Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reflections 2 Short Life Made Long

I know it's getting a little bit hot.

We're working on the, air conditioning in the

back, inshallah.

So, basically

I'm maybe I told you the story of

this brother who are in, in the US,

and I remember,

1st night of Taraweeh, 1st day of Ramadan.

And this guy came to me, and he

said, Imam, I have a question for you.

First day of Ramadan. And I said: Okay,

what's your question? And he said: when is

Eid?

We just started, man.

And I said: Okay, I'm gonna tell you

a hadith that will make you love Ramadan

so much. There's this hadith in Muslim of

Imam Ahmed.

The 2 men from the tribe of Qudah

accepted Islam, and many years later one of

them died, the first one of them died

as shahid,

and the second one died a natural death

a year after.

So,

Tal Khaled

he saw a dream.

And in that dream he saw the second

one who died a natural death a year

after, going to Jannah first and being higher

in rank in Jannah.

And the one who died shahid

entered Jannah after and he was lower in

rank so he went to the prophet in

salatul fashr and told him the story and

the sahabah were astonished like how come? And

Nabi said Atajamun and Ibadik

Are you astonished that the second one who

died a natural death went to Jannah before

the shahid, and he is higher in rank?

Didn't the second one who died a, a

year after,

didn't he fast an extra Ramadan than the

first one? Didn't he pray more salah?

In total, in a year, you pray 1,800

prayers.

Didn't he read Quran? Didn't he make dua?

Didn't he give salatah? And this is why

he is higher in rank and he went

to Jannah before. And I told him: Do

you like the hadith? He's in Mashallah, it's

amazing. When is Aid?

And he said: Bang, get out.

So basically

basically Allah

knows that the lives of this ummah are

short. We're going to live a short life

compared to other people like Sheith and Adam

alayhi salam and Nuh and Nuh and 1,000

years, 2,000 years. There's a hadith in Bukhary,

the Prophet

said that Amaru Umati Mabein al Khamsinawasatin

waqalilunman

yajuzu valik.

The the, the,

average lifespan of my Ummah is like 50

60 years, and a few will live longer

than that. And in that particular hadith he

said, you know, from Adam alaihis salam and

his children,

they were 60 feet in height, and they

lived 1000 of years.

And with time people will get shorter, and

they will live less than the people who

existed before until you came, like, to someone

like me. You know, very short, I can't

even play basketball. You know, very short. And

it's gonna get worse. Next generations are gonna

get smaller and smaller and smaller, you know,

it's gonna get terrible.

And how do we make up for this

that we live a short life?

Allah

gave us some time, special times and special

places

in which the deeds are multiplied

immensely.

So we should say Alhamdulillah

for Ramadan, we shouldn't complain when Ramadan comes,

you know. Some people see the moon and

they get scared. You should be happy that

Ramadan is here.

Now, we know that the reward is multiplied

in the month of Ramadan. You pray 1

Fard, like Salatul Isha as we prayed, you

get the reward of 70 Isha.

You pray Sunna Turaka Sunna, you get the

reward of fard.

You do Umrah in Ramadan, you get the

reward of Hajj as the prophet said, and

this is based on authentic Hadith. And the

prophet

was asked in a Hadith,

What is the best Sadaka? He said, Sadaka

in Ramadan.

And the reason is their word is multiplied.

Their word is multiplied. So a Sadaka in

Ramadan is better than Sadaka any other time

of the year.

So now if you look at the last

10 nights of the month of Ramadan,

this is a very special time, and there's

a lot of good things that you can

do. Reading Quran will not cost you anything,

making dua is free, You don't have to

pay anything for dua. Actually, you don't pay

even GST

for making dua. It's free. You communicate with

Allah

anytime you want.

Laylatul Qadr, one night,

you pray a little bit, you pray Isha,

you pray like half an hour in taraweeh,

you make Dua, you read Quran, maybe give

Sadaqa here and there, and Allah will give

you the reward of a 1000 month or

even more. And if you calculate this, a

1000 month, 12 months in the year, that's

83 to 84 years. For half an hour

that you do in the in Laylat Al

Qadr. And I'm not gonna talk about the

day of Ashura,

the day of, Arafah, and so on and

so forth. These are special times.

So yes, we live a short life, but

if you take advantage of these special times

and these special places, Allah will reward you

immensely.

And

maybe you would be ahead of those who

lived a 1000 or 2000 years.

Who knows? Maybe you would be ahead of

them because the reward is multiplied.

We know, from the story of Nuh alaihis

salam,

they say he he, he dedicated 950

years of his life to dawah. He was

making dawah, al fasanatilahi lakhamsin a'am. But many

of the scholars say he actually lived 1,005

100 years.

This is how long he lived. And he

was asked, how do you look at your

life? He said, well, it's as if I

entered my house from the front door and

I left from the back door.

1500

years. What about us, Meskeen? 50 years, 60

years? You died in the living room.

I will lie, very very short. And there

is also a story, a woman came to

Nuh-uh alaihis salam, and she was in tears,

and she said my son died.

And he said how old was he? And

she said he was 300 years old. And

he said subhanAllah, miskeen.

And he was a baby, 300 years. Because

they lived 2000 years. So in our case,

because we live short lives, Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala gave us Ramadan. Laylatul Ta'at, day of

Arafah, day of Ashura to make up. And

as I said, hopefully we will be ahead

of those people who lived 1000 of years

because of the multiplied rewards. We ask Allah

to give us the Barakah of Ramadan.

The question last night,

someone decided to eat during the day of

Ramadan, but they turned the house upside down

but they couldn't find anything to eat. No

biryani, no shawarma, nothing. They couldn't find anything

to eat. So I said, Khallaz, miskeen, I'm

gonna continue my fast.

Is their fasting valid? And the answer is

no, because one of the requirements for fasting

is Niyah. You have to have the Niyah,

and the winner is brother Karim. Is he

here? Karim?

Yeah. TashaAllah. Takbir.

He's the first winner for tonight,

and we're giving him an amazing award

sponsored by Burger Factory. Enjoy. InshaAllah.

High five.

Ashallah. ShazakAllah.

You're the man? It's for you. Enjoy.

You can give your dad a little bit.

InshaAllah. ShazakAllah.

The question for tonight, you're traveling from Toronto

to Karachi.

Right?

And, you have to do iftar on the

way.

Do you break your fast to you iftar

based on the Toronto time or Karachi time?

If you know the answer, email me before

tomorrow. Asrat Imam Mustafa at the natoliacenter.ca.

Jazakkalohair.