Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Special Quran Gems 25
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The concept of Sahar is discussed, as people try to achieve happiness through actions like leaving their country or getting a divorce. Personal issues can lead to stress and sadness, which can lead to sadness and negative impact on personal and cultural fronts. The importance of finding one's own happiness and finding one's own happiness in life is emphasized, along with the need for people to find their own happiness and their own happiness in life. The speaker also touches on the negative impact of drugs and celebrities on people's happiness, and the difficulty of life for people with a difficult life. The Prophet's advice to not give money to anyone experiencing a difficult life is also discussed.
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So before we begin, inshaAllah, a reminder that
according to the majority of the Alimat,
there's no minimum time for Atikaf. So if
you make the niyyah now until you leave
the masjid, this will be your time for
Atikaf tonight, InshaAllah.
Today inshallah we'll talk about
a relatively different topic, which is the concept
of sa'adah. I know I gave a khutbah
before here in this masjid a long time
ago,
but today inshallah we'll cover a little bit
more aspects of this concept of Sahar.
A lot of people always have this question,
how can I achieve happiness in this dunya?
This is a question on everyone's mind. Muslims
and non Muslims. Everyone is asking the same
question,
everyone is trying to be happy in this
dunya,
through halal means, what haram means, everyone is
trying their own, their own way. Before we
talk about how people try to achieve happiness
in this life,
halal way or halam way, we'll talk about
what makes people unhappy in this world.
Well, if you follow the news, this is
enough reason to be depressed for the whole
year. If you were following the news yesterday,
what happened in Turkey,
41 people were killed,
more than a 150
were injured,
and so on and so forth. Palestine,
Syria,
Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Darfur, Pakistan,
all of them. All of them.
Countries are totally messed up. Dixie Road, yesterday
the explosion.
It's it's messed up. You just take one
look at the news in the morning, you
are stressed out for the whole month.
This is why I start looking at the
news like 2, 3 years ago. I don't
follow the news anymore unless someone brings something
to my attention.
Children,
school children in Pakistan being shot to death
at a school in Pakistan.
What is going on in the world?
Muslim women and children are being butchered by
other Muslims in some Muslim countries. What is
going on here?
People are totally messed up. You know, this
is why I don't follow the news. So
the general
atmosphere,
the the situation in the Muslim world, peep
people being killed
in the tens of 1,000 or 100 of
1000 for no reason. Like And the Prophet
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam spoke about this in
the hadith, and he says that the day
will come, people will be killing each other
in the 100 of 1,000 or 1,000,000.
Those who are being killed,
they don't know why they are being killed,
like the women and the children, the elderly,
the innocent people.
And those who are doing the killing,
they don't really know why they are killing
someone other than getting the order from someone
to kill other people.
So this is the situation now. So the
general atmosphere, the political environment in our Muslim
countries.
The second reason why people are stressed out
is because of personal issues. Especially when you
leave your country back home, you move here,
so you miss your parents,
you were a doctor back home, Mashallah, you're
living a good life, you moved here,
now you're a cab driver.
You need a lot of time and a
lot of resources and money to get your
equivalency,
to start a job, to get the, to
learn English, and you have to go to
Alberta to get your equivalency and license, or
Nova Scotia,
and your wife will be living in one
place, you'll be living in another, so families
are broken up because,
you know, you need to to to to
make a decent living in this country.
Or if something happens, and you cannot support
your family, and all of a sudden your
wife is asking for divorce,
or your kids are running away.
Right?
So if your wife goes to the court,
because some of them they don't want to
come to the masjid
to talk to the imam, because they know
if they talk to the imam and divorce
happens, she is gonna get the mamhar and
bye bye. But some of them, they don't
like that. They want to go to the
court,
they're happy with the law of the queen,
but they're not happy with the law of
the king of kings, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
because they think that the law here will
give them more.
Right? So what happens when they complain,
they will give her half of your money,
your bank account, they will give her half
the car, half the house,
half your email address, half of your Facebook,
everything.
Like, every single thing. Every single thing. So
people are stressed out because of personal issues.
You have problems at work, your boss is
crazy, you go to school, your teacher,
the homework,
the report,
the paper, all that stuff. Right?
The the materialistic
society we're living in, you have to work
2, 3 jobs to be able to pay
the bills and support your family, take care
of your kids, give them good Islamic education.
You have to pay. They go to the
public system. They don't have to pay, but
it's totally different system and culture, and, you
know,
whatever. So
people have personal issues.
Another reason why a lot of people are
not happy in this world,
mostly because they are not happy with the
father of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Sometimes in a bad way, sometimes in a
positive way. They always want change in their
lives.
They want to change all the time. This
is why they take advantage of this in
the media. They get you to buy a
new phone every year, a new car every
2, 3 years. They make you feel like
if you don't buy iPhone 6, you're gonna
be left out, you know, in the Middle
Ages. If you don't buy this car, you
know, people are gonna look down upon you,
you'll feel like an idiot if you don't
buy something. Where in fact, they're all the
same. What is the difference? Tell me. What
is the difference between,
Microsoft Office,
2,007 and 2,010
and 2,013?
Nothing.
What is the difference between Windows XP,
Windows 7 and Windows 10? Nothing. Not much
of a difference. But you gotta pay $250
to buy something new, to stay in the
loop. And the more money you make, the
more the happier you are. This is how
they make you think.
They make you think that the happiest people
in the world are Miley Cyrus
and,
what is his name? Justin Bieber.
Where in fact they are taking drugs, they're
trying to forget about the world, they're stressed
out, and most of these celebrities that people
will look up to,
they commit suicide.
Robert Williams, if you know this story, he
was a happy guy, comedian, he had millionaires.
You know, people thought he was happy and
he killed himself, or at least this is
what they say in the news. Right?
So if you ask someone who is young,
like 3 4 years old, what will make
you happy in life? They will say, man,
I would like to become old, You know,
I want to be in my thirties and
forties, so I can buy all the toys.
I'm gonna go to Toys R Us, and
take a truck with me, fill it with
with toys.
Then I'm gonna go to a barn,
and fill another truck with chocolate and all
the good stuff. Ice cream, they don't have
ice cream, but other things. Right?
And when you ask someone who is old,
like in their seventies or eighties, okay?
You know, what will make you happy? They
say, I wanna go back to childhood. Like
3, 4 years old, I can run around,
play basketball, I don't have to have doctor's
appointment all the time. Right?
If you talk to someone who is single,
they're having they're having a difficult life.
And if you talk to someone who is
married, they want to shoot themselves in the
head.
Why did I ever make this mistake?
If you talk to someone who has been
married for like 5, 7 years, and they
don't have kids, they live a difficult life,
and if you talk to someone who has
5, 7 kids, they wanna jump out of
the window. They wanna throw themselves in the
ocean, so their sharks will eat them.
If you talk to a poor person, what
would make you happy? Oh, man,
I hope that Allah will give me a
lot of money, 1,000,000 of dollars. I'm gonna
buy a nice car, buy a house, I'll
live a decent life.
You talk to someone who is rich, they
will tell you, man, I wish I can
lose all my money, but get a a
good night of sleep at night because every
night I'm thinking the thieves, the hearses, and
the and the toque are gonna come and
steal my money. I can't sleep.
Like and the stock market collapsed. What is
going on? Like, this guy in Germany in
2008,
he had $11,500,000,000.
Billion with a b, not an m. $1,000,000,000.
11,500,000,000.
And because of the economic system, he lost
only $2,000,000,000
So he was left with $9,500,000,000
He got stressed out, and he threw himself
in front of a train.
Alhamdulillah, that train was okay.
But the car was like,
barbecue,
like, destroyed, like, ground beef.
$9,500,000,000
What am I gonna do with $9,500,000,000
This is what he was saying. Like, people
are crazy.
If you talk to someone who is having
a difficult life, he's not happy with his
life, if you ask them, what would make
you happy? They'll say, you know what?
I just wanna die. I wanna die. Right?
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam also
spoke about this in the Hadith before the
Day of Judgment. People will be so stressed
out that they will pass by the grave,
and they will look at the person in
the grave and say, I wish I were
in your place, and you weren't in my
place.
And according to the Quran,
when a person dies, the first thing they
will say when they go to the grave,
Lagbirjirawoonilaaali,
Ahmadusaliyahamafi
matarakt. And as soon they die, okay, you
want to die? Die.
As soon as they die, what will they
say?
You Allah, I don't want to die, I
want to go back to Dunya. So no
one is actually happy with what they have.
So at the end of the day,
you should be happy with the Qadr of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and you should do
what is good. Because according to Surah Naha,
I'll conclude with this insha Allah.
Whoever does good, whether this person is a
man or a woman,
and they are believers, then I, or we,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, will make them live
a happy and a decent life.
So there are clues in the Quran and
the Sunnah to,
to achieve happiness in this dunya. Most people
think that happiness can be achieved through money.
We'll talk about this tomorrow inshaAllah. We ask
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give us the
best in this life, and the best in
the love to come, and give us Sa'ad
and happiness in this dunya and
Afra. Ameen alaabaalameen.
So,
the question for last night, there are 15
sajdas in the Quran. Most of the scholars
agree on 14,
they disagree on the 2nd sajdah in Surah
Hajj. According to Imam Shaffir, it's a sajdah.
And, what do you say in sajdah? Basically,
sajdah wajeeel lavi khalaqahu wa shakasamahu wa wazalabaahu
wa wazalabaahu wa wati fatabaakallahuasamu
khalaqin.
My face
makes sajdah to the one who created it,
and created for it the ability to see
and hear with his might and power, so
blessed is Allah, the, the best of all
creators. If you don't remember this long hadith
or a long dua, then you just say
Subhan'arabi'al
'alaam Khalas. It will be enough inshaAllah. And
the winner is brother Amir Bi Taar.
Brother Amir Bi Taar. Mashallah. Taqbir. Congratulations.
So the question for tonight is super difficult,
and as usual don't Google it, because there
you will get the wrong answer.
We know Surah Al Rahman is a beautiful
Surah, and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaks about
his favors in 31 places, and he uses
kabi'aayi Allaha and Rabukumat together. Which of your
Lord's favors will you deny? So after every
single favor, Allah will say, which of your
Lord's favors will you deny?
But there is one ayeh that talks about
Jahannam.
Yawafunmujlimunabisi imamu fa'ukhaddubin nawasiwalakhtaaahfabi ayeh Allahi Rabbukuma
It talks about punishment and torture in Jahannam
and Kufa, then it says, which of your
Lord's favors will you deny?
How come that the talk about Jahannam is
a favor in the Quran?