Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Special Quran Gems 5

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I remember when I was in South Carolina,

2008,

2,009, 2010,

there were, like, 2 extreme examples in that

masjid. The first one was a brother.

The 2nd day of Ramadan,

every year he would come today, he would

come to me and say, okay, when is

8?

I told him we just started yesterday. What

are you talking about? And

every year, like, on 29th

Ramadan, he used to watch for the moon

and everything. So he would come to me

and say, brother, please, Abu's Eid, make Eid

tomorrow.

And I said, well, they are looking for

the moon, and I don't have the remote

in my hand, you know? It's not in

my hands. We you know? Come on. Relax.

So that night, when we announced that tomorrow

is actually Eid, he was happy, he was

dancing in the street, and he was giving

out candy to the kids. Right? So this

is one extreme.

The other one was an older sister. She

was in her eighties, diabetic,

heart problems.

She wanted to fast every day in Ramadan.

I told her you don't have to. Her

her son

was a doctor, and he told her don't

fast. Right? She was going to the doctor

all the time. She was taking medication, but

she insisted on fasting. Because she believed

that if she didn't fast Ramadan, Allah would

never forgive

her. And she would come again every night

and cry that she wanted to stand up

in salah. She had back problems, and I

told her you don't have to stand up.

You can sit down. No. She wanted to

stand up, although it was painful for her.

And I told her

Allah says in the Quran, which

most people translate wrongly. They say that Allah

does not burden anyone with more they can

bear. It doesn't say burden in the ayah.

It says Allah does not require of you

more than what you can afford.

Right? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes it easy

for you. You don't have to kill yourself

to give the reward. Just do your best,

and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will give you

the reward for doing your best, even if

your best is not good enough.

And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Khaneem, every time

he talks about the ruling in the Quran

I love this word in the Quran, illa,

except, except.

So if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling

you to make Udu in a certain way,

then he said, but those who are except

those who are not able to make Udu,

they can make Tayamu.

Stand up in salah, if you can't, sit

down.

Fast Ramadan, but except those who can't fast,

they are traveling, or they are sick, or

they are very old,

they don't have to fast, they can feed

a poor person, and so on and so

forth. It depends on their ruling.

So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes it easy

for us. Then someone will ask the question,

okay,

before the question.

We read in the Quran, Surah BaTirah,

especially because we're focusing on this Surah, it

talks about all the Ibadat.

It talks about Salah. It talks about Ramadan

and fasting. It talks about Zakah. It talks

about Hajj, and so on and so forth.

And it says that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

that you read Ullaahu Bikum wa il Surah

while I read Ubiqum Ras. Ayah 185 in

Surah Ba'at Allah, it says Allah intends every

ease for you,

and he doesn't want to make things difficult

for you.

So even if you want to make Tawba,

you say Allah forgive me, Allah will forgive

you. In the same Surah,

in the story of Bani Israel, when they

made a major sin,

the, way to repent was to kill themselves.

Kill yourselves,

and this way Allah will forgive you. We

know

that in Bani Israel, if there was an

impurity, like you are carrying your baby, and

the baby happened to urinate on your clothes,

the only way to fix that is to

cut it off and patch it. We know

in Islam, you just clean it, al khalas.

You're clean. If you make a mistake, you

say Allah forgive me, Allah forgive you. Now

someone will ask, okay,

you're kidding

me. 1 month of fasting, 30 days? Sometimes

it comes in the summertime, sometimes in the

wintertime, sometimes in the fall, sometimes in the

spring. Too much for me.

Five prayers every day. You look at the

Christians, they go to the church one day

in a week. So technically, we pray in

one day more than what they pray in

a month.

What where is the ease?

2.5%

I work all year long, and I have

to share my mind with someone who is

sleeping on their bed, and they don't want

to work. Where is the easiness?

Well, you have to look at the hikmah

of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Yes. Ramadan comes

when,

you know, sometimes in the summer, sometimes in

the spring, sometimes in the winter. You know,

there is a ruling in fiqh. When you

pray in the masjid sunnah or even farr

namas, it is better to pray in different

places.

Don't stick to one place. Why? Because they

say this place will make shafa'ah for you

on the day of judgment, and this place,

and that place, and that place. And also

when you fast Ramadan in the spring, in

the summer, in the fall, in the winter,

maybe these different seasons will make shafa'ah for

you. The summer will say, you Allah.

Yes. He fasted in the summer. The spring

will say, You Allah. He fasted in the

spring and in the winter. They will make

Shafa'ah for you. So it's a good thing.

Plus,

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would have told you

to fast the whole year. He didn't say

that. He said, fast Ramadan,

6 days of Shawwal, I will give you

the reward for the whole year.

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is generous, and Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala could have told you to

pray 50 times a day, you know, from

the hadith, when the prophet

made the journey.

But no. You pray 5 times a day,

namaz, you get the reward of 50. Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala is kareem. Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala gives you the money. He gives you

lots of money,

and

he will send a poor person to give

you the reward, and Allah tells you to

give him 2.5%,

then Allah will give you 700%

in reward.

Where in the world you put $1 in

the bank, and they give you 700%.

It never happens. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

makes it super easy for you. He's asking

you to do a little bit, like he

could have asked you to pay 70 or

80% in zakat. He could have asked you

to fast every day in the in in

the year. He could have asked to make

you Hajj every year. But no. Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala la yukalifmunafsan

ila usa. He does not require of you

more than what you can afford. The last

thing I want to say

about the generosity of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

in Jannah.

Someone was asking, do I have to pray

in Jannah? There's no salah in Jannah. There's

no fasting or Hajj or Zakat. Nothing in

Jannah. The only Ibadah that we do in

Jannah is mentioned in Surah Yoon Suratin.

The only rebadah we'll do in Jannah is

to say SubhanakAllahuma.

And we say Alhamdulillahi

rabbilalami. That's all.

Then on the Day of Judgment, this beautiful

hadith and Sahib Muslim Allah

will bring those people who used to fast

30 days in Ramadan,

pray 5 times a day, wake up like

3 in the morning for fast, cold time.

They go to the masjid.

Those who went for Hajj, those who gave

Zakah, and Allah

will take them one time in Jannah.

One second, and He will take them out.

It's an authentic hadith Rasayi Muslim, and Allah

would ask them,

Yaniharulaaaitun

shaka'a al qatufid dunya? Did you suffer at

all in dunya?

What about the long days of fasting? What

about the 5 times a day? What about

the Hajj, 10,000 miles to do the Hajj?

They will say, You Allah,

You Allah, we don't remember any of that.

All the pain is gone. All the suffering

is gone. Just one dip in Jannah. One

second in Jannah, you will forget all the

pain and all the suffering, and nayeem, pleasure

in Jannah, for eternity. We ask the most,

subhanahu wa'ala, to give us the reward for

our fasting, to give us the Shafa'at of

the Prophet SAW. SAW. SAW. And Naim al

Mutim. So the question for last night,

there was a baby in the Quran who

spoke when he was only a few days

old, and the winner is brother Kareem. Is

he here tonight? Karim, BashaAllah. Over here.

BashaAllah.

Takbeer. Takbeer.

He was the first one to give the

answer, right away. No Googling, nothing. Shasha Allah.

Assalamu Alaikum Lawhi.

JazakAllah

Khulafi. So the question for tonight is, easy.

We mentioned that all the ayaats in the

Quran were revealed in Mecca or in Madinah.

There were 2 of them revealed in, the

heavens, Reghlat al Mi'raj, where the Prophet sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam received the order to pray.

The ayat that say, a manar Rasoolu bi

ma'amuzilalayhi marabbi till the end of Surah Baqarah.

There's only 1 ayah in the Quran out

of the 3, 6,326

aya of the Quran. Only one Ayat was

revealed inside the Kaaba. If you know that

Ayat, email me before, tomorrow at [email protected].