Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Gems 1

Mustafa Khattab
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The speaker discusses the importance of having a good relationship with Islam, including having both personal and professional Facebook groups. They also mention a fight between Muslims and police in the United States, where a member of the political party called 911 and was shot by police. The importance of unity and acceptance of others' opinions is emphasized, and the conversation ends with a discussion of the importance of uniteing all events.

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			When you are a Muslim, you are not
		
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			a member of a club. Okay? Islam basically
		
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			means to have a better relationship with Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			which is called
		
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			then a better relationship with human beings and
		
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			this is called
		
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			a better relationship with the people and a
		
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			better relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. How
		
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			many times you read in the Quran that
		
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			Rahimina Adaniyah Adam?
		
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			So this is emphasized many many times throughout
		
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			Quran. Some people, they don't have this balance.
		
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			Yeah. They pray 5 times again, and, then
		
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			they go for Hajj every year.
		
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			They fast every Ramadan. But when it comes
		
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			to dealing with people, they are not the
		
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			best.
		
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			Some people, they are very good. They are
		
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			very generous, very nice, but they don't pray.
		
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			They don't fast Ramadan. So
		
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			one side of the equation is missing. To
		
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			be a good Muslim is to have both
		
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			of them.
		
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			When you read in the Quran is Surah
		
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			Tufaha, just like what we were saying before
		
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			the salah,
		
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			the most important surah in the Quran is
		
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			Surah Tufaha.
		
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			At the middle of the Surah,
		
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			Have you ever wondered
		
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			why you say
		
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			not So why do you say,
		
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			you alone, we worship and you alone, we
		
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			ask for help.
		
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			Although you are 1. So, why are you
		
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			always talking the plural?
		
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			Because you are a member of a group.
		
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			You are a Muslim just like everybody else.
		
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			Not only you are praying for yourself, you
		
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			are praying for those standing with you in
		
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			the light and those who are and out
		
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			of the world.
		
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			Islam always boils down to 2 things.
		
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			Taqwa
		
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			and
		
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			unity among Muslims. Remember your relationship with Allah,
		
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			your relationship with the people.
		
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			So, taqwa means
		
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			to be mindful Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			do the things that please him and to
		
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			stay away from the things that displease him.
		
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			Unity among Muslims is something we learn from
		
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			the iqbalat.
		
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			All iqbalat always point you toward unity with
		
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			other Muslims.
		
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			Say, for example, when you pray
		
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			by yourself
		
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			and you pray in JAMA,
		
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			which one gives you more rewards?
		
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			When you pray in JAMA, unity with other
		
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			people.
		
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			When you fast in Allah, you fast anytime
		
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			you want or you fast with other people?
		
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			When you go for the Hajj, you go
		
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			anytime you want. I wanna go for Hajj
		
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			and Adashah. Can you do this? No. Everybody
		
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			has to go on the same time. When
		
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			you give zakat, you don't give zakat to
		
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			yourself, but then the rich will get to
		
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			the poor. So it's not as low as
		
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			a possibility.
		
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			The problem is we miss this point every
		
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			single time. So we use it in Halal
		
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			to divide ourselves.
		
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			I'll give you one example, a very famous
		
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			example.
		
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			Every year at the beginning of Ramadan, we
		
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			always have this big fight.
		
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			Not only in our communities here, but this
		
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			is the war on the road, especially in,
		
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			the western countries. We always have this fight,
		
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			whether we're going to follow this country, we
		
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			follow calculations, we do this, we do that,
		
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			it's always this fight.
		
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			Even if all Muslims in the world agree
		
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			on the same day to fast,
		
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			this is the the end of it. We
		
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			always have other fights.
		
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			Like, are we going to pray the name
		
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			of Idraha or 22 Raghav? A big fight.
		
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			Tell us, we agree that we are going
		
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			to pray Idraha.
		
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			Are we going to finish all Quran Ramadan
		
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			or just a new ayat?
		
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			You know, another big fight. It's always like
		
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			this where you go. People are always fighting.
		
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			They close to the end of the month.
		
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			Either in tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
		
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			A big fight. You know, I remember one
		
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			time I was in the US, and it
		
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			was the 28th day of Ramadan. They were
		
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			watching for the moon, and the brother came
		
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			to me. And
		
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			the night there was, like, 14 hours. It's
		
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			not, like, 17 or 18 like him. And
		
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			the brother
		
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			literally got on his his knees, and he
		
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			said, brother, please
		
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			make me in tomorrow.
		
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			Make me in tomorrow. I beg you. I
		
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			said, well, I do have the remote control
		
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			for the moon in my hands.
		
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			10 minutes later, they saw the moon, and
		
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			you told him that he literally was dancing
		
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			in the seat. You know? We always have
		
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			these fights.
		
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			Instruction, I got in.
		
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			Okay? Then 1 brother, Asha Allah, he decided
		
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			to put an end to the fight. What
		
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			he did? He called 911, and the police
		
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			came in. The people were fighting, the people
		
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			were falling down, bleeding on the carpet. Then
		
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			the police 2 policemen came to say, and
		
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			they were walking on the carpet with their
		
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			shoes on.
		
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			Now the 2 groups, the 8 Raka'aru and
		
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			the 22 Raka'aru, both of them were mad
		
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			at the police.
		
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			K police, kalam, haram, you're walking on the
		
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			carpet with your shoes. So walking on the
		
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			carpet with your shoes on is is haram,
		
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			but fighting and bleeding in the masjid is
		
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			not haram. So please wake up, you know.
		
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			We have to realize that the bottom line
		
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			of rebalah is to unite
		
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			all the ayaats in the Quran are either
		
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			revealed in Mecca or in
		
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			Medina. Only one aya is revealed inside the
		
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			Kaaba itself. Why is this ayaat? Why was
		
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			it revealed inside the Kaaba? If you know
		
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			the answer, you may leave the town to
		
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			Moabas