How to Change Your Life？ - Nouman Ali Khan
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00:00So, let's now talk in this few minutes we have together about how to at least practically
00:14build that solution.
00:15I like to talk, you know, when we talk about reminders, we talk about grand things.
00:19When we talk about advice, I believe in talking about advice from a very practical, even minimalist
00:24point of view.
00:25Things that you can practically do and that's why I don't like to share much personally
00:29even though I read them for myself for inspiration.
00:32I don't like to share stories of the tabi'un and the sahaba, the companions of the prophet
00:36radiallahu anhu wa jama'in, who prayed the entire night or recited the whole Quran in
00:41a week or made dua and then it started, those stories, I don't share them.
00:45You know why?
00:46Because you know what happens to most of you when you hear that?
00:48Man, they were so awesome, I'm so bad, salamu alaikum, that's it, that's the end of that.
00:57Man, sahaba were really cool, I'm so going to hell, that's it, that's it.
01:03Let's start little by little, awwalu al-ghaythi qatar thumma yanhamir.
01:07The Arabs have a saying, it says, it's in many other cultures too, the first of the
01:10heavy rain is just a drop, then it pours, right?
01:13Let it build little by little.
01:15The first thing you got to do is you have to discipline your life, people.
01:19I have to do it, you have to do it.
01:21You know what it means to discipline your life?
01:23Go to sleep early, pray isha and go to sleep.
01:29Don't go to the hookah joint until 12.30am, don't go see a movie, don't go hang out with
01:35your friends, don't watch Islamic lectures until 2 in the morning, do not, it is not
01:40beneficial for you.
01:42Pray isha and go to sleep and wake up early.
01:45Wake up before fajr, give yourself 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 20, I know it seems impossible,
01:51it's only impossible because of Netflix at night, okay?
01:55That's the only reason it's impossible.
01:57Give the night life up, let the night be for sleep, at least you're not accumulating sin
02:02every night, at least you're not burying your heart under more sin every night, at least
02:07you're sleeping, at least you're innocent for that much, at least that much.
02:12Then you wake up and you pray, at least start with a routine of praying fajr on time, start
02:18with fajr on time, and the guys here, at least, at least once a week guys, make it
02:22to the masjid for fajr, at least once, I don't ask you every day, just one day a week, give
02:28yourselves one day a week, and you don't catch the second rakah right before the salam, right?
02:34And then after you finish making it up, you're like, oh, masjid today, that's right, you're
02:39like pointing at the right hand, you wrote that down, you got that, you got that?
02:47Get to the masjid early.
02:48Let me tell you something about fajr in the masjid.
02:51It has a spiritual impact that only people who go to it will experience.
02:55It can't be explained in a lecture.
02:58When you go to it, when you go to the prayer, and you sit there in the masjid quietly, and
03:02you wait for the prayer to start, and you sit there and you recite Quran, and you ask
03:06Allah to forgive you in those morning hours, and then you stand next to other believers
03:10and countless armies of angels, and you stand and you pray in front of Allah in that early
03:15morning, giving up your sleep, which only happened because you gave up your night life.
03:19When you do that, even once a week, the joy you will get out of it, as you're walking
03:23out of the masjid, you will wish to yourself you did that every morning.
03:27I swear to it.
03:28I guarantee it.
03:29You're going to walk out of that masjid saying, man, I wish I could do this every morning.
03:33You really will.
03:34But start with once a week.
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