Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Special Quran Gems 6
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Just before we begin, inshaAllah, a short reminder
of what I said in the second footpath
today, inshaAllah, that we need to, pay off
the loan in on this masjid, and the
reba we're paying on that masjid. So so
we need to get off that loan, inshaAllah.
For this reason, we are giving you this
opportunity for salah al jayyah. Shala, next Jummah
will have a fundraiser.
We'll offer 500 salah spots in the masjid,
and the salah spot will be $1,000. So
if we, sell or get sponsorships for 500
salah spots, then, inshallah, we'll pay off the
loan, and we'll fix the roof of the
masjid because it's leaking everywhere.
So talk to your family. Make up your
mind if you would like to sponsor or
buy one spot or more inshaAllah. JazakAllah.
Before I begin, does anyone have a light
look? Wallah?
I'll just borrow it. I'll give it back.
Don't worry. I don't smoke.
Yeah. Yeah. Give it to me.
Mashallah. I see a lot of hands.
Mashallah.
What is this? Yeah.
Jazaa
Allah.
Yeah. It's working. So,
today, InshaAllah,
I feel compelled to talk about Muhammad
Ali. Yesterday was his janazah, and it was
attended by president Erdogan from Turkey. Today was
his memorial, and it was attended by president
Bill Clinton. So many dignitaries
and important people, they came from all over
the world. Muslims,
Christian, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, everyone
came because they loved the guy. The heavyweight
champion for 3 times. They call him the
greatest. The guy who used to float like
a butterfly and sting like a bee.
One time, and he would people were asking
him, how can you call yourself the greatest?
And he said, it is hard to be
humble when you are as good as I
am.
So he had a big mouth. Yes. But
everyone loved him. His friends and his enemies.
Everyone loved Muhammad Ali. Right?
But things were not always good for him.
Muhammad Ali was born in 1942
in Kentucky,
and
during that time, there was what they call
the Jim Crow laws,
which means that these were the laws of
the states
that the blacks and the whites couldn't eat
in the same place.
The blacks were eating in the back,
and the blacks were always standing in the
bus in the back of the bus. They
couldn't sit in the front, and they couldn't
sit and eat in the, in the, in
the restaurant in the front. So Muhammad Ali,
when he won the,
the golden medal in the Olympics in Berlin,
he went back to to Kentucky, he went
to one of those restaurants because everyone knew
he won the golden medal in Berlin Olympics,
so he expected some respect because of his
gold, you know, medal. He is now the
world champion.
And the waiter came, a live guy, and
he told him we don't serve niggas here.
And so he said, I don't eat them
either. Right?
So they kicked him out. They said, you
are funny. Just just leave.
So he went to,
the bridge, and he threw his gold medal
in the river. He said, this medal cannot
give me respect and cannot even get a
meal in my own state, and he threw
it in the river.
And he started to win again for 2
and or 3 years, he was winning all
the time. He was beating everyone,
Sonu Liston, Joe Frazier, and so on and
so forth. He was beating everyone.
Right?
Then
the Vietnam War, they wanted to draft him
and send him to fight and kill the
Vietnamese people. And he said, this is against
my religion. I'm a Muslim. My name is
Muhammad Ali. I'm not allowed to go and
kill people for nothing. People who live 10000
or 15,000
miles away, peep poor people who lived in
huts,
They didn't have clean water. They were living
a difficult life. Why should I go and
kill them?
What whereas I'm treated in my own country
like a dog. I don't have respect in
my country. I don't have democracy.
Why would I go 10, 15000
miles and force democracy on people?
I heard they landed,
you know,
spaceship on Mars a few months ago. And
the good thing is I realized by reading
the news that
months ago. And the good thing is I
realized by reading the news that Mars didn't
have any oil. Otherwise, the Martians would have
needed some democracy.
Alhamdulillah.
So but they didn't have it. This is
good news for them. Whether you have gas
or oil, big problem for you. You need
some democracy. Okay. So he refused.
They stripped him of the title,
and
I I think they put him some time
in jail. Right? But eventually, he won the
case against the,
the US, and he restored he regained his
title.
And from that day on, he lost 3
years of his life when he was at
the peak
of his strength,
but he won the title twice after that,
and so on and so forth. And he
gained the respect of everyone, as I said,
his enemies and his friends.
You will see a lot of videos on
YouTube.
He was interviewed in the 19 sixties, the
19 seventies.
And every time he got a question, he
always injected Islam in the question.
They said, someone, you are very famous.
You are the most chronicled and the most
famous man in the world. Are you not
afraid that someone will come and shoot you
just like they did with Malcolm X? He
said, no one can shoot me because I
have one guard,
and my bodyguard is Allah. He will protect
me. So that was the answer.
When they asked him, what are you going
to do after you retire from boxing? He
said, I'm gonna, you know, spread love and
peace. I'm going to, make dawah to Islam
and teach people about my faith and stand
up for human rights. And this is why
there this is the reason why I chose
Muhammad Ali for tonight's talk, because I chose
this ayah from Surah Nisad, Surah 4
ayat 153.
Oh, you who believe, stand up for justice
as witnesses for Allah. So Muhammad Ali embodied
this concept of standing up for what is
right, like not killing the Vietnamese people. Even
if he had to lose his title, even
if he had to lose the gold medal,
he didn't care. They gave it back to
him, and they gave him an apology,
and he gained a respect for everyone.
So he was talking about Islam all the
time. I know that no one represented Islam
in the media like Muhammad Ali did.
Malcolm Hicks tried, but Muhammad Ali took it
to the next level.
Muhammad Ali made it cool to be a
Muslim in the US. Whereas back then, to
be black,
if you are driving in the road, you
will get one ticket, and if you are
a Muslim, you'll get another ticket.
But he
commanded the respect of everyone, those who are
old and those who are young. The American
presidents
were after him trying to get pictures with
him.
You know? Everyone respected the guy. Now inshallah,
I'm gonna talk about 2 small stories from
his life to show you how much he
respected
Islam and how he was always mindful of
Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala. Number 1, and this is
the reason why I took this, lighter,
Muhammad Ali didn't smoke,
but he kept one of those in his
pocket.
So he said, and this is something that
he made public, that every time my evil
soul whispered to me to do something wrong,
I got it out of my pocket, and
I do like this, and I put my
fingers. When it hurt me, I said to
myself, Muhammad Ali,
the fire of Jahannam is far worse than
this. So if you can't bear this in
Dunya, what about the fire of Azra? So
don't do it. So that was always a
reminder for him to stay away from evil.
The second one, for those of you who
have been to Los Angeles, I've been there
before,
there's what they call the, the whole the
walk of fame, where they have stars for
Tom Cruise,
for, Arnold Schwarzenegger, for all these famous actors.
You see their stars on, you know, the
sidewalk where people
actors, you see their stars on, you know,
the sidewalk
where people walk on their names, and they
take pictures and stuff. The only star which
is placed on the wall, there's only 1,
and this is Muhammad Ali's star. When they
offered him a star, he said, my name
is Muhammad.
I'm named after prophet Muhammad, and
I don't want people to walk on the
name of my prophet. And my last name
my last name is Ali, the most high,
which is the name of Allah, Al Ali.
Right? So I don't want people to step
on the name of Allah. This is why
they said, okay, we'll make an exception for
you because we love you so much, and
they put it on the wall. Right? So
now you know the reason why people respect
this guy? Because he stood up for what
he thought was right, and he had great
respect for Islam.
This is something we learn from. If your
name is Muhammad, don't be shy. Don't call
yourself Moe. If your name is Zakaria, don't
call yourself Zach
or Dave. No. My name is Mohammed. This
is the most famous name in the world.
There are more than a 150,000,000
people in this world who have the name
Mohammed. It's the most popular name in the
world. If you go to London,
the UK, the name Muhammad is the number
one name ahead of John and Matthew. So
you should be proud of who you are,
and you should be proud of your name,
and you should be proud of your faith.
So I think this is something that is
why are you, inshallah, to learn from the
example of Muhammad Ali, and we ask Allah,
subhanahu wa ta'ala, to forgive him and give
him Jannah Ameen al Din. So the question
for last night
do you still need this?
Goalkeeper.
So the question was, there's only one ayah
that was revealed inside the Kaaba, and the
answer is ayah 58.
And the winner is sister,
Rakhshinda,
and, her son Adeen. Aslam will get the
prize.
Adeen?
58. 58. Yeah. You are.
This was revealed inside the Kaaba. It has
a beautiful story. You have to read it
in the books of Tasir. It's a whole
lecture by itself.
So tonight's question is
tonight's question is very easy, Insha'Allah.
We know that
when someone reaches puberty, they are 13, 14,
Allah would make something halalu kharam for them.
There's only one baby in the Quran where
Allah
made something haram for him. That baby in
the Quran where Allah
made something haram for.
Haramna
something. We made something haram for this baby.
So if you know the answer, you may
have me before tomorrow, ask at imamastafachalatoyacenter.city.