Mustafa Khattab – Aiming High &Thinking Big
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The best guidance for Muslims is the prophet's message and the way of life of the people they are with. The importance of the prophet's message and the way of life of the people they are with is emphasized. Success in life is emphasized, including aiming high and working for the future, following non-Mahahah holidays, and following small deeds. The speaker gives advice on these topics and gives examples of small and aiming low, including following non-Mahahah holidays.
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The best guidance for us Muslims is the
example
and the way of life of the prophet,
and the most truthful work is the Quran
or the word of Allah
who are as good as the sahaba of
the prophet, salaam alayhi wa sallam? Are there
people among us who will be with the
sahaba in Jannah in the highest place on
the day of judgement?
The scholars say that the companions of the
prophet, salaam alayhi wa sallam, they are classified
into 2 groups.
The first one
include
the family of the prophet
and the maids.
The ten Sahaba were given the news of
and
the people who attended Badr,
and the people who paid the pledge to
the prophet
under the tree, Bayatul al 1. So the
scholars say, these sahaba, they have no equivalents
in the ummah of the prophet
they are the pioneers.
The second
type of the sahaba, they are the average
sahaba. The people that are not included in
the first group, and they said, yes,
among us today, some people who are like
these average sahaba. They will be with them
in Jannah and in the scholar sign of
Saba Hadid, in which the prophet says
that there's goodness in my sahaba,
and there's goodness in all the Muslim generations
that will come after.
So we will be with them inshallah and
Jannah if we do their actions.
So what makes the Sahaba different from us
is what they call.
And the best translation for this
is thinking big and aiming high. The Sahaba
were always thinking big.
They didn't think small like us. They didn't
aim low like us.
And this is what made them
great at their time, and they made them
great of all times.
The Sahaba graduated from the school of the
prophet
And the prophet
when he started his dawah, he was one
man by himself,
and the whole world was against
him. In a few years, as they say
in the good of the books of the
prophet the whole Arabia accepted this man at
the time of the prophet
Those who were able to attend the Hajj,
the pilgrimage with the prophet
a few months before his death,
they were numbered
144,000
people. Those who were able to make the
Hajj with him.
This shows you the great hilna of the
prophet
He traveled 1,000 of miles tirelessly
to give dawah and to show the people
to convey the message to them.
In the east
and south West Africa in the west,
Turkey and Spain and the Lucia in the
north,
Ethiopia
and Somalia in the south within a few
years
During the time of the Sahaba and those
who came out.
And as I said, they were very few
in number, but they had a great
So Omar Abdul Aziz also he had great
kingdom. He said, I have a very
ambitious soul. I'm very ambitious.
I always wanted to be a governor.
When I became a governor, I wanted to
tens, and hundreds of miles just to record
1 hadith,
like 3 or 4 lines that the prophet
said many years ago. Just 1 hadith.
They had they had that image.
So you have to have this Himba, you
have to think big, and you have to
aim high to be as successful as the
sahabah, the companions of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam in this life and in the
next life.
So the first one example I'm giving, you
have to be successful in this life, whatever
you might be. If you're a student,
you have to try to be the top
of your class.
And this is a good down for other
people. They always see Muslims successful.
They say, I wish I can be like
them. Like, in some cases, people accepted Islam.
And one brother in South Carolina,
he was in the he was doing his
PhD in,
mechanical engineering, and he said,
I accepted Islam just to be as successful
as the Muslim brothers who were with me
in this department.
I wanted to be successful like them and
happy like them, and this is why I
accepted this plan, because we were number 1
in the class and in the department.
If you are in business, you have to
be number 1.
If you are a doctor or engineer, try
to be number
1 in your field. And this is, as
I said, is a great one.
And Hussain alayhi, alayhi, alayhi, alayhi, alayhi, alayhi,
please, with him and his father and his
whole family said that Allah likes
major and important matters, and he doesn't like
minor
and unimportant matters. Always think big and aim
higher.
The second time of Himmat is to always
work in this life
with an
eye on the hereafter. You always work for
the hereafter.
And as I said, be successful in this
life, but also try to have a a
place in the hereafter agenda.
When it comes to charity, try to be
the best. When it comes to salah, prayers,
fasting, and all these things, try to be
the best. Do your best.
And we know that the 10 days of
the month of the hija started today.
And the prophet
said that the good deeds are not better
in any time in the year more than
this or these 10 days. So try to
do your best.
In the authentic hadith, it is a matter.
The prophet
says that those who only work for this
dunya, this life,
Allah
will shatter them in this life, and it
will put poverty between their eyes. Wherever they
go, they will be poor in the heart.
And they will never be from this dunya
except that which Allah has written for them.
But those who always work for the next
life, and those who compete with one another
in goodness, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give
them integrity,
He will give them richness
Number 3,
even when you make dua to Allah
to give you something, always ask big.
Don't ask small things. And the prophet
says in Arabic hadith in Bukhary, when you
ask Allah to give you Jannah paradise,
ask for the highest place in Jannah, at
Firdaus.
And the prophet says that this is the
highest place in Jannah. The throne of Allah
is over it, and all the rivers of
Jannah come from this place.
We will talk about the opposite of what
we said in the first kutba,
to think small
and to aim low.
And this is what many people do. If
you ask many people, what is your purpose
in this life? Okay. They will tell you
we have no purpose.
Our only goal is to eat, drink, make
babies, and die.
If this is your only intention in this
life, then what makes you different from your
cat?
She does precisely the same thing. It eats,
drinks, makes babies and die.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created you for a
better purpose in this life,
different
from your cats.
Okay? And you have to be in that
position to deserve the honor of being the
khalifa in this world, to be to deserve
the honor of being a Muslim in this
life.
The second example, and I will conclude with
this, of thinking small and aiming low, having
no purpose in life, is to just follow
non Muslims in their holidays at festivals. And
many Muslims do this.
Okay? They are not proud of their identity.
They are not proud of their faith.
All those young brothers and sisters who
participate in Halloween
with all that crazy costume,
and those who participate in the Christmas, and
those who participate in Valentine's Day.
Okay?
All these practices, they are not acceptable in
Islam.
Allah
says in the Quran in chapter 25 verse
72,
and those who, when they pass by
vanity and idle talk, they pass by with
dignity.
And the scholars of tafsir, they say that
these ayat talks about Muslims
not attending the festivals and the holidays of
non Muslims.
It talks about this precisely.
When Namirullah said,
The reason why these festivals are not
acceptable in Islam is number 1, because they
are not even Christian festivals.
25th is never
none of the scholars of Christianity ever said
that Jesus was born anywhere in December. He
was not born in the winter. He was
born in the summer. This is what they
say. But that was the holiday of one
of the gods, the god of the sun
in the times of the Romans, 100 and
1000 of years before Jesus.
Valentine's Day, same thing. It goes back to
the pagan Romans.
And and so on and so on, all
of them.
The second reason is it's all about business.
If you look at all these Muslim holidays,
they're all about business.
You buy red roses and red bears
in Valentine's day,
Christmas tree and Santa Claus in Christmas,
and you buy
one of the crazy costume,
shrimp for head over
or skeletons
for the hallway.
It's all about business.
Is why in Muslim countries,
non Muslims, they don't celebrate Eid al Adha
or Eid al Fit, and they don't fast
Ramadan.
They have their own feasts,
so they don't celebrate Muslims' holidays.
Why isn't the opposite here? Why do we
celebrate non Muslim feasts and they don't celebrate
ours?
The reason is
for every nation and for every culture, there
are festivals.
So keep them theirs for them and keep
us for us. That's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.