The Devil's Motive - Khutbah by Nouman Ali Khan

today inshallah tada I'll share with you the continuation of the few lessons I wanted to extract from surah Araf the seventh surah of the Quran where Allah talks about in an exhaustive detail the story of creation and the story of adam adam alayhis-salam and the devil Iblees and what i wanted to highlight today after speaking about arrogance and jealousy last time is actually what allah when allah azza which asked him or actually commanded him to be expelled he's lost his rank he's going to be pushed out from the closeness of allah at that point he responds to allah and as i get to that response of the devil I wanted at first explain to you why the word Shaitaan is important to understand it has a non Arabic origin also but in the Arabic language it is argued to be from one of two origins that shaped or shuttin there's two possible origins of the word and the word shuttin in Arabic actually means tabata it means someone thinks someone that goes far far away someone who's very far in very long distance away it's actually the same reason why the word Shelton is used in Arabic for a very long extensive rope so super long rope is actually called a hablo boom Ted is actually also called a shotgun and from it you get the word Shaitaan the other side of it actually the origin of the word shait it actually means someone who is engulfed in flames because of anger meaning someone who's fired literally in many languages you use the idea of man he was fired up or he was on fire or man they just they said you what you said set me ablaze or my heart is on fire the idea of fire being associated or being ablaze being associated with anger or hatred or spite that he set on fire because of his spite and some have tried to combine both of these meanings suggesting that he's gone too far in his hate and anytime there's any opportunity for him to get closer and reduce that hate he keeps pushing it away and keeps going further and further away and as a matter of fact that's part of what he does for us his job is actually to take something that isn't a good quality that we have inside of ourselves first of all he wants to set that quality on fire you know excite that quality serve as a catalyst he can't make us do bad things but there is a potential dangerous ingredients inside the human being already he can encourage you to be careless with those ingredients and start a fire and once you do then he wants you to keep going and going and going you leadership and oh and toda Lubell allenbury de Quran says Shaitaan wants that you go misguided far far far away just like he himself he wants you to keep going and keep going and keep going and not turn back and he will in inshallah we'll see how he does that how is he successful in messing people up and making sure they stay messed up so his response to Allah when Allah Tolls tells him to leave is um Livni in Iommi you buffoon give me extra time and it's not a lot of time na flora would be to give a lot of time unveil would be to give not too much time I'm not asking for too much time until the day when they are resurrected meaning don't punish me right away just give me some ability from even now until the day they are resurrected and in the mind of Shaitaan that's not a long time in the mind of Shaitaan who's actually been in the company of Allah been in the company of the Angels he actually understands that from the time that this conversation happens until Judgment Day is not a very long time and actually what he spins to all of us is you got time you got all the time in the world you can have to change right now Tamil Dawn's not for a few months you're good you know so in your head and in my head we feel like we've got very very long even if death is near then so what the Day of Judgment God knows when that's gonna come in the home yellow Buridan Kariba they see it is very something very far away how why do you have to worry about it right now so that's one thing that we get from it the other thing that's on a side note it's not really part of what I want to give you in the hold of it on a side note some people ask the question and even recently I was asked Shaitaan is someone Allah it out someone a lot rejected and yet later on in the story you learn that he was able to whisper to Adam and our mother who were still in heaven so how is he able to whisper to them while he's kicked out of heaven and they're still in heaven and possibly the answer to that is actually this ability Allah gave him first of all he stays at a distance he's the part of the meaning of his word he stays at a distance but Allah gave him the ability to have his whisper reach us anyway and that's not so hard for us to imagine today right people are very far away from us and their voice reaches us by means that would in any other century of world history would be considered magic I can see my mother from across the ocean that's in any other day and age that would be called magic today it's just an iPhone or today is just a video call rights just a Skype call so but the idea that he can reach from a distance and can whisper is an ability that Allah allowed him to have until the day a resurrection so unlived me in Iommi you barafu NAND la immediately responded on a common element but in fine you are among those who've been given some time I'll let you have some free space from some free room to operate within that within that room within that space the other thing here is why did he ask for time he knows punishment is coming and he's know he knows it's not that far away what's he hoping to gain he knows for a fact he will not avoid a less punishment he knows for a fact that he's been rejected there is no success for him at the end of all of this there is no saving himself there is no asking for forgiveness he's given up on all of those things he's gone far away from all of those things he's made up his mind so what's he gonna accomplish in his mind so long as I can prove to Allah that I am NOT the only failure I'm a failure sure but my success will be if I can prove that they're also a failure aha see you think I'm a loser they're losers too and I'll prove it to you just give me time this is a success in his head that's a goal and you know what that's a goal like a virus that he infects other people with there are some people in whose life the only thing is I don't care if I accomplish or not I just want to make sure this one doesn't accomplish I just make sure this one doesn't get this is exactly what happened later on in this surah in the story of Hobby Lobby they both offered a sacrifice one sacrifice was accepted and the other says well how was this accepted I don't care if mine was accepted or not I can't have him be successful that bothers me you know jealousy even between human beings jealousy between siblings between loved ones between spouses between parents I've even met Cho that I've said to me you know I don't like my parents why don't you like your parents cuz they love each other so much it bothers me really that bothers you yeah cuz I know I'm never gonna have anything like that it just makes me jealous whoa that's heavy I mean sounds weird and funny but it's actually pretty heavy that a person can actually feel that she'll time can make you want something even if you're not gonna have it I wish they didn't have it so long as their mister I just want to make sure they're miserable then I'll be happy there are some people who might just be you know they're okay so long so long as they don't hear from you but if they find out that you're happy if they find out that you were smiling it really bothers them like why is is why why is he happy what just happened I thought he disappeared I thought she was miserable and now I see this picture somewhere or I see this video somewhere or I see this I heard from somewhere that they were happy huh what is this and then the thought of how did they get away with it how are they smiling again it just eats away at them maybe they can't get it out of their head you know this I this is from the devil himself the devil can't see us succeed and so he tells Allah give me time and I'll prove my case but then he what he said I read it's so loaded that it's not gonna be done in one khutba his strategy that he it's not even a secret he didn't even hide what he's gonna do and how he's gonna do it he actually laid it all out and Allah laid it all out for us because part of guidance part of knowing the road is knowing the dangers on the road so know your enemy right so you can't just Allah didn't just give us directions here's how you get to heaven well here are all the obstacles on your way to heaven here's how all the obstacles that will keep you from succeeding and here's your enemy waiting for you so he says to Allah Allah Fatima away tiny and it is ecause you made me turn the wrong way this is what he says to Allah it is only because you made me turn the wrong way who does he blame Allah this was your scheme this was your plan you knew it would bother me that Adam is made from dirt and you messed because you're all-knowing you messed with me anyway and you made me saying it's your fault not my fault you got me into this you did this to me you just don't like me you have it out against me you're the one who cursed me you're the one who doesn't want me to be forgiven and because you did this to me I'm gonna do this to these human beings that you love so much so the first part of that is blaming Allah and because it's first not in his response you know you could see first he refused to do such that that was a distance away from Allah then he took another step and he said well I'm better another distance step away from Allah it's an act of arrogance but now he's taking a huge step away from Allah when he says no not only am I not wrong you're the one who was wrong you're the one who did wrong to me now he's blaming Allah he's taking even another step guess what he's gonna do with humanity he's gonna come to each one of us and first he's gonna make us this will be Allah just okay and then we all just obey Allah at some point we all were not perfect we're gonna make mistakes but that's one thing but that needs get and maybe one time you make a mistake you feel bad you ask Allah to forgive you repent you cry your guilt you feel guilt inside you that just makes you human and that makes you like Adam alehissalaam but he comes and makes you sin again and makes you convinces you to sin again convinced Jesus sin again and the next time he adds another worse step that takes you away it's way worse than the sin is sin is bad but something way worse is when you start justifying it there's way worse when you start giving a logical explanation for why you sinned well I was under a lot of pressure or I did this right I had this reason or that reason you don't understand what I was going to I was really upset at the time you know I have my reasons when you start doing that you're being like the devil is taking another step away Taba hapana another step away from Allah but the worst of it all is someone keeps going down a road of sin and then when you say why are you going down this road you say Allah wants it this way you know if Allah wanted I would have been a better person I don't even know why he hates me so much God just doesn't like me what has he done for me and you find people that have now drowned themselves in sin now speaking about a that way exactly the step-by-step procedure Japan took to take another step another step another step but before he's an infinite number of miles away from Allah the sister Barada and all of this out of his rage fueled by the fuel of his this vehicle is his rage so he will want that for Humanity and so he says now to Allah you're the reason you're the cause and you know what not only do I want to get away from this from my road to Allah but he says Ikuo then Allah Sarah he can't muster him he says - he promises to Allah that were under a cordon elohim cirrhotic al-mustaqim I promise to you and I swear to you and I swear to you and I swear to you this is called llama llama tawheed and new Nutella and grammar what that means is it's really hard to translate in English an easy English translation would be I will sit waiting for them that would be an easy English transition but Garuda actually means to sit somewhere waiting in ambush for an enemy Garuda namaka in Arabic is where you sit waiting to ambush your enemy you know how like cops sometimes pull in behind the bushes on the highway waiting for you to speed that's good that's actually good ok welcome Kalama Quran says a cold cold amerced actually our place of ambush but anyway the idea of burrowed is to sit somewhere a long time include is different from Julis if i sat on this chair and got up does you lose but if I was in court I would take my time so he's got all the time in the world if you're not messing up he's ok he's like huh I got you eventually I'm waiting I'm waiting I'm waiting he's studying you in any norm your own okawa cadena mean - our own own he and his minions are constantly watching you surveying you from places you can't imagine they're studying your behavior they're looking at how you respond to things they look at what upsets you what makes you happy what makes you slip and then they use that against you they are literally the psychological subjects of these Devils and so he promises a lot of the strangest promise he says I will sit I will wait for them I will wait there for them I swear to you I will wait I will wait and I will wait we're on your path that is straight on your straight path sometimes people ask the question I understand when disbelievers mess up I understand when people who don't believe in God are drinking and clubbing and adultery and all this other stuff I get it but I don't understand why people that look religious act religious talk religious they know Quran they've memorized they're wearing hijabs they just came from Hajj and look at what they're doing look at how they're talking look at how they're behaving these are supposed to be good people and look at how they're messing up guess we he comes after more than anyone else he actually he's bothered by people that are on this path and he waits to attack you and when he fails he moves down one mile and says okay when you past this mile marker maybe I'll get you then and when you when you make him feel again he moves ahead and waits for you again and you keep going down this path and he will come at you and come at you and come at you you know people that are haven't changed for Allah people that are still in sin they look at someone who's trying to change and say you're a good person you know Allah made it easy for you Allah didn't make it easy for anyone the devil comes to everyone it doesn't matter if you're praying five times a day it doesn't matter if you're in touch with every single night it doesn't matter if you do Hajj every single year it doesn't matter if you recited the entire Quran you recite it over and over and over again that will never make you immune from the devil waiting for you and coming at you and coming at you and coming at you and he doesn't attack people the same way you know when you study your enemy you know in sports for example what they do with teams right before they have a match with a team they study the strategy for that team and the coach tells them this is how we're gonna do our offense this is how we're gonna do our defense against this team they study their opponent very very well so the the the gameplay of a team is not the same depending on the opponent even in one-on-one sports like tennis and things like that you get coached this is how you handle this opponent this is how you handle their serve this is how you respond this is exactly what the devil does his attack is not the same for me as it is for you he's not gonna attack you the same way he attacks me he will study you find out your weaknesses and come at you from your weaknesses he'll study me find out my weaknesses come at me from my weaknesses and he knows that he Allah has given him that time where he can just allow to allow to be sit back and just watch and study and observe and then come and suggest and then come and give whispers and that - all of it on a love straight path so you know what we're learning that the hardest thing to do is to actually take one step towards Allah so the hardest thing to do now not make a million miles of progress one step towards Allah because when you're about to take that one step you go away you were my friend because when you're going in the other direction you're the devil's friend but if you turn towards Allah you just became his enemy you're the reason he got kicked out he wants to prove that everybody can be his friend in hell so when you turn around even a little bit and you take even one step the devil will come at you in every single possible way he can to dissuade you from turning back I've even met people that say everything is going smooth in my life until I start praying when I start praying problems start happening all of a sudden my friends are mad at me all of a sudden my health is going bad all of a sudden I'm having this trouble or that trouble or the other trouble so I'm just scared of praying because things just start messing up I knew a scholar one time who his mother was Christian and she was thinking he was he kept inviting her to his I mean he's old himself and his mother's very old and he keeps inviting rich I saw him inviting into Islam inviting herself and she's not you know she's not ready to leave and one time she decides that she's thinking about Islam and she starts getting nightmares every night there's literally nightmares every night and every time she'd hold on to the crucifix and then go to sleep the nightmares disappear the devil's know that you're taking a step and they've got to come at you they've got to make sure you go back and be their friend so he says I will sit there waiting like a road block on your straight path and but then how is he convincing us to turn away in these few minutes that I have left I want to give you a picture of what's coming in the in the next hub bus he says to a la semana a tienda home in beanie ad him women healthy him were on a mani him well I'm Shama Ely him he says I will attack them from four directions I will attack them from the front I will attack them from behind I will attack them from the right and I will attack them from the left from the front from behind from the right and from the left now that could just mean I'm gonna attack him for all sides but a laws words are very precise a laws words are very precise each one of these is a strategy of the devil he has a different kind of attack from the front a different kind of attack from the writing a different kind of attack from the left a different kind of attack from behind and so we're gonna take our time going through each of these attacks but before we get into those attacks I'll just tell you one goal that he has each of these attacks how does he know that his attacks are successful that's the goal at least today that's what I want to inform you of how will he know that his attack was succeeded well Ted you do a thorough home shock eating you will find you will not find that most of them are grateful if he can attack you and by the end of that attack you are no longer grateful to Allah you're no longer grateful you're pessimistic and when someone's pessimistic for example they're not grateful because to be grateful you have to think about the good things you can't think about bad things and be grateful that's impossible you can't say how moral uh that's not alhamdulillah you have to think of the positive use that you have to think of a less favors you can't be grateful if you're in disobedience how can you be grateful to Allah and show no loyalty to him how what kind of gratitude is that if he can figure out some way of making you and me ungrateful then he succeeded you know what we're learning his biggest problem was arrogance his biggest problem was arrogance and Allah is teaching us through these ayat that the biggest solution to arrogance is what being grateful being grateful and he knows so long as they're grateful I won't get them so long as they're thinking about my favors to them I lost favors to them I won't get them so long as they're positive and hopeful I won't get them so long as they have a good opinion of Allah I won't get them because obviously we can't be grateful to Allah were angry with Allah you can't be thankful to him if you have bad thoughts about him so if I can just get rid of their gratitude I've succeeded and he will try to get rid of it from the front from the right from the left and from the back and these are the attacks that insha Allah Allah we're gonna try to explore in some detail what does it mean that the devil is coming at you from the front what does it mean that he's coming at you from behind what does it mean that he's coming at you from the right and from the left and inshallah with Alia as we study that you become you have to ask yourself maybe for you the attack from the front is your problem maybe for your friend the attack from the left is the problem maybe for another friend the attack from behind is the problem he won't get all of us the same way he'll see oh this one didn't work I'm gonna try this side oh that didn't work I'm gonna try the other side oh that didn't work ah this one got him okay I'll stick with this one I'll keep hammering in this way you understand this is why we have to study how is it that Shaitaan is going to ruin our journey along the straight path may allah azza will keep us firm and committed to the straight path understand something now when you recite the fatiha as I leave you when you recite the fatiha and you and I say sirata al-ladhina an AMTA alayhim the path of those you made e's for one of the meanings of UNAM is to make things easy they see in armies also taste neuroma means softness Allah is the only one you know they translate the path of those you blessed blessings name as part of the meaning no Ummah is also part of the meaning actually the path of those only you could have made the path easy for them because without you the devil will make sure the path is hard is impossible so when we ask Allah we don't just ask the path of good people no the path of those who you intervened and you made things easy for them without without you making things easy and smooth for them there's no way this road was going to be smooth because until the day of judgment Shaitaan is on that road Shaytan and his minions are on that road waiting for you to you to be attacked how can a road be easy when you're going to be attacked from every direction only when Allah will make that road easy only when you will be from those and I will be from those who he describes in the Fatiha and levena and I'm tardy him it gives you a new appreciation of what you say when you stand in the prayer and you say salat Allah Dina and Anne Tolley may Allah Azza WA JAL keep us committed to that path and accept our worship and save us from the whispers of the devil barakallahu li walakum cinematic rocked America

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Length: 22min 52sec (1372 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 14 2018