Educated yet Uneducated - Nouman Ali Khan
Educated yet Uneducated - Nouman Ali Khan
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00:00They were craftsmen, they were blacksmiths, they were traders,
00:03they were knowledgeable in many fields.
00:05A huge number of them are unlettered,
00:07and the only thing they know about their book
00:09is what they wish was in the book.
00:13In the next ayah, Allah says,
00:14وَمِنْهُمْ أُمِّيُّونَ
00:15And among them are people that are ummiyun,
00:17unlettered, uneducated.
00:19But the Israelites were knowledgeable people.
00:21They were craftsmen, they were blacksmiths,
00:24they were traders, they were knowledgeable in many fields.
00:27And today, we can be programmers,
00:29we can be medical doctors,
00:30we can be political scientists,
00:32we can be researchers.
00:33How is he saying among them are unlettered people?
00:36He's talking about in terms of their religion,
00:38in terms of the actual scripture,
00:40in terms of the word of Allah,
00:43they're completely unlettered.
00:44They have no direct access to their book.
00:47They have no clue what it says.
00:48So, لَيَعْلَمُونَ الْكِتَابُ
00:50They don't know the book.
00:51So he further explains himself saying,
00:53among them are unlettered that don't know the book.
00:57أُمْيُّونَ لَيَعْلَمُونَ الْكِتَابُ
00:59Interestingly, for those of you that are students of the Arabic language,
01:02that لَيَعْلَمُونَ الْكِتَابُ
01:03can be considered a sifah of ummiyun,
01:05because ummiyun is nakira.
01:06And the jumla fi'aliyya can be considered a sifah.
01:08Now, what that means in simple English
01:10is they are unlettered who don't know the book.
01:12Okay.
01:13إِلَّا أَمَانِيَّ
01:15Except for Amani.
01:17That's an interesting word.
01:18So they don't know the book except for Amani.
01:20Now Amani can be translated wishful thinking.
01:23أُمْنِيَّ
01:24or originally pronounced مُنْيَ
01:26and then it became أُمْنِيَّ
01:28It has several meanings.
01:29One of them is what the heart desires.
01:33It also implies the meaning of the mind
01:35being preoccupied with what is
01:37or what might not even exist.
01:39Meaning fantasizing in your head,
01:41dreaming in your head.
01:43Allah is commenting on the mass population
01:45of the Israelites and saying
01:47a huge number of them are unlettered
01:49and the only thing they know about their book
01:51is what they wish was in the book.
01:53Or their own wishes have now corrupted
01:57their opinion of what the book...
01:59The Qur'an never says you have to pray 5 times.
02:02Where is it? Show me.
02:05Right?
02:06They don't want to pray.
02:08So now the Qur'an never says that.
02:10Okay, show me where in the Qur'an I can't do that.
02:12Where is it?
02:14Where does it talk about beer?
02:16Show me.
02:17Where is weed?
02:18Show it to me.
02:20It didn't even exist then, bro, so it's fine.
02:24So like, I'm not gambling, I'm just tapping.
02:27Finger tapping haraam.
02:29You do it in salah too, I'm doing it on the screen.
02:32It's nothing.
02:34You know what that is?
02:35You've already got desires,
02:37you want to do some stuff,
02:38and now you want to impose that onto the book.
02:41And say,
02:42nah, that's not what the book says,
02:43that's what it says.
02:44Allah says be kind, bro.
02:47Allah says He's gonna forgive.
02:48Allah says it.
02:49Look, He's a little ghafoor or something.
02:50What's the Arabic word, ghafoor?
02:52Yeah, that's what He says.
02:54So you pick and choose,
02:56and you come up with your own Islam.
02:58And then even the best one.
03:00Yeah, that's not the Islam I follow.
03:04You know, I have my own connection to Allah.
03:07Okay.
03:09You know what that means?
03:09I don't need to know the book.
03:10My feelings are actually my religion.
03:14How I feel is my religion.
03:18And you can't judge me.
03:20No, Allah's word.
03:21No, no, no, that's you judging me.
03:22But Allah says,
03:23nah, I got a special connection with Allah,
03:26you don't know.
03:27Allah understands me.
03:29Really, but you don't seem to understand Allah.
03:32Alright.
03:33لَا يَعْلَمُونَ الْكِتَابِ إِلَّا أَمَانِيًۭ
03:36وَإِنْهُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُونَ
03:37And they're doing nothing but making assumptions.
03:40They do nothing but make assumptions.
03:42This is a commentary
03:44on the educated yet uneducated.
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