Mustafa Khattab – Wednesday Q&A With Students
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The way we pray,
2 for Fashr,
4 for the, 4 for us, 3 for
Ma'ali, 4 for Isha. This is the way
that the prophet prayed
and we follow his example because he said
pray the same way you have seen me
pray. And this is the way that was
recorded from the Broad so we do it
exactly like him. If you pray, if you
add more rakas,
like as we said before, if you pray
more at 4, your salah is not accepted.
If you pray
2, it's not accepted unless you are shortening
the salah while you're traveling.
Next question. Is someone in
the washing can they see the wheel of
a milk?
Okay.
Well, that's a very tough situation.
But
if,
again,
the same thing applies
to saying
in the washroom if you, if you, sneeze.
You say it inwardly, secretly. You don't have
to say it out loud, but
you do it in your heart. Now let's
say for example, someone is in the swimming
pool or in the washroom,
and tell us they're they're dying. They can
say, laha illa illa illa in their heart.
They don't have
to say it out loud. But again, this
is a very tough situation. We're talking about
death,
and it's very hard to control yourself in
in this difficult time.
Because in this time,
you are you are overwhelmed,
you don't know what you say, you don't
know how you feel, so there's no control,
basically.
What I'm saying is what you should do,
but when it comes to reality, it's a
very tough situation. So,
I don't know.
Okay.
So the question is about,
cartoon movies,
animations.
That's
nice. I like them.
I like Shrek, and I like Ice Age,
and I like all these movies.
Okay?
But,
but again, the same thing applies. We're talking
about movies in general, whether we're talking about,
animations
or real movies,
what matters is the subject of the movie.
It is decent,
or it is evil,
revealing.
So the same things apply. If it's a
decent movie, it teaches a good thing, then
it's okay to watch. But if it is
evil and it's encouraging you to do something
bad, then we shouldn't watch.
So if you say, if someone dies while
they're doing Hajj or Umrah,
on the Day of Judgment when they they
are raised from the dead, they will be
saying
if someone dies in the state of sujood,
they will be
raised from the dead on the day of
judgment while they are making sajdah to under
the throne of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and
so on and so forth.
Same applies to reading Quran,
salah,
all the good deeds.
How can you pray if you're in the
hospital and you are having a surgery every
minute every minute of every day? Okay.
I'm not sure if it's practical. You have
the surgery every minute of every day. Like
but,
this situation
maybe it's applicable to,
someone who is on life support.
They are conscious, they are aware
of what is going on, but they can't
leave the room because of all the tubes
and the support machine and the ventilator,
and
the, you know, breathing machines and all this
stuff. In this case, they pray whatever they
are because they can't move and, again,
they just do their best, and if their
best is not good enough, Allah
will give them their word. They try to
face the if they can't.
If they can't,
wherever you turn, Allah
is there, wherever you turn.
For if they are able to make, fine.
If not, they make someone
will give them
a rock or something, and they do it,
and,
and they do
If they can't,
if they are bleeding, or if it's very
hard for them to move and make,
and it is impossible for them to make,
they call
it
a person who is not able to do
or
they just pray as they are without you,
without
But this is a very rare situation.
Is it bad to have the good thoughts
about your parents in your mind, but you
don't but you do not tell anyone about
it?
Well,
some of us, when we're,
when we hit puberty,
we're talking about the age between, I would
say, 13
to 17, 18.
In some cases,
we're we're we're not emotionally
stable, we change our mind all the time,
we, we like to gain more freedom to
do different things,
and because our parents love us so much
and they care about us, sometimes they ask
us not to do certain things.
Some of us feel that they're trying to
limit your freedom
and they're trying to make it difficult for
you. Like say for example, I'm gonna
take a canoe and, you know, swim or
paddle all the way from Canada to Europe.
Some people do this. Like, last week a
guy started,
like, a swimming marathon
from, I think, from,
the west of Africa, he's gonna swim all
the way to Brazil.
It's gonna take him 3, 4 months. He
will be the first one to do so.
So say for example, you you want to
take an adventure or something dangerous, you want
to do or a stunt, and your parents
tell you not to do it.
Right? Now you feel like they are making
you miserable,
they are limiting your freedom,
they care about you. Right?
So
sometimes we feel like we have evil thoughts
for our parents because they're always asking you
to do things that are good for you,
and to stay away from bad things, or
dangerous things. We don't see it this way.
We see it as limitation to our freedom.
But again, you should trust your parents.
Unless, of course, they're they're asking you to
do something wrong. Like, you want to go
pray in the masjid, and they tell you
don't go. You want to listen to a
halacha, they say no, you shouldn't.
This is a different situation.
But, again, no one cares about you and
loves you more than your parents, and these
are not my words. This is what the
prophet says in the hadith, and this is
what the Quran says.
And you did a good deed, does all
of my ministers say?
Well,
judging deeds
is up to Allah
because sometimes you do something,
something bad,
and you'll get a reward,
sometimes you'll do something good, and it is
counted as a sin.
For example,
I'm walking in the street. You're crossing crossing
the road,
and,
there is a running car, and he's about
to hit someone and you push them.
Yeah. It looks like you push someone.
You make them fall on the on the
ground, it looks like something terrible, but you
save them from something else. It it is
counted as a good deed.
Sometimes you would do something,
like you would give someone
food,
and you know that they are allergic to
certain types of foods, and you stuff it
with all the stuff they are allergic to.
Some people don't like spices,
you fill it with,
chili.
Right? You know that it's gonna harm them.
So it looks like you're doing something good
to them, but you're actually harming them. It
turns out to be a sin.
If you do something good,
it's gonna go to your credit,
unless you have a lot of evil deeds,
then Allah
will balance the good and the bad. But
again, I I don't know,
how it works on the day of judgment.
No one knows except Allah
because he sees the whole picture, he knows
what is good and what is bad, and
he also knows the intention.
Sometimes we do something good.
Say for example I give sadaqa to someone,
but my intention is not to help them,
my intention is to show off and show
people that I'm a good guy. Do I
get a reward or not?
And I'm reading Quran which is it's a
good deed, but this is not the time.
The time is to pray in Jannah. So
there are so many different ways to look
at it, but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
a judge in the end, and he knows
how it works.
Who locks up shaitan? Okay. We we spoke
about this,
last year in Ramadan,
about lacking shaitan.
It's not Ramadan yet. What? Okay.
But anyway, the Uramah look at the Hadith
in different ways. It's an authentic Hadith, but
they disagree on the understanding.
Some say, yes Allah,
literally locks Shaitans up, so they don't do
bad things,
but
and some say it's a it's a metaphorical
thing, that Allah
limits the ability of shaitans to whisper.
Otherwise, we know that some people steal
and do haram things in the month of
Ramadan. Muslims and non Muslims.
How? They say, yes, maybe Shaytan is locked
up, but your nafs,
your, like, lower self is on the loose,
and it's whispering to you all the time.
Maybe the
are locked up, but the human are all
over the place. The Quran talks about
and human.
There because some people they whisper to their
friends to do bad things. Right? So there
are so many ways, to look at,
at this hadith,
and, at the end of the day they
say that Allah makes it easy for you
to do the good in Ramadan,
and lock the shaitan up, but it's up
to you to
make the shaitan lose or free the shaitan,
and follow His whispers. So it's up to
you, basically.
They
have what? Why do girls have a kiwi
voice?
Okay. Technically, they do.
We play in the same we pray in
the same place.
So if you pray as a family,
you pray in the same place, and we
as a community would pray in the same
place, at the time of the prophet Saksa
alam, the women and the men that used
to pray, the women would pray behind
the men.
Does anyone know why?
That the men pray in the front and
the women in the back. Does this mean
that that women are less important in Islam?
They are second class citizens?
Does anyone know?
So why do a man pray in the
front and the women pray behind
a man?
Anyone? Sister here?
Yeah. You?
You don't know? Okay.
Okay. Is sister here?
Excellent. Say no more. Thank you.
So basically, it helps
the men focus in the salah. There's actually
a hadith,
even at the time of the prophet,
the men would pray behind the prophet, and
the women were behind. There's a particular hadith,
one of the sahaba he used
to go to the last line
because there was a beautiful sister who would
pray in the, you know, the first line
behind the mirth, and he would look at
her while she was making shaldu. She would
she he would look like this, and the
prophet
told him not to do that. He knew.
He received revelation and he told him, don't
do this. It helps,
the min focus in the salah.
Right?
We have this desire in our hearts no
matter how good you are Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala put this desire in the heart of
people.
So
we know how we pray. There's a and
there's and
all these things.
So if the brothers are praying in the
front,
it's not gonna be a distraction for the
sisters. But if the sisters pray in the
front, and the brothers are behind them, believe
me it's a big distraction. Maybe one day
you will fully understand this concept,
but it
works.
There are some other faith community, like in
the, Catholic and
Orthodox,
churches, and also in some Jewish synagogues, they
separate at the time of the salah. Maybe
they sit side, next to each other, side
by side, like the sisters on one side
and the men on the other, or the
women behind.
But again, it's it's it it works for
the focus in the salah, obama.
Why do you have to make why do
you have to Dua?
Why? It's a difficult question,
but it's a good one.
You Dua basically in Arabi
means salah.
The linguistic meaning or the word salah is
dua because it's a salah connection with Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So if
say for example, if you have a problem
at home, who do you go to?
You go to your parents.
If you have a problem in the classroom,
you go to the teacher.
If it is difficult for the teacher to
solve the problem, you go to the principal.
Right?
So we always look up to a higher
authority to solve your problems and to help
you in difficult times and to take care
of you. So each and every one of
us knows that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
the highest authority
and he is the only one who can
help you. So this is why we always
make Dua to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So
Dua in Arabi means salah and it is
the heart of Ibadah in Islam
is Dua.
And the prophet
says
Dua is the essence of Rebada in Islam
because you connect with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Why why is pig Haram?
Okay. I'm okay. Why is eating pork Haram?
Okay. Well, the pork is forbidden
in the Quran and in the Bible. In
the teachings of Musa Alaihi Salam in the
Old Testament, he says that the pig is
felting,
and he told his followers, and this is
in the old testament. And he said that
you're not even allowed to touch it. Don't
even touch it. Let alone eating it. Right?
Muslims do the same thing. We follow the
same teaching that poor
is is not permissible.
Number 1 because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
so. It is not good for you, it's
a test for you, just like the tree
was a test for Adam in Jannah. He
was told you can eat everything except for
this one.
We're told the same thing. You can eat
any food, any type of meat, if you
like, fish, you like, chicken, you like shrimp,
you like beef, you like goat, you like
sheep, you there's so many things you can
eat, but he said, avoid this one, pork.
You can't drink anything, you can drink water,
juice, soda, it's up to you. But alcohol,
one thing, avoid it. Right? It's it's a
test for us.
Modern science confirms the same thing that pork
is not good for your health, and even
tell this lady a lot of Christians don't
eat. Most Christians eat pork but some of
them don't
because number 1,
no prophet
no prophet ever ate pork.
Isa alaihi salam never ate it, Musa never
ate it, nor Ibrahim. No prophet ate never
ever ate pork. It's not permissible for them.
But most people do it for economic reasons
because
when you go to the store,
some of them like FreshCo, Walmart, the other
ones, they have a halal section,
and there is the regular, like, beef and
chicken,
then you have pork. If you look at
the prices of pork they're probably the cheapest,
meat in the market. So people do it
for economic reasons.
Well, a lot of people don't care about
the religion, what their religion teaches,
It does it's gonna save them some money,
so this is why they do. They don't
basically care. But it is forbidden for,
also health reasons.
The pork takes about 3 to 4 hours
to digest the food it eats.
Whereas a cow would take up to about
13 or 14 hours to digest the food.
So it's fully digested.
So we take all the benefits of the
food.
Where in the case of a pig, it's
the food is not fully digested,
so some of the toxins
are still there, so it is not healthy
for you. The pig is also unique in
the animal kingdom because it eats everything.
It eats its own young,
it eats the dead,
It eats even its own fish fishes. Alright?
If the pig doesn't find anything to eat,
it will eat its own
Food. Food. Whatever you call it. Right?
So
So some people would say
this is the last thing I'm gonna say.
This is the last thing I'm I'm gonna
say.
Some people
some people think
that we don't eat the pig because it
doesn't look
cute.
Right?
It is not about cute or not cute
because a cat a cat a cat looks
very cute, but we don't eat cats. Right?
Okay. The problem with the pig the problem
with the pig is not the outside. Because
some people, like I was talking to someone
who actually eats,
pork and and ham and all these things.
He said, we take care of it. We
don't allow it to eat,
junk or bad things. We take care of
it, we give it a shower, we shampoo,
we brush the hair. I told him the
problem with the pig is not the outside,
the problem comes from inside
because of the digestion and all the things.
And it is scientifically proven that the pig
has a lot of worms inside, and it
causes a lot of damages for the people
who eat it.
Right?
So at the end of the day, people
eat it because not because of religious things,
they eat it because it saves them money.
And this is what matters to a lot
of people,
But for us, it is not the best
of Allah o'ala.
Thanks for your questions. I think we're done.
We'll see you next week inshallah.