Mustafa Khattab – Q&A With The Students
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Sorry, Lauren. Just for the dates?
No. Okay.
So today is Wednesday, and, this is the
questions and answers,
time.
So if someone has a serious question, good
questions,
fire away.
Okay?
And, after we finish, we shall have no
questions because I get 40, 50 people asking
questions, and I get to answer all of
them at the same time. Right?
So, who has a good question?
We're gonna start with the system.
Someone once told me that when you're praying,
you can't wear a ring on your index
finger because it's the shah.
Well,
wearing a ring is a personal thing.
We have no concern for wearing rings in
salah, but we have concerns for wudu.
Because when you have the ring, when you
wash your hands, the area below your ring,
or your bracelets,
is not, washed. So make sure inshallah when
you make wudu that you move your ring
forward and backward, and make sure you wash
below, and the same for the, bracelet.
That's including the earring or this does not
make any clearer? Because no. The earring is
different because you just
wipe over and toss. You don't have to
wash the whole ear. Where about wash?
But for the, for the arm and the
hand, you have to wash everything. How about
the ear? I mean, the water will reach?
Watches are the same thing. You move them
forward and backward and,
and, to make sure that the water reaches
everything. And to take off the earring and
put it back, it's it's kind of
impractical.
It's a good question.
Alright. Copy. We'll take a brother then 1
brother, 1 sister.
Well, it's the brother is asking when someone
dies and we're praying salat with Janaza for
them, do we have to face the Kaaba?
Technically, when we do Janaza in the masjid,
we put the body in the direction of
the Kaaba. Like, if we, bring a body
for janaza, so the tabla is this way,
we put the body here, and we pray
janaza for them. Right? So in this case,
when you pray janaza for them, you face
the. But if you are making dua for
them, you can do it in any direction.
You don't have to face the.
Exactly.
Who else?
Will we take this sister?
Yes?
Again?
Doing sujood?
Yes. When when you are in salah, sujood
is one of the requirements, one of the
pillars of the salah.
So the first pillar is to, of course,
have wudu
attention, pays the pitlah, seer novaqhval faltaha, short
surah, ruku,
sujood, the shavat at the end. These are
the pillars of the salah.
I'll take this brother here. Woah. Before Islam,
when
Woah. Before Islam, when people died, where did
they go?
Well,
where did people go before
the the time of the prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam? Yeah. And when they died. Yes. Because
when you say before Islam,
because Islam started with, prophet Adam, alayhis salaam,
alayhis salaam, was a Muslim, and his followers
were were Muslims.
When a new prophet came, those who followed
him were Muslim.
At the time of Musa alayhi wasalam, those
who followed Musa were called Muslim in the
Quran.
And when A'isha, Jesus came, those who followed
him were Muslim. And when Muhammad alayhi wasalam
came, his followers were also called Muslim.
So, the word Muslim,
applies to everyone
from the time of Adam to the time
of Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam, who followed
the prophets of their time.
Yes, sister?
And so on and so forth.
Of course, on the day of judgment, it
would be a very long day. 50 1000
years of our timing.
But there is a hadith. The prophet
says that these 50 1000 years will be
for the kafir,
disbelievers.
But for a believer, it will be just
a time for salah, a month.
Like, we spend 7, 10 minutes in salah,
this is how the day of judgment will
be for the believers. Very short.
When the believers go to Jannah,
and when the people of Jahannam go to
Jahannam, they will be there forever.
There are some Muslims, however, who will go
to Jahannam for punishment. Like, say, for example,
a Muslim
killed someone intentionally, and they didn't make tawba,
or a Muslim stole, or they did something
bad, haram and they didn't make tawba, they'll
go to jahanam, they'll get their punishment.
But no Muslim will stay in jahanam forever.
Eventually, they'll come out and they go to
jannah.
So there are chances for some people in
Jannah to get out
and go to Jannah, but once
your both of your feet are inside Jannah,
there's no going out. You're not you're not
leaving. Allah says in the Quran,
So those who will enjoy Jannah, they will
be there forever, for eternity. And this is
what Allah says in the Qur'an. So this
will be forever.
It's a life of peace, and a life
of joy and happiness.
Another question?
We'll get, someone from here.
We'll get, this guy.
Good question.
So,
the brother is asking harming people is harm
in Islam?
What about martial arts?
Right?
So, things like boxing and and so on
and so forth. Well,
the the main reason is to defend yourself
in the occasion that someone
comes to mug you or steal your stuff,
and you'll be able to defend yourself.
But I personally and and this is the
fatwa that I give, that the sports that
involve harming people,
like giving them a black eye or breaking
their neck and and, like, free wrestling and
and all these things,
I would say that they are ham Islamically.
You know, the free wrestling
when they go to the on top of
the rope and they jump, and some people
actually die in these fights.
So these fights are haram Islamically.
At the time of the prophet they had
some forms of wrestling,
but they didn't involve hanging people and throw
them on their heads and
and breaking their necks. No. The 5 was
all about,
how to knock people down. So you hold
each other like this, and you try to,
put someone, like, throw them on the on
the ground without without harming them.
Right? So this is how they play the,
the game at the time of the prophet
Sasa Salim. The other sports include included board
back riding and and running and so on
and so forth.
But harming people in a game, it's not
a game anymore. It's basically fighting, and harming
people is not acceptable to Islam.
What do you want?
Okay. You have a good question?
Okay. Tell me.
Well,
there are 2
we know that there are 2 rights in
this world, the rights of Allah and the
rights of the people.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will,
forgive violations of his rights. Say for example,
you should pray one time. But say for
example, you delayed
the salah and namaz for some reason. Or
say for example, you are supposed to fast
in a certain way.
Then Allah
is willing to forgive these mistakes in aqadaat,
in acts of worship. But when it comes
to violations of the rights of other people,
like,
stabbing peep stabbing people in the back. Like
you're smiling to this guy right here,
and behind his back you talk horrible about
him. Or,
if I steal money from someone, or if
I kill someone. Allah will never forget this.
It's it's up to the person who is
violated or abused to forgive. And this is
what the prophet says in the hadith. But
to kill someone or steal money from someone
and go make dua'a, Allah forgives me,
Allah will forgive you,
his part.
The fact that you killed his own creations.
But it is up to the person who
was killed or stolen or abused to forgive
you. Allah does not forgive this. And this
is based on hadith from the prophet Sazer.
I will take,
this,
system.
Well, if if a non Muslim dies because
we know that in Islam, salatuj alazas is
for a Muslim.
Because every religion have their own funeral prayers.
In Islam, the nazar is only done for
Muslims. Christians, they have their own rituals and
the way they do prayer, and so on
and so forth. However, if my neighbor, for
example, dies and he's not Muslim,
I can visit the family. It's a social
thing to show them that you care. Or
if a baby is born or someone is
getting married, like your neighbor who's not Muslim,
you can visit them. This is a social
thing. You show them that you care about
them.
And you can also pray to the for
the family that God will give him patience
in this difficult time.
But we don't pray
either for or against the person because now
they are standing before Allah for judgment.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is their judge,
not us. So we don't pray for or
against.
So he face the tibla, and the person
is lying there,
Allahu Akbar, then you say, alhamdulillahi waqbalalamin
abatmaan abataim tildanhim.
And where do you do it? In
in the masjid where they have the body.
After
the second takbir, Allahu Akbar, then you say,
Allahu Masalaamu khamalu wa'ala alibukhanbazin
till the end of Tashabab.
After the third one, you make dua for
the person, You Allah, forgive him. You Allah,
give him Jannah, forgive his sins, so on
and so forth. And after the 4th one,
you make God for everyone. You Allah forgive
us. Forgive all Muslims. Give Jannah. So on
and so forth.
We'll take 2 more questions.
Can we get one today? Please. Okay.
Hey. Go ahead.
Well, it's
very good question. It will take forever to
answer, but I'll do my best.
Every prophet,
every single prophet had some powers.
And these powers come in the form of
what we call Marjizah, Americans.
Like the fact that the prophet SAWSAW, for
example,
the stones and the pebbles would make tazbit
in his hands,
and the fact that he was able to
multiply food and water for people.
There's a hadith that, water came out from
between his fingers because they were in the
desert.
Same for Musa alayhi salaam, he had the
staff,
the same for,
A'eesa alayhi salaam, when, you know, people were
born blind and he would give them back
their sight.
Prophet Ibrahim, he was in the fire, he
was safe.
Prophet Yunus, in the valley of the whale,
and so on and so forth. So every
Prophet has, certain powers. In the case of
Soleiman Alaihi Salam, he prayed for, like, bigger
powers
to make it easy for him to run
his Kingdom, And the Prophet
was not in need of all these things
because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala was helping him
in different ways,
including
through his,
faithful companions.
Sahar. Like Abu Bakr and Umar and Uthman
and Ali, the great Sahaba will be helping
him.
Like Fashem, for example.
You basically Fashem is, 2 rakats. You pray
the first one and you pray the second
one.
And for Lugh, you pray 4, Asa, 4,
Mabrik, 3, Hashem, 4.
Because every Ibadah we do, like prayers, fasting,
halal, we do it following the example of
the prophet
so this is how we did it, and
this is how we, we do it.
One last question here.
Next time, show up. Yes.
1. We'll go for what today?
Okay.
Good question. The sister is asking we know
that in Islam it's haram to lie. Right?
It's it's very haram to lie.
But in some situations, it is permissible
not to give the fact or all the
facts.
Right?
So,
say for example, if someone
is,
like a guy runs to your house, like
your relative or someone comes to your house,
and someone wants to kill him. That person.
And someone comes to your house with a
knife
or the electronic saw, like in the movies,
with the mask,
and they they're looking for your cousin to
kill him.
And if they ask you, is he inside?
And what do you tell them? No. Oh,
he's under my bed. Go and kill him.
No. You tell him, look for him somewhere
else.
Right? Or maybe you tell him,
He's not home. Like, you open the door
for them, he runs into your house.
Technically, you don't know where he is inside
your house. So, you tell him I don't
know where he is,
but I'm not sure where he isn't.
Like,
you know, something like this. You don't have
to give a straight answer.
And,
yeah. So something like this. Just to save
someone's life or or save your life.
Okay.
We'll see you next time because I see
you have a lot of questions.
So on Monday, inshallah, on Monday, we'll do
Q and A to answer all your questions,
inshallah. Thank you.