Mustafa Khattab – Prophetic Grace
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The importance of showing love for Islam is emphasized, including showing love for actions such as drinking drugs and lying to creditors. The use of the word "has been" in various context is also discussed, with examples given of how people react to negative behavior. The importance of praying for others is also emphasized, with a call to action being used in a recent death story. The speaker encourages people to apply their own values and actions to others, as there is room for improvement in their lives.
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I bear witness that there's 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
guides, there is none to misguide.
And whoever Allah
leaves astray, there is none to guide aright.
Yahtafi
al Muslimoonafi
haad al waftimin al aambimawlidi
khairil
bariyyah
saeed ala Muhammad sallallahu alayhi yourself.
So at this time of the year, we
commemorate
the birth of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. I
didn't say celebrate, I said commemorate.
Even Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam himself commemorated
his birth. He was asked, why do you
fast on Monday? He said, this is the
day I was born.
So
this is a beautiful day, this is a
wonderful day from Allah
The day Muhammad
was born. And if you commemorate
some of these Islamic events like, or
Bayat al Ridwan,
and al Islaihi wa sallam, and
his sunnah, and we teach our kids, and
we follow his example.
This is the best way to commemorate
the birth of the prophet
in such Islamic events.
So as I said, the whole year, we
talk about Muhammad
about his and his manners, and so on
and so forth.
Well, the karna, Filam al Mawi, and Nakulal
Muslimi Muhib bin Nabi Saasal. We all love
Muhammad Saasal. Every single one of us.
So even those who don't pray, they don't
practice the sunnah of Muhammad SAW Alaihi Wasallam.
If someone
said something bad about Muhammad SAW Alaihi Wasallam,
they will be the first one to defend
him even if they don't practice his sunnah.
We love him salaam.
I cannot imagine
that there is a household in the Muslim
world
where you don't find someone's
first name to be Muhammad, or someone in
the family whose middle name is Muhammad, or
last name is Muhammad.
And I mentioned last year,
Al Madaa Abna Nabi Surah Al
Akal
Al Kataha after Abu Tabatar.
So he said that Muhammad
as soon he dies,
no longer remember his name because all of
his kids died in his lifetime. He was
talking about the boys, the 3 of them.
He said once he dies, no one carries
his name, his name would be forgotten.
So Allah
revealed,
So now, after 1500 years,
from the passing of Muhammad
over a 150,000,000
people have the name Muhammad.
Even if you go to London, UK,
the name Mohammed is the number one boy
name.
Of course, there are different,
spellings, m o h a m e d,
m o h a m m a d,
or e d, or m u, and so
on and so forth. So together,
the name Muhammad is the number one name,
even in some non Muslim countries. So we
love him, and we name our children after
him. And I think I gave the example
of one of the imams in the US,
when he said that,
someone asked him, your name is Muhammad Al
Asha, Muhammad the 10th,
so is that Asha your last name? He
said, no, this is my number. Because every
man in the family, their name is Muhammad.
His father is Muhammad, his grandfather is Muhammad,
his brother is Muhammad, his son is Muhammad,
everyone is Muhammad. So he said to identify
ourselves, we go by by numbers.
So my father is Muhammad 9th,
I'm Muhammad 10th,
and my son is Muhammad 11th. Right? So,
they don't confuse people, they go by numbers.
So everyone loves Muhammad
It's a
most commonly given name in the world, and
this is a sign of love for Muhammad
So now, yes, we love Muhammad
There's no question about this.
And we know the reason.
The Prophet
deserves to be loved.
Because he cares about us, more we care
about ourselves.
Because if you follow your nafs,
your nafs will motivate you to do haram,
do this, drink, date, drugs.
Because you think, if you fulfill your desires,
you are doing yourself a favor, but you
are giving yourself Jahangam actually.
But Muhammad
there is nothing we do as Muslims,
except that Muhammad
told us to do. You will never find
the hadith where the Prophet said, don't give
sadaqah,
don't do something good, don't have good aflat.
And you can never find a Hadith where
the Prophet
says, You have to abuse people,
you have to cheat, you have to lie.
This will never happen.
Every time the Prophet
tells you to do something,
it has to be good for you, in
dunya and in akhram. And if he tells
you to stay away from something,
then it has to be wrong in dunya
and in akhram.
And when Muslims live in non Muslim countries,
and I and I say this in a
positive way, Wallahi,
the non Muslim societies, they should be thankful
to Allah that
Muslims
follow the Sunnah of the Prophet
They don't lie. I'm talking about true Muslims
who follow the sunnah of Muhammad
They don't lie, they don't cheat, they don't
abuse people. Why? Because Muhammad
told them to do it, this way. So
they should be grateful that Muslims follow the
sunnah of Muhammad
Someone, if you want to prove your love
to Muhammad
So if you want to show your
true love to Muhammad,
follow his sunnah,
follow his example. This is a sign of
true love. If you love someone, you obey
them.
Your kids will tell you, Yes, I love
you, and everything. And if you told them
go up, they go down. Go right, they
go left. What kind of love is this?
If you lost some money, you obey them.
This is the sign, this is a proof
of your true love for them.
So
if
you represent his manners and his akhlaq, especially
in in in this society,
when you represent Islam, you show your manners,
and you show your true love for Muhammad
by embodying his message and his sunnah, people
will see Islam in you. You can talk
about how good Islam is
for 2 months,
but if you show it in your manners
and your akhlaaf, this is a better representation
of Islam.
To be a true Muslim, as I said,
you follow the akhlaq of Muhammad
So if you are a true Muslim, you
are honest, you are kind, you are sincere,
because this is what Islam means.
If you say you are Muslim,
but you don't follow his sunnah, and you
embody his akhlaq in your manners, for me,
this is like someone who says, I'm vegetarian,
and Masha'Allah, every day they eat beef and
chicken.
Tamam,
and the man's delicious, we hand the burger
factory every single day. How how do you
claim to be vegetarian if you eat beef
and chicken every day?
And how can you claim to be a
true Muslim, a true follower of Muhammad
if you don't follow his akhlaq and his
manners, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
One of the most
important akhlaq or manners we can learn from
Muhammad
is
This is the one of the most beautiful
manners we can learn from Muhammad
It
is difficult to translate in English, but
basically comes down to
grace,
and being gracious,
and responding to evil with good,
and show people who are akhla. They are
not your teachers.
Like in the story of, Omar al Muftar,
for example, when they took captives, and and
the Sahaba said, Okay, we want to discipline
them just like they torture and abuse our
captives. He said, They are not our teachers.
Our teacher is Muhammad
They are not our teachers. We have to
show them how good and how true Muslims
we are.
So you show this matter in in your
afla alhim.
The Prophet salawasat almihilmiinukara
yahuwilil
aduwilasadiq.
One of the great qualities of Muhammad salawasat,
it's very clear in his sunnah that he
always turned
enemies into friends.
So they say, a smart person
is someone who turns enemies into friends.
But an idiot will always turn friends into
enemies, by their manners, and bad manners, and
a flood.
You can always win over people's hearts by
your manners,
how good and kind you are. You will
win the battle, inshaAllah, against your nafs and
against shaitan.
So I remember many years ago, we everyone
loves corn,
so
we got the pot, we put the corn,
and
it boiled, and it was ready to eat,
but I can't eat it hot, and I
had to cool it down a bit. So
I took it to the tap, I opened
the tap water,
and the water was coming down, and when
I took took the corn, it was still
hot. And I realized,
because the water that was coming from the
tap was also hot.
It was hot water coming. So when you
meet someone's,
disrespect, with disrespect,
things will be heated, one thing will lead
to another. But if you respond with kindness,
and grace, and respect,
people will cool down.
Just like the example I gave. And the
examples are so many, I'm gonna give some
examples from the sunnah of Muhammad salallahu alayhi
wa sallam, how he responded to people, and
this is something we need to apply in
our daily lives. With your wife,
with your husband, with your children,
with your parents, and so on and so
forth. Wallahi, kindness
will wait over people's hearts, and kindness and
grace is the best dua. Even with non
Muslims,
kindness and grace is the best dua. There's
this hadith in Bukhari,
So he came to the Prophet shalallahu alaihi
wa sallam, this army. He had 2 camels
with him. And he said, I want you
to load these camels with food entrusted to
you by Allah because this food is not
yours, it is not your father's food.
It doesn't belong to you. And he was
very disrespectful according to this hadith in Bukhary.
And he pulled the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam his from his clothes
until he almost hurt his his neck.
And the Sahaba were there,
and Anas radiAllahu said, I was stunned when
I saw the man doing this to the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam smiled, and
he said, Yes, inshaAllah I will give you,
but I have to retaliate. I will have
to do the same thing to you. So
the man said, You can't do that.
So the Prophet SAWAYAM said, Walima, why? He
said, laan nakalabuqabilusayi
ata bisayi walacan tafuwadasfar.
You cannot do this because you are not
like me.
Because
you don't respond to evil with evil, you
respond to good with what is best. You
are better than me. This is what he
said basically.
So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam smiled,
and he gave him 2 loaves, camel loaves,
1 dates and 1 barley. And Muhammad Alahu,
min altamur wa minashay.
So this is in Bukhali. The prophet
responded to him in this way.
Tamamfi Hadif Uqhral Hadif Muslim,
Utia ilan Abu sahali m
bin al Yemen. A piece of gold was
brought to the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam
from Yemen, and the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa
sallam divided this
gold between 2, 4 people
who either just accepted Islam or the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was hoping that they
will become Muslim. He gave them,
Fajahawaahidun
min nas. Wakha you Rasool Allah. Taqimlah, what
are you doing? So when the prophet shalazhi
wa sallam divided this goal between 4 people,
someone from the Sahaba was not happy. And
he said he came to the prophet shalazhi
wa sallam and said, it's Takinlah,
it's Takinlah, what is this? SAWAYAN WA SAWAYAN
WA SAWAYAN WA SAWAY. If
if I don't have taqwa
of Allah, who will have taqwa?
That's all. Then the man left and Khaled
Niv Ali was there, the hadith is inside
Muslim, and he Khaled Radulah and was mad.
And he said, Ya'u's Dani Alrikamulukah, let me
fix him up for you.
The Prophet SAW said, Leave him alone because
he prays, he makes salah, namaz. Leave him
alone.
Fakal Khali You Rasool Allah, wakam bin al
nazi u sali
wawwamunafiq.
He the Khali the Lord Abu said, Well
a lot of people they make salah,
bellies and look at their heart to see
if they are munafi or not, if they
are Muslims. Halas alhamdulillah.
So the Prophet didn't do anything to the
man. He let him go,
maybe you don't have a good day, maybe
someone,
you know, did something terrible to you. This
is not your lucky day. You're mad,
and maybe you said something irresponsible, and we
should not hold people accountable for everything they
say. You don't know how terrible their day
was. An ham.
And the examples of so many,
and and the Sahaba of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam embodied this Him.
And the great scholars of Islam embodied this
Him as well. 1 of the, one of
the ulama, his name was
So Ibn Arabi Adib, one of the great
scholars of Madinah, he was a scholar.
And
as you know in fiqh,
is the time after salatul fajr until sunrise,
15 minutes before salatul and then algoor, and
the time after salatul asr until sunset. These
are the disliked times.
So some, of course, like in the Shafi'i
madhab, they say if a salah has a
name, you can pray it in these times.
Like Tahiyatul Masjid,
if you forgot a sunnah, for example, and
so on and so forth. If you want
to pray it's tikhara, janaza,
this salah has a name, you can pray
it in these times. But if you pray
salah with no name, this is not allowed.
So ibn Abiivi followed one of those madha'ib
that says, We cannot pray at these times.
So he came inside the masir,
and he says he didn't pray 2 rakatah
hated masir.
Someone
from the people who think you can pray
tahayat al maship, that he didn't know the
imam, he didn't know that it was this
big scholar, ibn Abi from Madinah,
so he told him,
you sitting down without praying 2 rakah is
a sign of compound ignorance. You are ignorant.
Stand up and pray.
Yeah.
He stood up and he prayed 2 rakah.
Then after the salah, they prayed salah to
Reisha or something, or salah to Ma'rib, sorry,
salah to Ma'rib,
then the Americans should use ibn Abidiv, the
biggest one of the biggest scholars of the
time,
to give halat, give a talk to people.
So this man, who accused Ibn Abideh of
ignorance
came to him apologizing,
sorry, I didn't know. So the imam said,
well,
no problem, sorry, Luke. You told me to
do something good, to pray 2 raga, and
I did it alhamdulillah, it's not a big
deal. You didn't tell me to do anything
haram, and I I listened to you.
So Imam Malik, one of the greatest scholars
of all time, like Imam Hanifa, Imam Shafi'i,
and Imam Ahmed, The greatest scholars of Islam.
So one day in his madham, as they
said, they don't pray dahiat al masjid. So
he entered the masjid one day before salat
al boom,
and he sat down.
A little kid,
about 7 years old, he told him, You
Sheikh,
what's wrong with you? Shame on you, you
sit down, you don't pray tahayatul masjid Turaka,
stand up and pray. He stood up, and
he prayed Turaka.
So after his salah,
one of his students said, Yeah Imam,
we know in your behalf it is disliked
to pray the Hayatul Masjid in this time.
Why did you listen to this boy? He
said, I was afraid that I'll be from
among those who are told make rakah and
they don't make rukur. And this is one
of the ayaat that talk about Kufar at
the end of Surah Al Mur Salat. So
he said, I don't want to be among
these people who are told make rakah, they
don't make rakah. And the story is mentioned
in Tasir al Khortubi
at the end of Surah Al Mur Salat.
He mentioned,
the stories.
So Al Khilm,
with people and being graceful to them, winning
over their hearts. Now imagine if someone is
sold 2 rakah masjid, and they stand up
and they fight in the masjid, and the
chairs are flying, and you are not winning
any game here. You are making fitna, you
are dividing the
umrah. Unless, of course, they are asking you
to do something harm. Right? But if it's
something permissible,
something that is allowed, something that is supported
by Hadith, then there's nothing wrong.
Another example
that I remember,
if you are from India, Pakistan, you know,
Junayi Jamshid, Rahim Abu Dhabi. He passed away
last year,
and may Allah
accept him and and give him Jannah.
In in in his youth years he was
a singer, and eventually Allah guided him, he
made dawba, and he became daaayah. If you
agree with him or you don't agree with
him, he was trying to do something good,
alhamdulillah. May Allah
accept him as shahil. And the story was
told by a brother from Markham, here in
Canada.
So he said Junayd Limshid came to Canada
in a visit,
and he entered one of the masajid in
Markham to pray salaabul
one of the salaabs, salaabul alisha for example.
One of the brothers brought their kids to
the masjid.
And you know what happens, sometimes your kids
are nice, masjid they are laughing, they are
hugging you, everything is nice. And as soon
as they go to the masjid,
the speakers
he sees new people, they start to cry.
What can you do? And all I am
totally against kicking kids out of the Masjid.
If they if they make noise, unless of
course they tear the carpet or they break
something. You know, as long as they are
being kids,
we need to teach them and accept them
and give them candy or, you know, accept
them because these are the the future of
Islam in this land. But if you keep
them, if you let them and shout, get
out of here, Ramon Afekzindeep.
So what happened, you know, the man was
praying next to Junay Jafshid Rahim Allah. He
was standing next to him in the line
with his son. As soon as the imam
started Dasala, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah,
his kids started to cry.
He tried to cool him down.
You know,
the more he tried to, you know, keep
him quiet the more the kid was like,
oh, like everyone heard him in the masjid.
So after salah when they finished and the
man with his kid, he couldn't leave because
he was in the middle of the masjid,
he couldn't go anywhere. Right? He
was marked inside.
So after salah he looked around, he saw
Junayd and he recognized him, and he started
to apologize, sorry I ruined your salah, sorry
my kid was making noise. So Junayd Rahimullah
said, he was very gracious,
He said,
maybe Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would accept our
salah because of the crying of your kids,
of your son. Maybe this is the reason,
if our salah is accepted,
maybe it is accepted because of your son,
you never know. And he left it at
that.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give
us him, to give us the best in
his life, and the best in the love
to come
So the quality of him is one of
the examples we need to,
apply from the life of Muhammad
If you truly love him, you follow his
sunnah and his example.
Try and apply him again, as I said,
with your wife, your husband, your kids, your
parents,
the people you work with, the people you
go to school with, and and this will
show you the beauty and the greatness of
Islam.
Over the last
month,
and I've seen this on,
CNN,
and ABC news, and many news outlets in
the US.
A father from Kentucky, a Muslim brother, he
lost his son.
His his son was delivering pizza, and his
son was stabbed by a guy, you know,
from the from from Kentucky, and his son
was killed.
And it was all over the news, and
he started to preach about Islam and about
Muhammad salaam, and about him, and grace, and
mercy.
And he's he whispered to the guy who
killed his own son after he forgave him,
and hugged him. And he said when he
get out, try to do something good, and
he said, Allah, maybe Allah will forgive you
and accept you. And Allah cannot forgive you
if I if I don't forgive you. But
now I forgive you, the door of mercy
of Allah, al Rahma, is open for you.
So he showed on national TV
the film of Muhammad salaam and the akhlaq
of Islam, and I'm sure this will touch
so many people's hearts. So we ask Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us among those
who touch people's hearts and embody the sunnah
and the helm of Muhammad salaam, and we'll
continue next week. We ask Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to give us the best in this
life and the best in the life to
come.