Mustafa Khattab – Purify Your Heart
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So,
I'm still losing my voice, so make the
offer, inshallah, that that will cover.
Anyway,
I think we enjoyed the talk yesterday by,
brother Akbar Ali, about how they help the
refugees and those in need. Today, inshallah, I'm
gonna talk about something that will soften your
heart, because sometimes our hearts get rusty,
sometimes we get far away from Allah
and get busy with dunya, buying toys, ice
cream, Nutella, video games, all that stuff. So,
this is just a quick reminder.
There are 3 types of places that,
I think most of us should visit
every time you feel like your heart is
getting rusty,
and one of them is
jail,
number 2, the hospital,
and number 3, the graveyard.
And I'll give you my experiences.
How many of you have been to jail?
No. Just for a visit, not to stay.
You know? I see.
No time. Yeah. I have been to jail
several times.
As a stop for love. Thank you.
Just as a chaplain.
You know what chaplain means?
No. No. Chaplain basically means
an imam in jail. So I go there
and I help the prisoners.
I either answer their questions or give them
talks,
pray Jum'ah with them. So this is what
what a chaplain means. And this is a
very good job, by the way. Insha'Allah, in
the future, if you'd like to find a
good job, a chaplain might be a good
job. It can be a chaplain in jail,
a chaplain at the hospital,
a chaplain in the navy or the army.
So these are different types of chaplains. But
anyway,
so I used to go to prison in
the US and and in, in Canada as
well to help the president.
So what is special about doing dawah or
visiting our brothers and sisters in jail? I
don't know.
Yes.
Yes. Yes.
Maybe they'll stop being how they were, and
maybe convert to
Masha'Allah. I'm actually talking about Muslims who are
in jail.
Oh. Yes, of course, it's gonna help them
change, but I'm talking about me. What do
I learn from them?
I'll tell you.
If you want to appreciate your freedom,
visit the prison.
If you'd like to appreciate
your health,
go to the hospital.
If you want to appreciate your life,
go to the graveyard.
Okay. So the good thing about the brothers
and sisters in jail, every time I go
to them, I give them a talk,
because
the rest of the year they're locked up,
they don't go outside, I mean, they don't
go to the masjid, they don't visit their
families, they don't go to the movies,
they are inside, they can't come out. They
can't go to the park, play video games,
they can't play soccer, basketball,
all these things. Right?
So when they see someone from the outside
world
is coming to visit them, they are thrilled
and they are happy.
The difference between giving a Jumah Fumba or
a talk in jail, and giving a Jumah
Fumba here in this prayer is,
in jail you have a guaranteed audience.
Even if they hate you,
they have to sit and listen to you.
They can't run away because the the doors
are closed.
But here in the masjid, if I'm giving
a talk and you hate my God, so
you don't like me, or the subject is
boring,
you just walk away. You jump out of
the window. Right?
But they can't do this in jail.
Right?
When I spend
a couple of hours inside, I teach them,
I answer their questions, I pray with them.
After 2 hours, when it is time to
leave,
I see how many
electronic gates are open in front of me,
and I'm able to get out, and some
of them are in tears because they can't
go home and enjoy their families and children.
Right?
So one of them told me, Wallahi, I
will give up my life, I will give
up everything I have, just to go home
and hug my mom or hug my daughter.
Because they have been in jail for so
many years.
So sometimes we don't appreciate our freedom,
and the enjoyments we have in life. It
is only when you see someone locked up
in a difficult situation that you start to
appreciate
your freedom.
Number 2 in the hospital.
When you go and see someone
who's lying on their beds, they can't move,
their life is difficult,
they're eating certain types of food everyday
everyday.
Right? They can't move, they can't exercise,
especially those in intensive care units, or those
who are going, through surgery.
Sometimes people stay there for months.
I know people who stay in and out
for years in the hospital.
They can't eat the food they like, they
can't exercise, they can't go out. Again, their
life is difficult. So when you go there,
and you see them,
SubhanAllah, it makes you appreciate your health.
Cause many of us, alhamdulillah, are healthy,
we live good lives, but we don't appreciate
it because we don't see those who are
sick. I know a brother from Saint Catherine's,
he was in a coma for
several months,
and
they thought that he's gonna die, but eventually
he recovered. But after he recovered, he had
to go to the hospital,
3 or 4 times a week,
to be dilated.
I think what they do
basically, they remove their blood and they put
new blood 3, 4 times a week, and
I visited him once, he's hooked up to
this machine
for 2, 3 hours,
and there are tubes all over the place,
tubes all over, and it's very painful.
And he was very tired, and he was
very unhappy because 3 or 4 times, and
of course when you go, you stay there
the whole day. Because you don't you don't
just walk in and they put the machines
and stuff and the tubes, no. They prepare
you for like an hour or 2, and
after you finish you stay there, they test
you,
so on and so forth, and you imagine
getting all your food through a tube,
or a straw,
you know, it's it's a difficult life.
So how do you appreciate your health? When
you look at these people.
Also,
the last thing you appreciate your life
is when you see someone in the graveyard,
like people die all the time. Just last
night, a Turkish sister passed away.
The day before,
an athletic brother from the US. I I
saw this story on YouTube, sorry, on Facebook.
Pakistani brother and Pakistanis,
they don't basically play soccer, they play
Cricket. Cricket. Exactly.
So the brother was athletic, he played cricket.
So they were playing a game,
the night before, that is 2 days ago.
So he was playing with his friends, 45
years old, very healthy guy, tall, muscles, everything.
And in the break,
he told him, let's take a selfie together.
He took out his phone with a stick,
and he took a selfie. He was in
the front taking the selfie.
15 minutes later he was playing cricket with
him, he fell dead, fell down and died.
Gave up his soul. And that was the
last picture he took.
And when you look at this picture, you
look in his eyes, he's still young and
healthy,
you don't expect someone like this to die,
you expect someone like my professor from Egypt,
who has always been sick his whole life,
and even at the age of 25 they
told him if you live another week you'll
be lucky.
He's a 100 years old this week.
Because you never know when it is time
for you to go. You can be 17
years old, you can be 90 years old,
2 years old, 25 years old, you never
know. So when the time comes we go.
But again,
every time you see someone in a janaza,
they're carrying them for the graveyard,
one thing should come to your mind.
If the Angel of death
skipped you
to take someone else today,
maybe tomorrow it's gonna skip somebody else to
come to
and take you.
So what do we do? We should always
be ready, great to Allah, be a nice
person, leave a legacy behind. So always remember
these, three places, the hospital,
the prison, and the graveyard, and this will
motivate you inshaAllah to be a better person.
I hope, inshaAllah. We ask Allah
to help you enjoy your freedom,
your health, and your life, and help you
become good Muslims inshaAllah.
I'm losing my voice already. We'll see you
tomorrow inshallah for questions and answers. I
can't take any questions today, tomorrow inshallah.
Oh, god. I have a question.