Mustafa Khattab – 4. Allahs Attributes AlKarim I

Can you hear me well in the back?

No. No. No? No.

Assalamu alaikum.

We'll try to fix it inshaAllah.

So,

tonight inshaAllah we'll talk about one of the

qualities of Allah

which is Al Kareem.

And Al Kareem is also one of the

names of Allah

that is always misunderstood.

When we say that someone is Kareem,

people think about it from a financial perspective,

that this person is generous,

but the word Kareem when it comes to

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, it doesn't only mean

generous.

It means Al Ghafoor, it means Al Kareem,

it means the 1, the Gracious,

it means the Forgiving.

So the word Kareem in the Arabic language

when it refers to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'la,

it means the one who has all the

beautiful attributes.

So it is not only about money.

When you look at our situation with Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, I like to give this

example, this analogy

to bring it to our attention. Now imagine

someone is taking care of you,

he's giving you everything you want. He gives

you a house,

He gives you a wife, He gives you

a salary, a car, and kids, everything you

have is coming from Him.

And all He is asking from you is

to say, Thank you.

Now with Allah

Everything you have,

everything that you are is coming from Him.

He is asking you, I'm your Lord, I'm

the one who created you, worship me, and

I provide for you, thank me.

He is the only one who has ever

made such claim. But subhanAllah, when you look

at humanity at large, there are more than

7,000,000,000 people in this world.

Some human beings, they worship other human beings,

some human beings worship animals,

some human beings worship stones, some human beings

worship shaitan, the Church of the Devil in

the US. Some people say that Allah doesn't

even exist, and so on and so forth.

The majority of human beings don't say you

are our Lord, they don't thank Him. Although,

he is the only one that has ever

made such claim. Aesla

never made such claim.

The cow, the elephant,

Buddha, none of them has ever made such

claim that I'm your Lord, worship me, I'll

provide for you, thank me.

The other thing is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

out of his Karam,

He has showered you

with His favors and blessings,

those of which you know, and those of

which you don't know.

I know many people in my village, I've

never been to school in Egypt,

they don't know that they have something in

their body that is called banker Yass, or

a wartha,

or antenna. They don't know that these things

even exist,

but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is providing them

for you, even if you know they don't

even exist.

And a lot of people don't thank him,

and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is calling them

to thank him 5 times a day.

Come to thank me, to appreciate me. Rasulullah

Sallallahu Alaihi wa Salam used to pray at

night, and when he was asked why do

you have to pray until your feet were

swollen? Qal Afala Akunu Abdul Shakura. Should I

not be a grateful servant to Allah? So

the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Salam used his

Ibadah as a way of saying thank you

to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

Now imagine if your dad

or your mom is calling you 5 times

to come or come here or bring me

something and you're not paying attention.

What would they do to you? Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala does the same thing every single

day. Haya al salat, haya al Falah, and

many people

don't acknowledge him, they don't believe he exists,

and they don't even thank him. And what

does he do? He gives them more time.

I'll give you more time.

If Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

were to punish you immediately

for your ingratitude

or for your sins,

not a single living being would have been

left on the face of this earth. Everything

would have been wiped out,

but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives you more

time, maybe he will repent, give him more

time, give him more time,

and so on and so forth. And what

happens if you eventually come back to Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, whether you are a Muslim

who's not practicing, no salah, no fasting, nothing,

or a non Muslim who believes in shirk

and so on and so forth, as soon

as they come to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

not only will he forgive their sins,

Ubbatilullah

who say, He

will not only forgive your sins,

He will turn you all the bad deeds

that you committed your whole lives.

The drinking, and the drugs, and the dating,

and everything, will be turned into good deeds

for you.

And this is Al Kareem Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala. If you do something wrong,

or if you plan to do something wrong,

but you don't do it, he will give

you a hasanah, a good deed. But it

has to come from your own free will.

Like say for example, someone is going to

meet a girl in downtown Toronto, or someone

is going to rob a bank, a shor,

or a hearsay,

and their car broke down and they came

back.

There is no reward but because they didn't

do it on on their own free will.

Right? Because their circumstances were against

them. But if you do it for, like

you give a

haram things,

you give the reward.

And if you want to do something good,

like say for example, they're collecting funds from

masjid with a school, and you wanted to

give but you don't have the money.

He will give you the reward.

Yeah. This one. Yes. That's a subject.

Yes. Okay.

Okay.

So if you plan to do something good,

but you don't have the ability,

like you wish to go for Hajj, and

you don't have the money. Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala will give you the reward for your

niyyah.

If you want to donate money, you don't

have the money, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will

give you the money for your niyyah, even

without you paying.

And if you have the ability, say you

like to donate money for

Iftar here in the Masjid, and by the

way we still have so many days unsponsored

for iftar. If you like to sponsor talk

to brother Abdul Salam, JazakAllah

Badifasal Alalan.

So say for example you do a good

deed, you give Zakah, Sadaqa something.

He will give you 10 rewards,

700 and He will give you more. Which

bank in this world if you give them

$1 they give you 700.

It doesn't exist. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is

Al Kareem.

And if you do something bad in this

dunya, and you make tawba before you die,

there's no question in the end.

And what does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala This

is out of his karam.

He will give you money,

then he will send a fakir, a poor

person to take something from you. Give him

2.5%.

Say he gave you for example $1,000

and he's asking you to give him $25

and he will give you the reward 700%.

It is not your money, it is for

him. And he will send the faqir to

take from you and he will give you

the reward. He will give you sahathal

And you go and pray and He will

give you the reward. And this is Al

Kareem Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And out of

His Ka'am, and this is the last thing

Insha'Allah.

Out of His Ka'am,

every time He closes a door for you,

and you are patient, he will give you

more. And you say for example, Yakul Ibn

al Qayim

When you come out of your mother at

the time of birth,

you were reliant, you were dependent

on the umbilical cord.

One source of income for you.

So once this source of income is cut

off, he gives you 2 sources.

The breastfeeding,

two sides, right? And once this one is

over when you are weaned at the age

of 2, then so many doors are open

for you fruits, vegetables, meat, milk, eggs, everything.

And they say, SubhanAllah, all the way till

the end, when one door of dunya is

closed for you and you die, and they

close the Kaqr for you, this door is

closed. He opens the 8 gates of Jannah

for you. So every time one door is

closed, He opens many doors for you. So

don't lose confidence in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

He is Al Karim.

And every time I come across this Ayahu

Allah, I'm untouched.

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says You ayu al

insanu

Ma'ghar raka bi rabbi

al kaneem.

He said what has emboldened you against Allah?

You don't say thank you? You don't worship

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala? You don't thank Allah

enough for what He has given you? Is

it because He is Al Kareem?

He is the one who has been showering

you with all these things, and you have

been taking them for granted, and you turn

your back on Him, and you never say

thank you? Is it because He is Kareem

to you, you do this to him? He

doesn't deserve this treatment from you. And this

is a reminder of Al Kareem from the

Quran. Kareem will continue tomorrow inshaAllah. The question

from last night, if you read Surah Al

Fussilat,

If you read Surah Al Fusilat, of course

in the Quran Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala created

the heavens and the earth in 6, heavenly

days, not 24 hour thing, but heavenly days.

In Surah Fussilah, Surah 41 if you read

I add 9 to 12 they give you

the impression that they were created in 8

days. Because 2,

4 and 2 that's 8. But this is

not the way you understand it in Arabi.

Maybe if you read the English, Urdu, Turkish,

French, this is what you get from the

translation, but in the Arabi, this is how

it is understood.

I walk from Oakville to,

Scarborough in 6 hours.

So I walked from Oakville to Mississauga in

2 hours,

and I walked to Toronto in 4 hours

meaning from Oakville, not from Mississauga.

Then from Toronto till Scarborough in 2 hours.

So this is the meaning in Alavi, he

created the earth in 2 days, created everything

else on earth in 4 days, meaning from

the beginning,

then the heavens in 2 more days. So

the total is 6 and not 8. This

is the way it is understood in the

Alavi language.

The winner is sister Rufshanda

Yunus. Is there anyone here to take the

prize on your behalf?

Okay. Exactly, brother.

Are you sure?

So the question for tonight is,

complicated a little bit

and it says in Surah Maryam

You Uchta Harun

How can the mother of Gis alaihis salam

be the sister of Harun the brother of

Musa alaihis salam although he died 100 of

years before? How do you explain this? So

we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to warn

you for your Sabra and Salah and Payam

InshaAllah If you know the answer, you may

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