Mustafa Khattab – Talk the Talk 2
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So we give these tours in the message
to, from schools and from church groups and
seminars. They come to learn about Islam.
So we basically is the Real bad.
I'm gonna be.
So what we do basically
I usually talk about Islam and we let
one of the brothers okay? Like, the British
and the native
to to speak about the architecture of the
building.
So, okay, I introduced the brother to speak
about the architecture and he stands like this.
Hey.
Nothing.
He freezes. When he stands in front of
me, he freezes.
So
one on one, the guy is an excellent
speaker. Okay? He can talk the whole day,
and he has this ability to sell you
snow in here.
He can if he wants. Okay?
But when he speaks to a groom,
nothing. Okay? He freezes basically.
So one time he stood like this, and
I said, hey, guys.
And I another time he was standing like
this.
He was trying
Also, when you get to talk to people
about any topic, it's good to start with
a story or a joke.
And this is a very important thing. When
you talk to people about anything,
the only thing that people would remember of
anything you say is a story. They will
forget anything else. And this is why the
prophet used a lot of stories through the
and the Quran is filled with stories.
Level the tone of your speech.
So if you talk
to people in Shalba today, brothers and sisters,
we'll be talking about an important topic. And
the topic for today is Ramadan. And we're
going too fast for 30 days in this
month, from dawn on the
voice when there's something important, then slow down
and raise your voice. Because if you are
what is the
word? Monotone.
You're a monotone. Right?
Monotone. The people who fall asleep.
And they say when the prophet said that
gave food, but he used to raise his
voice
to warn
people about
the and to teach them about. So he
used to change the tone of his speech
so people would fall.
And also,
facial and body language, you have to use
your hands and when you talk to people.
Why I'm gonna below these boys
because don't recite Quran in the same way
you talk. Your the Quran has to look
different
from
the regular talk. Also use authentic and hadith.
And when
you talk about a problem, say for example,
they gave you this problem at school to
speak about,
a project.
Oh, and imagine you're gonna talk
in the community.
Let's say for example, I'm gonna talk about
divorce.
Okay? So I say, listen guys.
We have a little divorce in the community.
Miserable. They keep calling 911.
And
honest, this man, their
sunnah. You have to find someone religious
for your daughter.
Involved,
should not put their nose in the middle
in the affairs of the Kabul. They should
let them take care of their thing, and
that's something like that.
Don't make people
feel miserable and you leave them and go
home and the people stay in the message
and they start crying. Okay? You have to
give them hope and you have to give
them solution.
You have to give them a word plan.
This is what you need to do number
1, number 2, number 3.
I think this is the last, slide. You
have to read about the topic before you
speak.
You have to have some knowledge about the
topic and you should put,
of course, a lot of people they have
respect for imams or speakers who speak from
memory.
If you speak
from a piece of paper, a lot of
people especially back home, they say this guy
is not a scholar. If you speak from
a piece of paper, you're not a scholar
basically. Okay? But if you speak from memory,
even if you talk nonsense,
okay,
problem,
solution,
conclusion.
And to be able to memorize
your topic in an easy way because there
are speakers who can speak for 2, 3
hours.
Sometimes, when I get this holdup,
I always memorize my footpath, and the easiest
way to memorize the footpath
is to put it in a logical order.
So for example, I'm going to speak about
brother Arun now. Okay. I'm giving a footpath
about brother Arun.
So
I'm going to speak about his,
study
at study at, Keon Keon.
So I'm gonna talk about his master's degree.
Then I will talk about how his hair
is made. Then I will talk about how
Then I will talk about how Harun died.
Then I will talk about how he got
married. Then I will talk about how his,
when he was in the 9th grade. Then
I will talk about his PhD.
This doesn't make no sense. I'm sure you
will forget half of the points.
But let's talk about how, how it was
Darren
Smith. How to get there. When was he
born?
When he went to primary school,
when he graduated from high school, then he
went to Grandmaq,
to remember everything. Okay?
And then, when you put it in this
order, you can classify it into 3 or
4 major groups. Like, I'm gonna talk about
child.
I'm gonna talk about his education. I'm gonna
talk about his career. I'm gonna talk about
his marriage life. Four sections, it's very easy.
This is how I always do my photos,
and this is how
speakers always give their photos. They always
memorize these 4 or 5 words, they can
talk for 2, 3 hours and they will
never forget it in a day.
But they always
class it or summarize, sum it up in
points,
words,
and they put it in a logical order.
If they speak upside down or they speak
about different,
times and different events, they will forget everything.
So you have to put it in a
body of a door.
Of course, you have to look at your
audience. Say say your top I'm giving the
whole bottle of German, and this is what
I see in front of me. So if
this is what you see in front of
you, it means you're talking too much.
You're boring people to death,
or you are a boring speaker, or the
topic is boring. Something is wrong.
Now, you have to think,
should I spice it up a little bit,
put some jokes in there, or should I
just finish and leave and call it a
day?
So now you understand. You can see by
looking at the people. People start yawning
or digging in their nose
or looking at their watches. I don't know.
You see? Tight.
And Friday, of course, for example, when I'm
giving if I'm giving a flip on Friday,
now when I'm talking to you, we have
no problem because we got all 9 months,
and you have 15 hours between Russia and
Russia. It's not a big deal.
Okay?
But when I'm giving a football on Friday,
I know there's a time limit because we
have students, we have
people who have to go to work, we
have doctors who have to everybody has something
to do. So I've always keep the football
very short.
10 minutes,
10 minutes English,
salah in 5 minutes, we go home. So
everybody knows before they come to, Jum'ah
that the imam is going the whole thing
takes about somewhere between 25 minutes
to 30
minutes. And there's something that because this is
my last week, I can't say whatever I
quote.
They can't get me to catch me in
Egypt.
So
the old guys in the back, the Khiteli.
So some of them when I come, they
say, okay, sometimes they do it in,
in an emotional way and sometimes they do
it in a very,
threatening way. Nice approach. You have my son.
Okay. My son is a good worker. Okay.
So when they say my son, now you
are aware of the age difference and you
have to show them respect.
I have this trusted problem.
Okay? So I have to make hudu every
10 minutes. So if you speak for 20
minutes, I have to make hudu twice, okay,
when you get the football. But if you
speak for 30 minutes, I have to make
hudu 4 times. Okay? So they make you
feel miserable. You have to finish the football
in 20 minutes. So this is the first
group. The second group, they do it in
a threatening way.
So you're giving the football, and now you're
past the 20 minutes
line, you see the guy playing his hand
like this.
If you watch the godfather
movie,
the mafia,
you know what is going to happen if
they put their hand like this.
They're giving out the gun to show it
to you. And most of the time, they
get out their
your audience
if you can talk for longer or the
people are getting bored or they have to
go to work, and kids are crying upstairs
and the ladies are fighting. So you have
to finish.
Talk,
and one thing you have to put in
mind, that your audience are not the same.
So you expect to get smart questions.
And you sometimes, you get some questions that
might seem to
the average people as
stupid questions.
Okay.
The only stupid question is the question that
is not asked. If someone asks a question,
then you have an obligation to answer them.
One time,
like,
I was giving a talk here in the
Jama about a year and a half ago.
I think it was Ramadan time, and And
we're in the, the last 10 days of
Ramadan. I was talking about how the top
10 the top 10 nights and how to
get closer to Allah in these 10 nights.
And mash up. Everybody was emotional and naive
to cut and all this stuff. And
then this brother raised his hand and mash
up a suit and tie and okay. Mash
up a, like, emulate.
So what do you want? He said, when
I fast in Ramadan,
does my dad have to fast too
And Nabil Nasman was there, I think.
So Nabil Nasman started to look for his
gun, and the other guy was looking for
the sword. Okay. It's asking. No. No. No.
It's okay. So I explained to the robot,
maybe he's a new Muslim. Maybe he's not
practicing. Maybe he doesn't know. And if we
make fun of him and we start,
look at this guy, buddy. He's asking about
the cat.
Actually, when he first asked a question about
the cat, I thought he was asking about
the cat. Does the cat
from kids. I was giving a talk
to the sisters one time. This is the
last, slide I think.
I was giving a talk to the sisters
and
at the end, I was talking for about
30, 40 minutes. And after I finished, this
system brought her Kim with her. And she
said that my son,
my daughter, I don't remember, has a question.
And I couldn't ask. She said she couldn't
ask. And I said, what is the question?
She said,
why have all this not to have a
son or a
father? I said, well, this is an excellent
question.
Why do you need a father? You. She
said, I need a father to,
to feed me and to care for me.
And so I said, does Allah
need someone to care for him and provide
for him and take just know.
And I said this also goes for the
sun. Allah is not the sun of anyone.
Okay? Because the sun needs to provide them
and protect them. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does
not need anything of this. Okay?
Allah is completely different from human beings. It
doesn't have needs.
Everything and everyone in this universe is dependent
on Allah, but Allah is not dependent to
anyone. And this is the meaning of
Allahu Samad.
Allahu Samad. Osamau Samad is the one who
is self sufficient. He doesn't need anyone,
but everyone is dependent on him. SubhanAllah.
And I told her, do you know Suwad
Khurrow Allahu Ahad? Yes?
And
they said, Allah is giving you the answer
in the Quran.
And to forgive us
anything we have done by ignorance, mistake, or
forgetfulness.
What's