{"id":16292,"date":"2026-05-05T06:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=16292"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:36:33","slug":"worshiper-or-slave-of-allah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=16292","title":{"rendered":"Worshiper or Slave of Allah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this short talk, Sheikh Nouman reflects on a verse from Surat Al-Kafirun (the 109<sup>th<\/sup> Chapter of the Qur\u2019an) which was revealed in Makkah when the Prophet and new Muslims were harassed by the pagans. He talks about the meaning of the word <em>\u2018`Ibadah\u2019<\/em> that is mentioned in the Surah. Almighty Allah says on the tongue of His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;padding-right: 30px\"><strong>Say, &#8220;O disbelievers. I do not worship what you worship. <\/strong>(<a title=\"Recitation of Surat Al-Kafirun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.learning-quran.com\/quran-translations\/en-translation\/al-ajmi-al-ghamidi-and-al-lahuni\/recitation-surat-al-kafirun-2\/\">Al-Kafirun<\/a> 109: 1-2)<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Nouman begins his talk by saying that the word <em>\u2018`Ibadah\u2019<\/em> includes two things that completely cover all aspects of <em>\u2018`Ibadah\u2019<\/em>. They are worship and slavery. The believer is always on state of slavery even if he does not make an act of worship. Worship is a specific act like praying, fasting, giving charity, making Hajj, reciting the Qur\u2019an and so on, but a slave is a SLAVE all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy watching this talk with Sheikh Nouman Khan to know whether one is a worshiper or slave of Allah.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: NAKcollection Channel on Youtube<\/em><a href='https:\/\/www.learning-quran.com\/worshiper-or-slave-of-allah\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is meant by the word `Ibadah\u2019? What is the purpose of worship? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1320],"tags":[2523,2644,10297,8264,1282,9,101,41,1325,183,47,48,16,10298,10299,94,10300,54,1269,10301],"class_list":["post-16292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learn-the-quran","category-quran-interpretation","tag-ibadah","tag-belief","tag-disbeliever","tag-exegesis","tag-faith","tag-featured","tag-interpretation-of-the-quran","tag-koran","tag-pagans-of-makkah","tag-prophet-muhammad","tag-quran","tag-recitation-of-the-quran","tag-sheikh-nouman-khan","tag-slaves","tag-surat-al-kafirun","tag-tafsir","tag-unbelievers","tag-understanding-the-quran","tag-worship","tag-worshiper-or-slave-of-allah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/maxresdefault-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}