Mustafa Khattab – Farewell Sermon
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Seal of the prophets and the final messenger
to all of humanity.
Whomever Allah
guides, there's not to misguide.
And whomever Allah
leaves to go astray, there's not to guide
aright.
So today, Shabbat, my favorite food, I'll be
leaving to Egypt to finish my PhD, and
I ask the,
to gather us together in Jannah as he
gathered us together in this place.
So just like the prophet
used his last
servant
to give Khunbah, to give pieces of advice
to people so they can live a happy
life in this dunya and to gain salvation
in the next life, I'll do exactly the
same thing, hoping that Allah
will give us all the benefit of what
I'm going to say.
So I begin by saying that I feel
honored to have served this
wonderful community for 2 years.
The community that built the bay the the
first masjid in Canada.
The community that built the biggest Islamic school
in North America,
and so many other projects that have been
done and more to be done in the
future in Shama'at.
So my piece of advice will be about
the family
and also individuals,
everyone among us,
and things that we have to keep in
our minds so we can gain happiness in
this life and to gain salvation in the
next life.
So the very first advice
is to seek knowledge.
I mean, there is no excuse not to
seek knowledge. And I'm gonna mention in a
minute what knowledge we need all of us
we need to have.
So knowledge is now available. Back at the
time of the Sahaba or some of the
great scholars like Imam Shekfe and Madik and
others, they have to travel 100 of miles
to get 1 hadith for one ruling.
100 of miles. Now you can sit in
the comfort of your house,
air conditioned
place, and you can watch videos,
listen to tapes. You can't listen while driving
your cars. It is very easy. But some
of us are very
lazy,
and it seems the more technology progresses
and the more advancements we have, the more
easier or the easier the knowledge becomes,
the lazy we become. So we're all going
to seek knowledge. So So if you go
to work, if you travel to Fort McMurray,
make sure you take CDs or tapes and
listen to them and try to learn more
about their religion.
So we listen to 52 footbas every year.
There are 52 weeks in the year, so
we listen to 52 footbas. If you just
follow and apply only 10% of what you
hear in the football, inshallah, you will be
like Abu Hanif.
Okay?
So we listen to a lot of footballs,
but and the knowledge is there. But the
problem is even if we listen,
most of us don't.
We don't pay attention, and even if we
pay attention, we don't try to follow, and
we don't try to practice.
I'm giving this example from the sunnah of
the prophet sasallam, a man by the name
of Muhammad al Asdi. He was from one
of the tribes in Arabia, so
he crossed he stopped by Mecca one time
before the hijrah of the prophet sasallam,
as mentioned to the side of the street.
So he heard people talking about a crazy
man.
And this man, the madam alaihi was a
doctor. He was a physician. He used to
treat sick people and crazy people and stuff.
So he he went to them and he
said, who are you talking about?
They said we're talking about this crazy man,
Mohammed.
So he said, show me this man because
maybe I'll be able to treat him. Take
care of him. So he went to the
prophet,
and he said, the people told me are
crazy man. Can I help you? So the
prophet said, would you like to listen to
what I have to say? So he said,
yes. Then the prophet
gave him the very introduction that I've been,
making every single jummah in the past 2
years. I pay with this that there's only
one God to worship, whomever Allah guides. There's
not to misguide. There's one God. And all
these things. So he told the prophet, sallam,
to repeat this introduction, and the prophet, sallam,
repeated it twice. So the man took shahadah
on the spot, and the prophet told him,
you would be a day to your tribe.
So he went and he made down for
them, and he accepted Islam just because of
2 lines from the Khutbah.
This is just the introduction. I'm not talking
about the topic for the Khutbah. I'm talking
about the introduction to the topic.
The obligatory knowledge in this gunim have to
learn. There's no excuse for not learning this
knowledge.
So when it comes to Allah, Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, you have to know his attributes
and how to worship him. Salah,
sli'am, all these things, the basics. You don't
have to have a PhD in Islamic studies
to know how to serve Allah, Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Almost all of us. We lift our country
back home, 10000,
15000 miles, and we came here to live
a decent life,
an honorable life. Okay?
And everybody of us here will say that
your children are the most important thing in
your life. Okay?
But still, we don't give them proper attention.
We care more about
money. We care more about cars and owning
the biggest homes and all these things. And
we don't know who our kids are hanging
out with. What kind of education do they
get? Do they pray or not?
Do they speak Arabic or your,
language,
Malatang or not? Somalia and all these things.
So you have to teach them. You have
to take care of them. You have to
know what they do on the Internet, on
Facebook, and who are the people they hang
up with. They're friends.
Now we leave our kids, we go to
other cities, and we leave them for 6
months or a year or 2 years, and
we don't know what our kids are doing.
And your wife cannot do everything by herself.
So you have to give your kids some
time. You have to take care of them.
Money is important, but believe me, your kids
are more important.
I've seen a lot of cases
where the kids are lost.
They do terrible things. I'm not gonna get
into the details.
And now the parents or the father comes
to me, what can I do now?
And I keep telling them I'm not a
superman.
You have not done your duty when the
kids were young.
Now they are lost. You're coming to the
ship to complain. What can I do for
you? You have to start from a very
young age, and don't wait until it is
too late, then you come to the imam
and complain.
So Allah, subhanahu wa'ala, ask you on the
day of judgment
about your kids.
Did you teach them salah? Did you teach
them their religion? Religion is the only thing
that can protect your kids in this society.
Believe me. Not the money, not
the house, not the car. Religion will protect
your kids,
and you have to teach them salah and
bring them to the masjid.
In the salata then a'adil farshaywin mumkah.
Salah will keep your kids away from the
evil deeds
So number 3, unity among Muslims.
This is the most important thing.
The Chinese have figured this out. The Jews
have figured this out. The Sikh, the Buddhist,
the Hindus, everyone. Every single minority group in
this country, they have figured this out. They
know that the only survival technique they have
to survive and flourish in this society is
to stick together.
Okay?
So we as Muslims, this is something we
learned from our religion. We have to be
one body.
As Allah says in the Quran, that mu'mins
are one brotherhood.
Doesn't matter if you came from Somalia or
Lebanon or Egypt or Pakistan. It doesn't really
make any difference.
So if you look at the Sahaba, the
brochures, and then they came from different nationalities.
So Omar and Abu Bakr al Dinh and
Ali, and the great Sahaba, they were Arab.
You have Bilal who was from Haberjha,
Abyssinia,
Ethiopia.
And you have Sohay was
Arumik, the Roman.
And you have Salman, the Persian and Pharisee.
You have Mariam Kaphtay and Copt from Egypt.
So they came from different places, and they
were one brother Khan. And they were all
respected, and they respected each other.
So the the the last thing I wanna
talk about is divorce. We have a serious
problem in Canada
and in Alberta, Edmonton.
The divorce problem.
I've seen a lot of cases divorce.
And for
every you had 2 people who come for
marriage,
there are probably 10 people who come for
divorce.
The the numbers are staggering. And Alhamdulillah will
try to make peace between the couples so
eventually,
maybe one couple will get a divorce, but
the problem is there. We have a social
problem
because every one of us, we always ask
for our rights and forget about our responsibilities,
and our priorities are missed out. These are
the 2, yeah, the greatest reasons why we
have divorces in the community.
About a year ago, I gave 3 footballs
about,
the top ten reasons why we have divorces
in the community.
And I wish I gave I never gave
those footballs because the numbers increased
dramatically after I gave the footballs. So I
wish I never gave them.
Them. So I've been here for about 2
years. I almost gave the course to have
a community, And if I stayed for another
year,
the Lord have mercy. Okay?
So the prophet is
telling us, look for the religion. Whether you
are a man or a woman, you have
to look for someone who practices the deen.
And I'm telling you,
So the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, says,
marry your daughters to someone who practices the
deen, who knows halal and haram.
And if someone comes to you and he
doesn't pray,
tell the Sheikh Muslama told us, I'm not
going to marry you, my daughter.
Okay? Because if someone has no haya from
Allah, believe me, will Allah, he would have
no haya from your daughter.
People are not practicing their relations. They don't
even pray. And the first question I ask
them when they come from the court, do
do you guys pray?
The answer is always no. They don't pray.
So if you have no respect for Allah,
subhanahu wa ta'ala, if you don't have a
relationship with Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, How is
he
going to bless this relationship
if you don't know halal and haram?
Ilamrifthani
waqaddasqulilahg
lafiq
ahuwalimutazawwajee.
The families always get involved, and people call
back home. Oh, he came late from work.
Oh, he gave me the wicked look. He
doesn't give me money. Oh, ask for divorce.
It's easy. Okay? So please let the accomplice
take care of their things. They're old enough,
intelligent enough to take care of their problems.
Also, people don't live according to their means,
and this is why they have financial problems.
They are under stress all the time, and
the marriages collapse.
Okay?
So I get a lot of couples, and
the brother complains.
I
I'm a truck driver. Okay? I don't make
a lot of money,
and my wife wants me to sell this
house and to buy,
a 10 times bigger house.
Six bedroom house, and we have only 1
boy and 1 girl. I tell my wife,
I can't afford.
She will tell you, okay, but what about
our neighbor? What about my sister?
Her husband is a doctor. He makes a
lot of money, whether an engineer
or a lawyer.
Okay? We don't have the same job. I
don't make as much money as my brother
does. So you should not compare yourself
to other people. Live according to your means.
Okay?
Allah
helps only those who help themselves.
So in co in conclusion, I would like
to thank the administration of the Masjid for
honoring me, giving me the honor to serve
this wonderful community for 2 years. And I
would like to thank this wonderful community for
their patience and their generosity
during the time.
So I will never forget all the brothers
who helped with the dawah project of Hanselah
and the different other projects.
Those who used to drive me to go
to the youth in their homes in the
winter and the cold weather to do dawah
to the kid the youth who are not
practicing their religion to bring them over
to the fold again.
And I'd like to thank those who were
helping with the different dawah projects, those who
came to the salah all the time, especially
salah to Fajr, and those who came to
the Halavas. And
I'll never forget
the assistance who used to help me with
dawah, and I will never forget,
brother Ahmed,
Awayla. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala rest his
soul in peace.
If I did anything wrong, it's only from
me, from the shaitan, or from Google.
K? And
The last thing I wanna say, if I
ever did or said anything that offended you
or hurt you, that was never my intention,
so please forgive me.
You never did anything wrong to me except
for stressing me out with the divorce and
the counseling and all these things. But I
ask the Allah
to forgive me, and I ask the Allah
to bless this community
and to help this community flourish.