Surah Al-Asr
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Surah Al-Asr with Nouman Ali Khan - Day 1
Surah Al-Asr with Nouman Ali Khan - Day 2
Surah Al-Asr with Nouman Ali Khan - Day 3
Surah Al-Asr with Nouman Ali Khan - Day 4
-- > Before they(the sahabas) said goodbye to each other and part ways, they would recite this Surah
this surah would have been enough for humanity
-- > LEADING WHAT TO SURAH ASR:
Surah Zilzal: whoever does a speck of a deed, he is going to see it,
Surah Adiyat: whatevers in the hearts is going to retrieved
Surah Qariah: these deeds are going to be weighed
Surah Takathur: you are running after things that don’t have weight and ignoring things that have weight, truly have value
(Surah Asr) : you cant keep going this way because the time is running out, Wal Asr
Surah Humazah:
-- > HOW HUMAN BEINGS WERE CREATED AND WHAT THEY WERE CREATED FROM
What he is made up of ( dried up sand, drop of fluid, worthless, clay, dirt, hanging piece of flesh, humiliating fluid,) . You and I forget our humble beginning
-- > HOW WE WERE MADE ( QUALITIES, CHALLENGES )
The human being was made weak. (The laws of Islam, their purpose is to remove burdens from you )
The human being was made extremely greedy, and too excited to get into things immediately (except the people who pray consistently)
Human beings were made with a sense of urgency (it will come when Allah decides and you will be happy with Allah’s plans)
He made the human being drowning in toil, stress, labor, difficulty, sadness (there is some mercy for you)
He created the human being in the most beautiful upright form (making things right around you)
-- > The ones who were granted happiness, then they are in Jannah and they will remain forever, there it’s a grant that will never shatter
-- > WE HAVE CERTAIN FAILURES - HUMAN BEINGS BECOME THE WRONG WAY ON THEIR OWN
Human beings are oppressive ( doing zulm, being ungrateful)
Human beings are too much into rush
Human biengs are unnecessarily stingy,
Human beings are rebellious, he sees himself independent, self suffiecient, self sustained
The assumption of human being that is going to be left alone (a camel roaming free, rushing towards something)
Human being carried the responsibility of choice
Human beings are in perfect view of himself
HOW WE MESSED OURSELVES UP - we can choose to not be this way
-- > OUR REACTIONS TO GOOD AND BAD
-- harm/tough times/ difficulties/ challenges constantly asking Allah lying sitting
he walks around as if all the humility disappeared
-- rahmah/ good times/ some relief then we take it away
he becomes completely void of hope, complete depressed, extremely ungrateful
-- favour/ luxury / comfort he starts ignoring us, no credit to Allah
harm/ tough times completely void of hope, he himself is misguided and misguides others
-- when harm comes up he makes dua to us.
all the favors came to me because of the knowledge that I have
-- love asking Allah for good things
completely void of hope
-- when we give the human being favour, he turn away,
when harm hits them, elaborate duas, non-stop duas
-- any mercy from us, overjoyed
any calamity hits, ungrateful
RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENTS
Be grateful to Allah and Be the best to both of your parents and have gratitude
TIME
Has the human beings assumed that were not going to put his bones back together
When judgement day starts, what is wrong with it (the earth shaking)
the human being will be thoroughly informed
the human being will fully remember the efforts he made
TWO THINGS YOU CANT CHANGE
tolling and labouring towards your master whether you like it or not
human beings are drowning in a state of terrible terrible loss
-- > Surah Asr is a standard (the standard of Quran) for what is means to not be a failure
minimal criteria of not being a failure
-- > Allah’s commentary on human history: All these countless people all over the planet from Adam.a uptil now, all of them failed, the only ones who did not fail was those who believed and did good deeds
-- > Scene of judgement day when Allah will bring time itself as a witness that when it looks back at all of what happened in this life, its going to be able to say إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لَفِي خُسْرٍ
-- > People who believe and do good, they pass it to their children, their gains continue even though all of their material gains die, they continue to gain
1. وَالْعَصْرِ
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Surah Al-Asr with Nouman Ali Khan - Day 1
Surah Al-Asr with Nouman Ali Khan - Day 2
Surah Al-Asr with Nouman Ali Khan - Day 3
Surah Al-Asr with Nouman Ali Khan - Day 4
-- > Before they(the sahabas) said goodbye to each other and part ways, they would recite this Surah
this surah would have been enough for humanity
-- > LEADING WHAT TO SURAH ASR:
Surah Zilzal: whoever does a speck of a deed, he is going to see it,
Surah Adiyat: whatevers in the hearts is going to retrieved
Surah Qariah: these deeds are going to be weighed
Surah Takathur: you are running after things that don’t have weight and ignoring things that have weight, truly have value
(Surah Asr) : you cant keep going this way because the time is running out, Wal Asr
Surah Humazah:
-- > HOW HUMAN BEINGS WERE CREATED AND WHAT THEY WERE CREATED FROM
What he is made up of ( dried up sand, drop of fluid, worthless, clay, dirt, hanging piece of flesh, humiliating fluid,) . You and I forget our humble beginning
-- > HOW WE WERE MADE ( QUALITIES, CHALLENGES )
The human being was made weak. (The laws of Islam, their purpose is to remove burdens from you )
The human being was made extremely greedy, and too excited to get into things immediately (except the people who pray consistently)
Human beings were made with a sense of urgency (it will come when Allah decides and you will be happy with Allah’s plans)
He made the human being drowning in toil, stress, labor, difficulty, sadness (there is some mercy for you)
He created the human being in the most beautiful upright form (making things right around you)
-- > The ones who were granted happiness, then they are in Jannah and they will remain forever, there it’s a grant that will never shatter
-- > WE HAVE CERTAIN FAILURES - HUMAN BEINGS BECOME THE WRONG WAY ON THEIR OWN
Human beings are oppressive ( doing zulm, being ungrateful)
Human beings are too much into rush
Human biengs are unnecessarily stingy,
Human beings are rebellious, he sees himself independent, self suffiecient, self sustained
The assumption of human being that is going to be left alone (a camel roaming free, rushing towards something)
Human being carried the responsibility of choice
Human beings are in perfect view of himself
HOW WE MESSED OURSELVES UP - we can choose to not be this way
-- > OUR REACTIONS TO GOOD AND BAD
-- harm/tough times/ difficulties/ challenges constantly asking Allah lying sitting
he walks around as if all the humility disappeared
-- rahmah/ good times/ some relief then we take it away
he becomes completely void of hope, complete depressed, extremely ungrateful
-- favour/ luxury / comfort he starts ignoring us, no credit to Allah
harm/ tough times completely void of hope, he himself is misguided and misguides others
-- when harm comes up he makes dua to us.
all the favors came to me because of the knowledge that I have
-- love asking Allah for good things
completely void of hope
-- when we give the human being favour, he turn away,
when harm hits them, elaborate duas, non-stop duas
-- any mercy from us, overjoyed
any calamity hits, ungrateful
RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENTS
Be grateful to Allah and Be the best to both of your parents and have gratitude
TIME
Has the human beings assumed that were not going to put his bones back together
When judgement day starts, what is wrong with it (the earth shaking)
the human being will be thoroughly informed
the human being will fully remember the efforts he made
TWO THINGS YOU CANT CHANGE
tolling and labouring towards your master whether you like it or not
human beings are drowning in a state of terrible terrible loss
-- > Surah Asr is a standard (the standard of Quran) for what is means to not be a failure
minimal criteria of not being a failure
-- > Allah’s commentary on human history: All these countless people all over the planet from Adam.a uptil now, all of them failed, the only ones who did not fail was those who believed and did good deeds
-- > Scene of judgement day when Allah will bring time itself as a witness that when it looks back at all of what happened in this life, its going to be able to say إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لَفِي خُسْرٍ
-- > People who believe and do good, they pass it to their children, their gains continue even though all of their material gains die, they continue to gain
1. وَالْعَصْرِ
I swear by time as its running out
Oaths : not a normal speech
عَصْرِ : Asara: juicing or extracting fluid, sqeezing something out, oil,
to extract something out little by little
Itisar bil ma: to let little by little water go down
something powerful and something cannot be stopped
-- > Time as it passes by… time is very powerful, cannot be stopped, it will sqeeze the life out of you, out of everything
Asr Time: after the sun starts going down a little bit, as though it is pushed down, sqeezed down into the ground. Asr time goes really fast, time is limited
Asr: for arresting something, holding something and not letting go
Asar/Asur: something where you can take refuge; taking advantage of some particular time
-- > And seek forgiveness in the morning وَالْمُسْتَغْفِرِينَ بِالْأَسْحَارِ – when you haven’t even started your day, to show humility to Allah, like that is the default state of human being
-- > Allah swears by the time that wont stop for anybody, thats passing by quickly, that destroys everything in its path, that’s dripping away slow that people don’t realize how quickly its passing away
-- > time that has already been wasted away, you don’t have much of left
-- > Purpose of oath: absolutely true, remove scepticism, the audience is not ready to believe what they have to say, oaths are also taken in a state of anger, a way of getting the the attention of the audience, mental threat/ evidence for what He is about to say
2. إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لَفِي خُسْرٍ
-- > heart of the whole sentence (whole surah)
إِنَّ : don’t have any doubt about what I am going to say (people are gonna have a hard time believing it)
الْإِنْسَانَ : each and every human being (naas- people)
Uns: people of compassion, they express love and they wanna feel loved
nasiya: forget
خُسْرٍ : great loss; all kinds of loss, someone who has lost their mind, when you are loosing something continuously bit by bit by bit
Dua:
اللهُمَّ أَرِنَا الحَقَّ حَقّاً وَارْزُقْنَا التِبَاعَةَ وَأَرِنَا البَاطِلَ بَاطِلاً وَارْزُقْنَا اجْتِنَابَهُ
O Allah show us the truth as truth and give us the ability to follow it and give us the ability to see false as false and enable us to stay away from it
What is this خُسْرٍ ? destruction, loss, retribution from Allah, material loss, missing opportunity
Ways to wake up to reality (through the Makkan Quran): History, the world around us, Allah’s own words
-- > there is such little time left, you can earn in that very little time an endless treasure, and you can earn in it a kind of success that will never fail
إِنَّ : don’t have any doubt about what I am going to say (people are gonna have a hard time believing it)
الْإِنْسَانَ : each and every human being (naas- people)
Uns: people of compassion, they express love and they wanna feel loved
nasiya: forget
خُسْرٍ : great loss; all kinds of loss, someone who has lost their mind, when you are loosing something continuously bit by bit by bit
Dua:
اللهُمَّ أَرِنَا الحَقَّ حَقّاً وَارْزُقْنَا التِبَاعَةَ وَأَرِنَا البَاطِلَ بَاطِلاً وَارْزُقْنَا اجْتِنَابَهُ
O Allah show us the truth as truth and give us the ability to follow it and give us the ability to see false as false and enable us to stay away from it
What is this خُسْرٍ ? destruction, loss, retribution from Allah, material loss, missing opportunity
Ways to wake up to reality (through the Makkan Quran): History, the world around us, Allah’s own words
-- > there is such little time left, you can earn in that very little time an endless treasure, and you can earn in it a kind of success that will never fail
3. إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ
With the exception of those who believe, and do
few good deeds, and those who counsel one another to truth and counsel one
another to patience and perseveranceإِلَّا : very very few people, minority
الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا : (past tense- people from the past) feeling safe, peaceful and secure;
to actually believe in something, to rely on something ;
and made others feel safe;
their heart is satisfied with what Allah has to say;
intellectual iman(mind) and spiritual iman(heart)
-- > the people of faith but also people who give safety, security and peace
وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ :
fa’ala: do unconsciously, no intention (walking, inhaling and exhaling, blinking eye)
‘sana’u: craft something and you require a lot of skill
‘amal: intention, conscious act, (walking towards the masjid, deliberately looking at somebody)
-- > those who are in loss, are going to be alone, the people who believe are actually going to be together
الصَّالِحَاتِ : Sulh: reconciliation, fixing something that has gone bad
As’salihaat: the things that are reformed; they do the kinds of things that make them better
Allah is describing the deeds that are there to fix whats broken inside of ourselves
These deeds, now that they have fixed me, they helped fix things around me
basic fundamental good deeds; handful of good deeds that you are being asked to do
-- > faith and doing good - Allah has promised for them success, good news for them, never going to be afraid of being wrong, all their deeds are going to be absorbed, their efforts will never be denied, Allah will acknowledge
-- > those who believe in Allah, and do few good things asked of them and how few they are,
they are not going have fear hovering above them,
nor are they going to be in grief,
have the highest of grades,
compensation that is their own waiting for them with their master,
noble, dignified as they are going to be given compensation,
grand compensation a massive compensation,
one that will never be discontinued.
forgiveness, dignified provision,
establish them in the land, eventual victory in the land,
Allah will make others love you
-- > faith and good deeds are two sides of the coin
وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ : counselling one another towards truth and counselling one another towards patience
تَوَاصَوْ : more than one party cooperating with each other
Wasiya: wow-swad-ya: something held together, serious stuff, not something you give up on easily, serious counsel, take the matter very seriously,
important realistic, serious advice to give and to take
counsel given to one another on serious issues
loving compassionate tone
حَقِّ : truth, reality, undeniable truth, purpose, to deserve something, rightfulness, justice, fairness,
بِ : what and how; you are counselling each other
you are fair, justified, honest in giving advice, find right time and place
say the harsh thing in a super loving way
صَّبْرِ : to describe someone strong, capable of retaliating, finghting back, striking back, talking back
opposite of losing hope and giving up
intensity, toughness, bitterness,
it includes all the burdens Allah put on us, like we have to carry on the things that Allah told us to do and avoiding the things that Allah prohibited us from doing
-- > If you believe in the truth and you live by the truth yourself, now youre in a position to say something about the truth, and have sabar
-- > they counsel one another to patience and they also counsel one another to retain love care mercy
-- > Every subject of the Quran comes back to Surah al Asr :
(Ayah 1 )nations of the past, events of the past
(Ayah 2 )things ppl do that have destroyed this life and the next
(Ayah 3) who do you believe in, why do you believe
what to do as an individual, family, community, ummah
prophet. s and the sahabas dialogues, wars
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