Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Special Quran Gems 17
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The importance of understanding the situation of the people and the rulings of Islam is emphasized. The speaker discusses the importance of being mindful of the situation and the importance of being careful. A woman was walking with a woman in the street and she was walking with a woman in the street. The speaker also talks about a brother's actions and how he made a mistake, but made it right. The speaker then discusses a remote village and how it was a brother's actions, and talks about a brother's memorization of Qifro.
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Assalamuala alhamdulillah salallahu alayhi wa sakhiwummanwala.
So tonight InshaAllah is the last session
in, Dawah to Muslims, and as Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala describes in the Quran for you
to do Dawah to Muslims, non Muslims, or
new Muslims,
you have to have knowledge and wisdom.
Where do we get this from? Uddhula Sabila
rabbikaabilikhmatu
walmarathu alhasana in Surat An Nai. And also
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in Sura Yusuf
at the end, walhalihi
sabili
adaroo illallahi aala abaseerahil basilahi alaamwal
wal hikma. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
in the Quran, for you to do Dawah
and teach people about Islam, you have to
have knowledge and you have to have wisdom.
So in the last couple of days we
have been talking about wisdom
in dawah, and we said that wisdom basically
means that you say the right thing to
the right people at the right place in
the right way. Otherwise people will not listen
to you. So today, inshallah, we'll focus a
little bit on knowledge.
So what do we mean by knowledge? Ta'am
Dakarna Innu Matlub Lin Dawa wa Tasheh Hafta
Inn Nas La Put them in Alrehm wal
Hikma.
So,
knowledge basically means that you understand the situation
of the people, and also you understand the
rulings of Islam. Halal and Haram, the Sunnah
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the
tafsir. The basics. You don't have to to
have PhD in Islamic Studies to do Dawah,
just the basics.
The fundamentals of the faith. So for example,
the basic ruling, like if someone, for example,
comes to you, and this is a true
story, a brother came to me and he
said that he went to someone,
who claims to be, you know, a shayr,
or a guy, or a scholar, and he
told him I gave divorce to my wife,
but my intention was not divorce. But he
told his wife I divorced you, and the
shayr said, was your intention to divorce her?
He said, no. He said, it doesn't count
as divorce.
This is nonsense.
If someone tells his wife, I don't need
you, go to your parents, don't stay in
my house, we ask him about his intention
because he doesn't use the words of divorce.
But if he says, I divorce you, we
don't even ask him about his intention because
there are specific words if they are used.
Haras is divorce. It doesn't matter what his
intention was. Right? So this is one thing.
So the understanding of the situation of the
people and the understanding of the rulings.
Like say for example, you see someone walking
with a girl in the street, and you
go to to them and say, haram, what's
wrong with you? All that stuff. How come
you are walking with a lady in the
street?
And he will say, well, this is my
sister or this is my wife. So you
have to understand the situation of the people
because before you force yourself on them and
you start to correct them,
and you have to understand the rulings as
well. I remember a few years back, I
was in Edmonton,
and there was a brother who was assisting
me. He was from Ethiopia,
Habasha. He was 86 years old at the
time. That's like 3 years ago. And Masha'Allah,
he spoke Arabic very well. He was half
of Qur'an, an excellent brother. So one day
in the winter time, I got very sick,
so I couldn't go to the masjid that
day. It was Jum'ah, and the masjid was
packed, like, fashr over there, is like Jum'ah
here. Masha'Allah. The masjid was full, it's a
residential area, masjid Ar Rasheed is, is mashAllah,
you know, a great destination for a lot
of people.
So the brother who was leading salah,
Jumah, he recited from Surah Al Sajdah, in
the 1st rakah. So he made the sajdah,
he came up, he continued the rakah after
the sajdah, then he made the rakur,
finished the 1st rakah Alhamdulillah.
2nd rakah, he stood up, and instead of
saying Alhamdulillah Alhami,
he went straight to the Surah. He continued
Surah Sajda, or he went to Surah Insan,
another Surah. He forgot to to say Alhamdulillah
Alagrah. He was confused.
He was fasting, 86 years old, Khalas.
The problem was, the brother had a hearing
difficulty,
so he was using the earpiece,
behind him, or was
an earthquake, he couldn't hear anything.
Saqqan Raqa, he went straight to the Surah,
he didn't say Fatihah, big problem.
And the brothers were saying SubhanAllah, SubhanAllah, and
the sisters were like this, they were clapping,
nothing.
He continued all the way to Tashah'ud,
very close, in Nakah Hamidu Majid, he remembered,
la hauler abu, I didn't say Fatiha. He
stood up.
He did Fatiha again. What he did is
the right thing, because the prophet
said, if you don't say Fatiha in a
rakah, it doesn't count, you have to do
it again. So he did the right thing,
he repeated another rakah, he said Fatiha and
Surah, and he made the Shahu'ud and Sashdah
at the end. Before salaam, after salaam, it
doesn't matter.
Now, when he stood up for the 3rd
rakam to say Fatiha,
which is the right thing, the same people
were screaming behind him, What is this? SubhanAllah
and the sisters with Allah, guila, awwalallahuwadellamillah.
He made salam, of course he didn't hear
anything,
he didn't need an excuse to jump over
the brother, like come here, and he flew
over him.
You know the freerismic in Musa Al Khourla,
they go over the ropes and they jump?
This is what he did. He wasn't his
aunties as well.
So he said, Whats wrong with you?
What is wrong with you? We came to
pray Fazr, you made us pray Marib.
And the brother actually did the right thing.
And this one brother, he took a group
of people, they went to the site and
they did Fazr again.
Which is wrong. The brother, the suh habashi
brother, he did the right thing, but the
people didn't know the ruling. He was correcting
him, but in the wrong way.
So you have to have the knowledge, or
you'll be creating fitna and causing problems in
the community.
I'm gonna conclude with this story. It's from,
one of the countries I love very much.
I'm not gonna mention the name of the
country, but they make their bibiryani.
So
what happened
what happened, there was this remote village on
the mountain,
and they didn't have an imam, or hudja,
oralam, or anything.
Just a brother who memorized Qur'an,
they let him lead salah, but he didn't
have knowledge. Okay. So he started to lead
salah. After some time, he started to give
fatwa. He didn't have any knowledge. Right?
So people used to come to him and
ask questions, and he would give them fatwa
without knowledge.
At some point, it was a Eid ul
Adhaq, Korbani is coming very soon. So he
got the book, Firq, Imam Abu Hanifa, and
he started to read the the Firq, and
he would give them his own tafsir, without
knowledge.
So there was this line in the book,
which is true, it's in the books of
the, or the books of Firq, but the
understanding is wrong.
So the lion said, waistahabulwuduwuli
adrahi. It is recommended to have Huduw for
Utayah.
Like when you take the goat or the
sheep, the haruw for Korbani,
it is recommended to have Huduw for the
Korbani.
So he told them,
of course, the understanding is the person who
is doing the Al Tayah
to face the Ibla, to have Urdu yourself
before you kill the animal. This is the
understanding of the line in the book of
Fiqth of Imam Abu Hanifa.
So he told to him, it is recommended
for the animal itself
to have udru.
Wallahi, it's a true story.
A brother who was visiting in that village,
he told me this story. This is a
true story. He told them, You bring the
haruf, the goat or the sheep, and you
make wudu for the sheep. You wash and
mouth
the little
nose, the legs,
the, you know, the feet, the tail,
and he's ready. So one brother was terrified,
he said, You Sheyaf, You Hajat al Islam,
You Nur Azanan.
Okay.
Last year,
I was ignorant, Jair, I didn't have that
knowledge,
so I offered my haraf, my kurbani without
Hudu. The haraf didn't have wudu or mustor,
or udu, or nothing. So the brother said,
okay, can you pray without Hudu? He said,
no. He said, the same is true for
Qurban, you cannot offer Qurban and wudu without
wudu? It's najasa, najasa.
So this is the this is the ruling
in this case, wallah'ala.
So, you cannot just read a book and
give the understanding from the book. You have
to have someone who with knowledge who can
explain.
This is why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala didn't
just send the Quran without a Prophet, He
sent Muhammad salAllahu alayhi wa sallam with a
book to teach. He sent Musa 'alayhi salam
with a Torah to teach. He sent Isa
with ajil to teach. And this is the
reason, inshaAllah.
We'll continue some other time. The question from
last time
was,
the shortest ayah in the Quran. Of course,
if you Google it, it will tell you,
and this is like most of the answers
I got. People were cheating last night.
Some said Noon, Kaaf, Saad, but these are
not ayaat, they are part of ayaat. Like,
if you go to the Musghaf, there is
no ayaat number after Kaaf or Saab or
Noon, they are part of an aya, so
they are not the shortest ayaat.
Tasin
Tasin Meem No. Yasin It's Salom. The shortest
ayah in the Quran is?
Tahha.
If you count the numbers, the, the words,
Taha.
Ta'arif, Ha'arif.
This is the shortest. Four letters, if you
transcribe.
If you do Yaseen, it's 5. If you
do Ta'seen, it's 5. Ta'seen mean it's 7.
So the shortest ever is Taha. And this
is the correct answer.
Probably the only one who got the right
answer is brother Abdullah
Farman
Mir.
Jazzaa Abullah kayla. Baa Abullah Abi Taqir. Big
one.
Assalam.
So he's gonna lead the next Torah, inshaAllah,
as a reward for,
for giving the right answer, inshaAllah. Ready?