Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reflections 15 No Gas

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.