Mustafa Khattab – One Boring Khutbah
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I bear witness that there is none worthy
of our worship except Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and I bear witness that Muhammad, salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, is the seal of the prophets
and the final messenger to all of humanity.
Whoever Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala guides, there is
none to misguide. And whatever Allah
leaves to stray, there is none to guide.
Alright.
A little disclaimer here before we begin inshallah.
This is gonna be,
probably,
the most boring football that I will ever
give. So I just, I'm just giving you
a heads up.
But inshallah,
it will probably be one of the most
informative,
ones.
So basically, this is the time of the
year when people start to talk about the
different because of Ramadan and moon sighting, taraweeh,
and so on and so forth, and people
start to fight. In some masajid, they have
issues.
And in some homes,
the father will be fasting today, and the
mother will be having read, and so on
and so forth. You know, so they have
issues even at homes because of differences,
between the different Madahir. So I remember 2
years ago, I put together a conference here,
about the 4 Mada'ih and the 4 imams
of Hanifa, Shafi'i, Malik, and Ahmad, and we
spoke about why we have the 4 Mada'ih,
and their legacy, and what we can learn
from them. And the reason why I I
put that conference, together, we call it the
Natoya Motivation Conference,
is because I gave footba one day, and
I mentioned Imam Al Haram Abu Hanifa and
after the footba, one brother came, and and
he said, I don't like all those imams.
And I said, why? He said, because they
disunited the Ummah. One says Haram, one says
it's okay, one says Warr, one says Mustahal.
It's a big mess, it's a big confusion
because of of these Imams.
So this is one extreme.
The other extreme, some people love those Imams
so much
that they put their word or their opinion
above the word of the prophet himself. You
give them hadith and bukhari Muslim. This is
what the prophet says. They say, no, but
my mother, my imam.
You Amu, dude. Like, if I tell you
Muhammad
says this, then this is the end of
the discussion.
So people go to extreme
extremes. One extreme
in, some of the students of the different
madam, when they reached,
what I call, at Taraf al Firkhi, they
finished all the practical issues. They started to
think about fictional issues, like, when will live
on the moon, which way the qiblah will
be in, so on and so forth. Fictional,
you know, rulings and so on and so
forth. Some of the 'alama in those times,
in Mutakherin,
they said that someone from the Shafi'i madhat
cannot marry a woman from the Harafi'i madhat.
Well, why? In in some of the books
of Firdal, like, this is crazy.
Why? Because they say in the Shafi'i madhat
You can say, Ana Mu'minoon Insha'Allah. I'm a
believer Insha'Allah.
In the Hanafi madab, this is not acceptable.
If you say Insha'Allah, I'm not I'm no
I'm, I'm gonna be Mu'min, insha'Allah, it means
you are not Mu'min right now. We get
we get married you. Right? So this is
nonsense.
Some even say that when Naihis
salaam comes, Fiyakhariz Zaman,
he has to follow the Han of Imam.
Otherwise, this would be Mushkilakabira.
Right?
I I like, he would he would not
be harafee. He would be Muhammad, he will
follow Muhammad
But he will not follow a particular nadaab.
Come on. Right? So again, people use the
madadab to fight with each other. Today, inshallah,
we'll talk about why do we have 4
madadab?
Which mad have to follow. Why do they
disagree with each other on the same issue?
Because this will make a lot of sense
to you and it will help you deal
with any
conflict or disagreement that might arise with with
another Muslim, inshallah
Why do we have the 4 malaq? To
start with,
the Islamic history was filled with great ramaq
We don't only have
We have great ramaq
ulama. A life at nisat,
al auzai, and so on. So there are
so many ulama.
These are huge giants.
Right? But why did Allah choose only these
4? Right?
Why not? Like so the thing is and
I always say when I explain this point
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created different Quran.
Right? The the famous ones. In my humble
opinion,
I think Mustafa Ismail no one recited the
Quran better than him, before him or after
him. He's a famous Egyptian scholar. Right? Mustafa
Ismail. He passed away in 1978.
In terms of Matam, in terms of Tilawah,
in terms of rulings, aqam, and so on
and so,
how come
that some people are a little bit below
him, like,
like, Abdul Basat, after Samat, they are more
famous than him. They are more loved
than him. Allah created everyone, and He chose
these 2 to better than the others, even
Mustafa Ismail. Right? Allah chose us. Allah Allah
chooses. He chose them. Khalas alhamdulillah.
Allah created many scholars, and He chose these
4 to be the best, even if some
others have the same qualifications.
Alhamdulillah.
Number 2. These are what I'm at they
have some dedicated students, and this is the
key here. So their students, they learned the
knowledge, they compiled their teachings, and they taught
the teachings to others.
Other on a map, they didn't have these
dedicated students. Right?
And number 3, because
those are the map, in particular, subhanAllah, they
were very sincere
in in seeking knowledge and teaching knowledge. And
and when you read their stories,
they ended up in jail, they were tortured,
they were punished.
The reason is because they didn't want to
speak injustice.
They didn't work for tyrant rulers, and so
on and so forth. Or somebody else was
jealous of them,
and they reported them to the authorities and
they put them in jail.
Imam Malik Raimala, one of the greatest scholars
of all time, he was beaten in jail
so much that he couldn't lift his hand
in salah. He always prayed like this because
his shoulders were broken.
And this is why many in the Maliki
madhah, they put their hands like this. They
don't they think this is the madhah of
the imam. The thing is, he couldn't raise
his hand.
Imam Shafi'i was about to be executed executed.
Right? And so on and so because they
spoke the truth, they didn't work went to
work for tyrants, they ended up in jail.
They were abused, but they spoke the truth.
And this is why Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
honored them.
In our times,
those who speak the truth, they end up
dead or in jail or in exile. Right?
But we still have some who we call
them the scholars for dollars or dolawatobihemadolat,
and so on and so forth. Right? So
these things exist in our time. They existed
back then. Some of the rulers are tyrant.
I'm not gonna mention names, but you know
it. Right?
An American journalist
traveled to one of those countries, Thailand countries,
and she did an interview with the president.
He have been in power for, like, 40,
42 years. So
she was asking him. She said, there is
no democracy in your country.
He said, why? She said, because in my
country, America,
Mnuchin and Abu Trump,
anyone in the street, they can cuss at
Trump or Vladimir Putin,
and no one says anything to them. They
don't go to jail. He says, 1 man,
he would do the same thing here. Anyone
in my country, they can cuss at Trump,
they can cuss at Vladimir Putin, they never
go to jail. We have democracy too. Right?
So this is the logic. Right? So the
4 Al Ahmad, the 4 Imats, the greatest
of all time, they suffer 2 in their
time.
How come that we only have 4? As
I mentioned, Allah chose them.
And why do they disagree on a certain
issue? Like, let's say the number of rakas
for Taraweeh and where do you move like,
how do you move your finger in the
shahul and so on. So we need to
understand that these 4 olamah,
they never disagree on the Usur.
They never disagree on the pillars of Islam.
Like, Imam Abu Hanifa never said that Maghrib
is 4. Imam Sha'abi never said Maghrib is
5. No. The 5 pillars of Islam, the
6 articles of faith are all the same.
They disagree on forur, like the branches of
knowledge. How to move your finger, where to
put your hand If Imam Shafi'i, Malik al
Ahmad said, for Zakatul Fitr, it has to
be food. Imam Al Hanifa said, no, you
can't pay money.
So these small issues, but on the Usul,
they never disagreed.
If there is a proof in the Quran,
they're gonna disagree.
If there is a clear ayah in the
Quran, they never disagree. The only exception is
if there is a word in the Quran
that has different meanings and this is common
in the Quran. One word will mean the
opposite
and so on and so forth.
Kor in Arabic could mean
It could mean a state of purity or
a state of impurity
The opposite in the Ayatul Ta'atul Surah Baqf,
right? So this is why they have different
opinions
When it comes to hadith,
this is the key to disagreement between those
who are Americans, right? So we need to
understand that the major collections of a hadith,
like Bukhari, Muslim, Khirmidin, Nasari, Abu Dawood, the
Tabarans.
These collections
existed after the 4 Imams, which means in
many cases, they would look for a ruling,
they can't find the Hadith. Of course, they
had some Hadith, but they didn't know all
the Hadith.
So they would make an opinion, but it
turns out later that the prophet said something
else.
Right?
So
I will tell you what what to do
in this case inshallah at the end of
the Khutba bin alayta. Also, sometimes they disagreed
on the authenticity of the hadith. One Adam
says this is an authentic hadith, they base
their judgment on this hadith. Some says it's
weak. I'm not gonna take it. I'll do
something else
Or they will disagree on their understanding of
the hadith
If the Prophet
says Ifal will adzafal If he says do
this
some of the rabbis will say, well, the
prophet said, do this, it means fard. You
have to do it. Some say, no, it's,
must have, like, this is something he recommended,
but it is not fard.
If he says, don't do this, it could
mean Haram or it could mean Makru, something
he didn't like, but it's okay to do.
I'll give you examples. If the prophet
said pray like me, pray 5 daily in
a month like me
24434,
right? The 4 the 5 daily in a
month
You have to pray this way. This is
far, if he says pray this way, this
is far?
If he says use miswah before salah, is
this far, or something
like recommended?
Tell
me. Recommended, like, if the prophet
says
men should not wear gold.
Haram or Makroob?
Haram
If he says when you drink,
don't stand up.
Haram or Makru.
Makru, tanzih. Right? It is not Haram in
this case. Because otherwise, the Prophet
himself,
sometimes, a few times, he drank while standing
up. This is in Bukhari.
And he said, when you relieve yourself, you
go to the washroom, sit down. This is
what he did 99.99
percent of the time. There's a hadith in
Bukhari. The prophet relieved himself, urinated,
standing up. Just one hadith. He did it
once to prove to us that it is
not haram. Right? So the ulama look at
these opinions, at these hadith, and sometimes they
disagree
on the understanding of the hadith. Is it
wajir
or mustahab?
Is it haram or makru? And so on
and so forth. And this is why the
ulama have difference of, opinion in this case.
And of course, some another application is eating
the camel meat. Some say waje udu, some
say mustahab and because of this, the Hadith,
that I mentioned.
Of course, this will the application will come,
for example,
to, if you come at the times in
which salah is makru, like after fazr,
before the 15 minutes, after us. In the
Shafi'i madab, it's okay to pray because the
prophet prayed sunnah in these times, and so
on and so forth. For Tarawih, the prophet
himself never prayed more than 11.
So if you follow this madhab, alhamdulillah, this
is in Bukhali.
If you follow the Hanafi, madhabidu 22, alhamdulillah.
This is amazing. It's a special time. You
can pray more for more Hasanat.
If you follow the Maliki Madah, good luck.
You can pray
36. Right? So again, it's up to you.
You can if you want to leave early,
you pray 4 rakaliv, Alhamdulillah. No one will
shoot you. If you want to pray 70,
it's up to you. It is optional in
this case, and the Alama say
La,
fi Muftalafimfi
You should not,
make Atalat, you should not protest La'in Qara
fi Muftalafimfi
If you disagree with someone on a 50
issue
don't fight with others because all of them
are acceptable.
Imam Shafi'i, he
was born the same year that Imam Abu
Hanifa passed away, and he said Al Khal
Khwarayaru Alai Ag Hanifa Fulfiq
All those covers of Islam
are dependent on Imam Abu Hanifa. This is
Imam Shafi. He said all the scholars of
Islam,
they are light students in the class of
Imam Abu Hanifa. We honored him.
Imam Ahmed or Ima Allah. He said, wallahi,
40 years.
Every night every night, 40 years, I I'm
making dua for Imam Shafi'i every night.
40 years.
So they were loved each other, they showed
respect to each other, but now alhamdulillah,
people fight with each other because of difference
of fiqh.
And I mentioned,
Tawhid is coming. Masha'Allah. We'll hear,
Fadai,
people who will fight. And and I think
I mentioned the story, like, 3, 4 years
ago. There was a, a masjid in Houston,
Texas.
One imam told the story that there was
a new masjid, you know, 1st night of
Taraweeh.
They had a disagreement.
So they deliver rakah Muslim. They said, no.
We want to pray, deliver rakah, go home
each other. The other one said, the 22
rakah, they said, no. We'll pray 22, then
we can eat biryani when we go home.
Then they had a big fight in the
masjid, 1st night of Taraweeh. They started to
fight with chairs, baseball clubs, weapons of mass
destruction, you know, in the masjid, and the
people were crying, and people were falling and
bleeding on the new carpet.
Someone wanted to stop the misery, so he
called 911.
3 police officers came in with their shoes.
They don't know.
So the 11 raka Muslims, the 20 rakam
Muslims were mad at the police and they
said you have no respect for the house
of Allah. You walk with your shoes? But
fighting with the chairs in the masjid is
okay? Come on, dude. So we need to,
commemorate each other. If you want to do
your 8 pray 8 at home, do it
at home. If you want to do it,
do it, do it, do it, alhamdulillah.
We need to accommodate each other, respect each
other, just like our guhlamah, Abu Hanifa, Shafi'i,
Malik, and Ahmad. They have respect for each
other. So we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
give us the best in this life and
the best in the life to come, so
Allah, for us.
So basically,
I'm Hanafi and Madam. I'm from Al Azhar.
Everybody studied the, Sha'abi and Madam.
I I don't know. They told me to
study the Hanafi and Madam, so I did.
And then, alhamdulillah, I came in handy because
most of my Jama'at, they fought from India,
Pakistan, Turkey. They followed the Hanafi Madaba. So
alhamdulillah, that was good for me. Alhamdulillah, I
time.
But I don't object to other Madaba'ib. Like,
I look in any case, I look at
the different maddaikh.
If Imam Abu Hanifa has a strong proof
from Hadith, I follow him in this particular
case. If in another ruling, Imam Shafi had
a stronger Hadith,
I follow him in that case. And so
on and so forth. So I follow all
of them because at the end of the
day, these 4 great Imams,
they are like streams from the same river.
They all of them, they are the students
of the Imam of the Imams. Muhammad
and they follow a sunnah to the best
of their ability.
But Two quick announcements in 1 minute before
we start
the So,
as I mentioned last,
the message is packed. We have issues with
the parking. So,
the 1:30 Jummah would be the same.
2:30
Jummah, Jummah like this one will be the
same. We'll be introducing a 3rd Jummah at
12:15.
And the prophet as I mentioned in Bukhari
and Muslim, he prayed Jummah before Zawat, before
the time of Zohr. So he can pray
it 1 hour or a little bit more
before Salat al Jum'ah, so it's acceptable in
Bukhari in Muslim.
The Qulafa did the same thing. Especially in
the summer when it is hot, the prophet
will pray before to make it easy for
people to sit in the shade and listen
to the chuppah. So starting next Jummah, after
a week, inshaAllah, we'll be introducing a 3rd
Jummah at 12:15,
which will be good for many of you,
especially if you take your lunch break at
this time around 12. So you come here
12:15,
and the Khubba will be about 15 minutes,
then you will leave Inshallah time.
The second announcement, I'll be taking a Hajj
group by the end of July Inshallah.
Only 15 spots are left from our, Jannahat.
So if you are interested,
let us know inshallah. You need to register
before Ramadan. Only 15 spots are available. We
ask Allah
to accept from us. Give us the best
in this life. And, mister Allah,
we ask Allah to accept our good deeds,
forgive our sins.