Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Special Quran Gems 25

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?