Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 6 Sound Hearts 2 Ramadan 2011

So a very

quick check

to see if you have

a tough heart

or you have

a sensitive

sound and living part.

If you are one of those

dudes

who stand in the salah and the imam

is reciting very emotional a'ez and everybody in

the land is crying and there is a

pool of water,

tears

under the people, and you are standing and

looking at the fans. Look how nice they

are, like you don't care.

Or you are sitting in a lecture and

the Sheikh is killing himself,

talking about the death of the Prophet salallahu

alayhi wasalam or any emotional topic, and you

are sitting there digging in your nose

like, what is going on man?

Or you go to the grave

and you see the the people, they are

bearing the dead

and you are standing to the side smoking

weed

and cracking jokes with the people.

Come on man, Shua'ala. Or you hear about

the suffering of your of your brothers and

sisters

in Somalia,

and you don't even make dua'a for them.

Or you see the suffering and the killing

and the torture of your brothers and sisters

in Syria, in Libya, in Yemen

and elsewhere,

and you don't care about them.

If you are one of these guys, you

have a tough part. You should do something

about this.

Some of the people, as we mentioned last

night, they might not be practicing,

but they have a soft heart. All they

need is a little push.

They need a sincere advice. That's all it

takes.

So the word

heart,

in Arabic is derived from the word

which is to change,

to flip.

And in the Hadith hadith in the

And in the hadith,

hadith in the Biyushalayhi wa sallam,

the prophet says in the authentic hadith that

the hearts of the people are between two

fingers of Allah, and he flips them. He

changed them any way he wants.

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala works in mysterious ways.

Some people go to guidance

and some other people's guidance

comes to them,

but they have it in part.

So the man for today is Khudayim ibn

Aiyal, and his story is also mentioned in

the book

of Ibn Nufudah Tawwabe the Repenters,

just like the story we mentioned last night

of Abu Hanabi. He was a thief, very

infamous,

very brutal, ruthless.

And the people were so scared of him,

So much so that if a mother wants

to put her son to sleep at night

and he's not willing to, she will say,

you sleep or otherwise I will get al

Quday to eat you. So the guy would

fall asleep.

So one night he wanted to climb over

a wall to stream from the house,

and in that house there was an old

man who sat in Quran and he was

silent this verse from Surat Al Khadeem the

Ayar verse 16 and the ayah says, isn't

it time

for the hearts of the believers to be

humble to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and to

take heed and to reflect

on the verses of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

the truth.

He said, oh, Allah, now is the time.

He said that the verse hit him in

the heart like a bullet.

He froze in his place and he went

home.

So he went back home, he made tawba

to Allah

and he committed his whole life to worship

in the sacred masjid in Makkah in Madinah

until he was called the dedicated man to

the service for the worship in Makkah in

Madinah in the

So one time, a person asked him, Masha'Allah,

why are you so righteous and

you are so bad and what happened to

you? He said, wallahi, one day I was

walking in the street, I see a page

from the Quran thrown on the ground and

people stepping over it, by mistake.

So I took it

and I kept it with me, he went

to the store, he bought some perfume,

he put it put put the perfume on

it and he put it in a hole

in the wall so people don't walk with

it. He heard a call from a bag

that says, Wallahi by Allah we will honor

you in the same way you honor the

name of Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala.

After his death, he came to someone in

his dream. So this guy asked him, Ofulahi,

what happened to you? He said, Bawmali, Allah

has forgiven me. And he said, why? He

said, because a few rak'ahs I used to

pray at night.

This is the only thing. Just like we

pray today in Taraweeh, this is what we

do and this is the thing that took

him to Jannah.

And the question for last night was, if

someone is holding the cup like this and

the Adan has paid for Hajj, what what

should he do? Can he drink?

And brother

Abdul Rahman, Abu said, Yes, we can.

Yes, we can drink. Where's Abdul Rahman?

Come,

mashallah.

And because a young brother won yesterday,

almost all the people who emailed me yesterday

and today are young brothers and sisters.

Okay. A question for today, very quickly.

Someone

decides

to break his path for no valid excuse.

He went home to eat something. He couldn't

find anything, absolutely nothing to eat or drink.

Is his fasting still valid?