was
the main vehicle of Dawa the messenger in southwestern I was commanded with Luma Oh, here in a
camino Gita, read what has been read to you what has been revealed to you from the book, read it
onto the people recited onto them, what record will
		

			remind by means of the Quran makansutra. Right, who are you reminding by Koran, whoever few fears
the promise, even if a disbeliever has some fear of the promise, there'll be reminded by the Quran,
the Quran was a means by which the message of the law was delivered to people.
		

			But and you know, when this message was delivered, some people didn't want to hear it. Some people
wanted to distract this conversation. They didn't want to have this conversation. That is the
central message of the book. So they started this tactic, you can call it irrelevant questions. They
started asking the messenger, some a lot more, I think you send them questions that are almost
tangents so that he would be so busy answering those questions. He never gets to talk about what he
wants to talk about. So they would say to him, we will believe in what you have to say. But just
answer this. Who sends you revelation? Which angel? What's his name? If you just tell us that
		

			globally?
		

			So the IRS come down and he answers properly? He says you believe and they say, well, we don't like
him, actually. Let's ask you another question. How about this? Who were the people of the cave? If
you just answered that we're gonna believe
		

			the Quran answers How will, right? We recite this and so?
		

			So now when the answer is given? Well, no, we have another question, actually. What is the rule?
What is it come from? Whose book or nay?
		

			Are these central questions, you have to understand the central idea was believing this messenger,
the central concept was that
		

			the central concept was don't change with your tongue, the book that Allah had revealed to you don't
hide what Allah has sent to you, that was the message. They don't want to accept that message. So
what's the easiest tactic? change the conversation by changing the questions? It's a very clever
tactic. It's very clever. And you know, it's even used today. You go on a TV is a TV interview. And
the host, the guy who's hosting the show, and there's an expert, some scholar, whatever, area, maybe
it's a historian, maybe it's a political scientist, whatever. That historian will never get to say
what he wants to say, because the host keeps changing the questions. He controls the entire
		

			conversation. What I'm trying to get across is whoever controls the questions controls the
conversation. This is truly media. This is true in Dallas. This is true in discourse in general.
whoever controls the questions controls the conversation. The thing in the con is Allah did address
some of their questions. Then he stopped. Then Allah started asking questions himself, because Allah
azza wa jal himself takes control of the conversation.
		

			Why don't you think, right?
		

			Do you have a book that you study from? bring it forward? How to asking questions and making demands
on the people who disbelieve
		

			but now we're living in times where we are not the ones the Muslims are not the ones that are either
not the ones asking the questions. Questions are being asked of us. Hey, how can Islam condones
terrorism? How can you be
		

			hate women so much. How can you do this? How can you do that? And you're, we're put in a position
where we're constantly telling people No, no, no, Islam is not this. No Islam is not that no, it's
not is not that either. And it's not this either. And no, this is not what the Quran actually says.
And this is not this and that so we're so busy telling people what Islam is not. We never get a
chance to tell them what Islam is. We never get a chance to speak because the questions are not in
our control. We have to understand this the I recited before you can be a very powerful, very
powerful ayah Allah azza wa jal in this ayah. He depicts the message of this Deen in the book of
		

			Allah. And this truth, this man in the law, this Mohammed Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
that is running in our blood, this this truth, Allah gives it an image. Sometimes in the Quran, a
lesson is taught by means of drawing a picture in your mind. A lot
		

			of people will have Pee
		

			Wee sphered, the truth against the false the image being drawn is that truth, or Islam is like a
sphere. It's like a weapon. This truth. Truth is like a weapon. And it's being rolled. It's been
launched against false so it was a guy running away from a sphere, obviously. So who's on the
offensive? The spear and who's running away? Let's also compare that to our times, who's actually
running after Louis like the guy who's he's running after the spirit steals play around. We're on
the run. We're not answering. We're not the one that asked him the questions. The tables have been
turned. Then Allah describes pyoderma, who then the spear bashes the skull of falsehood in a very
		

			graphic image in the very graphic image. It's not Allah doesn't just say truth defeats falsehood.
Truth kills false. It bashes it sculling, its brains get bashed up. In other words, what we're
learning is, truth has no tolerance has no tolerance for false.
		

			Islam has no tolerance for ideas that are contrary to the truth. We're not saying we're intolerant
of non Muslims. That's not what we're saying. We are saying truth cannot stand false. Truth has no
tolerance, no, it cannot stand next to it, and be okay. If it sees it hasn't bashatt sculling.
That's what it has to do. That's what it has to that's what it must do by definition. In other
words, truth is incredibly offended by the existence of false is offended by the existence of false.
And we are in a time now where falsehood is offended by the existence of Islam is offended by the
existence of the truth. This is one problem I wanted to share with you. But add to this one more
		

			thing. The elders among us, those of us that come from different from the Muslim world, especially,
maybe they were attending halaqaat when they were younger, they were in the company of scholars,
when they were younger. They were they built this love and affection for the dean as they were
growing up. So they have this Leela for Islam, they have this you know, this, this, this chivalry
towards Islam, they have courage, and they have this this confidence in the mean, but that
confidence today does not exist among their own children. It does not exist among our youth. Our
youth are only a commercial because we drag them here. They're only at Sunday school because you
		

			left without them.
		

			There. They're not here. They're not at the Holocaust, the Holocaust are filled with people with
gray beards, and white beard. They're not being attended by the 16 year olds and the 14 year olds.
And you know what, when they go to school, they are learning that Islam worships the moon God,
that's what they're learning in public school. I was listening to preacher you know, I live in
Texas. And there's a lot of you know, Christian talk radio a lot. And now they're actually talk
radio shows dedicated to the Muslim audience. They want to talk to Muslims want to bring them from
darkness to light, bring them to Jesus. They're talking to Muslims on talk radio, inviting them to
		

			call in. And these they have a supposedly for an expert on the radio show. We want to share our
faith with you we understand you think, you know that believing that Jesus is the Son of God is
shared. And they know these terminologies and they quote out of the Koran, they're actually out
there to give the message of Christianity to Muslims. Right? And I'm listening and their evidences
are almost laughable. They are laughable. But you know, I also got very scared when I was listening.
I called in just to see what happens anyway, they hung up on me, but, you know, but I want I was
very scared. You know, why? What's the biggest weapon these people have? What's the biggest weapon?
		

			Those who call to falsehood? And instead of also being on the run, now it's attacking the truth,
right? What's the biggest weapon they have? The biggest weapon they have? Is the ignorance of the
Muslim.
		

			The biggest weapon they have is that we don't know our Deen. Our kids don't know, they mean, they
don't have the confidence that this is the truth. Instead, this is the point I want to actually try
to conclude with because this is the heart of the matter what I want to share with you. I don't know
		

			Want to bring the problem before you I want to share with you how do we get to a solution? How do we
start fixing things to look in our times? If you want to learn something about the Quran, of course
you ask the ultimate chef Google, right you put in put on or whatever, and you want to learn
something about the Quran and a bunch of hits come up, you know, on the internet, or in the media,
on YouTube, whatever else, there is far more literature and media and content available against the
Quran, attacking the Quran, this far more available against the Koran, and very, very little in
comparison, available in defense of the Quran, or pro The Book of Allah. The criticisms far outweigh
		

			the appreciation of the book of Allah. I want to share something else with you. For a millennium and
a half this oma and its scholars that spanned every continent, every continent, they have been
obsessed with the miraculous power of this book, they have been obsessed with the Quran, the
incredible majesty, and how how it kept it can't possibly be the word of a human being 1000s upon
1000s of scholars have given their entire lives studying the miracle of the Quran, in the Muslim
tradition. And then for the last three 400 years, the Christian tradition move up in sha Allah tala,
the crowd is filling up. So move as much as you can. In the Christian world. And in the European
		

			world. The Quran started being studied formally. About 400 years ago, they started studying Islam.
Why did they start studying Islam so they could defeat the new enemies? That was the idea. Right? So
they have been writing critical works against the Koran for about 400 years now. In the in the
Christian world, basically. Okay. If you try to say for the, we're not even talking about the non
Muslim, let's just talk about the Muslim. If the Muslim wants to learn something about the Koran, do
they have today more access to what has been written by our own scholars about the Quran? Or do they
have easier access to what is the attacks on the Quran? They have easier access to the attacks on
		

			the Quran. Even the Muslim today says how come this ayah says one day is equal to 50,000? And that
is one day is equal to 1000? How can he says over here this? How can we says over here that the
Muslim is asking these questions, the Muslim is saying how come this doesn't make any sense about
the Quran? We have reached that point. We are reached that point here. We were supposed to post
questions to others, and now our own are asking questions about their own book. That is the reality
in which we live. How do we counter this reality? How do we produce youth, especially youth, young
men and women that we are so scared of we become defensive, right? This is one of the things before
		

			I conclude this football is the impact of this mentality, this mentality that we have to constantly
answer and defend ourselves. Right? Instead of Islam being on the ideological offensive, it's on the
defensive constantly. What is the consequence of that? We have the idea we have to protect our
children from the fitness of the outside world. Right? This is what I'm and that's how I'm and we
have to, you know, how are we going to raise our children too scared, we're scared to death, about
what's going to happen to our kids. Isn't that the case? You know, if we were really producing
children of Islam, if you were producing members of this ummah, carriers of this message, then the
		

			entire high school would be scared. When my kids, their Christianity is going to go away. Because
there's a Muslim kid in that school, we would have that kind of confidence. We wouldn't shake
because of what's around us. Everything around us would shake because we're there. That's the kind
of confidence Islam puts in someone when they understand what they believe. When they have the book
of ally empowering. I know of a case of a brother. I know actually, when he was in high school he
had memorized for under four he had studied his Deen and he went into public school. And his parents
were told don't put him in public school put him in, you know, Islamic school or keeping in keeping
		

			the madrasa this and that. He said, No, I want to go to public school, ask him why he wants to go to
public school. Those people need the message. That's what he said, this 15 year old kid. And he goes
by the time he graduates from high school 18 kids have become Muslim into high school.
		

			This is confidence in your deen. This is what we're supposed to produce. We're supposed that we're
not doing sports. This is the best defensive offense. Right? The best preservation of our youth is
the production of diamonds. you produce people that carry this message and deliver this message and
our content with this message. And I deeply, deeply confident with this message, you produce that
and you don't have to worry about them, you know, they're not going to end up at the nightclub, and
they're not going to do alcohol, and they're not going to have a grill, they're not going to worry
about these things because they have a higher mission in life, then you've empowered them in
		

			something greater. When there's a void of a higher purpose in life, then you have these problems,
then they look for other things to fulfill that void. But our Dean gives us purpose for life. It
empowers youth. It puts them on a different scale. It puts them on a different platform than
everybody else. And you know, we don't
		

			We become a people that want to protect ourselves cut ourselves off from the rest of society. The
only justification what I might have told you this for decades now, there's no I'm not the first one
to tell you this. The only real justification for Muslims living in this land is Dawa. That's the
only real justification. So for all the hiding away, and saying, Oh my God, if we're like that, then
there's a serious problem. If we don't know how to handle somebody who walks into the machine, a
Jehovah's Witness, right, or a preacher, or a guy with tattoos all over his body walks into the
machine, and we don't know how to handle it. That's our problem, not his problem. That's our
		

			problem. We don't know how to deal with them. We don't know how to deal with the larger society. And
we were here to deliver this message to carry its message in our in our speech and our actions. In
the in the four or five minutes that I have left. I want to share with you a couple of things that
are hopefully food for thought for you and your family. inshallah. Tada. First and foremost, there
are two things about, about the Quran that at least two Quranic studies, a lot larger Islamic
Studies, that all families should be aware of this, this book is something we should understand. But
it's at the same time, something we should appreciate. For is not just something to be understood,
		

			it's also something to be appreciated. What does that mean? We have to appreciate the fact that this
is actually from Allah, we have to appreciate the fact that a human being couldn't possibly produce
this. It couldn't possibly be from a human, it's impossible. That cannot be that how do you come to
that appreciation until you become a student of its power and its majesty, until even for the
English speaker, you know, the vast majority of Muslims today are not errors, or Arabic speakers,
the vast majority of Muslims. But when you ask him, if you ask the question, what is the amazing
power of the Quran? What makes it so perfect? What's what makes it so flawless? What makes it so
		

			immutable, it can't be reproduced? The answer will always be its pristine Arabic. is Arabic is so
perfect, that it can't be reproduced that the answer you always get. Now, for the majority of
Muslims who don't know Arabic, are they ever going to benefit from that answer? No. So do we stop
there and say, well, the Nazi moudgil Muslim comes in says, I want to know why the Quran is a
miracle. And the chef tells him because it's got amazing Arabic, it couldn't be by the human being
the poet's couldn't come up with anything like, and he says, Well, I want to know how that works.
That's not enough for me. How's it better than Shakespeare? How is it better than any other
		

			literature? I want to know more? Well, you have to know Arabic.
		

			I don't have time to learn Arabic, Well, too bad for you.
		

			You can't do that. We can't do that. Just because we're living in a time. This is not what this this
miracle is beauty of this book. What? Yes, all of the law of the Quran cannot be shared with people
in any other language, what a lot of it can be a lot of the beauty and the power and the majesty of
this book can be shared, a lot of the questions can be answered. You know, when when the average
Muslim is even asking how can the Quran repeats itself so much? How can we say the same thing over
and over and over again? How can a little bit of the story here a little bit here? A little bit
there a little bit here? And why are they placed so sporadically, right? Muslims are asking these
		

			questions. Well, my emotions are asking this question. How come for example, in the Quran? There's a
monkey,
		

			the monkey so it's all chronologically all over the place? How come?
		

			The first revelation is not in the beginning? It's all the way at the end? Right? All these kinds of
questions Muslims are asking today and they have answers. We have to sit and seek them to sit and
actually explore this. And when you do explore this, you will come to a conclusion, you will come to
the conclusion that this book, this book is superior in terms of its beauty. If you appreciate it,
it's superior than any literature ever known to man. You will come to that conclusion yourself. And
when you come to that conclusion yourself, then you have the confidence in this being that cannot be
shaken. You have to have confidence in this book. First. I wanted to share with you in the beginning
		

			of I'll do this in the in the conclusion now. The IRS consultant Anka booth workato Lola Newsela I
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			know the Rockefeller said How come no miracle comes to him. How can we
		

			how can you know the sky doesn't crack open? Water you know coming out of the you know, the ground,
or maybe pond or gold being delivered from the sand some miracle chose something. The previous
prophets, you know, that guy came back to life. A river parted, some pretty cool stuff happened. Why
don't How come he doesn't show us a miraculous sign. Unless as intimate as we're in the law. We're
in NEMA and under the movie Allah tells the messenger to say the miraculous signs belong to Allah.
And I am only here to clearly warn I'm a clear Warner to you. That's it. The next is our lm
		

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			Isn't it enough for them that we have sent the book to be read to them. We have sent the book on to
you too.
		

			read to them. They asked for a miracle. And Alaska isn't the book enough. alasa isn't a book enough,
right? They want it to be convinced they wanted to see something supernatural. They wanted to see
something that couldn't be human. And a law said, Isn't the book enough? If alasa isn't the book
enough, then that it's true. Even now, the book is still enough. We're not. We're not spending the
time. We are not appreciating this miracle, the book is still enough. Oxygen, Enza, Malika.
		

			It's such a powerful message of this book. It's such an empowering message. But we have to stop
becoming apologetic, we have to stop becoming defensive. We have to learn to equip ourselves with
that spear, that sphere of knowledge of this deed of confidence in this deed of really standing up
and saying, Yes, we have the truth. We're not just another religion, just please accept us as
another acceptable religion and society. You know, they're okay with Chinese Muslim or Chinese
Americans and they're okay with, you know, Sir lunken Americans and they're okay with whatever other
Hispanic Americans, they should be okay with Muslim Americans, they should be. But we're here for
		

			more than that. We're not just here. So people are okay with us.
		

			We're not just here for that. We're here for a higher purpose. We're here to deliver a message. And
when any, you know, in the history of the prophets, whenever a messenger got up to deliver a
message, they got in trouble.
		

			They they suffered, because they delivered a message every one of them, every one of them. So if you
are You and I are thinking we should be okay here.
		

			I think again, if we're going to do that, and if we don't do that, well unless punishment will come.
If we don't do our job unless punishment will come and if we do our job, then the local testers
definitely, he will definitely test us. Now Eliza was unique is capable and strong to withstand that
test. May Allah make us an Omega carries the message of Mohammed Salalah alayhi wa sallam with
confidence. May Allah azza wa jal infuse into our youth, especially the ones that are surrounded by
and surrounded by ship and surrounded by doubt. They're surrounded by those things. May Allah make
them carriers of this message with with great confidence. May Allah is always infused into ourselves
		

			and our families, a love of the Sunnah of the messenger sallallahu sallam, and in love of learning
and recite