Mustafa Khattab – Canada isnt a Hotel
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The importance of physical strength, belief in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and work for personal health is emphasized in Islam. The speaker also emphasizes the need for physical fitness, praying, and drinking, and the importance of trust and patience in dealing with challenges. The speaker also mentions the traditional way of living in Canada where one is allowed to leave their house for rent and then goes to work, and the news of Jannah, a prophet who said that Muslims should not be killed and that they can cause political problems. Speaking for oneself and not getting involved in politics is emphasized.
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Whomever
Allah guides, there is none to his guide.
And whomever Allah
leaves to go astray,
there is none to guide light.
And I'm gonna begin
by a story from Suhayman ibn Abdul Azad
Halifa.
And one year he was in the Hajj,
he disagreed with his children with a ruling
related to Hajj Piterbiage.
So he entered the Haram and he wanted
to walk through the circle of
Allah so when Allah saw him pushing
through the lines, through the circle, and wanted
to get in the front and ask and
not wait for his turn.
So Allah
who was a slave
and he was handicapped
he was a decent man so Allah spoke
to the Khalifa at the time of Surah
Nana and told him sit wherever you are
don't push
your way through the line sit in the
back you begin laying sit in the back
those who came first sit in the
So when Israel left with his children,
he told them,
and seek knowledge.
I've never been disciplined
disciplined in my life.
Nobody has ever put me in my place
other than this slave,
handicapped
slave.
And he said,
knowledge is an honor, and Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala gives gives it to those who want,
even if they are slaves. And Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala puts down puts down those who
are ignorant, even if they are kings.
A strong believer
is better
and more beloved to Allah than a weak
believer. And there's goodness in both.
Put your trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and don't lose hope and see whatever is
beneficial to you. And if something bad, dethals
you, or happens to you, don't lose hope
and don't say if I have done so
and so so and so would have happened
to me. Because
if
opens the door to the whispering of the
shantan.
But this is not true. It is true
that physical strength is included in the Hadid,
but it is not the only one.
The prophet was talking about the spiritual strength,
financial strength, political strength,
social strength, and so on and so forth.
When you look at the time of the
Sahaba,
when Islam became victorious and successful at the
time of the prophet's house, this was because
of the special strength
and the very is a of the prophet.
And the prophet was very intelligent,
and he believed in specialization.
If someone was strong in something or good
at something, the prophet would have would speak
to them, we need you to help with
this. If Bilal had a beautiful voice, we
need you to do that.
If Osman was rich, we need you to
help in this.
Omar and Ayla al Dinahu were strong in
something, we need you to help with this.
And the Promised Messiah, I believe, is a
specialization.
So, when we talk about physical strength, of
course, we need it if you want to
work and provide for your family and put
food on the table, you have to be
physically fit.
If you want to be able to do
a hala, to fasten the whole Quran, and
pray,
then you have to be physically fit. It's
part of the religion to be shown. If
you want to take care of your family,
if you want to be a maintainer, and
if you want to
you know. We don't have a problem with
this. If you wanna be able to make
us feel fresh
and go through the difficulty in the winter
to be able to pray and confess all
the time and the cold weather, you have
to be physically fit. And this is something
that is committed in Islam. But we also
talk about this spiritual
strength
if you want money,
then we'll give you money, we'll make you
rich.
If you want a wife, we'll marry you
in the fight as women among us, and
so on and so forth. But we want
one thing from you.
Where a sister is grand for a couple
of years, no babies yet. They get frustrated,
devastated, and they live they lose hope in
the life of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You
have to be physically so spiritual is strong.
You have to put your trust in Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and believe in him. So
this is what we mean by spiritual strength.
We talk about
patience
in dealing with people, and this takes a
lot of effort for the Lord's son.
If
start with or the challenges you see in
the society when you drive that out. How
hard it is for you when you are
an employee
or you go to school.
How hard it is for you to be
able to find a clean place to pray.
How difficult it is in Ramadan, and you
see people around you eating and drinking all
day long.
I know it's hard. It's very difficult.
And then work is fun. It comes in
accordance with the challenges and the difficulties you
go through.
Now, you leave school, you come back from
work, you go home, you open the door,
you go into the living room, and the
first thing you see,
your kids have drawn all over the living
room, the walls.
You know for sure that your landlord is
gonna kick you out and it took you
a long time to be able to find
a place,
and the landlord had a landlord who was
willing to give you your having his house
for rent, although you have several kids.
Okay. You leave the living room, you go
to the kitchen, they get sick and eggs
from the fridge and they throw them on
the floor. You go through your study, your
computer is right there, and how many times
you have seen this? They get sick out
of the buttons from the keyboard
where they crack your the the monitor of
the computer. It's not even before.
So, you are it's easy for you to
snap and scream
and throw someone out of the window. It's
very hard to break someone's neck or give
you a black eye.
The stronger man is not the one who's
physically strong. The one who knocks people down,
but the one who controls himself in the
case of extreme anger.
How many times you come from work?
And
well,
especially when you first get married, this happens
all the time. The food is burnt
all the time. And how many times you
wait for your your husband and talking to
the sisters, you're waiting for your husband to
come from work and you go to visit
your mom or go buy something necessary for
the house and he's 2 hours late.
Call him. Yeah. I'm going away. It's 2
minutes away.
3 hours.
If you look at the Sahaba within Sahaba,
we have the news of Jannah, the prophet
told them to their face, you will be
with me again. There are 10 of them
at least. There are others that you don't
know their names, but you know at least
10 of them.
He was a businessman.
So, he didn't bring anything with him from
Mecca.
And, he said he worked
and worked and worked
as a businessman until this money multiplied like
worlds.
So much so, when he died at the
end of his life,
several years at the end later, at the
end of his life, they said he left
300,200,000,000
That was the money left. 300,200,000.
Why? Because the Sahaba, they believe
in the Lord or financial strength.
Does Allah kind of
Alhamdulillah, a lot of us, as I said
before, we have good education,
we make good money.
A lot of us think in a very,
traditional way. They don't like to get involved.
They don't like to be, visible in the
community.
I know some of us, they came from
countries where we have
some political corruption,
political problems,
police brutality, and all these things. So I've
seen with my own eyes that one time
I was with my brother.
So, when we come here we don't like
to get involved in any way. I'm not
talking about the majority of us, but some
a sizable number of us. We don't like
to get involved.
We live in a very traditional way.
There's life and this is how I think
about it. We have like,
I'm living sunnah.
That Muslims in Canada, they have to live
in a certain way. I'm living sunnah. So,
Kevin
wants to be a doctor
We need Muslim politicians. We need people in
the media to speak for us. They advertise
someone
in
the parliament where politicians says something terrible about
Muslims. Yeah. Muslims are terrorists. Muslims are this
or that's fanatics.
They know they may criticize us all day
they want
and anyway they want because
think about it this way. If you just
take out the word Muslim and put the
word Hindu or the word Jew,
And they know that Muslims don't vote in
elections anyway. But if they know that Muslims
are active, and Muslims are proactive, and Muslims
get involved, and Muslims have a voice, and
they speak,
then they will be afraid because Muslims can
cause them an election.
We have 1,500,000
Muslims in this country or more, but most
of us won't even vote in elections. We
don't have people who speak for us and
for our problems.
And, this is why when something happens back
home nobody stands for our lives here because
we don't talk for ourselves.
Our voice is not heard in Canada and
most of Europe and the US
simply because we don't speak for ourselves.
We're happy that someone might say something good
about us in politics or in the media,
but we want you to speak for yourself.
We have 1,500,000
in this country or more. It's not the
2nd largest
thing in Canada, but still we have list
politicians, we still have list,
people in the media, then the Jews, and
the Hindus, and the sea put together.
And, we are more than all of them
put together. But why? Because we're not progressive
in our thinking. We're not thinking this way.
We don't want to get involved. We're not
staying to the side.
And when I say this to people,
I always get the same answer.
Because believe me that this style, what we
can make in this country is not by
who wasn't talking, but being successful.
Well, a lot of people always look to
the success regardless of their faith. If you
have a Muslim that's successful, people will look
up to you. If