Mustafa Khattab – Watch Your Tongue

Okay.

There was a yeah.

Okay.

So,

I got 2 copies of the Quran here

And, one is going to,

there used to be a sister here?

We asked last time about Yes?

Yes?

This is for you

Thank you. Zazakallah.

She asked good questions, mashallah.

And the other one is where is Matki?

Alex?

Alex?

Allah will give it to him,

Yes.

So,

we spoke about wasting.

Today,

we'll talk about another type of wasting,

which is wasting words.

Wasting words.

When we say unnecessary

things,

we waste our time, and we waste people's

time. We talk about things that are not

important or are harmful or hurtful to other

people.

And I get these questions all the time.

People come to me and ask about, okay,

what do you have in the bag?

Or what did you have for breakfast this

morning? What's your mom's name?

Well, it's none of your business.

Right?

Leave me alone, man.

What is the point? Right?

Come on.

Things of that kind, you know. We know

that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam says

in the authentic Hadith, man karayum minuubilaniwaniyawil

alaathin, everyone knows the Hadith.

If you believe in Allah, on the last

day you either say something nice or be

quiet.

If you don't have something to contribute,

if you don't have something nice to say,

call us, be quiet, alhamdulillah.

They hear all this talk all the time,

and people try to kill the time, and

the the problem is sometimes when some people

have nothing to do,

they are free, they have nothing but time,

and they come to you, you are very

busy, you are pulling your hair off,

you want to do a paper,

you know, it's overdue,

and and you don't have time, and people

keep asking you unnecessary questions, and keep wasting

your your time.

And,

and, if you're on Facebook,

don't send me an invitation to play Candy

Crush, because I don't play it. I don't

have time for games. Okay? I only play

soccer, I play hockey with my kids. That's

it.

So this is the thing. We know that

I mentioned,

maybe in September,

we spoke about the word and how significant

the word is in Islam. When Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala created something,

according to the Quran, in many places, what

did he say?

Right? He says be and becomes or it,

it becomes,

it is, or it comes into being. Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala uses one word to create.

When 2 people get married,

how do they get married?

I do.

Right?

Couple of words,

I do.

Three letters, they are married. One word, Hamas,

they get married.

At the time of divorce, what do they

say?

So in marriage, they say I do, but

in divorce I don't. I does.

Because they don't like each other anymore.

So the grammar is in the basement.

When people accept Islam, what do they say?

The kalimah, right? Hello?

We're talking about wasting words.

So

when someone accepts Islam, they say,

I believe Kharazah become Muslim. One word.

So the words are very important, And we

are told in the hadith of the prophet

that some people go to Jannah because of

their words.

And some people go to Jannah because of

words. They either lie, they cheat, they backbite,

all these are words. Right? So we need

to be careful. And subhanAllah,

if you watch

movies, when they go to arrest someone, they

make to make an arrest, what do they

tell the person before they take them?

You have the right to remain

sad. That we don't take advantage of this.

We go, I didn't, you know, I didn't

mean to kill my brother or choke my

brother to death, you know? Keep your mouth

shut, man.

You're you're you're going to jail, right? So

be quiet. Right?

So it's it's a privilege.

He spoke when it was necessary, when he

is giving a talk, he is giving advice,

to say how he spoke, but he didn't

waste

his time talking all the time. Wa'ud yajawangal

kalib, he only said few words to convey

the meaning of chalas.

I'm gonna finish insha'Allah with a story

from a brother,

I was an imam in South Carolina. They

have a very good school, it's called the

Clinton.

It's one of the top

25 schools in the world. So there was

a small masjid there, I was the imam,

and alhamdulillah we had a brother, very good

brother in the community,

everybody loved him, but there was only one

problem with this brother.

He talked too much. He

talked too much.

Like, he can sit with you, I'm not

gonna mention his name or his nationality, okay?

But anyway, he would sit with me after

salatul Qashr, for example, and he would go

on and on and on.

Yes Sheikh, I have a question for you.

I would say, Okay, no problem.

Biggest mistake of my life.

They will go on and on. You know

Yes Sheikh, when my mom was pregnant with

me

No, no, no, give me the short version.

Don't start like from 30 years ago. Like,

what is the question?

And he would go on and on and

on. You know, question about salah,

and he would go back to when I

my mom was pregnant with me, and she

used to come on, man.

2 hours. 2 hours.

So, one day,

this beautiful brother of mine,

another friend,

waited for his,

he rented a car,

and they went to,

to road test the car or something to,

because he was studying for his driver's license.

So he took this brother, who loved to

talk all the time, biggest mistake of his

life. So we took this brother with him,

and they he drove on the highway. This

brother,

wanted to, get some training to be able

to get his driver's license.

So this brother was in his ears. Like

3 hours he was talking, talking, talking,

And he said,

so I met them

for salatul lubuh, they rented the car, they

came to the masjid for salah, I met

them. I said, That's good, alhamdulillah, you go

for the training.

Then they came back to salat al, salat

al marih. They came back,

and the brother came,

and the only thing he had with him,

the brother who who went for the training,

he had the steering wheels with him. This

is the only thing that was left from

the car.

So what happened? He said, they went,

you know, for training, and this brother was

in his ears,

and he started to talk about his adventures

from

20 years ago when he was driving in

the mountains and,

why are you slowing down? You have to

go fast. It's the highway, man. Go. Go.

Go. Go. And the brother said, all I

remember,

the car was hugging,

an electric post,

and the only thing that was left was

the steering wheels.

Because the guy was in his ears like,

go go go, and he was talking for

3 hours,

he lost control and

he got into an accident.

The good news

is the brother

the brother,

when he rented the car, he purchased,

full insurance. He paid a $100, so

he he wrecked a $25,000,

car, and he didn't have to pay anything

because,

he had insurance. He tricked money.

Hamas. Again, the whole point is if you

have something good to say,

say it. If you don't have something nice

to say, Hamas, be quiet. And don't be

nosy. Don't ask people about their,

like, like, system information, like, credit card information,

what's your mom's name, and what did you

guys eat for breakfast.

Leave people alone, man. Right?

And and

as I said, it's

a the prophet said it's one of the

qualities of a believer in.

One of the the proofs,

the science that you are a good believer

can when you don't talk about talk about

things that are not,

what is the best translation for this?

Again, if it's not your business, don't talk

about it. This is basically what the prophet

meant in the Hadith. We'll see you tomorrow,

inshallah. We ask Allah to bless us and

give us the best in this life and

the best in the life to come.