The Story Of Nouman Ali Khan

Muhammad Aamir Siddiqi

The Story Of Nouman Ali Khan Amazing Journey To Faith  This video shares the inspiring story of Nouman Ali Khan and his amazing journey to faith. From personal struggles to spiritual growth, his story is a reminder that guidance can transform lives in the most unexpected ways.  Through honesty and powerful storytelling, Nouman Ali Khan reflects on the lessons he learned and how faith became the foundation of his life.  👉 Watch till the end to be inspired, and don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe for more uplifting content.  #NoumanAliKhan #JourneyToFaith #IslamicReminders #Inspiration #Story

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00:00Long boring story how I started it's so long and so boring as it's been said so

00:09many times people watch it's like God again I thought this was gonna be a new

00:14YouTube video it's gonna do this again I hate this guy a long story really long

00:23story turned very very short I'll give you the bullet point version of this

00:26okay so I was born in Germany I was I was there until the age of about six and a

00:32half seven I spent about six months in Pakistan and during which I learned Urdu

00:37because my first language was actually German which I've lost at this point I

00:40spent about seven years almost thereafter in Surudi in Riyadh and I went to a

00:45Pakistani school an extremely Pakistani school I learned a lot of Urdu and played

00:51in the heat in the outside playground with you know a shirt tucked in with a tie

00:55which is what you're it makes complete sense here with shiny shoes we played

00:59soccer with shiny shoes on and that's it's supposed to be that way in the

01:03Khalid right so so that's that's how it works and so I did that for about seven

01:11years didn't learn any Arabic or anything at that time just kind of follow the

01:14Pakistani school curriculum that they have as a standard then we moved back to

01:18Pakistan for another about nine months and I did almost end of eighth grade

01:22beginning of ninth grade in Pakistan and then my dad got transferred to New York

01:26and so about the age of 14 we moved to the United States and I was in New York I

01:31learned English the hard way by being laughed at constantly in New York went to

01:37high school there went to college there a small detail but I kind of stopped

01:42thinking like a Muslim or acting like one or really believing while I was in high

01:48school I completely lost touch with the religion and that was that way in

01:53college to in the first two philosophy courses I took didn't help so they were

01:58kind of the icing on the cake and you really just put me over the edge and it

02:02was the it was Allah's mercy and his gift and the gift in the form of a really

02:07good friend that I found in sophomore year second year college in in Baruch

02:11College in New York City that helped me kind of find my way back to the deen and

02:15this wasn't through preaching it was just through his good company he just he was

02:20there for me that's all it was really and just a genuine genuine friend never

02:26actually told me to pray but prayed in my presence you know and I just kind of

02:32eventually just grew on me and I just said might as well just you know haven't

02:37prayed in a while I haven't even prayed Jum'ah or Eid or anything for years that's

02:41where I was but so you know and through him I got introduced to some really

02:45inspiring young people I still remember he took me to an MSA meeting you guys know

02:49what MSA's are yeah Muslim so he took me to an MSA meeting in Columbia University I

02:54still remember Baruch College is a small college in Columbia is a big in Ivy League

02:58school and big deal so he says I want to I want you to meet some people he took me to

03:02this MSA meeting and there's a circle of brothers and sisters right and they're

03:06discussing what they're going to do this semester the things that were they were

03:10going to do included we're going to sponsor an orphan from Bangladesh they

03:14had his picture they were going to raise this money among each other not even ask

03:17anybody else for money we're going to give da'wah to at least 500 people we're

03:22going to raise the Palestinian cause and we're going to do so by kept telling

03:25talking about the atrocities that are happening to all of the clubs in Columbia

03:31University in collaboration with five other universities most of which are not

03:36Muslim Students Association like the chess club and the ping-pong club and the all

03:40those clubs and they'll all sign off on it and they did they pull this off and

03:43they had an anti-Zionism conference at Columbia University under the end

03:49sponsored by and you had like a bajillion clubs mentioned underneath and MSA was one

03:54of them right so you couldn't come after the MSA and I'm sitting there going my

03:59biggest concern was am I eating pizza tonight or a fish sandwich and these people

04:04are like they're serious they're thinkers they think beyond themselves this is

04:10incredible and they're my age why are they so cool why are they so I mean I was

04:16just mesmerized by these people you know and through them I got introduced to my

04:20dear one of my dear role models Imam Siraj Bahaj from Brooklyn New York we

04:26became really good friends and through him through him I also got introduced to a

04:31masjid which was actually very close to my house but I never went there the Muslim

04:35center where I met my for my Arabic teacher Dr. Abdul Samir and my love of

04:40Quran and my love of the Arabic language was a gift of Allah to me through him

04:44through that so it's all of the things that went right in my life starts with a

04:49friend all of them I gave that talk yesterday right it's all of it for me

04:54starts with a friend all of it and that that guy if you met him you'd be like

04:59that guy really that guy are you sure you yeah that guy yep you know you wouldn't

05:06know you wouldn't be able to tell but he's an unbelievable human being this

05:11incredible person right so that happened and then fast forward again graduated

05:16college got married while unemployed and got married in June and come September

05:27the 11th same year you know terrible terrible time I was in I was in New

05:35Jersey at the time and then I started I moved back to New York thereafter and I

05:42worked at Islamic schools and worked at a masjid and worked at as a chaplain at a

05:47university worked as an Arabic teacher at a Arabic professor at a college and about

05:522005 I decided I need to just do this because I really love doing it the the

05:56Arabic thing and it was a leap of faith who's gonna come to Arabic classes who has

05:59anybody enjoy going to an Arabic class it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard

06:02most of my friends told me I was like no I think I can make it interesting so yeah

06:07you're gonna make an Arabic class interesting really so yeah I think I can do it so

06:11just kind of started at this create as this crazy experiment in New York and a

06:15word-of-mouth grew and people started calling from Louisiana and like California

06:21and just all over places I've never been like can you do that my cousin went to

06:25your class in New York I heard it was pretty good can you bring it to our

06:28masjid over here in California can you bring it to Louisiana can you bring it to

06:31Tennessee and I didn't advertise it was just somebody's cousin somebody's auntie

06:36somebody's puppy that just that's how it worked honestly and I didn't even I

06:40couldn't even afford to get a hotel to stay in another place you know what I

06:44used people who called me would actually give me a room in their house I'd stay in

06:48their house for the 10 days that I would teach a class it was like it was

06:52ridiculous the how hospitable people were I still remember one of the classes I

06:57went to in Boston as a 10 days I spent in Boston teaching a class and I didn't have

07:02any place to say and the brother who set it up himself was a bachelor he had a one

07:05bedroom apartment there's a one bedroom in a studio I said I don't have any beds

07:10in my house I was like yeah and I'll do the couch I lived on his couch for 10

07:14days and like years went by recently I went back to Boston and he was there and

07:18he's still got the couch okay I want to sleep over that he goes though I have

07:23children now sorry so it's okay you know so that's really where it kind of all

07:31started and it's snowballed since and it's I feel like it's still just the

07:34beginning inshallah a brother and then a sister will keep going back and forth

07:39yeah

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