Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 3 Good Company Ramadan 2011
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In this segment, the speaker discusses the importance of having a good company to achieve a goal of reaching Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The speaker gives examples of the importance of being a good company and advises against leaving one's position in leadership positions to avoid falling down. The segment also touches on the importance of having a good company for forgiveness and the importance of fasting during the day ofhair.
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Today, inshallah, we'll continue our discussion
about the theme of this month on how
to get close to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And throughout this month, we'll help you
achieve this objective inshallah, how to to get
close to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And as usual,
we'll keep our talk
as short as an inventory at night, and
we'll keep it as sweet as the light
from the cloud, inshaAllah.
You will not be able to get closer
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, as we said
last night, except
without except with knowledge. Without knowledge, you can't
make it. And the only thing that the
Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam asked for increase in
in the Quran is knowledge. And Surah Taha,
the prophet
says, oh, Allah, increase me in knowledge.
He didn't say increase me in positions or
leadership,
positions or cars or homes. He said knowledge.
So all of us are on a journey
to Allah
And on that journey,
to be able to get close to Allah
and make it to Jannah, you have to
have a good company,
people who will always motivate you to go
good to do good.
So this good company,
they will always remind you of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala if you forget.
If you make a mistake,
they will give you advice.
If you fall down, they will give you
a hand.
So this is the difference between a good
company and a bad company.
The good company, they will always pull you
off.
A bad company will push you down.
So this is the difference between the 2.
And in the following 2 or 3 minutes,
we'll give examples from the hadith of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and the Quran,
and the actions of a Salihullah, the Righteous
One, to know the benefit of having a
good company.
The prophet salaam
ordered is ordered in the Quran to keep
the company of the good.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling the prophet
salawasalayb in the Quran, stick with the righteous
ones.
Those who call upon Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
by day and night, they are seeking His
pleasure.
Purely for His sake.
In the Hadith of the prophet,
Abu Bakr narrated that the prophet
himself in an authentic Hadith collected by aqirmidi.
You are as good or as bad as
your friends.
These are the words of the prophet,
you are as good or as bad as
your friends. So pit your friends carefully.
This is an advice from the prophet,
So if you stick to the righteous people,
even if you are not as good as
they are,
or you don't do as much as they
do, you will get their rewards just because
of the good company. And this is supported
by a authentic hadith
narrated by Abu Marayor radiAllahu anhu, Isaihath Tirmidhi.
The prophet says that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
sends angels to travel the earth.
So every time they see a good company,
people are sitting together
remembering Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and studying
the Qur'ala,
then the angels will descend upon them and
will hover around them with their wings.
So when they go back to Allah, Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, he will ask them, how did
you leave my servants?
They say, oh, Allah, we lift them, praising
you,
and glorifying you, and remembering you. So Allah
will say,
bear witness that I have forgiven them. I
have forgiven them. But so he say, oh,
Allah, but
this guy at the end of the circle
of knowledge,
he is not a student of knowledge. He
was just passing by. He saw some good
people remembering Allah. He saw he sat in
the back just to listen to them. He
is not participating with them.
He's not a good guy. He's not a
good dude.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala bear witness that
I've forgiven all of them, and he is
included
because he is sitting with them.
Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
glorifies
a dog in the Quran because it follows
righteous people. In Surat Al Kahf, you're silent
every Friday.
So Allah
mentions this dog in Surat Al Kahf several
times
because he it followed
righteous people. It is mentioned in the surah
several times. And Allah
criticized
and humiliated
Haman,
who was the follower of pharaoh al Fir'am,
my countrymen.
So you have to remember this, and I
conclude with a very touching story.
And every time I read this story in
just a few seconds.
So in this story, one of the righteous
people, he was making tawaf around the Kaaba,
and he saw a man
holding the ropes of the Kaaba and was
praying to Allah
at night, and he was saying, oh, Allah,
I know that I disobey you. I'm disobedient,
servant of yours.
But I love those, and I follow those
who love and obey
you. So make my love for the righteous
one be a Shafa'a or a transition
for your forgiveness to me.
Wallahi, it's a beautiful story. If you reflect
on the words, they are very touching. So
inshallah, very quickly, the answer for the quiz
last night,
the winner for today is brother,
Abdul Haq.
Yes.
Mashallah. Twenty bucks.
He'll be dancing in the streets.
So the question was, if someone and his
wife, they are traveling
while they are fasting.
Okay? They are fasting during the day of
Ramadan, and they are fasting, and they had
an intimate relationship, Jima'ah.
So
how do they make up for this day
after Ramadan? They make up only one day,
because they don't have to fast in the
first place.
But if they were not travelers, then they
have to make up for the day by
fasting for 60 days or feeding 60 people.
This is the rule. So
The prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, praised the fasting
of of 1 of the prophets, and he
said that this great prophet, he used to
fast one day and brave the fast one
day. He used to fast every other day.
Who is this prophet? If you know the
answer, inshallah, email me at cicimabagalgmail.com.
Oh, yeah.