Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Gems 1

When you are a Muslim, you are not

a member of a club. Okay? Islam basically

means to have a better relationship with Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala

which is called

then a better relationship with human beings and

this is called

a better relationship with the people and a

better relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. How

many times you read in the Quran that

Rahimina Adaniyah Adam?

So this is emphasized many many times throughout

Quran. Some people, they don't have this balance.

Yeah. They pray 5 times again, and, then

they go for Hajj every year.

They fast every Ramadan. But when it comes

to dealing with people, they are not the

best.

Some people, they are very good. They are

very generous, very nice, but they don't pray.

They don't fast Ramadan. So

one side of the equation is missing. To

be a good Muslim is to have both

of them.

When you read in the Quran is Surah

Tufaha, just like what we were saying before

the salah,

the most important surah in the Quran is

Surah Tufaha.

At the middle of the Surah,

Have you ever wondered

why you say

not So why do you say,

you alone, we worship and you alone, we

ask for help.

Although you are 1. So, why are you

always talking the plural?

Because you are a member of a group.

You are a Muslim just like everybody else.

Not only you are praying for yourself, you

are praying for those standing with you in

the light and those who are and out

of the world.

Islam always boils down to 2 things.

Taqwa

and

unity among Muslims. Remember your relationship with Allah,

your relationship with the people.

So, taqwa means

to be mindful Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

do the things that please him and to

stay away from the things that displease him.

Unity among Muslims is something we learn from

the iqbalat.

All iqbalat always point you toward unity with

other Muslims.

Say, for example, when you pray

by yourself

and you pray in JAMA,

which one gives you more rewards?

When you pray in JAMA, unity with other

people.

When you fast in Allah, you fast anytime

you want or you fast with other people?

When you go for the Hajj, you go

anytime you want. I wanna go for Hajj

and Adashah. Can you do this? No. Everybody

has to go on the same time. When

you give zakat, you don't give zakat to

yourself, but then the rich will get to

the poor. So it's not as low as

a possibility.

The problem is we miss this point every

single time. So we use it in Halal

to divide ourselves.

I'll give you one example, a very famous

example.

Every year at the beginning of Ramadan, we

always have this big fight.

Not only in our communities here, but this

is the war on the road, especially in,

the western countries. We always have this fight,

whether we're going to follow this country, we

follow calculations, we do this, we do that,

it's always this fight.

Even if all Muslims in the world agree

on the same day to fast,

this is the the end of it. We

always have other fights.

Like, are we going to pray the name

of Idraha or 22 Raghav? A big fight.

Tell us, we agree that we are going

to pray Idraha.

Are we going to finish all Quran Ramadan

or just a new ayat?

You know, another big fight. It's always like

this where you go. People are always fighting.

They close to the end of the month.

Either in tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

A big fight. You know, I remember one

time I was in the US, and it

was the 28th day of Ramadan. They were

watching for the moon, and the brother came

to me. And

the night there was, like, 14 hours. It's

not, like, 17 or 18 like him. And

the brother

literally got on his his knees, and he

said, brother, please

make me in tomorrow.

Make me in tomorrow. I beg you. I

said, well, I do have the remote control

for the moon in my hands.

10 minutes later, they saw the moon, and

you told him that he literally was dancing

in the seat. You know? We always have

these fights.

Instruction, I got in.

Okay? Then 1 brother, Asha Allah, he decided

to put an end to the fight. What

he did? He called 911, and the police

came in. The people were fighting, the people

were falling down, bleeding on the carpet. Then

the police 2 policemen came to say, and

they were walking on the carpet with their

shoes on.

Now the 2 groups, the 8 Raka'aru and

the 22 Raka'aru, both of them were mad

at the police.

K police, kalam, haram, you're walking on the

carpet with your shoes. So walking on the

carpet with your shoes on is is haram,

but fighting and bleeding in the masjid is

not haram. So please wake up, you know.

We have to realize that the bottom line

of rebalah is to unite

all the ayaats in the Quran are either

revealed in Mecca or in

Medina. Only one aya is revealed inside the

Kaaba itself. Why is this ayaat? Why was

it revealed inside the Kaaba? If you know

the answer, you may leave the town to

Moabas