Mustafa Khattab – Priorities
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Is the seal of the prophets and the
final messenger
to all of humanity.
When a person or a community
or a country
has a problem
most of the time
and this is what I think pays in
all,
the years that I've served as an imam
in North America most of the time is
because of two things
Number 1, people don't know their rights and
their obligations.
And number 2,
the priorities
the priorities are missed up. Priority number 15
is now number 1, and priority number 1
is 27.
So this is what happens most of the
time.
L o w s. Prioritizing
or the set of priorities.
And this means that you understand the reality
of things. You know what is more important
and what is less important. And this will
make you live
an easy and a decent life because now
you know why it's more important than the
rest. So for example,
So for example, some
are important like the 5 daily prayers
and or some sunnah for example like salah
Abu Dhabi.
How many times you have seen a Muslim
Arid and they operate 5 times a day.
So this is what I'm talking about, prioritizing.
Of course, you are required to do all
of them, but some are more important than
others.
So this is what we mean by priorities
in evidence.
And Al Israe,
you have to see in,
in the
so even
it's not like about like making a light
on a human being.
So when you say for example that Allah
has a son or children
or Allah doesn't exist
this is worse in Islam than saying that
Imam Musaam doesn't like Christianity for example.
They say bringing about
or removing a hardship for someone
is better or is prioritizing Islam than bringing
about good. Say, for example, you want to
pay to your house
and you owe money to the bank, like,
5,000 bucks and you have
$5,000 in your house. Do you have to
use this money to pay off your debt
and the interest to get rid of the
interest or pay at your house?
Some people don't know. So in this case,
you have to take off the dead first.
So removing a hardship or something haram is
more important than bringing about something good.
They said in
yeah. He studied a long time ago
that,
saying someone is more important than giving people
say, like, someone is is swimming in Lake
Lothari and the person is drowning.
And you see, you know, to say that
that he has a golden ring in his
hand. So you you tell him, you are
bad. I I I need about 15 minutes
to give you, 15 ideas of Musani about
how haram were,
terrible, where it goes for many years. No.
You need to say that first. You talk
to them about Haram things. Okay? So you
need to prioritize.
They say even if you have a development
emergency,
the lives of human beings
are prioritized over the lives of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
We know, for example, when it is time
for salah, it's time for salah.
But in some cases,
doing something else takes precedence
over
salah, for example. Like, someone is dying.
We are praying, and the masjid, and
the house next to the masjid is on
fire, and someone is dying. We have to
cut salah and go and save salah's life
and come back.
So what
if your son
is desperate to get married?
He's 19 or 20 or more and he
wants to get married.
You have $10,000
in the house or in in your bank's
account bank account.
You need to use that money for Hajj
and your son is desperate. If you don't
marry him, tomorrow
is gonna be in the paper the day
after tomorrow. A 19 year old man kidnapped
a 65 year old girl. Okay? Whatever you
call it. So in this case, you need
to get the marriage first because the guy
is desperate that he will fall in a
haram before you do it. Okay? And so
on and so forth. The examples are so
many in the Quran and in the Surah.
If the first thing the prophet taught us
in Madina was quit drinking, nobody would have
accepted this life. Thanks, no thanks. Nobody would
have accepted this life. But the first thing
he taught us was there's only one God.
Then, Stifel said, gradually,
alcohol was prohibited gradually over the years, not
from day 1.
Also, when you read the Surah Al Adiyyah,
when Muslims wanted to do the honor and
the people of Mecca said go back and
we'll do a peace agreement today after so
many years of fighting.
So when they were drafting
the truce, the peace agreement,
so Suhay ibn Am said he protested something
because the prophet of God told Arab that
he thought it's alright.
And some of us, how were not so
happy about this? Abu Bakr and Muhammad, nobody
was happy. But the prophet
knew
what is going to happen. And in the
next few months or years after the truth,
many many people, and thousands of people accepted
Islam during that time of peace. And the
prophet knew this, but the Sahaba didn't see
this coming. So the prophet knew.
That the people of for rebuilding the Kaaba
fell short, so they built it as a
square not as a rectangle. So, the prophet
said I wanted to build it as rectangular
but some people will not understand
the significance of keep it as is because
keeping the Kaaba as is is more important.
Strengthening people's faith in Islam
is more important than rebuilding the Kaaba.
The last example, when the Musa said that
the
and the prophet
said, this is what you need to teach
people when you go there, 1, 2, 3.
So number 1, teach them that there's only
one God and Muhammad is his prophet.
And if you
accept, avoid the most precious things they have.
If they love something so much when it
disciples a man, they'll take it because they'll
break their heart.
And beware
of oppressed people.
Because if someone is oppressed or abused and
they make duaq Allah, there's no barrier between
their duaq and Allah subhanahu
wa sallam is telling him be just and
be fair.
They 'urama' and 'aliyah' Muslims. 'sadot al kaliyah.
'urama' and psychologists
classify the different activities
we do on a daily basis into 4
groups.
Urgent and important.
Not urgent, not important.
Urgent but not important and important but not
urgent.
So urgent and important by salah. When it
is time for salah, you have the friends
that are playing soccer, you're playing basketball, you
have
But for some people who are not true
citizens,
for them it is not important. I I
do it because I don't wanna go to
jail. So it is urgent in March, but
for some people it is not important.
What is important but not urgent is like
buying clothes for your baby when your wife
is only 2 months pregnant.
Yeah. We're getting there but we still have
plenty of time.
Even the 4 things are listed, urgent, important,
not urgent, not important, important, but not urgent,
urgent, but not important.
When some people look at the same thing,
for them, it could be for someone, it
could be urgent, but for another person, it's
not important or not urgent.
See? So the priorities are different.
And in some cases people look just they
just don't know about sharia and they don't
know about Islam and they don't know what
comes first.
So when an individual label
when you put your desire before Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala now with Nur al Misra,
you will have a problem.
But in some cases,
for example,
when people
say haram
something prohibited is like to get rich past,
of course, they are putting their desire before
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And in some cases,
so this should be great when you put
your wants before your needs
As I explained to you the difference between
what you want and what you need, we'll
take
the Walmart exam. So before you go for
shopping, most of the time you have a
list of 5 items.
You need food for yourself.
You need diapers for the kid.
You need
blood pressure and heart attack attached medicine for
your husband. All these things.
So but when you come out from your
Walmart, you end up having, like, 65 items.
So the 5 items is exactly what you
need. You can survive with that, but the
extra 60 items is what you want, not
what you need.
Now, when you go inside, there's a 65
HDB,
LCD.
What's more? We already have 1 of it
and it's on sale.
We're gonna buy only $400.
I feel like an idiot if I don't
buy it. But, we don't need it. This
is the thing. So, priorities
are messed up. So, this is what an
individual
to marry his nephew
whom she doesn't like. We'll put it this
way, she hates his guts. She doesn't like
a guy. She lived her life and her
whole life in Canada. She doesn't know the
guy. He doesn't speak English. He doesn't know
the culture. And you still want to force
your nephew on your own. And Islamic, this
is not acceptable.
Maybe if I someone else she likes or
whatever
to be acceptable
Islamic. And some people,
say it's not acceptable in their culture to
marry your son or your daughter from another
Muslim from a different culture. There's nothing wrong
Islamically and being married to someone else from
a different culture if you are a good
Muslim. This is the thing in Islam.
Another example, when you marry your daughter to
someone who is rich and you don't look
for Islam or you look for a sister
to marry and you look at a beauty
and Islam or the fact that she's practicing
is the last thing on your list. This
is when you have
a problem. When a society or community level,
you put politics before everything.
So, for example,
in many countries that we know of, we
hear about it all the time in the
news when they put politics before Allah subhanahu
wa'ala
And some Muslims, they hate Sheikh I so
much, and I don't
know what wrong Allah subhanahu wa'ala has done
to them to hate his laws so much
back home. And we still have problems still
this day.
In most Muslim countries. We have problems
over the many decades, and it's gonna get
worse before it gets better because people are
not happy with Islam. They are Muslim, but
they don't want shayat. And you see people
talking,
I don't know what's going on in their
these people's minds. We have tried everything.
Everything in the book we have tried. We
have tried communism
in the 19 sixties. Socialism,
capitalism,
secularism,
all the isms in there, and we're living
a miserable life. The only thing that people
need to try is to let Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala solve your problems. And a lot
of people are not happy with this. It
just give Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala a chance.
So for you to live an easy and
a happy life as a Muslim, this is
the solution. You have to know your rights
and your obligations and put your priorities in
order. That's