Mustafa Khattab – Key To Success Br. M. Rabah
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So,
I think you know already that I'm a
farmer. I grew up on a farm in
Egypt.
And, one thing I learned from my parents
and the people in the village,
that I should always
sit with people who have experience and learn
from them.
And I remember one time I was in
Cairo, I was with a cab driver, a
bit older than me, and I asked him,
if there's one thing that you need to
teach me, what what should it be?
And he said, if you put
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala over your head,
it would put people under your feet.
If you put people over your head, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will put you under their
feet. In other words, if you have respect
for Allah, everyone will respect will respect you.
But if you're only if you're only worried
about what people will say about you, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will put you under their
feet. They have no respect for you. This
is something to think about. So today, inshallah,
our guest speaker is brother Abu Ali, Muhammad
Rabah, originally from Lebanon,
And, he has been in Canada now for
28 years.
So,
when he came, I think the, First Nation
were stamping his passport because he came a
long time ago.
So,
I invited him to speak to you about
his experience.
He's a friend of mine. We always like
to go out and and talk. I like
to learn from his experience.
There's not much of an age difference between
us, only a few months as you can
tell.
So I hope inshallah you can learn from
his experience,
and so please pay attention. He's going to
say some important things based on his experience
in Canada in the last 28 years. So
pay attention inshallah.
Brothers and sisters,
as,
brother Mustafa was saying, I am a farmer
as well,
and I learned a lot from
the ground, from the trees, from
the animals we used to deal with, like
donkeys, horses,
and that stuff.
So I learned a lot, and I learned
a lot in my stay in Canada as
well. Like, it's a big experience and a
long experience.
I'm gonna speak today about,
like, one thing,
especially for you young guys,
young children.
And I'm gonna ask some questions
in between.
Who can answer the question first
will get a
nice
sugar free candy?
I got lots of them.
So everyone answers will get a candy immediately.
Now, what I'm gonna talk about is
who you want to be
in the future
and
where you want to be.
I'm not saying you want to be a
doctor or an engineer
or something like that. This is not not
the subject.
Who you want to be?
Do you want to be a good person
or a bad person?
Who wants to be a good person?
Everybody does. Who wants to be a bad
person?
Oh my god.
I like that. I like that.
Now
now
the second or the second part of the
of the subject is where you like to
be?
Do you like to be
up with the stars
or you like to be down with the
stones?
Who likes to be with the stars?
Oh my god. That's good. I like that.
Who likes to be down with the stones?
You like to be down with the stones?
You like to be with the stones? Why?
That's Another likes to
be with swords. Very cool. Thank you. Now
my second question is,
can everyone
be a good person?
Yes.
Who says yes?
Yes.
Very good. Who says no? No.
Okay. Well, I think everybody can be a
good person
if he qualifies
and applies
the 5
pillars of a good person.
Which thing has 5 pillars as well?
Okay. Okay. Just hit.
No foreign prizes. No foreign prizes. No No.
Let's Let's talk about how we're gonna behave
in the masjid.
Don't move. Don't say anything.
Thank you.
So everybody can be a good person if
he qualifies and applies the 5 pillars of
a good person.
Who is this?
This I'm not asking you. Now
what are the 5 pillars of this?
Not the staff. What are the 5 pillars
of a good person?
This what I'm gonna talk about now,
and you have to listen carefully.
First one,
you have to be good
for yourself,
first of all.
How to be good for yourself?
To be honest,
straightforward,
don't lie,
don't cheat, don't steal, don't do bad things.
This is what the Muslim does. Right?
So this is already you have it. Yes.
You already have this one.
Second thing, you have to be good to
your parents.
This is
a given. This must be. You have to
be good to your parents.
Listen to them.
Do what they ask you to do
all the time.
Don't argue too much with your parents. Don't,
let them, hear your bad words or so
forth. You have to be good to your
parents.
3rd one,
you have to be good
to all the people with no exception.
All the people with no exception. If you
find a weak person, you have to help
him.
If you if you see something bad,
on the street, you have to remove it
so nobody can get hurt of it
and so forth.
So who can tell me what was the
first one?
That if you wanna be a good person,
you always have to do good things.
The first one I said. The first one
I said. Yeah. I didn't mention.
Good for yourself. Listen. The second one, remember,
you have to be good to your parents.
The third one, you have to be good
to all the people. Now
the fourth one,
you have to be good
to everything
Allah created.
Animals,
plants,
trees,
birds,
insects,
everything.
So you have to be good. If you
find a broken bird on the street,
it's very good to help her.
If you find, anything wrong with any animal
on the street, dog or cat or donkey
or anything else,
also, you have
to be good to it. Don't hurt.
Don't hurt what Allah created.
The 5th pillar of a good person
is
patience.
You have to be patient.
So if somebody offered you a dish
full of hot food,
can you eat it immediately?
No. You have to wait. Right? You have
to be patient
so the food will get a little bit
colder, nicer, then you have to start eating.
Alright? So the 5th pillar of Islam, what
was the 5th pillar?
Yes. Good.
Guys, listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen.
I did not expect that you are so
smart. I am surprised.
Very good.
I am really, really
surprised. Very good, guys.
Now
the second question, can everybody be a good
person? Yes.
Yes.
How?
If he qualifies
and applies the 5 pillars that he has
vowed. I believe. And
and
because you are Muslims, alhamdulillah,
you have
most of these things.
So you already passed
more than half of the way to be
good persons.
You already passed
half the way to be good persons.
So this means
not every Muslim is a good person.
Right?
Yeah.
Not every Muslim is a good person, but
a Muslim can be easily a good person
if he applies those five things that we
spoke about.
What was the first one?
What was the first one? Speak to yourself.
Yes. Good. Sir, I want to say
it. What was the second one?
What was the second one? What was the
second one? What was the second one? What
was the second one? Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads.
Keep sitting, please. I don't give you a
few make noise. Okay?
What was the third one?
I don't be honest. I go to everyone.
Very good. Beautiful people.
What was the last one? I love the
food.
Make sure make sure. Patience.
Be patient. Okay.
So that's good. Guys, excuse me. Excuse me.
You're making a little bit of noise. Sorry?
As I said, you have to be patient.
So
always raise your hand without making any noise,
and I will come to you.
So where do you like to be?
Up with the stars
or down with the stones?
Up with the stars. Definitely, everybody will say
up with the stars. But how can you
reach there?
Oh, I don't know. You should be How
can you reach there? How can you be
up with the stars? I do. Brother, can
we First of all
what did I say? Be patient. Do not
make noise.
This is your condition.
Okay?
To be how can you be up with
the stars?
You have to be up with the stars.
You have to be up with
the stars.
That's it?
How to be up with the stars? 5
doors of sun.
Plus?
How can you be up with the stars?
With everybody and with all what Allah created.
Very good girl.
How can you be up with the stars?
Patient as well. Yes. Not only that, there
is still more.
To be up with the stars,
you have to be
applying
the 5 pillars of a good person,
being a good Muslim,
plus
you have to be well
educated.
Listen.
You have to be well educated.
So you have to take care of your
lessons of your school and listen to your
teachers
and listen to everybody
who,
teach you anything.
Anything. You listen,
know how to listen to people,
know how to read, know how to teach
yourself and to learn more,
plus the 5 pillars and be a good
Muslim, then you will
be up with the stars.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And everyone was together in the gym, 500
students, 700 students.
And he asked him, what would you like
to be? And each one said, well, I
wanna be a doctor, a teacher,
an engineer.
Whatever. Then after 20 30 years
he wrote, SubhanAllah, and I asked him every
single one said they wanted to become something
important. Right?
And he said, how come if everyone wanted
to be someone good,
you know, a teacher,
an imam,
a doctor,
an engineer, any job. He said how come
that we have so many thieves
in the community, so many drug dealers in
the community,
so many corrupt people in the community.
If everyone started off with this good intention
that I want to be a good person,
how come they end up being bad people?
Because they don't apply apply the 5 things
that the brother was talking about.
Talk is cheap.
It is very good to have wishful thinking,
but what matters is if you apply the
5. Without the 5 you will not achieve
anything. So we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to make you successful, to make you role
models for the community. We'll see you tomorrow
inshaAllah.