Mustafa Khattab – The Knowledge You Must Have
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I bear witness that there's no worthy of
our worship except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And
I may witness that Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
is the seed of the Prophets and the
final Messenger to all of humanity.
Whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala guides, there is
none to His guide, and whoever Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala leads astray,
there is none to guide Aayd.
So often time, I get this question from
new Muslims,
from born and raised Muslims,
from brothers and sisters.
There are so many branches of knowledge in
Islam. There is hadith and tafsir, and there
is calligraphy, there is philosophy and logic, and
and all these branches of knowledge in Islam.
So much knowledge to gain, so much things
to learn. But what are the basics? What
do I need to learn to be a
good Muslim and to go to Jannah? Because
this is what it comes down to. Because
we all want to go to Jannah, and
of course, if you want to worship Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala and to be a good
Muslim,
you have to have, you know, some basic
knowledge. So the Khutbah today, inshallah, would be
about the basic knowledge that every Muslim should
have.
Whether you're old, young, you have a PhD
from any university, or you can just write
down your name, or you are not able
to read or write at all.
Man or woman,
old, young, poor, rich, it doesn't really matter.
So at the end of the day
so I'm gonna start from the end.
At the end of the day, when we
die and leave this world, after a long
time, Eventually,
when we go to the grave, Beisul Authentic
Hadith, we'll be getting 3 questions.
Who is your Lord? Who is your Prophet?
And what's your faith?
So the Aleman say, the obligatory
knowledge, the Fard knowledge,
is related to these 3 questions that will
get in the grave,
and every one of us should learn the
answers, or should learn the knowledge related to
these questions in this life. And I'm gonna
get into details.
So in this hadith, this hadith Islam, this
man, Duimatul Az Day,
he used to visit Mecca,
so he came one time, and this man
used to do Ruqya before Islam, he would
say certain things, certain dua, he had some
knowledge, so he would do Ruqya, and Allah
would take away the jinn at his hands.
So when he came to Mecca,
the people of Fox News were all over
the place,
and everyone was saying Mohammed is a madman,
Mohammed is insane, Mohammed is crazy. Everyone was
saying the same line, the same cloche.
And and SubhanAllah, you watch Fox News like
me, I had to watch it for 5
years when I was working on my dissertation.
Every single one, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn
Beck, all of them, they were saying exactly
the same lines.
It seems all the idiots graduate from the
same school. So they were saying the same
line all over, like Islam is evil, Islam
is bad, the Quran is Everyone is saying
the same thing, right?
So the people of Mecca were saying exactly
the same way. They would stand on the
road, every time someone comes to Mecca they
will say exactly the same thing. He is
crazy, don't listen to him. So
So he said to himself, Glimat and as
he said to himself, Well, I know Ruqyah,
I can go if he is crazy, I
can do some Ruqyah on him and Allah
will give him Shifa'a Insha'Allah.
So he went to the Prophet
and said, You Muhammad, everybody is saying you
are crazy.
Can I do to tell you?
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, as mentioned
in this authentic kareef, aside Muslim, he said,
in Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah,
the introduction to Khutbah that, most of the
Khutba always say, it's just like 2 lines.
The man was, like, stunned, and he said,
Can you repeat this for me? Because they
were saying our crazy, can you repeat this
for me? And the prophet said, I'm repeating
this introduction to Khutba that we always say
every Jummah, twice 3 times in total.
And the man said, Molay, this is not
the saying of a mad person. I have
listened to poets and,
magicians.
No one talks like this. This must be
a revelation from Allah. And he said, Give
me your hand. And he took shahad in
front of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he became a Muslim. Not by listening to
a 1,000 footballs or lectures on YouTube, but
just listening to the introduction of the khutbah
that we give on Jum'ah.
So what about us,
everyone here, and all the Muslims who go
to Jum'ah to Khutba?
The truth is, the reality is, most of
us here, and most Muslims in general, all
the knowledge they have about Islam, about Sharia,
about the Prophet
they get on the day of Jum'ah.
Because most of them are busy. I'm being
frank and honest and realistic here with you.
Most of us here, the only knowledge we
gain about Islam is from Khutba to Jum'ah.
And SubhanAllah, I've attended some Khurplas, and some
of the Khutba, I agree with you, some
of the Khutba talk about crazy stuff, or
stuff that is not relevant to our daily
lives. So when you leave your work, you
leave your business, or school, and come to
the Khutba, you have to learn something related
to Ar'el al Bafoor, Bafar knowledge, that I'll
be talking about in a second, inshaAllah. Like,
I attended Khutba one time, 14 minutes,
40 minutes, not in the GTA, but somewhere
else, and the khateep was talking about how
Allah created the angels from light.
So as I was leaving,
you know, when you come to the Masjidah,
when you leave, you have to learn something
new. You have to learn about halal and
halal, what is right and what is wrong,
how to be a good Muslim, and so
on and so forth. Yes, learning about the
creation of angels and how the lights came
in and the process of creation is good,
but this is suitable maybe for a lecture
or something, but not Khutba or Jummah, when
everyone comes to learn.
Right?
So technically, we have 52 Khutba's in the
year.
52 weeks,
52 Khutba's.
A Khutba is about average
20 minutes, 25, maximum 30 minutes.
Alhamdulillah.
So if we talk about less than 30
minutes Khutba, and this is what most people
get their knowledge
from, 25 52 Khutbas,
less than half an hour, this means,
according to brother Abu Shaha Hadamay al Aqzikhir,
he brought this to my attention, This means,
if you come only to Khutba and get
your knowledge from the Khatih,
52 times a year,
every time it's less than half an hour,
this means about 24 hours in the whole
year. So if we have
365 days in the year, you dedicate less
than one day to learn about Islam.
And this is not much. Right?
But anyway,
as I get the example of Lumadan Aziz,
by just listening to the introduction of the
Khutba Allah gave him some knowledge and some
hidayah of Islam.
So make sure when you leave the Khutba,
you don't come to the Khutba just because
you have to. You come to the Khutba
because you want to grow in faith, and
and learn about Islam, and every time you
learn something about the Deen in the Khutba,
try to apply it. Walayah, this is the
minimum.
One day, you dedicate to Khutba and and
learning out of 365
days, every time you hear something about Haram
and Haram, try to apply it to yourself.
Because once you know the ruling on something,
you have to apply it. You poorrulamafirusoolul
fift. Yes, ini hukme minuwafir al. The ruling
applies
once you hear it. Like, say for example,
someone just took Shahar,
and they didn't know that alcohol is haram.
As soon as they know that alcohol is
haram, they have to stop. Or,
the counter for for sins will will be
starting. And look at shahal also revealed in
Islam. Ignorance is an excuse in Islam. So
if someone didn't know Allah would make it
easy for them. Like, you move to a
new house,
and for 3 months,
yeah, you have the phone app, and because
of the electric circuit in the building, you
have the, clip that app on your phone,
and and you put it on the floor,
and it it the clip that says this
way, and for 3 months, you have been
praying towards Vancouver
or, something else. Not the Kaaba, Mecca. Some
somewhere else. Karachi. Right?
So if someone visited you and they said,
no. No. No. This is not the right
kibla.
The right kibla is this way, then you
have to listen to them starting from this
time, and you don't have to do anything
about the 3 months of namaz in the
last 3 months. You don't have to do
anything because you didn't know. So once you
know the truth, you have to start following,
in this case.
Mahu al Al Miani, what kind of knowledge
did I have to have as a Muslim
to be a good Muslim?
Al Al Al Mafrood Al Akuli Muslim. Dayasa
Al Muslim Al Jahanibib. Labutukulinasata'alan.
We spoke before about priorities in Islam. So
Al Al Mafro, generally, the Adama classify knowledge
into 3 types.
So the Halamaq classified any type of knowledge
that we gain
in this 5 into 3 types. The permissible
knowledge,
the Haram knowledge, the Farat of obligatory knowledge.
And of course, the obligatory knowledge, this will
be the focus of the Khutba in the
next 10 minutes, Insha'Allah. And the Prophet says,
seeking knowledge is an obligation on every Muslim,
which is an authentic hadith in Ibadmara.
So why is this obligatory knowledge on every
man and woman in Islam?
If I'm gonna focus on their obligatory knowledge
in a minute inshallah. Al Al Mubah
Al Midrassatil Business, Al Malal
Handassah, Al Saidala Al Tub
So the Haramas say the permissible knowledge
is the knowledge any secular type of knowledge,
if it is permissible.
Say for example, studying engineering,
studying medicine,
cooking, any type of secular knowledge that you
gain to make people's lives easy. And if
this is the intention, Allah will give you
that award for your knowledge.
But this is permissible.
We don't have to study it, but it
is good if we study it, so we
make people's lives easy.
And they say if you decide to be
specialized in any secular knowledge, say, except for
example, you want to become a doctor.
To make people, you know, people's lives easy.
Or you like to become an engineer or
a cab driver or a chef or anything,
they say you have to be an expert
in your field,
otherwise, you'll be doing more damage than good.
Now let's say, for example, you become a
doctor.
You're skipping classes, you're cheating in exams, and
you pass, you know, the exam. And when
you operate on people, you'll be killing more
people than Hitler did in World War 2.
So you need to be an expert in
the field, or you'll be harming people. And
this is why back home, in some of
our countries, bridges are collapsing all the time.
You go into the hospital with a fever,
you stay for 2 days, and you die.
We hear stories all the time, right? So
things always happen. So they say if you
become,
you know, if you study this permissible knowledge
engineering, math, or medicine, something, you have to
have good knowledge in this field to be
able to serve people, and therefore this would
be an act of worship for you.
Number 2, il Rehmat Khan,
like studying,
black magic, or studying,
belly dancing. And then there'll be some more
Hishik Bashk.
Or,
studying how to make alcohol.
Like, for consumption, for drinking. All this knowledge
is halah.
No one is supposed to learn these things,
except there is one exception.
Alhu Adilasitavir
Arlum LitaFah Il Shara. If someone is studying,
for example,
black magic,
to be able to refute magicians and say,
well, this is all magic tricks. There is
no reality to it, and and this is
how you guys do it.
So some of the scholars say, I used
to study some aspects of the Haram, so
I can learn how to avoid them. Like
say for example, if someone studies Riba.
Right? To see and to compare the Sharay
way and the Riba way to show the
defects of the Riba and the good aspects
of Sharia. This is a good thing, and
we do a lot of studies like this
in fact, to show what is halal and
and what is ham. So this is the
Haram knowledge. No one should study it unless
to, you know, point out to people what
to avoid.
Al Ayl al Farht, and this is the
focus of the Khutba, the knowledge that every
Muslim should know,
and as I mentioned, this is relevant to
the 3 questions we get in the grave.
So with regards to the first question, who
is your Lord? We need to learn who
Allah is, his beautiful names and attributes, and
how to serve him,
and how to get close to him and
stay away from his punishment.
From Arabic al sufathilahmatalal
alibadatihi,
and the sufath had to disarm the same
Hizma.
Some people think, oh, I know the 19
names of Allah, I just memorize
them. Well, any person, Muslim or non Muslim,
can memorize the 19 9 names, and unless
they know the meaning and act upon them,
they will not benefit them in any way.
So, for example, some people don't understand
some of the names of Allah. Like, in
Mutakabbir, for example, some people think Mutakabbir means
arrogant.
But Mutakabbir doesn't mean this, like, there are
2 different words in Arabic language. There is
takabur, which is arrogance, and there is kibria.
It means,
majesty, it means greatness, it means,
you know, to be exalted.
You understand, for example,
we have some needs in life. We need
food, we need to sleep. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
He doesn't need food, he doesn't need sleep.
And Ita Rafa'al Saba'al Saba'al wa'al Hajjat. This
is one meaning. Another meaning
is sometimes we abuse one another.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Ta'ala fa'ala bhul mifawala
yabla. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is never unjust
to anyone, so He elevated Himself from injustice.
This is another meaning of Mutakabbir. He doesn't
do anyone any wrong. He is very just.
A lot of people misunderstand the meaning of
Al Jabbar. Maybe Ramadan we can dedicate the
talks in Taraweeh to the names of Allah.
A lot of people don't know the meaning
of Asamat, and so on and so forth.
They don't know the meaning of these words.
So you need to learn them and act
upon them. If you know Allah is a
razaq,
you expect you have hope in Him only.
If you know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is watching you, we need to behave.
If you commit sins, and we know that
Allah Qasoor Rahim, we should never lose hope
in His mercy. So this is how you
act upon the names of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
So I'm gonna give examples to mistakes,
in about that. For example, in Dua,
like,
So this man, there is this true story.
Someone,
you know, he used to do halal things,
but before his death, he made tawba, and
he made hajj, and but he didn't have
any knowledge.
So he used to make dua after salah
and nivas, and he would say in his
dua, he didn't know the proper Adah for
Dua, he used to say You Allah,
forgive all my sins, those of which you
know and those of which you don't know.
Like, this is a mistake in Dua'a.
So, we need to know this basically. I'm
sure everyone here knows this, that this is
just a an example.
An example is on.
Yali.
Several people came to me if they happen
to, forget,
Tashar'at in the Saka Raka'i is Salatul Hu.
If they are praying by themselves, what do
they do?
Several people told me if they forget Tashahat
in the second rakah in Dur, and they
stood up for the 3rd rakah, what do
they do? They stop Ul Haqur, and this
is not the way the Prophet SAW Alaihi
Wasallam did
Islamiyah.
Which is very true. So one sister told
me that she knows some other sisters who
pray Jum'ah this way,
in in her culture.
So she said, on Jum'ah, she doesn't go
to the Masjid, she stays at home, and
she watches the Khutba
live live on TV, and when it is
time for Jumaa, she would stand behind the
TV and pray Jumaa with the TV.
It's it happened, and there are so many
cases, and this is in in a particular
culture.
And you know what I told the sister?
And I told her the next step for
you is to get a black piece of
cloth and put it on the fridge, and
do talam around it,
at the time of Hajj.
It has to be at the Masjid. Jum'ah
is at the Masjid, not at home. If
you decide to pray at home, you pray
it lower. This is the sunnah of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Mistaken Zakah, some people
think if I live in Canada and I
pay my taxes, I don't pay Zakah.
2 totally different things. Zakah is something, tax
is something else.
Fasting. I gave the example one time.
Sister accepted Islam
in South Carolina,
and normally when someone takes shahada, we hug
them, we kiss them, then we throw them
in the street. We don't teach them anything.
So I visited her masjid, and she said,
You Imam, I've been fasting for 2 years
now, as a new Muslim. Am I fasting
the right way? I said, Okay, how do
you fast? She said, According to the book
they gave me, I wake up in the
morning, I take my sahad,
and I continue to the mallet, then I
eat. I said, Okay, what time do you
wake up in the morning? She said, Well,
it depends, sometimes 10:30, sometimes 11.
This is what the book said! And this
this is all wrong!
It has to be Bufar al Fazl. Right?
But she didn't understand this from the book.
Does she have to make up the last
2 years of Ramadan? Of course not, because
she didn't know, and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will forgive her because she didn't,
and next to him there was a sister,
an old lady, with her son, and her
son, okay,
said, Why do people
do Talaf around the Kaaba? And she said,
Because the Prophet is buried inside inside the
Kaaba. This is what she told her son.
Right?
Alright, this is basic basic knowledge. Another example,
one brother told me, it's a true story.
He was sitting outside the Kaaba, there is
some McDonald's or something outside,
and after the house, he was sitting there
for food,
and he noticed
from his place at the restaurant, in front
of the restaurant outside the Haram,
that there is a brother who is doing,
like he saw him 2 or 3 times,
like he would come and go and come.
So he said, what are you doing? He
said, I'm doing Ta'af. He thought that the
Ta'af is around the building itself, not around
the Kaaba. This is what he thought. And
so on and so forth. The stories are
so many. And the last one for, for
today, this happened with me personally.
We used to go to Makkah and Madina
to translate
the Tarawih live
behind Shurayman's days and Hudayfi. The subtitles, you
see you still see them till this day,
when they, the Ramadan Taraweeh, they do it
in English or the French for Madinah subtitles.
So one time we decided to go for
Umrah,
Ramadan, and we have this brother with with
us,
Abdul.
So what happened in Ramadan,
the the Haram is crowded just like Hajj
in Ramadan because of the reward.
So we were doing tawaf around the Kaaba,
not the building, just inside the around the
Kaaba,
and we decided to kiss the black stone
after the Tawaf.
So I had this brother Abdul with me,
and and we couldn't do it because so
many people, we didn't want to push anyone.
So at some point,
3 big brothers
came, like, you know, big deal and muscles
and stuff. So they made our way, and
I was just behind them. Like, when you
watch mister Bean, and there is the ambulance,
and, you know, the ambulance is going through
the red light, and you would just go
behind the ambulance. So this is what we
did. The brothers pushed away, and he opened
the way for us.
I was behind them, and Abdul, assuming, like,
was behind me.
I went there, after they finished, I kissed
a black stone, and I looked for Abdul,
nowhere could be found.
Oh, okay.
Then I left,
and I found him on the other side,
he had like the golden door of the
Kaaba, and there's a green strap below,
Atar B'Tavra,
and and he was all over this step,
the green step, and he was kissing it.
And I said, What are you doing here?
Aqisako emoskaleh. What are you doing here? And
he said, I'm kissing the black stone.
And he said, You never thought why people
are fighting each other on the other side,
and no one is here, you are here
all by yourself.
Plus, this is not a stone. And number
2, this is not green, it's black. It's
this is not black, this is green. So
after we turned to Egypt, they used to
ask him, Yeah, Abdul, what what color is
the, black stone? And he would say, Green.
So these are some of the examples.
So, the fun of knowledge,
number 1, to know Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
his qualities, his attributes,
to understand them and to apply them to
your life, and to know how to worship
him. Salah, Hazakah, Hajj, so on and so
forth.
And number 2, the knowledge of Muhammad salah
sallam. How to follow his example. Man man
Nabi yuka.
To follow his example, akhlaqamun.
His manners.
How good and sincere and generous and kind
and so on and so forth towards people.
We need to copy his example.
How did he do with his family?
With his friends? His muamalat with the people?
Buying and selling and renting and hiring. How
did he do?
Did he cheat people? Of course not. Hire.
Was he honest with the people and generous
and kind to them? In fact, all the
time, the Prophet
was the best of mankind.
Manrukuka, salallahu alayhi wasalam. Manrukuka,
mannabeekar,
wamanadeenuka.
Aladeen
eventually comes down to halal and ham.
What is right and what is wrong?
And this, of course, is based on the
knowledge of fiqh, the basics of fiqh, the
dealings,
financial transactions, and so on and so forth.
Your knowledge of Allah, how to worship Him,
your knowledge of the Prophet
how to follow His sunnah, and number 3,
the knowledge of Islam, which is halal and
haram. We ask Allah
to give us knowledge, and beneficial knowledge, and
give us the benefit of it. JazakAllah.
So in the last,
minute of the life of this Fuqba,
just a couple of announcements inshallah.
But please move up a little bit because
the people are waiting outside.
Main gate inshallah will have the school here
will have a summer camp for the students,
in July and in August, Monday to Friday,
9 AM to 4, to 4 PM, Insha'Allah.
And if you are interested, you can register,
your children. We'll be posting posters outside. We'll
be giving you more more information soon, Insha'Allah.
Ramadan gaskets are available outside. You can talk
to, brother Abdul Salam. They're $80 each, and
in Ramadan, these baskets will be given to,
the poor in Muslim countries in the month
of Ramadan.
And, also, as I mentioned last time, there
are some people who are standing outside with
science, and they're asking for money.
And we spoke to them several times. Come
inside. We have zakah and sadaqa money for
you, but they refused to come.
And when we talked to them, they say,
you can't call the police with us because
we are standing on public, property. So they
basically know the laws, and they did their
homework. So please, if you see them, advise
them to come inside. It's not good a
good image for the community. We already have
your Zakah and your salatah money for them,
but I'm not sure if this is a
business or something they're doing. Advise them to
come inside and and take the Zakah or
salatah,
and,
of course, tomorrow, inshallah, 7 to 9, Frank
McKechnie, we have the youth program.
And, finally,
I visited some public libraries in Canada,
and all the books almost all the books
they have on Islam is basically junk donated
to them by people like Tariq Fata' and,
Ayan Mirsh Ali, and all these suckers who
attack Islam, they have nothing to say about
good to say about Islam. So almost all
the books they have on Islam on public
libraries are attacks on Islam, terrible things to
say. So I decided to send a copy,
the large one, hardcover,
Arabic English to all public libraries in Canada,
and all public offices will receive them. Justin
Trudeau will give them, and all the MPs
and and all politicians will receive it, and
we'll make the DAO edition, the small one,
English only, available for DAO. Like, thousands of
copies for DAO in jail, flea markets, and
in the street. And this project is done
by Anatolia here, by this machine. So our
target is 50,000.
We started 4 weeks ago, and through my
friends, just my small circle,
out of the 50,000 target, we raised more
than
31,000.
So, Alhamdulillah. So, you have the opportunity to
contribute, inshallah,
If you go to this website,
gofundme.com,
the clear Quran,
and make a donation,
then inshallah, you will get a tax receipt
from the Masjid here, and if someone donated
300 or more, we will put their name
inside the book as a sponsor.
So I think in the in this Islamophobic
atmosphere we have around us, this is a
good way, inshallah, to go, to send it
to all public libraries and public offices, and
to make thousands of copies available for taw
in Jir, street taw and 3 markets. And,
Jazakullah Hayal, if you would like to contribute,
may Allah
reward you in this place. GoFundMe.com/theclearquran.
Anything for the people. Just choose the day,
let me know, and I will come. I
will cancel anything else.
Give me your time. Always.
Do you know do you know do you
know his book? Like, could you look him?
No. You should get him. You also know
him.
You know him.
Yes. I think we met before. Okay.