Mustafa Khattab – 2 Ramadan Reflections Dirty Windows

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,

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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.