Surah Al-Kahf (in-depth) with Nouman Ali Khan The Quran Provides Comfort

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00:00Okay, the third. Seeking strength for your heart to withstand life's tests. This is a big one.

00:19Every day we're tested. Sometimes the tests are small, sometimes the tests are big.

00:24But let's talk about big tests. What are some big tests in life? Call them out.

00:27Death is a big... death in the family, death of a loved one, death of a friend.

00:32Other tests? Money related, money problems.

00:38Sickness, illness, sure. Failure, disappointment, you know.

00:44Bayina exam is not a... well, there's a test.

00:48Natural disaster, also Bayina exam on Friday.

00:54Family and kids can be a test. Relationships can be tests, right?

00:58We can have trouble with our parents sometimes.

01:00We can have trouble with spouses, trouble with siblings, trouble with friends.

01:04Isolation can be a test. You feel lonely. You feel like nobody understands you.

01:08You feel like everybody hates you. Addiction can be a test, sure.

01:11Now, the idea here is these tests, when people are going through a hard time, what do they need?

01:17Again, call it out.

01:17Comfort. Solace.

01:21Support. Someone to talk to.

01:23Someone to vent to.

01:26You know how many people come up to me and say, I need to talk to you for two minutes?

01:29That's usually two hours.

01:31I have this thing that I can only talk to you about.

01:33No one else on the planet will understand my problem.

01:39Except you, because you're on YouTube.

01:44But in all reality, not to dismiss people's issues.

01:49People need someone to talk to.

01:51And people, more than anything else, need someone to give them hope.

01:55Show them a light at the end of the tunnel.

01:57Convince them that they can get through this.

01:59They are stronger than the trial that they're facing.

02:02That whatever they're going through, there has to be some good in it.

02:06You know?

02:07They need that.

02:08And they need somebody to say that in a loving way, in a kind way, in a comforting way.

02:13You know?

02:13And when that kind of comfort and love, it comes from someone with more authority.

02:18Like you know when your younger brother says that to you, you're like, eh.

02:21But when your grandfather says it to you, it means something more.

02:24When your dad says it to you, when your teacher says it to you, when a great scholar says it to you,

02:29it just kind of, okay.

02:31And the husband says, I've been saying that to you all this time, it didn't mean nothing.

02:34And he said the same exact thing, and all of a sudden, ah, I feel so much better.

02:39Why?

02:39Because when somebody from a position of authority comforts you,

02:43the comforting itself is authoritative.

02:47One of the roles of the Qur'an in the life of a believer is, I'm having trouble.

02:51I need someone to comfort me.

02:53And guess what is going to comfort you?

02:56The Word of Allah is going to comfort you.

02:58You're going to open up the Qur'an, and you're going to read something,

03:01and it's going to bring you comfort exactly in regards to your trial.

03:05One of my best friends in life, back in New York, I won't tell you his name,

03:09because this recording will go up somewhere, and he'll say, hey, you mentioned my name.

03:11So I'm not going to tell you his name.

03:15But he's from Bayshore, Long Island.

03:18Anyway, so he, some one time, like, this is like maybe 12 years ago,

03:25he's like, hey, so, how do we get guidance from the Qur'an?

03:28I need guidance from the Qur'an.

03:30Where do you begin?

03:31What do you look up, like, an index?

03:33If you have problems with patients, read these ayat.

03:35If you have problems with health, read these ayat.

03:37What do you do?

03:38I was like, hey, try this, try this.

03:39Next time you have a problem, just have a mushaf with you, a copy of Qur'an with you,

03:43and just randomly open any page and start reading.

03:47But read with the intention that you're looking for Allah to give you comfort, to give you guidance.

03:52This is guidance to the heart.

03:54Just read.

03:54See what happens.

03:57Two weeks in a row, every night I meet him at Isha, he says, hey, yo, bro, it worked again.

04:01Yo, man, it worked again.

04:02It's crazy.

04:03People don't know about this, man.

04:06This is so crazy.

04:06I had this problem, and I was reading, and like, third ayat I read, I was like, whoa!

04:11That's exactly what I was reading.

04:13That's what it's supposed to be.

04:16But the Qur'an will not give you that if you come to it as a critic, remember?

04:20Qur'an will only give you that when you come to it as a seeker.

04:25It'll give you comfort.

04:26It'll become your companion.

04:28And that salah will be therapy.

04:30That salah will be, you know, you can go see a counselor, and then you can go talk to Allah.

04:35And Allah will talk to you.

04:38It'll become a thing of beauty.

04:39That's really, you know, when you, you can learn Qur'an, you can internalize it, you can understand a lot of Qur'an.

04:45You know when you really taste Qur'an is when this therapy happens.

04:48And a lot of times this therapy happens in the middle of salah.

04:53That's the most, those are the most beautiful moments in a believer's life.

04:55When those moments happen, when the ayah hits you like a lightning bolt about the exact problem you were having.

05:02Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho.

05:04That's a high.

05:04That's really cool.

05:15You know what I mean?

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