Mustafa Khattab – Talk To Students

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.