Mustafa Khattab – Chased By A Lion
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The speaker discusses a story about a man who found a garden hive and died. They emphasize the importance of not dying and being willfully deaf. The annual reminder of death from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is mentioned, along with a warning about the upcoming snow and the importance of not being scared by the evil spirit. The importance of taking action and not rushing until it arrives is emphasized, along with small things and leaving a legacy.
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I bear witness that there is none worthy
of our worship except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And I bear witness that Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam is the seal of the prophets and
the final messenger to all of humanity.
Whoever Allah
guides, there's not to misguide.
And whoever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala needs to
stray, there's none to guide. Alright.
I'm going to begin with a story.
I see a lot of youth in attendance,
and by youth I mean 65
and
and below.
So there is this story, there was this
man and he walking in the jungle,
and
the weather was nice.
You know, the birds were singing,
the sun was shining,
and the flowers
they look beautiful. And he was enjoying the
weather and he started to sing. Right? Beautiful,
beautiful weather.
Fagrat,
all of a sudden, he saw a hungry
lion,
and the lion was coming towards him.
Like fast. Right?
Very fast.
And the man was scared, and he tried
to escape,
and he couldn't find anywhere to go, so
he looked and he found eventually
there was a well, there.
So he jumped into the well just to
escape the line.
So there was a bucket
and there is this rope and the bucket
was dangling from the rope, so he landed
inside the bucket.
And he was hanging by the rope.
He said, how can I get up? This
is terrible. And he can't get any worse.
Fuck it. There was an anaconda at the
bottom of the well,
and the anaconda wanted to eat him.
He said, dude, this is getting terrible. This
is bad.
You know, the mind is up there and
the anaconda
down there, and it doesn't get any worse.
Fuck up. All of a sudden,
he saw 2 mice, one of them white,
one black.
They,
climbed up the rope and they started to
eat the rope.
Said, man, this is terrible. What am I
gonna do?
He felt helpless and powerless,
and he started to swing, jump from one
side to another
because he didn't know what to do.
And all of a sudden,
Fagga,
he found, you know, there are some wild
bees, they build their hives in different places
like caves and so on and so forth.
So he found a hive on the side
of the well,
and he started to taste the honey.
This is amazing.
So he started to eat the honey, and
he totally forgot about the lion, the anaconda,
and the mice.
Farha, all of a sudden, he woke up,
so it was basically a dream.
So he went to the imam, Bawlala,
and he told him his dream, and the
imam said, you know, the this garden, this,
you know, the jungle with the flowers and
the birds and everything, this is like dunya.
And the line is like malakul maut, which
is ready to take your life.
You try to
escape, you jump in the grave.
And he said, what about the
white mouse and the black mouse? He said,
this is the day and night. The day
and night when they pass, they bring you
closer to the end. He said, what about
the honey? He says, this is the pleasure
of dunya. They make you totally forget about,
you know, your fate.
And subhanAllah, we come to this point
because you have lived for so long,
and you feel like, I'm not gonna die,
I'm here to stay.
So Allah
is sending these reminders,
just look around you.
Winter time, you see, you know, the leaves,
they dry up and they fall down. The
trees are shitting the leaves. This is a
sign, an annual, a yearly reminder
that maybe one day your life will be
just like this tree. You will come to
the end. You'll have gray hair, fallen teeth,
you walk with the cane just like the
tree.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is sending daily
reminders, and I'm gonna talk about this in
a minute.
So when you look around you, you see
the snow.
Terrible news, snow is coming
soon, inshallah, in a few days or a
few weeks, we will see snow.
And the trees look dead.
There is no sign of life. And Allah
gives this example all the time in the
Quran, in Surah Al Silat.
And you look at the Earth around you,
it looks dead.
No leaves, no flowers, the birds are gone,
the sun is not shining anymore.
Then Allah says,
So as soon as we send rain,
spring comes and the trees come out and
the leaves and the flowers come back and
the fruits and and Allah says the one
who gave life to the tree after in
in the spring, after the winter, is the
same one who is able to bring you
back to life after you die. Right? So
when people see the tree shitting their leaves,
you know, they respond to it in different
ways. So some people, they dress up in
crazy costumes, and they go around to scare
off
evil Roar. Right? The evil spirits.
But you should do tadabur, and think of
your life just like the tree. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is sending you these
annual reminders. And in the Quran, when Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, I'm gonna mention something deep.
So please,
Yaani,
wake up. This is a
wake up call.
So if you usually fall asleep in the
poppa as soon as I say, amadat,
or if you play with your phone, or
you talk to your friends, oh, this imam
is so boring. Right?
On WhatsApp.
Yeah. So pay attention for just 10 minutes
because this may change your life. Right?
So basically,
Allah
is sending these reminders in nature.
So Allah
is sending signs in the written book, which
is the Quran,
an individual book, which is nature around you.
And Allah
is telling us to reflect on both
the written and the visual.
So Allah
says,
Allah will bring the living from dead and
the dead from the living. And the ulama
basically have 3 different tafasir
for this ayah.
So tafsir number 1, look around you, the
trees are dead.
Then springtime comes, the fruit come out, the
flowers and so on and so forth. You
look at the fruit stone, it looks like
a stone dead.
Then the tree will come out of the
stone, the
seed, and the seed will come from the
tree. Allah brings the dead from the living
and the living from the dead.
Or Allah
will cause the kafir to have iman.
And some people will renounce
faith. Right? So Allah talks in the Quran
about
those who accept
the truth of Islam as living, Allah gave
them life. And those who don't have this
gift from Allah
they are
made. Right? And he talks about in terms
of being willfully deaf, and and mute, and
blind, and so on and so forth.
And if you look at the example of
Nuh alaihis salam and his son, Allah
brought the dead out of the living Nuh
alaihis salam. He was alive because he was
faithful and his son was dead because he
was kafir.
Ibrahim alaihis salam, he was a believer
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala brought him out
of the dead his father was Kafir And
so you see the example here of iman
and Kufir There's another example that many people
are not aware of
We read in the Quran in many places
at least in Surah Anaim and Surah Zumr
where Allah
speaks about 2 different types of death.
The major death and the minor death.
And the minor death is something that it's
a reminder of death that Allah
gives us every single day. So when you
go to sleep at the end of the
day, Allah calls it death in the Quran,
the minor death.
How does it work? Allahu yatauf al Afuzahinamomtayin
Surah Zumr Ayah 42. So when you die
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would partially take up
your soul
and this soul will leave and Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala already has the souls of those
who are dead, the major death.
In the morning Allah will give you back
your full ruh,
and this is why a lot of people
they have these visions of their fathers, parents,
grandparents when they after they die. So Allah
will give you back your ruh in the
morning, but he will keep the ruh of
the dead. And this is another example of
Yufrisul Hayyimin al mate. He will take the
ruh of the living out of the dead
in the morning. And this is why Muhammad
in the morning, after he wakes up, he
will say,
who gave us life after we he took
our roo. Again, it's it's a partial death.
It is not a major death. R Omar
Ibn Khattar
called it,
He said sleep is the twin brother of
death. Right? So this is something we experience
every day. Most of our of our senses
are good.
You know, you don't taste things in your
sleep, you don't see things in your sleep,
and some people they're, you know, fast sleepers.
If their building collapses, they don't hear anything.
They're just, you know, they don't hear anything
because they're gone.
And Allah
I call them they were asleep, but they
were like dead in Surah Kaf. Right?
So now
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is sending these reminders.
Why? Because we get busy with life.
So even if you come here for Jum'ah,
for reminders, you are sitting here, you think
about your work,
how much you hate your boss,
how miserable you are in the marriage, and
your kids, how they are driving you nuts.
So you're, you know, you don't get the
reminder.
And and this is why I I keep
reminding people, just pay attention for 10, 15
minutes because this is the only reminder you
get in the entire week.
10 minutes, and that's it.
Right? So basically, we need to keep this
reminder
that because if you don't have the reminder,
before you know it,
your life is about to end.
You as a tree, you're about to shed
your leaves, you're about to leave this dunya,
and you didn't accomplish anything.
Sheikh, you are making us miserable, like, am
I gonna die? Like, I should become lazy,
I should sit at home and wait for
death. No. And I'll give you the answer
at the end of the whole thing, just
a few minutes, InshaAllah ta'ala. We know for
sure
that we don't know the time for death.
We know for sure that we're going to
die one day or the other,
but we don't know the time or how
we will die.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala works in mysterious
ways.
So for example, someone has cancer or someone
is diabetic and you think,
I know for sure they will either die
because of cancer or diabetes,
and the person would end up dying in
a car accident. Like, totally different.
I was talking to my son, as he
had 9 years old, actually, he has,
you know, big imagination,
and he was telling one of those,
fictional stories.
He said, there was this guy,
and there was this gang, they tried to
kill the good guy, so, you know, they
were chasing him, he fell off the plane
or the chopper.
He landed in the river.
Not a scratch.
They shot him. They missed. They tried to
set him on fire.
They didn't die. They tried to poison him.
Nothing happened.
And he went to Omashallah. He survived. He
said, this is my lucky day. I'm gonna
reward myself with with, cheesecake. They put a
cherry on the top. He actually choked on
the cherry and he died.
I said, I didn't see this coming, but
he put everything in perspective.
Like, SubhanAllah, who would think
that someone who died in 1945, like Hitler,
would be able to kill children in my
village just a few years ago?
So basically, Hitler was, you know, planting land
mines in Al Alamein, which is a city
between Alexandria and Libya.
So he was putting these land mines
to stop the advancing of the British group
British, troops. So he was planting these land
mines.
So many years later, that's a few years
ago, someone from my village in Egypt went
to that place, and he filled up his
truck with sand. He took it to the
village for construction.
Kids found the landmine, they were playing with
it, and boom, all of them died. Right?
Who would like, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this
is like amazing. You never know what would
happen next. Right?
And a few years ago in Japan,
this guy was sleeping, maybe in his bedroom,
and he was in downtown Japan, I don't
know, Tokyo or somewhere else, he was asleep.
That tsunami happened
downtown.
And the the waves, they carried a boat
from the sea,
and the boat came and they crashed into
the building, and the guy was killed by
a boat in the 3rd floor downtown.
This is dude, this is like crazy.
So life is very, like you don't know
how your life will end. You go to
a consulate
to sign a piece of paper, you die.
What is this, man? This is crazy.
This is like a Disney cartoon,
like crazy.
So you never know.
So you don't know the time, you don't
know how it will happen to you. You
should be ready all the time. So when
it is time to go, you are ready.
Right?
Hanaf, this is a collection of the scholars
of the Hanaf Imam Hab,
at the town of Khalifa Mansur, who passed
away in 19
in 149.
Imam Abu Hanifa died a year after in
1 50 Hijri.
So basically, Khalifa al Mansur had a dream.
He had a vision,
and in that vision he was asleep one
night, good meal, he had a dream. And
in the dream he saw Malakul Maut, the
Angel of Death.
He was terrified of course,
but he asked Malakul Maut, when am I
gonna die?
And Malakul Maut did like this.
So he woke up confused, he didn't know
what to think like, what is this? Like,
what is fire? I I don't know. What
what does that mean? So they invited every
Maulana in town,
and every alum or scholar they came, they
tried to interpret the dream.
First one of them said, you will die
after 5 minutes. So they waited, nothing happened.
This is wrong.
5 days, another one said. They waited 5
days, nothing happened. 5 weeks, 5 months, this
is, you know, like, this is not correct.
You say, we say in Urdu,
Right?
Half a scholar is dangerous to your,
to your iman, just like half a doctor
is dangerous to your health. Right? So you
should take your knowledge from scholars, right? Not
just from a guy off the street.
So someone said, why why don't we talk
to Imam Abu Hanifa? He's very knowledgeable, and
this is authentic in Tabakatul 'Aynah. They invited
the Imam,
Khalifa Mansur told him the dream, and they
told him how people interpreted the dream. So
the Khalifa said, what do you say? And
Imam Abu Ma'am said,
Malik al Maut is telling you, I don't
know.
How? He said, the angel of death is
telling you, this is one of the 5
things that no one knows except Allah, and
they are mentioned last ayah of Surah Alukman
in the line of Al Musa'a al Azulayat
and at the end
No one knows. Even Malakul Maut is telling
you, I don't know. Only Allah
knows. So we ask Allah to give us
and
and give us the best in this life
and the best in the life to come.
So now, you're telling us
we're gonna die,
we're hopeless,
I'm gonna sit back home,
wait for death, you made me miserable, you
ruined my day. No. This is not what
I'm trying to tell you. What I'm telling
you is,
this should give you a sense of urgency.
Don't wait till tomorrow. If you want to
accomplish or achieve something,
do it today because tomorrow may never come.
This is the message. The Muslim Ramadan, Ahmad,
and also in Bukhari, another narration of the
hadith, the prophet said,
If your Mukhiama begins,
If you have a small tree in your
hand and Kriyama is out there, go ahead
and plant the tree. Don't wait, just wait
it. It gives you a sense of urgency.
Right? Whatever you want to do, do it
now, because tomorrow may never come.
So this will give you a sense of
urgency. You should always do things. Don't delay,
don't wait, because
before you know it, you are ready to
leave Dunya, you didn't accomplish anything, so you
should do your best as soon as you
can.
Right?
Like, life is very short. Don't wait. Whatever
you want to accomplish,
don't wait. Do it as soon as you
can. This is my message for today inshallah.
I'm going to Jannah, 2 minutes and and
I'll finish, inshallah, with this in a later
time.
Jannah is not very expensive. Everyone can afford
Jannah
If someone wants wants to go to Jannah,
they have to pay money.
If you want to buy wheat,
you pay money. If you want to buy
alcohol,
pay money. Drug, you pay money.
Haram, you always pay money. But for Jannah,
smiling
to someone,
Saraka, you go to Jannah.
You read letters from the Quran,
hasanat, you go to
Jannah.
Give you Jannah.
Like it's easy, and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
makes it super easy.
Ibn al Qaim Rahimahullah,
he said,
there was an epidemic,
and many people died because of this epidemic.
So basically, one of them was,
you know, someone died,
and this woman who died in the, in
ta'un,
she, you know, her dad has a vision
and he he saw her dog, his daughter
in the vision.
So he asked her,
what happened when you died?
She said,
We knew, but we didn't do.
So he went to Mawlana, he asked him,
what does this mean? And the Mawlana
said, we know that it works for things,
and things are easy. If you do small
things with your tongue, you say things, you
read things, you do small things, you will
get millions or billions of Hasanara, but many
of us are lazy. We take it for
granted.
So for example, if you say,
It is now what?
3 harf. You get 3 rewards up to
30
multiplied by 7 only Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
knows. You read Ayakul, so you see the
reward. You read at one time, 1 third
of the Quran.
Surakah from the day of Jummah, see the
hasanat.
You see the great reward. You remember Allah
the great reward, SubhanAllah.
You do it once, Allah will give you
salaam 10 times back.
If you go visit the sick, the prophet
salaam, Musa ri Muhammad,
70,000
angels, Malayika will be making dua for you
the whole day.
This is super easy. Like, we are wasting
we are missing out a big time. So
always keep this in mind that we should
always do something small even every day. Before
you
sleep,
The prophet said in Bukhar, you say it
at night, you die before you die before
the morning, Jannah straight, 1st class. You say
it in the morning, you die before the
night, you go to Jannah straight, 1st class.
This is easy, Allah.
So we need to keep this in mind.
Whatever you want to accomplish in in life,
try to do it today because tomorrow may
never come. You cannot do it without the
help of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allahumma'inni
Allah.
Allah help me to worship you, be grateful
to you because I cannot do it on
my own.
So always keep this in mind, try to
leave a legacy, do your best. I leave
the rest to Allah
We ask Allah
to give us the best in this life,
the best in the life to come, to
give us sincerity in everything we say and
do. And ask Allah to give us sincerity
in everything we say and do. And ask
Allah to give us the best in this
life, the best in the life to come,
to give us sincerity in everything we say
and do. And ask Allah