Mustafa Khattab – s Farwell Dinner AlRashid January 19 2013
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Imams that this mosque
and this community
has ever had.
For many reasons, we just
listened
for a few reasons.
And
the good thing about this novel is if
you ask him about a Saipat and he's
not sure,
he always goes back for the research,
and then he gives you the right one
in his opinion,
bypass it.
He's very humble.
He's also
balanced.
He's not on this extreme
or this extreme.
And the Dawa tools, and I will tell
you one thing.
He's
very open minded.
He's not a narrow minded person. He's very
open to ideas.
He's very open to opinions
opinions,
and
he has a hierarchy of the land
and warah. He will translate to warah.
And the good thing about also the Dawa
is that he is
uses very well media, uses social media
to bend the Dawa out. Really, it's very,
very good.
He's on Facebook. He's everywhere.
So hamdullah, the download, he uses the social
media very well.
He does all this
with a smile.
He's
always Muslim. You never see him frowning,
that he does not visit a church,
a school,
and the tours that come from the schools
and the churches,
universities,
dialogues,
everywhere you see him there. And he never
has known that.
That's his passion.
And he also organized the dawah for the
new Muslims,
always in the works house,
always met with them on a weekly basis,
and he created a very good program
called.
He says, if you don't come to Rasheed,
al Rasheed will come to you.
So
that also was beneficial for the youth that
don't trade. Don't come to the mosque.
And
the mosque never wiped out. And he really
started this program, Salah, and Salah will continue
doing that.
And the the
end
is the pandemic.
Some people think that some people, raised very
big concerns
about spending
and area,
Saint Albert,
Fort Saskatchewan,
and area. And then Northern Alberta, we took
to,
the Lochabish,
Slave Lake, Fort Macquarie,
Fort Blake, East River, every
hole
in Edmonton and AlarmNet. I know that I
put a garbage down.
And that's
he made it. He put it together,
and people want criticize the message that, oh,
people are gonna throw it in the garbage.
People who are criticizing us, like, oh, people
are gonna throw it in the garbage. People
are it's been a waste of time. And
and like you said a lot yesterday, that
this is the biggest Tahoe program in Canada.
It's the best because what we're getting people
asking about Islam. People didn't know anything about
Islam. Some people.
I said,
tell him something. He doesn't like politics, not
public politics. He doesn't like politics. He doesn't
like politics. He doesn't like politics. He doesn't
like politics. He doesn't like politics. He doesn't
like politics. He doesn't like politics. He doesn't
like politics. He doesn't like politics. He doesn't
like politics. He doesn't like politics. He doesn't
like
and,
he promised me a day, a soccer game,
he will talk about it. A soccer team
that he will bring all allies
to,
to play soccer with his team and that
we're winning this. So whenever you have
Thank you, Aleza, so much.
Good evening. Assalamu alaykum to all of you.
I
have to tell you, I
today, throughout the day, actually, I spent quite
a bit of time thinking about what am
I going to say,
saying,
goodbye to a chef,
to Gustavo.
And, I have to tell you my emotions
were rather mixed. It's a it's a bittersweet.
Bitter,
because it is a great loss to all
of us, not only to the community of
Al Rashid Moss and not only to the
Muslim community in Edmonton and Alberta, but frankly,
to all of us all of us in
Alberta who had the pleasure, the honor, and
the privilege of of meeting
Sheikh at least once in our life,
because he, much like Khaled indicated, he really
opened
up al Rashid mosque and the Muslim community
to everybody.
And if it is appropriate
to ever refer to an imam as cool,
he definitely is the coolest imam that I
have ever met in my life.
And that shows with the number of young
people that have always been around Czech either
playing soccer or attending programs or every time
we were at some kind of a community
function, this table would always be full of
young people. And that says a lot. That
says a lot about Czechs.
So it's a bit
but there's a sweet part to it because
I know that he is going to continue
his studies and and will be competing completing
his his doctrine.
And I know that he will be going
to see his mom. And all of us
want to spend time, with our mothers. And
he's going back to his own country, and
that is something beautiful too. And everybody deserves
that sport hard enough to enjoy those those
pleasures.
But there's also one more thing. I'm glad
that we didn't play that soccer game because
now you do have a reason to come
back.
And, and I hope that you will have
a chance to play a soccer game. I've
seen you play. I know I don't have
a chance,
but I still would hope that one day,
it will allow us to get together somewhere
and play 1 soccer game. So thank you.
I wish you safe travels.
I hope that you enjoy the time that
you will spend in Egypt, and I want
you to know that this province this country
has always doors wide open for you, and
you'll always welcome back. Thank you.
Franklin,
now,
I would like to call on Nadir Nasman
to say
What is there to say? What's up?
Over over the last few years,
the Dawa project,
they were great.
We did a lot of,
on Dawa and
that could be continued in this city.
And,
I I I won't let a thought like
I was continuing,
and we have any man that,
comes in and continues with such a stuff.
So
thank you.
You and then first thing you know, it
was it was a February. It was a
whole day.
And the first thing he said was,
you got to be crazy to live this
far north.
So to stop by and look at the
weather today, I don't blame you for going
back home to Egypt.
So it's it's telling you when you
receive it as you go.
As
I guess, that's kinda the head of Rupert's
comfort
is the promise to continue growing,
our promise to continue learning,
rest
when I say it's been an honor
We tried our best to pick up high
for it,
and we couldn't.
And the second,
bad thing is.
Is. He's here? Yeah. He's here?
Say the last,
viewership.
Okay?
And the first time I gave a chukpa
that made people laugh in the chukpa,
I started to get these books from the
back,
all the Qitaniyan people that are sitting there
and you're not supposed to laugh in the
chukpa. It
I try to make everyone understand my focus.
I spoke only for 20 minutes of focus
because I don't like to bore people to
death.
Okay. So I spoke for 10 minutes in
Arabic and 10 minutes in English.
I spoke for 10 minutes in Arabic for
10 minutes in English. I know if I
go past the 20 minutes line,
I see the brother sitting in the back,
and they one of them with his hand
like this.
As you have watched,
he got to follow the movie. You know,
just one thing.
Some shooting is about to take place.
They're actually they were reaching out for their,
clinics. Just
I got their own sign. But I always
what it was, only minutes I just finished
and I left, and Alhamdulillah, that was that
was a good thing.
We had good times together.
Alhamdulillah, excellent times, winning some competitions
in soccer, doing home dawah, a path for
the project and different projects and reaching out
to different people
in the media, in politics. And everybody knows
I'm not a big fan of politics.
Thomas is a good friend,
But I like diplomacy.
Okay?
Okay.
This is something I learned from my mother
back in the village.
My parents, just like most people in the
village where
they grew up,
they couldn't do the right thing. They didn't
go to school.
But they started the school of life.
This is something I learned from my mother
and
from my parents in general,
and
it's a good time
to always remember my mother because she's a
great influence in my life.
She's the only reason why I made it
to school, and I made it to college.
Maybe maybe this is news to you. I'm
the only educated person in the history
of my family, and this is because of
my mother. She had fights with my mother,
my father to send me to school,
and she wanted Mitchell.
So everything I have, everything I have, I
owe it to my mother. She's 15,000
miles away, and I thank her. And I
also thank my family. I couldn't succeed in
this community without my family and without my
wife, doctor
divorce in the community,
And the motto at that time was divorce
1, give 1 free.
But when I came here, I said, okay.
If these people have to pay for for
a divorce, and actually now they pay for
the divorce more than they pay to get
married.
And
So one night,
I was sitting in the office about 2
months ago,
and this couple, they came for a divorce.
The man came first with his family,
and the lady was half an hour late.
Okay. No problem.
She's getting a divorce. No rush.
So there's this guy. He came with them.
So he was sitting in between. So there's
the lady and the family,
and there's this guy in the middle,
and the the husband and his family.
So when I looked at this guy,
I I didn't know who he was because
he's sitting in between.
The wife's family, they thought he is from
the husband's family, and the husband's family, they
thought he is from the wife's family. Okay.
So now we're talking about divorce, and they
are about to shoot each other,
and they use
weapons of mass destruction in the office.
Okay? And they pull themselves up all the
time. But, anyway,
so now we're talking about the course and
the money and the dollar and all that
stuff, and all of a sudden, this guy
who was sitting in between,
he came to me.
And he said,
I thought he's either from the families,
from the wife's family, from the husband's family,
and he came to me and he said,
shit. I said, how much
And I give to you to find the
truck for me.
Them. I'm not a Superman.
I always tell people
who remember about me up on this is
that I try to make people's lives easy,
and I try to bring people together.
So I never spoke about politics on my
footwalls.
I didn't talk about sunnah or shia.
I didn't
because I know that the brothers will shoot
me, and I never spoke about marrying more
than 1 wife because I know the sisters
will shoot me.
And so,
I always spoke about things that bring people
together.
Religion brings people together. Politics
put people apart
and all these different things. So I try
to make people's lives easy, and I try
to bring them together, and I try to
reach out to all communities, Muslim and non
Muslim,
and I hope that Allah
will forgive me for the shortcomings
and for any jokes that you didn't like.
And if I did anything good, it's from
Allah. If I did anything bad,
You
think it's good?
And, also, on behalf of the board and
also the peers, we would like to return
to the 5,000