Mustafa Khattab – Reflections at the End of Ramadan
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So the reason they call it night of
Qadrul, the night
of might and the night of significance and
importance, number 1, because of its great value
and its great significance
for Allah
Number 2, the scholars say, it is because
any deed that you do in this month,
it is beautiful in the eyes of Allah
and he gives huge, he gives rewards for
any good deeds you do in this night.
Number 3, they say that Allah
lights the Qadr tonight, and He gives the
Arza tonight.
So these are some of the reasons why
they call it night of Qadr.
One of them is narrated by the prophet
of the law, an ufid Bukhari.
Whoever
stands
in salah, just like what we did, then
Allah
will forgive all your past sins.
In another
hadith,
In another narration of the hadith, the prophet
says, whoever
stands at night in prayer in Laylatul Khatr,
then this person will come out of their
sins just like the day they were born.
Most of the scholars say Laylatul Khatr is
tonight, the night of 27th.
Some others say, no, it moves,
you know, in other nights, the odd nights
of the month 21st,
3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th,
but most of the scholars say it is
tonight, and the prophet says in the authentic
hadith in Muslim al Bimam Ahmed, it is
tonight, the night of 20
if it is Naylatul Qadr, what should I
say in my dua?
So the prophet
say, oh, Allah, you are the most gracious.
You are the most forgiving. You love to
forgive, so forgive me and have mercy on
me. If you can't say it in Arabic,
you say it in English.
So
the month is about to be over. In
just a few days, the month of Ramadan
would just go away,
just like the previous Ramadan. How many Ram
Ramdads have you witnessed in your life? So
many.
The people are 2 groups. Number 1, those
who are happy
that they have fasted,
that they have gotten their sins forgiven, Allah
subhanahu wa'ala raised them in rank, they're getting
closer to Jannah. So they are happy for
this. Then the second group,
now they're happy because Ramadan is over. There's
no more fasting.
Nobody's gonna bother them about waking up and
praying at night, starving to death in the
day, standing salah at night. Okay? So it
is like a cage that is being opened
for them. Now they feel happy, they are
dancing in the street.
So we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that
we will be among the first group, those
who will make God and Allah will give
them life
so they can witness the next Ramadan and
the Ramadan after so they will get the
reward.
So as we are concluding the month, you
have to ask yourself these questions. Number 1,
has Allah
accepted your fasting in this month and your
prayers? Or your fasting and your prayers have
been rejected
because you didn't fast properly, and you didn't
pray properly, or for the bad reasons?
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, some
people say, fast, and the only thing they
get from their fasting is hunger and thirst,
Nothing else. Zero reward. And some people pray
at night,
and the only thing they get is losing
sleep, not getting enough sleep. Why? Because they
didn't fast properly
or they fasted, but they lost their reward
for their good deeds, either by cheating or
lying or backbiting,
hitting this, punching this. They lose their worth.
The second question is,
if alhamdulillah Allah guided you to make hasanat
in this month and get close to him,
will you be willing
in the 11 coming months to live with
all their words you collected in the month
of Ramadan? And do you think this is
wise
to gain Hassanat in Ramadan the hard way,
fasting for 19 hours, standing at night in
1 taraweeer to tahajjud and all that stuff,
then losing the Hassanat the easy way in
the 11th month to come?
I think this is not wise.
Number 3. What if this is the last
Ramadan you will live?
And you will meet Allah
and the last thing you took from this
dunya is this fasting.
Do you think it's a quality fasting, and
it will take you jannah, or it is
not good enough?
The prophet
says in the hadith, whoever fasts a day,
isaveel I dal,
then his life was sealed by this fasting,
and it is good fasting, then this person
would go straight to jannah, first class.
How do you rate your fasting?
High quality,
medium quality, and the basic? You are the
judge. I don't know. You have to ask
yourself.
Number 4, and this is the last question.
Are you ready leave to leave this duniya
and go to the next life? Do you
do you think you have enough Hasanat inshallah?
When you go to the next life, you
will be among the Muslim and Jannah and
all that stuff? Or
you don't have enough Hasanat. You are just
like me and many other people. You have
Hasanat and you have Sayyat and you don't
know if Allah would you know? You don't
know which one would be heavier. So you
have to ask yourself all these questions
before you
you you go to Salat Aray, and you're
happy you are dancing in the street. You
are you have to ask yourself these questions.
So last night, this brother is a cardiologist
from the US. He's a friend of mine.
He posted the story on Facebook.
He said he went to the hospital that
day. They called him, so he went. And
he had a patient. He had a heart
problem. He's in his late seventies or early
eighties. So,
that patient
bit he held the hand of the doctor,
doctor Baha, and said, please, I beg you.
Don't let me die. I don't want to
die.
And he was saving you the whole day.
Later in the day, in a few hours,
that man died.
So doctor Bahad posted the story on Facebook,
and I,
posted that hadith from Bukhari, the prophet
says
that those who want to see and and
meet Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala is keen to see them. But those
who don't want to see Allah, he doesn't
want to see them. So Aisha Wa Ta'ala
said, oh, Prabhu Allah, are you talking about
the hatred for death? Because quite frankly, we
all hate death. No one wants to die.
So the prophet said, I'm not talking about
this.
I'm talking about when the angels come to
take your soul,
and they give you the glad news of
Jannah, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is eager
to see you, then you can't wait. You
say, take my soul. Take me. I wanna
see Allah.
But if the person is Catholic or this
obedient servant of Allah, they don't want to
die. And when the angels come to them
with their glow gloomy faces,
So they expect something terrible to happen to
them, so they don't want to die. I
don't want to leave this dunya. They want
to stay here forever.
So number 1,
to protect yourself from this, number 1, you
have to judge yourself in this dunya.
If you do something good, like, you give
Zakah, for example, question you are sincere, ask
yourself, am I doing this
for the sake of Allah, for just people
to say, oh, he's a generous guy, masha'Allah.
Do you go to the Masjid to get
close to Allah subhanahu wa'ala, to get the
reward for Ibadah, or for people to say,
oh, masha'Allah, I go to the Masjid everyday.
I should marry him my daughter.
Okay. Check your intention, purify your intention for
the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala. If you
do something wrong, ask yourself,
am I supposed to do this? Will this
benefit me in the next life? What if
I die now, and Allah I mean, the
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with this sin in
my hand? What will Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
do to me?
So So you have to question yourself and
you have to purify your intention and judge
yourself in this dunya before Allah
judges you in the next life.
Number 2,
you have to make tawba to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. It doesn't take 1 to repent.
All you need to say, oh, Allah forgive
me. You say it with your tongue. You
read it in your heart. Then
you are forgiven. That's all it takes. But
you have to be sincere.
We said you have to make tawba to
Allah
It doesn't take
a long time. A few seconds, all you
need to say, well, don't forgive me. We'll
forgive you as long as you are sincere.
But most people are not willing to make
tawba for four major reasons. Number 1, you
think you are too young to make talat.
Even if you are 95 years old
with 1 foot in the grave, you think
you are too young to die.
This is the mentality. Okay? This is the
human nature.
So we are always too young to make
tawt.
So we always think, okay, I'm now 60
years old. Maybe, inshallah, in another 50 years,
when I retire, I'll go to Mecca, kiss
the Kaaba, and make Hajj, inshallah, and come
back and wear the kufi, the abaya, the
sikhan, mashaAllah, and I make double. 5 minutes
later, I will,
get the, you know, remote control, and I
will die.
I wish it works like this, but it
doesn't work like this. There is no
definite time that we know of for time.
Only Allah
knows. Every now and then, there is someone
who is in his seventies, someone who's 25,
someone who's 17,
a child, or a lady who has a
miscarriage. Go to the Islamic,
graveyard. If there is a janazah, go there
and look at the headstones
and see how all people when they died.
More than half of them were youth.
Just go ahead and check it to yourself.
I'm not making this up.
The second reason why people are not making
tawba is they think their sins are too
small.
Even if they lie, they cheat, they steal,
for them, this is nothing like that. I
didn't know do nothing. I'm innocent.
Look at the prophet
He was involved. He didn't commit no sins
and everything. His past, his future, everything is
forgiven, but still he told us in the
hadith, all people make tawa to Allah and
ask him to forgive you. I myself,
I ask Allah to forgive me every day
a 100 times, sometimes more.
Some are more deserving of this than the
prophet Sahasad.
Number 3.
You always compare yourself to other people.
So some people,
they almost compare themselves to evil people,
so become the best of the worst.
Okay? And they say the one eye is
the king in the kingdom of the blind.
So if you pray 2 prayers in the
morning or if you go to Jamak to
the masjid only in,
in Eid,
and people ask you why did you pray
the 5 salawat, they tell you, okay. I
prayed.
This guy, so and so, he doesn't pray
at all. I'm better than
him. Allah it doesn't work like this with
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Okay? Allah will ask
you about yourself. He's not gonna ask about
other people whether they pray or not. It
doesn't work like this.
Some people don't repent
because they exceeded the limits and committed major
sins. Committed adultery, they drank.
They did terrible things, terrible sins. So they
always think
that their sins are bigger than the mercy
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala passed.
And this is not acceptable. This is nicks
too short. To think that your sins are
bigger than the mercy of Allah, this is
a terrible sin in this life.
Anything you do, no matter what it is,
it is smaller than the mercy of Allah
subhanahu. Allah's mercy encompasses everything. And these are
not my words. Allah says in the Quran,
oh, my servant, so I've exceeded the limits
in committing sins, don't lose hope in the
mercy of Allah, He forgets all sins. He's
the Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Any sin
that the person dies while doing is forgiven
as long as the person makes tawba except
for shirk. If someone dies as a kafir,
Allah will never forgive us. This is the
only unforgivable sin in the Quran.
Also, if you look in the Quran in
Surat Tawba where Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala talks about
those who killed the prophets.
And he talks about those who worship
and
they believe in the trinity.
At the end of the page, Allah
says, if they come back to me after
killing prophets and worshiping other gods, and they
ask me for my forgiveness,
I simply forget them. Is your sin bigger
than these people? Of course not.
I started to eat from its fruits and
drink from its rivers and look at the
sahaba and the prophets as I sit with
him and I draw my life.
Then I
visualize I imagine that I went to the
hellfire. I started to eat from palah, drink
from palah, eat from zakun,
and I'm chained and tortured, and I'm choking
in the hellfire. Then I asked myself,
where do you want to go? Jannah or
the hellfire?
So I said to myself, of course, I
want to go to Jannah. So I said
to myself, then you have to do the
work of the people of Jannah before you
die. And the first thing you say, as
Allah said in the Quran, oh, Allah, send
me back so I will do good deeds
and go to Jannah. Now is the time
to work. Once you leave this dunya,
there's no coming back. It's over for you.
We conclude with this story from Ibrahim ibn
Azham, and he was a scholar. He was
passing in the streets
of Basra in Iraq, so the people came
to him and said,
our hearts are hardened,
and we're more attached to the duliya, and
we forget all about aqa. Why? And Allah
is not accepting our dua.
So he said,
your hearts
die because of changes.
So he told them your hearts dies because
of 10 things. Number 1,
you claim
that you love Allah
and you disobey him day and night. What
is this?
You eat from Allah's list every day night,
and you don't say thank you.
What is this?
Number 3, you claim you love the prophet
and you don't follow his sunnah.
Number 4, you claim that you hate the
shaytan to death,
and you hang with him every day. You
follow every step of the shaytan.
Number
5, you claim
that you hit the hellfire
and you don't work, you don't do enough
good deeds to get away from it. You
claim to love Jannah and you don't do
enough good deeds to take you there.
You know for sure that one day you
are going to die and you are not
preparing anything
for death.
Number
9, every day you take people to the
graveyard and bury them, and you forget that
one day it will be your turn.
And number 10, you always talk about people
and their shortcomings
and mistakes and defects, and you forget all
about yourself.
And the some of the sahabhas said, if
Allah, if I focus on my mistakes and
my defects, I will have no time to
talk about other people.
So in conclusion, if you have done enough
in Ramadan,
then thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, day and
night, for making it easy for you to
get close to him.
And thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for accepting
you and inshallah for giving you Jannah. But
if you have not done enough, if you
have not done enough,
this is the time to cry over your
sins. And this is the time to try
to get close to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and ask for his forgiveness.
So we conclude with this book, Sajjadim. The
prophet
says that Allah says, oh, my servants, when
you get your book of deeds on the
day of judgment
and you find good deeds all over, then
thank the Lord for making it easy for
you to do good deeds. But if you
find otherwise,
if you find terrible things in your book,
evil deeds and sins and
every terrible thing is in there in the
book. The only one to blame is yourself.
Don't blame the shame. Don't blame the jayah.
Don't blame anyone.
Blame yourself. That's Allah
and yashaa'ala
InshaAllah,
now we have a quiz for the, brothers.
And the sisters, they have their own quiz,
and they're getting, their own prizes.
Well, we have, 5 questions. I'm gonna turn
the mic off so we don't disturb them
up there.
If you know the answer,
just raise