Mustafa Khattab – The Sahaba 7 7

Comes 10.

And the second thing would be about justice

in your life. Everyone around you

has rights on you, you have rights on

yourself, and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has rights

on you.

So with regard to the first one, most

of the time when people come to me

for counseling,

a husband and wife fighting,

someone in his life is missed up,

usually the first thing that I look at

is the priorities.

So most of the time when there's a

problem in the house

or someone is know is not doing well

in his life or there's a problem in

the community or in Mas'ajid or in societies,

the first thing we have to look at

is the priorities.

And most of the time, the priorities are

missed out. So So for example, on the

personal level,

if someone is not doing well, someone is

living a miserable life,

if you look at the bottom

of everything, you will find that this person

for example is putting his desires

and lower self in front of Allah

He's following his desires.

Allah

says in the Quran, look at those people

who live a miserable life, they take their

desires as God.

So Allah God for them is their desires.

Whether it's money,

in God we trust, they always put it

on the dollar, this is the God we

trust, a green God.

Or whether it's,

whatever,

the money, your word, whatever. Anything you put

before Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that keeps you

away from Salah, for example, and time,

whether it's playing video games or playing soccer

or hockey, whatever.

This is, this becomes a god for you.

As long as you put it in front

of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it's a god

for you.

On the family level, when people put traditions

and cultural

practices

in front of the law of Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala, then

their life will be misled.

Forcing a lady, for example, to marry against

her wealth, this is putting the tradition and

the culture in front of the Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala.

Also, if we don't give babies their share

of inheritance as some people do, and this

happens

in in Egypt for example, in my village,

my mother couldn't get a share of inheritance

from her parents, not because of Islam, but

because

of the culture.

When you don't allow women to go to

Halakas and to study and to learn, how

can they teach their kids if they have

no knowledge?

And this is again, it's Islam. The prophet

says,

salamu alaymi fariyuda alakuli Muslim, seeking knowledge is

an obligation on every Muslim,

and the word Muslim here means male or

female.

So following the culture

and following our traditions that we got from

our parents and giving it more,

value and more weight,

then and he put it in front of

Allah before

Allah

before his Prophet. Now, you'll have a problem

in your life. And also,

for example, the prophet

says, always look for a husband with deen,

talking to the sisters,

and the brother look for a sister with

deen, and deen is more important than beauty

or money or the family style.

But most of the time, the first thing

we look at, the sister would would look

at a brother with a lot of money,

so he will make her life comfortable,

and the the brother will look at that

sister who is,

pretty.

The dean comes next, and this is where

we always have problems. They come to me,

they shoot at each other, they come bleeding,

and they call 911. We have problems, because

the dean is not there.

Also, in societies where people put politics in

front of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, we always

justify everything, and this is one thing we

humans are good at. We always have excuses.

We never run out of excuses,

And this is why we always have problems,

because we put politics in front of Allah

We don't care about religion. We don't care

about what the Quran says or the Prophet

says. Politics comes first.

Sahaba Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ahi

rabbin.

So I don't think any of the Sahaba

would leave Salatul Jama' in the Masjid if

he lives 1 block away,

And I'm sure there are so many people

who live next door to the Masjid, maybe

they share

a wall with the Masjid, and they don't

come to pray in the Masjid.

They live very close, and some brothers, mashallah,

they drive long distances just to come and

pray in the mash I wouldn't think that

one of the Sahaba

would stay at home to play video games

and not to pray on time, until the

next time for Salah comes. And the reason

is, they aren't playing video games.

Right? So this is not acceptable in Islam.

You have to put your priorities in order.

First things come first,

last things come last. Otherwise, your life will

be misled,

And, we have to wrap it up. And

next time, inshallah, we'll talk about justice and

ativeness Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.