Mustafa Khattab – Toughest Job In The World
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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 Wa
Ta'ala, peace be upon him, is the seal
of the prophets and the final messenger
to all of humanity.
Whoever Allah
guides, there is none to misguide
and whoever Allah
leaves to stray, there is none to guide.
So to start off, I would like to
apologize for the return of the winter. You
probably know that I have no control,
but,
this is basically a test from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
So ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give
us life until the month of Ramadan
and to enjoy this life, Amina
So to sum up, there was
a,
a company in the US, they basically help
people hire. It's a hiring company. So they
invited people for an interview to take this
job and they called it the the toughest
job in the world.
So people came for the interview and they
told the interviewees,
that, there are some certain conditions.
Number 1,
mobility.
You have to be,
always on call. So they can't call you
for the job to, to serve your associate,
in the middle of the night, and you
have to wake up and and and you
get on the job.
And you have to be standing up most
of the time, running from one place to
another, up and down, and so on and
so forth. And number 2, the avail availability.
You will be on call all the time,
7 days a week, 24 hours a day,
all the month, all year long.
And they said there are no days off.
Even when you are sick, you have to
be on the job.
And you have to get some training.
Nursing,
medicine,
financing,
and so on and so forth. And the
most important thing is you're not getting paid.
Nothing. And the people were shocked and they
said, you're kidding me. I do all this
work and I'm not getting paid. Who in
the world would accept a job like this?
And they were told there are actually millions
of people
around the world, if not billions, who have
this job. And they said, who? And they
said, mothers.
Your mother.
They work every day, 24 hours, even when
they are sick, and they don't get paid.
There's there are no day days off. Right?
And some of the interviewers, they started to
cry because now they realize how much sacrifices
the parents do, especially the mother.
So
if our mothers or our parents in general
do so much for us,
how come that some of us are negligent
of the rights of their parents, especially the
mother?
Yes. They don't talk to their parents. I
know there are most of us, Alhamdulillah, they're
good. They take care of their parents, especially
if you come from, you know, certain cultures
and stuff. They put their parents in high
status.
But some people, when they get busy in
their life, studies and work, and they get
married, and they start families of their own,
they they barely have time for their parents.
Ola, I read a story one time.
A person died. I'm not sure if it
was a mother or a father.
The person was sitting on their seat watching
TV and they died.
And they found out 6 months later that
the person died because their kids were not
there. They moved out and no one was
asking about them. So by the time they
found out that the person dies, the the
person was a skeleton basically.
6 months no. 6 weeks that no one
knows anything about them. Right? For 6 weeks
and SubhanAllah I remember the story of Al
Hazlul Abbasi Rahimahullah.
So Al Khasr al Basri did not eat
with his mother on the same plate
and someone said okay why are you doing
this? He said because maybe I'm eating with
her on the same plate and her eyes
falls on something and she wants to take
it and I take it first then I
commit ruku against my mother. I'm disrespectful
to my mother.
That much.
SubhanAllah.
There's also this story, it's a true story
that happened in a Muslim country, a Muslim
country.
So there is this true story in a
Muslim country. Wallahi, it's a true story. This
lady used to go to the Masjid everyday,
an elderly lady, she used to go to
the Masjid everyday from,
8 to 5.
8 to 5 everyday. She would eat there,
sleep there, pray there.
So the janitor in the Masjid,
said, Sister, okay, you come to the Masjid
all weekdays here. You don't show up on
the weekend. You come weekdays from 8 to
5.
You meet here, you sleep here, you stay
in the masjid. What is going on? Why
are you doing this?
It's not Ramadan nor Atikarab. Why are you
sitting in the masjid? So she said that
my daughter-in-law is giving me a hard time.
So every time my son leaves me and
he goes to work, she's making up a
scene and she's making up stuff and she's
telling my son that she hit me, she
is abusing me, she's doing this and I'm
not doing anything.
So I begged my son, I begged him,
whenever you go to work, 8 in the
morning drop me off at the masjid, and
when you come back 5, pick me up.
Right? That much. SubhanAllah. That's terrible.
Another example,
I received a phone call from someone
from back home.
So I got a phone call from my
sister and she said they have an old
sister
in in, you know, in their, same area
from back home. And they said this sister
is always on her bed.
She's, you know, kind of old,
heavyset,
and she's not able to move, and no
one is living with her in the house.
And and because she can't make it to
the washroom, she always relieves herself on the
bed.
Urinates, defecates.
The question was, can can she pray in
this condition? She is she is not able
to do udu or tayamu. Can she pray
in this condition?
And I said, well, I'm not gonna answer
your question before you answer a question from
mine. Where are your kids? Where did they
go? And she said, you know, the 5,
6 kids, they got married, they moved out,
no one has time for their mother, but
they collectively
pay another woman who comes before Malik every
day to clean her up and cook and
do everything for her. So I said, subhanAllah,
if
this woman,
20 years ago,
she was able by herself to take care
of 6 kids.
How come that now,
these 6 kids collectively cannot take care of
1 woman? This is not fit. This is
not fit. Is this how we treat our
parents in their old age? So on my
the biggest plea blessing you can have in
your life is to have your parents, especially
your mother. This is based on ayaat from
the Quran, based on a hadith. Take care
of them.
If they are alive now, don't waste your
time on Facebook.
Yes, you have to work. Alhamdulillah.
You have to give time to your family,
but your parents. Give them some time.
Call them. Take care of them. Give them
money.
Because of wallahi, by the time you grow
a bit older,
you slow down, you become wiser, you look
for your parents so you can hug them
and tell them how much you love them,
and you talk to them. They are not
dead anymore. They are dead. They left this
world. But when it is too late, now
you're wise up. So take advantage of the
presence of your parents.
SubhanAllah, when you read in the Quran,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Ya'i, when he
talks about your relationship with Allah, tawhid,
almost always Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will say
take care of your parents.
Your Lord has decreed that you worship number
10 and honor your parents.
So it's always like this in the Quran.
When Allah talks about Dawid, worship me alone,
then He says honor your parents.
Why?
Because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala created you,
but you are here in this world because
of your parents. If it was not for
them, you wouldn't be here.
Your relationship with Allah cannot be cut off.
Even those who worship Isa, or those who
worship Buddha, or they worship a cow. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is their Lord even if
they thank someone else.
And your relationship with your parents cannot be
cut off. Yeah. Let's say for example, if
someone
marries a sister,
they have a fight, and he divorces her.
She's not his wife anymore.
If I hire someone to work for me,
and they're not a good employee, and I
fire them, they're not my employee anymore.
I have a good friend, and we have
a fight over business,
and I tell them you go this way,
I'm gonna go this way. They are not
my friend anymore.
But if you don't like your mom's cooking
skills,
and you say I divorce you, she's still
your mother.
Or if you tell your dad, well, you
in the Quran.
Because SubhanAllah, I I grew up on a
farm. I grew up on a farm. I
grew up on a farm. I grew up
on a farm. I grew up on a
farm. I grew up
on a in the Quran
because SubhanAllah I I grew up on a
farm in Egypt. I'm a farmer by birth.
So we had a farm
and we had so many animals in the
farm. SubhanAllah
last year I was in Toronto Zoo
and if you calculate the number of animals
they have in the Toronto Zoo, we had
more animals on our farm than the Toronto
Zoo, except for the crocodiles.
Right? So we have, like, buffalos
and cows and sheep and goats and geese
and ducks and so many horses,
donkeys, everything. You name it. They are there.
And I used to look around at these
animals and birds
and as soon as the horse was born
or the cow was born,
within 20 minutes, half an hour, they are
on their feet and they are on their
own. They are running around, they are eating.
And the birds, I used to see the
ducklings, the chicks when they come out of
when the eggs hatch, they come out Within
half an hour, they're on their own. They're
in the water, they're eating.
Now look at you.
2 ears, you can't talk. 1 ear, you
can't even walk. Nothing but struggle. Right? It
takes a very long time
for a human being to be dependent, independent.
To be independent, to be on their own.
Right?
You start off with this age, the first
6 months.
The person is lying there on their back,
you try to make them laugh,
all you get is like, you know, like
this. Nothing. No emotions. Nothing.
And after this, they go into what I
call the the shoe licking face. They go
around in the house, whatever they find they
put in their mouth, shoes, pens, anything.
Then they they enter a space.
When they start to walk, this is a
disaster for parents. They climb stairs, they fall
down, they stand on chairs,
they open the fridge, they find, you know,
a needle or something or a nail and
they put it in this, you know, electric
socket, you know, all the time. Nothing but
trouble. And subhanAllah. So the parents are always
there to take care of you in this
critical time in your life.
They wake up all night when you are
sick,
when you study,
they make sure inshallah you do your homework,
and you graduate, you are successful.
And when you go to the top, you
say, oh, I did it all by myself.
What are you talking about? They were with
you every step of the way. So Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is reminding you of your
parents, especially their mother. And and subhanAllah, this
is very interesting.
So it's very interesting when Allah talks about
the parents in the Quran.
He focuses on the mother in many places
in the Quran
because Allah subhanahu wa'ala knows that we forget.
Allah talks about pregnancy. Allah talks about the
contractions
and the childbirth, and he talks about the
weaning and the nursing.
The mother is taking care of all of
this.
When you're young, you know, the feeding, the
diaper change,
and sickness, and the throwing up, and the
teething, and everything.
Your mom is up all night taking care
of you, and your dad is just annoyed
right there. So this is why Allah focuses
on the mother. I'm not trying to put
down the father or anything. But Allah focuses
on the mother in the Quran because she
does a lot of sacrifices
before we come to this world
and after. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
reminding us of this.
Also,
the parents subhanahu wa ta'ala, they are very
gentle. They have good hearts.
Even if you do something terrible,
talking to the students in the back. Can
you move up a little bit, please? The
chief are standing outside.
Is that okay?
Even if you do something wrong,
in front of dad, he will get you.
Things would be flying chairs,
you know, a shuk, anything will happen. Something
terrible will happen. And MashaAllah, they have strong
right arms.
But the mother, SubhanAllah, put kindness in their
hearts.
If you do something terrible, they will say,
you know what? When your dad comes, I'm
gonna tell him. He will fix you up
for me. And 1 minute before the father
comes, oh,
Harwan, he's coming and your dad is tired.
I'm not gonna tell him but don't do
it again. Right? Promise me. They promise and
they do it a 1000 times again. The
mothers are very gentle and this is why
Allah says don't take advantage of their kindness.
Don't abuse their gentleness to you. Be kind
to your mother. Your dad is able to
fix you off but your mother is too
gentle and too kind. She's not gonna harm
you. So don't abuse her kindness to you.
And this is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is always reminding us of the rights of
our parents and how we should be kind
to them and how we should honor them.
I'm gonna say something and
if you are able
to frame it and put it in your
house, do so.
The Alama said, if you would like,
If you would like to know
how much Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves you,
look at the way you love your parents.
If you want to know if Allah is
pleased with you or not, then look at
your parents if they are pleased with you
or not. And this is actually
based is based on a Hadith in Atir
Midi. Yaqulul Nabi sahassalam, real Allah
firib anwalidayin
wasakatilafi
sahathimah. The prophet
says in Atir Midi,
if Allah
if if your parents are pleased with you,
they are happy with you, Allah is pleased
with you.
If your parents are displeased with you, Allah
is displeased with you.
When Allah speaks about the people on the
Day of Judgment,
everyone wants to save themselves
and He says in Surah Al Ma'arij that
on that day everyone would be running,
Surah in Surah Abas Sallahu Alaihi wa Ta'ala
Everyone would be running away from each other.
You'll be running away from
your brothers and sisters,
your parents. Allah says your mother and father
and you'll be running away from your wife
and children. You'll be running away from everyone.
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says the same
thing in Surah Ma'arij
and He says, Youwadul Mujrimu
La wyafthadim
min adabiamayeembibaneem
wasahi batihiwahim
wafasi latihi to weep. There is no mission
of the parents in Surah Ma'arij.
It says on that day, the wicked,
they will try to save themselves from Jahannam
by sacrificing
their brothers and sisters,
their wives,
and their children, and their tribe or their
clan. There's no mission of the parents. And
the ulama say,
So they say he will be running away
from everyone,
but when it comes to sacrificing someone
to take your place in Jahannam, you will
push everyone except for your parents.
According to Surah Al Ma'alif because they say
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will be displeased with
you. He will be more displeased with you,
more so if you sacrifice your parents. And
this is why Allah didn't mention the parents
in this ayat. So this shows you, subhanAllah,
to care for the parents in Dunya and
even in Afar. And that's
Allah
to make us among those who honor their
parents.
So in the last minute of the life
of, this Khutba. We'll continue next time. If
you would like to know the rest of
the Khutba, you can please come next week.
So a couple of announcements. The first one
is related to Syria.
The amount of suffering and the amount of
agony
that is going on there, the suffering of
the women and children, and we feel helpless.
There's nothing we can do for them other
than dua and maybe if we're can help
them financially and help the refugees.
It is, subhanallah, inhumane, the way they are
treated.
And and all those
countries that care about,
subhanAllah,
cats and dogs and pets and stuff.
SubhanAllah, I wish sometimes that
what can I say? Well, lie. I wish
we get the same treatment.
The way people are treated, they are being
gassed, and they're being killed, and so on
and so forth. And it seems that no
one cares anymore.
The least I I can say this is
shameful
to all of humanity. So we ask
Allah to make it easy for our brothers
and sisters in Syria, and we ask Allah
to give them justice, and we ask Allah
to
give them victory and to give them support.
The second thing, we know now the situation
in Canada. There's
a large group of Islamophobes.
They are out there. They are very vocal
in the media. They're attacking Islam. They have
issues with Muslim, students praying at schools. I
used to attend these meetings at the Board
of Education on, Wednesdays
because a lot of people used to come
and say, okay, this is a secular country.
There is no need,
for Muslims to pray in the school.
You can do religion at home, but at
school, just just for learning, there's always separation
between church and state.
Well, if there's always separation between church and
state, all you need to do is just
study the national anthem. Oh, Canada, you will
see the word oh, God in there. Then
you can't separate where do we get the
morals and the values and the principles in
society. You get them from religion. You cannot
separate totally.
Right?
So
a few days ago or a couple of
weeks ago, this, idiot came out and they
had a copy of the Quran, a translation,
and they started to tear it out and
and throw the Quran on the floor.
Before shamm, you wouldn't see something like this.
Bigots
and Islamophobes
and racists wouldn't come out like this. But
now because of the political atmosphere and because
now they feel like a lot of people
are doing it, and and and because someone
down the border,
I call him Abuja, he's doing it, and
he's talking about Muslims and stuff. They feel
like, oh, we can come out and speak.
Haters will always hate. There's nothing we can
do. But we need to reach out to
those who are,
sane, the sane people,
the open minded people, the people who have
integrity, the people who have,
humanity in them, and who can reach out
to them, open your doors, we need to
open our Masajid and welcome them here, And
InshaAllah,
I'm talking to the, Council of Imams so
we can dedicate 1 or more days every
year. All the masajid in Canada would be
open to the public. They can come for
refreshments and stuff. We give them talks about
Islam
to highlight the shared values that we have.
And, hopefully, in Ramadan InshaAllah, we're going to
invite some dignitaries from, Mississauga area,
from politicians,
people in the media, the police, religious leaders,
the board of education. They can come here
and and see the beauty and the generosity
of Islam. We ask Allah
to give an instant to Islam and Muslims.
We ask Allah
to forgive our sins and accept our good
deeds and to give us the best in
this life and the best in the life
to come.