Amazed by the Quran with Nouman Ali Khan: A Chance to Change

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00:00Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

00:14Welcome back to Amazed by the Qur'an

00:15A series in which I try to share with you what I find amazing about the Qur'an

00:19Today I want to start this conversation briefly with a description of the difference between nouns and verbs

00:24That will help you appreciate the ayat that I want to talk about

00:27So by definition nouns like apple, tree, happiness, etc

00:32Nouns don't have a tense, they're not past or present or future

00:35They're timeless in that sense

00:37So rhetorically speaking a noun is considered timeless

00:40Verbs on the other hand have tense, past tense or present tense or future tense

00:44Even the imperative is in the present tense in the sense

00:46So tenses or verbs are temporary because they are caged in time

00:53So nouns are timeless and verbs are caged in time

00:56Now what happens in the Arabic language interestingly is sometimes when you're talking about an act

01:02You can actually use a noun or a verb

01:05And when you translate that into the English language

01:08When you translate it in the Qur'an for example

01:10An average translation

01:11We don't have that luxury in English

01:14So we always translate it as a verb

01:16So you don't get to see that sometimes what we're thinking is a verb

01:20Was actually used as a noun in the Qur'an

01:23Because they're just exactly the same way that would be translated

01:26So for instance not in the Qur'an but in regular Arabic

01:29أجلسو, I'm sitting

01:30أنا جالس, I'm sitting

01:32While أجلسو is a verb and جالس is a noun

01:36So you wouldn't tell, you'd translate the same way I'm sitting

01:38Now let's appreciate the rhetorical difference as is used in the Qur'an

01:44It's very subtle

01:45So I'll give you three examples of that in order of complexity

01:48The first example is about hypocrites talked about in Surah Al-Baqarah

01:53And Allah says that when they come to believers

01:57They say that they believe

01:59وَإِذَا لَقُوا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قَالُوا آمَنَّا

02:01When they are in the company of believers

02:03They would say that they have believed

02:04وَإِذَا خَلَوْا إِلَىٰ شَيَاطِينِهِمْ قَالُوا إِنَّا مَعَكُمْ إِنَّمَا نَحْمِ مُسْتَهْزِئُونَ

02:09When they're in the company of their devils

02:11Their shayateen

02:12They say we're with you, we're just joking

02:14So now you've got we believe and we're joking

02:18Which in the English language are both verbs

02:21Interestingly enough in the Arabic though

02:23We believe is said as آمَنَّ

02:26Which is a verb

02:27Now remember verbs are temporary

02:28And joking is مُسْتَهْزِئُونَ

02:31Which is a noun

02:32Like you wouldn't see that in translation

02:34It'll just say joking

02:34And you'll think it's a verb

02:36But it's a noun

02:36Now what does that imply?

02:38The rhetorical implication thus is

02:40That these hypocrites

02:41Their long term permanent allegiances

02:44Lie with those who they speak in the long term sense

02:48Meaning they're devils

02:50Yes they try to have loyalties on both sides

02:53But they're long loyalties

02:54And their constancy is with the shayateen

02:57With the devils

02:57SubhanAllah

02:58And that's how Allah exposes where they lean

03:00More

03:01Now the second case

03:03This is about declaring Allah's perfection

03:06Doing tasbih

03:07As most Muslims know it as doing tasbih

03:09We can't always do tasbih

03:11Tasbih is not something that I can do constantly

03:14After we do it after salah

03:15We do it when we're remembering Allah etc

03:17Which is why it's understandable that in the Quran

03:20When tasbih

03:21Declaring Allah's perfection

03:22Is talked about

03:23It is talked about as a verb

03:24Allah did not expect us to be

03:27مُسَبِّعِين

03:28People who do the declaration of Allah's perfection constantly

03:32It's impossible for us

03:33Right

03:33Which is why even Allah says

03:35The entire heavens and the earth

03:37Declare Allah's perfection

03:39And He uses a verb

03:40Because we're included in it

03:42Shaytan

03:42Or the jinns are included in it

03:44Even if not Shaytan

03:44The jinns are included

03:45And we don't do declaring of Allah's perfection

03:48Constantly

03:49Okay

03:49Now

03:50There are two exceptions to that

03:52The first exception is the prophet Yunus

03:54And the second exception is the angels

03:57Talked about in the Quran

03:57Both in the 37th surah

03:59Safat

04:00Allah talks about when Yunus

04:03Was in the belly of the whale

04:05The biblical name Jonah

04:06Right

04:06When he was in the belly of the whale

04:07And Allah says

04:08فَلَوْنَا أَنَّهُ كَانَ مِنَ الْمُسَبِّحِينَ

04:11Had it not been the case

04:12That he was from those

04:14Who constantly declared perfection

04:17You know

04:19He would have remained in the belly of the whale

04:20Now

04:21How do I know

04:22He constantly declared perfection

04:24Because unlike everywhere else in the Quran

04:26Here Allah decided to use a noun

04:28The permanence

04:29Is articulated

04:30It's awesome

04:30To suggest he has nothing else to think about

04:33When he's in the belly of the whale

04:34As long as he's there

04:35He's just

04:36How perfect you are

04:37How perfect you are

04:38How perfect you are

04:39How perfect you are

04:39Constantly

04:40Constantly

04:41Constantly

04:41Declaring Allah's perfection

04:43SubhanAllah

04:44This also gives you an idea

04:46Of how the standards for prophets

04:47Are so much higher than for

04:49Everybody else

04:50Like when a Muslim gets in trouble

04:51They ask Allah for a little bit of forgiveness

04:52Allah pulls them out of trouble

04:53But when prophets

04:55Who Allah expects so much more from

04:56If they ever make a mistake

04:58Then the expectations from them

05:00Are way way way higher

05:01It makes us appreciate the status

05:03Of those prophets

05:03Of course the other example

05:05Also in Surah As-Safat

05:06Is the angels

05:07إِنَّا لَنَحْنُ الْمُسَبِّحُونَ

05:09We are the ones who declare perfection

05:10That's how it's translated

05:11Except the

05:12Who declare perfection

05:14Is a noun

05:15مُسَبِّحُونَ

05:16In the Arabic

05:17Suggesting the angels

05:18Are constantly

05:19Constantly

05:20Engaged in the declaration

05:21Of Allah's perfection

05:22Here's the last one

05:24And this is the one that

05:25I think is

05:25The one that baffles me

05:27And I hope I'm able to

05:28Articulate it clearly to you

05:29Okay

05:29I want you to think about punishment

05:31And forgiveness

05:32Seeking forgiveness

05:33And keep those two things in mind

05:35As you read this ayah

05:36I'll give you the Arabic

05:37And then the English in easy language

05:39وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَأَنْتَ فِيهِمْ

05:42وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ مُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَهُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ

05:45Allah would not be one

05:47To punish them

05:48So long as you're in their company

05:50The Prophet is being told

05:52That he will not destroy Quraysh

05:53So long as he is among them

05:55Part one

05:55Part two

05:56Allah would never destroy them

05:58Allah would not be one to punish them

05:59So long as they are asking for forgiveness

06:01Now once again

06:03I'll reiterate those two parts

06:04Allah will not destroy them until

06:06So long as you're among them

06:08And Allah will not destroy them

06:10So long as they're asking for forgiveness

06:12Those are the two parts

06:13Now

06:14The thing that these two parts have in common

06:17Is Allah would not destroy

06:18Except in the Arabic

06:20The first case of Allah would not destroy

06:22Is mentioned as a verb

06:24And in the second case

06:26Allah would not destroy

06:27Is mentioned as a noun

06:28And what does that mean?

06:30That means Allah not destroying

06:32In the first case

06:33Is a temporary clause

06:34Because verbs by definition

06:36Are temporary

06:37It's not a constant thing

06:39Allah will never ever ever destroy them

06:40It's not like that

06:41Allah will not destroy them

06:42Allah will not be one to destroy them

06:43So long as

06:45You're in their company

06:46Now the Prophet

06:47Being in their company

06:49Is that a permanent thing

06:49Or a temporary thing?

06:51It's temporary

06:51So it coincides with

06:53Look this clause isn't permanent

06:55It is temporary

06:56So it coincides with the temporary

06:58Disclaimer

06:58Now

06:59What about the second case?

07:00He says

07:01Allah will never ever ever destroy them

07:05That actually is a permanent clause

07:08He didn't say

07:09Temporarily

07:10For now I won't destroy them

07:12No, no, no

07:12He will never ever destroy them

07:14How do we know that?

07:15The noun is being used

07:16وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ مُعَذِّبَهُمْ

07:18Okay so what do they have to do

07:20To be permanently saved

07:22From Allah's destruction?

07:25He says

07:25وَهُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ

07:26So long as they are asking for forgiveness

07:29Now here's the kicker

07:30Them asking for forgiveness

07:32Could have been said as a noun

07:33And could have been said as a verb

07:35If you said it as a noun

07:37You would have said

07:38وَهُمْ مُسْتَغْفِرُونَ

07:39If you said it as a verb

07:41Which Allah did

07:41وَهُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ

07:43What does that mean?

07:44That means they're not always asking for forgiveness

07:46So long as once in a while

07:48They ask for forgiveness

07:49And they're not constantly begging for forgiveness

07:51I won't destroy them

07:52Had that been a noun

07:55The condition from Allah would have been

07:57Unless you are in the constant engagement

08:00Of begging me for forgiveness

08:01I'm gonna destroy you

08:03But he said

08:04At least give me some istighfar

08:06There's a mercy of Allah

08:08That he used a verb here

08:09وَهُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ

08:10Look at the flip side

08:12وَمَا كُنَّا مُهْلِكِ الْقُرَاءِ

08:14إِلَّا وَأَهْلُهَا ظَالِمُونَ

08:15So awesome

08:15Allah talks about history

08:17This was about what he would never do in the future

08:18So we'll wrap it up with history

08:20Allah has destroyed towns

08:22We know that

08:23How does he describe it?

08:25We would never ever ever destroy towns

08:27وَمَا كُنَّا مُهْلِكِ الْقُرَاءِ

08:29We would never ever ever destroy towns

08:31مُهْلِكِ الْقُرَاءِ

08:32Destroyers of towns

08:34That's a noun

08:34We've never done it ever ever

08:36Until what?

08:38إِلَّا وَأَهْلُهَا ظَالِمُونَ

08:39Accept that its people do wrong

08:42Accept that its people do wrong

08:44Now the doing wrong

08:46In this ayah is actually a noun

08:48Remember seeking forgiveness was a verb

08:50So it's temporary

08:52So long as they do some seeking for forgiveness

08:54They're saved

08:55But doing wrong in this ayah is a noun

08:58Which means

08:59Until its people

09:00Were constantly immersed in wrong

09:03I wouldn't destroy them

09:05I didn't just destroy nations when they did wrong

09:08I destroyed nations when they demonstrated

09:10A constant pursuit of the wrong

09:13إِلَّا وَأَهْلُهَا ظَالِمُونَ

09:14Not يظلمون

09:15ظَالِمُونَ

09:16Constant pursuit of wrong

09:17So something as small as the difference between nouns and verbs

09:20Wallahi I've given you like three samplers from this

09:23There are literally thousands and thousands of examples of this in the Quran

09:27This subject alone leaves me amazed

09:30I hope you guys enjoyed this series

09:31See you next time

09:32بارك الله لي ولكم

09:33السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

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