Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reflections 23 Yes We Cant
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The speaker discusses the struggles of human beings in achieving happiness, including negative behavior and poor quality life. They emphasize the importance of not taking one's wealth or wealth to oneself and loved ones, and the need for trusting Islam's guidance to avoid negative consequences. The speaker also touches on fasting and the upcoming election, as well as a young man's plan to become a candidate. They emphasize the importance of fasting and avoiding negative consequences.
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Just an announcement that, tonight, tahajjud is at
2 inshallah, and it will last for half
an hour. Tahajjud will be led by our
Imam Sheikh Bilal with miss. Allah
accept.
We can't afford
to protest Qadr Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Right?
So,
Nabi al salam,
So the prophet
says, the happiness
of the human being is in accepting qadr
Allah,
and the displeasure of the human being or
the misery of the human being is in
protesting qadr Allah
And the reason for that is sometimes we
see 1 pixel, but we don't see the
whole picture. Right? So we see this small
pixel and we say life is miserable, but
you still you don't see the whole picture.
So,
it is part of
who we are as human beings. Allah
says in the Quran,
We have created human beings in constant struggle.
And Allah
says We test people with good and bad.
Sometimes Allah
will give you something,
like money, a wife, a husband, a good
job, you think it is amazing,
and it turns out to be something terrible.
Or Allah
will allow something bad to happen to you,
and you start crying, this is terrible,
I'm doomed,
I'm finished,
but it turns out to be the most
amazing thing that has happened to you. Because
again,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows,
and you don't know.
So again, part of the struggle in life,
a lot of people are not happy with
Qadr Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala So sometimes it's
it's benign,
as they say in medical terms and sometimes
it's very acute, very extreme
So again, the example I like to give,
if you ask a little kid, like this
guy over here
9 years old, What do you think will
make you happy in life? He will say,
well I want to be an adult.
I would like to have my own job.
I would like to have money.
Go to the candy store,
you know, fill up a truck with candy.
Go to Toys R Us, buy all the
toys are there, go to Best Buy, buy
all the Ipads, all the iPhones. If I
have my own money,
and I have my own life, I would
be happy because I'm I'm old, you know,
I can enjoy life. And if you ask
someone in their eighties
What would make you happy? They will say
the opposite. I want to go back to
childhood.
I want to be able to jump around,
I want to be able to, you know,
enjoy life, and so on and so forth.
If you ask someone who is poor what
will make you happy? Of course, they will
say I want money, money will make me
happy.
And if you ask someone who is rich,
they will say man, I want to be
able to sleep
peacefully at night.
I'm always afraid that the, you know, stock
market will collapse, I'm gonna lose my money,
or at least a chauffeur, a thief is
going to come and take my money, break
into my house.
And one of the biggest concerns that we
always have in life
that your wealth, the good things that you
have in life will be taken away from
you,
or you will be taken away from them.
And Allah
is giving us this guarantee that in jannah,
you are not taking away from jannah. Once
you are inside, you cannot be taken out.
And Jannah cannot be taken away from you.
This is the opposite of what happens in
dunya.
If you talk to someone, for example, who
is single,
and they are desperate, they have been looking
for years for a wife,
And mashaAllah, they set the standard so high.
I work mashaAllah, sister with, Ijazah and Quraat
al Ashla who has done Hajj 5 times.
Has done this and this, and they set
the standard so high. You know, some of
our brothers come here and say, dude, I
mean, you're talking about something out of this
world. You know? And they set the standards
so high, and they wait till they are
45, they are 50. They couldn't find anyone,
and they come to me again, Oh, okay,
what are you looking for? What are the
standards this time? And they say, It doesn't
matter man, I want a 1 eyed, 1
legged witch,
from like the movies. The ones who, you
know, who fly with the with the broom.
So, this is for someone who is single
and they're looking for a wife. And if
you talk to someone who has been married
for like 10, 11 years,
they are pulling their hair off. And you
can easily see it because there's no hair
left. And I'm not picking on anyone, by
the way. If you talk to someone who
has been married for 5, 7 years, I
know some people, no kids,
subhanAllah, they feel desperate to have kids.
And if you talk to another person, I
know some families, mashallah, they have minimum 12
kids and up.
If you talk to them, they want to
jump in the ocean,
you know? They say in Arabic hikmat is
not to repeat the same mistake twice, and
some people end up repeating the same mistake
15 times
in a row. Right?
If you talk to someone who has suffered
a lot in life,
and they say, you know what, I've come
to a point in my life because there's
no justice in this world. People are dying,
it is always the same miserable news every
day. The only difference in the news is
the number of people who died today.
So every day is it's the different figure.
Right?
And if you ask them what would make
you happy, they say, I want to die.
Bye bye. I want to leave this world
and die.
And we know by just reading the Quran,
when people die, they have more request.
Rabirjirul, I want to go back to life.
So no one is happy. No one is
happy. No one is satisfied. So
once you put in your mind that Allah
has the whole picture, you only have a
pixel, you will always be satisfied with Kaad
of Allah
If something bad happens,
you say
If something good happens, you say alhamdulillah. Because
either way, it is good for you,
but sometimes you don't know.
You probably if you follow social media, you
probably have heard of brother Ali Banat,
who passed away last week. May Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala accept him as shahid and give
him Jannah. If someone dies because of the
illness, an extreme illness or a violent death,
and there were good people, like someone has
cancer, someone died because of diabetes, and you
know, you know, they they suffered before they
died,
and the hadith of the prophet
they will be shahid in Akhirah. In dunya,
we don't treat them like shahid, but in
Akhirah, Allah will accept them as shahid. And
this is based on authentic hadith from the
prophet
said, even if a mother
dies giving birth to a child, Allah will
give her the reward of shahid in Afar,
and so on and so forth.
So basically,
the this brother,
he was in his twenties, I believe, and
he had he was a millionaire, basically,
and he was living his life, no limits,
he did everything that he wanted to do,
and he was not practicing.
But one day, we went to the doctor,
and the doctor said, you have cancer for
sure, and you only have
months
to khalas. You will die. 6 months. 6
months. 6, 7 months, and you will die.
So this brother, there are so many interviews,
and he said Allah gifted me with cancer.
Allah gave him the gift of cancer.
Because now he changed his life 180 degrees,
and he used his millions
to change lives in Africa. He traveled,
he did a lot of charity projects, and,
you know, he helped people,
And before he died, he was so happy,
and he said, I thank Allah for cancer.
So this
came to him. Yes. It looks like cancer,
something terrible, but for him, this is a
gift from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Because sometimes
we'll look at something at you know, from
the surface, but we don't see the whole
fact. If you look at the story of
Yusuf alaihis salam,
you know, 2nd page, he was taken away
from his father.
This is terrible,
so sad.
But what happened later, he became Al Aziz
of Egypt. If he didn't leave his father,
he wouldn't have become Al Aziz, but Allah
has something better in store for him.
Sometimes you have to taste the medicine, it
tastes sour,
but eventually, maybe Allah will give you something
good. So at the end of the day,
trust Allah
Again, a test, if tilah could come in
the form of something good, like money for
Quran, or it could come in the form
of something bad, like Yusuf alaihi wa sallam
being taken away from his father. What are
you
abusing his family, his health, and his wealth,
and Allah
gave him double what he lost. So what
we need to do? We trust Allah
We say Alhamdulillah
for everything. So we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to make
us. So make those who accept Qadr and
are grateful to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for
the good and the bad, and will continue
tomorrow, Insha Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And the
question for last night,
you know,
it was this night, and
in the masjid, they didn't say if if
tomorrow is Ramadan or not. And the brother
or the sister was waiting till 1 in
the morning, and they had to go to
bed, and they didn't say and this happens
in some masajid, by the way. So this
brother got tired, and he said, I have
work in the morning. If tomorrow is Ramadan,
I'm gonna be fasting. Because he doesn't know
for sure. And he woke up after fajr,
and it was announced that it is Ramadan.
Some of the alamas say, you have to
have the niyyah from last night. It shouldn't
be conditional,
and this is based on a hadith that
Imam Ahmed,
Rahimahullah, and this is supported by ibn Taymiyyah.
He said, this brother couldn't do any better.
This is the best they can do. And
in this case, their fasting is acceptable,
and the chosen opinion in this case is
the opinion of Imam Ahmed. In this particular
case, if you say Ramadan is tomorrow, this
is the best I can do, Khallassalla will
give you the reward for your fasting. You
don't have to make up the day. And
the winner is brother Hussam al Ahmed.
Hussam Al
Ahmed.
Take a beer.
Bazarullah.
Fast. Fast. Fast.
Yes. We can.
And tonight's question is easy, inshallah. We want
some young ones, to answer. When did Ramadan
become fard? When Allah
make, Ramadan fard?
Which year? Before Israel, after Israel? If you
know me, sir, it may be before tomorrow
Aslan, Imam Mustafa at the Natoya Center. That's
the age that's our plan.