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Striking Examples From the Quran #20 Fading Foam

Nouman Ali Khan

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Cleansing Through Trials and Learning

Even though water can cleanse some impurities, there are stubborn impurities that require going through painful experiences to be removed. These experiences help reveal hidden impurities within ourselves. Cleansing and purification can occur through theoretical learning and life experiences, both serving the purpose of removing impurities from within us.

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It's not going to cleanse the inside Right, so even though it got it created a lot of foam Which was the impurity being removed There are some some impurities that are more stubborn that won't just get removed because you came into contact with water Those impurities have to go the only way to remove them is to go through some excruciating burning experience And then you realize through that experience that as much as I thought I was cleansed There were some dirt inside me that this experience Exposed and then that rose to the top and then I learned something about myself This impurity that wrote I realized that that was always there and had it not been for this difficult situation And not been put in this fire then that would not have emerged Right, so that's at a very personal level You can see that this cleansing that Allah is doing this ayah can be looked at as an ayah about deskiya about purification That that can happen at two levels at a theoretical level at a learning level every time you're sitting in a halakah Learning something about Allah's book learning something about Allah's messenger Salaam Alayhi Wasallam every time you're enhancing your knowledge of revelation Whenever that's happening you are actually your mind is being cleansed of certain things Your your thought process is being cleansed of certain things, but not all learning happens in the classroom Right life is also a teacher Right and painful experience is also a teacher and so those those lessons will come from a different kind of textbook It will come from a different experience. So Allah is putting those two together and As if to describe that both of these have the same function to separate the froth to separate the impurity from within ourselves Right, but then he mentioned this interesting thing Iptirah a Heli atin

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