Nouman Ali Khan

We should appreciate the value of the Friday prayers because Allah(Azawaljal) has dedicated the surahs of the Quran just to this topic .i.e. just to Jumu'ah & the climax of the surah is its conclusion, at the end of the surah the three ayats that are dedicated specifically for the subject matter of the Friday prayer. Surah Jummah is a small surah; in total it has 11 ayahs / verses. It is one speech / khutbaah of Allah (Azawaljal). Allah says towards the end: “those of you who claim to have faith, those of you who believe it is called forth from a part of a day of Friday (you’re NOT asked to give the entire Friday, you are asked to give a PART of it) Allah (Azawaljal) is emphasizing His favours on us because Allah (Azawaljal) says in the same surah: “it is the favour of Allah”, what is the favour of Allah? You DON’T have to give up your whole day, just a small part of the day. Allah emphasizes this Himself & this is a big deal for us, because if you & I start thinking... “coming to the Friday prayer is such a drag man, gota come through the traffic, walk a couple of miles, I am going to get late for work, college & all the other stuff, well Allah is saying am not asking you a lot, because previous nations were asked to do much more, the nation of Bani Israeel were asked the ENTIRE day & it’s no surprise that right before the ayats the passage right before this one is Bani Israeel ; “the example of those who were burden with the responsibility of Torah, the previous revelation and they didn’t carry that responsibility” Allah tells us about the mistake of the Jewish community before we are being given responsibility – Allah talks about the Jews first before talking to us. There is a very interesting transition. Surah Jummah is broken in to 3 parts – 1st section, 2nd sections- taking about the Jews and Bani Israeel & 3rd section – talks about Friday prayers. The 1st passage of the surah Allah says: “All whatever is in the heavens and all whatever is in the earth proclaims the Purity of Allah, the King, the Most Pure, the Most Honourable, the Wise”. This is not the only place in the Qur’an where Allah (Azawaljal) says that everything in the skies & the earth will continue to declare His perfection but usually when Allah ends a surah he ends it with two names. But in this surah He ends it with four of his names, usually you will find in the ayats of the Qur’an (the ayats of praising Allah) ending with: Ghaffur- ur- Rahim, Aziz-zul-Hakim etc. It is making us remember Allah more & guess what? Friday is the day of the week where WE are suppose to remember Allah MORE. From the beginning of the surah it is setting our minds in to remembering Allah more. The first ayah/ verse goes on to praise Allah in four ways; King, Most Pure, Most Honourable One & Wise. Then it says that everyone in the universe understands this but the human beings were heedless & amongst them the most heedless of them are the people who don’t even have access to books / literature, so there was a group of people living in the desert surrounded by the civilisation of literature – the Persians are a civilisation of poetry and literature, the Romans & Greeks are a civilisation of poetry, mythology etc. What do the Arabs have? How are the Arabs going to get enlightened when they don’t even know how to read books? They are unlettered; Allah says He sent the messenger among them with the verses and the ayats. The four names of Allah mentioned in the first ayah: King, Pure, Honourable & Wise sums up the entire strategy of the Prophet (SAW) on how to introduce GOD to humanity. In fact you can summarise the entire seerah in this one ayah of Surah Jummah. When we read the seerah we realise that the society was changed like no other society has ever changed, they changed from the bottom up, down up, middle down anyways you like to look at it, economically, socially, morally, eating habits, waking up,

Today I have mixed feelings. On the one hand I am really happy to be back at this community. I am really grateful for this opportunity to see the familiar faces again. And I pray that this visit of mine is acceptable to Allah azwajal and brings good for myself and all of you. At the same time these are also times of great tribulation for Muslims. And every few weeks something happens that really darkens all of our hearts. And makes all of us upset. And this is one of those weeks. If you are keeping up with the news, you know what I am talking about. You know about the protests that are happening all over in many parts of the Arab world, and probably in the Muslim world by extension in response to certain inflammatory production of very poor quality. Even though that is my topic of khutba today from the Quran’s perspective, I want to start by saying that those videos or that video in particular had not even 30 hits before the Muslims started paying attention to. And so the fact that Islam took the attention that it has gotten, we have become the best advertising agency for that ridiculous stupid film. We’ve done that, nobody else. Nobody was paying attention to that. Anyhow, I am dedicating today’s khutba To my angry young Muslim brother. If you don’t already know, 62% of the Muslim ummah today, that is alive, is 30 or under the age of 30. The vast majority of this ummah is youth. And so I am dedicating this particular khutba in this time of anger and reaction to my young angry Muslim brother. And that young angry Muslim brother of mine who feel that when the prophet ﷺ of Allah is insulted, then he is insulted, and he should do something about that, and his blood boils when the Messenger ﷺ of Allah is spoken of in a way that did not deserve to be spoken of. Even the slightest insult to our Messenger ﷺ is Enough to take all the happiness and joy out of your life and make you forget all of it, because our love for him is that intense. People of other religion ask- why are you Muslim so crazy? When people make fun of Jesus on Fox TV even though they claim to love Jesus, and they also show ‘Family Guy’ on Jesus; when they make fun of Jesus on TV, Christians don’t go crazy! People make fun of Moses all the time, Jews don’t go crazy! People make fun of Hindus and that certainly does happen, Hindus don’t go crazy! What is with you Muslims, can’t say anything to you people. Don’t you understand the concept of freedom of speech? Why do you people go crazy? And our usual response and you might think this was given being my response in this khutba is that- You don’t know what love is, you don’t know. You think you love Jesus, but we love Muhammad ﷺ way way way more, and that’s why we go that crazy. But that is not my response today. My first response when that question is asked to me is that- how come I don’t get angry when Isaa (Alaihiwa sallam) is made fun of? How come I don’t get angry when Musa (Alaihiwa sallam) made fun of? Musa (Alaihi wa sallam) is The most mentioned messenger of Allah in The Quran. Muhammad is mentioned four times and Ahmad is mentioned once. That is the messenger of Allah ﷺmentioned by name in the Quran. Musa (Alaihissalam) is mentioned seventy plus times in the Quran. When Musa Alaihissalam is poked fun at, and he is poked fun at a lot, A Lot. When Jesus is made fun of, he is made fun of a lot. Where is my anger? ‘Oh that’s your problem.’ It’s their problem, that’s not my problem. So first of all, there is something even problematic about the way we emotionally respond. The things that we find offensive, there is something already problematic. But you could say- no no no, but Allah gave a special honor to Muhammad Rasulullah ﷺ. I agree, yes, Allah did give the messenger ﷺ a special honor. But it is the same Allah, who says- سُبْحَانَ رَبِّكَ رَبِّ الْعِزَّةِ عَمَّا يَصِفُونَ ۞ وَسَلَامٌ عَلَى الْمُرْسَلِينَ ۞ Glory to thy Lord,

Today I would like to share with you, are some important life lessons for myself and for you that stem from surah Yusuf. Surah Yusuf enjoys a unique place in the Quran because as many of you know it's the one place in the Quran where almost the entire Surah is dedicated to a story in chronological order and there are a lot of things to learn in this Surah. And every bit of this Surah is important and when the ulema (scholars) talk about the fruits that you can get from the ayaat you can literally write a few phd thesis on the lessons and the counseling that comes out of this surah. But overwhelmingly there's one aspect of the surah that I never want you to forget. It's a surah that teaches you and me how to deal with sadness, how to deal with grief, how to deal with difficult situations in life. Allah az Zawjal essentially describes two characters in this surah that deal with a lot of sadness. On the one hand there's the father, Yaqub AS and on the other hand there's the son, Yusuf AS and they both suffer from a great deal of sadness throughout the narrative of the Surah. The father is excessively in love with his son, and this love is expressed in a few words at the beginning of the Surah. You all know the story so I won't walk you through the surah, but there are some essential lessons and some aspects if how we should be thinking about Allah, especially when it comes to sadness, how we should be thinking of Allah az Zawjal, that's what we're going to focus on today. You know, in the beginning when Yusuf AS came to his father and told him his dream, his father's first response was worried. He told him not to tell his dream to his brothers. And we learn this is part of the character and nature of Yaqub AS he, worries for his children. Many years later, his sons, who left Bin Yamin behind, and he is worried about what has happened to him, and they're about to go back into the city of Egypt. He's worried and says don't go into the city all together, go through different doors. Don't go in from one door, go in from different doors because he's worried. It was an economically tough time, we all know there was a famine at the time, so if you have 8 or 10 guys going with camels with them, which they're going to load up and take back, so they would become an easy target, and people would think that they're trying to stock up *** and people would keep an eye out for them and they would be targeted on the journey back, so he tells them to split up, and go through different doors, this is the benefit of him giving them good practical advice. *** even though he brings all his plans if the plan of Allah is otherwise his plans will not benefit them. Which leads me to an important point. He told his son, don't tell this dream to your brothers they might plan against you, and we learn in this story that even though he didn't tell his brothers, because he listened to his father they still planned against him, didn't they? They planned against him anyway. What we are learning here is there are two plans going on: there's a human being's plan, a great human being, Yaqub AS, who has a wonderful relationship with Allah Az Zawjal, there's his plan, and then there is Allah's plan. Of course when you read the story all you see is there is Yaqub AS who is worried and there is the brother's plans, his sons, Yusuf's brothers. In reality there are our hopes, our plans and there are Allah's plans. Sometimes our hopes and our plans for the future are the same. So you really want to get that job, and Allah decides you will get that job. So Allah's plans and your plans are working together. But sometimes Allah decides that your plan is something else and his plan is something else. So you want to get that job and you want to move to that house and all the paperwork is going okay, everything has been approved, and last second they pull back, they don't want to give you the house.

Assalaamu’ alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu, Alhamdulillaahi rabb’il a’laameen, wassalaatu wassalaam ‘ala ashrafil ambiyaa’ee wal mursaleen, wa ‘ala aalihi wa sah’bihi ajmaa’een. Thumma ‘amma ba’ad, fa’aa’uudhubillaahimin-ash-shaaytaanirajeem, “Surah Isra’ Ayah 8”, Allahumma la taj’alna minhum. Rabb-ishrah-lee sadree, wayassir-lee amri, wah’lul uq’da’tam mil-lee-saani yaf-qa-hu-qowli. Allahumma thabit-na ‘endal mawti bi laa ilaha illa Allah, wAllahumma aj’ja’lna minalaadheena aamanu wa ‘amilus saalihaat, watawaaso bil haqq, watawaaso bis-sabr. Ameen ya rabb’al a’laameen. I wanted to make this first session insha’Allahu ta’ala, and dedicate this one session to what I feel is one of the most pressing issues in the lives of Muslim youth, one that I have come to experience myself personally at one point in my life, and I’ve- as I’ve had the opportunity to travel more recently and interact with many, many young people across the country, I’m noticing it’s not a program localized to one community or limited to one specific kind of person, but rather it’s happening pretty much almost universally and I guess I want to term it a crisis of faith, and a crisis of confidence in the religion. You know, Alhamdulillah, many of you that are sitting here are Muslims that are eager to learn something more about their religion and they want to advance further, and insha’Allahu ta’ala you guys are the hope for becoming the ambassadors of religion not just to non-Muslims but even to your struggling Muslims friends and family that are Muslim but they’re barely holding on to their faith, and they’re barely holding on to any semblance of Islam in their lives, and you are, at this point, the only connection Allah has provided for them to Islam. So the fact that you are here is already speaking volumes for the kind of commitment you have and you might not think very highly of yourselves, but actually, I do- and perhaps Allah (‘azza wa jall) holds you in very high regard and may Allah accept this gathering and gatherings like this one, and make us sincere in them. Now what I wanted to talk about, this crisis of faith, I’ll share a couple of stories with you and then I’ll talk about it in general. The first story is from a couple of years ago, I gave a khutbahs in a city that I don’t want to name… and at the end of the khutbah, a father came up to me and said “I’d really like you to have lunch at our house, I want you to talk to my daughter.” I said okay, I guess, I have time. So he was right next door to the masjid, too, so he took me to his house, and he said “If you’re okay with it, my daughter has some questions about Islam, etc etc, if you don’t mind could you help her answer some of them?” So his daughter comes out- (by the way, this is a Muslim family, born and raised Muslims, parents are born and raised Muslims, you know, children are raised Muslims) – and she comes out and she has piercings in strange places on her face, like on the side of her eye, and like… a couple on her forehead – weird places –places you look at and you go “ouch!”. But anyway. So she sits down, I’m kind of weirded out at this point, but okay, you know what, let’s have her ask her questions… and she had about 30 of those. She had about 30 questions. And I didn’t answer any of them, I just said “So what else?” I kept saying “What else?” and she kept adding stuff, and she had questions like “Well, you know, I have some friends in high school, and they’re gay, and they’re not bad people, they haven’t killed anyone- so why do we hate them so much? And why did God make a hell, why did He have to do that, like… what’s the point? And if He wanted to make a Hell, then

اَلَّلهُمَّ جَعَلنَا مِنهُم وَمِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُو وَعَمَلُوا الصَّالِحَات وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْر.آمين يا رب العالمين ثم عم بعد فاعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم.انا انزلنه قرآنًا عربياً لعلكم تعقلون Inshaa Allahu t’ala in this hour and 15 minutes or so we are gonna have a session on the brilliance, as it’s entitled, the “Brilliance of the Book”. The way I am gonna conduct this session is not gonna be a lecture. And I know you have heard that before and then you still get a lecture. So I’ll be…try and set some ground roots inshaa Allahu t’ala. Anyone here ever attended a class with me, anyone here? Ok, a good number of you. Those of you who haven’t, good for you. Um what we are gonna be doing inshaa Allah is I am gonna try and present a topic to you as though you and two other people are sitting here. Don’t pretend you’re sitting here with like, 300 people. And I am gonna be repeating things. I am gonna ask you to repeat them with me. And in the middle of it all, I am gonna start asking questions to see if you remember what we just talked about and then we are gonna build ideas one after the other to get to certain conclusions inshaa Allahu t’ala. Before we talk about the amazing features and the brilliance and the inimitable, incomparable beauty of the Quran we have to set some ground work, some foundational work. So we have to talk about that first. So the first thing I am gonna talk to about is, the 3 kinds of Arabic. If you are taking notes, take notes. If not, take mental notes. 3 kinds of Arabic. Now I am gonna over simplify. This is not an academic lecture so I am trying to present this in a way it’s easy to remember, easy to understand inshaa Allah. There are many more kinds of Arabic but for this discussion, 3 kinds of Arabic. I am not gonna list them on the screen. I am just gonna tell you what they are. We’ll call them Spoken Arabic. #1 – Spoken Arabic #2- Proper Arabic And #3- ancient Arabic. Who remembers? Don’t look in your notes. Call it out. Call it out. Call it out. Spoken. Proper. Ancient. Ok. Spoken Arabic is like, another word for it is busted Arabic, or slang, or twisted, demented, mutated, ugly. Also called ‘Ammiyah. ‘Ammiyah is dialectal arabic meaning Egyptians have their own, Algerians have their own, Moroccans have their own, the Lebanese have their own, the people from Khaleej, from the Gulf States they have their own. Everybody has their own, which Arabic? Spoken Arabic. They have their own spoken Arabic. Ok? They can be as far apart for those of you that happen to be desi like, from urdu to Punjabi. Ok? Could be that far apart. Or in English, it could be like English VS Guyanese. If any of you know, if you have ever heard Guyanese, proper Guyanese, you can’t really understand it if you just know English unless the Guyanese fellow decides to use English with you. Otherwise you can’t understand ok? So though they are related, they are not the same. They are not the same. Now, That’s spoken. What were the other two? Proper and ancient. In that order. Remember them in that order. Spoken, proper and then ancient. The newspaper, the Arabic newspaper, the Arabic, you know, news television program, Al-Jazeera or whatever, that’s all in proper Arabic. That’s all in proper Arabic. The Arabic term for that is Al-Fus’ha, Al-Fus’ha. Also if you have taken Arabic in college, they call it modern standard Arabic. What they mean by that is Fus’ha, proper Arabic ok? That’s proper language. It’s correct Arabic. It’s enunciated correctly. It uses the rules of grammar. Spoken Arabic, is it too concerned with grammar? No. But proper Arabic is. Proper Arabic is actually appropriate Arabic, correct Arabic. So when you’re learning proper Arabic, when you’re learning Fus’ha, you’re learning correct Arabic. There’s nothing wrong with it.

Auzubillahiminashaitanirajeem. Bismillahirahmanirahim. The last thing that I want to share with you is this is again the Introduction, the last part of my introduction. Is that when we read the Quran, or we try to understand the Quran, there is something that I want you to de-constructed in your mind, de-programmed, get them out of your system. The first of those things is, this, the Book, for knowledgeable people. This is the Book for people that have a lot of knowledge, that are well verse thing in religion that are scholars, or imams, or speakers, or khatibs or you named it, that's who this book is for. I want you to get out of this is from your mind,and when you read the Quran, you are thinking, this book, this book is a very academic kind of exercise or so religious spiritual text. I didn't want you to think what like that first, you know what I want you think about it like? You know when you have real problem, a lot of us have problem, we have family problems, we have marriage problems, we have problems with our in-laws, but you said its normal right.(laughs) Some of you have problems with your kids, some kids have problem with their parents, friends have problems with each other, some of you have problems at work, some of you have problems in business, we have all kinds of problems, and when people have really bad problems, do you know what they do? They go talk to a friend. "Man, can I talk to you? Cause his is really bothering me." You call a friend and you are on the phone with them almost an hour. Talking about your problems, and hopefully people you talk to about your problem are in your family but for most of us, the problems is the family and got to find somebody else (laughs). Right?. So, and this gives birth to a really gigantic scam industry even though there is some very legimate psychology out there, they call you to charge over 350 dollars in an hour and say, "Tell me how you feel..", "Tell me about your problem..", and you talk about your problem for an hour and at the end of it, they will say, "Do you feel better?", (laughs). See? "You need to tell me something","No, my way is getting you to feel better is to talk about your problem". But you know when we talk a lot about our problems, they give a counsel, they give us therapy, they give us advices, that is what the Quran supposed used to be. When you are having problems, and all of us do have problems, The Quran are supposed to be Allah giving you and me very relevant advices for my life and your life. Its personal relationship. Its not an academic relationship. Its not superficial kind of relationship. First and foremost, it is personal relationship. And when Allah giving us instruction, even when He telling stories about the past, even when He is telling the stories of the past, you are not supposed to think about the past. What are you thinking about? Yourself. I give you one example about that and I go on, I give you scary example about that. Not surely Muslim thinking about himself, when he is listening to the Quran, The Quran says, or teaches us, that even the Kafeer, the one who hates the messages of the Quran, the one who disbelieve the message of the Quran, when they listen to the Quran even they should be thinking about the past, they should be thinking about themselves. How would that i get this from? I told you two surahs that mentioned a lot of stories about previous prophet. Which two surahs that I have highlighted it? Hud and Syuaraa? 11 and 26. In Suratul - Hud, it once again, very interesting phenomena, this some brothers this morning, and literally this evening in iftar, Allah decided to destroy the nation of Lut. You know that? Allah decided to destroy the nation of Lut. You know how He decided to destroy them? "Iza ja amru na ja an na a li ya ha a sa fi la ha". "When Our decision came, We decided to make their high points to their low points". You know what that means?

His messages to you, The miraculous signs to you, so you, can now become committed to guidance. Now become serious. This was step 2. Step 2 was; Hold onto the Qur'an, and use that as an excuse to create brotherhood. Use as an excuse to create unity. You know what we're seeing here tonight? This is not Nouman Ali Khan, this is Power of Qur'an. This is Quran. It create Unity. You didn't even know each other. But I sense a genuine brotherhood.. You feel it too. This is powerful. This is what Qur'an can do. So you can be committed to, you can feed off from each other's energy, and you can be more and more serious. More and more committed to the direction that Allah want you to go into. The final step; if we get through this step; and we have a healthy community. And we have brotherhood among each other, then we are ready for the next step. You don't go to the next step until you take care of step 1, and step 2. Eventually we will be at step 3. What's step 3? ''Out of you, a group should rise, they should be made up of people from you. And the job will be to call people to good things. They will always be inviting people to good things. In other words, not everyone of us gonna hit the podium. But there will be a group that will come from us, when the brotherhood is created, counts of talents will be identified and we are going to horn those talents, and the entire community is going to invest in those talents, they are going to rise. And they are going to call people to good. Can you imagine, young people from our community, our own community, one day giving the Khutbas, one day inviting people to good. One day going on talk shows, and responding to people who are hating on islam. Our own kids that are born and raised here. Can you imagine that day? It's an incredible thing. When they're from among you. Calling to good. Probably one of the most, misunderstood concepts in the entire Quran. Actually I was gonna spend about an hour and a half just on this tonight, but I can't. But I'll summarize what I can for you. The translation says, most of the time, ''They command the good, and forbid the evil'' How many people have heard that before? Command the good, forbid the evil, right? Many would have heard this before right? Very very shallow translation. Ya'muroon means it’s a spectrum of things. Amr means suggesting something, advising something, trying to convince someone to do something, you know, encouraging someone to do something, and commanding someone to do something. Is there a difference between suggesting and encouraging and commanding? There is right? It starts with suggestion, and you know there is different situation. Ill give you a real life, really simple example. Or I think its simple right, ''Dinner is ready. I'm going to call my dad to dinner, and I'm going to call my son to dinner. Dad is downstairs, son is upstairs. Im going to say to my son, "DINNER IS READY!!". I'm going to say to my dad, ''Aba, ehh dinner is ready''. I did Amr in both cases. In one case, I used the authority. In the other case, I used respect, request right? Two different things. Two different situations. Amr bin ma'roof depends upon the situation. You don't go commanding people. You don’t take out your haram gun and 'haram..haram..haram…….' Everything's haram!! You cant do that. Don't do that! No! No! No! We have unfortunately, some of us social constipation in our masajid, in some places, we have it....i know it’s a bad term but..i feel that way..like its almost like you can't be happy in a masjid. And if you smile and say, salam alikum, the guy goes like…'MASJID…NO happiness here'. Oh man masjid's supposed to be a place to be happy. Don’t be judgmental on people, don’t tell people, 'you shouldn't be doing this, that’s haram you know..thats not right you know'. This happened in a masjid recently, this youth came to the masjid in ramadan, last ramadan,

Assalamoalaikum warehmatullahe wa barakatahu I have about fifteen minutes to address all of you and this is a very critical subject and there's so much that can be said about it and I am really glad that Altaf bhai’s presentation was very comprehensive and it touched upon a lot of things that really need to be given a lot of attention. Each one of his points is chapters in the book of marriage and really it should be taken very, very seriously. All of those things can be mentioned very easily in a sentence or two but when it comes to implementing them in our family lives; it's actually a very heavy discussion. And the few minutes I have with you I have to be selective in what I think is pertinent and what I think inshaAllah wa tallah is an Amana to share with you. I see these conference presentations opportunities not just for rhetoric and takbeers in the end but also opportunities to share food for thought and I want to pretend in these few minutes that I am just talking to a family that I know, just one of you or a family that I know and there is a marriage that is about to happen in your family. You are about to get your daughter married or you're about to get your son married and I just want to share some very relevant, I think relevant advice in regards to this matter. Marriage is all about trust from the very beginning and its one thing that unfortunately I'm noticing more and more in the premarital process is missing. The foundation of two families coming together if it is not, trust, transparency and openness there’s going to be clearly problems after marriage. You know marriage has become almost like a very difficult sale you know you go to a car dealer ship, the salesman presents his best self and the best features of the car and he gets really offended if you ask difficult questions and if you start asking about the transmission problems that have been reported previously or the recalls or anything else he goes like “I don't know if I want to deal with this”. What's happened to us in the marriage discourse is that we actually market ourselves. The boy and the girl and the families, they market themselves so they turn the house into something it's not when they're coming over, when the in-laws are coming over they turn themselves and their conversations into something that aren’t genuine and is not really a representation of who they are. How many families, and I can't even count and he and she (pointing out to other speakers) are from the counseling profession and they can tell you families would come and say we had no idea they were like this, no clue who we were dealing with, they were completely different people before. This kind of scamming which you would think would happen in the sales industry is actually happening in the institution of marriage and that's a crisis! Some of the more I guess forward thinking families that aren't as conservative quote and quote they say no let the girl and boy talk to each other let them email one another and let them have a few conversations. But at this point, both of them are so blind and they are so interested in just getting on with the celebrations and the new dress, the gifts and you know all the stuff. They are so caught up in the hype and all the congratulations that they are getting, phone calls and text messages that when they even talk to each other it's empty fluff conversations and they see what they want to see in the spouse. They are not able to have an intellectually sound conversation a lot of times the young men and young women because you know Hub ul ain la tara or Ain ul hub la taraa the eye of love can't see. You are already infatuated with the idea so you have a hard time seeing any flaws and that infection actually lasts a little bit longer even after the marriage. For the first couple of weeks, you can’t see any flaw in your spouse even the way they sneeze you're like "it's amazing the way the boogers just spread o...

Islam and Why Muslim Men and Women Can’t Be Just Friends – Nouman Ali Khan on the Deen Show The Deen Show Host: Bismillah Alhumdolillah Assalamoalikum Peace Be with you greetings of peace to everybody all around the world who is tuned into the Deen Show. Your friend might have told you about the Deen Show your family member, your cousin, your neighbor and you tuned in because you heard that they talk about serious issues, purpose of life, where you come from, where are you going to when you die ; a crucial question that all of us should be asking because death is a reality and we don’t want to take this life as a joke. This is not a joke. So we have our next special guest who has been with us before Nouman Ali Khan in the Deen Show to discuss some very serious issues that are on the minds of all people regarding baseball, football, clubs, night clubs, dance and all these other things distracting us. Is that the way to go? Is that the way to have peace and happiness in life or is there more to life? Find out answers to all these questions and more. We come back here on the Deen Show. We will be right back. The Deen Show Host: Peace Be on to you Assalamoalikum. Nouman Ali Khan: Walaikumassalam. Peace Be on to you as well. The Deen Show Host: It’s good to have you back here again on the Deen Show. Nouman Ali Khan: To be here. You are actually here. The Deen Show Host: Alhumdolillah the Bayyinah Institute. Nouman Ali Khan: Alhumdolillah. The Deen Show Host: We talked about it in our first show about the institute that you have, teaching people the Arabic language. Are you teaching people how to be an Arab or why are you teaching them Arabic? Nouman Ali Khan: Well yeah people should be Arabs all of them. No No No. We are trying to learn Arabic language as best as we can here to be able to study the Quran and actually even beyond that studying Islam more in depth. The Deen Show Host: Okay. Before we get in to that we need to scare some people off because some people when they hear Islam, they get turned away so we want to start off with some baby steps .When people hear about Brad Pitt they want to know about his gold fish or what Jalen Rose is doing. You know facebook, fifty cents. Nouman Ali Khan: Wait Brad Pitt has a gold fish? The Deen Show Host: No I am just saying that if it was then they would want to know. What is the purpose of life? This is a crucial question and we should be asking this question. Why is it important to ask a question or reflect about the purpose of life and where you are going when you die? Why is it so important? Nouman Ali Khan: You know its… Most people don’t ask themselves that question and I am very happy at the institute that we have people that have made such a big sacrifice in life , trying and studying here; leaving careers and having put their studies on hold ,convinced their families of making this sacrifice which is actually in it and itself a proof that they have a very clear picture of what their purpose in life is . May Allah accept these kinds of efforts from them and especially the youth that are here. But you know this question is not something that everybody cares to ask about because the answer is difficult and the answer requires a lot of change in one’s lifestyle. Right. So it’s something that really on one’s own time if Allah blesses somebody if God blesses somebody to have the conscious mind to think and to put break on everything else in life and just stop and think. This question will lead us to some very serious consequences and some very serious changes in life but as important as this question is it is probably the most ignored question in most people’s lives. The Deen Show Host: Why does everything else seems more important than the Creator? What HE wants us to do?

The Rights and Responsibilities of Marriage Assalamoalaikum warehmatullahe wa barakatahu I have about fifteen minutes to address all of you and this is a very critical subject and there's so much that can be said about it and I am really glad that Altaf bhai’s presentation was very comprehensive and it touched upon a lot of things that really need to be given a lot of attention. Each one of his points is chapters in the book of marriage and really it should be taken very, very seriously. All of those things can be mentioned very easily in a sentence or two but when it comes to implementing them in our family lives; it's actually a very heavy discussion. And the few minutes I have with you I have to be selective in what I think is pertinent and what I think inshaAllah wa tallah is an Amana to share with you. I see these conference presentations opportunities not just for rhetoric and takbeers in the end but also opportunities to share food for thought and I want to pretend in these few minutes that I am just talking to a family that I know, just one of you or a family that I know and there is a marriage that is about to happen in your family. You are about to get your daughter married or you're about to get your son married and I just want to share some very relevant, I think relevant advice in regards to this matter. Marriage is all about trust from the very beginning and its one thing that unfortunately I'm noticing more and more in the premarital process is missing. The foundation of two families coming together if it is not, trust, transparency and openness there’s going to be clearly problems after marriage. You know marriage has become almost like a very difficult sale you know you go to a car dealer ship, the salesman presents his best self and the best features of the car and he gets really offended if you ask difficult questions and if you start asking about the transmission problems that have been reported previously or the recalls or anything else he goes like “I don't know if I want to deal with this”. What's happened to us in the marriage discourse is that we actually market ourselves. The boy and the girl and the families, they market themselves so they turn the house into something it's not when they're coming over, when the in-laws are coming over they turn themselves and their conversations into something that aren’t genuine and is not really a representation of who they are. How many families, and I can't even count and he and she (pointing out to other speakers) are from the counseling profession and they can tell you families would come and say we had no idea they were like this, no clue who we were dealing with, they were completely different people before. This kind of scamming which you would think would happen in the sales industry is actually happening in the institution of marriage and that's a crisis! Some of the more I guess forward thinking families that aren't as conservative quote and quote they say no let the girl and boy talk to each other let them email one another and let them have a few conversations. But at this point, both of them are so blind and they are so interested in just getting on with the celebrations and the new dress, the gifts and you know all the stuff. They are so caught up in the hype and all the congratulations that they are getting, phone calls and text messages that when they even talk to each other it's empty fluff conversations and they see what they want to see in the spouse. They are not able to have an intellectually sound conversation a lot of times the young men and young women because you know Hub ul ain la tara or Ain ul hub la taraa the eye of love can't see. You are already infatuated with the idea so you have a hard time seeing any flaws and that infection actually lasts a little bit longer even after the marriage. For the first couple of weeks, you can’t see any flaw in your spouse even the way they sneeze ...

Surat Al Kahf

Divisions And Doubt

In this khutbah, ustadh Nouman Ali Khan responds to the attacks made on our prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) in recent times through the wisdom of a 3- ayat passage of surah Ash Shuraa, the 42nd surah of the quran.To the audience he speaks to he (PBUH) already has certain favorable factors that can ease the task for him. * Even before Prophethood, he was seen as a man of noble character by the Quraysh, which would make accepting what he had to say easier for them. * He was given the Quran. He delivered a perfect message ( predrafted by Allah swt Himself ) at perfect instants to the people.  But even so, nearly a decade goes by, and nothing changes. In these ayat Allah Himself tells rasulullah (PBUH) that what he has to say is too difficult for them to accept and its too big a deal for the mushrikun to change. All the while, the muslims in Makkah are optimistic about the people of the Book in Madina. They are in hope that the Qurans message resonates with the imaan already present in their hearts. In this Makki passage, Allah reveals to them that ' it was after Knowledge came to them, that they fell in disagreement because of their will to dominate over another and be in division' . Further , all hope in future generations is lost when it is revealed that ' they are lost in doubt'. Whats amazing about these ayat is that here it is Allah swt Himself listing out the reasons for why the Prophet's (PBUH) mission is an impossible one.But why Allah does that and what advice Allah gives rasulullah (PBUH) is life changing and timeless. Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan has stated the need of the hour- For the muslims to stay focussed and not to give into distractions. How should we be the 'Force of positive change' and what should we really be worried about are some urgent questions addressed in this khutbah.

SurahFatiha Points to Ponder

Witnesses To Humanity