Mustafa Khattab – Q&A With Students
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Yes. And I think we answered the question,
several times before.
So basically, if someone has wudu
and they,
they cut themselves, like there's a nail on
on the wall or something, Of course, there
is a difference of opinion among the scholars,
but the chosen one is that if someone
bleeds,
their
their wudu is is is valid. They don't
have to renew their wudu unless they want
to.
There is extensive evidence that like for example,
after the Ba'tir al Ba'tir al UHag when
the sahaba were praying behind the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, some of them had cuts
and they were bleeding, and and their salah
is valid.
But if
the brother or the sister
means, someone who has this issue, like they
have a problem in their gums, they bleed
all the time, their teeth bleed,
or they have a problem in their nose,
they always bleed.
So what they do basically is they make,
preferably for every salah, and they pray a
falaf. Even if they bleed inside the salah,
their salah is valid because there's nothing they
can do about it. This is a condition
they always have. So they just make wudu
for every salah and they continue, Even if
they beat inside the salah.
Who has the first question?
Is it haram to brush your hair at
night?
Okay.
Good question.
Can I get everyone to, face me? When
you're sitting, just turn around and and face
me.
Thank you.
We grew up with, what we call, superstitions.
So in my country back home,
it was haram to whistle at night.
It's haram to look or pray in front
of the mirror, and also some people have
superstitions,
superstitions
regarding,
regarding this one, brushing your hair at night.
I mean, there's nothing
wrong Islamically
if you do these things. If you brush
your hair,
if if you stand in front of the
mirror, there's nothing Haram. But again, these are
some superstitious
beliefs. And the question is always, okay, why
would anyone in the world brush their hair
before they go to bed?
Like, this is something that my mother told
me once, like,
Okay.
So in Islam, we have what we call
something you have to do,
and there's something extra that you do. So
for example, in the hadith of the prophet
salallahu alayhi wa sallam, which is an authentic
You fast in Ramadan, you give zakah, 2.5
percent if you keep a certain amount of
money for 1 year.
And,
you give,
you do the hajj. And what else?
Salah. You pray 5 times a day. These
are the farad. And the man said, is
there anything else I need to do? And
the Prophet
said, these are the obligations,
but if you want to do extra, the
sunnah,
you can fast
outside Ramadan, like Mondays Thursdays.
For Sadata, you can give Sadata, like, after
you pay Zakat, you can give a little
bit more.
You can do Umrah, which is extra, and
so on and so forth.
And for Salah, you pray the 5 time,
5 times a day. Then if you want
to, of course, pray Sunnah before and after,
this is something extra. And we spoke about
the importance of the Sunnah,
before. Because some people think if something is
Sunnah, you can ignore.
It is better to do it just to
get the bonus or the extra reward, because
who doesn't need extra reward from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala? So this is a chance to
gain more hasarat,
but
is the, obligatory actions and,
like,
Zakah,
and
the sadaqa is the charity which is extra.
If you do it inshaAllah you'll get better
ones.
You Another question?
Why only Isa
lived long? Why not the other prophets?
Okay. Well, Isa
didn't live in this world for long.
When he left he was about 33 years
of age.
But if we're talking about other prophets like
Nuh alaihi
salam,
they say he lived about 1500 years
and,
sheath and some other prophets, they lived over
a 1000 years. Adam Alaihi Salaam lived a
1000 years.
Because
this is the hikmah of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. He made some generations live longer than
others. And we know that,
from the beginning of times, prophets like Adam
and the prophets who came after Nur,
alayhi salaam, because Nur, alayhi salaam came after
generations, after Adam, alayhi salaam. So at the
beginning, they were,
much taller than us, they were bigger than
us. From what we know from the sunnah,
Adam Alayhi Salaam was 60
arms long,
that was his height, and this is what
we were being in Jannah.
And he left for a 1000 years.
Then
came many generations including
Nuh He lived
about 1500 years. He was also taller, and
the Prophet
says, with time people become
shorter, and they live,
you know, they live short
number of years. So in our case, the
average is 60, 70.
Compare this to 1,000 or 1500 years.
But again, this is the will of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to make some people live
longer than others.
Yes. If you do not pray, but you
pray sunnah everyday,
will the sunnah come up for the actual
prayer? Okay.
In the school, you have the curriculum and
you have the extra curriculum stuff. Right? So
what if you studied the extra curriculum stuff
and you didn't study the actual curriculum? Would
you succeed at the end? No. The answer
is no.
Farah, it is something you have to do
to be successful in Dhafar. So say for
example, I didn't fast at all in the
month of Ramadan, and I fast Mondays.
Or if I don't pray the 5 daily
ramas and I pray with it at night.
My salah is not accepted, and my fasting
is not accepted. I have to fulfill the
obligations first,
then I can't do the, the sunnah.
We spoke before if someone does the Fala'i,
the obligations,
as the Prophet
says in the hadith, it's a Muslim, if
someone does the 5,
obligations of Islam, they pray 5 times a
day, they fast Ramadan,
and the person in the hadith I mentioned
at the beginning said, You Rasulullah, why if
I don't do any extra ibadat, like sunal?
So the Prophet SAW said in one narration,
He will be in Jannah.
But we mentioned when we spoke about the
extra acts of,
ibadat,
it is actually the sunal that will raise
you in rank in Jannah. So if someone
sticks to the basics,
they would be in Jannah, but they would
be they would not be in the lowest
places in Jannah.
But if you want to raise your rank,
or you live in Jannah, you have to
do the Ixrah, like Sunan, Salata,
Umrah, and so on and so forth. But
if someone doesn't do the
obligations of Islam, the Sunan will not benefit
them that much.
When animals die, do they go to Jannah?
When animals die, do they go to Jannah?
We know from authentic hadith
that animals will not go to Jannah. So
what happens,
on the Day of Judgment, this there's an
authentic hadith in Sahih Muslim, the prophet says
that on the Day of Judgement, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala will set the judgement for all
creation
so much so that,
the goats there will be judgement, for example,
between 2 goats. One has horns and the
other one doesn't.
And and the one with horns abused the
one who, the one that didn't have horns.
This just, you know, to explain to you,
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will establish just
justice between all creation, including animals.
Then at the end,
when justice is
served,
all the animals would become dust.
We know this,
from Hadith.
And this is why at the end of
Surah
When the Kafir
sees the animals
become dust,
so the Kafir would say I wish
I was a dog,
I wish I was a rabbit or something,
so after judgement I will become dust, I
don't have to go to Jahannam.
So they wish they become dust, and this
is the meaning of the ayah. But if
someone, for example, likes to have a pet
in Jannah, because this will make them happy,
one of the Sahaba said, You Rasool Allah,
are there animals in Jannah? The Prophet said,
No.
But he said, I love horses, can I
have a horse in Jannah? And the Prophet
said, Yes, you will have one.
Has
316
knuckles in the body, or joints in the
body. Like this is a joint, you call
it knuckle joint.
This is a joint,
joint,
the back,
or joints.
So there were
360 of them. And the Prophet SAWHANWHATA'ala says,
to thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the
joints of the body, you say, SubhanAllah Wa
Alhamdulillah Wa la ilaha illa Allah Allah Wa
Akbar. Then the Prophet SAWHANWHATA'ala said, if you're
not able to to do this, to say
360
times, then pray 2 rakah, duhahurishraaf
and this will take care of it. So
salat with duhahurishraaf
is basically a way of saying thank you
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for giving you
a healthy body.
So this is why this salah is important.
Anyone? Yes.
What if someone does everything a Muslim needs
to do except they pray like,
2
to 3 times a day? Does it still
make
him order of the Muslim?
So they pray only 3 times a day.
2 to 3 times. 2 to 3 times.
2 to 3 times. So again, the requirements
in Islam so for example, if you have
5 classes every day, you have the math
class, you have the science class, you have
the Arabic class, and you have? French.
So what if you go only to 2
classes?
You go to the French class, and you
go to the math class,
and you skip the science class and the
Arabic studies class or Islamic studies class. So
you do half, and you skip half. Will
you succeed at the end? No. The answer
is no. There are basics, and the basics
in Islam are 5, the 5 obligatory
salawat, so you have to do them.
Right?
So in Islam, when it comes to the
Ibadah,
the obligatory actions, you don't pick and choose.
It's a whole package. Either take it or
leave it. So with that being said,
if I see a Muslim who prays twice
a day or 3 times a day, do
I tell them, your 3 salawats are not
accepted, you have to stop praying? Or I
tell
them 3 are good, but you have to
do the 5.
Or you will be in trouble in the
end.
Do you ask them to stop, or do
you ask them to do the 5?
Ask them to do the 5.
Who else has a written question? He does.
Ask him
to
do the. Arabic, English, Islam,
Islam, and the boring
morning like magic
Okay.
This is a very complicated
topic. I need 1 hour to answer.
So, generally,
nasheeds
are acceptable,
but when it comes to the nashees that
have music in the background, this is a
long discussion. Maybe one day I need to
dedicate the whole discussion to this topic. This
is kind of complicated, and
I want to do justice to the topic,
so I'll take my time inshaAllah to answer.
Have
a written question?
Okay. Let's start with the written questions.
Written question? Yes.
What's
the Saifullah?
Saifullah is a name.
It's a name.
So what's her name? 6.
Another written question?
No. That's right.
Someone have a written question? Yes, sir. Yeah.
What is someone
sleeping in front of you? Can you pray?
Well,
technically technically,
listen, guys. It's a good question. It's a
good question.
It's a good question. It's a good question.
Technically,
if someone is, like, sleeping in front of
you, you should move to the side if
you have space in the in the house.
Otherwise, they might distract your attention.
But there there are authentic,
the prophet
would pray at night,
in the house of
and the house was basically one room.
That was her house.
So basically when he was praying with
or at night,
he would pray and because the room was
small,
and she was sleeping in the direction of
the qiblah, and he would pray and she
would be sleeping in front of him. And
the room was so small, they say in
the hadith that when he had to make
he had to move her feet to make
The house was very small. So technically you
can, the salah is accepted but if you
have more room in the house it's better
to pray somewhere
else.
But it's a good question.
More questions? Written questions? I have
a
question. Okay. We can
raise his hand.
Very good question. The sister is asking,
if you read the Quran in a language
other than Arabic, do you still get some
Hasanat?
Technically,
no translation,
not English, not French, not Urdu, not Turkish
will ever replace the Arabic.
When you read the translation, you will only
get the meaning or a flavor of the
meaning, but you miss everything else. You miss
the beauty, the style, the power of the
Arabic language.
But, 85% of Muslims are not Arab.
85% of Muslims are not Arab. And what
if they can't read Arabic? How can they
benefit from the Quran?
So I recommend everyone to learn as much
Arabi as they can, but if it is
difficult for them, you still can read
the translation. You get a good translation and
read.
And again, you still get some of the
barakah,
by reading the translation if you can't read
the Arabic. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he
knows that this is the best you can
do. So you get a good translation and
you read,
and
you get some, good Hasalah. There's,
there's this little, story,
someone
who accepted Islam.
He didn't know Arabic.
So he basically couldn't read the Quran in
in Arabic. But his son, he sent his
son to Madinah University, and his son learned
to memorize the Quran in Arabic. So he
was very knowledgeable.
So
the son was asking is that,
you're not reading the Quran and Arabi,
and,
it was difficult for the father to learn
Arabi in his old age. So but he
was reading the translation all the time. Once
he is done reading the whole thing he
start over,
reads the whole thing. So his son said,
okay. Do you get some benefit by reading
the English?
So his father
gave him a basket
and the basket, of course, has holes in
it.
And they used the basket to keep the
coal
and the,
for the
for the winter time to heat the house,
so they keep the coal inside. So it
was kind of,
dusty from inside, from the coal, from the
pieces. Right?
So his father told him take this basket
and go to the river and bring some
water for me.
So my son put the basket in the
river, he took it out,
the water came out from the holes, there
was nothing inside. He took it to his
father, no water.
He told him, go back, put it in
the water, in the river, bring it to
me with some water, there was no water
left inside.
He took it back, put it in the
water, took it out, no water.
So his father said, Look at the basket,
there's no water inside,
but the basket is clean.
So this is what the Quran does, when
you read even in translation you still get
some of the barakah, some of the reward.
And a lot of people accept Islam by
just reading the Quran in translation
because they don't know the Arabic.
They still get some of the feeling
and the power of the Quran, but not
as if it would the, the Arabic is
more powerful and and more beautiful.
One last question.
Okay.
Start lower. Slowly. Let's say you send somebody,
about some somebody else, but you won't mention
who they are. Does that.
A brother is talking about
and and you said something like something negative
about them? Yeah. Like, anyway.
Okay.
Technically in Islam, you're not allowed to say
something negative about someone.
Allah does not like negative thoughts to be
voiced in public,
except in some situations.
And you say for example,
someone
stopped you in the road and they took
your money,
And you don't know the name of the
guy, you went to the police to report
them. If you say that it's an evil
guy, he stopped me and he robbed my
back, or put a gun to my head
and took my money,
is this back biting?
No.
If someone is proposing to a sister in
marriage,
and her brother comes to me to ask
about the guy who is proposing,
and I know that the guy who is
proposing is not a good Muslim. He doesn't
pray, he doesn't fast, he's he's not a
good guy.
Right? What should I say? If I tell
him that this guy doesn't pray,
doesn't come to Jamaz,
he's
like,
am I back back back biting him? The
answer is no because I'm telling the truth
and my answer to him,
my reply to him is basically a shahad,
a testimony before Allah, so we have to
give them the right
shahad.
And in this case I'm not backbiting.
If if it is used for identification,
like say for example, someone gave me a
book
and he says,
give this book
to brother Muhammad.
I tell him, Muhammad who?
He would say, brother Muhammad who comes for
salatul Jummah.
Half of the masjid is half of the
people in the masjid at Jummah are called
Muhammad or Mehmed or
half of the people,
Muhammad who? Because they don't know their last
name. You would say, well, Muhammad the tall
guy.
Well, half of them are tall.
Muhammad who?
Muhammad who has a nice suit.
So how do the people have nice suits?
Then you would say,
the bold
Muhammad. Muhammad with no hair.
Or,
the Muhammad with one leg.
So now when you say this, it is
not actually something negative. This is your only
form of identification because otherwise, you can't they
cannot
identify the person. So if you say Muhammad
the bold or Muhammad the
it's it's okay.
So these are some of the exceptions to
the general rule. There are basically 6 cases,
but I just mentioned 3 because of the
time.
I think we're done. We'll see you next
week. InshaAllah. JazakAllah.
Thanks for coming.