Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 10 Good Manners Ramadan 2011

So today is the 10th night of Tawhid,

and in a few days, inshaAllah, we'll say

goodbye to the month of Ramadan.

And some of you

might have wondered why would they call it

fasting

because it goes by so fast.

God made that up. But anyway,

So Islam

stands on 2 feet.

The first one is theology,

knowing Allah

and knowing how to worship and serve Him.

And the second foot is dealing with people.

We read in the Qur'an those who have

faith and do good. Those who have faith

and do good.

So if you look at the previous

faith,

the teachings of Musa Alaihi Salam, the teachings

of Isa and the previous prophets.

Like, for example, if you look at the

3 Commandments,

the first

few Commandments, they talk about worshiping Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala and having a good relationship

with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

Then the rest of the commandments, they say,

be a nice person.

Don't abuse people. Be good to the people.

Be kind. Be nice to the people. And

the same is also true in the Quran.

If you read the Surat and Isra,

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has decreed

that you worship none but Him

and you honor your parents. And the verses

go on to talk about how nice you

should be to the people. You shouldn't steal

or lie or

cheat and so on and so forth.

So all faiths including

Islam are all of us having a good

relationship with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, worshiping Him

properly

and being nice to the people.

When

and good manners. The

prophet sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam, I don't have a Hadith

Sahafid in the

Also, in another Hadith

by the Madi, the prophet says

that the most beloved of you to my

heart on the day of judgment

and the closest of you to me in

Jannah are those who have the best manners.

He didn't say that the closest of you

are those who pray more or fast more

or they do,

15 Hajj. No. He said, those who have

the best manners.

You have to fast, you have to pray.

I mean, this this is taken for granted.

I mean, there's no question about this, but

good manners is what makes a difference.

And

The Prophet

says in the hadith that

a prostitute

from the children of Israel, this is in

the authentic hadith,

went to Jannah because she gave water to

a dog in the desert to drink. It's

an authentic hadith.

In another Hadith, the Prophet SAW says that

a woman went to the hellfire

for abusing a cat until the cat died.

We all know these are Hadith.

So good manners to humans and animals and

to anything.

Because as we said before,

at the end of the day, you are

dealing with Allah

not with the people.

One example

of good manners is to love for your

brother or your sister what you love for

yourself, and you hate for them what you

hate for yourself. And the Prophet says in

the authentic Hadith. And I conclude with this

story.

So

this

is a story we conclude with.

We probably are aware of the tension between

India and Pakistan because of the politics in

Kashmir and what happened. So an Indian brother

told me this, this joke.

He said 2 Indian brothers

and 1 Pakistani brother, they were traveling together,

and they had the tension because of the

politics. They almost talked about politics. So they

were traveling in the desert,

they ran out of water, they ran out

of food, and they were that close

to death.

And they started crying and making God to

Allah

and all of a sudden, they found the

magic lamp of Aladdin, Aladdin.

Okay. So they dropped

the lamp and the genie came out and

he said,

masters,

I have one wish for each one of

you. Three wishes, 1 each.

So the first Indian brother, he said, I

feel so sorry. You know, I was very

disobedient and and I'm very close to death

now, And I wish I will go for

Hajj. And boom, he disappeared.

He disappeared and he found himself on Jabal

Al Fath.

So what Indian is done?

The second one said, I was disobedient to

my mother

and I gave her a hard time. I

wish that I can, you know, dedicate the

rest of my life in her service.

Boom. It's Satir. He found himself in Mumbai,

India.

The other brother,

he was not so happy that one of

them is not in hatch. The other one

is happy with his mother and his wife,

Umunbe. He said, these guys are happy now,

and they left me in this miserable situation.

Okay.

Okay. My wish is to bring these 2

back here.

And boom, they get back.

Wish for your brother what you wish for

yourself.

The question

the question for yesterday was if the question

the question for yesterday was, if someone missed

a few days of Ramadan 4 years ago

and they didn't make up the days yet,

after 4 years, they will have to make

up the days. And as a punishment, they

will have to feed a poor person for

every day or to give a saw of

of food, either way.

The winner for today is Hajj Milkel Hamur.

Where is he?

Hajj Milkel Hamur.

Is he here?

Question for today, if someone is asthmatic,

okay, and they have to use the puffer

all day, he won't have Ramadan.

Does the puffer using the puffer in the

day of Ramadan invalidate the fasting or not?