This Ramadan, Don’t Just Fast—Find True Peace & Healing! | Nouman Ali Khan

Summary

Highlights

• Nouman Ali Khan will focus on two ayat from Surah Yunus for Ramadan 🕌
• These ayat highlight divine counsel and healing in the Quran 🌟
• Khan stresses a personal relationship with the Quran over intellectual study 🧠
• Viewers are urged to seek the Quran’s guidance for personal challenges ❤️
• The ultimate goal is to experience joy and peace through divine connection 😌

Key Takeaways

• Surah Yunus, Ayat 57 and 58 will be the focus this Ramadan 🤲🏽
• Nouman encourages personal reflection on the Quran for deeper understanding 📚
• Viewing the Quran as divine counsel can lead to personal transformation ✨
• The Quran offers healing for spiritual and emotional wounds 💖
• Believers should find joy and fulfillment through their connection with Allah 📖

Overview

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:30: Introduction to Ramadan Theme The chapter titled 'Introduction to Ramadan Theme' focuses on the author's unique approach to Ramadan, which is centered around a specific verse (ayah) from Surah Yunus in the Quran. This year's Ramadan plan is primarily built upon ayat 57 and 58 of Surah Yunus. Throughout the chapter, while the primary focus remains on these verses, there will be discussions reflecting on various other sections of the Quran, indicating a comprehensive exploration of the text in relation to Ramadan.
• 01:30 - 04:00: Contextualizing Ayahs 57 and 58 from Surah Yunus The chapter focuses on the significance of Ayahs 57 and 58 from Surah Yunus, which is the 10th Surah of the Quran. The speaker acknowledges the importance of contextualizing these verses to understand their placement and the events occurring within Surah Yunus. The chapter serves as a prelude to a series planned for Ramadan, aiming to explore these verses in detail and lay the groundwork for a deeper understanding of their message and relevance.
• 04:00 - 05:30: The Ayah: People's Reaction to Divine Message The chapter discusses people's reactions to divine messages and inspirations given to prophets. It opens with a reflection on certain verses that emphasize the uniqueness of divine inspiration given to prophets, and the resulting astonishment or skepticism from people.
• 05:30 - 09:00: Human Tragedy: Disconnect from Allah The chapter titled 'Human Tragedy: Disconnect from Allah' discusses the role of certain individuals who are sent to warn the people and provide good news to those who have embraced faith. These believers are promised an honorable place with their Master. However, the disbelievers dismiss the message, accusing the messenger of being a magician. This highlights the theme of human tragedy stemming from a disconnection with Allah.
• 09:00 - 16:00: Ayah's Call to Humanity and Introduction to the Quran The chapter delves into the perplexity and significance of God's attention to humanity, amid His vast responsibilities throughout the universe.
• 16:00 - 30:00: Quran as Counsel, Healing, Guidance, and Loving Care The chapter explores the thoughts and questions of people who heard the Quran during the Prophet's time. It delves into the skepticism about God's interest in humans and questions why belief in God should make humanity important to Him. The discussion raises philosophical questions about the significance of human beings in the grand scheme of the universe and God's priorities.
• 30:00 - 38:00: Nouman Ali Khan's Personal Ramadan Plan In this chapter, Nouman Ali Khan explores the existential questioning of human significance in the world, particularly during Ramadan. The chapter reflects on the notion that Allah has chosen to provide guidance and a structured way of life which infers a certain level of importance to human life. It discusses the prevalent worldview that diminishes the perceived value of individual lives by suggesting that life lacks intrinsic meaning or purpose beyond personal interest. Khan presents a counter-narrative to this by highlighting the spiritual significance and reassurance found in the divine acknowledgment of human existence.
• 38:00 - 44:00: Invitation to Explore Personal Connection with the Quran In this chapter titled 'Invitation to Explore Personal Connection with the Quran,' the discussion revolves around the challenge of finding meaning in life without belief in a higher power. It highlights the surprise and skepticism some individuals experience when confronted with the idea of divine guidance and purpose as presented in the Quran. The chapter emphasizes Allah's love and priority for humanity, demonstrated by providing His words, and the varied human reactions to this offering, ranging from skepticism to acceptance.
• 44:00 - 58:00: Understanding Quran's Healing and Joy The chapter discusses the reactions of people towards the divine messages delivered through the Surah. It highlights Allah's observations and comments on how individuals perceive and respond to His words. A crucial element mentioned is the lack of hope among certain people about meeting Allah, which underscores the significance of faith and the anticipation of a spiritual meeting with the divine. This introduces an emotional and spiritual dimension, emphasizing understanding and self-reflection on one's beliefs and expectations regarding the afterlife and divine encounters.
• 58:00 - 50:00: Conclusion The chapter titled 'Conclusion' explores the attitude of people who lack expectation or hope in meeting Allah. It highlights the sense of indifference these individuals have towards a divine encounter, suggesting that such a meeting is not seen as significant to them. The lesson embedded in this discussion emphasizes that a meeting with Allah should inherently be hopeful. However, the people described have become content with worldly life, having resigned to the idea that they will never meet Allah. This reflects a deeper spiritual disengagement and a lack of anticipation for the hereafter.

This Ramadan, Don’t Just Fast—Find True Peace & Healing! | Nouman Ali Khan Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 everybody doing something different this Ramadan so what I'm GNA be doing is actually based on a single Ayah of Surah yunus um and maybe even by extension the Ayah after it so this entire Ramadan is actually focused on ayat 57 and 58 of Surah yunus we'll be talking about many different places in the Quran but in
• 00:30 - 01:00 shade of these two ayat soah yunus for those of you who don't know and that's okay that you don't know is Surah number 10 and these are ayat number 57 and 58 once again uh and they are the reason I'm going to be doing the series that I'm doing this Ramadan so what I wanted to do first is kind of lay the groundwork for this these two ayat and kind of contextualize them where these ayat are placed in the Quran what's going on in Surah yunus because there's lots going on in with Unice but I wanted
• 01:00 - 01:30 to highlight at least a couple of things that really struck me and then inah I'll be able to explain my thought process better to you so these papers I have with me are a collection of certain aat that I think will help you see the placement of these two ayat and what Allah is saying in them so in the very beginning this is the second Ayah Allah says has it been all together too strange for people that we inspired we gave inspiration to a single man from
• 01:30 - 02:00 among them to go warn people and give those who've come to Faith those who've accepted his call to give them good news that they're going to have a first priority and they're going to have an honorable place with their Master disbeliever said certainly this is an obvious magician this Ayah is about how people thought it was very
• 02:00 - 02:30 strange that the god of the universe who's got so much to run and he must be so busy why would he have time to make priority for some people some specs compared to the rest of the universe that he's running why would he make a priority out of them and he would pick one man among all of humanity and of all the people he could pick it's you in the in this Arabian Desert he couldn't pick a king a ruler somebody famous he picked you this is all too weird this is hard to accept and if he is such a grand King why are you such a big deal him right
• 02:30 - 03:00 these these were the kinds of thoughts that the people who heard the Quran were sharing with the prophet wasall if there is a God and He Is This Magnificent being that runs the entire universe why are you so important and forget you so you're so important why would just us believing in in him in the middle of nowhere why would us why would that make us important to him why would he give us with him like they would have a a top priority and there's lots it's a loaded term top priority but maybe for another time maybe even a about that why why
• 03:00 - 03:30 would he give us that so they found it strange that they were why would Allah think why would Allah deem us that important why why would we be such a big deal it's actually a commentary on how there's a there was a world view in existence that we're just you know happen to be alive we happen to be on this Earth but whoever created us if there is someone left us here to our own devices and we just live whatever life we live it doesn't really have any meaning or purpose my life has no value to anyone but myself nobody cares about
• 03:30 - 04:00 me other than myself maybe some people in my life that love me or something but other than that there's no higher power there's nothing greater that actually gives any meaning to my existence so they found it very strange to accept that that's the that's the tragedy Allah mentions in the beginning of Surah yunus he's talking to us and he's saying he out of his love and out of his priority for us he gave us his words and this is the reaction he gets that's just too crazy that's just too weird and then
• 04:00 - 04:30 adds other laments so the Surah has sporadically it has comments from Allah about how people have been reacting to what to him giving them his words this is the eth AY now certainly those who have no hopes of ever meeting us that's the idea that they're going to be meeting with Allah and
• 04:30 - 05:00 forget the expectation of meeting with Allah there is no hope associated with that even if there is a God and I meet him so what what's the big deal and there there's no and in this Ayah there's an embedded lesson that our meeting with Allah is supposed to be filled with hope and this talk it starts by talking about people that have no such hopes they have no expectation and no real hope of meeting with Allah ever and they're and they've become content with worldly life like okay never going to meet Allah and I'm never
• 05:00 - 05:30 there's never an afterlife that's such a figment of people's imagination then all I have is this life you only you know YOLO you only live once let me just live this up and they're completely content with the fact that this is all there is to life and those people that are completely heedless they're oblivious they're they ignore like it doesn't even exist they completely ignore our miraculous signs and he's not just talking about his signs and Revelation
• 05:30 - 06:00 his signs all around they don't want to contemplate it because they're too busy living this life they're too busy with what what we will eventually learn our petty things in life become the most important things to them and they get so immersed in it right in the in the material and in the visible and Allah talks about those people and says they're just they're going to end up in fire it's a tragedy that they're destroying themselves then later on he says yeah they're you know so so far we've learned they find it weird that Allah would even speak to them they find it you know you know fantasy that
• 06:00 - 06:30 there's another life after this one and then these same people look at them what happens what there are moments in their life where they do accept that there is a God and they do accept that there's another life they do and when when are those moments when a human being when harm and difficulty touches the human being it scrapes the human being M it touches the human being he starts calling on us
• 06:30 - 07:00 lying on his side or sitting up or standing meaning he's anxious agitated the human the person a man or woman is anxious they can't get rest sometimes they're lying down they're tossing and turning to their sides they sit up they stand up and they're like if there is a God out there please hear me I'm in real trouble here I know I haven't been good to you or haven't cared that you exist but if you do exist I could really use some help right now and they when when trouble happens then there is this conversation that a person has
• 07:00 - 07:30 and when we alleviate him Allah says when we alleviate him from his harm then he starts walking around like he never called us to begin with with because of a harm that that had scraped him and that is how we've beautified for those who over go overboard the the things that they've been doing in other words Allah is saying the reason people forget about God after he helps them after Allah alleviates them is that they keep they go in excess into whatever
• 07:30 - 08:00 luxury man times were hard now times are good now I'm really going to party now I'm going to take care of number one me and do whatever I want whatever my appetites tell me to do and I'm going to go excessive so this is actually uh describing the psychology of extremism extreme partying extreme drinking extreme Indulgence extreme pleasure extreme extreme extreme this is mus in the Quran if you want to think about people that go into excess or extremes the word for that in the Quran is so now Allah then starts talking
• 08:00 - 08:30 about how you think you're the first ones that have done this that you that lived this like disconnected life that you didn't want to actually pay attention to reality and you thought that you're just left to your own devices and you have all the freedom in the world there are people that live like you before entire nations look at what happened to them look at how they destroyed themselves look at how they earned Allah's wrath even but you know what after all of that then after all of that we left you
• 08:30 - 09:00 behind on the earth you me originally the and now you and me we left you behind much after those people that got destroyed to take a look and see how will you do it's your turn you're you're up let's see how you perform let's see if you repeat the tragedies of the past or you're going to learn from history and learn from what others did not learn from and and live a better life for yourself and myself I'll keep going this is ay number 18
• 09:00 - 09:30 now the tragedy again they they worship Allah and that you people that have now come into not the people of the ancient past but you they keep worshiping other than Allah what what can't possibly harm them and what can't benefit them what can't harm them and what can benefit them and then this you know they have this these Saints or idols or semi Goods
• 09:30 - 10:00 demigods these these these mini gods that they think are going to make their case before Allah for them you're going to tell Allah what he doesn't know about the skies and the Earth or he he doesn't know and you know you start coming up with alternative realities about religion and the Unseen and you want to inform Allah how that works how perfect he is and how far above he is with the above the kind of sh that makes and there's a there's a
• 10:00 - 10:30 connection here people that become obsessed with this life you'll notice that religions of shik they'll have a Common Thread and the Common Thread is they go to someone other than Allah to make their case to Allah so they don't want to worship God because God will have expectations but this other intermediary someone in between he can he can basically hook us up he could take care of us or he or she or whatever that that entity is and then that other that entity they don't have any expectations God has expectations
• 10:30 - 11:00 Allah expects you to do right stay away from wrong be just be fair like he has expectations for you to live a good life these people in the middle or these entities in the middle they don't have any expectations they're just they were they met God's expectations right they were good to Allah therefore they're in Allah's good books therefore if you can please them then they'll be they'll make they'll put in a good word for you with with God that's that's the that's the logic and you know what that does then you can go to them only for worldly things you don't go to them to become a
• 11:00 - 11:30 better person so you'll go to the the idol or you'll go to that intermediary and say I could really use a promotion I could really use this this this person should you know I'm in love with this person they should love me back or I need this or I need that and I need the I need people the World to Change in my favor that's what the religion becomes that's what shik really becomes so it's actually connected to what he said previously about they're they're content with worldly life then they create a religion even which makes this life better like the whole purpose of religion
• 11:30 - 12:00 becomes to make this life better to for you to be happier that's that's what they they turn the religion into and then Allah says again he repeats this thing about rescuing you when you were in trouble even the people that were you know traveling on a on a ship and it was about to sink and they turned to God and they said if you just if you just rescue us from this we'll be grateful from now on he says and when he finally does rescue
• 12:00 - 12:30 them they go back to Rebellion going about in the in on the earth without any justification without justification so this is this is where we're getting closer to the Ayah that I really want to talk to you about he says Humanity people people you rebelling hurts only yourselves you acting this way you acting up is not harming Allah it's harming you you're hurting yourselves
• 12:30 - 13:00 this is just utilities this is temporary things to enjoy in worldly life then you have to come back to us then we will give you thorough news we'll inform you in great detail about the things that you used to do again more tragedy when when our clear Revelations are recited onto them in a way that makes things abundantly clear and
• 13:00 - 13:30 they're absolutely crystal clear those who have no hopes of meeting with us which was said before can you give us some Quran other than this one like this this is so harsh the reality in it is so harsh why are you like giving us this real talk that's too too intense can you give us like a a feel good Quran can you give us something from this Revelation can you come up with words that are just they're supposed to
• 13:30 - 14:00 make me feel better about myself so it can be can be molded to my preferences because I could really use a picker uper right now so just give me something that will make me feel better or just you know what just replace it completely just completely the prophet has told tell them it's not up to me to replace it from my own self I'm only following I'm following
• 14:00 - 14:30 nothing but what was revealed to me what was inspired to me I'm ter I'm the one who's terrified that if I were to disobey my master that I fear the punishment of a great day in other words me even thinking about another Quran another Revelation or something else entirely would be Disobedience to my and I know I would face the consequences of that on Resurrection Day so with this sort of the tragedy of people just not accepting
• 14:30 - 15:00 that Allah would speak to them it seems very clear that so far we're talking about people that don't accept the Quran as the word of Allah and here I am talking to you about my plans for Ramadan which is a conversation I'm having with those who believe that the Quran is the word of Allah right but I wanted to tell you that there's this unique Ayah was reading him today among others about this ay he said something beautiful things and he said this entire Surah up until now up until Ayah number 56 Allah was talking to those who don't
• 15:00 - 15:30 believe in Revelation who don't want to accept their's another life they've just re rejected all of it and they don't want to hear anything about the Quran even if you bring up the Quran just give us something else instead that's who they are and then Allah decided to turn his attention away from them because they've clearly demonstrated that they're not interested so they don't want to hear it but there's a huge chunk of humanity who's neutral who would like to know if the the creator of all things
• 15:30 - 16:00 their maker the one who loves them more than anyone else can if he decided to speak to them and what they should do about it what should there be their relationship be with his words so this Ayah is actually an invitation to humanity and it's an introduction by Allah himself to the Quran I love this Ayah it's one of the most beautiful ayat in the Quran describing how the Quran should be thought about okay you know we obviously
• 16:00 - 16:30 Muslims think the Quran is the word of Allah it's the guidance of Allah it's the it's the book of Allah we have these descriptions for the Quran but this place to me it stands in a unique place in the Quran as if all human beings and when he says all human beings it it refers to humanity at large and I would include the Believers in that we should renew our connection to the Quran because of ayat like these right so he says and this this is the AY that I really want to talk to you about
• 16:30 - 17:00 today a counsel a counsel that is filled with things that touch your heart the the word is actually there's lots of definitions and I'm I'm going to read through just a couple of quick things but I'll I'll actually summarize it for you it's even better if I summarize it for you the word means when you say something to
• 17:00 - 17:30 somebody that sometimes scares them and sometimes gives them hope and the word means that you're trying to change somebody's course towards the better the word I've chosen for in English is counsel counsel meaning you're advising somebody about the harms of the direction they're heading in or the benefits of a Direction they should be heading in and you're doing it in a way that is not condescending you're doing it in a way that demonstrates that you care for them that is that touches their
• 17:30 - 18:00 heart so you know sometimes when somebody gives you advice you get more agitated when you hear the advice or somebody criticizes the way that you're the direction you're heading in and you become more defensive which is natural means the advice is given not just is it beautiful advice meant to turn you towards the right course it's given in a way that keeps your heart soft or softens your heart towards that advice so it's a very powerful word and he says before describing the Quran as anything else listen to these words
• 18:00 - 18:30 again Humanity what's certainly a counsel that touches your heart that means well for you all of that in the word has come to you from your master from the one who nurtures you from the one who's taken care of you from the beginning you could say somebody could say my parents abandoned me somebody could say my spouse abandoned me somebody could say my siblings abandoned me Society abandoned me my friends abandoned me I feel alone I feel misunderstood you could say all of those
• 18:30 - 19:00 things but one one the one who never abandoned you is your is your master he never left you and now he's decided to speak to you in a way that is meant to be counsel for you and for me what does that do to a I mean really think about what that does I I really contemplate for myself what that means what that means truly is that when I'm reading the Quran I'm reading the words of someone who wants me to change for the better and he means well for me and
• 19:00 - 19:30 he's saying this out of love that's all embedded inside first I'm going to give you an overview of this Ayah then we'll dive a little bit deeper so counsel that is supposed to steer you in the in a better direction that comes from your master what she the second description there's going to be four descriptions so four things the Quran is for Humanity he says and a healing for what lies inside the
• 19:30 - 20:00 chests a healing for and I'll say what I'll say whatever healing for whatever lies inside the chest that's number two so counsel and healing I'm using one word descriptions now counsel from your master healing for what's in the chest then he says sorry and guidance which is something we've heard a lot but we in my mind when we hear certain terms a lot
• 20:00 - 20:30 they become cliche so we stop connecting with them the way that we should because we hear them all the time and guidance is one of those words we'll try to revisit that word today and an act of loving care and mercy is a common translation of rahma but those of you that are familiar with my lectures I I I try to go to the root essence of the word and it's loving care so what has come the Quran is being described as counsel from your master he for whatever lies inside the chest
• 20:30 - 21:00 guidance and and on top of that an act of Loving Care from or or for those who believe for believers so that last part is like it's it's exclusive to the Believers so what I want to do now before we dive a little bit deeper is show you this profound you know Parable really that's being given it's it's figurative language this is figurative language and what Allah has done done by using and the clue the the context clue
• 21:00 - 21:30 that this is figurative language is the word shif and there's a K in it and there's a there's kind of a majaz in both of those things are happening at the same time there's a there's he's saying something but saying something you know imp implying something more and he's also using figurative language so how does that work here in this Ayah you see think of somebody who is um you know who's getting advice about staying healthy because shifa means healing right so we're talking about health for a moment so let's not talk about
• 21:30 - 22:00 spirituality we're talking about physical you know your your physical bod bodily Health uh the first thing is somebody gives you good advice about stay away from these foods have these sleeping habits have you know eat these healthy healthy foods make sure you get these and these nutrients Etc make sure you get enough walks in or get get the sun in etc etc which vitamins are important for you all of that is counsel that is being given to you advice that's being given to you that's meant to keep you from getting sick right that's
• 22:00 - 22:30 that's step one so you know the old saying the Apple an apple a day keeps the doctor away the point being just you know have a healthy lifestyle so you don't become sick but you can't have a healthy lifestyle if you never been educated about what you're show what you should or shouldn't be eating right what you should and shouldn't be consuming so the first step is in fact but when sometimes people listen to the council or they don't listen to the council maybe they don't they fall off a little bit and because of unhealthy practices
• 22:30 - 23:00 they start becoming sick now when they become sick it's not just the the point of just giving them counsel stay away from this eat these fruits and whatever that's not going to heal you anymore you need something more you need to undo the damage that has been done and now this the role is this person like that who's become sick they go to a physician they go to somebody who has the expertise and knows what to heal that they're suffering from and they're going to give them medication they're going to give them a prescription they're going to give certain prohibitions absolutely you
• 23:00 - 23:30 know for a diabetic they'll have a certain prescription or or not just prescription of medicine but also a prescription of staying away from certain foods absolutely because they'll they'll spike your insulin or they they'll they'll spike your sugar levels or whatever on the other side you could be you know somebody who's being told stay away from Salt because they're being given so not just medication but they're being absolutely things that are that are going to hurt you you cannot touch them just stay away from them and if someone says oh you just don't want me to have good chicken you hate me and they go and eat that
• 23:30 - 24:00 anyway or you just don't want me to enjoy chocolate cake that's why you just you just you're just jealous and you I just want to live my life and this person who says I don't want this this doctor just gives me bad news keeps telling me I can't do this and I can't do that and they go and eat their chocolate cakes and they have their you know their their salty chickens or whatever they have who are they hurting is the doctor being hurt or you being hurt so shifa is actually healing prescription medication advice that is supposed to protect you
• 24:00 - 24:30 and also undo the damage that has been done that's what shifa is it's undoing a sickness undoing the effects of a sickness that's shifa then comes okay fine you got better right so first it was counseled a advice that would give you a healthy lifestyle now there is uh uh healing now that you've been healed you don't want to go back to the old ways you want to follow a different you know set of set of uh uh principles to stay away from
• 24:30 - 25:00 falling into that trap and by the way if somebody has become sick then they have to follow a specific kind of Lifestyle after getting better not only because they may fall into the original sickness but they are susceptible to other sicknesses now because they're not as strong as they were before or now their their body has changed because of the experiences that they've had so they need guidance on what to do thereafter they can't just be left to their own devices and so the the idea of medical uh guidance or medical help right going
• 25:00 - 25:30 to the professional is actually made up of and Huda it's actually these three steps talk to a physician that is worth their salt pun intended but talk to anybody who's in this in the medical profession the first thing is prevention and that's and then there's there there's the cure there's the treatment the surgery the whatever and then after that there is instructions you know post surg
• 25:30 - 26:00 postop instructions literally Huda that's what that is but there's one thing that isn't there in the relationship between a patient and a doctor something isn't there you know what's not there the doctor may or may they may care about your well-being but they're not personally invested in you for the rest of your life not necessarily They Don't Love You they're not constantly checking on you and they didn't give you the advice because of their love for you necessarily they give
• 26:00 - 26:30 you this advice because it's their job to do so and you may be one of a hundred patients and a lot of times you'll meet Physicians that do care about their patients and a lot of times most of the time you meet Physicians that you're just a number you're just an insurance bill that's got got to be paid you're just next next next you know and they'll just they don't even make eye contact they're looking at the chart and saying yeah yeah yeah prescribe and they'll talk to the nurse they won't even talk to the patient they call a bad bedside Banner right so who going to care for the the patient it's not going to be the
• 26:30 - 27:00 doctor it's going to be the family members that are going to say hey do you need some water can I press your feet can I do this can I do that you know they're going to be it's not the do the doctor's going to come in do his three things even really just shifa try to do that shifa recommend it and then the rest is up to you there's no followup there's no necessarily intensive kinds of care uh and concern just let me know when things are getting really bad then let me know so the rahma part the loving care part is left to the love ones right but what did Allah do in this Ayah now
• 27:00 - 27:30 let's take that take that that scene that I've painted for you of that relationship between patient and Doctor uh now think about what Allah has done he's basically described us as those who need to to follow Good Counsel to remain healthy emotionally spiritually socially basically in life basically in life and he's given us advice in the Quran that you know and
• 27:30 - 28:00 advice is the kind of thing just like motivation right you it depletes motivation can go down and you hear something and it motivates you again you know you you have somebody who mentors you who gives you good advice who hears you hear something from them and they they pick you back up like those of you that are into exercise if you're exercising by yourself you can drop off but if you have somebody mentoring you're saying come on let's get up we got to do this and they said goals for you you're going to stay on top of it means a counsel there's a mentorship
• 28:00 - 28:30 that's there to keep you kind of realigned towards the right course that's counsel from your master this shapes for me personally and this is I'm getting to the point why I I chose this Ayah to to to inshah cast a shade on the rest of Ramadan for me or in light of it that I want to spend the rest of Ramadan I wanted to do this Ramadan a personal uh I do that anyway but this time I want to merge the two projects just my personal reading of the Quran on every day there are ayat that I contemplate on
• 28:30 - 29:00 I think about as I'm reciting but then there's some aat that you just your heart just stops it just kind of what it just you you get paused by what Allah is saying right personally and I would take note on this Ayah really touched me and it really affected me in a way that I had never experienced before and I'd make a small note of why why did I do that and that's my personal connection to the Quran but this year what I'm doing insh is actually going back from
• 29:00 - 29:30 the beginning reading the Quran again of course as we do but whenever an Ayah touches me for its it's it's counsel for me personally not for you not for oh somebody emailed me a question and I thought about it and let me see what Allah says about that not for you it's about myself because you know it's it's one thing for me to sit here in a position of telling you or trying to advise you about how you should connect with the Quran better but I think the most genuine way to do that is for me to
• 29:30 - 30:00 do that myself and to share with you how I'm doing it myself because at the end of the day we should all have a personal deep profound connection with the Quran and we should we should seek its counsel and I want to show you that process that that I engage in for myself so every day I'm going to pick and and the lecture this lecture is long uh it's going to be maybe 45 minutes or an hour or something but the Ramadan sessions are going to be 10 15 minutes at the most I I want your attention span to remain I want you to
• 30:00 - 30:30 benefit from something I personally benefited from as I was reciting so I don't know the plan I don't know what I am going to share with you on the first day of Ramadan or the next or the next or the next that's going to depend on Where the Heart settles and when when I do find a counsel that really does like hit me harder then I'm going to go and contemplate that ay discussed it with some colleagues study it a little bit and then share some of those findings with you in that's my plan this Ramadan just to allow the Quran to be counsel for my personal self it's a completely selfish exercise so that's what I'm doing I know that
• 30:30 - 31:00 that might sign sound disappointing some of you but that's okay there's plenty of other Facebook pages and YouTube channels so so this this is the counsel that comes from your master so you know what that does for you this year when you're reading the Quran okay you're reading a story in the Quran well what's Allah what's what's the counsel Allah is giving me when he's talking about telling me what the Pharaoh said what's the counsel Allah is giving me how is he steering my course when he's talking about this previous
• 31:00 - 31:30 Nation or what's the counsel Allah is giving me when he's describing this person or that person or he's giving this law or what every time you read an Ayah everything you read you read it from this you put these glasses on and you're looking at the counsel that Allah has given you what what is Allah telling me here what does he want from me what change because the purpose of is to touch your heart how will this Ayah touch my heart is a question you ask yourself how does this make me feel and you know what all of us are
• 31:30 - 32:00 suffering from something all of us are suffering from a painful experience all of us are suffering from some kind of loss some kind of Abandonment some kind of Scar from the past there's no human being free from that some of you are are still you know recovering some of you are emotionally scarred some of you are physically scarred you know physically sick so difficulty and Trauma trauma traumatic experiences in this life are are part of all of our lives and so the next thing
• 32:00 - 32:30 I'm looking for in the Quran is for the pain that I have inside my chest for something that still hurts me for something that lingers inside me that or you know and it's not just pain you know the what is inside the chest are diseases of the Heart Like greed and selfishness and you know being self-absorbed and arrogance and you know diseases inside the heart can be heedlessness an addiction to entertain a m or to distract yourself you know uh
• 32:30 - 33:00 lust these are all sicknesses that can that can take hold inside of a heart but then there are also pains inside the heart there's also emotions inside the heart that linger a feeling of loneliness of not being heard of not being understood of not being loved those are also things that lie inside the chest you know anxiety fear those are real emotions that can lie inside somebody's chest they can keep them turning tossing and turning like the person in a ship that was about to sink there's somebody physically sinking on a ship and then there are people that are
• 33:00 - 33:30 emotionally sinking spiritually sinking that's a reality and he says that he has given me and you personally healing a medication cure for whatever is going on inside the chest it's so powerful I want that I want to see it I want to feel it and I want to exp and I want to dig deeper and deeper in it and so this this second item is it's so powerful it's telling you and me that all of us are suffering from something
• 33:30 - 34:00 that's a reality because there's no need for shifa there's if there's no right there's no need for healing when there's no when there's no sickness and he didn't just say he said Healing For What Lies inside of the chest you know it's so beautiful that he used this this this wording because he cares about what's going on inside there are things that are going inside going on inside your chest that I will never know about that your mom will never know about that your wife or husband will
• 34:00 - 34:30 never know about your siblings will never know about because they're happening inside your chest they are your thoughts they are your they're they're my fears they're my anxieties they're my sadnesses they're they're my you know they're my troubles they're my burden he knows what's inside and he knows how to cure that like there will be there will be things about you that you'll feel like your entire life will be spent and nobody will will understand there'll be Secrets you'll keep to yourself
• 34:30 - 35:00 something you keep in a vault inside yourself it's just you and just you and here Allah is they they talk psychologists talk about the the power of vulnerability of being open of being able to you know share with someone the things that scare you the things that make you weak your humanness your flaws that you can have a genuine relationship with your spouse if you do that for example or any relationship for that matter if you have real genuine connection with somebody you you're you let your guard down well this Ayah is about Allah saying you don't have to
• 35:00 - 35:30 have your guard up with me cuz I already know before you even say it I already know what's inside you you your vulnerability is where you began you are you are nothing but vulnerable before Allah right so he already knows and he's going to give us that counsel it's just that do we accept that we are vulnerable before Allah or not and once he gives us that healing then he mentions guidance and when we talk about guidance you know we'll talk about things Allah made Halal andam uh guidances about you know the
• 35:30 - 36:00 rituals of worshiping Allah that's also part of guidance what to believe about God what to believe about the afterlife guidance is what to believe and how to act those are all acts of guidance right and Allah is telling us what to do and what not to do that's guidance but there's it's powerful that Allah mentioned that as number three here because when Allah gives you counsel that demonstrates that he cares and he gives you healing that makes you stronger that makes you that sustains you that
• 36:00 - 36:30 nourishes you now you turn to Allah's guidance and you realize that that guidance every time is already the first two things so the guidance of Allah is actually counil that steers you in a better Direction the guidance of Allah following it is actually healing now your your view of Allah's rules my view of Allah's advice is counsel no matter how difficult it might be I recognize something just like that
• 36:30 - 37:00 patient who says oh you just you just don't want me to eat chocolate cake you just want me to have a you know sugarless life we see things different now we see that what he's saying is for our own good and we see guidance in a different way we see Guidance with the lens of and so and then then you appreciate the guidance for what it is and when you start following that guidance when you start following that guidance and you start not only have you experienced a
• 37:00 - 37:30 change and I've experienced a change internally we start feeling like we're healing by the by the beautiful loving counsel of Allah's words but we're actually now following the the instructions that he gave us we're living by that gu we're trying to at least we're taking one step we didn't take a thousand miles we took one half step when we take that one step then you experience something that is special because now Allah considers you not just a member of humanity he considers you a True Believer now you
• 37:30 - 38:00 came this far you sought counsel from my words you sought healing and you experienced it you tried following my guidance now you get something that's special for you because you're not just the AY but look at what he does he says and it's loving care for those who truly believe this Ayah would suggest that Allah has given us in the Quran and through the Quran his love and care you
• 38:00 - 38:30 start feeling a love from Allah that you never felt before you know how tragic it is when you find people that hear Allah's word or they hear Allah read Allah's Quran and they say why is Allah so angry why is Allah giving us these irra irrational rules why is Allah being so harsh why is Allah this why is Allah that because they have they never gave the word of Allah a chance of being so they can't see the and they definitely don't experience the they don't experience the loving care that's injected into every Ayah they don't see
• 38:30 - 39:00 it they can't even see even when Allah is talking about hell there's still love and care because he's telling you about it so you don't go there he doesn't want that for you your perspective on Allah and on the Quran completely changes when this becomes the foundation of your relationship with the Quran of course we all have some relationship with the Quran but sometimes our relationship is just sometimes our relationship is just
• 39:00 - 39:30 studying sometimes sometimes our relationship is just recognizing the Arabic grammar of it you know or memorizing it sometimes our relationship is just listening casually to recitation or a lecture something that's that's all Quran is for us this year let's make Quran different for ourselves let's make it let's make it our Mercy let's make it our guidance and then he says at the end for those who truly have faith so by the
• 39:30 - 40:00 time you go through this process you're not just you actually become real Believers and also the the isara in this aah seems to be the indication seems to be that those who accept this journey with Allah's words that Allah blesses their life with special rahma that comes because of the Quran and so the prophet s wasam when he Allah gave this Ayah to him and Allah has talked about his favors in many places in the Quran not
• 40:00 - 40:30 one lots of places in the Quran he talked about his favors but look at what Allah did when he talks about this favor the what has come to us he says by the way I know the my my introduction seemed like it was completely different from where we are now right but think back about what I was saying what do people say can you give us a different Quran than this people that are completely content in this life and they don't want to think about anything else people that are in complete denial of Allah's word of
• 40:30 - 41:00 connecting with Allah they have no hopes of meeting with Allah the Quran is going to be a way with in which our hearts can meet with Allah every day it's it's actually a response look look at the tragedy of humanity who didn't appreciate what they were given and now you have a chance now do you want to be like that too that's the invite here this is the 58th Ayah tell them the prophet is being told only by by the favor of Allah and only by his loving Act of Mercy you know
• 41:00 - 41:30 how in the beginning we said people find it weird why would they be made a priority remember that second Ayah why would they be such a big deal to God who's got an entire universe to run Allah says tell them by the special favor of Allah and by this unique Loving Care from him that's why that's why you've been given this you weren't given this to put a burden on you you were given this because you're being loved you're given this because you're being favored that's why you're given Quran you're someone special to
• 41:30 - 42:00 Allah this is I mean just internalize that just think about what that means to you and what think about what that means to me because we didn't earn it we didn't earn this Quran it's then because of that because of that favor that can never be competed with they should be filled with joy they should be overrun with joy I find
• 42:00 - 42:30 it remarkable that Allah says after he said healing for what is in the Heart from in the chest means there's pain there's sadness there's fear it's the opposite of joy and he says the fact that I gave you a means to overcome your your pains and I did that in a way that demonstrates my love to you for that alone you should be filled with joy just holding the Quran should fill you with joy you know there are I tell you share
• 42:30 - 43:00 something personal with you there are times in my life that I felt so low that I feel like I don't even deserve Allah's book I don't even deserve it why would I you know and and what people say doesn't matter people say mallah you have so much knowledge of the Quran this who cares people won't matter on Judgment day and just because I know a little more than you doesn't mean that I I know where I stand with Allah I know where I stand with Allah and you know we have to experience this Joy with the Quran you
• 43:00 - 43:30 do and I do there we're on equal footing here because this is not about who knows more and who knows less it's not at all this is about where our hearts are and our hearts they fluctuate sometimes my heart is close to Allah sometimes my heart is far from Allah sometimes I'm in awe of Allah's words sometimes I'm disconnected from Allah's words I'm human I'm talking about me me I have to experience this I need this for myself I nobody's in a place where they
• 43:30 - 44:00 graduate from the school of Iman and now their Iman is always high it's not like that you know I I'll share something else personal with you you know I I don't know of anybody else who talks as much as I do and I keep you know talking about the Quran and lectures on the Quran I've been doing it for decades and I can't stop I don't care if nobody's watching I can't stop do you know why this is me verbalizing the word of Allah to myself this is how I connect with the Quran by
• 44:00 - 44:30 talking about it it's therapeutic for me it's my I swear by Allah like the the youf series was going on and I was like every day when I would finish ad D I feel good inside not because of the comments or I just feel good that I got to spend time with Allah's words I got to a out the feelings that the thoughts that I have the contemplations that I have I got to express them for myself this is about
• 44:30 - 45:00 myself which is why I wanted to say that this Ramadan is something different it is for myself it's just me and the Quran I'll you can tag along it's better than anything whatever they're gathering this is the conclusion well just I mean you know how people put like weird stickers on their fridges at home like M and all that you want to put a sticker on your fridge
• 45:00 - 45:30 put because of that Quran they should be filled then with joy there should be over is more than in Arabic means happiness and you know what for a lot of us the fact that we won't have drama in our life the fact that we won't have anxiety in our life we can just breathe breathe a breath of peace and calm would be heaven but this is not just calm this is Joy on top of that for a lot of us joy isn't even real you're just you know
• 45:30 - 46:00 you think playing video games is Joy or you know going and playing sports or having F you know a lot of times people are doing these things to escape the tragedy of their life it's not real Joy it's just temporary fix really just an escape you know they're watching artificial com you know artificial humor they're watching comedy to get a laugh but sadness hasn't gone away because real Joy hasn't been felt look at what Allah is offering you and me he's offering a healing for our hearts guidance loving care and out of his
• 46:00 - 46:30 favor he's given us something that should be should fill us with joy as if we've been looking for happiness in all the wrong places you know what's incredible about this Ayah among the many things that are incredible about this Ayah there is no place in the Quran where Allah really talks about the secret to happiness how do you become happy how many people live their lives I just want to be happy why can't I just be happy why am I never happy this is one of the most common
• 46:30 - 47:00 catastrophic questions in your life in my life why is it so hard to be happy some people are like I can't remember the last time I was happy you know how painful that is and here Allah says I can give you Joy I can make you happy I can give you true contentment true Joy inside your heart this is the offer from Allah and because of that then because of that favor alone then they should be filled with joy it is better than
• 47:00 - 47:30 whatever else they're collecting it's interesting that he used the word collecting he could have said it is better than everything else he didn't say that he said it's better than everything else they're collecting because he's commenting on what we do in this life we just collect we collect followers on social media we collect money we collect shoes we collect shopping items we collect exper experiences I want to go to this Resort and that Resort and that Resort I
• 47:30 - 48:00 want to visit this city and that City and that City we collect degrees we collect credentials collect collect collect and every time we're trying to collect something we're thinking it's going to bring us some kind of Joy when I collect enough credits I graduate I'll have joy when I collect enough experience I'll have a promotion I'll have Joy Collection collection collection collection it's time we started collecting in Allah's words in our heart that collection will give us
• 48:00 - 48:30 joy it doesn't those some of you know way more Quran than I will ever know some of you know almost nothing that's okay because this isn't about who knows and who doesn't know even the one who's known the Quran recites it every single day may be missing out on they may be missing out on it I don't want to miss on it I want to some of it every day what better month to get into the habit of finding healing from
• 48:30 - 49:00 Allah's words than this month what better word I as as I engage in this series with you guys I'm going to try to give you advice that I follow on trying to extrapolate guidance and a process by which you can you can start your own Journey you don't have to become an expert before you start a journey with the Quran you can start somewhere there's help available there's there there's things you can do even now and so inshallah we're going to start I'm going to start you know doing that for
• 49:00 - 49:30 you cuz as personal as this is for me it would give me tremendous Joy if each of you had your own connection your own personal connection not dependent on anybody else with Allah's book and you were able to explore your own answers and you you were you're able to ask and get the right answers to your own questions but those questions are coming from a good place inside of your heart so I pray that that Allah really connects our hearts to the Quran this
• 49:30 - 50:00 Ramadan that I that Allah really allows us to live the beautiful spirit of this Ayah these two ayat and give us fill our hearts with joy because of his words that he he gives us that he gives me that I pray that he gives me that and I and I pray for you that Allah gives you that each each one of you and so uh let's embark on this journey together I'm excited about it uh and I hope to see you guys soon thanks for tuning in bar