Mustafa Khattab – 3 Ramadan Reflections Report Cards For Hell

So as we mentioned last night that one

of the lessons of the month of Ramadan

is to be humbled with Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala.

Because as I said sometimes we feel we're

the center of the universe, and we are

the standard

by which we measure everything else.

So, as we mentioned, if you are driving,

and those who are slow,

and those who are driving fast, you measure

them by your own speed not by the

road signs.

And also when we have fundraisers,

so let's say if I'm going to donate

a $100

those who donate $10

I say they are very cheap.

And if someone decides to donate 5,000 I

say show off. Why? Because I set myself

as the standard.

And this is why there's always conflict when

people say,

it's too cold in here, and some one

other person in the same breath, oh, it's

too hot.

I read Aisha one day, someone comes to

fight with me after,

Haramariq,

ittakindah, it's too long.

And in the same salah, when I'm getting

my shoes someone will follow me, the salah

of Sushore Haramariq.

Like,

so people set themselves the standard and sometimes

you don't know what to do, really. Right?

So,

today inshallah is another lesson.

Usually I get this question a lot. Especially

when people are fasting in the month of

Ramadan,

and they are hungry, they mister Biryani, they

mister Khushari and shawarma, and all the good

stuff,

and they start to, to think about food

and to think about different things,

and the question comes,

why did Adam alaihis salam eat from that

tree? Because if he didn't,

we wouldn't be here suffering, paying GST,

and doing this, and doing that, and, you

know. People ask these questions. We shouldn't have

been here, we should have been in Jannah

now. We didn't have to worry about fasting

17 hours, praying 20 rakaatrawi

and this, waking up, you know, for work

in the morning, and suffering like this.

So there are a few things that we

should learn from the story of Adam alaihis

salam in the Quran.

Number 1, that Allah

decided that Adam is coming here

way before Adam alayhi salam himself was created.

So it is in Surah Baqarah the first

story in the Quran. Surah Baqarah aya number

30, where it's

So Allah

already decided that Adam alaihi wasalam was coming

here way before Adam alaihi wasalam was created,

way before the incident with shaitan and and

so on and so forth. Number 2, Adam

alaihis salam was warned against the tricks of

Shaitan.

And yes, Shaitan was not in Jannah. How

did he whisper to Adam alaihis salam in

Jannah?

Wirelessly.

He was outside Jannah and he was whispering

to him. The same way that Shaytan is

locked up these days, he's not with us,

but he is whispering to us from a

distance.

And this is why some people still cheat

and lie and commit zina and steal and

kill in the month of Ramadan. Why? Because

shaitan, yes, he is not there, but he

is whispering

told Adam don't eat from that tree,

not because the tree was poisonous or the

tree was gonna kill him. No. Allah

was testing his obedience.

In the same way Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

is testing us every day. He's telling us

you have millions of different types of food,

eat everything except pork.

Drink anything except alcohol. We are tested with

one item. Right? And so on and so

forth, so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will test

our obedience.

Now the question comes, and I hear this

from the school students all the time. Okay,

we get it. It's a test and so

on and so forth. Allah

has infinite knowledge.

Why did we have to come here? Because

He already knows that X is going to

Jannat,

Z is going to Jannat, end of story.

He knows. Why did he send us here?

If he already knows who is going to

Jahannan, who is going to Jahannan, right? It's

it's a logical question

So to answer this question we have to

look

at at this story So let's say for

example there are 2 two brothers

One of them is called Zayyan and the

other one is called Sahana.

So they move to a new school, they

have the report cards with them, they give

the report cards to the principal.

And the principal, by just looking at their

cards,

she looked up Zayyan, he is an excellent

student, straight A's in the last few years,

he's always doing his homework, he's an amazing

student,

and the other one, Saharan,

he never goes to school, he doesn't do

his homework, he's always fighting with the teachers,

he is a bad student.

So from my from day 1 in the

school year,

so the principal decided by just looking at

their their cards that we don't have to

wait till June to decide who is going

to pass and who is going to fail.

So from day 1, she told them that

Sayan is moving to the next year and

Sarhan is failing.

Now Sarhan is complaining,

and he said you didn't give me the

chance to prove myself,

and if you give me the time, Bafarajik,

if you give me the time, I'm gonna

show you that I'm better than Zayyan.

Right? So this is why Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala gave equal opportunities to people here in

this dunya. So let's say Allah created us,

and those who are going to Jannah, they

go straight to Jannah and those who are

going to Jahanam, they go straight to Jahanam

The people of Jahanam will complain you put

me in level 50 in Jannah because there

are a 100 levels in Jannah based on

Hadith and Muslim and other books of hadith.

So those who are going to level 50,

they say, Allah, I think I deserve level

99.

Give me the chance, I'm gonna prove to

you that I, you know, deserve a higher

rank in Jannah. And those who are going

to jahannam, they say,

no. I don't deserve to go to Jannah.

Give me the chance. Send me to Dunya.

Test me. I'm gonna show you that I

deserve to go to Jannah too. And this

is why Allah

gave us the opportunity to come here for

this test in Dunya,

fasting in Ramadan, zakah, sadaqah, siyam, namaz, Hajj,

so on and so forth. This is halal,

do it. This is halal, don't do it.

This is the test.

So now when we go back to Allah,

yamul qiyamah, for judgment,

no one will be in a position

to question Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or challenge

him because you took your full opportunity,

and if you took advantage of it, alhamdulillah,

but if you ruined it, there's no one

to blame except yourself. And this is the

whole concept

test in this dunya.

We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give

us Jannah, to firdos, Ameen al Ghani. The

question from last night, it talks about people

with white faces going to Jannah, people with

black faces going to Jahannam.

And this is based on some mistranslations

of the Quran.

The the word tabiabdahat as well here is

not in the sense of black and white.

And this these ayaat are explained at the

end of Abba Sawatawalla.

Mujuwwun You Maidin Musfira. Daahikatu Mustafshira.

Some faces will be bright, they would be

happy and joyful.

Some other faces would be miserable and covered

with shame. This is the meaning of the

ayah alidis explained in the Quran. Especially in

the Arabic culture, if you have 2 kids,

one of them,

succeeds and the other one fails, you know

what we tell them in Arabic?

The

one who succeeds,

you made my face bright, bayaltawajhi

and the other one, sawatawajhi

you

gave me a heart attack. Right? So this

is the it's used in a metaphorical sense

because a lot of people when they, they

read defected translations of the Quran, they say

look, it's racist. It talks about black and

white people. Bilal radiAllahu anhu was from Africa,

he was dark skinned, and he will be

among the kings of Jannah.

And Abu Jahan was a white man, and

he will be miserable in Jahannal. He doesn't

talk about white and black.

It's it's used in a metaphorical sense. Be

it the layta'ala

and, the winner is

What is the winner?

Yes, Rifa'aar. Brother Khalid Rifa'aar.

I thought you were on the way.

Let's say Yusuf alaihissalam, there are people before

him who had the name Yusuf.

Ibrahim alaihissalam, there were people before him who

have the name of Ibrahim. Muhammad sallallahu alaihissalam,

there were people before him in Arabia, at

least 3, 4 people according to historians, who

have the name Muhammad.

There's only 1 prophet in the Quran who

is told that your name was never given

to anyone before you. There's 1 prophet. So

if you know the answer of this prophet

that no one had this name before, email

me before tomorrow as at [email protected].

Okay.

Alright.