Mustafa Khattab – More Q&A
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So what day is today? What's late?
Hey. Question day. Q and a day. Question
day. Question day. Question. Don't mind.
Okay.
We'll start with this brother, Ibrahim.
Ibrahim.
Okay.
Why did Allah
send,
why did
Allah send
books to individual Prophets?
So as I mentioned last time, each Prophet
came to his own people, like Musa alayhi
wasalam to his people,
Nur to his own people,
tribe, and so on and so forth. And
each of them, each community
has its own circumstances
and different challenges. So the book came to
address these challenges they had.
Right? So because not every solution
was suitable for every community.
As I always say, if
there's a community that
or someone
say for example a prophet is like
a doctor,
and the people and the problems in the
in the society are like illnesses.
Right?
So you can't just give Tylenol to every
patient who comes to your clinic.
So everyone has a different situation, has a
different problem.
So every
prophet came to solve certain problems in their
community.
Say for example,
prophet tribe came to deal with
the fact that people were corrupt in his
time, and they were cheating.
So when they buy your stuff and they
wait, they take more. When they wait for
you, they give you less. Like in Surah
Al Tafifeen for example.
The people of Faraw were doing something wrong,
the people of Salaf were doing something terrible,
the people of Lut were doing something totally
different, and so on and so forth. Every
community has a problem, and every prophet received
a book to solve the problems
of his time,
specific to his community. But in the case
of the Quran, as I mentioned, it came
as a universal message. It is suitable for
all times and all places. This is why
it deals with everything, and there is no
there there is the reason
why there's no book coming after the Quran,
according to
the belief system that we have. Wazeka's sister?
Yes. Me? Sister.
Yes.
Okay. We'll come back to you. Yes.
Loud. Loud.
The shoes? Yeah.
Well, this is part of the some of
the superstitious beliefs that we have that
if you put the shoes upside down, this
is a bad omen, something terrible is gonna
happen to you. But there's no specific teaching
that we have in Islam that says you
should.
Allahu
Akbar.
What we know from
tradition
and culture,
sitting like this in front of someone, especially
the elderly,
and and putting your shoe lay shoe
to their face, this is disrespectful.
Right?
At least in our culture. I'm not sure
about other cultures.
But to take your shoes off and put
them to the side,
upside down, or otherwise,
I don't see it as a big deal.
I'll come back to you. I'll take a
brother, then we'll come back to you.
We'll take this brother in the back. Okay.
Yes. Okay.
Why did why did the Allah also like
this specific
prophets in the Quran?
I don't know if the other one will
pass. Yes.
Very good question. Why did Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala put specific
prophets in the Quran?
Well,
the answer will be very long, but I'll
try to make it very short. As we
know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells the
prophet
in the Quran in Surah Nisaat, Surah 4,
and in other places,
These are the stories of the prophets
about whom
about some of them we told you the
stories already, or we told you the stories
of some of them already, and some of
them we have not told you.
So there is this hadith, authentic hadith, in
which the prophet
says that the number
of prophets who were sent from the beginning
till the end, from Adam to Muhammad
was a 124,000.
A 124,000
prophets. Now imagine
if the Quran talks about every single one
of them, you'll end up with a 124,000
stories of these different prophets,
so it's not gonna be a book anymore.
You need something way bigger than the encyclopedia
Britannica,
something huge,
which would be very difficult for a lot
of people to memorize, and study, and and
learn. So Allah
gave some examples
as a flavor, and as I said each
of them,
each of these prophets was dealing with a
certain problem,
like say for example 1 prophet was dealing
with financial problem in his community, like tribe.
Someone was dealing
with morality in the society, like Lut alaihis
salam. So every prophet was dealing with a
different problem. Right? So when Allah
mentions their stories, so these stories,
there are 24 prophets mentioned by name in
the Quran. 24 including Muhammad
has total of 25.
So between them,
Allah
is covering all the problems and giving solutions
in all these problems.
Like in the story of Yusuf, he speaks
about siblings' rivalry,
what happens between brothers,
and and the jealousy, and so on and
so forth. And we spoke about, financial problems,
moral problems, and,
political problems in the tie in the story
of pharaoh and Musa alaihis salaam. So between
them, in these 24 different stories of prophets,
they have solutions for all the problems we
have. So there was no need to speak
about all the prophets that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala sent from the beginning till the end.
Another way of making the idea clear is
imagine if I'm giving a talk,
Jumah Khufbah, I have about 20 minutes,
and if I go over time, some people
start shooting in the air. Right? They are
mad because they are late for work, they
wanna go home, you know. So if the
subject is,
sincerity,
right, or honesty.
So imagine if I speak about every single
story in the seerah or the stories of
the Sahaba,
honesty and sincerity. This will take, like, 2,
3 days,
in a row to finish this up. I
just give you a flavor. I give you
2, 3 stories just to illustrate and There's
no need to tell you everything.
Because by just looking at the 2, 3
examples I gave you, this would be enough
to give you a taste, a flavor
of the subject.
Very good question.
Go back to the sister.
Dictates a long time. Oh. It's a baby
dying inside of my stomach. Yes. And
Okay.
You know,
Sayyuti,
he's one of the 2 Jalalayin who did
the tafsir.
Tafsir Ro Jalalayin.
He wrote a whole book
about the reward
that the parents will get
if they lose a child, whether the baby
was born, or it was stillbirth, or miscarriage.
A whole book that,
that gives you all the hadith from the
prophet
about the reward, and all the hadith basically
say about say one thing, that if the
parents lose a child, whether the child is
born
or the child is, was still inside the
the tummy of the mother,
one reward, that there's no other reward except
Jannah.
So for example,
a couple had a baby and they lost
the baby, and they gave to the Prophet
and He told them, on the Day of
Judgment your baby will make Shafa'a for you,
and He will take you to Jannah straight,
but one condition,
if you are patient.
But if you cry, and you go crazy,
and you blame everyone,
and and you question Allah, why did you
do this to me? This is not patience,
this is a total opposite of patience.
So, yes, the person will make shafa'ah for
the parents, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
give them Jannah, faith for their patience for
this
for this hardship.
And I not sure if I mentioned this
before,
that
probably the most difficult thing that can happen
to someone
is for them to lose a child.
Whether we're talking about a born baby, or
miscarriage, or stillbirth.
This is the most difficult thing. Like say
for example,
if my father, Rahimahullah, who passed away about
11 years ago.
He had been to the hospital several times,
he had surgery, and so on and so
forth. He was getting old, so we kind
of expected it. But imagine if someone
has a son or a daughter, and he
or she is 15 years old,
20 years old, and they die suddenly.
This is something very difficult, and you know
your friend,
your colleague who passed away last year, at
the end of the year?
Yes. That was very difficult for the family
because nobody was expecting it. So it's a
difficult thing, and this is what Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is promising us,
a great reward if you are patient in
this difficult times. And eventually all of us
will meet in the grace and the mercy
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
One last thing I want to say
that,
when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaks about
the the reward that we'll get in Jannah,
and the pleasures that we'll get in Jannah.
So pay attention to this, to show you
the generosity of Allah
So say for example,
if the parents go to Jannah, to the
highest place,
and their children are in the basement of
Jannah, or somewhere close to the mill. So
they are basically in different levels in Jannah.
So what happens?
Allah
knows
that your happiness in Jannah will not be
complete
until you are united
with the rest of your family.
So what is the point if I'm in
the highest place in Jannah? I'm eating, I'm
drinking, I'm enjoying life. I know my kids
are in the basement or down there. Right?
So I'm not with them.
My joy will not be complete. So Allah
there are 2 scenarios basically. Allah
will reduce me in rank, so I can
join my kids,
and this will be injustice because I deserve
to be up there,
and Allah will bring me down, so this
is one scenario. The other scenario is for
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to raise up my
children to be in my level. And this
is exactly what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
do because he's a kareem, the most generous.
So he will take them up. Where do
we find this in the Quran?
So this is the meaning, that the children
will be raised up to the level of
the parents, so so the family would be
united. So we'll have your mom and dad,
your brothers, sisters, grandpa everyone will be together.
Take 2 more questions.
We'll take,
we'll take this sister
over here.
What book is
Musa alaihis salam? It's called Tawra.
At Tawra.
And as Allah
says in the Quran,
So in his book,
basically Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes for him
a way of life.
It talks about what to eat, how to
live, and halal and halal and all these
things. Some people sum them up to the
10 commandments,
which basically sum up your relationship with Allah,
worship Him alone, pray to Him alone, and
your relationship with the creation of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, don't kill, don't lie, don't steal.
Be a good guy.
And, we have the exact same teachings in
the Quran,
at least in 2 places. 1 is Surah
Islam, old age,
and in Surah An An Qata'ala
So all these teachings are missioned in the
Quran. Relationship with Allah, the relationship with the
people, and this sums up the tawra of
Musa alayhis salaam.
Who else?
Okay. We'll take,
teachers?
Yes. Yes. I have a question from grade
8 students. K. They wanna know how many
years, prophet Ayb alaihi salam lived in happiness
before he gets sick and loses his money
and his children and so on. Well, I
heard different things. I heard
40 years, and I heard 80 years.
Because we have in the book 30, I
mean, 5080.
So
they wanted to know. No one knows for
sure. No, yeah, like specific Yes. Sure number.
Okay. So when Allah speaks
about the stories in the Quran, He doesn't
go into specifics.
And in many cases Allah
doesn't give the names
or the places or the times,
although everything is known to Him. So Allah
knows
He knows the person of Al Uzzayid, He
knows the name.
Or the wife of Al Aziz in Surah
Yusuf, He knows all these names. But But
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
the focus in the Quran is in the
moral of the story. What do you learn
from the story to make it applicable to
everyone
and every time and place? So in the
story of Ayub Alayhi Salaam,
I heard different things, and again, whether it
was 30, 40, 50, 80 years, it doesn't
really matter what we know it was a
long period of time. And he when he
was approached by his wife, and she told
him, you have been suffering for a long
time, why don't you pray to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala?
So he said, Allah has blessed me for
80 years before I got sick, so I
would feel shy to make dua to Allah
to remove this hardship from me until I
stay in this difficulty for another 80 years.
So it will be 8080.
So that it will be now, you know,
balanced, now I can make dua.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We'll take one last question.
This question
can't come.
K. Good question. The sister is asking the
aid of the Ramadan,
you should
offer a go for a dog or an
animal.
So,
what do you think? The aid of Ramadan,
you should offer an animal, a good word
sheep. Who has the answer? You have do
you have to do it or is it
permissible?
It's permissible
because we're not supposed to do it the
Eid after Ramadan. You're supposed to do
it on Eid al Adha. And I have
a good question. Okay. But I'm not done
with the answer.
I have a question. Okay. So we offer
the animal for Eid al Adha, which comes
at the close to the end of the
Hajj. So it's it's far away from Ramadan.
But anyway,
offering the, Turfani
or the, animal for Eid al Adha is
a sunnah.
And the prophet
said sunnah to Abi Khum Ibrahim. It's a
sunnah.
So So it is recommend something recommended to
do if you have the ability.
And some of the Sahaba, although they have
the financial ability,
like 1 year or something, they they wouldn't
do it
because otherwise
it will become like Fard for them. So
sometimes they didn't do it. So if someone
has the financial ability
and they of course, it is better for
them to do it every year so they
can help the poor, but if one time
they don't do it,
it's no problem because it is not farr.
It is just sunnah and recommended to do.
Yes.
Okay. When were the words of the Agaan,
like, sent down or invented? If I can
use that one. Okay.
So the prophet
was thinking of a way with the Sahaba.
He was doing with them to come up
with a way to invite people to salah.
So that night, Bilal Radiullah Anhu had this
vision. He saw a dream in which he
was shown how to, make adhan, and in
the same night, Umar ibn Khattab Radiullah Anhu
had the exact same vision.
So they came and they told the prophet
and the prophet told Bilal, you have a
beautiful voice, go and make the adhan. So
that was fairly later in Islamic history, right?
Like later on
In Madinah. It happened in Madinah. So, before
that event, how did they gather for prayer?
Did they have the event?
Well, they didn't have an event before,
but
people made an estimation of the time. They
would look at the shade, and when it
is time, they get together and they pray.
And this story happened early in Madinah, like,
when they moved.
We know in Mecca, they used to,
fast like optional fasting. They didn't fast in
Ramadan.
They used to,
pray a little bit,
but not the exact same way.
So when they moved to Madinah, everything
was formulated
and, you know, the same way we do
things now. Because the most important thing in
Mecca
was to reestablish the belief in.
So this is why in the surahs, in
the Makki surahs it focuses on Tawhid. There's
one God that gives so many stories, but
in the Madiniyal Surahs after Hijrah, you see
the talk about fasting, about Hajj, and about
salah, and so on and so forth. So
all this happened