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00:00And by the way, please remember those words next time any of you if you're expecting a child and that you were hoping and your
00:06Mother was hoping and your father was hoping and your extended cousins were hoping it's gonna be a son and you have a daughter
00:12You remember that Allah didn't highlight the birth of a child like he did the birth of Maryam salamun alayha
00:18It's an honor to have a daughter
00:20It's a gift of Allah to have a daughter
00:22Our du'as are a means by which we connect to Allah. Our du'as are not a means by which this world becomes heaven
00:28This world is going to be full of trials people that were much better than we are had difficulty in life
00:34Today's khutbah is dedicated to a very unique individual mentioned repeatedly in the Quran
00:39It's Maryam salamun alayha
00:42And the reason I decided to give a khutbah on some aspects of her life that Allah highlights in the Quran
00:48Are actually inspired by a question. Somebody asked me this week. Somebody came to me this week and said
00:54That they've had a very close relationship with Allah since childhood and that they make du'a
00:59They've been du'a to Allah from a very early age praying tahajjud
01:03Even even you know when they were a teenager and they whenever they asked Allah for something Allah provided
01:09This person actually had a pretty tough life
01:11You know father passed away at an early age
01:14no brothers and this this woman has lived a pretty lonely life and basically decided to really truly depend on Allah and
01:21so as
01:23She grew and developed in her her years
01:26She found that Allah miraculously answers her prayers every time she asks Allah for something Allah has never left her prayer unanswered
01:33So she developed this reliance and this closeness with Allah and would always turn back to Allah anything
01:37I mean she needs something she goes and prays two rakahs and she makes du'a to Allah
01:42It's a really beautiful connection
01:44She had with Allah but where did the question come from the question came from a fact that more recently she went through quite a
01:51series of very unexpected difficulties in life and
01:55She decided that she's going to increase her ibadah to Allah and increase her du'as
02:00Because her problems have also increased
02:03so you figure the more your problems increase the more you're gonna ask Allah to help you solve your problem and
02:07So she does that and she prays like she's never prayed before fasts like she's never fasted before
02:13Begs Allah cries to Allah sheds tears before Allah like she's never done before
02:17But the problems keep getting worse they don't they don't get any better and
02:22She starts thinking to herself. Maybe Allah is not happy with me because before I used to pray and everything used to get answered
02:29I've never had this problem before every time I had a need I turned back to Allah and Allah solved my problem
02:34But now I'm making du'a after du'a after du'a and I continue to beg Allah and my problems are not getting solved
02:41They're only getting worse
02:43What could possibly be the reason and in her mind the reason was I must have done something wrong
02:49Allah must no longer be answering my prayers because somehow I've been disqualified. I no longer I'm not in Allah's good books anymore
02:57The reason I decided to give this khutbah is that this is a very common
03:02Notion that can creep into somebody's mind
03:05Now I get to Maryam salamun alayha and I really when she spoke to me. I remembered her because
03:10The thing with Maryam salamun alayha was what even when she was young
03:14Her birth was strange. It was mentioned in the Quran
03:18Not many people's birth is mentioned in the Quran and you know
03:21The mother was expecting a son, but she had a daughter instead and Allah says
03:26ليس الذكر كالأنثى
03:28You know which has a multiple multiple layers of meaning but I'll just highlight one of them
03:31This boy this girl is like like no other boy. This girl is special and
03:36By the way
03:37Please remember those words next time any of you if you're expecting a child and that you were hoping and your mother was hoping and your
03:43Father was hoping and your extended cousins were hoping it's gonna be a son and you have a daughter
03:49You remember that Allah didn't highlight the birth of a child like he did the birth of Maryam salamun alayha
03:54It's an honor to have a daughter
03:56It's a gift of Allah to have a daughter and it's actually the behavior of the mushrikun to be upset that you had a daughter
04:05وَلَّا وَجْهُهُ مُسْوَدًا وَهُوَ كَظِيمٌ
04:07His face turns dark and he's in he's depressed. He's swallowing his upset attitude because he had a he had a girl
04:14Girls are a blessing from Allah Azawajal and honor and said disrespect not only of the gift of Allah
04:19But of the ayat of the Quran when you're upset that you had a daughter
04:23You should we should be mindful of that, but that's on a side note
04:26This child is born. She's actually given a special place in what was then the central house of Allah and
04:33Zakariya alayhi salam used to take care of her and every time he used to come to visit her to make sure she's doing
04:39Okay, because she was dedicated living in the house of Allah
04:43كلما دخل عليها زكريا المحراب وجد عندها رزقا
04:48Every time he'd walk in he'd see fruits food in front of her
04:52And he'd say where did you get these fruits? These fruits don't even grow here and these fruits aren't even from this season
04:59These fruits grow in the winter these fruits go in the summer you have them in offseason. Where did you get them from?
05:04She would respond قالت هو من عند الله
05:07These come especially from Allah
05:10These fruits come to me from Allah. Imagine somebody whose duas are
05:14answered in a way that special delivery from the sky of food for this woman and
05:20So when the sister was telling me her duas get answered in life
05:23I remembered
05:24Maryam salamun alayha and how miraculously Allah would intervene and provide for her even matters like food things that we can get up and get
05:31Ourselves. She didn't even have to get up for that
05:34very special child very special woman and
05:38So about this woman what I wanted to share with you is later on in life. What happens to her
05:43When she's a young woman angels visit her tell her that she's going to have a child
05:49The first thought in her mind. I'm not married
05:52How what do you mean I'm gonna have a child lemme I'm sesame basha no man has ever touched me
05:58What in the world do you mean? I'm gonna have a child
06:02Cuz I like he called a whore of Buki
06:04That is how your master declared it. It's I'm sorry. We're just here to deliver the news
06:10We're not here to negotiate whether this is gonna happen or not. That decision has been made. You're having a baby
06:17Now she's in shock. What am I gonna do?
06:20She's gonna turn back to Allah and hope that this will not happen to her
06:23But it's gonna happen and I'll fast forward a little bit for you. Just so you appreciate what happened to this woman
06:30after she had the baby
06:32After she had the baby and she came back to her town
06:37The entire community that looked up to her as a as a zahida as a spiritual woman as a woman of worship and ibada
06:45Someone who even the prophet of their community Zakaria had endorsed
06:48She was she grew up under the two religions like a dial. He said um, all the masjid community is standing there
06:55She's walking back with a baby and they all start
06:59Collectively together start humiliating her
07:03How could you do this?
07:05What have you done?
07:07Can you there are there are women in the in the Juma today?
07:11No Muslim woman no Muslim woman can ever imagine being in a situation where she's holding a baby and
07:19Somebody's telling her that child is not legitimate
07:22She cannot imagine that kind of humiliation
07:25No Muslim and none of us can imagine that kind of accusation for our sister for our mother for our daughter
07:31We cannot imagine that pain. It's beyond us
07:35for the human for the Muslim our
07:38Dignity is greater to us than our life
07:41or the sense of dignity Allah give it has given us is more valuable to us than even our life and
07:48She knows that when she goes back with this baby, that's what they're gonna say
07:53It's one thing that they might be saying it behind her back. They're saying it in public in front of her in front of her
07:59Now I want to take you back to how she dealt with this problem
08:02Because no amount of dua she made is going to change what Allah has decided Allah has decided that she has to face this
08:09she has to stand in front of this and
08:12What does she do?
08:13When the child come as she's about to deliver the child. She says, yeah, they tell you mid to come to Hatha
08:21She says if only if only I could die before this happens
08:28Hopefully I die giving birth
08:31That she's it's all on her mind because that will be an easy escape from what is coming
08:38There is no other place in the Quran anybody ever wishes for death
08:42This is the only one
08:44Think about that
08:45Why is it there? Allah is acknowledging that sometimes people go through such traumatic humiliating
08:52Situations where they wish they were dead
08:55Even that happens
08:56That's how extreme her situation became and Allah acknowledged that and recorded that in the Quran. Yeah later. He made to come to Hatha
09:03I read this and I was just in shock. Like how did she just say that?
09:07You know our messenger alayhi salatu wassalam told us la yata manna yanna ahadukum ahadukumul mawt
09:15None of you should ever wish for death
09:17You should not wish for death
09:20That's not something you should say casually and she's actually now wishing for death why because this is an extreme case
09:27this is a crazy situation and
09:30So, but you know, the humiliation she will face is far worse than death. So she says yeah later limit to come to Hatha
09:38There are going to be this is in the Quran for a reason
09:41There are going to be people that are going to be in humiliating situations and there's no getting out of it
09:46There are going to be people that are going to have to face their family that are going to have to face false
09:51Accusations that are going to have to face up to a mistake. They made in the past. Who knows and
09:57They're going to have to face that kind of trauma and they'll have to find comfort in the example of Maryam salamun alayha
10:03But she didn't stop there. She said wa kuntu nasyan mansiyya
10:07Two words nasyan mansiyya
10:10Those incredible words
10:12Nasi in Arabic they say fa'al and fi'al these two
10:15Awzan they say nisi also in one qira'ah it's nisyan in another qira'ah it's nasyan
10:20This is similar to zibh
10:23The in the Arabic language you have two kinds of words zibh and mazbooh
10:28Nasi and mansiyya
10:30The first of these words it's actually used. I wrote this down for you
10:35wa la yuqalu lil kabsh zibh illa idha u'idda lil zibh
10:39For an animal for a goat or a ram you don't call it zibh until it's ready to be slaughtered
10:45It hasn't been slaughtered yet
10:47Once it is slaughtered. It's called zabih. It's called mazbooh not before before it's called zibh
10:54She uses two words common translations say I wish I was dead. I wish I was forgotten
10:59That's what the translation says, but there are two words of being forgotten one of those words nasyan
11:04Actually means I wish even though because she's away from the masjid, right?
11:08She's not back home. I hope nobody ever misses me
11:12They don't even ask the question. Where did Maryam go? I
11:16Wish I could be invisible forgotten from people's memories right now and nobody even has the thought of me. This is nasi
11:24Nobody even thinks I existed. There are people that go through the kind of depression and anxiety where they don't come out of home
11:31They don't leave home. They don't pick up phone calls. They don't answer text messages. They get anxious being around people
11:37They're going through so much trauma that they wish they were forgotten as a matter of fact
11:42Even if somebody knocks on the door, they say I wish they didn't remember me. I wish I didn't have to face anybody
11:48They want to just crawl away away away away, but just be by themselves
11:52this is nasian and I'm and she's hoping already that she dies and
11:57Nobody even comes looking and then later on even if years go by and nobody found out what happened to her
12:04Mansi and she's completely forgotten. There's no memory of her in the future either. I
12:09Hope nobody thinks of me right now and I become invisible in the future. Also, I
12:14Wanted to highlight this woman's trial because this is a woman of Dua whose doors used to get answered immediately
12:21She used to didn't even have to ask for food any news to come and this is the situation Allah put her in
12:27This is the trial that Allah put her and think about that
12:30This is not because Allah hates her this is not because Allah forgot about her
12:34This is not because Allah wants to humiliate her
12:36This is actually all of this ended up becoming Allah honoring her, you know, you have the case of new honey his son
12:45Who was a very loving father?
12:47He made he made that why he invited his people to Islam for 950 years
12:53Can you imagine you think he made Dua for his son?
12:56You think he made Dua for his wife?
12:58All those years or he didn't care about them someone who cares so much about his nation
13:03They spit on him. They insult him and he goes back to them and makes Dua for them
13:08950 years you think he ignored his own son his own wife all those years of Dua and
13:15They didn't change
13:16Isn't that the case?
13:18Does he blame himself? Yeah, maybe I didn't do something, right?
13:21Or maybe Allah stopped listening to me
13:23The reason I'm starting with that is people that were much better than we are much much better than we are
13:28We're also they also had similar problems. There are parents in the audience that make Dua for their kids and
13:34They see that their children are going away from the religion
13:37They're going down a dark path and they can't control it and they're making Dua for them
13:42And they're not seeing that their Dua is being answered and now they're getting frustrated. Is there something wrong with me?
13:47Why isn't Allah answering? Well, you're not the first one to be put in that position
13:51Our messenger alaihissalatu wassalam made lots of Dua you don't think he made Dua for his uncle's his family
13:59You don't think he considered Abu Lahab when he made Dua for guidance and if he did
14:04Despite all of that loving Dua Allah azzawajal will himself tell him in that I'm dead. That's the man
14:09I thought you don't get to guide who you love
14:12You know, there are people among us
14:13There are children among us who wish their parents or their elders were acting in a more guided way
14:18I've met so many young people whose parents are in a haram explicitly haram business and
14:23The children the son and the daughter is trying to tell the father and the mother please get out of this
14:27We were dependent on you. You're paying my college tuition
14:31You're providing for us
14:32But you're providing for us from haram income and I'm not in a position to provide for the family right now
14:37But this is wrong and then they're told you're being disrespectful. You shouldn't talk back to your parents, etc, etc
14:42Now it's the flip side. It's the children making Dua for the guidance of their parents
14:47But things aren't changing things are where they were these frustrating situations happen and
14:53Then on top of that are situations like health calamity
14:56Not just family problems, but health calamity or you can't find a job you have money problems and you're making Dua to Allah
15:04You ask yourself ice. I even didn't take off last year
15:08And I kept making Dua and I didn't pick my head up from such the all night long and still I have this problem
15:13Still it didn't go anywhere. So the first thing I want to remind myself and all of you is that Prophets
15:20Prophets alaihimussalam all of them
15:22Much before us Allah mentions their Dua's consistently in the Quran and Allah also mentions their problems consistently in the Quran
15:29you don't think for example the that Yaqub alayhis-salam the father of 12 sons made Dua for all of his sons and
15:38Especially for his son Yusuf when he lost his son Yusuf
15:41You don't think he made Dua for a use of safety that Yusuf should come back home that he could spend
15:46He could look at his beautiful son. Once again, we know that he cried so much. He lost his eyesight. He lost his eyes
15:54over crying over his son and
15:56All of those Dua's for so many years go unanswered and then they eventually they get answered
16:01You don't think that you know the mother of Musa alayhis-salam when she put her baby in the water and
16:08It the river just takes the basket away. The basket could flip over any time. And how do you know the basket is waterproof?
16:15How do you know it's not gonna leak? How do you know it's not gonna hit a rock and it's done?
16:20You know, it's you're throwing something in a river. It's not a joke. It's a baby in a river
16:25you don't think that mother is making Dua to Allah and
16:29Notice the difference in that case in the case of Musa's mother
16:32She makes Dua to Allah and a few hours later. She's reunited with her son just a few hours later
16:38By the time the baby is hungry for the next meal. He's back with his mother and
16:43In the other case with the case of Yusuf alayhis-salam. He was separated from his father
16:48But he wasn't reunited with his father for many years for many many years
16:53We are going to go through difficulty in life and
16:57All of our problems are not going to be solved because we made a Dua to Allah
17:02Understand the reality of Dua. What is the purpose of Dua?
17:05We often confuse Dua with Talab
17:11Talab in Arabic means to ask for something
17:14to demand something
17:17Dua means literally to call
17:19That's what it means
17:21Dua, I called you. I invited you. I cried out to you. This is Dua
17:28When we make Dua to Allah sometimes in that Dua we are making demands. It's true. We're making requests
17:34But we should never forget that all of those requests, you know what they are at the end of the day
17:39It's a humble slave of Allah turning back to Allah and begging Allah to help him with whatever problem
17:46But it's more than Allah solving your problem, it's just the act that you communicated with Allah
17:52That's the most valuable thing. Our Dua's are a means by which we connect to Allah
17:56Our Dua's are not a means by which this world becomes heaven
18:00This world is going to be full of trials. People that were much better than we are had difficulty in life. That's okay
18:05We created all human beings in toil and labor and struggle. Struggle is a part of life
18:12The purpose of Dua is to help you and me deal with those struggles and to never forget that Allah is with us
18:18Whether it's hard times or easy times. May Allah Azza wa Jal not make us people that lose faith
18:23May Allah Azza wa Jal honor us and help us remember that no matter how much people try to humiliate you
18:29People try to put you down, people insult you like they did Maryam salamun alayha. Allah still honors you
18:34There's a big difference between what people say about you and what Allah thinks about you
18:38Because if you go by what people said then Maryam was the most humiliated
18:42Insulted person in society and if you go by what Allah says, she's one of the most honored women in all of human history
18:48So we go by what Allah says. Allah is the one who honored us
18:50We honored the children of Adam. May Allah Azza wa Jal make us dignified
18:55Before Allah Azza wa Jal, before he makes us dignified, before people
18:58I hope you guys enjoyed that video clip
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