Why Do We Pray? Nouman Ali Khan Explains the True Purpose of Salah — Transcript

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1. 0:00The purpose of praying is so you don't
2. 0:01burn in hell.
3. 0:03The purpose of prayer is because if you
4. 0:05don't pray, Allah is going to hate you.
5. 0:07The purpose of prayer is if you don't
6. 0:08pray, you're just going to get punished.
7. 0:11Or you won't even be a Muslim anymore.
8. 0:13The angels will curse you and all this
9. 0:15negative stuff. Allah didn't mention
10. 0:17those purposes.
11. 0:20The The purpose of prayer is not not to
12. 0:22get away from something negative.
13. 0:24The purpose of prayer is to run towards
14. 0:26something positive.
15. 0:29That's the purpose of prayer. Do you
16. 0:30know the difference between the student
17. 0:31who's studying so they don't fail
18. 0:34and the student who's studying because
19. 0:35they love the subject?
20. 0:38One student is studying because of
21. 0:40something positive. The other student is
22. 0:42studying cuz they're trying to escape
23. 0:43something negative. An employee who
24. 0:46loves their work
25. 0:48and an employee who just doesn't want to
26. 0:50get fired.
27. 0:52They're doing the same exact job. Same
28. 0:54exact job, but one of them is so happy,
29. 0:58so filled with joy, and one of them is
30. 1:00so depressed and so miserable. Why?
31. 1:03Because one of them is doing this to
32. 1:05escape something negative, and the other
33. 1:07one is doing it to go towards something
34. 1:10positive. Allah in the Quran, when he
35. 1:12told me about the prayer and why we
36. 1:14should pray, what's the point of the
37. 1:15prayer, he said He told Musa Alayhis
38. 1:18Salam this when he met him. He said,
39. 1:19"Aqeemus salata li dhikri." It's Make
40. 1:22sure you become maintain the prayer
41. 1:25so that you can remember me.
42. 1:27Maintain the prayer so you can remember
43. 1:29me. I told you already, my relationship
44. 1:31with you is very limited.
45. 1:33But your relationship with Allah started
46. 1:35a long time before you even came in this
47. 1:37world.
48. 1:38And your relationship will continue with
49. 1:40him a long time after you even leave
50. 1:42this world.
51. 1:44And that relationship is worth
52. 1:46remembering because every good thing
53. 1:48that comes to you comes from that
54. 1:50relationship.
55. 1:52Some good things come because I'm your
56. 1:54dad.
57. 1:55Some good things, but all the good
58. 1:57things that come to you only come to you
59. 2:00because of that relationship. So, if you
60. 2:02want all the positive things to stay in
61. 2:04your life, you must remember where all
62. 2:07of the khair comes from, all of the
63. 2:08ni'ma comes from, all of the rizq comes
64. 2:11from, all of the guidance comes from.
65. 2:13So, Allah says the best way you can
66. 2:15remember that
67. 2:16is that you remember Allah by prayer.
68. 2:18The best way to remember Allah is the
69. 2:20prayer.
70. 2:22That's why you should pray. He says
71. 2:24prayer has the benefit
72. 2:26of stopping you from falling into things
73. 2:29that are indecent.
74. 2:31Because indecency is all around you, and
75. 2:34I, son, cannot stop you from being
76. 2:37exposed to it.
77. 2:39Indecency is on your device.
78. 2:42Indecency is at your school. Indecency
79. 2:45is among your friends. Indecency is at a
80. 2:47Eid party when you're going to corner
81. 2:49talking to your friends. Indecency will
82. 2:51be everywhere.
83. 2:53And every time you go towards indecency,
84. 2:55your heart will get damaged.