Mustafa Khattab – Showing Off

I bear witness that there's none worthy of

our worship except Allah, and

I bear witness that Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wa

sallam, is the seal of the prophets and

the final messenger to all of humanity.

Whomever Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, guides, there is

none

to guide. And whomever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

needs to go astray, there is none to

guide.

So one of the scholars, his name is

Abu Bakr Al Hayash, he said, Wallahi, Abu

Bakr Al Salih

never got ahead of us in terms of

Hassanat and in terms of his high status

in Jannah,

not because of his salah and his fasting

and his charity. No. He said he got

ahead of us because of the faith which

was engraved in his heart and because of

the sincerity

of his actions. This is why.

And Omar Ibn Khattab

used to make a lot of dua

and to say, oh, Allah,

purify

all of my deeds and make all of

them purely for your sake.

And no one, no human being should have

a share in my deeds. He means I'm

not doing this for any human

being. I'm doing it only purely for you,

So the scholars

define

sincerity in

in many different ways, but one of the

most,

reasonable definitions is to do things purely for

the sake of Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

not for showing off. This is the mean.

So if you do something purely for the

sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala by purifying

your intentions,

then you will get the full reward.

But if you do it, just people will

say, then the prophet

says in the authentic hadith that not only

you will lose your reward, but you'll also

be punished

for sharing

people and associating people in their word. In

this authentic hadith

in Al Hakim, the Mustadrak, a man came

to the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and

said, oh, prophet of Allah,

what if I do a good deed hoping

to get the reward from Allah and hoping

that people will say something nice about me?

So the prophet, salaam, said, you will get

nothing.

The man repeated the question, oh, prophet of

Allah, what if I do something good hoping

to get the reward and people will speak

highly of me? What do I get? The

prophet, salaam, said nothing.

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accepts what is done

purely for his sake and not for people.

So this is the first Hadith.

And this also authentic hadith in Muslim Al

Uma Ahmed Al Tamili.

The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says, what

I fear for you, my Ummah, is not

the dajjal. What I fear most for you

is not the dajjal,

but minor shirk.

So they said, what is minor shirk, You

Rasulullah? Because we know major shirk is to

associate

others in the worship of Allah. So he

said minor shirk is showing

off, associating

people in doing good deeds.

Then the prophet

said, on the day of judgment, when people

would come to get their rewards from Allah,

they would be told,

go to those to whom you used to

show off in the dunya and get your

reward for them. I have no reward for

you.

We did, so people will say, they said,

so you already got your reward. I got

no reward for you.

So this is the second Hadith.

So in this 3rd Hadid inside Muslim,

the 3 people that will be punished before

everybody else on the day of judgment, a

Shahid

and a scholar

and a generous person.

So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala asked the first

one. What did you do with the blessings

I gave you? So the first one will

say, I struggled in your way until I

feel, you know, dead. So Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala know you didn't do it for my

sake, but you did it so people will

say, oh, he is a brave guy.

Then the second person, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

will ask him, what did you do with

the knowledge I gave you? He will say,

oh, Allah, I taught it to people, and

I was teaching them Quran.

And,

I taught them everything I knew. So Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala was saying, no. You are

a light. You taught people not from a

safe, but you taught them so they will

say, oh, he is a scholar.

Then the 3rd person, Allah will ask him,

what did you do with the money I

gave you? He will say, oh, Allah. I

spent it in your way. I was putting

money here and there. So Allah will kind

of say, no. You're alive. You did it

so people will say, he is a generous

guy. You didn't do it purely for

my sake.

So the scholars say there are some signs

that if you find these signs, then you're

doing things purely for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

So the signs are number 1, you always

belittle your good deeds. Every time you do

a salah, you blame yourself. I should have

I should have done better than this.

If you give a charity,

you should always blame yourself that I should

have given more than this.

So you always belittle

yourself, your good deeds, and you always motivate

yourself to do more.

So Imam Abdullah is secondary. He said a

beautiful statement in this regard. He said,

a sin

that humbles you

and brings you back to Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala is much better than a good deed

that makes you arrogant.

And this is a very profound statement.

Number 2, the second sign of this insert

of your good deeds

is every time you do a good deed,

you are afraid that Allah will never accept

from you, so you always try to purify

your intention.

So the prophet says in authentically

that

when this ayah was revealed, those who give

or make good deeds and their hearts are

shaking with fear,

Aisha says, O Prophet of Allah,

is this

ayah talking about

those who commit adultery, those who drink, and

those who steal? So the prophet

said, no. The ayah talks about those who

fast, They give sadaqah, and they make Hajj,

and they pray all the time in the

masjid, but they are afraid that Allah will

not accept from them because of their intentions.

So they always try to purify their intentions.

And then

So the third sign is that you do

something purely for the sake of Allah.

Regardless of what people will say about you.

You don't care if you if they say

you are a generous guy because he gives

sadaqah or not. You don't care if they

say you are a good guy because if

because you come to the salah or the

time or not. What people say doesn't mean

anything to you. You only do it purely

for the sake of Allah.

We conclude with this.

The prophet talks

about those who do good deeds purely for

the sake of Allah, and the people say

good things about them. Not because they wanted

to, but because people

say this about them anyway. They didn't request,

praise from anyone. So this man came to

the prophet and says,

what if I do something purely for the

sake of Allah and people say good things

about me? So the prophet says, this is

a good sign that

Allah is accepting from you, and he is

giving you the reward in Azra and in

Duniya. That's Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

We'll just give a a few examples about

sincerity and the lack of sincerity, then we'll

conclude with this, inshallah. Number 1, sometimes we

we sat with, some people. I'm not talking

about any particular person.

And there's a guy who doesn't pray at

all.

And if somebody or the group goes to

pray, he goes with them. Not because he

wants to, but because he's afraid that he

will say he's not a good guy. But

if these people were not there, he would

never pray.

So this is not sincere.

I remember a long time ago,

Also, there's this example of this guy,

all of a sudden, he started to come

to all the salawat, Mashallah, and pray. And

I'm not talking about him. So he was

coming all the time to the salah, and

I said, you know, why do you come

to the masjid and pray, alhamdulillah, before you

you never showed your face in the place.

Why? So he said, because I love the

Masjid so much, I love the imam, okay,

blah blah, all that stuff.

Then later in the story, I realized he

was coming to the Masjid because there is

a sister who comes to the Masjid and

prays all the time, and he wanted to

propose.

So for her family to accept him, he

had to come to the masjid, so they

will say, hey, yeah. He goes to the

masjid. He must be a good guy. So

that was not done purely.

Also, politicians back home,

in the parliament or the ministers and that

stuff.

So

if if you decide for, you know, elections,

you see them all the time in the

masjid, shaking people's hands and hugging them and

kissing them and crying in the salah, giving

charity and all that stuff.

But after the elections, after they went,

So,

I've seen some weddings, and I'm not talking

by the way, I'm not talking about Edmonton.

I've been to many places, and I'm invited

to weddings, and I see

people wasting food, and they are wasting money

for no reason.

And the women, they are not, you know,

decently dressed, and when I enter the room,

they start to cover themselves, and when I

start to leave, they start to take off

with clothes.

Are you doing this for the Sheikh? You

should do it for for for Sabir ibn,

not for me. I don't have Zaynel, I

don't have Himfahr. I'm nobody.

Then after they do this, a few weeks

later, they call me again, what?

There is a divorce.

There is no

sincerity.

So

there was this,

funeral and this brother, he made a big

Walima and invited everyone. And I'm not trying

to criticize anyone, by the way. But it

is an obligation on me to give Nasiyyah

to people.

So there was this big on the funeral

day and also on the 3rd day, and

the brother spent about 3,000 to $5,000

and I told him,

and may Allah have mercy on you. Why

did you do this? You should have given

the money to the graveyard a salakahjariyah or

to a masjid salakahjariyah.

He said, wallahi, I didn't want to make

food, all that food for people, but I

was afraid that people would say, oh, he

doesn't like his mother because his mother passed

away. So I said, you're doing it for

the people, not