Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Special Quran Gems 23
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The diverse culture of Taraweeh al Qiyam is often portrayed as "naughty," but it is reflected in the culture of Canada. Jesus's past mistakes have caused his health to deteriorate, and it is important to acknowledge and apologize for mistakes in public. A recent incident involving a woman caught bragging about a mistake was also a mistake by the speaker. The importance of apologizing and acknowledging for mistakes in public is emphasized.
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As I said, Ramadan started a few days
ago, and it goes very fast. And as
I always say, maybe this is why they
call it fasting, because it goes very fast.
So before we begin, inshallah, we're gonna do
a little exercise.
If I can get everyone to stand up
for me, please. Stand up.
MashaAllah.
So,
take a deep breath,
turn to your right,
and hug the person to your right and
tell them I love you
And as you can see, the person you
hugged in
to your right,
is probably someone not from your culture, as
we mentioned before.
SubhanAllah!
This diversity is even reflected in salah. The
people who lead the salah in this masjid,
they come from Turkish background,
Arab background, Indian Pakistani background, and the brother
who leads salah to tahajjud is Somali. So
alhamdulillah.
This is probably the most
diverse Taraweeh al Qiyam, probably in the whole
of Canada. Alhamdulillah.
So,
we started to speak about the forgiveness of
Allah
in this month. In Sura Alisaat, sura 4,
Allah
speaks about the people who is going to
forgive, and the people that Allah will never
forgive.
So the people who forgive are those who
make mistakes.
In this ayah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
inna matawbatwalallallahuilillabinaya
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would only forgive those
who make mistakes, bijahala,
and we'll talk about this in a second.
Then they make tawbah before too long. Min
karib.
And min karib here means before they die.
Anytime before they die, this is min karib.
According to the Ulema'u Taseer, and in this
case, Allah
will forgive them.
Bijahala
means 1 of 2 things.
Bijahala means that you don't know the ruling,
or you make a mistake,
or you know the ruling, but you don't
care. But later on you make tawbah to
Allah
Because we're weak human beings, sometimes we know
that this is haram, so we go ahead
and do it.
So those who do a mistake,
say for example, someone,
they ate in the month of Ramadan. I
gave the story before of the brother from
Edmonton who ate everything in the fridge the
first day of Ramadan,
after war.
Shaft
by shaft. He finished everything.
So he made a mistake, it's forgiven because
it's a mistake.
Sometimes,
you are not paying attention.
This is also Bijaha'al, and Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will forgive you. I remember,
a few years ago, I was in Edmonton.
I was imam there,
Masjid al Rashid.
First Masjid built in Canada, 1938,
and Fajr Salah was probably attended by, I
would say, Ramadan, about a 1000 people.
Fajr Salah.
Salah Tur Jum'ah, 5,000 people.
1st Eid Salah, 15,000 people. Alhamdulillah, big number.
Especially the 1st few days of Ramadan, mashallah,
the masjid is packed. So I remember it
was like the 7th day of Ramadan,
I woke up as I normally do, like
half an hour 45 minutes before Fashr. I
read something for sahur, and I go to
the masjid for salah, the people are waiting.
We pray, and I go home, Khalas, after
salatulfashr.
So that day, it was the,
the time saving thing.
Right? It was in the weekend.
So I went to, of course I woke
up, I had my sahar, I love fruits.
So we had a whole batikah, whole turbuz,
watermelon,
Masha'Allah.
So I went to the masjid,
expecting to see a lot of people, but
there was only nobody was there. Like, the
parking lot, you can't find a spot. It's
ultra fresh. You go inside, you can't walk.
So that day,
I found 2 guys, and they were playing,
like, video games or something. I said, said,
what's wrong with Muslims?
You know, Ramadan Muslims, where are they? The
first couple of days, they are everywhere, they're
playing on the roof, in the hallway, in
the parking lot,
but now after a week, no one is
in the masjid SubhanAllah. What is this? So
I went to the 2 guys and I
said okay, why you guys not making a
van or doing something?
What, where is everyone?
They said, where were you an hour ago?
Because when the time change happened,
I'm with that, miserable phone company,
and the phone didn't reflect the change, and
the change was not reflected in my alarm,
so I woke up 1 hour after.
So if such, it was 3:30, I woke
up at 4:30, thinking it's 3:30, I owe
the watermelon, mashallah, I was happy.
I went to the masjid, no one was
there, and the brothers, they told me at
the salatul dour that same day, they told
me SubhanAllah, we're thinking bad of you salatul
fajr. We're waiting for you like half an
hour, then we see it, mashallah, the imam
of Ramadan. He comes to the masjid first
week, then after that you don't see him.
So I told him I was thinking the
same thing about you. So that was a
mistake. Yes, I ate 1 hour after sun,
like fajr,
but this is an innocent mistake, and Allah,
Subhanahu wa ta'ala, will forgive it because I
didn't know. It was an innocent mistake. So
this, Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, will forgive. So
if you didn't know the ruling,
or if you made a mistake, Allah will
forgive you. And also, if you knew the
ruling,
but sometimes we are weak human beings. We
are not angels. We make mistakes, but we
come back to Allah
and we ask for his forgiveness, and he
will forgive us. And I mentioned a few
days ago, I said
that a mistake or a sin that will
bring you closer to Allah
and bring tears to your eye, and humble
you, is better in the sight of Allah
than a salah or a imada that will
make you arrogant, and look down upon the
people. Right?
But what is worse than the mistake?
As I said, we know the ruling, we
know this is haram, so we go ahead
and do it. This is bad by itself,
but there are some even worse things than
the mistake itself.
Like what? Like when you make the mistake,
and you're happy after the mistake. You made
something, no one saw you, you're a smart
guy. You're excited, I did it, masha'Allah. I'm
the champion. I robbed a bank,
and no one saw me. I put my
hand in that guy's pocket, I took his
cell phone, no one saw me. And you
are
excited. What is even worse than that,
we said that being happy about it in
yourself, this is worth is worse than the
mistake, but when you go to and talk
to the people about what what you did
last night,
bragging about the mistake is even worse in
the sight of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The fact that
if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala puts something in
your way, and you couldn't make the mistake,
like someone is going to the bank to
rob the bank, and their car broke down,
and they are mad, and they are cussing,
and they are not happy,
or the girl that the person is dating
didn't show up. He is mad. Why? Why?
What is this? What is this, man? What
is this?
So the fact that you're blaming Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, you're throwing blame right and left,
this is worse than the mistake itself.
And what is even worse than that,
is when we are doing something haram, like
in private,
no one is seeing us except Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, and we're happy, everything is good,
and as soon as a 2 or 3
year old kid walks into the room, we
start like, you know
Which means,
that technically, we have more respect and more
Haya for this 2 year old kid than
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And this is bad according to Allah, Abdullah
ibn Abbas What
is even worse than that is when we
try to justify the mistake.
So we are happy about it, we brag
about it, we're
we're proud of what we have done, we
talk to everyone about it, and if we
get the chance, we're gonna do it again,
is
when you
make when you make the mistake,
and you refuse to make Tauba and argue.
Everyone is a thief, everyone is doing haram,
like you justify.
When you acknowledge the mistake, you're halfway toward
Tauba.
2 mistakes are done in the Quran on
the same page. 1 was done by Adam
when he didn't obey Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
He told him don't eat from the tree,
and he ate. Big mistake.
Mistake, another mistake on the same page in
Surah,
Batra, like Ayat 33 and the Ayat after,
when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told him, Please
to make Sadra, and he said, No, I
don't feel like making Sadra today. 2 mistakes
here.
Why was Adam forgiven, and Shaitan was not
forgiven?
Because Shaitan argued and debated. He said, okay.
I'm better than him. Okay. Why should I
he argued and debated. This is why he
was not forgiven.
But Adam, he said,
You Allah,
we made a mistake, and if you don't
forgive us, we'll be losers.
So he didn't argue and debate. This is
why Allah forgave him. Shaitaan was not forgiven.
I got only one minute.
The story of Ibrahim ibn Adham. You probably
know the story.
Does you know, do you know the story
of Ibrahim ibn Adham, and the 5 questions
that the person is gonna ask along the
Day of Judgment? Raise your hand if you
know the answer.
No one? Okay. So now we make sure
that everyone is coming tomorrow for Taraweeh. So
I will say tomorrow InshaAllah.
You have to come tomorrow. So the question
from last night
was about something in just Umrah that breathed
and it didn't have a soul. Shaylati talafas
walaisaalahu wa'alaisaalahu wa'alaisaalahu wa'ala salaam alaalahu wa'ala salaam
alaalafas.
The morning when it breathes.
Or the first breath of the morning. So
So and the winner is, Sister Aya.
Sister Aya.
There's someone to take the prize for her?
Sister Aya? Yeah, you can pick it later
from the office Insha'Allah.
Tuna's question is quite difficult.
We know, everyone knows that Surah,
Ithlas, Surah 112,
equals 1 third of the Quran. Which means
if you read, technically if you read Surah
Qulaw Allah 3 times,
in a night or a day, you get
that award for reading the whole Quran.
Why Surah Ihlas
equals 1 third of the Quran? Why? If
If you know the answer, email me before
tomorrow, aas at imamustafatnatoyacenter.city.
Jazakul Maqed. And remember the word center is
c e n t r e, the Canadian
way, not the American way. Allah, we love
you.