Mustafa Khattab – Salman AlFarisi part 2
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I bear witness
that there is none worthy of our worship
except Allah
And I bear witness that Muhammad
So the Sahaba were proud to have someone
like Salman in fantasy among them. So the
mohajal, the immigrants,
one time that said
Salman is one of us because he was
Persian. He was not from Arabia.
So the immigrants said, Salman is one of
us. The al Sad, the helpers from Medina,
they said, no. Salman is one of us.
Every one of them is proud to have
him as one of their own.
And we said that he left his religion.
He was a fire worshipper.
Then he accepted. He moved between several,
Christian denominations of his time. He moved from
Persia, Iran today,
to, Syria, Damascus, then he moved to Iraq
and other places in search of the truth.
Then that surge took him to Arabia and
eventually to Medina, and he literally traveled thousands
of miles,
100 of 1000 of miles in search of
the truth.
And they call him,
the
seeker of the truth. This is what they
call Salman in fantasy, and he was Persian.
He was not
So we spoke about how some men suffered
in search of the truth. And we say
that we Muslims, we know we have the
truth in our hands.
But some of us are very lazy. They
don't even take the time to learn about
the deen.
Some of us, they live close to the.
There are thousands
of Muslims who live around Rashid and on
the
but only less than 1% of them come
to the salah, and these are,
statistics that are given by some scholars that
less than 1% of Muslims go to the
masajid everyday.
About 20 to 25% of them, they go
to Jum'ah,
which means that about 70% of Muslims, they
don't even come to Jum'ah.
35
or 40 of them, they come for salah
alayd,
the
Okay? I'm not sure about the weed, but
I know they smoke cigarettes. Okay? Some of
them come when they themselves die. They bring
the masjid for Jannah.
But otherwise, they don't come to the masjid.
The Islamic knowledge is available everywhere. You have
books everywhere,
on the Internet.
There are encyclopedias,
thousands of book under your fingertips at home.
But some people are lazy. They don't even
So for example for example, I'm what I'm
talking about is learning the basics of the
religion. I'm not asking you to get a
PhD in Islamic studies or to be the
second Abu Hanifa or a shaykh. Okay? No.
Just to know the basics, man. The basics.
One brother, he has a degree in
psychology or rocket science, something.
He came to me one time
asking a question about.
He thought that the only time
a person should have or take a full
bath, a shower,
full bath is after * with someone's wife
is there is
*
instead. But Muhammad Al Iqal, * is not
a reason for taking a bath, a shower.
He didn't know, and this is one of
the very basics
in in, you know, in fit.
Someone has a relationship with his wife, it's
of course, they have both of them. They
have to take a a bath, a shower
before they can pray.
He thought that the only time he and
his wife can take a bath a bath
if
there's *
inside
the man. And this is a, you know,
a terrible thing in in the film. He
didn't know.
So one time, I was with 1 brother.
We're making tawaf around the the Kaaba in
the in Ramadan.
And there was a big Kaaba
in that area where they have the black
stone because it's it's part of the Umrah
and Hajj to kiss it if you are
able to. Otherwise,
the only way to go and kiss or
touch the black stone is by pushing people.
You don't have to do it because the
human life
is more important than touching and kissing the
black stone.
So we decided to go to that corner
to kiss the black stone, and all of
a sudden, I I didn't see my friend
with me. I looked for him. He was
not there.
Golden door of the cabin. There's a, you
know, a green step below the cabin, and
he was hugging that step and he was
kissing it.
I said, man, what are you doing, man?
What what what the heck are you doing
down here? You are supposed to be on
the other side, not here. He said, I'm
kissing the black stone. I said, first of
all, this is not a stone, it's a
step.
And number 2, it is not black, it's
green.
Okay?
And Okay?
So after this, we used to make fun
of this incident, and I used to ask
him, you know, what is the color of
the black stone? And he always says it's
green.
He never thought why people were jumping over
each other on the other side.
And on the other side where they have
the green step, there was nobody there. Nobody.
He never thought why nobody was there.
So this,
idiot,
one guy who was not practicing, he started
to practice.
Then,
after every salah, he used to make this
qa Allah forgive my sins, those of which
you know and those of which you don't
know.
He saw about the things that he did
a secret and
brother told me that a lady, an old
lady was making tawaf for his son, with
her son, and his son her son asking
her, why do we make circling tawaf of
the Ka'at? She said, because the Prophet is
buried here
in the Kaaba. This is what she thought.
Okay? She doesn't have the basics of the
religion. And the wallahi doesn't take much time
to learn the basics of Islam. Islam is
very simple. It's very easy. All it takes
is 3 minutes a day to learn a
little bit of, you know, Islam.
The second thing we learned from the story
of Salman al Farris is the way
he was freed.
He made a deal with his master that
he will plant 300
palm trees,
did they call it sapling?
What
is
the word?
So he told prophet
I needed 300 saplings or small,
palm trees
to be freed and 40 ounces of gold.
That was the deal with Salman's slave master.
It was not Muslim.
So Salman didn't have nothing of that thing.
He didn't have the kind of gold. He
didn't have the kind of, you know, trees.
So the prophet told me, is how to
help your brother.
So the prophet told me is Sahaba help
your brother. So the prophet started to fundraise
to free some man and Farsi. So some
Sahaba, they they brought
5 saplings,
small trees of palm trees.
Some were brought 10, some brought 15, and
within a
few hours, the 300 were collected.
The prophet told him, go and dig and
invite me to come and place them in
the holes with my own hands.
Sure enough,
he dug the holes. The prophet came and
planted them, and Salman said, by a bomb,
none of them died. All of them, they
grew, and they become palm trees.
Then the prophet
was brought
was given a small piece of gold.
So he gave it to Salman and said,
take it and, you
know, pay it to your master. So Salman
said, it's it's a very small piece. It's
very tiny. It's gonna pay it. It's not
gonna pay anything. This no way this can
be 40 ounces.
The prophet
had said, take it, Allah will put it,
and this will become 14 ounces.
Sure enough, he took it. He gave it
to his master. He waited
14 ounces. That was from the of the
prophet
The
the why the lesson we learned from this
is,
it was
impossible for someone like Salman to pay the
40 ounces of gold and to give the
300 palm trees.
But if we, as a Muslim community, we
stand together collectively
to help one brother or to help and
build an Islamic center here in this city
or elsewhere,
it would become an easy task. Within a
few minutes or hours or days, if people
are committed, if people are dedicated,
the money will be collected and
the masjid would be built and the brother
or the sister would be helped. Okay? And
this is something we learned from the sahab.
They used to help one another.
So ma'am,
inshaAllah, this is the last day, number 3,
and we conclude with this.
So the third thing and the last thing
we learned from the story of Salman is
Mashurah, counseling with people, talking to them
to get their,
their their advice. There's something that you you
need to make a decision about.
The prophet, salaam, when the people of Makkah,
they tried to attack the Muslims in Madinah,
the prophet's opinion was to go out and
fight them halfway between Makkah and Madinah. Salman
said no. We should dig a trench around
Madinah to protect it
and
the
Bebeth between us and the Kufar. And this
is not, you know, you know, a good
strategy anymore. What we should do, we should
keep the wells behind us.
So we keep the war of us, the
Kufar, the disbelievers of Mecca, the takings of
Mecca will have no water. Eventually, they will
lose the war. They will run away. And
the prophet
took took his advice, the advice of his
companion,
and he left his own
opinion.
Say Safiyyah,
on Salaba, she said, don't talk to them.
Just go out, shave your head, offer your
animal and sacrifice. They will follow your example.
So the prophet, salaam, took her advice,
and he left his own opinion. What the
prophet salawasalam could have done, he could have
just communicated with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, received
the revelations
through Jibreel, and that's it. No. He chose
to talk to people around him, including his
wife, to
So some people,
these days, among Muslims, they don't make consultation
or counseling with those around them, especially if
they are in a position of authority.
Take for example, country leaders.
Take for example, country leaders. After a few
years in office, they are blinded by their
authority. They don't talk to people. And this
is a common trait that all the dictators
and tires back home, they have in common.
They don't talk to people around them. They
take these decisions on their own. They never
talk to people. They never consult with people
because they think they are above the people.
If I was in office for 5 or
6 years or 7 years, now, I'm number
1. I'm the genius in the country. I'm
the best there is. I shouldn't talk to
anyone from the, you
know, you know, from these people. No. I
don't talk to them.
The same is also true for
the men, for example, in some cultures.
Like, In my village, for example, in Egypt,
my father,
like other men in the village,
they never made mashura with the ladies in
the house.
And they always cited the same. They said
it was a hadith from the prophet
talk to them, ask them for their opinion
about the women, but never take their advice.
This is a fabrication. The prophet, salaam, never
said this.
And to the contrary, as I said, the
prophet, salaam, spoke to the ladies, his wife,
and he took her advice.
Okay?
So the prophet
spoke to his wife and took her her
advice.
This is what we also should do. And
as they say in Arabic, 4 I see
better than 2.
8 see better than 4. If you talk
to people who give more insights, more perspectives,
then you will do the right thing.