Mustafa Khattab – Putting A Smile On Peoples Faces Ii
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I bear witness that Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasallam
is the Seer of the Prophets and the
Final Messenger
to all of humanity.
Whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala guides, there is
none to misguide, and whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala leaves astray, there is none to guide
arayat.
So last year,
I gave a talk about Jabr Al Khater,
putting a smile on people's faces,
and, we didn't get a chance to complete
the topic. So today, Insha Allah, we'll focus
on this very important topic.
One of the most important acts of worship
in Islam, good deeds that you can do
after the 5 pillars in Islam,
Salah, Zakah, Hajj, and so on and so
forth, It's Jabal Khater, putting a smile on
people's faces.
A lot of people don't realize that Islam
stands on 2 feet.
One foot is your relationship with Allah,
and the other foot is your relationship with
the people.
Rebadat
wal mawamalat.
You read it in the Quran, everywhere in
the Quran.
Those who have faith in Allah, they have
a good relationship with Allah,
and those who are amil al salaha, they
do good deeds to the people. So it's
always about your relationship with Allah and your
relationship with the people.
So sometimes you find someone who's having a
very good relationship with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
but they cheat and lie and so on
and so forth.
Or you find someone who is very good,
like a very
decent human being. They're very nice to everyone.
They're very kind. They're very sincere. But when
it comes to Iqalah, they say, you know,
I'll help you. I'll be out. You know,
my heart is pure. I don't have to
pray, and I've met some people like this.
So you have to keep the balance between,
you know, keeping a good relationship with Allah
and a good relationship with the people, and
there are so many ayaat and many ahadith
that talk about this, and we can focus
on this, some other time,
The come night in the sufah Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala Muwah Al Jabbar
So one of the names of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is a Jabbar
and one of the main meanings of the
name of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, Al Jabbar
is someone who comforts you in difficult times,
someone who consults you, and someone who supports
you if you go through a difficulty or
hardship.
Jabar means Jabara.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you send me nafsahu
jabron
Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, you send me Nafsa'u Jabbaram. So
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala calls to Himself, the
Jabbar is the one who takes care of
you every time you go through a difficulty.
And I said last year that the the
word we have in Arabic for a cast,
if someone falls down and they break their
neck or their arm and they put a
cast, it's called Jabira in Arabic. Cast means
Jabira. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is to
you in difficult times,
is like the cast to someone with a
broken arm. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will
put a joy in your heart and He
will comfort you and take care of you
in the difficult times.
If you remember the most difficult times in
your life, like for example, if you come
from, you know, like a foreign country, a
doctor, engineer, and you have to take some
exams here, and, you're preparing for your final
exams, you're pulling your hair off
because you have been doing something else for
a long time, you know, some media jobs
to be able to practice. And before the
final exams, you're stressed
out and you pass Alhamdulillah,
straight A's, who was taking care of you
in this difficult time? It's Al Jabbar Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And if this a sister is delivering a
baby, giving birth to a child, and she
is screaming and she is crying
because of the pain and the contractions,
and she will cry and say, I will
never do this again, and she will end
up having another 10, 12 kids after. So
who's taking care of the sister in this
difficult time? It's a Jabbar subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The people in Syria, the people in Iraq,
the people in Turkey,
Libya, Yemen, other places, Afghanistan,
Kashmir, so on and so forth.
Who's taking care of them in this difficult
time
after everyone now is turning their back to
them?
I heard today that the people of Al
Quds,
they are not able to pray salatul Jumaa
in Masjid Al Aqsa for the first time
in decades.
Last year about this time,
15th July, there was a coup in Turkey,
and
so many people were killed and and so
on and so forth.
And in this last year so many explosions
in the Muslim world and so on and
so forth, and it seems we have so
many problems in the Muslim world that no
one cares anymore.
And if you look around you,
our mentioned here just like Al Mas'alid in
in the West in general, it's a mosaic
of people from different cultures. Whether you come
from Asia, Africa, Europe, and so on and
so forth. And most of you came from
these countries that have issues. If you came
from,
Somalia, if you came from Syria, Iraq,
Turkey, if you came from Libya, if you
came from over, basically, Afghanistan.
Every single one of us here has a
pain in their heart,
And this is enough reason to exercise
Jabur Khadr that I'm talking about. We have
enough issues, we have enough worries in our
lives, you worry about your kids, you worry
about your family,
you worry about your family back home, what
is going to happen to them because of
the instability?
So we need Jabrul Khater, this quality of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to exercise in our
lives and take care of each other, and
put a smile on each other's faces.
If we don't do it to one another
as Muslims, no one would do it to
you.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will hold us accountable
on the Day of Judgment for Jabra'u khati.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, Allah Aital levy
you can bebo with Deen. Have you seen
the one who denies
or does not have sure faith in Yomul
Qiyam ad Din like Maliki Yom Id Din?
It's the one who repulses the orphan. They
don't take care of the orphans.
Those who lost their parents in war, if
they came from Syria, Halaf, or they don't
care, take care of them.
And they don't take care or earn the
feeding of the orphan.
So you see Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks
about Jabrul Khattar
in the first and second example, the orphan,
the needy, then he talks about Salab, he
criticizes those who don't pray in 3rd
place, but in 1st and second place he
talks about Jabal Khattar, taking care of people
and putting a smile on their face.
I feel sick and you never visited me.
So the Aftu will say, You know Allah,
how can I visit you and and how
can you fall sick and you are the
Lord of all the worlds? How do you
fall sick?
Allah will say,
Why didn't you visit me when I feel
sick? And the person will say, Hey Allah,
how do you fall sick? And how can
I visit you? And Allah will say, did
you not know that my servant so and
so, your brother, your sister, they feel sick,
and you were able to visit them and
put a smile on their face, but you
never, you never did it. You didn't visit
them, you didn't put a smile on their
face.
Aftis tala'am Tuqafalat Tuqamni. I asked for food
from you, and you never fed me.
And the servant will say, Allah, how can
I feed you? And at one time, Quran
Amin. So Allah would say, didn't you know
that your brother or your sister was in
need of assistance? They were in need of
food and you didn't feed them?
And so on and so forth till the
end of the Hadith. So Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will hold the people at
Khayama
If you have the ability
to take care of someone and put a
smile on their face, Allah
will hold you accountable.
You knew that someone, a refugee or someone
who came, they were in need, but you
didn't help them.
And you know that someone is going through
a difficult time, they didn't have a job,
and you didn't help them out.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will hold you
accountable because we as an Ummah,
1 Ummah, 1 brotherhood
So we need to take care of one
another
as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling us
in the Quran and as the prophet SAWS
is telling us in the Hadith.
In Nabi'SAAH is telling us in the Hadith.
In Nabi'SAAH is telling us in the Hadith.
We gave several examples in the last Khutba,
but the prophet was taking care of people
and putting a smile on their faces
even Haftar non Muslims
and even children.
There was a little kid,
Umayr,
he was the brother of Anas ibn Malik.
So he had a little bird and he
used to live with a bird and everyone
knows the Hadith, the bird died and Umayr
was crying and the Prophet SAW Salam came
to him and he said, okay, why are
you crying? And he said, because my bird
died. So the Prophet SAW Salam
comforted him and he put a smile on
his face and the Hadith is there in
the Sahar. It's an Uthintiq Hadith.
The Hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
we know that Ibrahim of Nabi Jal his
father was one of the biggest enemies of
Islam of all time.
So Abu Jahl of the time of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is like
Trump of our
time. So he was giving the Prophet SAW
a hard time.
So his son, Hirkima eventually Allah opened his
heart to Islam and he came as a
Muslim. Faqalalalahu
minabi SAW before Hirkima would even come, he
received the wine The rikrima, this son of
your biggest enemies, he took shahara, and he's
coming to you as a Muslim.
Fatala nabiya tikum rikrima to Nabija,
mumilan muhajan fa la tasuku abaru. He says
that rikrima is coming to you.
Exactly.
So there's a silver Nissan
Altima
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is blocking the entrance of the Masjid,
so you need to, to move your car,
please. It's a silver Nissan blocking the entrance
of the Masjid, jazakul lasaq. Jabrul Khatt.
So the prophet
told him before Ikrima could come, Ikrima
will come to you
as a Muslim,
so don't insult his father. I know his
father was a big enemy of Islam, but
he's now dead. His father died. So don't
insult him because this will hurt his son,
and it doesn't harm his father in any
way. He's already in the grave. He's already
facing the judgment,
so don't harm this new brother.
And the Sahaba listened,
and this is something the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam did all the time, he tried to
put Asma'am on people's faces,
and this is something we try to do
Insha'Allah, and as I said, this is one
of the best Haybarat
after Sala Salaam, and so on and so
forth.
Moving forward, I'm gonna give a couple of
examples from our time.
One of them is a true story that
happened in Egypt many years ago,
and the video is there, I've posted it
on my Facebook today, this morning,
of a big doctor, a famous doctor from
Egypt. His name is Hassan Muwaffi,
internal medicine doctor. He's very popular in Egypt,
and he said,
he he had this clinic and he was
visited by a patient
and that patient was a scholar from Azhar.
So he said, You Sheikh, I wanted to
ask you about something. He said, Okay. Ask
me. He said, Ma'a habburaybaddati
illallah.
He said, because I'm getting old, and I
want to focus on the Most Beloved Ibadah
to Allah. And this is something SubhanAllah. This
is something that the Sahaba did. They would
come to the Prophet SAW and say, You
Rasul Allah, Ma'ahabul Amanyla Allah. What are the
Most Beloved deeds to Allah?
And he will
say, feed the poor,
take care of your parents, pray on time,
as sadaqah tu wassalmaha,
sabr wassalmaha, good manners and charity, and so
on and so forth. So the Prophet SAW
Alaihi Wasallam gave a different answer every time
based on who is coming to ask.
So, if someone rich came to us, the
Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam would say, give salakah
and feed the poor.
If it's a young person came, the Prophet
SAW Alaihi Wasallam would say, take care of
your parents.
And if a poor person came the Prophet
SAW Alaihi Wasallam would say fasting is good.
So the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam gave him
an answer that that was suitable for them.
So he said Yajayhi, a scholar of Al
Hazar, what is the most beloved deed to
Allah? And he said Jafrul Khater.
One of the most beloved deeds to Allah
is if you take care of the people,
because of Allah will take care of you.
Wukamal karru
in najaprul Khawatur.
Yunajee minal makhatar. If you take care of
the people, put a smile on their face
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will do the same
to you, and He will take care of
you.
So he said, okay, jabruh khatr khalas, I'll
do it inshaAllah. If this is something that
Allah loves,
khalas, I will do it.
So he said,
next day it was a day off
and he used to live in, since October,
Badin, since October in Cairo is far away
from Cairo, it's about an hour and a
half drive, 2 hours depending on the traffic.
So he said, I left my house, I
drove 1 hour and a half to go
to Cairo to do some shopping and to
visit some friends,
and
while there I got a phone call from
someone,
and he told me on the phone that
my mother-in-law is at this hospital,
Eshtenz or something. So, please, if you have
the time, go visit my mother-in-law because, you
know, she is poor, she is miskeener, no
one is visiting her. If you visit her
as a neighbor,
you put a smile on her face, and
she would be very happy. He said, okay.
He said, although I was busy visiting friends
and doing shopping on my day off, you
know, it's not my working day, it's a
day off, but I did it Fisavirullah.
So he said, I went to the lady
to visit her at the hospital,
and after I finished, I put a smile
on her face and everything.
He said, I was I was getting ready
to leave her room, and I started to
walk out. He said I had a stroke,
and I fell down in the hospital.
And because I was there, and the doctors
then knew me, they took me immediately
to the, to the operation room, and and
they revived me. They used they did whatever
it took to save my life. So, he
said within 2 minutes,
I was on the bed and Allah
saved me because if this shock happened to
me
on the way back to my house, 1
hour and a half drive, I would have
been dead. No one would have saved me,
and Allah saved me because I tried to
put a smile on this lady's face,
this poor lady. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
Jabbalah Khartir, Lijabri Khartir. Allah put a smile
on my face, He saved my life just
because I tried to put a smile on
her face.
A good friend of mine, I think I
mentioned his story last year. It's a very
short story, but it's a beautiful story that
I would love to share with you.
Brother Bassi from Greenville, South Carolina. He actually
would be visiting me today from South Carolina
in the second footba insha Allahu Ta'ala. He
said this is a true a true story
that happened to him.
He said he used to go to the
Masjid in Greenville, South Carolina,
and he knew an elderly brother, a senior
brother,
he used to attend Tajweed Halqah with them.
And he said, I asked him one day,
Have you ever been to the Hajj? And
he said, No, I never made it to
the Hajj.
So he said, would you like to go
for Hajj? He said, of course, yes. And
he said, why didn't you go? He said,
because, you know, things are very tight with
me, I'm retired, I don't have the money,
but I would love to do it insha'Allah.
Faqad Basim Absal insha'Allah.
Allah will make it easy insha'Allah. Then Basim
spoke to spoke to some of his friends,
and he said
it would cost about 8,500
back then to do the Hajj from the
US.
And he said, I spoke to some people
in the Masjid
about this, wonderful brother. He said, he would
love to go for Hajj. Can we put
a smile on his face and send him
for Hajj? He can't he can't afford it,
but can we help him do it? So
the brothers donated, some of them did, like,
200, some put 500, some put $20,
and he said, within a few days, we
were able to raise
close to $12,000
And he said, most of the people who
donated, they didn't even know the brother. They
didn't know him. Just because they wanted to
do something good, fee sabi ilaha, they contributed.
So it took several people to put a
smile on someone's face.
So he said,
I brought the money, I gave the money
to the brother, we booked his tickets, we
sent him to Makkah, he did the Hajj
and he came back.
And after he came back, brother Basim said,
I went to visit him in his house,
and when the prophet saw me, he started
to cry. I said, okay.
Alhamdulillah, you just came from the Hajj, why
are you crying? He said, because I wanted
to buy you a gift to appreciate
the big favor you have done for me.
You and the brothers in the Masjid, may
Allah reward you. And I couldn't find something
suitable to pay you back.
Sijana, not enough. Sibha, not enough. Miswak, not
enough.
He said, the best thing that I could
I could do
after Mihaj,
I stood in front of the Kaaba, it
was the day of Jum'ah, and I made
aqa for you, and I said, You Allah!
I know what part of the Kaaba,
Allahumma Assaydu Fidunya Wa Akhir. He said, You
Allah, this brother, he put a smile on
my face in Dunya, You Allah, please make
him happy in Dunya and Afrah. So both
of them they started to cry. So we
asked Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to help us
to do Jabra Al Khate to the people.
So I kindly ask you to move forward,
people who are waiting outside. Move move forward,
please. Just like
laughing So Jabrul Khaaf and putting a smile
on people's faces is one of the most
beloved Ibadat
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala And it is
something that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves
very dearly
And I always
get a question, how can I put a
smile on people's faces?
And this is mentioned in another hadith, actually
there are different narrations in Bukhari and Muslim,
and I touched on that in my last
kutba, but I'll remind you of,
the hadith.
And as I said last time, sometimes would
break break people's hearts without even thinking.
So you need to think about what you
are planning to say before you say And
I try to do the same thing,
and
85 percent of the time, I don't say
what I was planning to say because it
is either not beneficial,
or it will offend someone, or it will
break their heart.
Because sometimes we hear a thing like,
parents tell me that their children,
just because we didn't take them somewhere, we
didn't buy them a fidget spinner, we didn't
buy them a high pod or something.
They said we hate you. We are miserable
in this life because of you. This is
what the kids tell their parents.
Right? And so on and so forth. So
please don't hurt your wife's feelings.
Don't hurt your husband's feelings or your children's
feelings or your parents' feelings.
One of the Qulafa, one day he was
standing with his wife by the bill
and he said,
you know, she she she had a ring
in her finger and the ring fill in
the well.
So he took his own ring from his
finger and he threw it in the well,
and she said, Why did he do it?
And he said, Because I don't want your
ring to be lonely.
I want them to be together just we
are together today. It's very romantic,
he put a smile on her face. So
this is something you can do, and believe
me,
complimenting people and putting a smile on their
face
wouldn't cost you anything.
You don't pay money for being nice with
people.
You don't pay taxes, 13% on GST for
being nice to people. Right? So please try
to do this.
So how can we put a smile on
people's faces? The prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam gives
us the solution in the Hadith and Bukhari
and Muslim. It's a collection of Hadith, but
I'll give you the summary.
So someone came to Rasulullah Rasulullah and he
said, You Rasulullah, Ma'a habud ahlali Allah.
And we know in Ibhehiban,
the Prophet SAW said, a habud aibadi il
Allah yam fa'i. The most beloved deeds to
Allah, the most beloved people to Allah are
those who are beneficial to others.
These are the people that Allah loves the
most.
The prophet says in this authentic hadith, the
most beloved people to Allah are the most
beneficial. Those who help others and take care
of them. They don't live only for themselves.
They live to take care of others.
And
the prophet said, now we spoke about the
most beloved people. Now I'll talk to you
about the most beloved deeds to Allah.
If you put a smile on a Muslim's
face, or if you remove a difficulty or
hardship from them. So now, the Hadith is
in the in other books, Al Hakim, and
so on and so forth. And this Hadith
or Hadith in Bukhayr in Muslim, the prophet
asked
was asked,
what are the most beloved deeds to Allah?
And he said,
if you help people financially,
salakah, take care of people financially.
Someone in debt,
someone is poor,
someone is homeless, someone is orphan, a widow.
Try to help them financially if you can.
So the person said, You Rasulullah, what if
I don't have the money? What if I'm
broke? I don't have the financial ability to
help people? So the prophet said, can you
help them physically?
Help them with the groceries,
cut their grass, shovel their snow, help them
physically!
And the man said, okay, what if I'm,
you know, I don't have the physical ability
to help? I'm old, I can't carry stuff,
I can't help them physically.
And the prophet
said okay, can you help them verbally with
your time? Give them Naseeha
Tell them this is right, and this is
wrong, teach them about Islam.
Amr ibn maroof nahiamukah, give them Naseeha
And the man said, okay. What if I
don't have the knowledge? So he doesn't have
the money, he doesn't have the physical ability,
he doesn't have the knowledge.
So what can I do? And the prophet
said, the best thing you can do,
don't harm them, and this is what will
be the best sadaqa you can do.
So the prophet is telling us basically in
this hadith, if you're not able to help
someone,
at least don't harm them, and this is
the best thing you can do. We
ask Allah
to help us put a smile on people's
faces
and put joy in their hearts, and we
ask Allah
to take care of us just like we
take care of the people, and we ask
Allah
to forgive our sins, accept our good deeds
to the best of our ability,
and reward us for our good deeds according
to the best of our intentions. You Allah
put sincerity in everything we say and do.