How The Devil Attacks From The Left - Khutbah by Nouman Ali Khan

today's Kaaba is dedicated to the fourth direction by which the chiffon tries to attack us according to his promise he will absolutely commit he said I will absolutely come at them I will absolutely attack them from right in front of them from behind them from their right and from their left and today we speak about what he's going to do when he attacks us from the left the Arabic word for that is the word Shama el which comes from the Arabic verb sha mana it's an interesting verb of the Arabic language because it actually means two things basically from that word you get the meaning of inclusion like shaman or mush Tamil the idea of including something or the left side actually the word shaman is not used for the left side it's used for the left hand and a lot of words in Arabic that come from this are related to things that get covered up like a bag or actually they use some Allah for some hunters who used to get covered up in the dirt so the animal doesn't see them so they're camouflaged so the idea of covering something and the idea of including something in its entirety immersing something is is that word so what does that have to do with the left well the basic idea that's been been postulated by some is that you know in Arabic in Arabic culture like in many cultures your basic hand is your right hand so most of the tasks you do normally for most people or for many people is the right hand and culturally you know you get work done with it you write with it you do whatever task wouldn't you carry things with it but if you have so much to carry that your right hand is not enough the left hand the remainder so that you can include everything is carried over by the left hand so that's kind of the connection between those two ideas of this original word but it's important to note that it's not just an Arabic culture that the right is associated with something good and the left is associated with something not so good it's actually part of many cultures and many languages for example even in the Latin language the right hand is called Dexter and you know English is a derivative of Latin so in English dexterity for example is good skill you know proficiency in something is to have dexterity in something and the left hand in in Latin is sinister of course the same word sinister in English is something evil or something bad so it's not just something associated in the Arabic language but in in many cultures the right the left have to do with good versus evil you know something appreciated versus something not so good now what I want to tie this to what what does it mean that Shaitaan comes to us from the left side there are some obvious meanings and I want to go through you know some of them with you the first of them has to take me back to what I talked about in this series of code buzz about Shaitaan coming from the right so one previous review or something I didn't actually mention that'll tie it to today's Kaaba and that is when she kept Ana taxes from the right one of its meanings is that Shaitaan Fatima al hasanat he slows that meaning he promises I will slow them down or take their motivation away from doing good deeds so it's not just that he wants you to do something bad he'll actually take your motivation away or try to make you lazy or try to make you not so inclined towards doing good things so you know the idea of getting lazy to get up to pray for example like you're just you're you're up it's for your time you know you have to get up and you tell yourself five minutes two minutes okay okay okay I know it's the alarm I'm gonna count to 30 and by the time you count to ten he's already put you to sleep again right so the idea of just delaying or taking your time with doing good things or you know you teach in conversation tops it man you know I should be I really should be reciting more Quran I know I know I gotta do it I know I've got to do it you tell yourself I got to do it but you don't do it and that's chaton not necessarily making you do evil things but slowing your ability to do good things down taking that motivation away from you distracting you with other things and of course you that the human mind in our heart is not an empty vessel it's gonna be filled with something so if you don't fill it with good deeds now chevron has the opportunity to fill it up with bad deeds you see so it's it's actually that's why we have to keep on doing good things is because if you leave that mind empty that this vessel empty and you leave that time empty it's going to get filled up with something that now that Shaitaan has taken the good out of it he's gonna fill it up with some bad for you alright so that's how he's gonna influence the other you know by contrast what this also means is when someone starts slows down doing good deeds they think about ibadah in particular worship and there are many good deeds you're like helping people or charity all of that but let's particularly talk about what keeps our heart connected to allies acts of worship recitation of Quran prayer these are things that connect us to a line make us remember Allah very directly these are spiritual necessities just like when you know every time I have to breathe in and breathe out every few hours I need some water my body needs it just like that our soul needs our heart needs the remembrance of Allah so if Shaitaan slows down our active remembrance of Allah takes that out of our life little by little by little the more he takes it away just like when you know when you have a plant and you don't feed the plant it gets dry and it starts dying away the same way when you don't have time to do remembrance of Allah the heart starts getting harder your heart starts getting harder and the heart starts getting weaker it starts witting away and what does that mean that actually means that now your desire to ask Allah for forgiveness your desire to make Doba to Allah your alarm when something wrong happens the heart gets alerted this shouldn't I shouldn't be looking at this I shouldn't be saying this I shouldn't be doing this there's an automatic alarm if that alarm the batteries are good and it's well fed then it's going to go off but when that alarm gets weaker then it doesn't go off so Shep on by doing so from the left now evil things are coming evil things are happening and you can't you should be able to tell this is wrong I shouldn't be doing it but because he's removed Vica from your life now those alarms are not going off now that that you know you you know it doesn't even it doesn't even alert you that this is something bad and when that starts happening then despair happens well I don't even feel bad anymore I'm pretty hopeless the next thing is because his name is Abe Lee's from a blessa which also means to be hopeless right in the Arabic sense it also means to be hopeless he makes you in me hopeless well you know when I pray I don't really feel anything because the heart is so hard right if you if you stay away from the remembrance of Allah for a long time or if you're only making the prayer just to go through the quick motions and then get back to other things your heart's not in it then you start telling yourself even when I do pray I don't feel anything so what's even the point why am I even praying the thing is if a plant or a tree has become weak right and you want it to be healthy again then you put some water on it but as soon as you put water you don't see fruits popping a hug you gotta keep putting water little by little by little and it get then it rejuvenates it's not gonna happen immediately so if you've been out of this connection with Allah and you're trying to rebuild that you have to be patient with yourself but what a Shetland want the Shaitaan wants a Aegina and he puts human beings you know he wants them to rush into things and if they don't see results right away he wants them to give up so as you're trying you're struggling to get better and closer in your heart you're trying to reconnect your heart to Allah even though that's a process that's not gonna happen overnight it's not going to happen in one prayer or two prayers it's gonna take some time in commitment if you don't see immediate progress he just wants you to give up what's the point anyway I feel nothing so that's the first way that he comes at us from the left meaning stay on the left don't even turn towards the right then the second that's been mentioned by many scholars is Oka we the wahoo - ayaat that he you know there are things that are known evil there are things that are you just know that they're evil human nature knows that certain things are wrong and he will make you more and more inclined towards them and scholars classically divided you know shubo hot and say yeah and shahe wat a little bit differently and I'll explain some of that to you there are evil things that we do that were tempted to because we feel like it will give us something right it'll bring us some kind of benefit maybe it gives somebody pleasure maybe it give somebody money maybe it give somebody recognition you'll feel good in some way if you do certain evil things right so that's one kind of evil where for example food is a necessity from Allah that's that and that's why we are supposed to be able to eat food that service Allah has given us but Shaitaan will want us to say hey if you really want to feel good that food that's Haram that's that's someone you got a try right he wants you to cross that line so he'll take what we actually need and we think we're gonna feel good with it relationships are supposed to be through a marriage but he'll say no try something outside of it try something outside of it will give you pleasure right so that that's one kind of sin that he beautifies and he keeps pushing on to you and he keeps pulling at you meaning he wants to beautify evil deeds to the point where you're like I can't even help myself yeah I do it but what do want me to do it makes me feel good you know but there's another kind of sin and the other kind of sin is when you're doing something so hideous and so ugly and it doesn't even give you any pleasure it doesn't even feel good like when you're backbiting when you're talking about somebody again you gain nothing you get nothing from it but you still do it anyway oh when you're hurting somebody with your words you don't benefit in any way when you insult someone when you humiliate someone when you degrade someone you get nothing out of it or when you lose your temper temper or you hit someone or whatever else when you whenever you engage in any kind of wrong towards another human being it may not even be that you get something out of it but he pulls you towards the left meaning he makes you do things that you don't even see they were even end up harming you in this life not even in the next you know and he'll keep pulling you in that direction making you addicted to those kinds of things may Allah protect us now the idea of Chimel really interesting in Arabic culture I'll share some some expressions old Arab sayings with you exactly feom Enoch well at agenda Fischer Malik ia Film Academy nur indica Deen the word the the word right and left was also used for when someone is close to you then you say this person's by my right and when you want to keep someone far away from you like I'd rather not deal with that guy send him to voicemail block the phone number that's a person on the left so a guy says to him it's his friend who's not talking to him anymore hey man keep me on your right why you gotta put me on the left that's the expression how are you putting me on the left meaning why are you abandoning me why are you distancing yourself from me the idea of Shaitaan coming from the left is also to convince you that you have now been distanced from Allah that you are in fact distanced so there's no point keep you farther away and calling you from the left means anything that might bring you closer to Allah he'll prevent you from and anything that can take you further away he'll keep calling you well you lead Oh Shaitaan oh and Tammy Lou melon Alima chat on once that you incline deviate far far far in far away until the Lubell allenbury de that you become way out there in your misguidance so that even if you think about turning back you're so miles away from the right course that you just feel like I there's no way I'm gonna make it all the way back there now I'm too far gone I'm too far out this way so this idea of distancing is captured inside Shama alien the other interesting meaning well who are in than a billion IB man Z Latin husana they say in Arabic this person is right by my right which means I have a lot of respect for them I hold them in high respect high position and then they say in Arabic without Manzella to who and they're in DB she mod that when somebody's respect is gone then they say you are on my left side now what that means is I no longer have any respect for you Shaitaan wants to convince his victims that they H they have no respect Allah doesn't regard them Allah doesn't respect them nobody respects them they shouldn't even respect themselves their filth well if I'm filth anyway it might as well do whatever I want and nobody cares about me anyway I have no value anyway so she thought wants you to feel devalued about yourself and have no value for yourself and therefore hope you know pull you in that direction now I want to share with you some things in addition to this this this idea of being pulled from the left and beautifying evil deeds one of you know I told you in the beginning that shamalia also means inclusion or including everything it also means you know one of the possible meanings is you know when we hold something from the right the idea is you're doing things the right way like for example earning money there's a right way to earn money right and everybody knows that's wrong ways to earn money too but if you want more than that you want everything and what you have in your right hand isn't enough you want to get your left hand involved and grab more isn't it so it could also be an implication that here Allah is telling us that Shaitaan will come at you with what you have in your hand is not enough what you got from the right way is not enough he wants you to get more and get everything and he's gonna use your greed cherish a a Shaitaan oh yeah yeah c'mon way a Moroccan Bill kasha Shaitaan promises you bankrupt bankruptcy and commands you to do shameless things lewd things the indecent things so the idea of human greed is captured inside when Shaitaan will pull us from the lepers from the left you know this is why Allah says woman you've got show han of c-e-o like a hovel mostly hoon whoever has been protected from the greed that lives inside themselves they're the ultimately successful greed is a really scary thing greed is a very powerful pull from shed on to the left look at all the trees I talked about to so many times before look at all the trees available in heaven and the Japan uses the greed of the human being to call them to that one trees not supposed to go near that one tree you know all the trade is available but he the human being is pulled towards Arriba you know yet the Hitoshi Kanno minimus you see in the quran when greed comes up Shaitaan comes up you know so this idea of pulling to the left is also associated with with greed now I've given you a little bit of an overview of these four directions and these you know and this one last one that I didn't emphasize as far as the left is concerned is that Shaitaan once he gets somebody involved in sin and wrongdoing and he immerses them in it they become completely drowned in that sin he wants to keep them there and he wants to make them think that this is the only way they can ever be I can't help myself this is just what I do this is just how I cope and he wants to keep them far far into it and so you have to identify yourself what is that evil that you've justified to yourself what is that sin that's allowing you to just say to yourself it's okay if I do that that's okay I do some other good things it's fine you know and you justify that to yourself stay away from that as much as possible what I wanted to include in this whole bar a couple of other quick observations my series on Shaitaan is not done that well you have a couple of more I ought to go other than these directions what comes at the end of these ayats I wanted to really pay attention to how Allah deals with this conversation because remember this is a conversation between the devil and Allah himself he's telling Allah what he's gonna do to us that's what this conversation is right so part of that is the question that arises that he that he only attacks us from directions but not from above and not from below like there's four directions mentioned but really in a sense is not three-dimensional right it's just you know front behind and right and left but there's no mention of above and below and there's a couple of observations that one that can be made about that one of the observations can be that the two things that you know what chaton calls to is falsehood chaton calls to falsehood and the opposite of falsehood is truth and there are two truths that will never change the truth that comes from what lies revelation it comes from above right it come that's truth from Allah and that is certainty it's it's yet lean and the other truth is death which you look down what is there the ground that you and I will go into right and those two things are absolute certainty and if your focus is on what is above and what is below and you'll be fine then then Shaitaan can attack from whatever size you want but you're protected from above and below he can't come from those two sides another way of looking at it is that the slave of Allah turns upwards Endora and turns downwards insidethe those two acts of humility Endora be recognized we're not powerful and are we recognized we're the ones in need endure are we recognize that we are dependent on Allah and in such that we recognize that we are not going to be like shape on who refused to do such then we go down in such that so those two directions draw towards the above and such that towards the below are that one Shaitaan cannot touch and such that isn't just to put your head on the ground such that is to humble yourself and humble myself to the commandment of Allah remember that the idea of him refusing to do such that was not just to put the head on the ground the idea was Allah told me to do something I don't want to do it that's refusal to do such de and if we can really internalize these two things then those other four directions of attack we're going to remain secure from I wanted to read something very beautiful I found a commentary from Shafiq Rahim Ajala he made this observation about this ayah and I wanted to read that off to you ma'am in Sabah and Alya Tinashe phenomenal jihad in our bar every morning the devil comes to me from all four directions he says every morning the devil at hacks me from all four directions min Vania the yellow man shall fever and Yamini were and Shimon he comes to me from the front he comes to me from behind he comes to me from the right he comes to me from the left I'm in Vania d'ya fire coal lotta huff he comes to me from the front and says don't be afraid whatever it is do it just you know cuz impulse just whatever comes in front of you enjoy it just do it why are you thinking about the future for in the house of photo Raheem because Allah is forgiving he comes to you from the front ends out less forgiving just enjoy yourself fara were in Neela afar lamentable Manawa I'm in Australia and I respond to him by reciting a portion of the Quran from Surat Taha where Allah says I am absolutely someone who forgives over and over again but I forgive the one who makes Toba who repents who truly believes and acts in a good way acts righteously meaning don't act however you want and say Allah forgives I said Allah says I forgive for the one who acts correctly not the one who acts however they want and then they say Allah forgives so he responds he kept on quoted the Quran to him right Shaitaan said Allah says I'm forgiving and he says no you're using your using a loss words but you have a bad intent so he understands what Allah actually means and incites the correct one so then he says what am i mean comfy then he comes to me from behind for you holy Funi minwu qwerty oh that evil and it scares me that my children are going to become bankrupt when i die now i don't have enough money for my kids what are they gonna do how are they gonna go to school were they gonna live all this other stuff for Akiyama Minda but infinitely Allah and Allah he disposer and I recite there is not an animal on the earth not a creature on the earth except Allah has taken responsibility to provide for it so if Allah hasn't forgotten the ant and the bird and the worm and the fish how is he gonna forget my children you know and so I respond to him with the word of Allah well I mean people Yamini and he says as far as my right is concerned 14 him in kabbalah thana he comes to me and tries to praise me you did a good job today hey that was some nice prayer you perform Quran recitation - you did this - you did charity look at how much you help people look at how wonderful you are cetera he just wants you to have lofty opinion about your good deeds we talked about that when he attacks from the right for our table in 113 so I recite the the end outcome is only going to favor those who are able to protect themselves meaning protect themselves from having a lofty opinion of themselves may Allah protect us from that well i'm maminta belgium Ali fini Ming cable shahe wat and when he comes to me from the left he tries to attack me by get luring me into temptations he luring me into temptations acaba Haileybury Nahum well Bane Amash Sehun and I recite that between them and whatever they desire the desire there's going to be a barrier placed a barrier is going to be placed so he calls on the word of Allah to protect him from temptation this is actually at the end of the day what I wanted to share with you you know the only protection that we have from the devil is Allah and Allah has actually our connection to Allah is a rope and that rope is called O Quran Allah says Walenta G dumb in do nahin bolta hada that this this book other than that you will find no other refuge you'll find no other security no other protection so I want you to understand something in your fight against Shaitaan whether it's from the front from the right from the back from the left it doesn't matter which direction he's attacking from he will be successful when you're not holding on to the rope that comes from above when you're not holding on to that when you're not reciting or connecting with Allah's words thinking about what a life saying to you and me and how it applies to my life in your life this this message did not come to be sitting in a shelf somewhere this revelation did not come so that we just recited and that's it or we hear beautiful word beautiful sounds and that's it this revelation came to protect us Allah actually gave us these words as you know adam alayhis-salam was duped by the Shaitaan and when he was being sent to the earth because now you've you know he was already up in Jannah and this happened and now he's being sent to the earth when he's being sent to the earth what did Allah tell him well how will you make sure that this will never happen again when you go to the earth for in my Tiana Kamini hood and for a hopefully so mentally ayodhya for the home phone item allow absolute what if and when to you your children whenever guidance comes to you whoever follows my guidance there will be nothing to fear there's they're not going to be the ones that are said that's the promise of Allah to Adam and he said I'm and his children so guidance has come Quran has come Quran we have to see it not as a sacred book we don't have to we don't see it just as a book you know for for for blessings you and you and I have to recognize this book came to protect us from our ultimate enemy there will be no other source of protection like the word of allah so allah azzawajal make us all secure and protected with his word milazzo it'll make the parents hear examples to their children and what it means to be bonded with al us book may Allah open our hearts to study and learn and to internalize the meaning and message of the Quran deep into our hearts and to bring it into our lives may allah azza with an overlook our shortcomings and allow us to continuously fight the temptations of Shaitaan barakallahu li walakum Colonel Hakim when a fanny we are compelled IOT with the Hakim

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Published: Sun Oct 21 2018