Mustafa Khattab – Humanity
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I bear witness that there is none worthy
of our worship except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And I bear witness that Muhammad, peace be
upon him, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, is the
seal of the prophets and the final messenger
to all of humanity. Whoever Allah
guides, there is none to misguide, and whoever
Allah
leaves to stray, there is none to guide
aright.
So in the last footba we spoke about
this concept of Jabrul Khawater,
which is derived from the name of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala at Jabbar to comfort people
and to put a smile on their face
and to to treat them with dignity and
respect, and to love for them what you
love for yourself.
And this is something that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala created us with. We come from the
wounds of our mothers with this by default.
So we come with this concept of, or
predisposition
of humanity to treat people with respect and
dignity,
but the problem is with time,
we change. Like when you look at kids
in the kindergarten,
little kids, 3, 4 years old,
white, black, Asian, Latinos,
they're playing together, they're smiling, and they're hugging.
No problem. They go to high school,
now they start to see people differently. Oh,
he has a different skin color, and so
on and so forth. So we are not
born racist. We are born with this fitrah
of Allah
to love for others what we love for
ourselves, to treat people with dignity and humanity.
And Allah
says in the Quran, fiyurahatul Qadraha'a number 30,
He's still in the Malayika,
and placing
a human authority on earth. Why? To do
the right thing, to set things right,
and to treat everyone with dignity and respect,
To do the right thing.
So as I said, when we grow older,
we start to pick up the bad things
and learn from people which goes against our
nature.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created us to live
as human beings.
So subhanahu wa ta'ala, if you look at
the last century,
or the last 150
years
with the Industrial Revolution,
we have been overwhelmed with materialism,
and capitalism, and all these isms. Sometimes we
forget the purpose of our existence in this
world.
So we start to see people as objects,
not as other human beings. The same way
that Donald Trump for example,
looks at women, they are * objects,
or the way he looks at Muslims, or
Latinos,
or blacks,
they're subhuman to him, or this is at
least what we know from the way he
speaks.
So,
many years ago, when I was back home,
I would be sitting by the microbus driver,
so they can fit
like 10, 11 people in the in the
back and the driver is in the front,
and the fare was about a dollar and
half, $2,
and the way when he wanted to pick
someone up, if they have empty seats, they
would ask the guy who's collecting the money,
look there are $2 walking right there. Pick
this guy up, $2.
So they start we start to see people
as objects, not as human beings, and this
is why it becomes very difficult for us
to treat them humanely.
So in the last 100 years or 150
years, we have done everything.
We started to fly like birds, you see
all the airplanes all the time, the parachutes.
We started to swim,
snorkel in the ocean. We started to build
dams like beavers.
I think this is the right time to
start acting like human beings, to treat each
other with dignity and respect.
Enough with the hate, enough with racism, enough
with the wars, and the fighting, and and
the bloodshed worldwide.
I told you before I I stopped watching
the news for so many years, and sometimes
someone would bring some something to my attention,
and this is the only reason why I
I know what is going on in the
news. Because it's so painful, and so
troubling.
So today inshaAllah,
That you treat people fairly, with dignity and
respect, regardless of their faith, their color, their
background, and so on and so forth.
Nabiya salAllahu alaihi wa sallam, yakoofil hadith al
sahifil bukhari,
rawajabribnabillahu
alaihi
wa'ilaktada. So in this hadith al bukhari, the
Prophet
talks about the concept of humanity,
treating people with dignity and respect and making
things easy for people.
So in this hadith in Bukhari, narrated by
Jabri ibn Abdullah, the Prophet says Allah will
shower His Mercy
when a person who treats people humanely with
dignity.
When he buys, when he sells,
when he takes, or when he asks for
his money back from people who borrowed money
from him, and basically when he deals with
people in general, he would treat them with
dignity and humanity.
Also, there is another hadith,
Al Nabi
Bas'udinil Badrief, Hadith Radabe Mufrad Bilbuqari of Isai
Muslim.
In this hadith, in Al Adib Mufrad ibn
Bukhari, a Sahib Muslim,
the Prophet
said, there was a businessman from the Ummah
before you, and this man was very rich,
and he used to do business,
and on the Day of Judgment, he has
no hasalat whatsoever, except one thing. That when
he was a businessman in Duniya, and he
used to deal with people, if they failed
to pay on time, he would ask the
people who work for him, give them more
time, give them more time, or drop some
of the amount of sadaqa. Make it easier
for people. So on the Day of Judgment
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would say, we have
more right
to kindness
than you, and I will make it easy
for you today, if Allah's go to Jannah.
So the kind of humanity that we see
in the Quran, fisuratul Baqarah, if someone is
not able to pay on time, give them
more time,
Drop some of the amount,
And this is the humanity.
You can't find this in the materialistic world,
if you owe money to the bank, you
go there because you are up to your
ears in debt,
they charge you 20 or 25%
and compound interest, you fail to pay, of
course,
then foreclosure, they take your house, they throw
you in jail, the family is devastated. You
can't find this in the Sharia. Give them
more time, if they can't pay, drop some
of the amount,
This is the humanity of the Sharia.
This is the humanity that Islam treats people.
Khayzid Nithab is one of the great Sahaba
of the Prophet
He had this concept of humanity,
treating people humanely.
He was a businessman, and he was very
rich.
One day he fell sick, and for several
days very few people came to visit him.
So, he was wondering, he was asking his
wife, I thought that a lot of people
would come and visit me, Muslims, because
I have our brothers, neighbors, people who go
to the Masjid with me, but no one
is coming to visit me. I'm very sick,
no one is coming. So his wife said,
because people are borrowing money from you, and
you have been delaying them, you have been
wavering some of the amounts, you have been
making it easy for them, and they are
so ashamed, they are so shy to come
to you with loans on their backs. They
they don't want to come to you because
they are ashamed to come to you, and
they owe you that much of money.
So he sent someone in the markets to
call, to make an announcement, whoever owes money
to Kaisib Nizabid, the whole amount is waived.
Noma, you don't owe me anything, karaz. The
money is gone. You don't owe me anything.
So in this narration, they say that people
came to visit him in his house, so
much so that they broke the stairs of
his house. So many people were rushing, were
coming.
So one day he heard that his neighbor,
he had a business, and he went bankrupt.
He lost all his money in business.
This Ufia al Iftahi, after he heard the
news, traveled somewhere. He had something to do,
so he had to travel. He went down
of the city.
While he was out of the city, this
man who was who became bankrupt,
came to the wife of Sufyan Infauri to
ask for help. He was desperate. And he
said, would you please lend me some money?
I'm desperate. No one is willing to give
me.
So she gave him some money.
Later on that day, Sophia Nefawi came back
and his wife told him, you know, your
neighbor came, it's desperate, I gave him some
money. So Sophia Nefawi started to cry.
The whole day he was crying. So his
wife said, okay, why are you crying? Are
you mad because I gave him the money
without your permission? He said, no. I'm crying
because I forced him to come and ask.
I forced him, and I scratched his dignity.
He's humiliated. He came to ask me. I
should have given him the money before I
left the city.
So one of the great,
'Ulama, he had a business, people like Abu
Hanifa
the Great 'Ulama, they had businesses.
So there was a plaza,
and he had a store at the end
of that plaza,
so one day fire broke, all the stores
were, destroyed, demolished, were burned down, except for
his.
So when he received the news, he said
Alhamdulillah,
my store is safe.
Then he became regretful and remorseful, and he
said, I never regretted saying Alhamdulillah except this
time. Because I was not considerate
of all the people who lost their businesses,
I was just happy, selfish that Allah saved
mine, and the other stores were burnt down.
So this is the feeling of humanity that
we have in Islam towards other people.
And subhanAllah, when you read in the Seerah
of the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam and the
lies of the Great Sahaba, you see this
humanity with when dealing with people from other
faith.
Like this Tuesday,
millions of Muslims worldwide were fasting on Tuesday.
Why for Ashura?
What is the reason for fasting on Ashura?
Because,
when the Prophet made Israel to Madinah, everyone
knows the hadith, authentic hadith, that the Jews
were fasting and when the Prophet said why
are you fasting? They said this is the
day that Allah saved Musa and his people
from Firaoun.
So the Prophet
fasted and he urged the Sahaba to fast,
to honor Musa alaihis salaam and his people.
So this is something we learned from Islam,
we side with the oppressed and the abused,
regardless of the faith of the oppressor,
and regardless of the faith of the oppressed
and the abused.
This is the sense of justice we have
in Islam, the humanity we have in the
religion. We don't hate anyone, we hate the
wrong that people do. So we are not
against,
Christianity, we're not against Judaism, and the people
who have a faith, but we stand against
injustice.
Even if this injustice is done by a
Muslim, we stand against it. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says in the Quran,
Stand up for God as witnesses for justice.
Regardless of the faith of the oppressor and
the face of the oppressed.
You see in the authentic hadith, that the
prophet of Usayim Muslim, when the janaz of
the Yahudi passed by.
So when the funeral procession of a non
Muslim passed by, Yahuwani, a Jewish man, so
the Prophet
stood up, and the Hadith is authentic as
a Muslim. The Prophet
stood up, the sahaba said, you Rasool Allah,
he's a Jew. And the prophet
said, isn't he a human being? Alaysa nafsad.
And so on and so forth. The stories
are so many.
Umar ibn Khattam
when he saw and then Muslim begging people
for food in the streets of Madinah,
and the pro and Umar
said, what's wrong with you? Why are you
begging people for food? He said,
So in this story, Omar Ibn Khattah passed
by a Jewish man, who was begging people
for money, so he said, Okay, what's the
problem? He said, I can't pay my taxes
in jizya.
So Umar
said, Wallahi, we have not done right by
you. We took your taxes when you were
young, and now we let you down. And
he ordered
his people to give this man from Baytseman
in Muslim. So this kind of kindness and
humanity that you treat people
with.
Also,
I was an impugent for a couple of
years,
Fast forward to our time, we still have
these examples in our time,
but again, sometimes we're overwhelmed with materialism.
In Edmonton, the first masjid built in Canada
was built in 1937.
Masjid al Rashid in Edmonton. I was the
imam for that masjid for 2 years.
I heard that that masjid was built in
1937
by Lebanese women. They came together,
they decided to build a masjid. So of
course, their largest contribution came from the Muslim
community.
The 2nd largest donation to that masjid came
from the Jewish community in Edmonton.
That is in 1937,
10 years before
politics got into it, and and everything was
messed up.
Few years back in Connecticut,
Muslims in that place, in a place in
Connecticut, in the US, they didn't have a
masjid to pray and they couldn't raise enough
funds to to build a masjid.
So the priest from that church in Connecticut
donated the basement for the Muslim community, so
they can pray downstairs, as a masjid.
And they didn't ask them for money.
Same thing in Bradford, in the UK.
There was a synagogue for the church, for
the, for the Jewish community built in the
19,
19th century. And it was falling apart, they
didn't have enough money to renovate the place,
and the Muslim community came forward
to raise funds to renovate the place for
the community, and they raised over a £100,000.
A huge amount.
And I heard they decided to put a
Muslim on their board of trustees, out of
appreciation
for the Muslim community.
So this sense of humanity,
we are recommended to do also, even with
animals. When you treat with animals, you deal
with animals, you are commanded in Islam
to treat them humanely.
So we're reading the Sunnah of the prophet
a good act of humanity to an animal
is equal to an act of charity to
a human being.
Like for example, the man, in another narration,
a woman who gave water to a dog
in the desert, and Allah gave him Jannah.
Also, the person who,
kicked or,
or put
a a cat in a room,
imprisoned a cat in the room until it
died, we know in the hadith that this
person will go to Jahannam.
And the Prophet said, don't kill an animal
in front of another animal. Like for Korbani,
for Utqiya, when you go, you take a
goat or a sheep or sacrifice Korbani,
you are not allowed to kill one animal
in front of another, because you heard the
feelings of animals.
And the prophet
saw a man sharpening his knife
before he was going to kill his korbari.
And the prophet said, why didn't you do
this from before, like in another room? Why
do you do it in front of the
animal? This is like psychological
torture for the animal. Right? So you see
all these things in in in Islam, in
the teachings of the Prophet SAWHSAW and in
the Quran.
We have not sent you Muhammad, except as
a mercy to all of humanity, human beings,
animals, birds, all of humanity. We ask Allah
to instill this concept of humanity in our
hearts.
So inshallah, in just one minute, I'm gonna
remind you of something I said many years
ago,
and
I was not here many years ago, a
few months ago.
Sorry.
The prophet
he said something beautiful that I I never
get tired of of saying.
The prophet
said, when you deal with people, do your
best to benefit them.
The most beloved people to Allah are those
who are beneficial to other people.
And he said, if you are able to
benefit someone,
do it. Go ahead and do it. And
if you are not able to benefit someone,
at least don't harm them. Keep your arm
away from them.
So the prophet
said, if you can't help someone financially, go
ahead and do it. If you can help
someone physically, like your neighbor is old, he
can't shovel the snow or carry his,
grocery,
help them.
If you cannot help them physically, financially, at
least
Tell them what to do.
Give them Nasiyyah.
If you are not able because you don't
have the knowledge, or you don't have the
time, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
If you are not able to benefit someone,
at least don't harm them.
So if you are not able to help
your neighbor clean his backyard,
why do you take your trash and put
it in his backyard? If you are not
able to benefit someone, at least don't harm
them. So inshallah, there is a good opportunity
to help
our neighbors, our,
Anatolia Masjid in North York. They need support
inshallah with, paying their utilities, their bills, and
paying their rent. They they are in need
of $20,000.
If anyone would like to donate inshallah to
the Masjid in North York,
you can talk to brother Abdul Salam downstairs
and you'll get a tax receipt inshallah.
Also, we'd like to make dua to brother
Adil.
He's from Iraq. He is at the hospital
in, Oakville,
and he is in critical condition.
And also for another new Muslim brother who
accepted Islam, but he's also in a critical
condition. Both are asking for your dua. May
Allah
make it easier for them. May Allah
give them shifa and a long and healthy
life.
We
ask
Allah
to give us the best in this life
and the best in the life to come
and to give us sincerity in everything we
say and do.