Mustafa Khattab – Talk To Students
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The speaker discusses the issue of animals being considered carriers of Islam and warns against leaving pets in houses. They emphasize the importance of animal carriers for Islam and the need for care and avoiding offense towards animals. The speaker provides foot baseline information and concludes with a brief discussion about a study on animals. They stress the importance of researching the feasibility study on Kindness and sincerity, learning from animals, and the learning process for the feasibility study.
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Does anyone see the sign outside? Yeah.
How do you like it?
What I'm gonna talk about today is, something
related to,
something I saw on Facebook a few days
ago. Science.
It's basically a video, a short video. I
couldn't see the video, but I saw the
the, message or the title.
And what happened, basically, a couple of guys,
they had a, a dog, and they cut
off the ears of the dog. Yes.
Yes.
Is that good or bad?
Bad. Yeah.
So
this is haram, Islamic league. This is haram
and this is not acceptable. So here today,
inshallah, we're gonna talk about animals.
Some of you
some of you,
like to keep pets. We were talking about
cats and fish and and other things.
That's okay. That's alright.
If you keep a cat or a parrot
or a fish, that's okay, but make sure
you feed them and you take good care
of it. But if you leave the bird,
or the cat, or whatever pets you have
in the house, and you lock them up
in a cage, or you leave them in
the house and travel for a whole week,
and they're starving in the house, this is
not acceptable to Islamically.
Right? You have to take good care of
them. And we know from Islam that,
doing something good or taking care of animals
is as good as doing
a good thing or a hasanah or something
good to a human being. And abusing animals
is as bad as abusing,
human beings.
Have you heard of the hadith about the
woman who starved the cow to death in
her house?
That's bad.
How about the person who gave water to
the dog in the desert that Allah gave
him Jannah. Right? So it's it's the same
concept.
There is this ayah in Surahaj.
So every time I read this ayah,
it's it's very powerful basically. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says, Alam Tawah, and Allah
So the ayah says basically, have you not
seen that to Allah submits
or make sajdah, everything in the heavens and
the earth,
including
the sun, the moon, the trees, the mountains,
all the creation of Allah,
then it's including the animals, it says, Wadawah,
all the animals or the living beings that
live in this, world.
Then it says,
as well as many human beings,
but many are destined for punishment in Jahannam.
So when he talks about animals, it says
that all of them obey Allah, they listen
to Him. But when it comes to human
beings, some of us do, some of us
don't.
If you look at the Quran,
Surah Ananda,
there's a bird
that spoke to one of the prophets. Do
you know the name of the bird?
No.
Yes? Uhudhud? Uhudhud, Masha'Allah.
Uhudhud
in English? So the bird spoke to
Suleyman alaihis salam and it says basically,
that it saw the people of Yemen making
sajdah to the sun.
So there is an interesting thing here. Have
you ever seen, have you ever seen an
animal or a bird
making saljat to another animal or a bird?
Do they make statues of other birds and
animals and make saljat to them? Yes.
This is something we do.
Right?
So this is the difference between them and
us. They obey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
they only worship Him.
So the bird, the hudhud,
was basically pulling his hair or feathers off
like he was going crazy.
He said to Soleiman Alaihi San, can you
imagine
these people that are making Sajjad to the
sun?
Right?
It doesn't, it doesn't work like this. And
he said they should make Sajjad to Allah.
The bird is complaining.
He's saying you see what these human beings
are doing? They are making sajat to the
creation of Allah, they should make sajat to
Allah.
The examples are so many in the Quran.
In the story of Nuh Alaihi Salaam in
Surahood and other places in the Quran. When
Nuh Alaihi Salaam was making the ship,
people were making fun of him.
Then right before the flock came,
Nuh alaihis salam said to the animals and
birds and
lets go
on board. They all walked out, no problem,
lets go.
But for human beings, they said, let's go
up the ship. They started making fun of
him. A ship in the desert, you lost
your mind?
This is what they said.
And they said, you have been making dua
for 950 years, you were a failure. This
is what they said.
Then they said, maybe if you try to
be a carpenter, maybe you will be successful.
So leave this, prophethood
thing and focus on carpentry,
maybe you will be successful.
So the great majority of them refused to
believe in him and they refused to go
up the,
the ship with
Him. But the animals went up, no questions
asked.
But for humans, Allah says in Surahud,
Very few, very few actually believed in His
Masjid. Do you know the rest of the
story? What happened?
I'm gonna conclude with this story and,
one day I'm gonna give
some footbas here, like 2 3 footbas about
what we can learn from animals as based
on
the stories in the Quran and also,
Hadith. Have you heard about something called the
feasibility
study?
A feasibility
study? No.
Okay. So this basically means that before you
start a project or if you want to
do something, you study the situation and you
see if this will be successful or not.
The first
lesson I got about feasibility studies, I learned
from an animal in in the village in
Egypt.
I grew up as a farmer in the
village.
We had donkeys, we used them to carry
stuff to the farm and back to the
house.
And, we had little channels on the way
to the house and to the farm.
They didn't have tubes back then, in the
19 early 19 eighties.
So what happens they, you're walking with the
animal
and there are always these small channels
and the animal has to cross all the
time.
And sometimes they have heavy loads on their
backs.
So
what happens basically,
if you try to get the donkey to
cross what they do basically, they take one
step to the back,
they look at the channel to see the
distance,
and they make calculations in their mind.
If it is jumpable, if they are able
to do it, they will do it. Go
one step back, then they will jump. If
they can't do it
But if they can't,
even if you kill them, they will never
jump because they know that they're gonna be
able they're not gonna be able to do
it. In our case, what we did basically,
a channel then we jump, we fall right
in the middle of the water.
So this is something I learned from a
donkey in the village. Before you jump, before
you cross, before you start a project, you
have to look at
what is going on, what you have, what
you can afford, and if this would be
successful or not.
By just
looking at the animal, making all these calculations
and planning ahead of time, this is something
we can learn from them. And there are
so many examples in the Quran that I
will share with you one day insha'Allah. But
the bottom line is animals are from the
creation of Allah.
They worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They don't
disobey them.
Disobey him. And we should treat them with
kindness and
we should be kind to them and not
abuse them as we saw in the video.
We ask
Allah to give us the best in this
life and the best in the life to
come. Give us sincerity in everything we say
and do. Allah
bless in your family. ShazakAllah. Assalamualaikum.
See you tomorrow.