Mustafa Khattab – The Incredible Story Of Mr. Bukhari
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Because people who are standing in the front,
they drive, they come in all the way,
they need to focus in salah. So we
need to help them focus in the namaz
and the prayer insha'Allah.
So today insha'Allah, I'm gonna talk about a
great man
who came from Pakistan
many years ago,
about 35
years ago.
His name is Nayan Buhari.
Okay?
So he was a student
at
University of Toronto. He was studying,
to become an attorney or a lawyer.
So,
after he finished,
he got married,
he had one daughter.
So,
for some reason, he had a medical condition,
so he ended up in the hospital.
They say that his heart stuck for about
a minute, so technically he was dead. So
I'm talking about 30 years ago.
But it seems that this man is a
fighter, so he came back to life with
the help of Allah
His wife, according to his book.
I'm gonna let you know something before I
inshallah. I'm gonna ask you questions about his
life at the end. If you know the
answer, I'm gonna give you,
some
delicious dates. Okay?
So pay close attention.
His book is called
Chasing Good.
Chasing Good. So in that
book,
he said that his wife told him that
she was reading Quran, and she was praying
to him while he was in a coma.
He couldn't feel anything. He was almost,
he was he was almost dead, and the
doctors told her that he would be lucky
if he survives,
till the next morning. That was 30 years
ago.
So she was making dua praying to Allah
to save her husband because, you know, her
husband and we had a little kid together
and stuff.
So alhamdulillah he revived,
and he survived. But there was one problem,
that he couldn't walk again.
So he spent the rest of his life,
30 years on this ventilator.
He couldn't breathe in his on his own.
He had to stuck a tube to his,
throat.
So he couldn't talk because, you know, a
big tube was stuck here. He couldn't move
any organ of his body. His arms, his
legs, his head, nothing he could move. I
visited him in his house, and as you
can see, Yasmeen was there, Ziyad, and many
other friends from Saint Catherine's. And most of
these people were involved in the making of
the translation of the clique run.
So
so he was stuck on the ventilator.
So this is the life, like, life machine.
He couldn't survive without it.
When I visited him, he told us a
little bit about his story.
They even had to tape his eyes to
keep them open. He couldn't even control his
eyelashes.
He couldn't open his eyes.
So they had to tape them to keep
them open. So his his eyes were open
247.
Unless it is time to sleep, they have
to remove the tape. So one of the
things he told us in the gathering
of course, it took him about a couple
of years to be able to pace,
his voice because of the tube.
So when it was time to inhale,
he couldn't speak. When the air went out,
he would say a sentence or something, then
he have to stop for the machine to
help him breathe. That difficult how it was.
So he said something,
you have to do something good every day.
If you don't if you don't do something
good,
yourself, your lower self will motivate you to
something bad. So you better keep yourself busy
with
went back to college.
He got his master's degree
in law,
and he established a law firm, a lawyer's
office.
It's one of the biggest, one of the
most successful,
law firms in Canada. It's called Bukhary Law.
You can go to his website.
And, he wrote a book. He was very
successful,
and he was helping the Muslim community with
donating money. He was making good money, Alhamdulillah.
And according to his website, he was charging
$500 per hour.
Right? He was very successful. He was well
off. He was helping Masjid in the Niagara
region. There was also one thing he did.
You know the reason why Muslims have graveyards
in Canada?
Because in the past,
the law was everybody
would be there together like Christians, Hindus, Buddhist,
Jews, Muslims, everyone together.
So he fought in the court for so
many years
on his ventilator. He fought in the courts
so so Muslims can have their own graveyards.
And finally, after years of fighting in the
courts, he won the case. And this is
why Muslims are able to have their own
graveyards
because of this guy.
On the ventilator, on the wheelchair.
Right? So he's a hard worker.
I remember
because when I met him, I was so
inspired. At the time, I was working on
the translation of the Quran, and this is
a very difficult
understandable English. Right?
So every time I falter or I waver,
if I didn't want to continue because I
get busy with something, no. I told myself
if mister b, mister Bukhari,
did it, he was able to succeed, I
have to do it. Because what is my
excuse?
I can't move my arms. I can't move
my legs. I can't open my eyes. Right?
And so on and so forth. If he
was able to be a successful person in
life, what excuse do I have for not
succeeding?
Right?
So he was serving the community, and he
was helping in everything,
and he became successful. He was always donating
money and helping masjid, volunteering,
teaching people about
success and about having a goal and a
purpose in life. So he was an inspiration
to everyone. I use him sometimes in my,
talks, for Jummah, to inspire people to be
successful despite all the challenges and all the
difficulties that you might face in life. Yes.
We're in Duniya.
This life is not perfect. Things will always
come your way. You'll find difficulties and hardships
in life. So always keep mister
B in
your
mind. The last thing I wanna say about
mister B,
he died 3 days ago.
And the family called me from from Niagara
because I'm good friends with the family, and
they said,
you have to come and, pray Salatul Janaza
for him, which I did. Right? Because he's
a great man. He's an inspiration to all
of us, and he was Muslim, and he
was successful.
And a lot of people were looking up
to him, Muslims and non Muslims. And this
is also another thing we can learn from
his life. He could always look up to
successful people. If you are a loser, if
you're a failure, no one will care about
you. Right?
So,
question number 1.
Mister Bukhari,
how many years did he spend on the
ventilator? What?
With Gesha.
30?
30 years.
30 years.
That sucks to you.
What is the name of his book?
Yes. Tasting Good. Yes.
If you read the book, it's gonna change
your life.
How many kids did he have
when he had the, problem? The baby.
Yes. The sister wore the glasses. 1,
1. Boy or girl?
What should do the sister here? 1, boy
or girl? It was a girl. Okay, Inmasha
Allah. Thank you. Another question.
Another question.
What was the profession of this brother? What
what did he do for a living?
Yeah. But what was his job? I'm not.
Okay. I'll try someone else.
Lawyer.
Okay. The reason
Muslims have graveyards
here in especially in Niagara Falls, they got
we secured one for them in Niagara Falls,
it's because of who? Oh, there. Mister Ahmed?
Okay. Go ahead.
Yes.
Another thing
another thing,
30 years years ago, his case was very,
serious.
And I assume if he was in Egypt,
one country
any other country,
like, in the Muslim world, he would have
been dead.
Because here, Alhamdulillah, we have the medical care,
we have dedicated people,
advanced,
hospitals
that saved his life. So this is something
we should be grateful for. I remember many
years ago, there was an imam who was
leading salah to tarawih.
You know, he was fasting the whole day.
It was summertime.
So he was praying tarawih, and I I
assume he was dehydrated or something.
And he was reading salah, he was reading
Quran in the salah to tarawih, and he
lost his consciousness, and and he fell down.
So some of the people behind him,
they said, okay.
Some people tried to save his life, but
some other people said, okay. No. No. No.
Let him die. It's Ramadan. It's a good
thing. Let him die. That's cool. The guy
had low blood pressure. He fell down. Some
people were saying, let him die. Okay?
Let him die. It's Ramadan. It's a good
thing. Right? It's not bad. It's bad. That's
you know, good thing. Right? That's so bad.
That's good. It's bad, but, you know, we
have this mentality, because human life sometimes it
is not precious for some peep right? Eventually,
they took him
to the hospital.
They gave him some solution, and he survived.
He lives for so many years. Right?
So saving a human life and taking care
of people, this is something that we should
be grateful for in in this country.
One last question. I know
it.
One last question.
Okay.
So he went back
Okay. One last thing I want to say
that, yes, the doctor said
we would do our best, but most likely
he will die tomorrow. That was 30 years
ago. What do we learn from this?
And also,
don't let your doctors
know.
Only Allah knows the future. It's all in
the hands of Allah.
Only Allah knows the future. It's all in
the hands of Allah. I know. If he
wants you to survive, he will survive. If
he wants you to die, he will die.
So always put your trust in him and
always say, you Allah.
So I will leave you with this. I
hope you remember the story of this Abu
Dhabi.
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