Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reflections 15 No Gas
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The speakers discuss the importance of Easter and the month of celebrate Easter. They share examples of woman in control of desires and lost their minds at gas stations, and emphasize the importance of praying at night to increase sincerity and avoid negative consequences. They also mention a woman named Aynu Zubay Citibank who died while praying at night and her relationship with Allah. Overall, the speakers emphasize the importance of fasting during the night to increase weight and fat content.
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So,
last night we spoke about the purpose of
the month of Ramadan, and we said that
the whole purpose is to put you in
charge of your desires.
Before and after the month of Ramadan,
your desires are in control.
So, basically, Allah sub Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is telling us you can avoid haram after
Ramadan and before Ramadan. And what is the
proof? You are able to avoid halal during
the days of Ramadan. So if you can
avoid halal, like eating, drinking,
having intimate relations with your spouses during the
day of Ramadan, you can easily avoid ramal,
avoid haram after Ramadan.
If you are in charge of your desires.
Today inshallah we'll talk about something,
slightly different and this is something I gave
in a Khubba
a few weeks ago, but it's a very
good subject and we'll give some more details
inshallah wata'ala.
So basically a few weeks before Ramadan I
was coming from my house,
to get ready for salatulthuhr
and give a talk to the students here,
and I had a couple of counseling sessions.
People were, you know, they wanted to get
a divorce, they were shooting at each other,
calling the police on each other, and they
would just come basically to my office to
bleed, and I tell them please don't bleed
here, we got a new couch.
Just get out.
But anyway,
just as, you know, the couple of days
before,
I was busy like crazy, you know, going,
visiting people, counseling,
you know, with the family and
traveling and so on and so forth. And
usually when I drive, you know, I have
this,
SoundCloud
app, and you can listen to lectures, share
Shahrawi and whatnot.
So basically, I put the phone and I
listened to the audio. And the problem with
that was
the gas, light was flashing, and I didn't
see that. So that day when I was
leaving the house, I saw the, you know,
the flashing and I said, okay. I'm gonna
go. There's a gas station close to the
Masjid,
and, there's one on Matheson and, and Kennedy.
Don't go there. It's very expensive. But anyway,
I was, like, I saw it from a
distance,
and I was almost there, you know, and
all of a sudden the car slowed down,
and the car stopped completely.
And I could see the gas station from
a distance.
I said man, this is terrible. And who
can I call? Because that was like a
weekday, and most of my friends, they are
at work. No one can come for my
aid.
So eventually, I remember the Syrian brother who
is my neighbor,
on Barindale,
so I gave him a call and he
said okay, 15 minutes I'll be there. So
while I was waiting for him in the
car by the roadside,
and I started to think about subhanAllah, what
if this happens to me on yamul qiyamah?
Like, I see Jannah from a distance,
and I'm thinking that my deeds can take
me there, but I fell short. I I
couldn't actually go there. Who can come to
my help?
So, eventually, the brother came, he brought some
gas that much, and this helped me come
to the masjid, do my job, and eventually,
go to the gas station, put more gas.
So when I was thinking about Yom Klamath,
if I feel short, I see Jannah from
a distance, and my deeds couldn't help me
go there, who would come to help me
and give me this little, you know, amount
of Hasanat that can't take me to Jannah?
So the problem is no one will come.
Not brother Abdul,
not your mom, not your dad, because everyone
will be running away from you,
As Allah
says in the Quran. Everyone will have a
concern of their own because if they give
you a hasanat,
this could save them from Jahannam and take
them to the basement of Jannah, or it
could take them from the basement of Jannah
to a higher rank in Jannah. So no
one would like to sacrifice a hasanat and
give it to you. Not your your parents,
not your kids, not your spouse. No one.
So I said the only thing that can
help me on that day
is my good deeds.
You know? If you have a good deed,
something small that you don't think highly of,
this will come for your aid on Youmukhayama.
And you know the famous hadith inside Muslim,
when someone had a lot of bad things
and eventually Kalim al Shahada comes and it
gave him Jannah. Just one word that he
said with sincerity, and Allah
used this to give them, to give them
Jannah. Right?
In couple of minutes inshallah, there is something
in in sharia called kavi'ah.
Kavi'ah basically is a good deed. It could
be very tiny, very small that no one
knows about except you and Allah
It could be a salakat, sir, that you
give to someone, it could be a few
rakats that you pray at night that no
one knows about. It could be a dua,
it could be a dhikr or something that
no one knows about except you, Allah.
And the whole thing about this kind of
habiyah is sincerity.
Because when you go to the masjid for
tarawiyah or for jum'ah or salatulayid or you
give zakah or whatever, in public people already
know.
If you go for Hajj, they call you
Hajjeem, Mashallah. Everyone knows that you have been
to Hajj. But if you pray at night
a couple of rak'ahs or you give someone
so I'll say in secret, no one knows.
And SubhanAllah,
some family members of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, like Al Hasan Hussein, Jaffa, and
so on and so forth,
they used to give zakah, salatah, to people
at night. They would put it in front
of the door. No one knew that it
was them. The only reason that that they
found out that it was them is when
one of them died, like Al Hassan
died or Hussein,
the zakah stopped. So people were able to
connect
that, you know, when this person was alive,
we're getting zakah, but now he died. There's
no zakah, so it must have been him.
So no one knew about it. The
prophet
Even in authentic hadith, the prophet said, if
you are able to have this secret
good deed that no one knows about except
you and Allah didn't do it. Right?
I'm gonna conclude with this, with this,
story that I mentioned in the Khutba.
Zubaydah, the wife of Harun al Rashid. She
was very wealthy, her husband was a Khalifa,
she had access to all the resources.
So basically, she traveled for Hajj 1 year,
and some people died because of thirst on
the way for Hajj. So what she did
basically, she established Aynu Zubaydah. Aynu Zubaydah basically
is a basin that collected rainwater from all
the mountains around Mecca and all came together
to form a basin,
and and and the, the, you know, the
whole thing is about 16 kilometers to collect
the rain from the mountains, and it ended
up in one basin. They call it Ayn
al Zubaydah, and they still have it till
this day in Mecca,
although it needs a lot of renovations and
so on and so forth. They say that
according to some narrations,
she spent
4 1,000 kilograms of gold to establish this,
and it took a number of years to
build this,
magnificent, this huge project. Right?
When she passed away, when she passed away,
someone from the salarikh Un saw her in
a dream.
And he said,
What did Allah do to you? She said
Allah forgave me and gave me Jannah.
Did Allah forgive you because of the water
that you provided for the Hujjaz?
She said, no. Allah gave me Jannah
exclusively. Of of course, she got some reward
for the for providing water for Hajjaz, but
she said the main reason Allah gave me
Jannah,
Allah gave me Jannah for 2 rakats that
I used to pray in Sifir at night
that no one knew about.
So if you are able to have a
kabeel like this, salatah that no one knows
about dua or salah or something between you
and Allah, then this is the best way
to go inshallah. We'll continue tomorrow, be in
the night
The question for last night, if someone was
sick in the month of Ramadan,
they couldn't fast, then they recovered after Ramadan,
but they were lazy. They didn't make up
the days. Who is gonna fast on their
behalf? Of course,
The
people who inherit the person will make up
the fast.
Just like they inherit your money if you
die,
and therefore, if you have a debt, like
money to someone or a bada to Allah,
then they need to make up on your
behalf. Right? Just like they win,
they lose as well. And the, the winner
is brother Omar Mahmoud. Omar Mahmoud.
Thing he's gonna do is put a paper
in a bottle, throw it in the ocean.
The guy was desperate.
But Khilassim made
it. The question for tonight, what if someone
throws up intentionally during the day of Ramadan?
And some people have this, this habit,
and I heard
Princess Diana from the UK, she had this
issue. Some people, what they do, they they
like to eat as much as they can,
but they don't want to gain weight or
fat. So what they do after they eat
everything they want, they stick their finger in
their mouth and they throw up. So if
someone does the this during the day of
Ramadan, is their fasting still valid or no?
If you know, email me before tomorrow. Asr
at imamustafatanotoliacenter.ch.