Mustafa Khattab – Wasiya or Barbeque Mustafa KHattab

I bear witness that there is none worthy

of our worship except Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

and I bear witness that Muhammad, salallahu alayhi

wa sallam, peace be upon you, is the

seal of the prophets and the final messenger

to all of humanity. Whomever Allah, Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala, guides, there is none to misguide him.

And whomever Allah

needs to go astray, there is none to

guide

So today, inshallah, we'll be talking about

a very,

important and vital topic.

The topic is a in the Islamic will

and testament.

So those of you who fall asleep in

the footpath, please pay attention for just 10

minutes.

So when we talk about the last will

and testament from a Muslim perspective or what

we call wasiyyah in Arabic,

So we mean the plan

of action

for what to be done after the person

leaves this life in terms of the funeral,

the debts, the money he owes or she

owes, and so on and so forth.

By, we mean the plan for what to

be done after the death. We all hear

about sudden death. Someone is alive and healthy

and everything, and all of a sudden, the

person dies. We heard a lot of stories

of youth and brothers and sisters

who work with us

in the last 2 years. And today, they're

not with us anymore. And the stories have

so many. There's no need to give examples.

We ask the most

to forgive all of them.

So once the person dies and he or

she was not expecting death, nobody knows what

to do. How to do this funeral, what

to do with their debts and their money.

And we don't know if they owe money

or they owe somebody debts or anything. We

don't know nothing.

Because the brother or the sister, he was

not expecting death, so he didn't make his

maseeb.

Also, some of us, they live here in

this country

by themselves.

Their families live back home, 10000, 15,000

miles away. So once the person dies, nobody

knows anything about them. We don't know who

to contact, who who to call back from,

and where to call. Nobody knows anything.

And also, those of us who live here,

and they work

anywhere or they work at Fort McMurray or

what they call Fort McMurray.

Okay? So they make lots of money,

but when they die,

who is gonna take their money? The Canadian

government will take most of the money, and

their families who live back home, they're not

taking anything unless they have to to fight

to take it to the court and fight

to get your money.

Also, the parents,

they're going somewhere, they're shopping, whatever, they're driving

their car and their kids at school and

accidents happen. Who's gonna take care of the

kids?

Most likely, the government would put them for

adoption and somebody would take them. Maybe a

Christian family, a Hindu family. Nobody knows.

So you have to make sure you leave

your kids in reliable hands before you leave

because you don't know this family. Nobody

knows.

But sometimes, and we hear about this all

the time. Yeah. I mean, a lot of

our brothers, they get married to non Muslim

ladies, especially Christian ladies when they come to

this country.

So once the person dies, his wife, who

is not Muslim, she doesn't know what to

do. Then she might take the body to

the church, and they cry over you, in

the church.

Or in some cases,

and you probably heard of this, they cremate

the body.

Barbecue.

Okay? So they burn the body to save

some money. And this happens, and I heard

a lot of stories. So you have to

put in your will see what to be

done after your death.

So Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, says in the

Quran in chapter 2, that Allah, Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala, has ordained for you

before your death that you make a wafin.

If you leave something of value,

or if

you call it

that the prophet says that every Muslim

who has something of value

should not stay for 2 days without having

his wasi written with him.

Something of value. So Abdullah Nohmar radhiallahu

He said, my father came to me at

night and he said, I will probably be

the 1st to die tomorrow in the battle.

And I don't love anyone in this world

more than you except the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam. So I love the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam more than you. You're only

second.

I have a lot of debts, so you

need to pay them if I die. And

take good care of your brothers and sisters.

So Jabez Adelai said, the first thing in

the morning when the battle started,

my father was the first one to die

in the battle as he himself predicted.

So he said, I buried him,

and they brought another man, and they buried

him next to my father in the same

grave. So he said, I didn't feel good

about my father being buried with, someone

else, so I decided to undock or undig

my father and bury him somewhere else. So

when he said, when I opened the grave,

I found my father 6 months later,

in the same condition that I buried him.

The whole body was the same exactly

just like

I buried him, like, a minute ago. It's

the same thing.

So the first thing to be written in

the what

to be done at your funeral? Who to

wash you and who to bury you and

who to leave the for you? And you

should also tell people what to do

in the Tell him to do good things

and to give salam on your behalf

and to forbid doing bidah or innovations or

to do terrible cultural things that have nothing

to do with the religion in your Janazah.

And number 2, you put your belongings in

terms of money,

land, houses.

If somebody owes you money, your bank accounts,

you have to put all this in your

you write down what you owe other people,

like debts. So if you also buy some

money, tell your family, I owe this person

that much and I owe that person that

much, so pay them your vows in the

noon.

And, also, if you haven't paid the dawah

to your wife, make sure that your family

pays the dawah.

Two conditions here. Number 1, it has to

be within 1 third of your money. And

number 2, it should not be for someone

who already takes a share from your inheritance.

And the prophet

says, there's no bequest for someone who already

takes a share from the

So it has to be within the 3rd,

and again, there's no obligation to bequest

money. It's optional if you want to get

the reward. So in this authentic hadith, Salil

Nabi waqalimbuqalim,

he asked the prophet, he said, if he

can't give all his money in charity, The

prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said no.

2 thirds? No. 1 half? No.

1 third? The prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

says, yes. 1 third and 1 third is

too much. So give 1 third or less.

Then the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, says,

it is better

to leave your ears, your children, and family,

and your mother, and parents, and so on

and so forth. It is better to leave

them rich than to leave the poor begging

people for money. That's Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

So you have to maintain justice when you

do the wasiyeh. You shouldn't give some of

your children more than others. You have to

keep justice between them. The prophet says in

this authentic hadith in Muslim of Abi and

Muslim Imam Ahmad, it's an authentic hadith

that some of you

may live for 70 years, and they do

righteous deeds all the time. They're good people.

But before they die, they make a and

they don't give everyone their rights. They give

to some, and they withhold from others. So

they give to some of their children, for

example, and they prevent others. They deprive them.

So this person within his life with an

evil deed, then he will be punished as

a hellfire as the prophet

Where can I get the? It's available at

the office here,

over the past few weeks,

I've taken care of the the form in

Arabic and in English. So it's available in

the office and also at the our website,

rasheedmaz.ca.

You can go. It's on the front page.

You can download it either in Arabic and

English.

Fill it out. Get 2 witnesses

and take it to a notary. You have

to take it to a lawyer to make

it binding legally.

We ask

Allah to forgive our sins and protect our

good deeds and to give us the best

in this life and in the life to

come. Just Allah

The next Khutba next week will be my

farewell sermon because we are leaving to Egypt

inshaAllah to finish my PhD. And in the

next few weeks inshallah, 1 or 2 imams

will be coming to serve this community. It

has been an honor, so we ask Allah,

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, to forgive me anything I

have done by mistake or forgetfulness,

and to reward you and the administration of

the Masjid for