Mustafa Khattab – The Strong Muslim
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I bear witness that there is none worthy
of our worship except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and I bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam is the seal of the prophets
and the final messenger
to all humanity.
And you all, insha'Allah, nakhi,
an manal kawal, fihayat, and Muslims.
So today, insha'Allah, we'll talk about the meaning
of a strong Muslim in the Hadith of
the Prophet SAW. And
The prophet
says,
a strong believer,
a strong Muslim is better
and more beloved to Allah
than a weak believer.
Do what is beneficial
for you
and put your trust in Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and don't lose hope.
If something bad happens to you, don't say,
if I did this and this, this would
have happened.
But say, this is what Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala has decreed.
And the prophet
says because the word it opens the door
for the whispering of the shaitan.
Hadith is very general, and it includes
physical
power, it includes
spiritual power, it includes
financial power, social power, political power.
So it talks about all these powers in
the hadith of the Qamsa Asad.
So this spiritual power, for example, or strength
talks about
patience in doing acts of worship. This is
the real strength.
If you wake up
at fajr to pray, this is strength.
If you are patient at the time of
difficulty,
the loss of a beloved one, this is
the real strength.
If people make you mad and you still
control your anger, this is strength,
and these are not my words. This is
what the prophet said in the authentic Hadith.
The prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam says that the
strong among you is not the one who
knocks people down.
The strong among you is the one who
controls himself at the time of extreme anger.
Sometimes you feel like you wanna snap on
someone, give them a black eye, or break
their neck, but still you control yourself, and
it happens every day.
This is the real strength, as the prophet
says.
So physical strength is also required in Islam.
How can you pray?
How can you go for Hajj? Or how
can you come to Tarweegh or make a
tikaf or fast in Ramadan if you are
physically weak? You will not be able to
do it in the proper way if you
are weak.
So physical strength is also intended in the
the
So the second meaning or the third meaning
of strength in Islam is the financial and
economic strength.
Okay? Some people like to be poor because,
they will not stand for a long time
for judgment on the day of judgment. Okay?
But who is going to spend on mashadid?
Who is going to spend on schools? Who
is going to help the poor and needy
in the Muslim community if they were one
of the poor?
And also, there is nothing wrong in Islam
if you are a millionaire
as long as you give the rights of
Allah and the rights of the people.
If you just look at the 10 Sahaba,
the 10 companions of the prophet who got
the news of Jannah while they were living
with the prophet,
most of them were millionaires.
Abu Bakr was a millionaire,
laddillaban.
Uthman ibn Affair was a millionaire.
Abdul Rahman now was a millionaire.
Sa'id ibn Abi Waqqas was a millionaire. Tal
Khan al Ubaidullah
was a millionaire, and all of them are
from the Sahaba al Tikh who got the
news of Jannah.
When Uthman ibn Affan migrated from Hakad to
Madinah, he had 0 in his pockets because
he left all his money back in in
Mecca,
and in a few years, when he died,
they estimated the money he left behind.
The amount the number was 300,200,000
dild, silver coins.
He was a millionaire in today's terms, so
they were not poor, and this is the
financial strength in Islam.
Said that the prophet
says in an authentic hadith and bukhari and
Muslim
that the upper hand, which is the giving
hand, the the rich hand,
is more beloved to Allah, is better in
Islam
than the below hand, the hand that is
begging people for money.
So this also gives you an idea about
the fish the, financial
strength in Islam.
So the next type of strength in Islam
is the social strength.
Muslims have to be visible in the community.
We have to have doctors and engineers,
nurses, and physicians
to represent the Muslim community.
So Islam is not only what we do
in the masjid on Friday or in the
5 day of the first, Islam is what
you do in the society. The
prophet
says in the hadith that Islam
is your behavior, your interaction with the people.
Whatever you do, salahasiyam,
is something between you and Allah, but what
matters
is how you deal with the people is
how active and proactive and positive you are
in the Muslim society.
Political strength.
Muslims have existed in Canada for the longest
since the founding of Canada.
In the census that was done in 18/71,
they say that Muslims existed at that time
in Canada.
So we have existed here for the longest.
There are more Muslims in Canada
than Jews, Hindus, Buddhists put together.
Islam is the 2nd largest faith in Canada,
but still, we don't have any,
political participation. We don't have any political strength
or weight in this country.
Why?
If you have
fewer
Hindus or Buddhists or Sikhs or Jews in
Canada,
how come that all of them have more,
politicians in the country than Muslims? Why?
Every time you see a politician
on TV or over the radio criticizing
or saying bad things about Muslims, keeping in
their mind that Muslims have no political strength.
They wouldn't care about Muslim votes in the
elections because Muslims don't don't vote anyway in
the elections.
But if they know that Muslims vote,
and if they know that the 1,500,000
Muslims that live in Canada
can vote and they can not only bring
people to the parliament, but they can bring
prime ministers to office, the Muslims can make
a difference in the politics
in Canada if they are united.
So we have to show them this strength,
thus Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
Last night,
CBC, they aired, an interview with prime minister
Stephen Harper.
And he criticized what he called the, he
was talking about the biggest threat,
that threatens Canada recently, and he said that
the largest and the biggest threat for Canada
is Islamicism.
And I don't know what is this called
Islamicism.
It doesn't even exist in dictionaries.
They always attribute,
violence and terrorism to the word Islam, Islamic
fundamentalism,
Islamic terrorism, Islamic radicalism,
but this is probably the first time for
me to hear the word Islamicism.
Okay?
And the good thing about Canada here is
for someone like me to criticize something that
the Prime Minister has said without the prospect
or the fear of being kidnapped,
or tortured, or killed, or imprisoned.
It's not like Bangkok. Isn't that something good?
So
if you look at the statements of the
prime minister,
you don't have to be a genius to
realize that these words are not
historically or statistically
accurate. They are not.
There are more social problems in this country,
and there is terrorism
by other groups other than Muslims that that
is more threatening than the, what he called
Islamicism
in country.
There are more people if you look at
the past 10 years or throughout the history
of Canada,
how many
victims that were killed by Islamic terrorism or
Islamicism in Canada?
0.
Not a single Canadian has been killed in
Canadian soil by a Muslim terrorist.
There's an article on Wikipedia.
Terrorism in Canada. Go read it and see
and read about the, terrorist groups in Canada.
They will talk about Cuban terrorism in Canada.
They talk about,
terrorism by Quebec, militants in Canada.
They talk about,
safe,
militants in Canada. And as a matter of
fact, the largest terrorist act in the history
of Canada was done in 1985
by a safe militant group,
with Air India.
About 330
people were killed. Most of them were Canadians.
They were not killed by Muslims,
by Sikh militants from India,
and so on and so forth. So Muslims
are not even there in the list.
So
attributing
Islam to terrorism is not physiologically,
is not historical, is not statistically accurate.
The other thing is, and I conclude with
this,
there are more social problems in Canada that
kill more people than Islamic terrorists. And as
I said, not a single Canadian has ever
been killed in Canada by a Muslim terrorist.
Not a single one.
Go read the list. Go read the statistics.
600
people are killed in Canada every year, not
by Muslim terrorists, but by Canadian,
citizens.
A 1000 people die on Canadian roads every
year because of alcohol accidents
related accidents.
Not Muslims don't sell alcohol in Canada,
but these people, the Canadians, they drink and
they get killed or kill somebody,
because they are drunk on the roads. And
there are thousands
of victims
of domestic violence
and sexual abuse in Canada, and Muslims have
nothing to do with this. So what is
he talking about? Muslims are not even in
the list of crimes or, domestic violence or
terrorism in the list. What are you talking
about?
But some
politicians, they use this as a propaganda technique
to, gain or to make some political gains.
And they always do this in in the
US, in Canada, in Europe, and elsewhere.
What I'm trying to say, if these people,
the politicians,
know that Muslims have political strength, they will
think a 1000 times before they make a
statement about Muslims. They can never say something
like this about Sees, or Buddhist, or Jews,
or anyone else in Canada, but Muslims are
weak politically. So they can say whatever they
want.
There is an election coming up on 13th
of this month,
13th
September,
to choose the premier of,
a burden. We want Muslims to go and
to vote. It doesn't matter who you vote
for. What matters is you are visible in
the elections, and you choose the right person
to present represent Muslims in this country.
Someone to fight for the political, the social,
and economic rights of Muslims in this country.
Someone to fight against stereotypes
for criticizing Muslims for with no proof in
this country.
Someone to fight
to introduce
Islamic topic in the social studies in the
schools in this country.
Someone to help introduce the Arabic language in
the curriculum in the Canadian schools.
Someone to help the Muslim immigration
from Muslim countries, and so on and so
forth. So these are the gains we can
get
for ourselves and for our children.
Don't live in a cocoon and say that
people will fight for me.
No one will fight for you unless you
fight for yourself. This is a historical fact,
you don't question this one. Thus, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala,