Mustafa Khattab – Muslims in Canada 2 2
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In the name of Allah, the most gracious,
most merciful,
all praise is due to Allah
We praise Him, and we seek His forgiveness
and assistance,
and we take refuge in Him from the
evils of ourselves
and our shortcomings.
Whomever Allah guides,
there is none to misguide him.
And whomever Allah needs to go astray,
there is none to guide him.
We bear witness that there is none worthy
of our worship except Allah
Allah the creator and the sustainer of the
universe.
And we bear witness that Muhammad
is the seal of the prophets and the
final messenger
to all of humanity.
Today, God Almighty gives you the Good Friday.
But as we know in Islam,
all Fridays are good.
In the past
week or in the mass football that I
gave, I spoke about some of the mistakes
that some Muslims do in the West, in
Canada, in the US, in Europe, and elsewhere.
And I'm not talking about all Muslims,
but I'm talking about some
Muslims, a sizable number among Muslims.
And last time we spoke about
some Muslims,
they don't know the reality of their existence
in Canada
and elsewhere. They don't know why they live
here.
And we said that the purpose of your
living here
is that to worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
to glorify him, and to make dua to
non muslims.
If this is your intention, you'll be getting
rewards every step of the way.
But if you are you think you are
living here just to collect money and to
buy the fancy cars,
and so on and so forth, then this
is not an intention. This is not why
Allah
created us for.
Allah
tells us in the Quran,
I have not created humans and jinn except
to worship and glorify me.
This is the purpose of your existence in
this life,
whether you live in Somalia
or Lebanon
or Canada.
This is the main purpose.
Insha'Allah today and also the next time I
speak, I'm gonna speak also about the difference
between integration and assimilation
in the Canadian society.
I'm gonna speak about some Muslims
who
marry any woman they meet in the street
just to face their papers
in Canada.
I'm gonna speak about Muslims who cheat non
Muslims, thinking they are kufar.
So their money is halal, and we can't
cheat them.
And so on and so forth.
I disown,
I denounce
any Muslim
who lives among non Muslims.
And of course, if you came last night
last time, you know that the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam means those
who live with non Muslims, but they are
ashamed
of their Muslim identity. They are ashamed
of people knowing that they are Muslim.
They are ashamed to take 30 minutes on
Jummah to come for salah.
They are ashamed if the wife wears the
hijab in the street.
All of these are meant by the hadith
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
The summary of all the lectures I will
give.
The last one, today's foodba, and the next
is sunnah
in a hadith
narrated by Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu anhu. It's
in Bukhari and Muslim. It's authentic hadith.
The Prophet says,
actions are judged by intentions.
So those who migrate
to other places
for the sake of Allah and following the
guidance of the Prophet
then they will get the reward for this.
But those who migrate,
those who go to other places for worldly
gains,
just to make money, to buy fancy cars
or fancy homes,
or those who move to other places
thinking they can,
fix their situation by marrying any woman. If
this is your intention,
then
your migration
is for what you migrated for.
No reward. You are not migrating for Allah
and his prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
sashat.
So today we'll be talking briefly about the
difference between integration and assimilation.
Islamically,
integration is something good.
If by integration, we mean you need to
be a productive member of the society
while being proud of who you are.
You are proud of your Islam.
You are proud of your Muslim identity.
You are proud of your Muslim culture. You
are proud of your faith.
You are proud of your prophet.
You are proud of your Lord, and so
on and so forth.
There is nothing wrong with this.
Islam encourages us to be successful citizens in
this life.
No matter where you live.
If you live in Africa or Asia or
North America,
you have to lead by example.
You have to be proud of who you
are, and you shouldn't live in denial.
Islam encourages us to be successful businessmen,
and successful business people.
Islam encourages us to be successful doctors,
if this would help make the lives of
the people easy
and makes the life of the people better.
Islam encourages us to be successful engineers.
Islam encourages us to be successful
students,
and so on and so forth.
But in the meantime,
we have to try our best
to excel in everything we do.
As the prophet
says in the hadith, Allah loves it
when you become a perfectionist
in everything you do.
If you are a doctor, you have to
be the the best doctor there is.
If you are a pharmacist, you have to
be the best pharmacist there is.
If you have if you are an employee,
you have to be the best employee
there is.
And alhamdulillah,
we Muslims
are the best
or among the best doctors and engineers
and technicians
when it comes to science and technology.
But on the other hand,
where are the Muslim
politicians?
People who represent us
in the continent.
People who speak for our challenges and our
pains and our aspirations.
Where are they? There are very few.
Where are the Muslims who work in the
media and represent us?
And they teach others about what Islam is
and what Muslims stand for. Most of the
time, and I know from studies for my
studies for HP,
PhD,
I've been working for this, research for about
4 years. And I rarely
I rarely see Muslims
come on TV and speak for,
Islamic Muslims.
If you watch Fox News, we're seeing that
most of the time, they invite Buddhists
to speak for Islamic Muslims.
They invite Christians to speak for Islamic Muslims.
They invite homosexuals
to speak for Islamic Muslims.
They invite atheists to speak for Islamic Muslims.
They invite
plumbers
and carpenters to speak for Islamic Muslims,
but rarely invite a Muslim to speak for
Islamic Muslims. Isn't this a joke?
It's a joke
than patients.
We have more engineers
than cars.
But we still need Muslim politicians.
We need
Muslims to work in the media to speak
for us.
And I'm not saying there are some non
Muslims who say good things about Islam and
Muslims, but
listen to this. Even non Muslims with the
best intentions
with the best intentions will lie. They make
mistakes when they represent
Islam and Muslims. And I'll just give you
one example.
There is this movie that came out in
1992.
And the title was Robin Hood, Prince of
the Thieves.
And in this movie, there was the Muslim
character
played by Morgan Freeman. It was made in
Hollywood.
And Morgan Freeman
played the role very well.
The Muslim character, Ali, was an excellent person.
He was very knowledgeable,
very scientific in his approach,
very generous and courteous. But when he prayed,
he prayed like a Hindu. He prayed like
this.
So this is how they showed Muslims pray,
they made a mistake.
Maybe they have the best of intentions, but
they made mistakes.
So the first meaning of integration, you have
to be a productive member of the society,
while being proud
of who you are,
while being proud of what you stand for
as a Muslim.
Number 2,
integration
is to take the best of the society.
We know that Muslims in this country enjoy
some riots that many of us back home
in Egypt before the revolution in Tunisia and
elsewhere.
They didn't enjoy some of the riots that
we have in this country.
The freedom of expression.
The freedom of expression.
You should be able to speak your mind,
and no one shall put you in prison.
A few years back,
arrived by the name Sayed Al Khamni in
Egypt.
He wrote a novel in which he insults
Allah and
the Prophet
and the state, the country of Egypt, they
gave him an award.
They make him a hero.
In the same year,
a journalist by the name of Ibrahim Isa,
he wrote that Mubarak
feels it back in 2002,
since 2,006
and 5. And he was asking questions. Who
should succeed Mubarak if he dies today?
Mubarak is a human being.
He's 80 something years old with 2 feet
in the grave.
Who should him if he dies today?
And they put him in jail for 6
months.
So if someone insults Allah and the prophet,
they give him a reward.
If someone says something about the pharaoh
or the president, they put him in jail.
Isn't that something?
Here in Canada, we have freedoms.
We enjoy democracy.
If you don't like a member of the
parliament,
you just fail them in the elections. You
don't vote for them.
If they speak against Muslims or if they
are biased against Islamic Muslims, you don't vote
for them. You cause them to fail in
the elections,
and they will pay dearly for what they
say against Islam and Muslims.
In this country, we enjoy
the advancement of science and technology,
something we still don't have in many Muslim
countries, and so on and so forth.
Here, we enjoy the discipline.
We enjoy
these rights that we probably don't have back
home.
Number 3,
if integration means
to learn about the culture,
learn about the society,
learn about non Muslims
so you can live a good life with
them, and make dua to them to Islam,
and learn the language of the country so
you can communicate the message
with the people, then this is something good
in Islam.
How many times we have people who came
to this country,
like 50 or 60 years ago,
and still they can't make a good sentence
in English?
If they go to a doctor, they can't
explain to him
what what's wrong in their body.
Hello, mister doctor.
I I have a
a a a a problem in my stomach.
What is this? And Wallahi, this is what
my teacher was teaching me in high school
in Egypt.
Stomach.
He wanted to say stomach, but this is
the best in you,
stomach.
So if you stay if you stay in
the clinic for 2 years, say, I have
a problem with my stomach, nobody's gonna help
you, and you will die.
You will die. So you will have
to learn some about the language, so you'll
be able to communicate with with the people.
So this is the meaning
of integration to be successful citizens in this
country,
to be able to worship Allah
as best as we can,
to teach others about Islam and Muslims,
to be proud of who you are, then
this is something good.
And I'm all for it.
If assimilation
means
to imitate others,
to imitate the rest of the society. And
as we said, there are goods and bads
in this society.
But if assimilation
means to take the best
and the worst of the society at the
same time
to assimilate
completely
with others in this society, then we have
a problem.
We have a problem with this.
Especially when we talk about our youth.
If they are walking around
aimlessly
for no reason,
looking like zombies,
imitating non Muslims,
then what is this? This is not Islam.
You have to look like a Muslim.
You have to speak like a Muslim.
And you have to deal with others as
a Muslim, with dignity and honor.
And you should be proud of who you
are.
As I said, there are some goods in
the society
like freedoms, democracy, science, technology,
and this is something we should benefit from.
But on the other hand,
the Western societies
in Europe,
in Canada, and in the US,
they have some social illnesses.
And we shouldn't be associating
ourselves with this.
For example, alcohol.
More Canadians
speak drink wine or beer or alcohol in
general than they drink
Tim Hortons tea.
There are more
liquor stores in Canada
than
the
Tim Tim Tim Hortons.
They are everywhere. It's part of the culture.
Should you be drinking alcohol so you look
like other non muslims who are living in
this society? Of course not.
What about drugs?
People smoking
weed, and and joints, and marijuana, and all
that stuff. So they can blend in just
like their
fellow,
students at the high school. This is nonsense.
And what about the boyfriend and girlfriend stuff
that some Muslims do? Imitating their non Muslim
friends.
And what about Muslim girls getting pregnant
by their non Muslim friends? And Mawlani, I
have seen this
in the US, in the community where I
was living.
It's a shame.
It's a shame. What about the rise of
domestic violence in Muslim homes?
What about the staggering rates of divorce among
Muslim communities?
This is a shame for us Muslims. We
should take the best of the Canadian society,
but in the other hand, we should avoid
the worst or the bad of the society.
Number 3.
Number 3.
Some of us, they try to dissociate
themselves
from anything Islamic.
They don't like to drive their car or
walk in front of the Masjid 13 street
because if someone looks up Google Earth, they
will probably see them walking in front of
Arashil Masjid.
They go by non Muslim names, so people
don't know they are Muslim.
Muhammad calls himself
Michael,
and Rasha'a called himself Richard,
and so on and so forth.
They try to dissociate themselves from their Muslim
friends. So if there is another Muslim who
gives them salaab in campus,
they probably never give them back the salaab.
Why should you be ashamed if your name
is Mohammed and call yourself Michael
or any other name.
If you come on the day of judgment
and they ask you in the grave who
your Lord is, and you say, my Lord
is Allah,
then you'll get one point.
If they ask you
who what your religion is and you say
my faith is Islam, you get another point.
If they ask you who your prophet is
and you say my prophet is Moab
or my prophet is Michael,
then you will fail a big time.
Then you will get a slap on the
face.
You'll lose all the grace.
So you should be proud
of the name of the Prophet
You should be proud that you have this
glorious name.
And we know, all of us, that the
name Muhammad is number one
name in the world. There are more Muhammad
in this world than John
and Matthew and so on and so forth.
So you should be proud of this.
Some of us,
they are ashamed of their parents
just because their parents don't speak good English
or they speak English with accent,
so they make fun of their parents. Because
they are ashamed of their culture. They're ashamed
of their parents,
and so on and so forth.
And also we some of us, they learn
to be disrespectful
of their parents.
You tell her, mom, if you don't consume
me the food I like, I hate you.
What do you mean I hate you? This
is your mom.
She brought you in her womb for 9
months.
She was up all night by your side
when you feel sick.
And she would sacrifice
her life to make you happy, and you
tell
her, you'll you you hate her, just like
some non Muslims say to their to their
mother.
This is a gratitude.
And you tell your father,
if you keep telling me to pray every
time, pray every time, pray every time, I've
gotta call 911, they'll put you in prison.
Okay?
So they know what the system teaches,
so they twist you out all the time.
And the father, who is still working on
his immigration papers, they said, okay, son. Okay.
You pray anytime you want. No problem.
What is this?
Assimilation
We live in Canada.
And we know that Muslims
in Canada, in America, and Europe, they make
the 2nd largest population in these countries.
But we still don't have a way to
indulge.
The federal election is coming up on the
2nd May.
Your vote should count, and you should give
your vote
to any candidate who serves Muslims
and who works for the cause of Muslims
in this country and elsewhere.
We are a people as Umar al Khattab
says, may Allah have mercy on his soul.
We are a people that have been honored
by Islam.
If we seek honor in anything
other than Allah, his prophet and Islam,
Allah will put us to shame and disgrace.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give
us the best in this life and the
best in the life to come, and to
give us sincerity in everything we say and
do, and to accept our good deeds and
reward us fully for them according to the
best of our intentions, and to forgive us
anything we have done by mistake
or forgetfulness or ignorance.