Mustafa Khattab – 4 Ramadan Reflections Jannah Or Bust
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feeding those who are fasting.
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We'll talk the wih now. Last night we
spoke about Jannah, and we asked Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala as He gathered us in this
masjid to gather us together in Jannah al
Firdos, and Abinir al Birami
Jannah is amazing, and as I said last
night, people keep asking the question,
I wish
Adam alaihis salam didn't eat from that tree,
because we could have been there. Why did
he ever do this? Right?
If he didn't do it, we could have
been now with al Khor El Ayn instead
of al Khor El Tlil in in this
dunya. Right?
And you didn't have to worry about mortgage.
Right? You don't have to worry about credit
score. You didn't have to worry about down
payment.
You didn't have to worry about GST.
You you didn't have to worry about 20
minus, 30 minus, you didn't have to worry
about waiting time at the clinic, at the
hospitals,
and the issues and the fights people have
with each other, and the nonsense that people
see all the time. People are praying somewhere,
someone goes and shoots them, you know. Someone
drives their van into a crowd of people.
Like, this is, like, crazy.
And all the stuff that we deal with
in counseling,
every day, like, this story, for example,
there is this brother
who was married to this sister and she
measured in philosophy. Right? So he can't argue
with the sister, then she will win every
argument, alhamdulillah.
So basically, he was a heavy smoker.
So he spent at least a $100 every
day on cigarettes.
So she argued with him and she said,
you know, you're wasting our money, so I'll
make a deal with you. For every $100
you waste every day on cigarettes, I'm gonna
take $50 from your pocket.
Eventually, he agreed.
Then, it didn't stop him from smoking. He
continued to smoke.
Then she said, okay, I'm gonna take the
$50 from you every day, and I'm going
to burn the $50 in front of you.
So she started to do this and he
was very mad. She took the money and,
you know, she was burning the money. And
she told him not only you're wasting our
money, we're just burning the money and, you
know,
you're throwing the money in the air when
you smoke. You're burning the money.
He realized he made a terrible mistake.
So he divorced his sister and he continued
to smoke freely.
So,
now, now the question.
When we speak about Jannah in the Quran,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaks about Jannah and
subhanAllah, the description is amazing, and of all
the descriptions in the Quran that talk about
Jannah, there's one particular one that hits me
hard, where Allah
says, laiabhuuna
anhahiwala.
They would never wish to go anywhere else.
We touched on this last year, but a
quick reminder.
Every time we do something, we usually get
bored and we look for something else. I
remember in 1999,
the first cell phone I got was Nokia,
and it was that big, like a shoe.
And for me that was like, like an
advancement, like an achievement. When you compare it
to the old dial phone, like,
035
no. So that
Nokia that was as big as a shoe,
for me that was like an achievement.
Then the touch phones came out, the smartphones,
and, you know, we took it to the
next level. If you started with a manual
car, you were dancing in the street because
now you have a car, and now you
look at the an automatic car and so
on, smart car, and so on and so
forth. If you started with a rented
townhouse,
then you moved to a semi detached,
then now you're looking for a detached house,
and so on and so. We always look
for something bigger, something nicer, something and so
on and so forth, but once you are
in Jannah,
There is nothing better than this, right?
And Allah
describes Jannah in so many different ways in
the Quran. In one place He talks about
food, another place He talks about drinks
and the, the words that Allah
uses to describe Jannah in the Quran are
very
what I would what I would say, they
are very,
generic because
there's there are no words that describe
really Jannah. Allah
says,
The example of Jannah. This is not really
Jannah.
These are words to describe Jannah. Right? Because
imagine if it's a 150
or a 175
years ago,
and someone tried to describe a smart
phone to Alexander Graham Bell, the very guy
who invented the phone.
How would you describe a smart wireless touchscreen
phone to the guy who invented the phone?
Like, his brain would just explode
if you try to explain it to him.
And the same way like Allah
tells us after he described Jannah in the
Quran
No
one, nobody could possibly
imagine
the pleasures that Allah
has prepared for people in Jannah. And as
I mentioned last night,
whether Adam
ate from the tree, or he didn't eat
from the tree, Allah had already planned for
him to be here in this world before
He created him. Just read the ayat in
Surah Baqarah from 30 to 39.
So now, when you read the description of
the Quran in in the Quran in one
place, just one one or 2 minutes inshaAllah.
It talks about the the reward of the
people of Jannah,
but men are singled out for Hori Reym.
Right? It says that, you know, the men
will get Hori Reym.
And now when we teach this to kids,
they ask, okay, what about women? What do
they get? Right?
So now, to explain this, I have to
tell you a story to make it easy,
inshallah.
Imagine there was a king,
and he decided to put together a party
or celebration
for important people. So he invited royal families,
other kings and queens, and important people, and
he invited some regular people from the community,
like plumbers and so on and so forth.
Now, the,
local newspaper, they wanted to cover this amazing
feast,
so a reporter came to cover this celebration.
To show the magnitude and the majesty and
the greatness, the awesomeness of the celebration,
this reporter was only able to cover
a table of regular people. The plumbers, the
cleaners, and so on and so forth.
Because no matter how he how hard he
tried to explain the treats
that the royal families and important people received,
the readers could not possibly comprehend, understand
that treatment.
And even though he described the treatment of
regular people, people were so amazed.
This is so fantastic, the food, the drinks,
and the treats. Now, when Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala talks about the people of Jannah, you
realize something in the Quran, Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala only talks about the reward of the
regular people in Jannah.
Where is the reward of Shahid in Jannah?
Washu Adar and Albihimlam Azhurum. They will get
the reward from Allah.
What is the the description of the reward?
Nowhere to be found.
Where is the reward of the prophets like
Ibrahim alaihis salamu? They will get a great
reward. What is it? We don't know.
What about ladies like Asiyal, Khadija Radiallahu Anha,
who will be at the top of Jannah?
We don't really know.
What about Adul Bayt? The family of the
prophet
We don't really know. Azul and Adhima in
Surahta.
What is the description? We don't know.
What is the word of Muhammad
It doesn't say anywhere in the Quran. It
says maybe in Surah Tawbah that he will
get a great reward in Jannah like the
the major Sahaba with him. But what is
the description that he will get in Jannah?
We don't really know because this is beyond
our imagination.
So if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks about
the reward of the regular people, but he
doesn't talk about the reward of, let's say,
the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Sahaba
kalam, alarbayt,
the women who die as shahid. If a
woman dies giving birth to a child, she
is shahid, as the prophet said. The woman
who completes the second half of the faith
of her husband,
what is the reward? We don't know. And
the prophet
said in the Nasai that Jannah is under
the feet of your mother.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said in
Musa al Imam Ahmad, if you take care
of your daughters, your sisters, they are your
bridge to Jannah.
What is their reward? We don't know. So
if Allah
talks about the reward of the regular people,
and of course the reward of the others
who are not mentioned are far greater. We
only look at one aspect, but we don't
know the rest. This is the way you
should look at it. We just see 1
pixel,
but we don't see the whole picture. So
we ask
Allah to give a jannah to firdaus, a
minyar qulani.
The question for last night, there is only
one prophet in the Quran, and it says
that his name was never given to anyone
before.
And as many of you said, it's Yahya
alayhi salam, lan najahalab min qablus samiyyah In
Surah Mariam ayah number 7, and the winner
is Ustad Ahmad Al Bayoumi. Is he here
today? Ahmad Al Bayoumi.
So, Siyari's dad. Right? Tell us you can't
take a friend.
He wouldn't mind.
He's a good guy. Zazaq al
Lafiq. The question
for tonight, Allah
says in the Quran, Allah
Allah chooses
angels and people
to deliver the messenger. Right?
But there is a different messenger mentioned in
Surah Naml, where Allah
tells us the story of something or some
something that was not an angel or a
human being was sent as a messenger with
a message to someone.
If you know the answer, you may be
before tomorrow Asrath. Imam Mustafa Adhanahu wa ta'ala
sent of that sage. Jazai kelakhe.