Mustafa Khattab – Key To Success Br. M. Rabah

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.