Mustafa Khattab – Challenges of Muslim Youth in North America 2
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There are 3 things that have to be
in there with the personality of our youth.
Number 1,
they have to have the desire and the
ability
to be positive and to do something in
the community.
For example,
speaking of desire and ability,
to be successful in anything, in anything,
in the school, as a doctor, as an
engineer, a cyber flight, in anything you do
in this life, to be successful, you have
to have 2 things.
Desire
to do something and the ability to do
it. For example,
I've always wanted to be a basketball.
But as you can see,
I'm too short to play basketball, so I
was a failure in basketball.
Then I found
that soccer is what I feel.
I'm taller than Maradona.
And the youth, the brothers, Ahmed Ali and
Abdul Rahman, and all these guys,
come and play soccer with me. I always
send them home with tears in their eyes
because they lose all the time.
Rule number 1, if you play with the
Sheikh, you win. Rule number 2, if you
play against the shaykh, you lose.
So this is the ability.
I have the desire but I don't have
the ability.
I couldn't do it.
If you have the ability but you don't
have the desire, you will not succeed. For
example,
most of our youth,
they graduate from high school
with A's in science and math.
Of course, the parents, they want them to
be doctors and engineers.
But a youth doesn't want to be a
doctor engineer. He wants to be
a soccer player.
Okay?
Or
a plumber.
So they have the ability, but they don't
have the desire. If you push them to
take this field, they will fail. They will
never succeed. Because they have 1, they have
the ability,
the mathematical and the scientific ability but they
don't have the desire. They don't like it.
So they will never succeed. You have to
have both.
The prophet
always looked for both, iqib, the desire and
the ability.
And this is why he got someone like
Usama al Nizayd
to lead the Muslim army and fight against
the Romans
when Usama was what? 17 years old.
Usama al Nizayd, when he led the Muslim
army at the time of the prophet
he was 17 years old.
When the Prophet
sent Mu'adh ibn Jalal to Yemen, Mu'adh was
20 years old.
And remember all these numbers and the information
I'm saying in the lecture because of them.
I'm gonna be giving these prizes. There are
5 of them.
I have 5 minutes to finish, inshaAllah.
And the Prophet
then he gave leadership
positions to some of the sahaba because they
were not qualified. They have the desire
but they didn't have the ability.
The cousin of the prophet himself,
Al Abbas,
came asking for a leadership position
and the prophet said, sorry, I can't. You're
not qualified.
He had the desire but he doesn't he
didn't have the ability. So the prophet said,
sorry. And he gave it to someone who
was 17 years old
because he had both the desire and the
ability.
Number 2, our youth before they become leaders
in the community that they play a positive
role, they have to
education.
We all remember the great scholars of Islam,
Imam Shafi'i, Imam Bukhari, Imam Ahmad,
because of their knowledge. And there are kings
and queens
by 1,000 and hundreds who died
over the past centuries.
We don't remember any of them because
they only had they were kings and rulers,
but they didn't have the knowledge. We almost
remember all the scholars of Islam.
We name our kids after them
because we like them, we know
them. So knowledge gave them honor in this
life and in the next life.
Imam al Bukhali and Imam al Shafi'i, they
were born orphans
and they were very poor.
So their moms had to work for them,
to provide for them, and to help them
get an education, and they became what they
became.
Imam Shafi'i
was a scholar and he started to give
Fatwa at the age of 12.
Is there any one year who is 12
years old?
13?
Yes. Imam Shafi'i,
stand up for me please. If you are
12 or 13 or 14 years old, stand
up for me.
Stand
up.
So Imam Shabei, submasha Allah, almost half of
the people. So Imam Shabei was a musti,
he was a scholar, giving fatwa when he
was younger than you.
Okay?
So
desire and ability
and education and good Islamic environment.
If we don't teach our kids Islamic manners,
we don't teach them nothing, man. Nothing. We
don't teach them how to pray, how to
make salah, how to make guduk. How do
you expect them
to be angels
if they are living with shayat in everyday
and night. Nobody is teaching them anything.
They have to have good Islamic environment. If
you are not able to help them or
teach them Islamic matters, at least
give them CDs, man. Send them to the
Islamic school or send them to the masjid
because Allah will ask you on the day
of judgment.
Your kids don't know how to pray. Why?
Why? You were busy delivering money?
And we'll ask the system,
your daughter doesn't know how to pray. She
doesn't even know Fatima.
You were busy your whole life cooking
chicken sukhaab, beef sukhaab, berries, and pasta, and
all that stuff.
You didn't ask 5 minutes to teach your
daughter how to pray?
Allah
created us for one single purpose, that is
to worship Him.
Now we do everything except for that one
goal that we were created for.
I'll give one example about Umar ibn Abdul
Aziz radiAllahu anhu.
He became a khalifa of the Muslim
Umma and he was the grandson of Umar
ibn Khattab radiAllahu anhu. When Umar ibn Abdul
Aziz was a youth, he was very young,
9, 10 years old. His father was a
ruler at that time, he got a teacher
to take care of his son and teach
him Islamic manners.
So Umar ibn Abdul Aziz one time, only
one time, he was laid for salah.
So the teacher came to him and said
why are you late for salah why didn't
you catch
the Jamalas
he said my servant
took a long time combing my hair so
this is why I came late
So the teacher sent an email or a
fax or a letter or he threw a
bottle with a little devotion to the Khalifa
and said, your son came late for the
salah because he was busy with his hair.
So the Khalifa sent a line,
an email, or a fax, or a letter
to the teacher in with one line that
says,
shave his hair, period.
So he comes to salawatul time.
The role of our youth in the community
is very simple.
One day, the little kids that we have
in this room,
those who are 3 years old, or 4
years old, or 5 years old, they will
be tomorrow's teachers,
and presidents, and governors,
and doctors, and engineers. Whether you like it
or not, this is the reality,
and this is the nature of things.
We have to make them qualified for that
moment when it comes.
We have to make them the leaders and
the creators, and also
the,
the the imams and the teachers of the
future. We have to make them qualified for
this.
And I conclude with this,
There is nothing wrong with our students,
and I'll be I'm talking about the youth,
the young ones. There is nothing wrong
if you become the rich richest one in
the community.
There is nothing wrong if you have the
biggest house in Edmonton.
There is nothing wrong if you have the
fanciest
cars in Edmonton.
But you have to keep the balance between
working for this life, but you also have
to keep
working for the next life too. So don't
build
your life of this life and destroy your
life in the next life because the next
life is the eternal the eternal one. So
work for both lives, this one and the
next life.
Again, we need some of the brothers and
sisters here, the young ones, we need teachers,
doctors, engineers,
and we also need imams from this group
and other young ones. And we also need
dawah for Islam.
You can make dawah in your school. You
can make dawah if you're a doctor engineer
by being successful in what you do. This
is the best dua.
Don't make dua by giving lectures to people.
The best dua is you can do by
your manners
and by being successful.
One brother
is Hindu from India,
came to me 2 years ago in South
Carolina, and he said he was in the
Department of Engineering doing his PhD, and he
wanted to be a Muslim
just like his his Muslim colleagues at the
school in the Department of Mechanical Engineering because
they were very happy, they were very successful
in their work. So he wanted to be
successful like that.
So this is what you should do and
finally we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
accept our obedience and to forgive our sins
and to help us do what is best
for us in this life and in the
best life to come, inshaAllah.
And I conclude with the questions, if you
allow me 2 minutes.
So the first question,
Usam al Zayed,
when the prophet appointed
him the leader of the Muslim army, he
was,
how old when the prophet appointed him? If
sent him to Yemen as a judge,
as a judge and a teacher, how old
was he?
The brother here.
Yes, come.
Alhamdulillah.
2. No.
The brother. Yes.
No.
Yes.
Swell? Yes.
To be successful,
you have to have 2 things.
Ability and what?
This is Tahir. Desire. Desire. Desire.
Alhamdulillah. Come. Alhamdulillah.
I will give it to her. Okay.