Mustafa Khattab – Brotherhood
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So the first level of brotherhood in Islam
is brotherhood in humanity.
And wherever Allah subhanahu wa'ala speaks about prophets
in the Quran,
Allah speaks about prophets, stand abroad, unless it's
to such people or such tribe and town,
we send their brother
so and so. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
gives the names of the prophets. And the
prophets were believers and most of their peoples
were not believers.
So when you walk in the street and
you see,
someone who is Christian or Jewish or Buddhist
or Hindu, he or she is your brother
or sister in human hands. So this is
the basic one. We come from the same
father and the same.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about brotherhood of
this guy. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks
about Yusuf and his brothers from the same
father and the same mother.
The highest level of brotherhood in Islam is
brotherhood
in faith.
Your brother and sister in Islam.
You look at the Sahaba of the prophet
and they come from different backgrounds. You will
find Sahaba from Asia like Abu Bakr, Nohawad,
and Muslim, and Amin, and all the great
Arabs Sahaba,
and you have some man in the Persian,
and so on and so forth.
Then you see some African
Sahaba
you see some brothers and sisters from Europe,
Kosovo, and other places.
You'll see some brothers from Africa, from Nigeria,
from Egypt, from different places just like the
Sahaba of the prophet
and they cared for one another and they
loved one another.
So this is the true meaning of brotherhood
in Islam that you love someone
because worse he or she is your brother
your brother or sister
in Islam.
Sometimes we forget this meaning because we live
in a materialistic society we have to work
one job, put 3 jobs, put food on
the table and pay the bills so you
don't have time to socialize
with other Muslims you see around.
Jumah or other prayers
and they don't follow the brother or sister
who prays this to death and they pray
together for 25 years they just finish Shala
Asa and they rush to work or they
rush to school and they don't have the
time to ask people what their names are
or what they do in life. Nobody has
time.
Sometimes,
even if we have time in the masjid
we usually tend to get closer to people
of our
So we need to learn from the example
of the Sahaba get close to each other.
So when you finish salah today at least
the brother and sister to your life will
last give the salah and just ask for
the name, not anymore.
Had you visited them, you would have found
my war with them.
I needed your help, oh, son of Adam,
you never gave me help.
So the servant will say, oh, Allah, how
how do you need my help and you
are the Lord of everything that exists?
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will say didn't
you know that your brother needed help and
you never gave him a hand? Has you
given him help? He would have found their
war with me. And this is the meaning
of the hadith.
If he asks
for your advice, give him advice.
Whether he asks for it literally,
I need your advice for this and that
or
their situation. You feel like you're in a
difficult situation they need your advice so offer
your advice.
Sneezes
and says,
may Allah give you, his mercy. If
this person
falls sick
visit them,
give them hope,
show them that you care about them and
this is probably more important than the medication
they take oh there's somebody in the community
who cares about me choose the time you
go to them choose your topic go stay
forever
So, if you and your little brother or
sister
are
applying for a job, you will feel happy
for them if they get the job just
like you will feel happy for yourself if
you get the same job. This is what
it means.
And the same also applies to the opposite.
You hate for them
what you get for yourself because
this is the thing sometimes,
you love to make the good things for
yourself and give the junk to your brothers
and sisters.
And Allah
says in the Quran even when you give
salah
or zagah
take the best out of what you have,
don't keep the good for yourself and give
the junk for salah. Allah is the best
and he accepts only what is best.
So, this is a game of loving for
your brother for what you love for yourself.
And, I think a long time I mentioned
the story of a brother who was a
true brother and he had a fake friend,
a fake,
brother.
So, the true brother wanted to cast his
brother to see if he's a true brother
or not. So, together, they were having dinner
and they had 2 apples in front of
him. One of them was big and nice
and the other one was small and it
had a worm.
So the true brother
said to his friend go first take one
apple.
So his fake brother, he took the big
and the nice one and he left the
small and
the the the the rotten one.
So the true brother said, I thought you
were my true brother if I let you
choose first, it would take the small and
give me the big and the nice one.
So the fake brother said, brother, if I
let you choose first,
And whoever covers the Muslim in this dunya
Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala
will cover them on the day of judgement.
A few weeks back,
I was talking to my brother and and
we realized that there's a Muslim brother he
needs he needed to pay his rent or
something
and that brother is a student he didn't
have money to pay the rent.
So we decided that we'll raise the money
together and pay the rents for that brother.
From my standpoint he only knew the name
of that brother.
He was he was not like they were
living together in the same house for him.
No. He knew that his Muslim brother was
indeed that he offered him something and
the third one which is fairness for your
Muslim brothers and sisters.
Say for example, you have this agreement with
someone,
don't make a scene
and go on abuse them because you have
this agreement with them.
Prophet says in the Quran.
We used to be students
and we're staying at the door when some
of us were evil. They're evil. And what
they did, they got clinics like this. And
I see this with my own eyes. Sometimes,
when we asleep,
they get a clinic or a t shirt
like this and they put it between the
brother's fingers, or he gets some matches, and
they put it between his fingers, and they
light them up, and the guys makes out
that his feet are on fire. And he
screams,
yeah, we're just joking on you.