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How to help your family practice Islam? - Q&A With Nouman Ali Khan

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00:00First of all, I have Swiss, I don't have German chocolate, I have Swiss chocolate for you.

00:18Even better.

00:19I hope you like it.

00:20I can't wait.

00:21Yeah, I can try it, hope you like it.

00:24So I actually have two questions, I hope that's okay.

00:28One is how to make your spouse and family practice Islam?

00:31For example, now they are doing drugs, not praying, not fasting.

00:35So what can you do except of praying for them?

00:38Like how to advise them?

00:45So you can't control people and you can't change people.

00:51It's not up to us to change people.

00:54But sometimes, in my opinion, the problem isn't spiritual, the problem is something

01:01else.

01:02Like what led a person to drugs?

01:05What made them go there?

01:08People go towards these dark things because something difficult has happened to them,

01:12right?

01:13And maybe helping them process that would be the first step before we start talking

01:17to them about you should pray or you should, you know, you see what I'm saying?

01:21And sometimes if you, especially their family, you try to talk to them about Islam, they

01:25will start saying, well, you're preaching again.

01:27Yes.

01:28Right?

01:29You'll make the problem worse.

01:30So maybe humanizing the situation first would be a really important first step.

01:35Okay.

01:37You're welcome.

01:38And question two is about the letter of law and spirit of law.

01:40Yeah.

01:41I understand what happens when you focus only on the letter of law.

01:44Like for example, you pray on time, but you are distracted, but what if we only focus

01:48on the spirit of law?

01:50Like what happens then?

01:51You have no practice of the law left.

01:53You say you don't even need the letter.

01:55You have the spirit anyway.

01:56So some people can say, I don't need to pray five times because I'm spiritually connected

01:59to God anyway.

02:00If the point of prayer is to remember God, I do that anyway.

02:04So why do I need the five prayers?

02:05And I sometimes I got the question from non-Muslims, what's the problem in that?

02:10Like what's the problem?

02:13The problem in that is that we think that we have the full definition of what it means

02:19to be good.

02:21Okay.

02:22So the atheist or the non-religious person will say, I don't lie.

02:25I don't cheat.

02:26I don't steal.

02:27That's what good is.

02:29And the thing is, there are in some, in some things, Allah has equipped all human beings

02:33to distinguish between good and evil.

02:36All human beings.

02:37So we all know lying is bad.

02:38We all know stealing is bad, right?

02:39It doesn't matter what culture you come from or you have a religion or no religion, it's

02:43the same.

02:44But there are certain areas of fairness and unfairness and good and evil that human beings

02:51can never figure out.

02:53What is the right balance between men and women, for example?

02:56Is there a balance between my body and my soul, for example?

02:59Do I even know what that is?

03:02That's not something we could figure out ourselves.

03:05So Allah will give us the letter where the spirit alone isn't enough.

03:12You understand?

03:13Okay.

03:14Thank you very much.

03:15You're welcome.

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