Mustafa Khattab – People With Disability

Okay.

Got some dates here to give up.

The first one goes to Mohammed from grade

2.

Yes?

Are you lost?

You always ask them those questions to ask.

And the second one goes to the sister

right here. Hayat. Hayat. Hayat. Hayat.

Hey. Good

job.

Turn this way?

I pay attention for just 5 minutes, please.

Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. What's your name? So,

it's a very important topic.

We're gonna talk about the people with

abilities.

They call them people with disabilities, but I

call them people with

abilities.

I've heard stories about bullies, people who bully

people with

abilities. I've seen politicians

Some of them hold the highest offices in

some countries, they make fun of people with

abilities, a reporter with

abilities. You probably know who I'm talking about,

if you follow the news.

So what happens, basically, when you make fun

of

someone

with ability or disability,

you are saying one thing.

You are saying that

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala didn't do a good

job.

When you make fun of someone who has

a disability,

you're saying basically that Allah didn't do a

good job. Because

if you say that something is not good

enough,

it means that the one who made it,

didn't do a good job.

And as a Muslim, this is something you

cannot say, because Allah

says in the Quran, laqadir khalapin al insana

fee ahsani?

Jafweem. Allah

created us in the best form,

in the perfect form. So what happens, Allah

gives us different

gifts.

Some of us are good at memorizing

things. Some of us are good like Bolt.

He was in the Olympics. He's good at

running.

Some people are good at writing. Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala gave us that each

one of us gets a different gift.

And the reason is so we can complete

each other and work

with each other.

I know a story of 2 people who

lived in Syria about a 100 years ago.

One of them was disabled, he couldn't walk,

and the other one was blind, but he

can't walk. And there are some pictures of

them actually on Google.

You can type the blind and disabled guys

in Syria. So what happened, the guy who

could walk but couldn't see,

carried the disabled guy who could see.

So the guy who was disabled, who couldn't

walk,

was on the shoulders of the guy who

can walk but can't see.

So one of them was the eyes and

the other one was the feet, and

they were walking around like together helping each

other. Right? It's a good thing, they can

work together.

When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala takes a gift

away from you,

like the ability to see, He will give

you another gift to make up for this

one.

I grew up in Egypt,

in a culture where

the people who couldn't see,

we call them mobsar and Arabi,

the sighted.

In English, they use the word blind.

Most of them or many of them memorize

the Quran at a young age. So I've

seen, I've known a lot of people in

Egypt who are blind, and they memorize Quran.

So I grew up with the with this,

perception

that only blind people memorize Quran.

Right?

And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gifted, yes. He

took away their ability to see,

and Bas'ah, but He gave them Basira, insight.

He gave them the ability to memorize.

They can hear one surah,

one time or twice, khalas, they memorize it.

And the sighted people like us, it took

us a whole day to memorize 1 page.

Because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gifted them in

a different

way. 1 of my shiyyuk when

I was young, Jazsupeh,

he was blind.

So I used to go to him after

school

to read Quran with him. So I'm holding

the mushaft,

trying to make sure that I I can

read the passage correctly, so when I memorize

it, I my memorization is correct.

So I will never forget

Surah Baqarah, and I was reading to him

It

should

be

with a sukoon,

but I said

because the sukoon and the dama and arabi,

like the this calligraphic thing, they look the

same.

So he said,

what are you doing? Say it again. And

I said mananzafu.

Here's mine.

He can't read it or recite it from

memory correctly, and I I can see I'm

reading it

wrong. He said, repeat it again. I said,

Ma'an al Sakhu, ten times.

Look closely, Mustafa, and I looked Ma'an al

Sakhu.

And he says something that I will never

forget in Alabi after I read it

several times incorrectly,

and he said,

He

said,

what's wrong with you, Mustafa? Are you blind?

That's what he said to me. Of course,

he he was kidding. So when Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala takes something away from you, he

gives you another gift.

How many of you know know Surah Abba

SAWH Ta'ala?

Almost everyone.

So in this story, a blind man came

to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. You

know this story. Eventually, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,

honored this man

by telling his story in the Quran. His

name was Abdullah ibn Muqtoum.

And the good thing about

the story, at the end of the story,

when the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam left Madinah,

in many occasions,

although this man Abdullah ibn Muhamaktum was blind,

he became the deputy of the Prophet sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam, which means that on several

occasions, when the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

left Madinah,

Abdulayhi wa sallam

became the acting leader of Madinah. A mineman.

He became the president

or the ruler of Madinah in the absence

of the prophet

on several occasions.

Another example,

have you heard of Kharun? Kharun? One of

the reciters, big of the Quran, like,

Hafs,

like Warash in Morocco,

Khala and Hamza. There are 10 famous Qur'has.

One of them is Qur'an.

Is there anyone here from Libya?

You know someone from Libya? Bayi.

So, Kalun is the famous Qurah in Libya.

When you listen to someone in the Qurah

and they say,

and instead of, you know that this is.

Imam Kal'un

was one of the top most professional Qur'a

of the Qur'an of all time.

10. There are 10 Quran. So he was

one of them.

And he certified, he gave Ijazah to 100

if not thousands of people in his life.

One thing we know about him for sure,

Imam Khawm was deaf.

Couldn't hear anything.

He was deaf, and he was certifying people

in professional recitation of the Quran by looking

at their lips.

People always talk about Beethoven, he was deaf.

We have someone

who gave professional recitation, you know, recitation of

the Quran ijazah, although he couldn't hear anything.

By looking at someone's lips, he knows that

if this person is reciting correctly or incorrectly.

The last example I will give.

Yes. Sister Sabrina,

have you heard of the sister?

Yes.

Angela, she is very,

very dynamic sister in the Muslim community. If

you heard of the,

Muslim Council of Pir,

a lot of imams are involved, a lot

of Muslim organizations are involved. She is the

president.

She is the leader of the Muslim Council

of Pir, and she is very active and

dynamic in the community, bringing the Muslim community

together. The point is,

Allah subhanahu wa'ala gave us different gifts. If

you took a gift away from you, He

will give you something else,

another gift inshaAllah.

And, also, if you see someone with a

disability or a person with a disability, someone

who can't walk, someone who can't see, don't

make fun of them. They already have a

challenge in life,

so don't make their life difficult. Make Duaa

for them

and help them as much as we can.

We help each other, and we ask

Allah to make life easy for all of

us, and give us the best in this

life, and the best in the lives to

come. And ask Allah

to bless you and your families. We'll see

you tomorrow inshallah. JazakAllah. Salaam Alaik.