Mustafa Khattab – More Questions From Students
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The speaker discusses the confusion between "offensive" and "offensive" in Islam, citing examples such as hot dog, alcohol vinegar, and pepperoni. They stress the importance of not knowing the ingredient of a dish and bringing it back if it is not the correct one. The speaker suggests reciting a different surah to avoid confusion and emphasizes the importance of being a valued member of the Prophet's family. The speaker also discusses the history of the Prophet's actions during the Battle of Uhud, which led to the deaths of many people and the downfall of the Islam community. The speaker argues that the Prophet's actions were not his and that people should not be punished for their actions, even if they did not dry up their feet.
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So,
today is Wednesday and,
inshallah, today I'm going to answer your questions.
I'm gonna start with a question that I
got from, from my brother.
And the question is, sometimes I go to
the store and I find stuff that I
think is Haram, and and sometimes I buy
stuff that I think is halal, but it
is Haram. How do I know?
Normally, every case is different,
but the rule of thumb,
you don't buy something,
and you make it haram or halal based
on what they call it. I'll give you
an example.
So for example, if you see
hot dog.
Halal or Halal?
Halal.
Let's say for example, hot dog from Sabiha
Halal, from, you know, a Muslim provider.
So people would say, based on the name,
it's called hot dog, and dog is haram,
I can't eat it. This is totally different.
Also,
there's what they call,
alcohol vinegar.
Right? Is this halal or halal?
It's halal, because they call it alcohol vinegar,
but it is not alcohol.
Right? This is just a name.
Also,
if you see something like pepperoni,
it's not pork, this is what, like, because
it has a different name, does it make
it halal?
No. It is pork.
It doesn't matter what they call it, if
they call it donut duck, make a mouse,
it's still pork, you can't eat it. Right?
If they have,
for example,
like,
riba,
usury or interest.
Like riba, like you,
someone borrows money from you, like $1,000
and you tell them, if you pay the
money after 2 months, you're gonna pay me
1500.
So you charge them more.
They're not calling it Riba anymore, they call
it interest, which is a different name.
Right? So it's still haram.
Alcohol, if they call it spirits,
a different name, it's still haram.
So if something is haram, it's haram regardless
of what they call it. If something is
halal, it's haram regardless of what people call
it. So this is the answer for the
question.
Right? If you are not sure
about any ingredient, like you're buying something from
the store,
normally,
and this is the Islamic ruling, you shouldn't
investigate.
But if you are suspicious,
you want to know for sure because this
will make you comfortable when you eat it.
If you don't know the ingredient, like sometimes
they put things, they put numbers, or they
put Latin names, you don't know.
The easiest way is to call the store
and ask them if this is taken from
Borg or not. Right? This is the easiest
way.
We'll take a question. Yes?
Yes?
Well, the prophet
says in the hadith that gold is haram
for men.
Right?
And the same thing applies to boys because,
because once they get used to something, it
would be difficult to take it away from
them. So men should not wear gold.
We'll take a brother. Yes.
They made a mistake.
They gave you pork to Kroni. What happened?
Okay. Good question.
A few years ago, I met a brother.
I was in,
in, Edmonton,
and this brother came to the Masjid in,
I think he was from India or Pakistan.
And, they're very strict about
zabiha,
which is is good. No problem.
So what happened
after graduation, he was invited to his friend's
house, and they had pizza.
They knew he was Muslim. No problem.
So they got the food and everything, and
after he ate,
the host,
mentioned that
the pizza had pork in it.
That was like a disaster for the brother.
Right? So
he told me for 2 years he was
crying. Every time he remembered he was crying.
Of course, he went home, he threw up
and everything.
And, he came to me and he said,
am I going
to Jahannam?
And all these things. Right? So the answer,
Islamically,
we know that in Islam, if you forget,
Allah will forgive you. If you made a
mistake, Allah will forgive you. This is what
the prophet
said in the hadith. Say for example, you
came from work,
and you were very tired, or you moved
to a new house, and
and you either didn't know where the kibla
was, or you just forgot.
Right? So, for example, the Qibla is this
way, you pray this way.
Or, 1st day of Ramadan,
you forgot it is Ramadan, you were tired,
you came late, or you came like from
work before Marib,
and you ate.
What is the problem? You made a mistake,
so Allah
will forgive you. So in this case, or
the other case of the brother, all you
need to do is just say, You Allah
forgive me.
It is not the end of the world.
Some somebody made a mistake or you forgot.
Allah
will forgive you.
Like in 1st raka, 2nd raka? Yeah.
Technically, you shouldn't,
because there are many surahs, but there is
an authentic hadith from the prophet SAW Salam.
He prayed Fajr,
and he recited in
the 1st raka, and he recited the same
surah, Idazuzil Aduzil Zalah in the second raka.
Just to show us it is permissible,
but he shouldn't do it all the time.
Right?
So, it is better to recite a different
surah unless this is the only surah you
know. Like sometimes some people accept Islam,
and the only surahs they know, they know
and that's it. Right? So this is the
best they know. But if you know other
surahs,
you should use the other Surah's.
Unless you forget your side the same Surah
again, I think it's permissible based on the
Hadith that I mentioned.
Take a brother.
If he had tattoos, right, Professor Christine, and
then he's accepted,
Islam,
the does it can you make a du
or no? Okay. It's a good question.
I know a lot of people who accepted
Islam. They took shahara,
and some of them have tattoos all over
the place, right?
So,
there are 2 ways. If you ask them
to,
to remove it,
and this is something I prefer if it
is, if it is visible, like on their
face, on the palms of the hand, they
should try to remove it. But if it
is very expensive,
or if it is very painful, because sometimes,
you know, it they have to scratch it
and I don't know the techniques, but from
what I heard it's painful and it's expensive.
But if it is affordable, if it is
not painful, you should take it off.
But if it is hidden, say for example,
some people have tattoos on their chest
or on their back
or,
on their thigh, it is normally covered, then
don't worry about it. Just when you make
wudu, you just wash the body as you
normally do and cover it, wear a shirt
or pants, long pants or sleeves and just
make salah and forget about it. The The
thing is when someone accepts Islam, we know
that tattoos, the permanent ones,
not when you go for and they have
the face
paint or the
these are acceptable Islamically.
But I'm talking about the permanent ones.
So, if,
you have them and they are covered,
we know that what happens before Islam is
forgiven. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will forgive someone,
everything they did before Islam.
So in this case, they don't have to
worry too much about it.
Another question. We'll take this sister here.
Yes.
After you dry up, you do what? Like,
you you don't
like, you do the except for your feet.
And then you dry up and then you
do
is Is it still wet?
I don't think it's because
it's a short
pause or break in the middle. It's not
a big deal. Just
what I would do personally, I would rather
wash everything including my feet. Maybe I'll put
a towel, you know, then wash my feet,
then stand on the towel, then, dry everything
up and do the same for my feet.
But if you do it this way, it's
still acceptable.
We'll take, Maki.
Sir, I have a question about your, like,
like, the Asura, Like,
my mom told me, like, some people, like,
on that day,
till, like, 10 days, some people hit their
self. Like,
what's the story? Okay. That's an excellent question.
We know that, the reason why we fast
on the day of Ashura, we mentioned this
last time,
was because the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
and the Sahaba wanted to show gratitude to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for saving,
Musa alaihis salam and his people from the
people of Egypt and from Thera.
We also know that historically,
Imam al Hussain, the son of Ali ibn
Abi Talib, brother Allah,
became shahid on that day.
And of course we believe this was a
crime. He shouldn't have been killed. He should
been he should have been respected
as a Muslim, number 1. And number 2
is from the family of the Prophet
and we as Muslims, we believe that the
family of the Prophet SAW,
is honorable and noble, and they should be
respected
and loved.
And this is what the scholars say that
after the Prophet SAW, the family of the
Prophet
SAW, are the finest, they are the best,
and after them the people of Badr, and
after them the people of, who paid,
or pledged allegiance to the Prophet
under the tree, and also the will get
the news of Jannah.
So with that being said,
this shouldn't have happened, and he should have
been respected, and so on and so forth,
and we believe that he was more qualified
for Khalafaa than Yazid,
and
we believe that
was more qualified for khilafa than
But again, this is a political thing, it
happened,
and when people ask me to say a
bad thing about or
about the other sahaba and the conflict they
had, and I tell them I can't because,
which means basically that this is an ummah
that lived and died 14 or 1500 years
ago, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is their
judge, not me.
They are the finest, they are the best,
I can't go up to their level. I'm
down there and they're up there. And Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will judge them, and he
will judge me.
So the fact that some people,
especially within,
Shia Islam,
in Iran and
Iraq and other places,
and also there's a tiny minority in Pakistan
and Afghanistan,
they feel like
their ancestors, their great great grandparents
should have supported Imam Hussain and therefore they
feel very
remorseful and regretful and sad, and they start
to beat themselves up.
Well, this they shouldn't do this because we
know that in Islam no one is accountable,
for the sin of another.
If this is okay, like,
if someone's
parents or great great grandparents who lived in,
or a 1000 years ago, or 1400 years
ago, should punish themselves for something their great
great grandparents did,
then,
by way of analogy, the
children
of the Sahaba who left the prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam in the battle of Uhud,
and the archers who were on the mountain
You know the story?
Yeah. So the prophet
told them, don't leave.
They left.
They didn't listen to the orders of the
prophet
They left their places,
and why Muslims were defeated in the Battle
of Uhud? It's because of them.
And why
hamza was killed and many sahaba were killed?
Because of what they did. And why the
prophet was injured? Because of what they did.
What about their children? These people who or
the archers who left their place.
Did they punish themselves?
Did they injure themselves? Or, you know, kill
each other? And so on and so forth?
Did they bleed in the streets? The answer
is no. Because their, their,
their, their fathers, who left their places,
when they made tawba, they said, You Allah
forgive us.
In Surah Al Imran Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says that he forgave them. Finished.
Right? So their children are not accountable
for what they did. And the same thing
applies to Imam Al Hussain and, and, the
descendants of the people who,
let him down at that time. So, in
summary,
people shouldn't do this. They shouldn't punish themselves
for something they didn't do. In Islam, everyone
is accountable for themselves
and not for something that happened a long
time ago. We love all the sahaba. We
respect them. Whatever happened, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is their judge
and as our say, say that Allah
protected
our hands
from the fight, so you should also protect
your tongues
from the fight.
So we ask Allah
to guide us to the salatul Mustaqim.
Man, this is a long answer for the
question, but it's a good question.
Okay, I'll pick you. What do you want?
What do you want?
Can you sneeze?
Yeah. Wow. Okay. So, if you are in
the washroom and you're not supposed to talk,
so, if you happen to sneeze you can
say Alhamdulillah in your heart. You don't have
to say it out loud.
We will take,
2 more questions. We'll take this sister here.
I can't hear.
No.
Well, I didn't get the question then.
Well, if if if someone is taking a
shower and someone is asking them for something
or to open the door and they use
the towel to cover themselves up, this is
acceptable.
As long as they cover their aura,
their body, basically.
We'll take,
one last question, one last person.
This guy. This guy.
Don't do what?
Okay.
Okay.
So,
this is the last question. So, the question
is, the Prophet
told
us, when you make wudu,
don't dry up.
Technically he didn't tell us to not dry
up after we make wudu, but there are
some hadith
that suggest that the Prophet
when he made wudu, he didn't dry up.
So this is his way of doing it.
But can you dry up after you make
wudu? Absolutely. Especially in the wintertime when it's
cold,
or someone is using cold water, you can't
dry up. So again,
the fact that the Prophet
did it, you can do it, but there
is nothing wrong if you dry up. Because
sometimes,
if you have ceramics,
and and you walk without drying up your
feet, you'll be leaving water everywhere, and it's
easy for people to slip and fall down
and break their neck. Right? So it's better
to dry up. But if you don't, it's
it's okay.
We'll see you next week inshallah, rest of
the world. To bless you and your family.