Mustafa Khattab – Q&A Session With Maingate Students
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So today's Wednesday is a question and answer
day.
The questions will be read by,
mister Ibrahim right here.
But before we go to the questions and
answers,
last night
we had a fight.
I like the rhyme.
At the, Peel District
School
Board or Board of Schools, whatever they call
it.
So we're basically fighting
for the students to have the right to
play salatuljumah
in public schools.
Right? You don't have the problem alhamdulillah, because
you come to the masjid, salatuljumah here, no
problem.
But the problem is they have issues with
the khutbas and,
students praying in jamaah together, and we have
been doing this for,
3 about 3 months now. So hopefully, inshallah,
the issue would be resolved. But I just
wanted to let you know that, alhamdulillah,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has favored you guys.
You come to the school here. You have
no issues. No problem. No one has to
fight for you to have the right to
pray. Salatul Jum'ah.
Now we're gonna move to the questions inshaAllah.
Why are there imams?
Why are there imams? Why are there imams?
Imams are important because,
they lead prayers,
they marry people, they divorce them, they counsel
people, and they teach.
So this is a very important job.
So the same goes for why are there
any teachers, or doctors, or cab drivers? Because
we provide the service to the community just
like everyone else.
So we try to make people's lives better,
we try to make people's lives easier,
so hopefully we are successful at that inshallah.
Is it her own to have more views?
Well
it's a good question.
50% of the time, this is my answer.
No. Which is very true. Thank you. Which
is very true.
Beers.
Okay.
Okay.
It's logical because
if someone comes to me and and says,
what is the ruling? Listen up. What is
the ruling when wearing a beard? And I
say, you have to be very specific because
you have to say, what is the ruling
on wearing a beard for a brother? Because
sisters don't have to wear a beard. Right?
What? So you inform the brothers,
the ulama'a have different different opinions.
Some say it's
a warajib. It's it's a must,
and some of the scholars say
it's a sunnah.
Okay.
Where did we get this from? There are
several hadith from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam in Bukhari and Muslim where the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says, grow your beards.
Right.
We're gonna go to
a different point, which will explain to you,
why the Radamesh say,
you have to have it, and some say,
it's okay. It's sunnah.
Okay.
Every time the prophet
says, do something in a hadith,
it could mean that it's a recommendation
to do it, or it could be a
must that you have to do it. If
the prophet
says, pray, they say, the way you saw
me pray. Is this sunnah? You can do
it if you want, and you can pray
in a different way if you want, or
you have to do it this way?
You have to do it this way. What
if the prophet
says,
use
before you make salah?
Is this something you have to do? Your
salah is not valid, or
this is a recommendation?
It's a recommendation.
And if the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
says, don't do something,
it could be a prohibition,
you're not allowed to do it, or it's,
the prophet
dislike it this way, but it is accepted.
So say, for example, if the prophet
says that you are not allowed to eat
* or drink alcohol,
Is this something he disliked, or this is
haram, like you're not allowed
to? Haram.
Haram. For something that is
for something that is disliked
I'm trying to think of
a good example.
Like, there's a hadith
from the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam that
says,
okay. If the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
says, if you eat
onions and garlic, don't come to the masjid.
Right? There's an authentic hadith. If this is
a a prohibition or something that he disliked?
He disliked this milk. He's tried. He's like
this milk. So if you eat onions and
garlic,
and is there a way you can brush
your teeth or do something about it? Then
come to the masjid, it's not a big
deal. So this is a disliking, something that
you disliked.
Also,
we have to make the distinction
between,
two types of sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
Sunnah
was sunnah alaihi wa sallam. And this is
where the confusion comes from.
Sunnah alaihi wa sallam is something that the
prophet sallam did because everyone else was doing
it.
So the prophet sallam had a turban,
and if how many of you saw the
movie, the message?
Miss what? Message.
The movie.
Thank you. Sabaakat, Antony Quinn. Right? My message.
So if you saw the characters in the
movie,
like Hamza, Bilal, and Bilal, and everyone else
had a turban
on their head, like a kufi or something.
And the same is also true for Abu
Jahl and Abu Lahab and the Kufal in
the movie. Everyone was just in the same
way. Right?
One of the scholars was a gay was
giving a lecture in in the UK.
So this speaker is from Saudi, I think.
I think it was Sheikh Mohammed Al Arief.
So and he was dressed in a suit
and tie.
So someone protested,
and said, why are you dressed like the
kuffar, in a suit and tie?
So the shaykh asked him,
how did the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam dress?
So the man didn't know what to say,
and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, he
dressed
like everyone else,
like Abu Bakr and Umar, and also like
Abu Jahl,
and
Abu Lahab, and because everyone had the same
fashion, the same style of
dress. Right?
So the sunnah of tradition.
If the prophet was
presented with a dress from Yemen, which was
a slightly different type of clothing,
the prophet accepted the gift, and he wore
it for Jumah and Farid. There is no
problem because it covers the body and it
looks nice. No problem. This is sunnah.
I remember I was in North Carolina.
We had the imams meeting, and one of
the brothers came to me, and he said,
when I go to college, I always get
in trouble. He's a new Muslim.
I said, okay. What is the problem? And
he says, when I go to college, I
dress in something like this, in,
and I have my
turban, my sword, and I park my horse
my horse in the parking lot
because
because I want to try, you know, to
copy the example of the sahaba, and they
give me a hard time. Right?
Because he thought he has to do it
this way.
And I told him, this is sunnah al
Adar. This is something that everyone did at
that time.
But it doesn't make you a better Muslim
or a worse Muslim. It has nothing to
do with you being a good Muslim. You
can wear suit and tie, you can take
your car, or take the bus,
and you don't have to wear a turban,
you know, this is something that is, you
know, sunnahalahara.
But sunnahalahidada
is something that the prophet said,
do it this way. If he says for
example,
face the pebla when you pray.
If he says for example, make wudu before
you pray, or pass this way.
He says it in the hadith. So we
know that we are required to do these
things. But sunnah al-'aala,
if the prophet
dressed in a certain way, or the prophet
liked certain foods or disliked certain foods. We
know from, narrations that the prophet
liked,
watermelons.
He called them tarbos and urdu. Right?
And the the prophet SAWS Alaihi Wasallam liked
squash and zucchinis. We know this from some
traditions. Squash. He didn't like,
abab meat. Abab is is basically something like
a lizard
that lives in the desert.
Some of the sahaba ate it in front
of the prophet salaw alayhi wa sallam, but
he didn't eat with them because,
he didn't feel like eating it.
But he didn't stop people from doing it.
Now we see the differences here, And if
the prophet says in the hadith, grow the
beard,
some of the scholars say to me it's
a must,
and some accept it
as sunnah, which is something recommended, something good
you do. And personally, based on all the
hadith that I know of, I think it
is sunnah. If you do it,
you get the reward.
If you don't do it, then
I recommend you to do it, just a
copy of the example of the prophet
and get the reward. But if if I
see someone without a beer, I'm not gonna
question their sincerity or their being a good
Muslim. This is something between them and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Can you cut any shirt off a mirror?
Why?
Can
I left?
Well,
I I don't see any reason why anyone
would pray in front of the mirror because
I think this would be a distraction for
you.
But if, say for example, I work in
a store,
and the only place
that I can have some peace
and quiet, where I can pray, is like
like a space in the back, but there's
mirror in front of me, you you just
look on the floor where you make, and
you you do your salah.
Again, anything done by mistake is forgiven by
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. If you move to
a new place and you try your best,
our phone apps on, on on your phone,
you you install the phone app, and it
gives you the direction of salah. But sometimes
it is not accurate because of the electric,
circuit, whatever they call it in the building.
It affects the compass, and it affects the,
your phone, the way it functions.
Yeah. So either you can go outside the
building and put it on the floor, this
will be giving you the right direction. The
easiest way is actually we're praying northeast.
So if you look outside of your window,
you know that the sun rises in the
East. So West is this way, North is
this way. You pray this way.
North, East.
So you can't actually figure out the tabla
without your phone, without the compass. It's it's
easy inshallah.
But let's say you move to a place,
and you have been praying for 3, 4
months, you've been figured out the qiblah, and
it turned out you were praying toward, Vancouver
or, Los Angeles, not Mecca. It's not a
big deal. Allah
will forgive you. Just move on and face
the new Qidla once you know the right
direction. If you are aware that they're saying
Allah on it, and you won't need the
washing before it's taken off, where'd you get
a bad idea?
Okay. For
gold that has ayah from the Quran.
Or if you have your cell phone and
it has a Quran app inside, you don't
have to leave it outside.
Because if you leave it outside, then most
likely some will take it. Right? So the
best way is to keep it in your
pocket. Whether we're talking about gold or the
cell phone, you just put it in your
pocket, or if you have a necklace, you
just put it inside your clothes, that's good
enough. If you made a mistake and you
go inside,
it's not a big deal, you forgot. And
everything that is done by mistake
or forgetfulness,
Allah
will forgive you, and this is mentioned in
an authentic hadith.
Those are done for today. We'll see you
next week
bless you and your family and give you
tafik success.