Mustafa Khattab – Taraweeh Gems 23 Building Muslim Character
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The historical context of the Sahab is discussed, including the historical importance of fasting and trusting in Islam to avoid shirking important messages. The use of specific deeds like not to be in the basement of Jannah and praying on time is emphasized, along with the importance of taking advantage of busy times to build strong character. The speaker also touches on the historical importance of training people and avoiding shirping the message in building strong character.
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Talk about the Sahab. We started to speak
about the Sahab a couple of nights ago
and we said if you want to, to
be the Muslim there is you have to
follow the example of the Prophet and the
Sahab.
Right? The Quran always talks about the personality
and the character of the Sahaba,
you read the Surah Al Tabba aya number
100.
So the pioneers, the foremost believers,
helpers, and the immigrants, and those who fall
them in righteousness,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has believed with him
with them as they are with him and
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has promised him Jannah. Right? So this is
how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks about the
sahamah in the Quran.
We know by just reading the Seerah of
the Prophet SAW Salam in the Sahaba
the first
13 years in Mecca there was not a
lot
of teaching in the Quran at least about
Ibadah like fasting. We know fasting started in
the 2nd year in Madinah.
So the for the first 15 years in
in the life of Islam in Mecca and
Madinah,
13 in Mecca and 2 in Madinah, there
was no fasting in Ramadan. But they used
to fast in different times, a day here,
a day there. Right?
Salah
is the same thing.
Zakah and Hajjid, all these things. Why? Because
the focus in Mecca for 13 years
and 2 years in Madinah was to build
a Muslim character. Right? So Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala prepared the Sahaba. He chose them, but
he also gave them a lot of training
in tawhid and trusting in Allah, avoiding shirk
and all these things. Then in Madinah, we
see the teaching about Ibad, not in Mecca.
Right? Some of the Sahaba used to say
if the first teaching of Islam was to
quit alcohol
so once we accepted Islam the prophet told
us no alcohol from day 1 of Islam
in Mecca no one would have accepted Islam.
Right? Because it's difficult to change overnight.
So for 13 or 15 years Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala was preparing them building their character
so they will become the best Muslims there
are.
All of us know about the Great Wall
of China. Right? It's one of the greatest
walls in the world. Right?
It took them a long time to build
a wall.
But do you know that in the 1st
century, the first 100 years after the
the wall was built,
China was invaded 3 times
through the
wall.
Why?
Because yes, the wall was big, it was
high, you cannot scale the wall, you cannot
dig through the wall, but you can easily
bribe
the keepers of the wall.
3 times
the keepers were bribed,
they opened the doors.
Why? Because they did it the opposite way.
You have to train people and prepare them
to carry responsibility
before you build the wall.
And this is what the Prophet SAW did,
he prepared the people, he taught them, he
trained them, then he gave them the teaching
of Islam, this is what you need to
do and this is what you need to
avoid, right. So it's always to keep this
in mind.
Many of us are not aware that some
of the great Sahaba were given responsibilities
at a young age You know, Usamad Nizayib
became the leader of the Muslim army when
he was only 17
The Prophet SAW sent Mu'adh
to Yemen
as a judge and as a teacher when
he was only 17.
Right?
The great Sahaba,
Sa'd ibn Mu'adh radhiallahu
seventy 1,000 malaika came to carry his janazah
and to help with his janazah when he
passed away And the prophet
said, if there is anyone
that the,
the squeezing of the grave was going to
to be waived for anyone, it would have
been Sa'd ibn Mu'adh.
Sa'd ibn Mu'adh was only 37 years old
when he died.
37 years old. I'm 38 years old. Right?
So he technically was younger than me. Right?
But he became a hero, a great man
of Islam. He was very young.
I gave a huqbal last year and I
summed up the three reasons why the sahavah
were very great. Gonna sum them up very
quickly for you, so you remember them.
Number 1, we said that the Sahaba did
what we call is sidraq al mafat.
Before Islam they did terrible things,
but once they accepted Islam they made up
for all the bad things they did in
the past. If they fought against Islam they
became great defenders of Islam.
If they spent money against Islam they spent
a lot of money now to support Islam,
right? We can do the same thing if
you don't read Quran now is the time
of Ramadan. If you don't pray regularly before
Ramadan, now is the time to start and
so on and so. To make up, right,
for what we missed in the past. It
is never too late.
Number 2,
taking advantage of the good times. This is
what the Sahaba did. Like in Ramadan, they
worked a lot of Ramadan, diligently,
fasting during the day, standing salah at night,
giving salatah and so on and so forth.
Taking advantage of these times, Ramadan,
Laylatul Qadr the last,
odd nights of Ramadan like 21st, 3rd, 5th,
7th 9th most likely is the Laylat of
27th
as the some of the Sahaba said. So
take advantage of this, the day of Jum'ah,
the day of Arafah, right? These special days,
go take advantage of them.
The last one,
something the Sahaba used to do, there's so
many hadith in the books of Sunan Bukhari
Muslim
They would come around the prophet SAW Alaihi
Wasallam they wouldn't talk about regular Ibadah they
would say Rasool Allah what are the best
Ibadah in Islam? What are the best things
that we can? What are the most beloved
deeds to Allah? So he would tell him
fasting,
or he would tell them take care of
your parents, or he would tell him pray
on time. These are, you know, especially Ibadat.
Right? So they used to ask about the
best Ibadat in Islam.
Right? Why? Because they don't want to be
in the basement of Jannah, they wanted to
be in a firdaus al aal. They used
to think big and aim high. So if
you want to be as good as the
Sahaba, you have to follow their example
and do these three things. Make up for
what you missed in the past,
look for the special times like Laylatul Qadr
Ramadan,
and also do the best Iberah just like
they did. And we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala to gather us together with the Prophets
and the Sahaba in the Firdos Al Amin.
Question last time was
the Saba al Mathali, the 7 often repeatedly
ayaat in the Quran and of course,
these are Surat Al Sattika.
These 7 ayaats we always recite in salah.
17 times in in every rakah in salah.
Right? And the winner is sister Gulaha Mahmoudi
where is Hemin?
Is Hemin here?
Come here.
Thank you. Tonight's question is very difficult. You
have to do a lot of research.
In the Quran, in Surat Al Agha, in
Surat Al Hajj, in Surat Sa' the Shaysan
said to Allah after he disobeyed, he refused
to make saljat to Allah.
He said, I will mislead human beings and
he said,
delay me until the day humans are resurrected.
Why did he say that? Why did he
say,
delay me until they are resurrected.
Not before. Why did he say that? There
is wisdom behind this request
from Shaytan. If you know the answer, he
build me before tomorrow