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| How We Lose Our Iman –Khutabah By Nouman Ali Khan | Motivational Speech 2022 |
How We Lose Our Iman –Khutabah By Nouman Ali Khan
The intention
of today's Kaabais to actually share with you part of just one ayah that
belongs to so little Hasid but in order to share some lessons from this ayah
with you I'd like to you know give you some context this ayah belongs to the
very middle of so little Hasid and in the very middle of sort of hadith Allah
paints a scene of Judgment Day Judgment Day is something that a lot about in
many places in the Quran and usually when he talks about it the talks about
people that are heading towards Jenna the believers and people that are heading
towards the Hellfire the disbelievers but this passage in particular is unique
because Allah instead of comparing believers to disbelievers he compares
believers to hypocrites a la maleta Johanna Minho may Allah not make us from
them but Allah instead of comparing those who have faith as opposed to those
who have no faith is actually comparing people who have faith as opposed to
people who thought they have faith or pretended to have faith or their faith
was there but is of no value to Allah on the day of judgment this is the munafa
may Allah not make us from them but this this is why this passage is of particular
importance because it tells us many things about how not to end up on that in
that scene on Judgment Day to summarize what's going on in this passage Allah
azza wajal says that on the day of judgment believers when they stand the
prophets i salaam will be able to see them young matara meaning Allah Allah o Allah
o messenger can see the entire Ummah and me Nina will not be not believing men
and women yes how noodle home Bona ID him will be a mani him their light is
going to be coming out from right in front of them and from there right what
that means is we have light coming from our hearts from our chests and we have
lights coming out of our hands why is that important because your Iman and my Imam
if it's sincere if my faith is sincere to Allah and my belief was strong it
actually turns into light on Judgment Day and what that faith made me act in a
certain way those actions that I took turn into light on Judgment Day the
actions of my hand so you have two torches on Judgment Day the day of judgment
is dark it's this long walk to Jinnah and you're going to need to get there
some people are going to have exhaustive light their light is so stretched that
the prophet sallallaahumy leaves alone would describe that it could go from one
city to another is that big of a light other people have such weak light they
still have it but it’s so weak they can barely see the next step that they're
taking so there are people with different capacities of light and they are now
making their way and unless congratulating them because they at least have
light as opposed to people who have no light they don't have any chance of
getting to jemna they can’t see a path and so Allah says bush legume william Jonathan
test even tactical and ha ha nadine Fe ha congratulations to all of you of gardens
at the bottoms of which rivers are flowing it's right ahead of you keep walking
keep going keep going but then in the next ayah Allah describes a group of
people that also get up on judgment day and they notice they have no light and
they're in the middle of the dark and they see far ahead and they see you know
if you can imagine the scene there’s complete pitch-black darkness and there's
a group of people that seem to have some torches with them you don’t even see
them you just see some lights flickering so you realize I need to I better
catch up with them because those lights are getting dimmer so these hypocrites
wake up in this dark scene on Judgment Day and they try to run and catch up to
the believers because they have no light of their own they wake up and they're
in shock that they have nothing that can aid them say oh my a cool munafiq una
well muna feel hotlatina Amon on Veronanoctus minoriko the day on which
hypocritical men and women are going to say to those who believed wait for us
hold on look back towards us we could get some of your light noctus minorikoif
the bus literally means you know in old days you had these torches with fires
on top and you can take your wood and you can kind of light up your own torch
so they figure we can go borrow some of your light it won't take anything away
from yours hold on a second help us out here and then a voiceis heard pila it
grr ah ah calm go back behind yourselves go turn back fiveTommy Sonora find
some light we're notgonna help a day of judgment the day ofjudgement is the day
on which our mother doesn’t care about our child the day onwhich you know
father and son and brother and sister this is all these relationships that got
to be him with us Bob all relationships are cut so who's going to care about
who I just need to get to my agenda mind your own business I'm not even turning
back go back and find some light yourself and the idea of going back actually is
sarcasm also go back to this worldbecause on Judgment Day you if you don’t come
on Judgment Day with light you can’t get any the only way to gain that light
was in this worldfaltamisu nura' so now they still try to catch up because they
don't want to hear it right so they're still trying to catch up and as they get
closer and closer to the believers vibhuti Bovina whom be sued in Lihue bomb a massive
gigantic wall is dropped between them which happens to have a door and the door
and charleville maybe some other time will talk about but unless has a massive
giant wall is dropped between these two groups so even if they were going to
try to catch up now they can’t as the wall is dropped Allah says ball tknow who
fee he'll LACMA decide they can no longer see the hidden side of it that’s got
mercy and love and care in it while guajillo whom in Kabbalah he alive up and
right behind it approaching them right approaching them is punishment so not
only were they in the dark now there’s a massive wall you got nowhere to go and
when you look back there’s punishment coming at you there about to be crushed
so these hypocrites may Allah not make us from them become desperate so they
call out and they sayLM Nichole Morocco didn't we used to be with you weren't
we with you so they’re asking for the people of the other side apparently the
door cannot be open from the other side open up guys come on we used to be with
you and so a desperate call is made this is important before we go any further
this is actually the reason I chose these I odd for today'sKaaba this wording
LM knock'em knock'emweren't me with you the idea is that these people on
Judgment Day that are standing on the wrong side of the wall that are in
desperate situation that have no light of themselves actually assumed that they
belonged among the believing community they were very confident about that so
much so that they’re citing it even on Judgment Day we used to be among you we
prayed with you we did business with you we were friends with you we were
family with you your cousins with you we went to the same College University
where we're all the same guy show are we separated today why is this separation
happening today and from the other side this time now that they feel safe you
know once the wall is dropped not only do these people get overly terrified
that people on the other side feel far more secure so they're not in rush anymore
because now it's Co totally safe so now they take their time and actually answer
them and say well here's why you're not with us today here's why you're not with
us today you know the first thing the people or haven't told them was you have
to go get some your some of your ownlightI'll tell me sooner and find some light
on your own go back and get it apparently you don't have any light and then
they're in shock we were you we used to be with you we should have had light
just like you have light so now the people of Jannah are going to describe how
these people who used to have light they used to have light they used to have
faith how did they lose it how did they end up bankrupt on Judgment Day and
this ayah is particularly profound because then it will give us an insight into
how does someone lose theirIman how does someone end up taking the most
priceless treasure that they can have in this life are our faith and end up
squandering it and losing it there'sa it doesn't happen overnight it doesn't
just you don't just lose yourIman it's a process and that process has been
described in these timeless words but uh of course you used to be with us well
I can a competent oh man for circle however you put yourselves I'll do a rough
translation first and I'll explain number one you put yourselves in fitnayou
put yourselves in trial fatahna in Arabic actually means to put something to
the test but Ana is also used when you when you test the purity of gold and you
melt it and impurities come out like a gold doesn't go through an easy test it
goes through a painful burning test the idea of patent Oman for second there
are many lessons associated with it but for the purposes of this football I’ll
highlight one of them you kept putting yourselves in situations where your
faith gets tested try to understand what that means you kept putting yourself
in environments where you knew it was bad for you but you said no I can handle
it I got this I got this you kept surrounding yourselves with friends that
would do bad things say bad things see bad things go to bad places but you said
I'm not like them I'm just trying to help them and you kept going back into
those environments you kept getting into gatherings and places and situations
you put you kept putting yourselves in those places assuming that it will not
have any effect on you it’ll affect everyone else and it won't it won’t affect
you you know the first step wasn’t that these people just became disbelievers
it was actually bad company they put themselves in questionable circumstances
and they assume that it’s not going to have an effect you know when you are you
know I'll give you a silly example but it'll get the point across if people do
a lot of cooking at home especially if you're a desihousehold you do a lot of
cooking at home the home smells like a lot of masala but if you live there you don’t
smell it on somebody else walks in especially if an Arab walks into your house
if you like they're in some contaminated zone it hits them really hard but a
couple of hours later they lie odds it's just oxygen now you understand when
you first put yourself in a bad environment you might feel it you might feel
this isn't good this is this going to mess me up I don't think I should be here
your heart will feel uncomfortable but if you keep putting yourself in that
situation over and over and over and over again guess what it doesn’t bother
you anymore somebody who smells you no sense stands next to a smoker for the
first time is coughing and their eyes are burning but if they start smoking
themselves a year later that just becomes their oxygen they can't even breathe
normally without smoking it changes them altogether the first problem was you
put yourselves you surrounded yourselves in a bad environment potential unphysical
what was the second problem the second problem was with a lab busting you kept
procrastinating now what does that mean that means you realized it's bad and you
also realized in your own conscience I should change what you told yourself
I’ll change pretty soon inshallah I’m going to change I know I have to change I
know this is and just one more week and I'm going to be a different person man
just this semester I got these messed up friends right now and I can't really
make them upset so I'm goanna keep hanging out with them but next semester I'm
totally doing a different schedule I'm not goanna be around these guys anymore
but just let me just write out this semester just this one more month I'm doing
this you know just this one more weekend just as one or two more party there's
one or two more drinks that you keep telling yourself just a little bit more a little
bit more a little bit more and then people tell my my favorite one Ramadan’s
right around the corner it's just 10more months 11 more months you know once I
go along come man I'll be totally different I plan to go to Hajj once I go to
Hajj oh you watch I'm goanna be a different person but until then you know just
kind of just make God for me Dada bust them you didn't want to make a change
today right now you figured you assumed not only are you putting yourselves in
a bad environment you’re not ready to make a transformation right now it's too
much for you to be asked you’d rather just stick it out you’d rather just enjoy
a little bit more thesis what thought of busting but you know what and you
assumed by the way this this also has an assumption the first assumption was it
doesn't affect you it doesn’t have an impact on you but it does something
really bad becomes normal to you over time you get desensitized what is the
effect of terribles of holding off and holding off and holding off actually you
assume that you can put the brakes on at any time and you can walk away from
all of it whenever you want I'm not addicted I don't need this I’m not hooked
on it I could just walkaway whenever I feel like the truth of it is that's not
the case the longer you stay the more addicted you become and the more
impossible you feel you can’t get it's impossible for you to get out of it
you're completely immersed you’re completely drowned and you don't even know
what anymore what it is to be outside of this environment and then you start
telling yourself it's too late for me and when that happens a guilt sets in the
guilt sets in that I'm pretty messed up man I've been doing since I've been in
this bad environment I should have made toboe a long time ago but it's too late
for me and that bad nobody likes to feel bad nobody likes to feel guilty and
then Shaitaan comes and says why do you feel guilty you don't have to feel
guilty the only thing that's making you feel guilty is this Islam thing Islam
says this is Haram and that's Haram and that's a sin and that's the same and
you can't do this and you can't say that and you can’t go there it keeps Islam keeps
making you feel bad man I want you to feel good what how true is Islam anyway
and now the thoughts start running in this person's mind a man or a woman why
am I even following Islam it seems like it just wants me not to be happy I just
want to live my life man I just want to be free I just want to be able to do
what I want I just want to be able to hang out with my friends I'm not so sure
about the Quran anyway how do we even know there is a God how do we even know
what what's this hadith business how how how do we even know it's authentic and
so you have this young man or woman thisZeinab this I lead is Fatima this
Abdullah is getting these beautiful names and now they're starting to ask
questions about I'm not so sure about this Islam I don't know I have doubts I
have serious doubts and these are not PhDs in philosophy nor do they have
exhaustive education and Islamic history where they studied it and they started
developing doubts no no they were in Abad environment they didn't change
themselves that is the process I’ve talked to hundreds of these people that
literally live this ayah they live this ayah and then they get to a point where
they have doubts but their doubts have nothing to do with logic or reason as a
matter of fact when you answer one doubt they go to the next doubt when you
answer that one they go to the next one when you answer that one you go to the
next one then you say hold on a second so how long ago did you start ending up in
questionable kinds of company and then the truth starts coming out what add up
to them the very next words are you fell into doubt you started doubting you know
what doubt will do it'll let you off the hook you'll be able to say to yourself
well it's not really absolutely the truth anyway so I shouldn't feel bad that I
don't follow it I shouldn't feel bad and now once those doubts settle in and
you hide behind those doubts and continue to justify your life of
procrastination and putting yourself infitnah once you get to that point then
two things are taken away from you the desire for Genma is taken away the
desire for making Allah happiest in a way the desire to have that light that
will make you run and get to that destination you don't even have that in this
world the person who desires to see that success with Allah Allah will give
them that in this world but that desire is gone now you have doubts about it and
the fear of Hell is gone those are those two things are gone your fears are gone
and your your hopes and aspirations and Allah and the ocula are gone the
afterlife is nothing to you the afterlife means nothing if somebody even brings
up heaven in Hell to joke to you well if you take away have it in hell if you
take away the motivation to end up in the reward of Allah or get away from the
punishment of Allah on Judgment Day well the only motivation you're going to
have left are things that are left in this world isn't it you have nothing left
in the next life so the only thing to look forward to our stuff that's left in
this life and this life will be money it’ll be fame it'll be leisure it'll be
pleasure you know it'll be material things that's all you ever think about
that’s all you ever care about that’s all you ever want to know about that’s
the only thing that ever interests you that’s the only thing you make efforts
towards because you think all of these things are going to bring you happiness
they’ll bring you contentment so the next words are well haru-kun will Emaniyou
false hopes deceived you you had false hopes that some kind of worldly thing
will bring you happiness and you ran after it you gave all of your life to it
and you would think that this will bring you what you're looking for and you
get to it like people wanting to see you know people nowadays obsessed with the
next movie that comes out the next toy the next device that comes out right
lines for the new Star Wars longer than passports for Hajj you know why because
you need to go see it if with if you don't see it how does your life have any
purpose how you know your life means nothing if you didn’t see it opening night
you know and so you have to see and by the way hoping that this will bring you
some kind of fulfillment that you haven't found anywhere else and people walk
out of and say that was pretty awesome and then they’re bored again like what
do I do now maybe I could go see it again and then go see it again it like-- melodic
says exciting the first time but uh so pretty cool you keep looking for
something more to fulfill you and fulfill you because the thing that will
completely fulfill you the pleasure of Allah there’s no longer there that
desire is no longer there well garlic cumin mi nieta I'm rolauntil the decision
of Allah came this was your life this according to the believers is a summary
of a person’s life that lost their faith they started just with putting
themselves in questionable environment and from there it’s a downward spiral
automatically the next thing is you start getting hooked on it you put off and
then later on you start developing doubts and from there the only thing you
ever work towards is where the lustful material gain material desires Valhalla
come Bella Haru and then Allah says the one the ultimate the ultimate deceiver
Lord is mobile aha the incredible deceiver was successful in deceiving you this
is what the believers say to this the Munaf you put on the other side of the
wall this is an incredible scene folks they're standing by this wall in shock
why aren't we on the other side and now they're being reminded by their fellow
believers on the other side well remember that you did this this this and this
and this is a gift of Allah to you and to me it's a gift of Allah that this you
know hideous scene has been painted on Judgment Day because I would rather know
now than then I'd rather not stand there and then find out shocked why am I on
the wrong side of this wall why am I not on the other side how come I don't
have any light how come I lost this thing that Allah had given me every one of you
sitting here every believer has light inside their heart Allah has granted it
to us the problem is whether or not you and I want to hold on to it or not so
you and I have to identify where we are maybe were the people that just started
putting ourselves in a fitness situation maybe we just started getting ourselves
caught up in the wrong thing or maybe we’ve been caught up for a while and
we’ve been putting off letting it go maybe that's happened maybe we even even
gone further down the road and now we’ve started developing doubts maybe that
‘show far we've gone maybe we've gone waydownLaRocco allamani you ha ha ha now we’re
all we live for is you know toys and pleasures that's all we live for now is
entertainment that's that's what we’ve become and so at the end of it all
nothing you earn nothing I earn is worth anything on Judgment Day except that
light this is why when this passage began a lot as I would have described it
with light and that light is the only thing that matters on Judgment Day alemon
you know lemon at Arapahoe vehiclebin salim the one who comes before Allah with
a sound heart the heart that can beam light in front of them anything else that
you and I have that we have now is worthless it's completely worthless before
Allah on Judgment Day you can enjoy it for now but if you get caught up in it
and it takes up the space in your heart then you have no room left for light in
your heart you just don't have room left which is why the last ayah of this
passage is fellow Malay codomain confetti atone while Imean alladhina katha who
welcome would not oh here malakoma be sannyasi and today there's not going to
be any compensation and he ran some acceptable from you don't try to pawn it for
anything else there is no access into those doors there's no getting through
this door with any kind of penalty or payment you can't get through not from
you and not from those who disbelieved the scary part of this ayah Islam
incomevidya well I mean Elodie naka for who you are now in the same position as
those who disbelieve you ended up being in the same position as those who
disbelieved I'm not going to take any ransom from you and I'm not going to take
any ransom from them all of you your place is fire well be some we'll see it
was a terrible place to be that is and so at the end of it all after painting
the scene Allah concludes and I'll conclude with this ayah as well how is it
that we can continue to preserve our light and continue to remind ourselves not
to put ourselves in that downward spiral and whatever little light we have how
can we make it stronger and stronger andstrongerallah azza wajal himself says
and I’ll in latina amanu and Daksha al Ghul Ubuhamdulillahisn't it yet time
that P believers hearts should become their hearts should become filled withall
with the remembrance of Allahtruly remembering Allah will bring allinto the
hearts and the more your hearts remember Allah because Allah Himself isnuru
Sumati well out Allah is the light of the skies and the earth the moraleyes in
your heart the more light is inside your heart you understand so he says
remember Allah and then he says how do you remember Allah this is called a
Vienna in Arabic huama and as a lemonadeHuck and they should be filled with awe
because of what came down from the truth because of the revelation because of the
Quran ponder over the Quran remember Allah through the Quran weep when you
recite the ayat of Quran think about what they mean to you the gift that Allah
has given you because not only is a lot of light of the skies and the earth the
Quran itself is also described as light in the Quran phenomenal villahe wore a Thule
he went noon andLevien's anna believed in Allah and His Messenger and the light
that we sent down Quran itself is called light Quran itself is called light and
so we the the amount of time you spend with the Book of Allah personal for your
own personalbenefit for your own personal benefitwhen you sit and recite it and
ponderover it and you think about what alawyer Master is saying to you that
isgoing to fill your heart with light andthere's no more you know greater treasure
in your life than that lightand you won't realize the price of it I won’t
realize the price of it until we stand on that day when everything around us is
dark and the only light is the light coming out of my chest and the only light
coming out of my hands that's one will realize well I akuno can latina/o tell
Kattabomman abukhatallahallah Himmel ahmad focus at KU Leuven work a human home
fasciae point they shouldn’t become like people who came along time before them
who were given the book a long time before them and a long period passed and
their hearts became hard they were they had the book but they didn't value it
it's possible Allah says that a nation will have a book they will have the Book
of Allah there were nations before us who had a book - they had to rot they had
in gene they have suffered Abraham and Musa they had but they didn't benefit
from them let me interfere omen huh they didn't benefit from those books they
didn't use those books to fill their hearts with light maybe they use those
books for the wrongreasonsmaybe they reduce those books so just ceremonial
occasions they just enjoyed reciting it sometime every once in a while you know
that's all it became to them or maybe at some wedding gathering they can play
some Quran and that's all Quran became but Quran was not there too soft in
their hearts anymore and this is the tragedy of history people did not benefit
from the word of Allah that came to soft and hearts preparing humanity for
standing before a law and Judgment Day that's our responsibility now that ‘son
you and that's on me this is why Iaku nuke La Vina atoll Ketuvim in KabulFAP
Allah Allah he Muhammad kisakuNouveau home so their hearts became hard their
hearts became hard when the heart becomes hard there's no light inside left
it's not going to give you anything not judgment what Cathedral men homeVasya
cool most of them are corrupt many of them are corrupt Allah Azza WA JAL is now
in the in these few ayat painting one of the most important realities depicting
one of the most important realities in the life of a believer theIman you and I
have is not something we can hold onto this light that we have been given is
not something that’s guaranteed it's not just because you have it now and you
feel secure if somebody says Salam to you means you’re Muslim you say wa
allakum as salaam or Haleiwa ricotta they’re both Muslims they're believers to
each other we assume that we all have the light of faith inside our hearts but
according to these ayatsome people will stand up on Judgment Day and be shocked
I thought I was with you and you're not so we better realize that it's not
automatic it's not guaranteed it's something you personally will have to make
efforts for I personally will have to make efforts for and your iman will not
help me and myiman will not help you on Judgment Day we’re all going to be
caring about ourselves our own light in 0rr conferred on me so Nora go back
find your own light that's in right now we can cooperate with each other right
now we can strengthen each other's iman but on that day there's not going to be
any help may Allah azzawajal make us ofthose who preserve the light in our hearts
may allah azzawajal make us ofthose who are not on the wrongside of that wall
protect us and our families and our loved ones from NickNevada may Allah keep
our hearts from becoming hard and may allah azza wajalmakers of those who
continually internalize the word of allah allowingour hearts to softened and to
be filled with light barakallahu.
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