How Gratitude Can Heal Your Trauma
Sep 25, 2026 · 29 min · 11 segments
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Nouman Ali KhanHost
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Sep 25, 2026 · 29 min · 11 segments
Nouman Ali KhanHost
Today's khutbah is going to be about a concept that we're all familiar with, um, the concept of being grateful.
But we're going to try to understand that concept in the way that Allah explains it in a particular story, the story of Musa Alaihis Salam.
Uh, Musa Alaihis Salam, as you know, is the most mentioned, the most talked about prophet in the Quran in the most detail.
And every episode of his life becomes a chapter of guidance for human beings for all of eternity.
And so one of those chapters is when it's becoming clear from this section of Surah Ibrahim that Musa Alaihis Salam has helped Bani Israel with the miracle from Allah.
And so before we get into that, what Allah says, let's understand what's happened.
They believed in the prophets, and they lived as slaves and colonized people for many, many generations under an oppressive dictator and his regime.
So they used to have a good life, and then they got owned and s- enslaved and tortured and humiliated and treated as second, third class citizens and were exploited, you know, beat up, killed, tortured, no civil rights to, to speak of, et cetera.
So a young man would grow up from the ch-- from the time that he was a baby to the time he became eighteen, nineteen years old, he would see his mother and his father be insulted by the ruling police and the, you know, just spit on and mistreated and harassed and all of it, and he could do nothing about it.
And he would grow up like that, and one day he would have children, and his children would watch him be treated that way.
And finally, after these years with-- these few years with Musa Alaihis Salam, Allah has opened a door for these people that lived under this kind of slavery and this kind of humiliation and this kind of dominance.
Now they are-- They've crossed the water, and they are independent, which you can call this in today's psychological language is generational trauma, right? Or national trauma even.
I've been-- I've had the opportunity by the blessing of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to go to countries that have been to war and, you know, they experience genocide.
And a generation later, two generations later, they're no longer in a state of war, you know.
Today's khutbah is going to be about a concept that we're all familiar with, um, the concept of being grateful.
But we're going to try to understand that concept in the way that Allah explains it in a particular story, the story of Musa Alaihis Salam.
Uh, Musa Alaihis Salam, as you know, is the most mentioned, the most talked about prophet in the Quran in the most detail.
And every episode of his life becomes a chapter of guidance for human beings for all of eternity.
And so one of those chapters is when it's becoming clear from this section of Surah Ibrahim that Musa Alaihis Salam has helped Bani Israel with the miracle from Allah.
And so before we get into that, what Allah says, let's understand what's happened.
They believed in the prophets, and they lived as slaves and colonized people for many, many generations under an oppressive dictator and his regime.
So they used to have a good life, and then they got owned and s- enslaved and tortured and humiliated and treated as second, third class citizens and were exploited, you know, beat up, killed, tortured, no civil rights to, to speak of, et cetera.
So a young man would grow up from the ch-- from the time that he was a baby to the time he became eighteen, nineteen years old, he would see his mother and his father be insulted by the ruling police and the, you know, just spit on and mistreated and harassed and all of it, and he could do nothing about it.
And he would grow up like that, and one day he would have children, and his children would watch him be treated that way.
And finally, after these years with-- these few years with Musa Alaihis Salam, Allah has opened a door for these people that lived under this kind of slavery and this kind of humiliation and this kind of dominance.
Now they are-- They've crossed the water, and they are independent, which you can call this in today's psychological language is generational trauma, right? Or national trauma even.
I've been-- I've had the opportunity by the blessing of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to go to countries that have been to war and, you know, they experience genocide.
And a generation later, two generations later, they're no longer in a state of war, you know.
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