Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 28 The Good the Bad and the Ugly Ramadan 2011
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By the, several little kids
who came to me
with money,
and they probably gave out everything they have
on their piggy banks.
That's all they can do. And I wish
we can follow their example
not to give everything you have in your
piggy bank, but at least,
try to do your best. And Allah
reward you,
for this.
And
a few days ago,
I was reading about
the biggest masjid in North America,
and
I came to this
sad reality that the biggest masjid in North
America is built by who?
In Calgary?
And the Baha'is, they are building the sandals
all over the place. They are running
them. And they know that the only way
to survive as a minority is to stick
together.
And this is something all of us need
to learn from. We need to stick together.
We need to do our best. And we
need to contribute the best we can.
Because we have the truth in our side.
We have the most kind of Adam in
our side.
So only and all the deep and grooves
take care of this places of worship. And
we, Muslims, we know we have Allah on
our side. We have the truth in our
side. And we hesitate to get a why.
We know that Allah will give you back.
And this is what Allah
calls a charity
in the Quran.
Allah
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and don't hesitate.
The means for today, for tonight,
for getting closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is to show gratitude to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala for everything
that you have.
If you have
a wife
and children,
if you have a house, if you have
a job, if you have a car, then
believe me, you are one of the chosen
few.
There are 1,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 in this world
who don't have a wife, they don't have
children. They don't have a job. They don't
eat 3 meals a night. They don't have
a car.
There are 1,000,000 who are wifeless,
husbandless,
childless,
carless,
moneyless,
jobless,
homeless,
and all the
list there is in the dictionary.
So you're one that chose a few.
If you don't thank Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala for
what you have, then the the Niama will
be removed from you. Allah will give it
to somebody else, those who will thank
for what they have.
So you have to feel in your heart
that everything that you are, everything that you
have, everything that you own is from Allah.
And this is what Allah says in the
Quran. Whatever you have is from Allah.
When you came to this life,
you didn't have nothing, man.
Allah
brought you forth out of the wounds of
your mothers,
But many people, they refuse to show gratitude
to Allah
The second way of showing gratitude
and thanks and praise to Allah is
to thank him when you're done
saying,
The Prophet
says in the authentic hadith that Allah is
pleased with you.
Whenever he gives you something to eat, you
say, Alhamdulillah for the food. Whenever he gives
you something to drink, you say, Alhamdulillah for
the drink. Allah is pleased with you.
And the same is also true for the
money, the car, the wife, against everything.
So the 3rd way of showing gratitude to
Allah
is to help those who are less fortunate.
You have to give out something to help
those who are in need.
And when you give a charity, when you
give a contribution,
you're not doing people a favor. This is
the right one you.
No hair, and he was ugly. The second
one was a liver. He has a problem
in his skin. The third one was blind.
So an angel Allah sent an angel to
the 3 of them, and he told them,
okay.
I will give the first one hair. It
will be handsome. The second one, the lip
the lippers, all the skin in the problem
will be done. The third one,
you will give back your sight, and Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will give you money and
make you rich.
You have to get the rights of Allah
and the rights of the people.
Then the angel came back in the form
of a poor person,
bad clothing,
and in a bad shape. So he came
to the first one. You were bald and
Allah made you handsome. And he made you
rich. Give me something. He said, no. This
is my money.
I inherited it from my parents.
Allah gave me nothing.
So
Dan just said, if you're unliked, then Allah
from you. Then boom.
Everything was gone. The hair was gone. The
money was gone. They were a
Then you went to the second one, the
lipper. He said, Allah gave you a good
skin. He made you handsome, and he gave
you money. So give me something. I'm a
poor guy. He said, no. I inherited all
this money from my parents,
from my father. I inherited the money from
my father.
I inherited the good looks from my mother.
Okay?
Now this is nothing in the hadith.
So
so if you said, if you are lying
to me that Allah will
remove the namah from you, then boom,
everything was gone. And it became a liver
again. He lost all his money.
The third one, the blind the guy who
was blind, he came to him. And he
said, look at what Allah
gave you. You were blind. He gave you
money. He said, that is true. Wallah. I
was blind.
I was in a bad shape. Allah gave
me my eyes back. Now I can see,
and Allah gave me a lot a lot
of money. Then take whatever you want and
leave whatever you want. It is not my
money anyway. It's Allah's money. So he said,
may Allah bless you. You pass the exams.
The 2 guys, they failed the exams a
big time. So I want each and every
one of you to pass the exam. Don't
fail the exam like the first two guys.
May Allah
bless you with the good looks and the
beautiful hair.
And,
so I'll
so I'll for yesterday, if a sister has
a 150 grams of gold for beautification, does
she have to give zakah on that? The
answer is,
Imam Abu Alipa says yes. You have to
give the zakah on that money. But Imam
Malik, Imam Shaq, and Imam Ahmed, they said
no. If it is for beautification, you don't
have to give the zakah on that on
that money.
However, if the gold
is for business,
then you have to give zakat and that
money. The winner for tonight is Sister Mohammed,
inshallah, will give her the reward after,
salat on the in the target. The question
for tonight,
2 years ago,