Parents need to learn Quran too - Nouman Ali Khan
The world is shifting.
It's gonna be people who believe in God
on the one side.
And people who don't believe in any God
on the other side.
Right now we have disagreements among each other.
Different schools of thought,
even Muslims vs. Christian vs. Jewish vs. Hindu, etc.
Pretty soon the world is polarizing along two lines.
I don't believe in any God.
In any religion, I believe in a God.
That's the shift that's happening.
That's the polarization that's happening
in every corner of the United States.
And it's happening like wildfire.
Don't you for a second think
it's not gonna affect the Muslim community.
It is, it absolutely is.
You and I have to learn Quran as parents.
Not for our children, for ourselves.
We have to learn Quran,
we have to love it so much,
that our children as they are raised,
they know, "My Dad..."
Somebody asked, "What is your Dad like to do?"
They say, "He loves to learn the Quran."
"He's always talking about the Quran."
"I learned everything I know about the Quran,
most of it came from my Dad."
"He is always listening to an explanation of it."
"He is always telling me to recite more."
"He is always memorizing it."
"He loves the recitation of all this stuff."
We have to become a Nation of Quran.
Why?
Because the Prophet (ﷺ) was surrounded
by people who doubt it,
just like we are surrounded
by people who doubt it.
And the only thing that gave him belief was what?
Quran, the word of Allah,
and kept him strong.
We have to become that nation again.
Us and our children.
we have to become the generation of the Quran.
It has to become central in our life.
30 minutes a day is starting point.
But for yourselves, the parents.
I don't care if you are 45, 55, 65, or 75.
Start memorizing Quran!
Start doing it!
Allah didn't put an age limit on it.
Allah did not, that's you!
Allah didn't do it.
Show Allah, you love His book!
And Allah will put blessings in your life,
you didn't even see.
You won't have to ask somebody else for advice
on how to raise your children.
Allah will give you that advice in His book.
He will hand those answers for you and me in His book.
We have to have that direct relationship
with His book, I tell you.
Most of our problems in the Muslim community
are because we are disconnected
from the Quran.
We don't feel for it, we don't feel a love for it,
we don't a relationship with it,
we don't go to it for advice,
we don't recite it every day,
we don't care to memorize it,
we don't care to learn more and more of it,
we haven't shown it enough love.
This word Allah gave honored this ummah,
way than we haven't given it enough love.
If we did, I tell you,
our problems will start disappearing.
I guarantee you.
Allah (عز و جل) talks about the people of the book,
He says,
وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ أَقَامُوا التَّوْرَاةَ وَالْإِنجِيلَ
لَأَكَلُوا مِن فَوْقِهِمْ وَمِن تَحْتِ أَرْجُلِهِم (QS Al-Maidah: 66)
"If they only established the Taurat and the Injiil,
they would have eaten from above and below."
Their dunya would have become jannah,
if they only established Taurat and Injil.
What is Allah saying to us then?
If we only established what?
Quran...
You will eat from above and below.
Allah will make dunya into jannah,
just come back to His book.
This is the real advice to parents.
The memory we leave our children with,
"My Dad loved video games,
my Dad loved movies,
but more than anything else, he loved Quran."
"He really like basketball,
but he loved Quran.
Quran he really really loved."
"And he made sure he wanted us to love it too."
"He used to tell us stories from it,
he used to give advice from it."
Tell your children the amazing stories
from the Quran,
and you won't be able to tell them
if you yourself were not amazed by them.
If you are not in awe of the story itself,
you won't be able to impress your children.
But man, from early childhood,
you, you, not anybody else!
You tell the stories from the Quran!
You will have to do it.
I was teaching one of my daughters
the story of Yusuf (عليه السلام) the other day.
And I didn't finish the story,
she's asking for days about what happened,
"Okay, he got thrown into jail,
then what happened?"
"I can't tell you, I tell you later."
She's been asking that all on the way back.
I'll tell her today inshAllah,
what happened after he got thrown into jail.
But we have to make
and create an interest into our children,
and the stories are so beautiful.
They are so remarkable,
especially when you tell them
from the Quran's point of view.
They are so beautifully put together.
May Allah (عز و جل) make us a People of Quran.
Give us the ability to instill that into our children,
have an honest, open,
direct conversation with your children.
Ask them about what they heard in school,
what problems they have,
and then you yourselves seek the answers
from Allah's book.
You say, "You know the thing your friend just told you,
or just terrible thing you saw,
you know what Allah says about that?"
"Let me show you."
Literally teaching our children
how to go to Allah for answers.
That's what we have to do,
we have to create that generation.