Mustafa Khattab – Lets Move On . Hamid Slimi
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Taught and
brought, and,
and spread among
the Muslims.
2nd miracle of Muhammad
after the Quran,
which
puzzles
the world. How did
this man in Arabia,
how did he succeed
in spite of the fact that the Romans
and the Persians
tried
tried
to create an order and a state in
Arabia?
They could not. In spite of their military
power, their experience,
until Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala brought them men
who could do it. That's why Allah
kept Prophet as the last messenger
to show
that his system not only works in terms
of spirituality and connection with Allah, but also
how it organizes people. That's why we study
his seerah, to understand the concept of Ummah,
how he started
his Ummah, how he organized his community,
how he gave tasks, how he managed and
delegated,
and how he brought an Ummah from nothing
to something, to a civilization
that is witnessed by the world as one
of the biggest civilizations.
And had it not been for Islam, we
wouldn't be standing here using this electricity, and
this microphone, and these cars. The contribution of
Islam is great because it stemmed from a
civilization
that,
based itself on revelation
and implementing that revelation
in the real life. This is why the
second miracle of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is
he did
bring order,
peace, real peace,
justice,
united people from different backgrounds.
But that's a different topic.
I wanna talk about
4 things.
Four things. If we do,
we get rewarded and our affairs will change
inshallah. And I want you to remember them
and study them and focus on them. Because
these days Muslims are saying, you know,
what how can I contribute?
How can I be, an effective
person in society?
How can I give dawah?
How can we can give Dawah? We are
not qualified now.
We are not up to the task. Unless
we train ourselves
in many areas, not only learning the Deen,
learning
how we can deliver the message.
Right now we are dealing with Islamophobia with
all kinds of problems. But do we have
the tools
how to deliver these things? You know, we
have do we have the tools
how to, you know,
to give the message in a way people
can understand it? Because Allah
says
in
the
Quran
Allah
did not send a messenger except
with the ways and tongues and language and
matters of his people, so he can deliver.
Not only speaking English,
knowing how people think, how they perceive things.
We can't just come salah giving dawah. This
is a big, big, big problem. The reason
why there is Islamophobia,
because dawah is neglected.
Because giving the message of Islam, the correct
message,
in a way that they understand,
and this is wisdom,
is that we do the right thing
and at the right time, in the right
way,
in the right place. And this is wisdom.
It's lacking.
I am guilty. All of us are guilty
of this, of course,
deficit
that we have, you know, incurred, all of
us, due to our neglect.
4 things.
If we do,
our life will change,
and everything will move forward, and all of
us can do. I I don't wanna give
you a khutba or a message, and I
leave something we cannot do. Number 1.
Knowledge.
Knowledge.
Allah gives for knowledge
what all the that you will pray on
your life in your life, will never
get. Knowledge
is what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave to
Adam and
favored him over
other creatures.
Allah favored human beings because of knowledge, and
he made his angels
bow down to him because of the knowledge
he put in him.
Allah taught Adam
and put a proof against the angels so
they don't say you favored him. He said
okay answer these questions. They couldn't answer but
Adam answered it. There is something that Allah
Subha Ta'ala put in us. Law of knowledge
and we need to trigger it. I'm talking
about knowledge of the deen
and the knowledge of duniya
that will serve the deen directly or indirectly.
Knowledge is
something that is of benefits.
Benefit in terms of deen. We cannot. We
Muslims, we don't have here and deen. Everything
is co is is combined.
So knowledge is very important. Allah says
Allah
raises those who believe,
but those who know and learn and seek
knowledge, they're far, far, far higher.
1 person who knows
is far more stronger,
effective,
instrumental
than 1,000 worshippers.
Ahabid is good. Subhan Allah. Ahabid is waibadur
Rahman, masha'Allah.
A person who does Ibadah is going inshallah
to Jannah and Allah will give him peace
in this dunya at akhira. Yet,
Al Aalir
is
far stronger,
far more rewarded. And Imam Sheik Alhamdulillah
Go pray the Filih of Ramadan. Go to
Makkah and do your Umrah in Ramadan and
say, Wallahi, the person who said in halaqa,
I learned one thing,
is far more in rewards than you. And
you have spent money to go masha'Allah and
this. I'm not saying don't go to Umrah.
We all want to go to Umrah. But
I'm telling you in terms of reward, that
person who sits
for 1 hour,
30 minutes, every day, once a week, to
seek knowledge, has more reward than you.
So knowledge is what
kept this Umrah
strong. We have and pay attention to this.
You will be shocked what I'm gonna say
now. We have disobeyed Allah, all of us,
in the first order He ordered us.
The first order Allah ordered this Ummah is
to read Iqra.
The first word of the revelation
of the Quran,
Iqra. The Ummah of Iqra
does not Iqra.
The Ummah of Iqra. So we disobeyed Allah
in his first order and we expect him
to give us nazar, to give us support,
to elevate us. We disobey
Allah everyday.
Go to any Muslim countries.
YouTube,
WhatsApp.
You go to Japan.
Even in America, in spite of and actually
America, the education system is going down because
they don't read anymore. That's why they can't
read anymore
in terms of education, in terms because
because their math record is very bad. Physics.
Obama spoke about that.
Very bad.
Actually,
this Muslim ban now You know why Washington
is speaking up? Because Washington has Microsoft,
has Amazon, has the high-tech there. I've been
there. And they are very smart people. They're
one of the best states in United States,
Washington State.
And they have the the brains.
And they have a lot of Muslims who
are from Iraq,
from Iran,
from Syria,
from different countries. They have brains from India,
Pakistan.
And these people, they are the ones
who are making Google and Microsoft and Silicon
Valley and California move forward.
Without these Indians and Pakistanis and these Arabs
and these Chinese,
there is no because the level of math
And I'm saying Iraq was one of the
best Actually it was the best Arabic country
in terms of education. Now it's one of
the worst.
It was the best.
They had the best math.
I remember when I was a kid, the
students from Iraq.
Just to give you an example of Iraq.
Knowledge.
They had hardly any illiteracy. Right now, the
highest there's 1 Muslim. I don't know some
countries now, so nobody feels bad.
The highest illiteracy
countries are Muslim countries. What country you know
all of it? All these problems in it?
80% illiteracy.
I see them in the airport.
Where is where is the washroom?
Where is where is where is that there?
Yeah. Habibi, the sign there. Look.
Ah, okay. Okay.
Well, you're gonna miss the flight.
Ah, I don't know where to go.
Many people like that, and they see them.
That's why they look down. I I heard
you heard the story in Germany. They look
down at these people. They are what kind
of contribution they are going to do. That's
why they look down at you. These people
don't even know where even the sign of
the washroom,
where to go. So people
So this is a sign.
I mean number 1.
Imam is very wise.
Okay.
So this is a big problem.
Think about it. The said in Arabic because
you know what it means. It means read,
recite,
learn,
educate yourself,
contemplate.
Not only
did not know how to write Alif Batya,
but he could read.
He read
life.
He read the creation of Allah. Reading is
not only Alif Batya.
I have seen people who knew nothing. They
didn't know how to read. Were the wisest
people.
We say illiterate but it doesn't mean,
As
he said, we do not realize but doesn't
mean that
we
have no akhla, no man. So the Ummah
of Fikha, in another Muslim country you know
very well,
65%
do not read. 65%
did not
even
read or write. And another country,
50%
did not finish high school.
And these are the Muslim countries that are
always in the news.
They cannot read.
WhatsApp. Wallah. We think now we are doing
dawah. I'm not showing a video nice.
Forward.
Go to sleep on the dawah.
Forward. Well, I have now maybe 600 videos,
WhatsApp messages.
I'm overwhelmed. I can't see.
I can't I know, doctor Khattab stopped sending
me messages on WhatsApp because I don't read
them. And I send oh, I read his
messages. We have we have a form. But
these videos, you get from all over the
world. People, they think Alhamdulillah.
The Allah, what's up?
That's not. Everyone of us is responsible to
read,
and when you read,
you read.
And Ummah does
not that does not read, cannot read.
And I'm telling you the example of United
States.
That's what Obama said many times,
math, math, we're not doing good in math.
We're not doing good in physics. We're not
doing math. Math. People who understand say, yeah,
we have to do something with math.
Muslims, they're the ones who took the 0
from India and put it in equation.
Without math, you can't move forward. Muslims were
abaq, geniuses
in math.
Without math, you can't do geometry. You cannot
do nothing. Math is as important as reading
the Quran.
Learning math, learning physics. I know some of
us hate math, but you'd like you to
earn that. You can't have computer without binary,
you do it without math. And now with
the revolution that's coming up with the binaries,
something unbelievable.
Knowledge
is power.
Knowledge
is
Koran,
is dignity.
So we have to read whether we read
the din. How many books do we read
every month?
We only read Facebook posts.
Most of them not even written properly.
We need to go back to reading. This
Ummah will leave
when it starts,
you know, reading.
Number 2.
Very important. And now I'm saying,
the
knowledge is more rewarding than
than what? Than Nafila.
Pray your father and go study. Better than
pray. I'm not saying don't pray Nafila. Don't
misunderstand me. Some people say, oh you said
we don't have to pray. I never said
that.
I'm saying that salat, zakat, Hajj, these are
called pillars of Islam. This building where we
are, if it had only pillars, we wouldn't
pray in it. Pillars are only to hold
the building.
But this carpet, this electricity, this heating, that's
what makes this building a building.
Makes it a measure.
But it has to have pillars. Now we
said,
I retired now. Insha'Allah, I'm good. This is
typical. I'm gonna start doing my
I'm gonna start going to the masjid. I
will do every year.
It is 2 Hajjis, and now I'm giving
I have done. You have just done only
in the beginning. You just done 5% of
Islam.
It's called Islam.
Pillars of Islam, not Islam.
So what's Islam?
And Muslim woman say, but Muslim
and Muslim
Number 2.
Number 2, very important
is
service.
You Rasool Allah, who's the best amongst that?
The one who are the ones who are
serving people.
He said,
No. Allah, he didn't say that. He said,
Sheikh Mustafa? Did he say,
You live in here,
you have a different reality. You can go
back, aqidah issues, akhla issues. But fiqh issues
always go to the scholars.
This is your imam, this is your scholar,
follow him. If you're true Muslims, this is
you follow this scholar. This should be your
reference.
You follow your We
have a you have a doctor? Yes. You
have a lawyer? Yes. You have an accountant?
Yes. Then you should have also someone you
refer to.
Reference. Go back to discuss with him. That's
how they
refer to each other.
Ask those who know. So decision is well
informed.
So very important that we are doing
The best now
is through social work.
The best now listen to this hadith. It's
gonna shake you again.
Allahu
Akbar.
Rasulullah Shazamid say,
a brother walk with my brother
who has Hajjah, who has a problem, something
that he needs to fix, something he needs
to get. Just walk with him. Maybe he
falls, I can lean against me. I'd rather
walk with him and
help him even if I cannot. He didn't
say, I'd rather help him. He said, even
if I walk with him. Like Musa Alaihi
Salam
wanted Haroon,
Sanand.
Someone you can lean against, someone you can
talk to, someone they can cheer you up
on your doubt.
He said,
brother,
walk with my Muslim
brother.
He said, my brother,
be with him,
then sit and do a in
for 1 whole month. When we speak about,
we mean
on time, Quran, you don't see things that
are haram. You don't hear things. Yeah. Tikaf
means you're staying in the mosque for 1
month. Subhanallah.
Look how much reward. At least you will
finish Quran maybe
4 or 5 times.
Probably you will make
more than anybody else on earth if you
don't take that. Yet, that those steps you
work with your brother
of Khidma
are much better. SubhanAllah. I wish we can
understand Islam this way.
That
Islam without kidma,
we cannot move. Our forefathers
excelled in kidma. Kidma that I believe I
was in India.
I was in India.
Wallahi, I said this to the people in
India. I said, you need and I said
in the and
I said it in and
I said
it in I said it in India.
In a big conference,
I said, you need to study the of
Those of you from India understand what I'm
talking about. This man
brought into Islam
more don't give credit to the Mughals.
He brought millions
of Hindus into Islam.
The one who feeds the poor. Subhan Allah.
He was known
for the
Are you reading the news? Yesterday
many people slept in the street and ended
up in the hospital.
How many people? It's a big mass. The
mayor today it's in the news. People there,
nobody's shirk. This is what Muslims were known.
Go.
Give blankets. You know, I saw news,
somebody from South America, originally a Canadian, he's
taking blankets and and pillows to the borders
south of Winnipeg for the Somali
refugees and many people are crossing from the
states
into in the city called Emerson,
into Canada. And he's giving them blankets and
giving them hot soup and this. This man,
subhanAllah,
is born with Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Rasulullah
was known for khidma.
He would feed. No time of time we
feed you for the sake of Allah. Let
me read. We don't want no jazah, no
reward, and we don't want no,
you know, tanks. We do it for Allah
And this we can talk all day. Number
3, quickly
is
We lost it. We lost it.
I see people only go to the ones
who have money.
We only befriend the people who have
for us. Something worldly.
We lost.
How many of you would ask yourself, how
many good friends you have?
Is a concept. That's why we say
we don't call them
we don't call
them we don't call them those contemporary. We
say
from a concept called
Islam spread in Africa
by the Sufi
groups from,
Morocco,
from Algeria,
and also
in Africa from Sudan and all those. Islam
spread in Africa.
Same thing in Central Asia
By these people who had the concept
of suhba. They've befriended people. They didn't lecture
them. They give them companionship.
They didn't even talk. They didn't even speak
their language. In Indonesia,
you go to all these countries. None of
them spoke Arabic.
But with
the companionship,
we need to show people,
especially people out there, they don't have good
friends. We should be the best friends in
a way that protects our without, of course,
giving up our principles.
Also amongst us.
Good danger
because of bad companionship.
And tell me who you are. I will
tell you. Tell me who your friend is.
I'll tell you who you are. So we
have to choose our friends and Allah says,
yeah.
You know, famous Hasan al Basri,
said, you know, the will
benefit the day in the day of judgement.
You know, when people go to Jannah and
say, Yeah, Allah.
I know this person. He was good. He
was good friend. He was teaching us. He
was helping us. He was a nice companion
to us. Where is he? We can't see
him in Jannah.
And Allah says go, go. And you intercede
for that person.
You know, when Ibn al Juzi said that
and he was crying, he said, you know
what? Ibn
al Juzi in Baghdad, he looked at them
and said, please. And he started crying. He
said, if you don't see me in Jannah,
ask about me. Maybe I am in hellfire
and tell him he used to teach us
something good. Please don't forget that. So don't
forget that, good friends, Even if you are
not that knowledgeable,
it doesn't matter.
Be with the good ones.
I want to be with the good ones
but I am he was limitless.
I'm trying.
But if I am stuck, Allah knows his
merciful.
Last to close
is, of course,
and we all know our Rasul
said, the greatest reward for a person
more than fasting everyday
or pray in every.
A person reaches the highest level of
of of
of someone who's fasting every day and make
him to heaven every night
with his good manners.