Mustafa Khattab – Hijra Lessons

And I've been witness that Muhammad, salallahu alayhi

wasalam, is the seal of the prophets and

the final messenger

to all of humanity.

Whomever Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, guides,

there's none to misguide. And whomever Allah, Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala, leaves to go astray,

So a few days ago, the New Year

began,

and this marks the Hijra of the prophet,

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

1434

years ago, when the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa

sallam, left Mecca and he went to Madinah

to start the Muslim state.

So in our time, hijrah because every one

of us has to make hijrah in their

lives. So Hijra in our time means that

you leave the Haram

and get away from the Haram and do

the Haram. And this is what Allah the

prophet says in the that the Muslim is

the one from whose hands and tongues people

are safe.

And the one who makes hijrah is the

one who leaves the Haram and goes to

the Haram. So this is what is required

of you. If you do something wrong, something

against the Sharia, something against Islam, if you

quit it, then this is your hijrah.

So today, inshallah, very briefly, we'll touch on

some of the examples, some of the lessons

that all of us can learn today from

the Hijra of the prophet SAWS. And

then that's it.

So the first lesson is to do your

best and put your trust in Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala.

We read in the books of Surah that

when the Sahaba of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam left before him, he made sure

that all Muslims left before him to Madinah

because of all the persecution in Mecca.

Then the prophet

started to plan for his own Hijra.

He got Abu Bakr,

the 2 camels.

He took care of who is gonna guide

the way, Abu Allah,

who was not a Muslim, by the way.

And who is gonna provide food, who is

gonna do this, who is gonna do that,

and the time. So everything was planned precisely

ahead of time.

So this is how the prophet, lived

his life. He was always planning. He had

a vision, and he was always thinking ahead

of time. There's plans for everything. He doesn't

give a chance.

So he knew who was going to do

what and when. We read in other hadith

that a man came to the prophet

and said,

when I come to salah,

should I leave my camel outside loose, or

should I tie it and come to the

salah? So the prophet,

of course, as reported in Sayyid Al Midi,

he said, tie your camel then come to

salah.

So if you come to the prayer,

don't leave your car running outside in the

street, and, don't leave your keys in the

car. Because believe me, by the time you

finish your car will be in Vancouver.

So you have to put your trust in

Allah. Do your best, then Allah

will take care of the rest.

So the second lesson we learned from the

prophet

is he had a clear vision of what

he was going to do, and he put

his priorities in order.

So for a Muslim,

you have priorities in life, and you have

to have a vision what you plan to

do in 5 years, in 10 years, and

also you have to put your priorities in

order. Most of the time,

when a person or a society or even

a country has a problem, it means one

thing to me, that the priorities are not

involved.

So the priority for Muslims was to to

live a decent life

and to follow the Quran and the sunnah,

to live the deen, to to be able

to practice the religion.

Getting a beautiful, a good job was not

the priority for them.

Buying the biggest house in town or the

fanciest car in town was not their biggest

priority in life. Maybe this is priority number

10 or 15,

but living Islam and living by Islam was

their priority. This is why they left everything

behind them

in Mecca, and they left to Madinah. They

left their money. They left their homes, their

land, and everything,

and they fled to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

and they went to Madina, and they established

themselves.

So the priority for every one of us

is to prepare yourself

to the next life

because

nobody,

Yani, expects to live in this life forever.

You live for a 1000 years, eventually, you

will leave this life, this temporary life, and

go to the next life.

So the priority is to use this dunya

to make it easy for you in the

next life. So this life is a plantation

for the next life. This is your priority.

And Hassan al Fazdi, rakamalullah, was asked

about happiness in this life and the priority

in this life. He said, I'm happy in

my life because I do 3 things.

Number 1, I know for sure that my

risk is coming to me, and no one

is going to take my risk, so I

put my heart at peace.

Number 2, I know that no one is

going to do my work, salah, and so

on and so forth, so I got busy

with that. I don't have time to back

my people and to talk ill about other

people. And number 3, I know that death

is coming to give me any time

sooner or later, so I got ready for

after the next life. So always keep these

things in your mind. No one is going

to take your list. No one is going

to do your work in this dunya,

and death is right there ready to take

everybody's life. Somebody today, there is a Janazah

today, and there is a Janazah tomorrow as

well after the doctor. Nobody knows who is

next.

So what is required of you in this

life is to do the requirements, the obligations

that Allah

has made obligatory

for you.

Don't waste your time.

So Allah

says in Hadith, my servants will never get

close to me with anything except with what

I have made obligatory on them. Salah,

Hajj, Zakat, fasting, and so on and so

forth.

So, again, Allah

has obligated you to do certain things in

life, so you have to stick to them.

And as we said,

Allah,

you can never get close to him with

anything except with what he has made obligatory

in you, like salah and different.

They said there was this king,

and he had 3 assistants.

So he told him, I want every one

of you to go to the superstore

and take your car and fill it with

food.

Nothing but food. So the first one, he

listened and obeyed.

He filled it with food.

Cans, biscuits, fruits, vegetables, everything.

And the second one, he said, I don't

think the king is going to eat that

food because he already has cooks and everything

in the palace. He doesn't need but you

know what?

Just give it,

50.50 chance. I'm gonna fill half food and

have something else. Choose a belt, you know,

bag, anything else. Choose a belt, you know,

you know, bag, anything else.

Toothpaste, all that stuff.

Ben Adir,

clinics, all that stuff. And the third one

he said,

what is this king talking about? He's not

gonna eat, that food anyway. You know what?

I'm gonna fill it with shoes, with clothes,

toothpaste,

glasses, all that stuff. No food because he's

not gonna eat it anyway. And when when

they went back to the king, he told

him. He told the guards,

lock everyone of them up in a room

and let them eat all the stuff they

got for a whole month. Of course, the

first one ate all the food in that

month, and he was safe because he listened

and obeyed.

The second one,

he ate half of the food in 2,

3 weeks, and the rest of the time

that that remaining week, he couldn't find anything

to eat. He ended up eating the shoes

and the belt and the toothpaste and all

that stuff. By the time they got him

out, he almost died. He was he starved.

He was starving at that time. But he

survived, alhamdulillah.

But for the third one, he didn't find

anything to eat because he followed his own

brains. He didn't listen, and he didn't obey.

So the 1st week, he ate all the

bills and all the shoes and all the

toothpaste and all that stuff, so he died

after 2 weeks.

The second one is the person who mixes

up good deeds with bad deeds. So as

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in Surah Al

Tawba, they have a 5050 chance, and eventually,

by the grace of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

they will make it to Jannah.

But the third one are those who only

follow their heads, and they they disobey Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala all the time, and they

think they are righteous ones, and all their

actions are corrupted. That's Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

So the 3rd lesson is you have to

give the trust back to its rightful owner.

You read in the sunnah that, of course,

the people of Mecca Abuja and Abu Lahab

and Abu Sufyan before Islam, they were buddies.

They were together all the time. But if

someone

of them had something precious and they needed

to put it a trust with someone,

they didn't trust each other. So what they

did, they always gave the amaanah to the

prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Although they had

fights with him all the time.

But he is the trustworthy.

So they kept their trust with the prophet

When

the prophet

had to leave Mecca and go to Medina,

he made sure

that he trusted Ali ibn Abi Khali radiAllahu

anhu to return the trust to

the

people.

He

didn't

take

all

the

money

and

all

the

gold

with

him

to.

So sometimes and I've seen this with my

own eyes. You give someone something as a

trust, then at some point you have a

disagreement

with them, and they tell you, you know

what? I'm not giving you back your money.

I'm gonna hit your pocket,

a big time. You know? This is something

and this is something else.

The

prophet

says, give the trust back

to those who trust you and don't betray

those who betray you.

If people are bad to you, it doesn't

mean you should be bad to them.

So Allah

says, don't let

your disagreement

or hatred to someone

make you unjust to them. This is something

else. They are not an example to you.

You should set an example to them of

how to deal decently and Islamically.

So number 4, and this is the last

one for today, the prophet

did dua all the time.

And this is our responsibility

in this society.

We're all here only to make money and

to buy big cars and be home. Make

dua

even by giving a pamphlet to someone. If

you are not able to make dua because

you don't have time or you don't have

the resources,

at least support the dua efforts in the

masjid and in the community.

We read in the books of

dua while he was on the way to

Madinah.

It says in the books of that he

met a man by the name of Uraida

al Islami, and some of his people, he

made dua to them, and they accepted Islam

on this flood. Although

he was running away

from Mecca, and people were trying to catch

him and and attack him, but still he

had time, a few minutes to make dawah.

Also, in another

story in the books of Sira, the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam came across 2 thieves.

Chores.

So he made dua to them, and they

accepted Islam. And the prophet said, what are

your names? They said, where are they,

You Ali, disgraced ones. This is what people

call us. So the prophet

He accepted Islam several years back, and he

is one of the most active people in

dawah.

So he said, they are very active in

dawah and wellness. So they go to the

streets, and they start to hand out pamphlets.

So he said, I came across this guy

and

he wore 3 things,

sunglasses,

a pair of shoes, and shorts.

That's it. And he said, this guy was

covered.

Yeah. And it was tattoos from head to

toe. Everything. He was the 2 to look.

He said, well, when I saw him, I

felt like he was the shaitan.

Terrible.

So he told the brother, well, hey, get

away from this guy. He's gonna waste our

time, you know. We don't have time for

this.

Another

brother from the group, he said he gave

that guy he gave him a pamphlet, and

he read that pamphlet in a few minutes,

and he accepted Islam on the spot.

So always put your trust in Allah

and do your best, and Allah

will take care of the rest. That's Allah