Mustafa Khattab – 2 Ramadan Reflections Dirty Windows
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The importance of learning from the month of Easter is discussed, particularly in controlling behavior and learning to behave with others. A woman who felt herself as the standard by which she measure people felt moved to Mississauga and eventually found dirty clothing. The speaker emphasizes the importance of humility and humility in explaining things to people, as fasting causes people to become humble and dependent on Allah's instructions. The conversation ends with a discussion of a award and a coupon for a meal.
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Days. Right?
It's it's just a few days. This is
how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes it.
Once the first day of Ramadan is gone,
the rest of the month will be gone.
And I will remind you, inshallah, in just
a few days, Ramadan will be over. But
I know the 1st day is the is
the toughest.
So when people go to jail, they say
that the 1st day is the most difficult,
but after this you get used to it.
Right?
So I remember last night after the first
two rakats of Taraweeh, I heard someone in
the back say, Allahumma billitna shawwal.
They were tired already. Right?
But alhamdulillah, I hope today they, they feel
better inshallah.
So the whole purpose of the month of
Ramadan is to learn some lessons. If you
remember, if you were here last night, you
were not falling asleep or playing with your
phone.
I mentioned 2 stories, one of them had
something to do with Imam Malik and the
elephant,
and we said each one of us has
elephants in the month of Ramadan. It could
be Facebook, Twitter, social media, Instagram.
Lock up your elephant in the month of
Ramadan.
And the second story of,
the guy we mentioned, Sebastian, last night, He
had a strategy to make the best out
of the store in just 150
seconds.
And you have 30 days to make the
best of this month, Ramadan, and you could
come out with millions of hasanat.
So there are a few lessons to learn
from this month and one of them is
self control and Sar, right?
Sar
Sometimes
the evil takes over. If you're living a
good easy comfortable life, you think you are
the center of universe
you are okay, you are right, everyone else
is wrong.
But there are always some chances even 1%
that you are wrong and everybody else is
right.
There's this story of a brother and his
wife, they moved to Mississauga.
So basically when they moved in the 1st
day,
his wife looked out of the window and
saw her neighbor, and her neighbor put some
clothes on the robe to dry up.
In the parking lot. So she looked at
the clothes and she said, oh, look, our
neighbors, they don't know how to clean their
clothes. Their clothes are dirty.
After a week, same thing happened. She looked
through the glass window and she said the
same thing, look
dirty clothes again.
And so on and so forth. And this
continued for 2, 3 months until one day
she looked out of the glass window and
she said, oh, finally,
Alhamdulillah,
they're able to clean their clothes, and the
husband said
nothing changed about their clothing,
you know, cleaning ability. I just cleaned our
window from the outside.
So it turned out that their glass window
was dirty from the outside, but she didn't
realize this.
She put everyone in the wrong, and she
felt okay.
Sometimes I behave the same way. I remember
last year, I was in Egypt, and I
came, I bought some nice shoes from Egypt
till the Shabbat Shavani Er Gedidah, something nice,
Masha'Allah.
And the 1st week I was invited to
give a fukba at one of the major
masajid here. So I went
there, and I loved my shoe shoes so
much, so I put them under there, you
know.
So I gave my Khubba and Masha Allah,
everything was okay. The Khubba was amazing, no
one died.
So for me that wasn't okay, but it
was okay. I came out, I look for
my shoes, nowhere to be found.
I said,
these are bunch of chor or took. Right?
Thieves are here. Right? They stole my favorite
shoes.
Where is the president of this masjid? I'm
gonna fight with him and his family. You
know? I was looking for 10 minutes, and,
SubhanAllah, the shoes were right there in front
of me. I was blaming everyone,
and I was the one who was at
fault. Right? And someone came, and I said,
I've been looking at my shoes 10:15 minutes,
and and he said, are these your shoes?
I said, yeah. But I couldn't see them.
SubhanAllah, sometimes the truth is there, but we
cannot see it. When you disagree with someone,
don't make yourself the standard by which you
measure everyone else. Because this is how we
feel sometimes. One example. When you are driving
on the road,
you don't judge if someone is going too
fast or too slow based on the road
sign,
you base them on your own speed.
If someone if you're going too slow and
someone is honking behind you, you love them
and
And if you are late for an appointment,
we're always late. We know our people, you
know? And this guy is going by the
speed limit in front of you,
so you always hunk at them and say,
Warriya? Jendi jeli. Well, you know, daktik,
Israel. Fast, you know? Why? Because you are
the standard. You made yourself the standard
by which you measure people. If you work
for a company and they give everyone an
assignment,
those who turn in their assignment before you,
what do you say? They are sucking up
to the boss.
Those who submit their, you know, assignment after
you, they are lazy.
Why? Because you become the standard by which
you measure other people.
Now, by fasting Allah
puts us in our place.
He humbles us by the cup of coffee
you're not able to drink,
by the shawarma you're not able to eat,
and by the water you're not able to
drink, by the flu that you get in
the wintertime.
When you fall sick, when you have a
headache, you are humbled. You don't feel like
the king of the universe, you are humbled
by
Allah and this is what fasting does to
every one of us. You feel humble, you
feel dependent on Allah
you feel absolutely nothing. When you are fasting
and you are miskin, you are humble to
Allah
When you cry in salah, when you are
fasting the whole day, standing up at night
in salah, this is when you humble yourself
on Allah
before him. So this is one of the
lessons we learned from this month. You are
not the standard. Allah
sets the standard of what is right and
what is wrong. You are not the center
of the universe. Whether you existed or you
didn't exist,
the universe will be just fine. Right? So
we ask Allah
to give us a clause and self and
humility.
The question for last night, Muhammad salallahu alayhi
wa sallam is mentioned only 4 times in
the Quran, and other prophets like Musa alayhi
salam a 136
times, and we said Adam and Isa alayhi
salam 25 times.
And the reason is, when Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala talks,
about these Prophets, and he mentions this their
names, he's talking about them.
Musa did, Musa said, and so on and
so forth. But when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
talks about Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, it
says either You You Yahu Han Nabi, O
Prophet, or O Messenger, or you, Fazbear,
O you Prophet, make suffer. So he doesn't
mention the name of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam because he's talking to him directly
in the second person. Other prophets, most of
the time Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is not
talking to them, he's talking about them. This
is why the prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam
is only mentioned for a time, and the
miss, the winner is sister Sara Slik.
You? Yeah. Okay. JazakAllahfeir.
So lots of goodies here, Inshallah. We'll enjoy
it. JazakAllahfeiran,
and the award is provided by Burger Factory.
JazakAllahfeiran. Haifa. You'll get a free meal from
there as well. You have a coupon.
The question for tonight,
in Surah Al Imran, ayah 106, Allah
says that those whose faces are white are
going to Jannah, those whose whose faces are
black, they're going to Jahanam.
This sounds very racist, does it? So how
do you explain it? There's an explanation for
this. How do you explain it? If you
know the answer, imay and me before tomorrow,
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ca. You have to look hard because it's
a difficult question.