Mustafa Khattab – New You

I bear witness that there is not worthy

of our worship except Allah,

and I bear witness that Muhammad, peace

be upon him, is the seal of the

prophets and the final messenger

to all humanity.

Today, inshallah, I'm a talk about some of

the blessings

and some of the virtues of this blessed

month and how to maximize our reward in

this month.

So we know that

in fact that the reward for good deeds

are multiplied or is multiplied several times in

the special places and the special times.

So for example, if you pray in the

masjid Haram in Mecca,

you will get a 100,000

rewards,

and this is more rewards than any other

masjid in the whole world.

And, also, if you do acts of worship

in special times, like the month of Ramadan,

the reward is more multiplied than other month

of the year.

So, for example,

if you give or if you pray a

sunnah, for example, you get the reward of

fat.

If you pray fat like salatul qlabbi, you

will get the reward of 70 bull.

If you do a Umrah in Ramadan, you

get the reward of Hajj.

So the reward is multiplied in the special

times and the special places.

So

the honor, if you wanna understand the value

and the virtue of the month of Ramadan,

look at the honor that Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala

gives to those who fast in this life

and in the next life. So with regard

to the honor we get in this life,

this is narrated

in a Hadith in Al Bayhaji.

Ajayb ibn Abidah. Did the prophet

says that my ummah has been given 5

qualities in this month, and no prophet before

me was given these qualities.

Number 1, on the 1st day of Ramadan,

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will look at my

Ummah, and whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala looks

at, he doesn't punish in the next life.

This person is forgiven.

Number 2,

those who fast,

the smell of their mouth

in the day of Ramadan are better in

the sight of Allah than the smell of

lust.

Number 3, the angels will make dua and

is the fall for you every day night

in the month of Ramadan.

And number 4, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, will

order Jannah to get ready for you. And

Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, will say, get ready

for them. They are about to leave the

pain and the difficulties of this dunya and

move to my gender.

And number 5,

on the last day of Rababad, Allah

will forgive those who fast, all of them.

So the honor on the day of judgment,

those who fasted in the right way in

this world, they will get the VIP treatment

on the day of Jannah. They have a

special door, a special gate for them to

enter Jannah.

So the prophet says

in this authentic hadith in Bukhari and Muslim

that there is a gate in Jannah who

leads to Jannah that is called the.

Only the people who used to fast in

this world will go through this door. So

when the last one of them has entered,

the door will be closed so no one

else will be able to enter from that

door. So the honor is in this world

and in the next world.

Number 3,

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes it easy for

you to give his forgiveness in this month.

He opens the door

wide open for you.

If you look in the Quran in chapter

2, Surah Al Baqarah,

the person that talk about fasting, there are

several ones. And the last one of them

says, and when

my servants ask you, Muhammad, about me, tell

them I'm very close to them. I'm nearby.

So let them ask me and believe in

me so that that they might be rightly

guided.

And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala don't put verses

there, like, for no reason. If Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala puts the verse of dua and

the verse of tawba next to the ayah

of fasting,

so it has something to do with Ramadan

and fasting. The door is wide open.

And the doors of forgiveness are wide open,

and the doors of the hellfire are closed,

and that the the, the devils are chained

in this month, the shayateel.

So Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, is making it

easy for you. So what do you need

to do? You need to start a new

sheet with

Allah Start a new page with Allah Subhanahu

Wa

Ta'ala.

So what you need to do? Number 1,

you have to quit

doing Haram, like eating from Haram resources.

Drinking or smoking, what is Haram? Suddenly, you

pay it with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. What

is the point?

What is the point

if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells you to

quit doing something halal in the day of

Ramadan, like eating and drinking and being intimate

with your wife, then you do haram in

the day of Ramadan. What is the point?

If halal is haram in Ramadan, of course,

haram is is haram.

So this includes eating from haram resources,

smoking stuff you're not supposed to to smoke,

and I believe that smoking is haram. It's

a destruction of money. It's a destruction

of health.

So number 2, you have also to avoid

things that are disliked

like wasting food. In the month of Ramadan,

Muslims

are generous.

We invite people for Iftar in our house

and to show them who are generous. Alhamdulillah,

we make lots of food.

And we end up eating 30, 40% of

all the food that has been prepared, and

the rest of the food

is taken to the garbage. And this is

not acceptable.

Look at attitude. Look at your Muslim brothers

and sisters in different countries, in Syria,

in in in

many places.

Almost all of them, they have needy people.

So instead of wasting all that food, send

them the money. Sponsor orphans.

Help the new Masjid in the city.

Help with the different projects we have.

So to avoid the Muhammad or the Munkarath

in this month. Al Amrif Tharath was convenient

Shabaab Futtatilullah.

So number 3, you have to

start doing Ibadah. If you don't pray,

this is a good chance to start in

the month of Ramadan. And Allah, Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala, will accept from you, and He will

forgive you all the prayers you missed in

the last years of your life.

So how come a Muslim

fast in the month of Ramadan, 18 or

19 or 20 hours, and he or she

doesn't pray?

This is not come on. This is not

acceptable.

And you have the scholars fighting over you

whether to call you a Catholic or a

Fassid or a Sindhir.

Do you want to come on the day

of judgement and the angels fight over you

whether you are Catholic or in Hindu

fasting. Plus, as I said, fasting takes 20

hours a day.

What does salah take from you?

5 minutes multiplied by 5, that is 20

or 25 minutes a day. Doesn't Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala who created you deserve 25 minutes

from your day? You have 24 hours? Give

him 24 minutes.

And still some of us are not willing

to give Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that much.

That's

Allah

So the ibadah that the prophet

did in the month of Ramadan are classified

into 3 groups. Number 1, verbal,

and this includes and recitation of the Quran.

If someone is not able to recite Quran

of Ramadan, they can listen to the recitation,

like the Arabic and the English,

translation. Or if they read the English, this

is their best. And in Islam, you don't

get a reward for doing the actual hibadah,

but for doing your best. Even if your

best is not good enough,

actual Ibadah, but for doing your best. Even

if your best is not good enough, Allah,

subhanahu wa ta'ala, out of his mercy, will

give you the reward. So number 2 of

the, Ibadah is the physical Ibadah,

and this includes salah

and fasting,

umrah, atikaf in the month of Ramadan.

Number of premium, Ibadahtu al Mani, and this

includes salakat, zakat, and

zakat, and so on and so forth.

And he was exceptionally

generous in the month of Ramadan.

And this is something we need to learn

from the prophet SAW.

There are several

donation opportunities in this month. Number 1,

feeding, fasting people in this month.

If you feed a a a fasting person,

the prophet

says in, whoever

feeds a fasting person, then Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala will give them the reward for feed

for for their fast, but Allah will not

detract from these people's fast, from their

reward. So every Saturday, we have Iftar and

the masjid. So please sponsor the Iftars, talk

to the office inshaAllah.

Number 2,

there is

Iftar for orphans to collect funds for orphans

in the Islamic Academy tomorrow. You can also

participate in biotechnology.

Number 3, we have the taste of Ramadan.

We invite them Muslims,

and we introduce Islam to them,

and this is a good opportunity for Dawah.

If you also would like to sponsor the

taste of Ramadan, please you're welcome talk to

the office.

And number 4, so not to take much

of your time, the fundraiser for the masjid

at the end of the month. This is

a golden opportunity to maintain

the masjid of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

So this is also a golden opportunity to

help with maintaining the masadiq. And Allah, subhanahu

wa ta'ala,

says in the Quran that whoever

maintains the masjid of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,

this is a a sign of their true

belief in Allah in the last day.