Mohamad Baajour – Are You A Mutafif
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Hudayfa
Radiallahu An.
He used to say,
People used to ask Rasoolullah shalom about the
khair, about good, and I used to ask
him about evil so I can avoid it.
So tonight,
we will talk about
an evil act
that not too many people know
how evil it is,
and that evil act is called tatfif.
In Arabic,
it's called tatfif. What does tatfif mean?
Or before that,
this act is so evil
that Allah
named
the Surah after it and started the Surah
by saying,
Surah
named after the people who
do this act
and started by wayl.
And we will explain what does that mean.
What does tatfif,
the general act, what does it mean?
It is when
you are
in the receiving
end,
you demand your rights.
And when you are in the giving end,
you overcharge
people.
You shortchange people
and you give less than it would is
required.
You short change people and you give less
than what is required. That whole thing together
is is tatref.
This was so prevalent in Medina that Ibn
Abbas said
that was one of the reasons the Surah
was revealed.
And mainly,
mainly,
tatfeef is mainly in
measurement
and in
weight,
in measurement
and in weight. This is what tatif in
general mean.
Now
this
act,
it has punishment in the dunya
and in the akhirah.
In the dunya, Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
said in a long hadith,
he said when people start cheating with the
mikial,
cheating
with the weight, 3 things will happen.
When people start cheating with the weight, 3
things will happen. Number 1,
famine will take place,
high cost of living
and
obsessive
oppressive
rulers
will be assigned to them.
Tyrant will run their countries
and we are witnessing all 3.
The punishment in the hereafter
is like Allah said in the beginning of
the
Surah.
Has two meaning.
First meaning
is
in general,
it's not good. It's a severe punishment.
And the other meaning of,
it's a in.
It's a pit
in the hellfire
where if you put all the mountains
of the earth, they will melt in it.
Whale. And that is
dedicated
to the one who practiced tatfif.
So
we really need to know what is tatfif
in order to to avoid it.
Now tafif tafif in Arabi, tafif, khalid. What
tafif means?
There are 2 khalids.
What does tafif mean? Jumah.
Tafif.
Khalif, light.
Means khalil. So imagine, Yachwan,
if is
for
Khalil,
can you imagine the one who does?
What is his punishment?
Give me example, Sheikh. I'll give you an
example.
Somebody has a 50 kilo
bag of sugar, it says 50 kilo.
He took
not 5 kilos off, half a kilo.
Tafif,
Sheykh Basit, he took a little bit and
he sold it as 50 kilos.
Hadha Mutafif, this is Mutafif.
You ordered
5,000 pieces of an item from me
without telling you
without telling you, and I know
I gave you 4,993,
Not not 4,600.
No. No. No. Tafeez,
little bit. I took off a little bit
thinking I am
shrewd businessman. I'm a very smart.
When I buy things from China and I
put made in Italy,
When I sell an item that is about
or already expired,
change the expiration date.
You are a tatfif.
These are some examples
of tatfif.
And this sin, and that's why we're discussing
it, it is not restricted
to weight
and measurement.
It can be in any
form
it can be in any form of our
daily life.
Let's let's explain.
In general,
anyone
who asks
for his rights
and does not give his dues is a
mutafif.
So the question is and I
really want you to open your ears and
your heart and focus. This is extremely important
topic that's hardly discussed.
Are you a Motafef?
Somebody will say, Sheikh, I have nothing to
do. I'm an IT guy. I'm a doctor.
I'm a physician. Listen up, Habibi.
Listen.
Okay. Let's start with the one that's probably
most common,
husband and wife.
Husband and wife.
When the husband
asks his wife for all his rights and
he shows her a hadith,
if you don't do this, the malaika will
make la'ana for you all night and he's
not giving his dues, he's a mutafifa.
And when the wife
and the man is doing everything he's supposed
to do
and she's not doing
her dues to her husband, she is a
mutafifa.
She is a mutafifa.
The husband is doing everything he's supposed to
do.
He's taking care of the bills, respecting her,
honoring her,
and in return,
she curses him. She puts him down. She
leaves the house without his permission.
She's a mutafifa.
He's doing
his his dues,
and he's giving her her rights, but she's
not.
Mutafifa.
My beloved brother,
we want always to be the best,
tayib.
This is for the brothers and the sisters.
You Rasulullah,
who is the best
man? The best man.
The one who's best to his wife.
Allahu Akbar.
The one who's best
to his wife.
Treat that
wife that that Allah
and the parents entrusted you with. Treat her
with respect and honor and the way you
would like your daughter to be treated
with your in laws.
Yahuwann, if I tell you the the the
the
the the the problems in the community,
I don't wanna
shift from the topic, but I have to
say
20 something years listening to
marital problems.
Okay?
If you ask me, Sheikh, summarize
from all your years of experience,
what is the number one reason for divorce
or the most common reason for divorce?
Are you ready?
Are you ready for the shock?
In laws.
In laws.
Can you imagine?
The people who love you the most are
the main reason for divorce
because of the interference and every single thing,
because of putting the culture
above the deen
in many of our cultures. We all know
that.
So my sister,
who is the best
woman?
You Rasool Allah, you see, my sister, please,
do not listen to social media to define
who is the best wife.
Do not listen to the news, CNN, and
Fox to tell us who's the best wife.
Listen to the best man who ever created
to tell us who's the best wife.
Right?
Ask the one
who you beg Allah
for him to intercede for you on the
day of judgment.
Ask him who's the best wife You Rasulullah.
Ask the one that you beg Allah to
be in his company on the day of
judgment.
Ask the one who never lies.
He will give you the best definition
who is the best wife.
Could it come from any better source?
Taib, You Rasool Allah,
who is the best wife?
Many sisters, they got upset
with the speaker.
They forgot that the speakers, all he's doing
is quoting Rasulullah salaam.
If he was here, alayhis salatu wasalam, and
you ask him that question, he would say,
the best woman
is the one
when her husband looks at her,
he's pleased.
When he looks at her, he's pleased.
She's always taking care of herself
externally
and internally.
2nd,
when he
gives her a command, she obeys.
Allahu Akbar, forget about the sisters in the
community. You, Sheikh, you're telling us to obey
our husbands?
I'm not telling you anything. I'm just telling
you what your beloved told us to tell
you.
You obey your husband, this is a statement
that people hate,
they get upset.
If my husband is doing everything that he's
supposed to do,
my sister, do you know that obeying him
is an act of worship?
And you obey him
when he
is asking you to obey Allah? If he
ever asks you to disobey Allah, this is
where the obedience stop.
No obedience to any creation
while disobeying the creator.
The husband is taking care of everything,
kind, loving, caring.
Allahu Akbar. How would the house become a
beautiful household
when everybody knows their rights?
When everybody knows their rights and knows their
Jews.
And then you will have a peaceful home,
the home that Allah promised
that there is in it You
will feel the sakena when you go home.
I'm not gonna tell you raise your hands,
but how many people now would love or
cannot wait to go home?
Turn off the camera.
Sheikh, I wanna sleep here. Is there a
tikaf tonight?
So,
our homes became like, you know, like a
battlefield.
She doesn't want him to come home. He
doesn't wanna go home. Why? Why? Where is
this that Allah promised? Where is it? We
have must have done something.
We must have done something because it was
there. It came with the package.
So if any of the spouses
if this the wife similarly, I'm not talking
only about the husband. The wife is doing
everything possible, respectful,
taking care of everything, and
and also
raising
righteous children, everything, and the husband is abusing
her.
He's a mutafif.
As a matter of fact, I talk I
spoke about this in a Khutba by itself.
Allah hated 3 things for you.
Disobedience
and specifically to the mothers,
burying your daughters alive and the third one
our shahid. You
do not
give
your Jews
and
give me my rights.
What did the Hadith said? It started with
haramaalaykum.
It's haram.
It's haram. Haramaalaykum.
Look, it came with
the disobedience of the mothers.
It came with burying the daughters alive. Look
how deep it is.
Your dues and hat. Give me my rights.
That is the Mutafaf.
The employee,
when he is
being paid to go from 9 to 5,
he goes from 10 to 4 and during
the whole time he's on his phone. Mutafef.
And when it comes to his paycheck, if
it was short $10,
he raises
*. Mutaffif,
the mechanic.
When you go to him
and you only need one thing and he
gives you a huge list of stuff that
you do not need and you do not
know, Mutafaf,
the parent,
when he requests from his children to obey
him and respect him and be good and
kind to him, and he never taught them
their deen, he never taught them anything about
Islam,
Mutafif
and the kids
who has drained their parents of everything
and they raise their voice
and disrespect them and dishonor them. Mutafifin.
The taxi,
and that happens in a country I'm not
gonna mention.
The destination is
right where Muneer is standing right there. It's
right at the end of the
he takes me to Kroger and then brings
me back to Muneer.
That's
a. Yeah. Habibi.
I guess you know the country.
We all been there.
So, yeah, he last time I went to
the other guy, it was very close. What
happened?
It's it's like half an hour now.
So, Alhamdulillah.
Yeah. So all this is all this is
and Allah said,
Now,
and it happens a lot,
you hire somebody to do some work at
your house.
And unfortunately, this is a problem in our
Muslim communities.
I hired brother Harun, and I said, Harun,
how much does it take to fix all
these things in my house? He said a
$1,000.
After he finished everything,
I said,
come on. We are Muslim brothers. Here's 800.
We agreed
on a 1,000.
We agreed.
And after he finished
and perfected everything he has to do, I
gave him only 800.
He fulfilled his right, and he did not
give you a dues.
And listen to this very scary hadith. It's
also in
Allah is saying
there are 3 kinds of people. I am
their opponent
on the day of judgment.
Who can afford
for Allah
to be his opponent
on the day
on the day of judgment? Who can afford
it?
One of those people is a person, Rassoulahu
alaihi wa sallam said, a person
that you hired and he fulfilled his job
and you did not give him his pay.
Unfortunately, this is very common
in Dubai,
in the Imarat.
When I used to live there, all these,
subhanAllah, our young our
our brothers that work there in a 120
degrees heat
outside
in construction
when they come to pray with us in
the Masjid,
They used to tell me stories that blow
your mind.
Sheikh,
3 months
I haven't got paid.
3 months
I did not get paid, and we all
know that the money the countries that they're
sending the money to,
the people are in dire need.
And what are we talking about?
A 1000, 2,000
rial a month.
This is
exactly what Rasool Allah shalallahu alaihi wa sallam
said. Allah is your opponent.
If someone finished their job and he did
not give them their dues, Tayeb. I will
finish with the worst kind
the worst kind of tatfif.
The worst kind.
I want
free oxygen.
I want the house. I want health. I
want children. I want spouse. I want all
this.
I'm asking,
and I don't pray.
I don't give my zakat in full.
For 10 years I've been qualified to go
to Hajj and I keep delaying it.
Tatfif
with the Creator.
That's the worst kind of Tatfif.
Any human being,
imagine that we have to go every single
day and order oxygen to survive for the
day.
If I do not pay the guy, he's
not gonna give me my supply of oxygen
for the day.
Does Allah do this to us?
While
while the person is drinking
alcohol, his heart is beating.
While
he's gambling, he's breathing.
During
the act of disobedience,
Allah is still blessing them.
This is the worst kind of tatfif.
You ask
Allah for things, You Allah, You Allah, You
Allah, and then in return,
you don't give your dues to Allah. And
Allah 1000000 times, I repeat this all the
time,
that Allah does not treat us the way
we treat each other.
We
with our own children, my child took this
car somewhere that is wrong. I'll I'll take
the car away from him.
But Allah
if
I don't pray Fajr at all,
I don't wake up in the morning with
one arm, with one leg, with one eye,
keeps giving me. That's the name Al Halim.
Al Halim
means he keeps giving you chances. He can
punishes you, but he keeps giving you chances.
Maybe
maybe maybe maybe.
So
so if someone
approaches your daughter for marriage
and he does not pray,
Do you think a person
that has no khair to Allah is gonna
have khair to your daughter?
35 minutes
he does not have for the person who
gave him everything.
He's gonna have respect and honor for your
daughter?
Allahi,
be careful.
Many people are being fooled by doctor and
PhD and accountant and Harvard and MIT and
all this, and the dean is 0.
Remember the story I told you? And a
a very righteous,
pious man approached a girl in marriage,
but
he is not that he's okay. He can
manage. The father refused.
And
a very wealthy,
highly educated man
approached,
but he does not know anything about the
deen
and he approved.
And when the father was asked,
You Habibi, how did you approve? What did
he say?
Inshallah, Allah will guide him.
So why didn't you say about the first
one, Inshallah, Allah will give him risk?
Our our priorities are messed up, and then
we wonder,
Sheikha, getting a divorce.
You started wrong.
You started this beautiful,
amazing
new life
wrong.
You did not take by the advice of
Rasulullah shalallahu alaihi wa sallam, if a man
has deen and akhlaq, both, not deen only,
not akhlaq only,
both,
give him your daughter.
Otherwise
if I don't do that you Rasoolah what
happens?
Deep
heavy
corruption on earth.
Corruption.
We are living it. We are living this
hadith.
If
committing tatfif with a human being,
you get.
How about committing tatfif with the creator?
If with a human being, you get while,
a pit in the hellfire.
So why do we fall into this tatfif?
Why do we fall into this?
Continue the ayat.
This is the main reason why people fall
into Tazfif
because they forgot
that there will come a day and they
have to report to Allah. They forgot.
They for I'll give you an example. We
are sitting here.
Let's assume we are sitting here in this
room, and we are all taking an exam.
Okay? And Basir and Rahim are in the
other room with cameras, and Munir and all
the guys with
security, they're watching in another room.
They're watching us.
Okay?
And then
I
took my phone,
and I know. We all know that being
we are being watched. I took my phone,
and I started cheating.
And then I started asking, do you know
the answer for this?
And the guys in the other room, they're
saying,
doesn't he know that you're watching?
Allah is exactly the same thing.
Don't you know that if you mistreat your
wife, mistreat your husband, mistreat your parents,
cheating in your business, don't you know
that there's a day you're gonna report?
Literally, the the security guys are sitting.
What's wrong with this guy? He knows that
we're watching. We all know that our Raqib
is watching.
So
may Allah keep us away from this
evil act of tatfif.
May Allah
strengthen our relationship with our spouses.
May Allah bring love and mercy and tranquility
between us and our spouses. May Allah fill
our homes with love and mercy. May Allah
protect our children. May Allah protect our children.
May Allah protect our children. May Allah protect
our children. May Allah keep them steadfast on
this deen. May Allah keep them steadfast on
this deen till the day they meet Allah.
May Allah keep us united in this community.
May Allah purify our hearts to one another
and make us love one another only for
his sake.
Salallahu alayhi wasalam, and I will see you
all.
Who's coming to Fajr at 6 AM tomorrow?
Who's coming to Fajr at 6 AM?
See you tomorrow.