Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 7 Sincerity vs. Showing off Ramadan 2011

So today, inshallah, we'll talk about another

means that brings you closer to Allah

and this means is sincerity,

Ikhlas.

Allah

tells

us in the Quran in numerous places

that the only thing that people have been

commanded to do

is to be sincere to Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala. And Surah Al Bayinah, Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala says that humans have been only commanded

to do only one thing,

to worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and to

be sincere

in their worship to Him, to dedicate everything

they do

purely for his sake.

The opposite of sincerity is

to show off.

To do things that be so that people

will say, oh, masha'Allah, this brother is generous,

generous. This brother is sincere. This brother is

a Muskar. A Muskar is someone who goes

to the Masjid.

I made that up.

So the prophet

is calling

showing off, is calling it minor shirk in

the hadith. Then the Prophet

says at the end of the hadith, on

the day of judgment, when people come to

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to take the reward

for their deeds, the people used to show

off in this life, then Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala will tell them, go to the people

to whom you used to show off in

this life and get your reward for them.

I have no reward for you.

You did, so they will say, and they

said, so you already got your your reward.

I got nothing for you.

Coins

at the care.

5¢,

10¢.

It takes 2 hours to give someone

$10

in coins.

You do it, so people will say, hey,

Mashallah,

very generous.

When you give someone a jacket,

and every time you see them in the

merchandise, they say, hey, Mashallah, this is a

beautiful jacket, man. Where do you get it

from?

You know what? You don't deserve it, but

I'm a generous guy.

You see?

This is reminding people of your kindness.

Philosophy. How?

So someone is standing in the machine making

salah, and the people are standing behind him

and saying, Mashallah, look at him, who are

these gunmen? SubhanAllah, very beautiful ruku.

And he will tell him, apes,

and I'm fasting too.

It's not only salah, I'm fasting too. Okay?

And he lived in a masjid, in one

of those,

faraway masjid. Nobody was going to the masjid.

Nothing. No one. Absolutely nobody.

So he put an ad in the paper,

we need somebody to pray in the masjid,

and we'll give you $5 for every salah

you do in the masjid. So mashallah after

this, and

the masjid was packed. People praying in the

kitchen, everywhere, in the in the whole place,

in the front yard, in the backyard, everywhere.

So they came to him after the first,

the first prayer, and they said, where's our

money?

Where's our money, man? He has the money.

He said, did I say in the ad

that I'll give you after Ibn salat?

No. I give you at the end of

the month. Wait for your check. So they

came at the end of the month, and

they said, Shaykh,

where is our money?

He said, Wallahi,

as a matter of fact,

I got nothing. I have no money.

But the only thing I did it, so

you come and take the reward from Allah,

and Allah will reward you for coming to

the Masjid.

They said,

you know, you you Sheikh, you are a

crook. We knew you are a crook.

You you wanted to to laugh at us,

but we have the final laugh. We always

come to the salah without wudu.

So unless Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and Yazooka

Nafla.

The question from last time, if someone intended

to break the fast,

but they, they couldn't find anything to eat

or drink,

is their fasting still valid? The answer is

no. Once you lose the intention for fasting,

there's no fasting for you. You have

the question for today, someone broke some days

in Ramadan, a brother or sister for any

reason. He was sick. She was,

she had a monthly period for any reason.

And he or she decided to make up

the days after Ramadan,

but they died in Ramadan or in the

day of