Mustafa Khattab – Taraweeh Gems 23 Building Muslim Character

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