Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reflections 3 $40000 In 90 Seconds

May God for imam Bilal. May Allah

give him shifa, his, throat is hurting. Allah

give you shifa and a longer and healthy

life.

Spicy biryani will fix you up, for sure.

I know.

So,

now,

everybody loves stories, I'm gonna start with a

story.

I shared the story last year or the

year before, but I think it's it's very

relevant

to the month of Ramadan.

So basically, the story happened in Germany a

few years ago.

So basically there is a,

an electronic store by Best Buy Best Buy

in Germany.

So they were going to open their 90th

store.

So basically they have this competition.

So basically people applied for this competition and

eventually they chose the lucky one.

So basically basically the lucky one would go

to the store

at the appointed day and they will give

him 90 seconds. They will give him a

second per store, basically. So the total,

amount of time he has

is 90 seconds. Because this is the 90th,

store. So basically, he has 1 minute and

half to finish,

this race. So the rules basically were you

have 90 seconds,

once we whistle, you'll go inside and you

will take any stuff you need, from this

electronic stuff, you know,

computers, anything you want. You have 90 seconds

to take whatever you need, you get out

free of charge, you'll go home.

So basically,

this guy, his name is Sebastian, he's a

youth,

in 90 seconds, he was able to take

stuff from this store

for 40,000

Canadian

dollars. How did he do it? He basically

had a plan. He had a strategy before

he entered, and he can actually go to

YouTube and watch his interview.

He said, basically, I had a plan. From

the minute he was chosen, he was selected

to, you know, to take this competition,

he started to go to the store

and to familiarize

himself with the aisles,

where do they have, you know, Macbooks,

where do you have, you know, iPhone 7

or 10, whatever.

The most expensive and the lightest items, he

would put in his, you know, cart and

he would get out.

So basically, he knew where all the good

expensive stuff was. He got ready, he had

his running shoes,

Ma'kash Shri'aibab, ship shibibabu sabi, adakkulishwaizahlahuyaa,

you know? And he had his,

you know, his sportswear, he was ready, mashallah.

And he had the cart and he got

ready. As soon as they started, he he

knew where he was going.

All the I you know, Macbooks, all the

Iphones, all the expensive stuff, you know. And

the, you know, games and all the, you

know, expensive stuff. And close to the end,

you can see in the video, they have

the video of the competition.

About 3 or 4 minutes were left, he

got out,

and he actually found like, there is a

big fridge close to the, you know, where

you check out. He went inside and he

pushed it out. That's like, 3, $4,000

by itself. So the total was $4,000

$40,000,

you know. And the reason is, the guy

had a strategy.

And I usually use this example,

because

when we start the month of Ramadan, we

have no strategy whatsoever, you know. And SubhanAllah,

Ramadan is the only Ibadah that we don't

prepare for. So now count with me. If

someone comes to take their shahada, they want

to become Muslim, what do they do? They

read about Islam,

they take a shower, they make an appointment

with the imam, they come, take shahada, and

we hug them and kiss them, you know.

So there are preparations for shahada.

And if you are coming for salah,

of course, you will have to make wudu,

you will get dressed, you will drive to

the masjid,

time has to be on, you face the

qiblah, you you read, and so on and

so forth. For Zakat,

you have to make sure that you have

reached the Nisab, you have 4,000 in your

bank account, and, it has reached the Al

Hawl, which is 355,

days, Islamic,

annual, you know, calendar. 355

days.

And you have to look, you know? You

have to calculate all your assets.

Where am I gonna give the money? Am

I gonna give the money in Canada, or

am I sending it back home, and so

on and so forth. And,

and you have to make a lot of

calculations. Ahead of time, if you give your

money Ramadan, is aqaal, alhamdulillah.

For Hajj, you start to plan for Hajj

like a year before, which company I'm going

with,

which company has the best deals,

And the flights, and the ehram, and the

hotels, and a lot of details.

And

the initial plan was to go by yourself,

now your wife is after you, you don't

love me anymore, you have to take me

or talap.

You take your wife, now your mom is

in.

You you love your wife more than me,

so a big drama. You have to take

the whole family with you. Right?

So basically, you do a lot of, you

know, plans for for everything, but fasting

you know, Ramadan tomorrow or the day after

tomorrow, we're not sure when is there Thursday,

big confusion.

We have the what they call moon sighting,

I call it moon fighting. Because this is

what actually happened.

So anyway, no preparation for the month of

Ramadan, and this is why we have no

strategy.

And this is why a lot of people

come to me with all these crazy questions.

One of them was, one brother was asking,

I sleep the whole day,

12 hours, 17 hours, and I only wake

up for salah, and I go back to

sleep. Is my fasting valid?

And I tell him, brother, dude,

this is not fasting. This is the the

the dictionary definition of hibernation.

My god. What is this man? What's wrong

with you?

When I'm married I speak Urdu, as you

already know, you know, fluently.

So, yeah. And the other sister, Ramadan, first

day, Ramadan, brother, I want to give salah

to my husband. What I do? Come on,

man. This is not the time. This is

not the time. There's no strategy, you know.

If you were like this guy, Sebastian,

and you enter Ramadan with no strategy, no

plan, if you spend half an hour inside

the store, you'll come out with only a

clinics. Because you have no strategy, you know.

The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam at the

sahaba, they started Ramadan with a strategy. And

the strategy was, there are 3 types of

Ibadah you do in Ramadan. If you want

to maximize your hasanat,

there is the physical Ibadah like salah, like,

you know, Sayam, like, you know, Tarawi, and

so on and so forth. The physical Ibadah,

Then you have the verbal Ibadah, which is

reading Quran, making Dua, with

your tongue. It doesn't cost you anything. And

the third type is the financial Ibadah, like

giving Sadaqa, giving Zakah, feeding those who are

fasting.

So these are the 3 strategies that we

need to have in Ramadan in order for

you to maximize your Hasanat, and I hope

that, we get the message Insha'Allah JazakAllah.

The question last night

was,

if someone is traveling from

Canada to Karachi,

and they have to break the riftar halfway,

in the air. Do they have to follow

Toronto time or Karachi time? And the answer

was neither of them. Whenever the sun sets,

or when you're on the plane, when it

gets dark, Halas, this is your Maghrib. You

don't have to worry about where you left,

and where where does your destination is. And

we have 2 brothers, our winners, tonight. Yusuf,

who had us gather up.

Are

they here?

So I go

I know this guy. This is Yusuf.

High five two. Okay. Jazak Al Khayr. Share

with you, brother. One more thing here.

Zakkullahu alayhi. Takbeer!

Now the question for tonight, you have to

think about it. So it's winter time, you're

fasting,

it's a rainy day,

and before sun before Maghrib, the sun set,

this is what you saw, and you started

to eat, 10 minutes later the sun came

out,

you know. So it was just the clouds

that blocked the sun. It it the sun

didn't really set. What do you have to

do with this day? Do you have to

continue your fasting? Make up the day? What

do you need to do? If you know

the answer, email me before tomorrow. Asrath imamustafatnatoyasintur.ch.