Mustafa Khattab – Taraweeh Gems 17 Dawa With Wisdom

And who is better in speech

than those who invite others to the way

of Allah, and they do good? And they

say or they proclaim or declare we are

truly Muslims. Right?

So I'm gonna start with a couple of

stories from,

Edmonton.

I spent a couple of years in, in

Edmonton.

It was a very,

humbling and enriching experience

there. So the first story is about a

brother

who was not practicing,

then for some reason Allah opened his heart

to, practice.

And

so I was there and he started to

come to the Masjid. He didn't come before

but when I was there he started to

come to the Masjid

and he became my Dawah assistant.

We stayed together for about a year and

a half. Excellent brother, Misha'aab.

And remember before that, he didn't practice, he

didn't pray like many of our youth. Right?

At some point, they slowed down when they

get a little bit older. Allah subhanahu wa'ala

gives them hidayah. Each and every one of

us has

a jagulia

phase in their life. Right? But the lucky

ones are those who are guided by Allah

Subhanahu Wa'ala in the right time.

So this brother

was guided

for the last 2 years of his life,

and while he was there, he got into

an accident, a motorbike accident, and he died

at the age of 30. Right? An excellent

Muslim brother.

Then there's also this story of another brother.

I never met him. Right?

So one of his friends told me that

this brother,

his mother was asking him to go to

the masjid for Salatul Jum'ah, he never came.

Whenever she told him, okay, go pray Jum'ah.

This Jum'ah, he said, okay, next week. Next

week,

why don't you go to the masjid tomorrow.

Right?

So

eventually,

he came to the masjid for salah. And

it was a Jum'ah, actually.

But he didn't come to pray.

He came for to be prayed on. He

also died. I don't know what how he

died. Maybe he got into an accident,

and he died. He never prayed in his

life. He was only 17 years old, like

many youth in our community,

and I was told this story by one

of his friends. Right? So he also died

young. There is no age,

certain age for death. Young people die and

old people die. Right?

So

why am I talking about this? The reason

I'm talking about this is because Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala in the Ayat we cite in

the beginning talks about the excellence of the

people who do Dawah. Right?

And they are the people of Hikma, the

people of knowledge and and patience.

Why they are the best people as Allah

says in the Haya?

Because because

those who do Dawah,

they do the best job. They do the

job of the prophets. What was the job

of the prophets? Dawah. Inviting people to Allah.

Right? And they're not expecting anything from them.

Right?

But before we do Dawah,

especially

in good times like this or Ramadan,

when people's hearts are open

or at the time of Janazah, people come

and they cry. They never come to the

masjid. They only come for Janazah

or maybe they come for Eid. You never

know. But when they come,

their hearts are open. They are ready to

listen. Right? And Allah

maybe Allah

will give them.

The prophet says in the Hadith that the

hearts of the people are between 2 fingers

of Allah. He flips them as whoever however

he wishes. Right? So maybe someone has you

think has a hard heart and the next

thing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives them. You

never know. Right? So we have to look

for the right moment to speak to them.

You have to talk to them with Hikma.

Right? Hikma basically means, I always say this,

to say the right thing at the right

moment in the right way. Our biggest problem,

especially when we deal with the youth

and many of them are rebellious because once

they start to speak with

a coarse voice,

they start to grow a mustache. Right? They

think, mashallah, they're big, and you cannot correct

them. Right? And we do have a problem

when we talk to them.

We try to correct them in a in

a bad way.

You call them hamal. You call it bad

name. Right?

Why you're not praying, idiot?

Something like this. So you cannot correct someone

by offending them. Because if you offend them,

you put them on the defense and they

will never listen to you. You have to

give it to them.

When I see our brothers and sisters, the

young ones in their teens, who are not

praying tonight.

Right? They sit in the back, they talk,

they're not praying because

supposedly you're

over 10 years old, you're supposed to take

part in the salah. But if you sit

back and, you know, and talk and fight

and all these things,

I remember the hadith of the prophet

about Abdullah Muhammad Allah and Uma.

He was a youth.

I don't know. Maybe 15, 16, So

the prophet

knew that Abu Abdullah Muhammad didn't pray at

night. He would pray the 5 namaz, but

nothing else at night. So the prophet said,

and this is in Bukhar. He said,

Abdullah Nohamal is an excellent man. He's an

excellent man, but I wish he prayed at

night because he would be a better person.

So what did the prophet

do? He praised him first. He said something

good about him. He said he's an excellent

man, and he called him a man,

and he said I wish that he would

pray at night. Right? So they say in

that Khadid, when the prophet

said this and Abu Laht and Umar heard,

he was young.

They say

after this, the prophet

after he said this, Abu Laht and Umar

used to sleep very little at night. He

used to spend most of the night in

salah. Why? Because the prophet

respected him. He said something positive about him

then corrected him. He didn't soften? He didn't

pass on him? Nothing. He just said something

positive

and your youth changed totally. Right?

Part of,

the good way of doing naseerha to people

not to make fun of them. Right? Because

again it's Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala who gave

you that you didn't give you that to

yourself.

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran,

yeah.

Hidaya is the light of Allah. He gives

it to whoever he wants. It's not for

everyone. Right? He only gives it to whoever

he wants. If you want Hidaya for yourself

without the

will of Allah, you can not have that.

Right? So what you need to do is

to talk to them nicely,

respectfully,

and with patience, and choose the right time.

Right? And don't offend them. So I'm gonna

conclude with this, short story then we can

continue tomorrow.

You probably heard the story of,

Sadat Nabu Lehi at Tesari.

He was a scholar and he was traveling,

and on the way, there was a a

gang,

highway robber, so they took him and they

took his money and and food just like

the other people who were traveling with him.

So they took him to the king of

the thieves. Right? The chor, the big chor.

Right?

Daku, kadu, daku.

Daku. Daku. Daku. The big chor. Right?

So he noticed that all the thieves, all

the chors were eating the food,

but the big guy, the biggest, Dakkuk was

not eating with him. The biggest thief was

not eating with them.

So Saladin Saladin Tastari said, okay.

Why are you not eating with them? Everyone

is eating our food. They stole food. They

are eating it. That's okay. But why are

you not eating with them? He said, well,

today is Monday,

and I'm fasting because this is the sunnah.

He said, Masha'Allah, this is

has Taqwa. He's a shawl or a thief,

but he has Taqwa.

So he didn't say anything. He said, may

Allah, you know, guide you for us, and

he left it at this. And he said,

okay.

Why are you fasting? He said, well, I

don't pray. I'm a thief, you know. But

I only keep this door of fasting only

when Monday is open between me and Allah.

All the other doors are closed. I just

keep this tiny door open between me Allah,

maybe he will give me hiday.

So Sad al Nisaq said, well, bye. After

3 years, I was doing Hajdu in talaf,

and I came across this man, the biggest

thief. So I came across him and said,

are are you the guy I met 3

years ago? He said, yes. So I said,

what happened? He said, well, I started to

pray, I started to fast, I started to

do the Hajj. I'm not a thief anymore

because when I left one door open between

me and Allah, Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, showered

his mercy on me through that door, and

he opened all the doors for me. So

if you see a youth or a Muslim

brother who's not practicing,

say for example, they fasted on Ramadan but

they don't pray, don't make fun of them,

don't call them idiot, don't say your fasting

is not accepted.

Maybe Allah

will shower his mercy with them through the

door of fasting and he will open for

them the other door