Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reflections 25 Love For Humanity
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The importance of overhauling human beings and using them to judge others is discussed, along with the issue of cultural acceptance in Islam. The speaker emphasizes the need to use humanizing people and humanizing one's partner to avoid confusion and mistakes. They also stress the importance of recognizing humanity and bringing people together, but there may be cultural mistakes. Visitors are encouraged to clarify the reasons for a capital fit before tomorrow.
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Night.
So, most likely tomorrow, we have the night
is Laylatul Qadr
according to the majority of the and many
of the sahabah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Which means it's a night better
than a 1000 months. So if you pray
Isha in Jannah'ah, you get the reward of
praying Isha
for in Jannah'ah for 84 years. And if
you make dua, read Quran, you get the
reward of doing this Ibarra for 84 years.
If you give sadaqaat
at night, you get the reward of giving
sadaqaat sadaqaat for 84 years. So please don't
miss out.
The talk tonight inshaAllah, I bought something that
really,
bothers me,
and this is something related to counseling that
I do every day.
A lot of people always come for issues,
and the numbers are increasing, you know, issues
in the family,
divorce,
people always come for talaq and and problems
and and so on and so forth.
And we need to realize that part of
the problem is
Allah
created us
to use things
and treasure human beings
So what has happened
is that we started to use people and
treasure things.
So it's missed out now.
When you look at our relationships together in
this world, I classify them into 3 different
types.
Some people they like to over
human humanize other human beings.
Some people like to self humanize
other people, and what you should be doing
according to Islam is just humanize people.
So what do we mean by over humanize
people?
We read throughout history that some people actually
worship other people.
They worship Isa, they worship Buddha, you know,
the objects of worship are so many because
they raise them over their level.
Until this day, we do the same thing
with with some imams,
some scholars,
some political
leaders, whatever they say, right or wrong, we're
okay with it. We just follow them blindly.
And this is not acceptable Islamically. In Islam,
if someone says something right,
even if it is your enemy, you say,
yeah, this is right. If someone says this
is you know, they say something wrong, even
if it is your friend or a close,
you know, someone close to you, you say
this is wrong. Stand up for justice as
Allah subhanahu wa'ala says in the Quran. And
this is why
at some point, if someone did something bad
or an imam or a scholar
is accused of something,
you know, the youth come to me, my
iman is on the floor.
And the reason is because you put your
trust in the people.
You over humanize them. And this is why
a lot of us we don't realize
that Allah
repeated something in Surah Fatiha. It's a very
short and concise surah, but 2 things are
repeated in this surah. Is
repeated twice to emphasize the rahma and the
mercy of Allah
but there is also something else.
Allah
could have said
But he
said
So Allah
says,
follow this path, this is the true path,
and good people they follow the path.
So you actually judge the people by the
path.
What some of us do basically, we judge
the path
by good people.
Like
So what we should do basically,
because we know that Islam is perfect, but
Muslims are not, we should use Islam to
judge the people and not use the people
to judge Islam.
And and this is what we mean by
over, humanized
people.
Now, subhumanizing
people, and I've seen this a lot,
when people just become objects, and this is
what I see in my counseling, people just
become objects.
So for example,
when you become just a vote to a
politician, when they see you, they just see
numbers, the votes.
When you go to a doctor and they
just see a prescription,
this is their bill, this is their money.
One time I visited a doctor, he's a
friend of mine. So in the reception they
had a new guy, a new, you know,
someone was there, and I said, you know,
can I see the doctor for just a
second? She said, why?
I said, he's my friend, I just wanted
to say hi. She said, like,
that's it, nothing else?
And I asked
if What kind of I'm I'm sorry I'm
healthy. Like, I I apologize for being healthy.
I don't know what to do. You know?
And and, subhanallah, I remember back in Egypt
in, when I was going to college, sometimes
I took the the bus to school,
and the driver, when,
he saw someone like a guy waving, and
he would say to the collector in the
kumsari,
You know?
And when it, you know, the the it
became expensive, he said Like the guy, the
driver was telling the collector, Mahasin, the kumsari.
He was telling him there are 2 tickets
right there. So he basically turned the human
beings into objects.
And and and this is also the problem
in in families when,
you know, they the kids, they turn their
parents into objects.
When they turn their dad into this machine
where you push the button, the money comes
out. And and the husband and the wife,
they do the same thing. When the love
is lost
and they take each other to court, they,
you know, she will see him as
50% everything.
This is how the way they see things.
And the husband, when he turns his wife
into an object,
this is where you have problems. So we
need to humanize one another. When you see
someone, you see a human being.
It doesn't matter if the person is Muslim
or non Muslim, they're At the end of
the day, they are human beings. They are
the creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. When
I see someone, I see a human being.
Whether I disagree with what they do, I
don't like the way they do things, but
at the end of the day, they are
just the creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
There's a hadith,
a Sahih Muslim, you know the hadith, when
the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam, there was
a jenazah, and they were carrying a Jew,
and the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam stood
up. This is in Sahih Muslim. And some
of the sahabas said, You Rasulullah, he's a
Jew, he's not Muslim. And the prophet said,
Alayzid Nafsun,
isn't he a human being? He's a human
being. I'm honoring his humanity.
And also,
Sufyan al Thawri Rahimahullah.
You know, one of his neighbors came one
day, and Sufyan was not there.
And the man knocked on the door. Sofiane's
wife opened the door, and and and he
said, you know, I'm your neighbor, and, you
know, I didn't have food for days. Can
you please, you know, ask your husband to
give me something? So when Sofiane came and
his wife told him, he started to cry.
And and she said, Yeah.
You just gave him food. Why are you
crying?
I'm crying because I,
you know, I let him ask. I should
have, you know,
gone to him before he would come, and
I give him before he could come and
scratch his dignity and ask me for something.
So he said I never regretted saying Alhamdulillah
except one time.
There was a plaza and he had a
store
and basically there was a fire
and all the stores got burnt except his
because his was at the end. So when
he got the news that all the stores
were burnt overnight
except for his, he he said Alhamdulillah. Then
he realized
I'm being selfish.
You know, I I turned these people into
just other objects and I I don't have
feelings for them. And he said I never
regretted saying Alhamdulillah, accept this time. In Islam,
Islam brings people together. Islam recognizes the humanity
of people. If you pray by yourself, you
get more reward. If you pray in jama'ah
with other people, you get 27.
You can't go for Hajj on your own,
you have to go with other people, everyone
is there together. The rich has to give
the zakah to the poor. You fasted Ramadan
with other people, if you break your iftar
with them, inshaAllah, you get more rewards. So
Islam is all about recognizing humanity, bringing people
together. So we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to give us a clause in everything we
say and do, and and see humanity in
other people. Ameen ir Abu Dhabi.
The question from last night was,
if Eid arrives on the day of Jummah,
so basically,
based on a hadith from the prophet of
the Sahaba, if you come for salah to
8 in the morning,
you don't have to come for Jummah. If
you come for 8 in the morning, you
don't have to come again for Jummah. Jummah
becomes optional in this case, and of course,
they will have Jummahs in the masjid, but
if you come for 8, you don't have
to come for Jummah, but you have to
pray Lohr wherever you are. Some people think
if you don't come for Jummah, you don't
have to pray Lohr, and this is a
mistake, and the winner is brother, Zia Mahbo.
Finally, Jagbir.
Enjoy.
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Jazakullah