Mustafa Khattab – Muslim Manners 30 A Final Word Ramadan 2012

Mustafa Khattab
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The speaker discusses the importance of keeping the spirit of Easter after the month of Easter to attract youth to the masala. They explain that the message of Islam is important to the youth and that they try to make the message relevant to the topic. The speaker also mentions that they have had success in attracting youth to the masala and hope to see them tomorrow in La'id.
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And we have given about 10 or 11

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of them,

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and I have given a lot of examples.

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Tonight I'm gonna be speaking, briefly, inshallah, in

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English, so we don't take a lot of

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your time because you need to get some

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rest and get ready for Dayi tomorrow, inshallah.

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Alhamdulillah, many people came to the salatul Tawiyyah,

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especially the youth, and this is something good,

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Alhamdulillah.

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And we need to continue this,

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spirit after the month of Ramadan.

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When Ramadan is over, the Ibadah is not

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over

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because Ibadah is not a monopoly of the

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month of Ramadan. We worship Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala. All your book

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and the Lord of Ramadan is the Lord

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of all months. So we need to keep

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this spirit after the month of Ramadan.

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I used to get a lot of, stories

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in, the talks I gave in the month

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of Ramadan for several reasons. Number 1,

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those who give public speeches, they know that

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at the end of the day, people only

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remember stories and jokes. They don't remember the

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introductions we give and explanations and all that

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stuff. Only remember

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they remember stories and

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jokes. Okay.

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If you look at the Quran, it's filled

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with stories.

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About 50% of the Quran is stories. Surah

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Al Baqarah, there are stories. Sharab, Surah Khooth,

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Surah Nuh, Surah Yusuf. Half of the Quran

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is stories.

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If you look at the sunnah of the

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, it's filled with

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stories,

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and so on and so forth. There are

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so many stories because Allah subhanahu alaihi wa

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sallam knows and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam knows that people like stories and they

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remember stories.

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The other reason is,

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a lot of youth come to the masajid

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in the month of Ramadan, and this is

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a good chance

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so we can communicate with them and we

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can convey the message of Islam and then

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and and and, like, you know, to help

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them love the masajid

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and come and to have that feeling that

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masajid are youth friendly.

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They all perception that masajid are old male

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oriented,

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doesn't work anymore. Because, alhamdulillah, most of the

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our communities are youth. More than 60% of

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our community is youth. So we have also

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to accommodate our youth and give them stories.

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And when they come to the masala and

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they see people smiling and the imam is

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telling them nice stories, alhamdulillah,

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they will come to the masala. But if

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they come and they see the Sheikh frowning

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all the time, he is screaming and howling

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and shouting and frowning all the time, believe

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me, they will never come again.

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So we try to attract the, you know,

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the youth to the masala,

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and we we we try to make the

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Masjid youth friendly.

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You can't imagine how difficult it is to

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come up with a good story relevant to

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the topic. Sometimes it took me 3, sometimes

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up to 5 hours to find one single

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story relevant to the topic. And that, again,

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that was very tiring during the month of

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Ramadan. But Alhamdulillah, I hope most of the

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stories

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were nice and they were relevant to the

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topic.

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If there's something good in what I said

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in the month of Ramadan, it's only from

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Allah. If I said anything wrong, it's from

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me and from Chayateen and from Google.

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So so Alhamdulillah.

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So inshallah,

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we hope to see you tomorrow in La'id.

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And brother Mezhi.

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