Mustafa Khattab – Celebrating Differences
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We're good, inshallah. I think, brother Muhammad, his,
grandmother passed away. Where is Muhammad?
He still here? No. Not you. That's what
I'm asking.
Yeah. He told me, yesterday that his grandma
passed away.
I will get him later inshaAllah. Yeah. Now
on a trip, we'll breathe. Okay.
So ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to forgive
her and give her Jannah. Say, yeah. So
we'll continue with the same line of thinking,
giving naseelah to people.
Of course,
in Islam there are 3 areas.
There's halal,
there's haram,
there's something in between. Mushtabahal, the Prophet
called it in a hadith.
When you have a disagreement with someone we
said yesterday,
if someone did something wrong, we give them
naseya. We love the person, we hate or
we disagree the wrong they do. Let's say,
for example, your brother or sister doesn't pray,
or they backbite people.
So we don't hate them as people. We
disagree with the wrong they do. So we
care about them, this is why we give
them naseerha,
and we focus our attention to the wrong
they do, and you don't attack the person
or humiliate them because they will not listen
to you.
Now, one of the biggest issues that face
the Muslim community
is that,
sometimes we disagree on fiqh issues.
And sometimes
we make a big deal out of it,
and sometimes we start fighting together.
Maybe you're not familiar with the situation at
this point, but I'm just opening your eyes
so when you come across a situation like
this, you know what is happening here. We
know in Islam we have different madahir.
Imam Abu Khalifa, Hazal Maltab, Imam Shafi'i Balik,
and Ahmad, and one day I will tell
you insha'Allah why they have these different opinions,
sometimes on the same issues. One thing we
know for sure,
they don't
disagree
on al Farad.
So they didn't don't agree they disagree, for
example, on the existence of Allah, or if
you're gonna pray 3 raka'ah for Madarib or
2 for Fashr. There's no disagreement on this
whatsoever.
Muhammadul Rasool Allah, the Quran is the final
regulation. There is no disagreement whatsoever.
But they disagree
on some applications,
like how you put your hand in,
when you read Fatiha Quran.
How you move your finger in salah. Whether
he gives a kat of Fird in food,
which is the opinion of the majority, or
give it in money.
So these are different,
opinions in some small issues in Fird, but
they don't,
disagree on the usool.
The fundamental beliefs of Islam or Sharia, they
don't disagree. They just
disagree on some practicalities
within the foror or the branches of the
faith.
The problem is sometimes
some of us will make a big deal
out of these disagreements.
In one particular case, there was a brother
in
one of the masajid that used to serve
as an imam, and sometimes,
highly dedicated brother, you know, he would come
to me after salah and say, Okay, brother,
did you wipe over your socks before you
prayed?
And I said, Why? He said, Because if
you did wipe over your socks, I have
to repeat my salah when I go home.
What are you talking about?
The issue of wiping over the socks, Saud
al Labhat say, You can do it, Saud
say, You know, You don't do it. But
we know for sure from at least 30
sahaba of the Prophet that
they wiped over the socks.
There are hadith, the Prophet
wiped, Muhir of the Shawba, the Prophet wiped
over the shoes, the huff, which is leather,
and the socks, which is something like this.
So it is acceptable.
But if there is someone who doesn't wipe
over their socks,
we shouldn't argue or fight over it. You
follow your madrab, I follow my madrab, kalas,
it's not a big deal. Right?
Or the way people put their hand in
salah, or the way they move their finger
into sha'a. Right?
One thing we know for sure, we know
about Imam Abu Hanifa, Shafi'i, and Malik, and
Ahmad, that they had great respect for each
other. Like, Imam Ahmad and Imam Malik,
they respected
each other, they were contemporaries,
they lived at the same time. Imam Shafi'i
had the utmost
respect for Imam Abu Hanifa. They respected each
other. But the problem is, some of their
followers who came centuries after,
and they didn't have the same adab when
they spoke about fiqh issues. Like in one
particular case,
you know, at some point in our history,
some was saying,
someone from the Hanafi madhab should not marry
a sister from the Shafi'i madhab. They say
it's not acceptable.
Why? They say because it's acceptable in the
Shafi'i madhan to say Ana Mu'minud Insha'Allah.
Insha'Allah I'm a believer, I'm a faithful. Whereas
in the Hanafi madhan this is not acceptable,
so you're not allowed to marry a Kafir.
Like this is nonsense, right? It doesn't make
any sense. But this shows you how
disagreements can happen between people over fift issues,
and, I'll give you another example in conclusion,
inshaAllah.
The Sahaba had disagreements
in fift at the time of the Prophet
In other words, some of them did something
in a certain way, others did it in
a different way, and this happened in front
of the Prophet
and he didn't question any of them because
both were acceptable.
When the Prophet
was traveling in Ramadan, and,
he said, inshallah, we're traveling,
in Ramadan, whoever wants to fast, no problem.
Whoever wants to, you know, to break their
fast while they're traveling,
no problem.
So some of them fasted and some of
them didn't fast.
So they did it differently, and the Prophet
didn't do anything. There are so many other
cases, which means it is acceptable.
No problem. Right? No problem.
If you want to do,
you pay taraweeh etraqa
acceptable
plus
what? If you want to do 20 plus
what? No problem.
It's all acceptable. The problem is when you
fight over it.
You shouldn't fight over these things. I said
before in the Thudba, when you look at
the Ibadat closely, the acts of worship we
do,
all of them
revolve around bringing Muslims
together. So when I pray with you all,
or if I pray by myself, when do
I get more rewards?
Yes. Honey, that when you're playing with a
lot of people? If we're praying jamah with
other people, you get more rewards. You pay
by yourself, you get less.
When, for example, you go for Hajj, you
just choose any time, I go for Hajj,
or you go with other people at a
certain time.
Go together. When you fast Ramadan, you fast
any day you want of the year, or
you pick the month of January, the month
of December, I'm gonna fast this month. No.
You fast Ramadan, all of us together.
The rich
will give the zakat to the poor, to
help each other. So Islam is all about
bringing people together, the sense of brotherhood and
sisterhood and unity in the Muslim community. But
the problem is, I'm not sure if I
told you this story before, is when we
take
a bada to a disunited community and fight
over difference of fiqh
So this story, I'm not sure if I
told the story but there's no harm if
I say the story again,
in, I believe Houston, Texas, a few years
ago,
and a story was told by one of
the local Imams, and he said it was
1st night of Ramadan,
a new Masjid,
most likely they didn't have an Imams, so
there was a volunteer to lead salah, and,
there was what I call the 8 raka
Muslims,
and the 20 raka Muslims,
and they had a big fight. Are we
going to do 8
or 20?
Then another fight, are we going to finish
Qurankhab, or just read Inna Ataynak Al Kufak,
go home?
Right?
Big fight.
So,
they couldn't settle the thing in a simple
way, they started to fight in the Mash.
Right? They started to fight, and chairs were
flying, and baseball clubs, and weapons of mass
destruction, you know.
So at some point,
Tamanil
Nasraawin, Zarhaawin,
Yani, the sisters were screaming in the back,
and the kids were crying, and the brothers
were saying, takbeer, you know, maraca.
So
someone The people were falling down, and
So someone
tried to put an end to this, nonsense,
so they called the police.
And the police came,
and they walked on the carpet with their
shoes,
and both groups, the 8 rakha Muslims and
the 20 rakha Muslims, started to fight with
the police. You have no respect for a
masjid, Aap koi moshkil, hey, what's your problem?
You know? You didn't have respect for the
masjid when you started to fight. It's not
allowed to fight
anywhere inside or outside, right?
And as a matter of fact, the Sahaba
and the Prophet SAWHAN sometimes
prayed with their shoes on because they didn't
have carpets. They all, they only had sand,
Right? So this is not the issue. So,
again, please,
bring about unity in the community,
and if there is a disagreement over a
fiqh issue, try to understand the thing the
issue in a holistic manner,
and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
allow these madha'ib to exist, to make our
lives easy.
Say for example in Ramadan if, or in
Al Firtr, Zaka'al Firtr, if I'm not able
to give food, in malhabiywam or Hanifa, you
can give money. It's not a big deal.
Kalas, as long as they base their opinion
on an accepted
or an authentic madhab, alhamdulillah, it's accepted.
If I do it my way, alhamdulillah. If
I see someone doing it differently,
so if I give food for zakatul fifr,
and I see someone giving money, I don't
fight with them. La'inqarafi
muqtarafi.
As they say in the books of Fafra.
You shouldn't fight
with someone
if they base their opinion on an authentic
madham. Right? So you shouldn't fight with them.
We'll continue some other time inshaAllah. We ask
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give unity to
Muslims and Azza to Islam and the Muslimeem.
MusallAllahu Muhammadu wa'ala Salaam wa'ala Salaam Alaikum.