16. Are you Living a Dream

Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan delves and ponders on finding the true purpose of our existence with a “Thought Process”.

Human beings have a sense of common decency across religions and cultures. So when we realized that there is a Creator, we also realized that He has created us in such a powerful way and He has given you abilities that He has not given to any other creatures. So when we acknowledge there’s a Creator and He created us amazingly well, with this profound intellect that He gave us and all these faculties and abilities – then what purpose do I have? We go back to the Creator to find our purpose and ask Him because He is the One who designed us. 

Once we have reached this “Thought Process”, what’s our next step? We turn to the mysterious Creator declare one thing to Him that I acknowledge that you are my Creator; I acknowledge that I am supposed to be in service to You. Whatever I do in this life is supposed to live up to the purpose that you set for me, but I cannot fulfill that purpose on my own because I don’t know where to start. I don’t have anything. So even if I want to serve You, how am I going to do so unless you help me.

This “Thought Process” is the “Thought Process” of the Quran, the first Surah. The first Surah of the Quran is actually the “Thought Process” of someone seeking the Truth. How so? 

Listen intently and be mesmerised by the profound description given by the Ustadh.

Now for people who are seeking this Truth, what is the measuring instinct? The first measure is our own conscience. The second measure is, if in fact, it is from God, then it has to meet one primary standard. And that primary standard is - there can be no one between me and the worship of the One True God.