There's Wisdom Inside You | Ep 2 - Hikmah in the Quran | Dhul Hijjah Series | Nouman Ali Khan

0:00 I'll do a three hour lecture and at the end of it somebody will still start can you just say something to motivate me please all this time I was making pakora what was that what was I doing well how how do how are people consuming Islam now how are we learning Islam we're learning it from 30 second Tick Tock motivations right get like you know Mufti menk will say something or I'll say something or somebody else will say something and you're like ah motivated right and then you go back to D mode I need a motive oh you know you know what this is this is actually a lack of jicama this new short series is based on the findings of Dr sakop Hussein and his PhD

0:46 thesis wisdom in the Quran which was summarized and presented by ustad Norman in front of a live audience the link to the full paper is in the description [Music] fall for shallow things because they it's one of the things that protects your heart from becoming shallow right so an easy example so we're not just reading something from several centuries ago you can think about right now you posted something online about how you are you know living a life of sabar and tawakul because people like to post their spiritual status nowadays so that the Angels because the Angels don't check you they now check your Facebook

1:32 to see if you're in a state of saber so you take a picture of yourself I don't know how you take a picture of yourself making Dua but people do apparently is all you have left and then they they post that on their Instagram and they put a little I I don't know why every every one of these videos or pictures and these people's stories they have this slow it's supposed to be Islamic music I think but it sounds like somebody dying slowly you know what I'm talking about yeah so they'll put that up but now that you put up of course you

2:19 put it up for the sake of Allah yeah ah and now that you put that up you keep checking how many like how many teary-eyed round yellow faces did you get how many hearts underneath it how many masha'allah how about you know and your your entire your your your perception of value is now associated with something so shallow how many comments did I get how many views did I get how many thumbs up did I get how many making so much Dua for you did I get like we wanna people wanna broadcast the state of their heart to the world and this by the way on a side note he

3:05 says hikmah means that you don't get hypnotized by the glitter of this world and one of the major kinds of glitter in the world today especially for the younger audiences here you guys grew up and you don't even know a world that existed outside of social media and social media is an amazing tool it's an incredible tool in fact it revolutionized the world but for many of you you value yourself based on your virtual existence your your entire definition of yourself comes from the filtered images you're putting on and how people are acknowledging Your Existence online and if you're not posting something if you're not posting

3:50 a picture of the slice of pizza that you're eating that somehow someone out there is going to cry tears wondering what happened to that slice of pizza you must contribute to the world and this idea that I have to make my presence known this obsession is leading you it's even shaping the way you think about Islam to the point where I have to become an Islamic influencer for the sake of Allah I have nothing to say I've learned nothing but I feel like you guys just follow Allah okay for the sake of Allah

4:38 and this is hikmah is you can see something that's fluff it's worthless it's just glitter you know it's temporary and you don't get caught up in it like it doesn't attract you it doesn't you don't feel a void you're not drawn to it and that's that's a pretty accurate description of hikamai what are you and he said it this is one of the armies of God that he puts into the hearts of those who truly know until he removes from their hearts the want of the glitter of worldly things it's pretty accurate you know and then he says this is an important one it says hikmah means putting things where they belong

5:24 putting things in the rightful place anything any word any speech any any counsel that you must act on all of these definitions of wisdom he says they're all very close to each other but these are you can you can combine them into two main statements because these are the ones the Sunnah is the one that clarifies what's in the law well and it helps you understand the laws of Allah now we're about to make I'm about to wrap this up we're done with the the the definition part of hikmah the

6:10 conclusion is two things there's two kinds of hikvah there's a hikmah that comes from Allah and there's a hikmah that comes from inside you there's a hikmah you already have and I'm going to explain the one that comes from Allah I think everybody knows that's the Quran that's Revelation that's the son of the prophet and we know that one the hikmah that comes from inside you is the one that I want to talk to you about a little bit because you're like but I'm stupid I have regma and somebody even came to me they didn't say they're stupid they said but how do you how are you supposed to get hikmah here's the quran's answer to that actually how are you supposed to get stronger a stronger back how are you supposed to get stronger legs how are you supposed to get a

6:55 stronger mind how are you supposed to get stronger arms how are you supposed to get better stamina what are you supposed to do tell me exercise eat eat right how are you supposed to get better at mathematics practice how are you supposed to get better at a sport play more learn more exercise it but the fun your legs are already there they're just not strong enough but they're there it's not like you have to create your legs they're there you just have to start using them now and start running and the more you run the stronger they'll get the more stamina you will develop your lungs are already there but they don't have good capacity you get on a treadmill for three minutes and you're like

7:40 right but it's not like you don't have lungs you have them but you haven't exercised them so they haven't become what stronger the quranic argument would then be you already have the basic wisdom inside you but you just haven't made it what stronger you haven't enabled it you haven't activated it you haven't put it to use anything Allah gives you when you don't use it it becomes weaker Allah gave me eyes if I taped one of my eyes for six months I can almost guarantee you I would be blind in that eye you you don't lose you don't use it you lose it patients that are lying in bed in a coma for six months a year they can't stand up after they get up because

8:28 they have muscle atrophy they haven't used that muscle Allah has given me something inside me the ability to make good decisions he already gave me that but I haven't been using it and the less I use it the weaker that ability becomes and then I start telling myself I don't even have that ability I don't have that ability and one of the most amazing shocking examples of that that I see nowadays is young people coming and telling me Assad say something to motivate me I'll do a three-hour lecture and at the end of it somebody will still start can you just say something to motivate me please all this time I was making pakora what was that what was I doing

9:13 all the supplicable but then I asked myself this question when you say say something to motivate me or I need motivation please give me something to and then you yeah and you you have all this like Islamic well how how do how are people consuming Islam now how are we learning Islam we're learning it from 30 second Tick-Tock motivations right get like you know Mufti menk will say something or I'll say something or somebody else will say something and you're like ah motivated right and then you go back to D mode I need a motive oh you know and you know what this is this is actually a lack of hikmah and why am I saying it's a lack of hikmah that means I'm not driven enough within

9:59 myself it's as if I don't possess the ability to have strong will somebody has to give me will and push me forward and unless they do I can't move on my own I'm incapable of my own I need somebody else to inspire me I need somebody else to push me and I ask myself the question when the what Allah talks about us in the Quran those young people in the cave who was their motivation like who was there what did they say man I'm feeling really low right now is there anybody got a connection let me just watch some motivational videos at least a tech talk or something as we go up this mountain is getting pretty high you know what motivated them something inside them that's very powerful was already

10:46 there for them to be able to challenge their entire Society even at a young age this is not true it's not like something that came from the heavens or they became prophets they were just regular young guys that's who they were but they were motivated what I'm trying to tell you is it's actually a very empowering message in the Quran that the fundamental hikmah the fundamental wisdom the fundamental Nature Good Nature and the ability to do the right thing is already inside you it's already inside you I hope you guys enjoyed that video clip my team and I have been working tirelessly to try to create as many resources for Muslims to give them first steps in understanding the Quran all the way to the point where they can have a deep profound understanding of the Quran

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