How to build routine and organize your life- Islamic talks 2021 I Nouman Ali Khan
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00:00You know, if your morning is straight, your day is straight.
00:04And when your day is straight, your life is straight.
00:07So it's like you're saying, when your morning is good, your life is good.
00:11When your morning can be salat on time, istighfar,
00:15it begins with a beautiful supplication to Allah between you and nobody else there,
00:20just you and Allah there, and you get to have a conversation with Allah that morning,
00:24that entire day you will enjoy the blessings of that experience.
00:28Everything about that day will be blessed.
00:30You will wake up late, you will pray salat half asleep, you will do all of that stuff,
00:34and it will have an impact on the rest of your day.
00:37And when you do that istighfar to Allah in the beginning of that day,
00:40that day has barakah, which makes you more sabir, more sadiq, more qanit.
00:46All of these qualities, you get more and more of them because you started with that.
00:51On the one hand, you have those who want to shun the world.
00:53And on the other hand, you have those who want to embrace the world and say,
00:56you know, making more money and enjoying more dunya, etc.
00:59It's part of life and we have to do it, etc. etc.
01:02Without consideration for the spiritual harm of indulging.
01:06The harms of going into indulgence.
01:09Because it can really slowly start eating away at your heart.
01:12You know, from personal experience, and I'm sure you've experienced this too,
01:15the more dunya we immerse ourselves in, even though Allah has made much of it halal on us,
01:21the more we immerse ourselves in it, the harder it becomes for us to be spiritually connected to Allah.
01:26It starts getting harder and harder. It's harder to cry in salat.
01:29It gets harder to concentrate in a dua.
01:31It just gets harder.
01:33The more movies you're gonna watch, the less Quran you're gonna like to listen to.
01:37It's just, it's not a fatwa, it's just gonna happen.
01:40That's just how it is. That's just how life is.
01:43So, this balance is something one has to learn.
01:47And so, those who are subservient.
01:50And of course, if this world has been beautified,
01:54but Allah has beautified the next world far more.
01:57He has beautified that next world far, far more.
02:00Then, infaq is actually a key to strengthening one's faith in the afterlife.
02:07Why?
02:08Spending in the path of Allah, as I've described before, is depositing in your next life.
02:13You know, there are some accounts and some investments like IRAs and things like that.
02:17You don't get to retrieve those funds until you're 59 and a half years old.
02:21Right? You're in your retirement age.
02:23Now you can retrieve those funds.
02:26Okay?
02:27Us spending in the path of Allah is essentially a retirement plan.
02:31That's essentially what that is.
02:33And the more money you put in it, the more you're looking forward to withdrawal day.
02:38If you haven't put much in it, then you're enjoying life now.
02:41But if you start putting money away, it's not money you have access to right now.
02:46It's not.
02:47But the only thing that consoles a person is,
02:50you know what? It's better for me in the long run.
02:53And you know, you'll find people, even in the worldly sense,
02:56there are people who just want the monetary benefits right now.
02:59They're not able to invest in long term investments.
03:01They don't have that kind of patience.
03:03When the business opportunity comes and it says,
03:05you're gonna get the return on your investment in about 10 years.
03:0810 years? No thanks.
03:10I'd rather hold on to my money right now.
03:12Even if it's not gonna grow or multiply over time,
03:14I don't have that kind of long term thing.
03:17I'm too impatient for that.
03:19Where did this ayah begin?
03:21As-sabirin.
03:22People who are going to engage in a long term investment have to have what to begin with?
03:26Have to have patience.
03:28They have to have patience.
03:29And if they have that patience, then when they get to that subservience and the call is made,
03:33they're able to spend without a problem.
03:35They're able to let go of one of the things that gives them,
03:38what gives us comfort in life is money.
03:40Without money, you can be in discomfort.
03:43And money is a source of comfort.
03:45And then the next comfort that even the poorest one enjoys is sleep.
03:49That's one form of comfort everybody can have.
03:52You know, even the one in torment in life,
03:55when they're asleep, they're asleep.
03:57All their problems are gone.
03:59At least during those hours of sleep, right?
04:02So that next piece of life that one really enjoys,
04:06it's been taken away because someone who really wants the akhirah,
04:10is al-mustaghfirina bil-ashar.
04:13And those who make istighfar at what time?
04:15Early mornings, they sacrifice their sleep.
04:18They take away that other comfort, that comfort that everybody has.
04:20So there's a special comfort from money.
04:22They start letting go of that,
04:24for an eventual comfort.
04:25And then there's a daily comfort, and that is that of sleep.
04:28You know, people can hate anything else.
04:31They'll love sleep.
04:33They just, sleep is something, I know kids hate it.
04:37Right?
04:38But then they, you know, and most kids, they hate waking up.
04:42They're really cranky when they, if they hate sleeping,
04:44once they fall into it, they love it.
04:47Wasali'u ila maghfiratin min rabbikum.
04:49And rush to forgiveness that comes from your master.
04:52Wajannatin arduhassamawatu wal-ard.
04:55And a jannah, a garden,
04:57whose expanse is the skies and the earth.
04:59Wa'iddat, it has been thoroughly prepared,
05:01completely prepared, for people that have taqwa.
05:04Allahumma ja'ala minhum.
05:05People of taqwa, for the people of taqwa who are cautious.
05:07This time the people of caution,
05:09are given characteristics, qualities.
05:11Who are these people of taqwa?
05:13What does that mean practically?
05:15Allatheena yunfiqoona fis-sarra'i wal-darra'.
05:17The opposite of riba.
05:19Riba is you hold on to your money so it can multiply,
05:21and you can collect more.
05:23The opposite is you keep giving it up.
05:24Those who spend, the muttaqeen who spend,
05:27in al-sarra'i wal-darra',
05:29in easy times and in hard times.
05:31Darra' when times are hard and tough.
05:33Wal-kathi min al-ghaitha'.
05:35So first of all you have an attitude of spending all the time.
05:38You never spare an opportunity for that.
05:40The second is al-kathi min al-ghaitha'.
05:42Kathama can mean to swallow.
05:44One of its meanings is to swallow.
05:46But there's another meaning also.
05:47They say, for example,
05:49Kathama al-siqaa'.
05:50Al-siqaa' is a container of water.
05:52When you fill it to the top and unclose it,
05:54so no water gets out,
05:55but it's got to be filled to the top,
05:56that's Kathama,
05:57to fill something to the top.
05:59Kaveem or Kaveem is a person,
06:02they say is,
06:03or actually before that,
06:04Kaveem,
06:05Kaveem the word,
06:06Kaveem the ism,
06:07is actually for the nasal passage.
06:09And the Arabs would,
06:11in their imagery,
06:12and they would speak figuratively,
06:14they would say when someone's angry,
06:15they're Kaveem.
06:16Which means their nasal passage is full of anger up to here.
06:21Like all the way up to the end of their nasal passage,
06:23they're filled with anger.
06:25You know, people say,
06:26I've had it up to here.
06:28I've had it up to there.
06:29Well, they'd say, they've had it up to here.
06:31Like their breathing is now filled with rage.
06:34But it hasn't come out yet.
06:36In other words,
06:37Kaveem is someone who's extremely enraged,
06:40but it hasn't left the insides of him yet.
06:44It hasn't come out yet.
06:48So those who swallow or keep inside,
06:50Al Ghayb.
06:51The anger that rushes,
06:53makes your blood rush.
06:55The anger that makes you just go,
06:57and you clench your fist,
06:59and you start shaking.
07:01This is Al Ghayb.
07:02Okay?
07:03But Ghayb also is the kind of anger that you,
07:06it's still before retaliation.
07:07It's what you feel before retaliation.
07:10You could say,
07:11anger is bad if you do something about it.
07:13But if you just sit there,
07:14and you just make faces,
07:15and just go grrr,
07:16then it's not bad.
07:17Well actually,
07:18if you do something about it,
07:19that's called Ghadab.
07:20That's the kind of anger that's called Ghadab.
07:23Short of that is,
07:25Ghayb.
07:26Ghadab is you're so angry,
07:27you're ready to do something.
07:28Whatever it may be.
07:29Musa Alayhi Salaam came back to his nation,
07:31Ghadbaana Asifan.
07:33He came with Ghadab.
07:34Did he do something?
07:35Oh yeah.
07:36Okay?
07:37Ghayb is you have rage,
07:38but you don't do something about it yet.
07:41Even that isn't a good thing.
07:43He got angry,
07:44but he didn't do anything.
07:45Allah is saying,
07:46it shouldn't even,
07:47Yes, they feel angry,
07:48but they have self-control enough
07:50that they're able to swallow it,
07:51not even let it show on their face.
07:53That's the kind of self-control
07:55they have on themselves.
07:56ููุงููุนูุงููููู ุนููู ุงููููุงุณู
07:58And those who lovingly pardon.
08:01Al-'afu also means to not punish.
08:04It also means someone who is ready for punishment,
08:06you had the power to punish them,
08:07and you decided,
08:08no, it's okay.
08:09Clean slate for you.
08:11This is Al-'afu.
08:13ููุงููุนูุงููููู ุนููู ุงููููุงุณู
08:15And those who are ready and willing to pardon people.
08:18ููุงูููููู ููุญูุจูู ุงููู
ูุญูุณูููููู
08:20And Allah,
08:21He loves those who excel.
08:22Allah in fact is the one who loves those who excel.
08:24So the ayah began with taqwa,
08:26and it graduates to ihsan.
08:28That's an important observation.
08:30Taqwa is already there,
08:31but people who because of their taqwa
08:33are able to accomplish these qualities in their life,
08:35then they will have reached the highest state
08:37that the believer can enjoy,
08:38and that is of ihsan.
08:40The same progression of how taqwa leads to ihsan
08:43will be mentioned in Surah Al-Ma'idah.
08:45ุซูู
ูู ุงูุชูููููููุง ุขู
ููููุง ุซูู
ูู ุงูุชูููููููุง
08:48ุงุญุณููููุง
08:49Taqwa leading to ihsan will be mentioned later on also.
08:52Now Allah mentions these same people,
08:54people of taqwa,
08:56they're gonna have to spend when it's easy, when it's hard,
08:59implying it's not always gonna be easy for them to spend,
09:02their anger will be tested,
09:04people will do offenses against them,
09:06and they will use that opportunity to find forgiveness for them.
09:09Then Allah adds,
09:10ููุงูููุฐูููู ุฅูุฐูุง ููุนููููุง ููุงุญูุดูุฉู
09:13Those are the very people that if and when,
09:16when the situation arises that they have committed mindlessly,
09:19ููุนููููุง, they didn't think about it, they just did it,
09:21they were impulsive,
09:22ููุงุญูุดูุฉ is anything that brings you close to zina.
09:25The shari'i technical definition that Mufassirun give,
09:28ุงูููุงุญูุดูุฉ ูู ุงูุชู ุชูููุฑููุจููู ุฅูููู ุงูุฒููููุงุก
09:32Whatever will bring you close to fornication adultery,
09:34that's fahisha.
09:35Whether that be a glance,
09:37whether that be something you're looking at online,
09:39whether it's something on a computer or TV screen,
09:41whether it's filthy words,
09:43whether it's filthy music,
09:44whatever it may be, it can take many forms.
09:46In simple terms you can say whatever is lewd,
09:49shameless, vulgar, indecent,
09:51that's fahisha.
09:52Okay?
09:53And it says ููุงุญูุดูุฉู, it's nakira,
09:55which implies they do,
09:56they mindlessly do any act of shamelessness,
09:59it happens.
10:00They did something indecent,
10:03and they got impulsive and they committed such an act,
10:05not the worst of it,
10:06a zina, anything short of that too.
10:08ุฃูููุธูููุจููุง ุฃููููุณูููู
ู
10:10Or wronged themselves in any other way.
10:13In other words,
10:14fahisha is not the only kind of wrongdoing,
10:16maybe they got angry and said something they shouldn't have said,
10:18they weren't able to swallow their anger,
10:20right, and they said something,
10:22maybe they got jealous,
10:23maybe they lied, maybe they cheated,
10:25maybe they just got away from trouble with their parents,
10:28they kind of made a little white lie,
10:29not that harmful, but they, you know,
10:31how's it going, everything's fine,
10:33yes, it's okay,
10:34where are you, in the masjid?
10:35You're not in the masjid.
10:38Okay.
10:39Did you go to class?
10:40Yes, of course.
10:42Of course I was in class.
10:44You know.
10:45So,
10:47it's not that big of a deal.
10:49Any other kind of wrongdoing also,
10:51ุฐูููุฑููุง ุงูููููู
10:52They immediately remembered Allah.