Mustafa Khattab – 8 Allahs Attributes AlMutakabbir I
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Today inshallah we'll talk about one of the
qualities of Allah subhanahu wa'ala that is usually
misunderstood,
and this quality is al mutakabbir
We know that when someone among us is
called Mutakabbir, it's a very bad quality. It
means arrogant
Someone was looking down upon people and it's
not a good thing And we assume that
this quality,
because it shares the same root
word with the word takabbar or mutakabir
we think that the same applies to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala but it is totally different.
So tomorrow inshaAllah I'm going to talk about
the meaning of the word mutakabir in relation
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Today inshaAllah I'm
going to talk about takabbur
among people.
So we know that the word takabbur,
or mutakabbur is not a good word, word
among human beings.
And the Prophet
SAW says,
If someone has,
an atom's weight of kibr will not go
to Jannah. So you have to humble yourself
to Allah
When I was young, and then I'm going
to salira,
salah,
So when I used to go to the
farm when I was young, I was a
young farmer,
I used to go to the fields and
think and reflect about the creation of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and I realized
that if a, an ear of grain or
an ear of grain, subullahqam
if it has seeds,
if it has grain, it always lowers its
head like this, it's humbled because it has
something inside.
But if there was an ear that is
empty, it's always going out like this.
And I realized if a human being doesn't
have knowledge in their head, they will always
look down upon people, and they elevate themselves
falsely.
But if someone has knowledge, they humble themselves
with the people.
Sometimes you come across someone
and because of their knowledge, because of their
money, because of their family status, because of
where they came from,
you know, they don't treat you as equal
and sometimes we experience this even in Muslim
countries.
And they ask you, do you know who
I am? Do you know where I came
from?
And I say, well,
dust.
Because all of us came from dust. No
no no, I don't mean that. You mean
an egg and sperm? It's all in the
Quran, no no no, I mean the country,
you know? We're all from Adam and Eve,
man.
Whether you are white or Asian or African,
we came from the same father and the
same mother. When you go to the store,
the grocery store, and they have sections for
apples,
they put the green apples next to the
yellow apples, next to the red apples, they're
all called apples if you see the sign.
They're all apples. The color doesn't really matter.
So we shouldn't elevate ourselves and look down
upon the people because of something that is
not actually ours.
If you are proud because of your money,
it is not yours.
Allah can't take it away from you, He
took it from Ayub
If you are proud because of your family
status, He can take it away from you.
Your children, He can take them away. Your
health, He can take it away. Don't be
proud of something that is not actually yours.
But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has kibriyah because
whatever He claims is actually his.
So he has the right to have
kibriyah, not takabbur. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
When you look at the Quran, subhanAllah,
every time someone in the Quran
was proud because of something Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala destroyed them by that thing.
Now let's say for example, in the story
of Bir'aw,
Qala
Alayhis Salim wal Khum Misra wa'hadihil anharu tazhareemintakti
I'm not the Sovereign of Egypt, look at
those rivers running around my feet, all the
water that is running in my Kingdom. How
did he, how did he die?
By drowning water! Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala put
him to shame and He caused him to
drown, by the very thing that he was
proud of.
Shaitan in the story of Adam
when he refused to make sajat to Adam
and that was the first sin racism.
Racism he said I'm better than him why
should I make sajat to someone that I'm
better
better than him why should I make Sajjad
to him and he said to justify his
arrogance he said I'm better than him you
created me from fire
and him from dust or clay
and we know in the Quran
la amla anajahanamaminka
waminma mtabiaqabimu
ashma'in so shaitaan Allah told them in the
Quran you will go to jahannam
from the fire that you were created from
and you were proud of
I know I, I give talks to the
students from you know the Meggade Islamic Schools
and MashaAllah they ask very good questions.
So one question was if shaitan was made
of fire how can Allah punish it by
the fire?
And some of the Relema gave the answer
and they said, You're created from dust and
from water, if I sprinkle you with water
it's not going to hurt you, if I
sprinkle you with dust it's not going to
hurt you. But if I make a block
of clay
and I put it in the sun for
a couple of days and I hit you
with it, you will
die. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will do
the same thing to shaitan, maybe shaitan was
created from
1,000 fahrenheit, he will put him in that
degree 1,000,000 fahrenheit
and he will melt in Jahannam.
So Allah now there is nothing impossible for
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Look at the story
of Qarun,
he said
he was arrogant because of his palace and
because of his money. How did he die?
With his palace and money! So Allah Subhana
Wa Ta'la said fakhasafna
biuwabidarhi
We took him and his money,
and his palace and his money caused him
to die. So every time someone says Anna,
better or I'm
arrogant because of this Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
punished them with it, the source of their
pride. And if you look Subhanu'Allah at the
Ambia and the Saliqun in the Quran, they
humble themselves.
They humble themselves you look at as I
mentioned the story
of Shaitan he said Ana Khaynu minu I'm
better than him
and you look at the story of Musa
Alaihis Salam
Khal Wa'akhih haroonhu wa'afsahumine
ni alisallam he said my brother haroon is
better than me he's more eloquent than me
and this is the thing about good people
they always humble themselves and they don't give
credit to themselves
so when it comes to Ibadah they say
other people pray better than me they give
more sadaqah than me I should do like
them I look up to them
and if they are asked about someone they
say, oh they are better than me, they
have more knowledge than me, they're close no,
they do better things than me, and this
is what helps them, aspire to be better
people and do more and work more.
I'm gonna conclude with this story and I
can't baba'al al Aniyah a long time ago
after the time of Sahaba and Tabi'in that
man was very rich he was a businessman
so he went to Makkah for the Hajj
and he had his servants and slaves and
everyone with him because he wanted to do
the Hajj. He said,
these people in the Haqq, they are not
my equal. He was from a royal family
or something, and he was a businessman, very
rich, because of his family status.
He said these people are not an equal,
kick them out. I want to do a
Haram
on my own. So he actually kicked them
out and the man was able to do
the Tawaf all by himself.
On his horse, not on feet on his
horse he kicked everyone out and he was
doing Tawaf on his horse and of course
he had the umbrellas overhead his head and
and the water and the soda and all
this stuff. 1 of the people who were
kicked out
he said Walaahi
7 years later
I was walking in the street and I
saw this man on the horse who was
doing tawaf all by himself he was sitting
there and he was begging people for food
and I said SubhanAllah what happened to you?
Fatha'ala
takabartu
fee ma'udrim yadawal dahu fee innas amam Allah
faa'aballanillah
He said, I was arrogant in a place
where people were humbling themselves before Allah in
the Haram, so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala humbled
me and He put me into shame. So
we should always be humble every time we
think about, you know, ourselves as something always
remember we came from an egg and a
sperm, we came from dust and eventually would
be dust. We're not taking anything with
us. You Almul Qiyamah, they will not call
you doctor, professor, Ustad, Kabir Khajad, Nur Zamanalah.
They will just call you by your name,
and you're not taking your checkbooks with you,
you're not taking your car with you, nothing,
you're not taking anything with you. So humble
yourself before Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, wa minu
ta'ala, alillahi alfa. If you humble yourself before
Allah, He will elevate you, and He will
honor you. We'll continue tomorrow insha'Allah.
The question for last night was kind of,
difficult,
and, Brother Tooro, Habila'Allah,
he said he stayed up all night trying
to find the answer. He's our President,
but he stayed up all night. I hope
we give him the prize, he's gonna give
me a promotion or a raise or something.
JazaakAllah BarakAllah feeq Takbeer?
Waaq mashAllah So the answer is, in Surah
Baqarah, adwala Surah Fussulat,
it says that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala created
the Earth, then He turned His attention to
the Heavens and He formed them into 7
Heavens.
In Surah Al Anza'at, it says the same
thing, it says Allah created the Earth first,
it's actually,
He created the heavens, wadahaal adabadaal He brought
out the water and everything. So in other
words Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala created the Earth,
then the Heavens,
then He turned His attention to the Earth
again and He brought out the water and
everything. So there are stages of creation, there
is no contradiction.
The reason for the contradiction,
as I noticed while I was working on
the translation of the clear Quran,
when you read the translation there are so
many contradictions in the translation because those who
translated they didn't understand the Arabi,
and they translated based on their understanding, and
this is why some non Muslims when they
read the translation they say Oh Allah made
a mistake there.
It is not the mistake of Allah, it's
the mistake of the translator, not Allah. If
you want to understand the Arabic, read the
Arabic, it will give you a better understanding.
The confusion in Surah An Naza'at a number
30,
They think Badavalika means after or then. It
doesn't mean that. The word Badavalik means
On top of that, it doesn't mean after.
So it doesn't mean an order of events.
This is very important. What is your proof?
Read Surah Noon Wa Ta'lam Wa Ta'alim
Maheen Mash. Ten qualities of that man, and
it says, Otulin
ba'adha'valikazanim.
Zaneem should be the first quality, but it
says Rotulim ba'adhavalikah.
Ba'adhavalikah here means as well or on top
of that. It doesn't mean an order of
events because if we put everything in order,
zaneem should be the first one, not the
last one.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give
us the best of understanding inshaAllah. The question
for tonight, question for tonight,
in Surah Yusuf
Jaaalas Sikaayatafirahli
ahi He put the royal cup in, he
he slipped the royal cup, Yusuf He put
the royal cup in the luggage of his
brother Benjamin.
2 ayaat after, qaluunafkudu
soa al Malik were missing
the measurement of the king. Was it a
cup or a measurement?
It doesn't
add up here. So how do you explain
this? Was it a cup or a measurement?
So if you know the answer, imam me
before tomorrow 'asat imamal Mustafa at the natuliuscenter.cajazaakumullah