Mustafa Khattab – Why You Should Contribute to AlRashid Mosque Fundraiser

And I bear witness to Muhammad sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam, the seal of 2 prophets and

the final messenger to all humanity.

Today is the day of Jum'ah, this day

in the week.

And this is the month of Ramadan, this

month in the year. And tonight,

most likely, is later to cut the best

night in the whole year. So this is

the best day, one of the best days

in the whole year.

And we ask Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, to

accept our salah, our fasting, our charities in

this month.

They

almost all the masajid, if not all of

them, in North America and Europe,

they collect donations today

to provide for the masajid all year long.

Not only in the masajid,

but the other places of worship in in

the west, they depend or rely heavily on

donations.

The masajid back home, all of us know,

they rely on the money contributed by the

Ministry of Alqaf or by the Muslim governments.

But here in Canada, here in the west,

all the masajid depend on Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala first and

then on the generosity of the Muslim community.

So please do your best today in this

blessed day to contribute to the house of

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala will reward you immensely

for your contributions.

We mentioned in the past few days that

the prophet was the 1st

person in Islam to fundraise

for good causes, and he fundraised for the

masjid.

So the prophet

did actually fundraise for the masjid, and he

said the masjid was getting very tight, very

small for the Muslim, the expanding Muslim community.

So he said, who would buy the land

next to the masjid and expand it? And

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give him a

better land in Jannah.

So

Uthman

he bought the land.

Allah to provide for the harvest of Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

So to today, I will try to answer

only 3 questions

related to fundraising for the

So the first question for today, how can

I give money to the Masjid? Although,

you probably know about the situation back home

in all the countries,

and many of us come from these countries,

Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, Syria, and so on

and so forth. And most of us, and

Somalia, most of us have given our contributions

and Zakat to these countries.

So how can I give, although I have

already given my Zakat? Or if you haven't

given, maybe because of the economic crisis, things

are very limited for you, and you're not

feeling well about the whole thing.

To the contrary, it will increase.

This is a promise from Allah

This is a promise from the from Rasulullah

alaihi wa sallam. So don't be afraid. If

things are very tight for you, don't worry

because Allah is the provider.

Allah

is

the

provider.

The highest form of generosity in Islam is

to give while your resources are limited. Ayna

had that.

So a man came to the prophet and

says, oh, prophet of Allah, in this authentic

hadith al Bukhari narrated by Abu Buhayla, a

man came to the prophet

and says, what is the bestaka and what

is the best salafah?

So the prophet

says that the best form of charity

is when you give while you are healthy,

you are in need, your resources are limited,

and you hope to live a long life.

And in another narration, you hope to become

rich, and you are afraid of poverty.

And the prophet

then said, don't wait

until you are about to die with 2

feet in the grave. On your deathbed, you

then you start saying, okay. This money is

for this. This money is for the masheb.

This money is for this. No. You have

to give it before that time. Fahaalafhadithinabi

saasam. Wal kaleelu aindaka

katheeru aindallah.

The letter you give is allot

in the eyes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, promises in Surat Al

Baqarah that for every dollar you give, it

will give you up to 10, up to

700, and Allah gives more to whom He

wants.

If you give a dollar to Allah, Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala, who will give you 700,

Well, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives more to

whom He wills.

So in this story

that was shown in the Egyptian TV about

3 years ago,

they had a program, a very famous program

in the Egyptian, TV. It's called My House

is Your House. Miqasa is sukasa.

So in this show, they have a segment

where they collect donations for someone who is

in need. So someone called and said, I

have a problem in my back,

with his spinal cord. He needed a marrow

transplant.

Zara'il kha.

So the the funds started to,

come in. People called and they pledged

1,000 of dollars, and they needed to collect

$200,000

for this man, for his, surgery.

So one person

one person, after 1 hour, they collected about

a 170,000

in 1 hour.

So this person called in, his name was

Sharif, and he said, well, I'm so

embarrassed to call. But the only thing I

can offer to this brother, Elid, is 15

Egyptian pounds. This is 2 and half Canadian

dollars.

And he said, but, allah, this is half

the money I have in my house. I

have only $5

in my house.

And my mother is sick, and we haven't

even paid our power bill.

But that is all I can do for

the brother. And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, is

generous.

Almost all the people who called after this

brother, they contributed something to the sick brother,

and they contributed something to this brother, Sharif,

and he got a job that day. Someone

called and said, I'll give this brother a

job because he was not employed.

So don't be afraid. Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,

will provide for you.

Allah

says that the recipients of zakah are 8,

and they are mentioned in ayah 60 in

Surah Tawbah, Surah Nurbanay.

And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala refers to one

recipient as fisabililah

in the way of Allah.

So spending in the way of Allah covers

any way of goodness.

Any way that you provide for any good

cause is,

one of the recipients

of Zakat in this case. And this is

the opinion of many scholars, like Afafar Ghazi

ibn Athir and some of the modern scholars,

like Sheikh Shatud, the Sheikh of Al Azwa,

the former Sheikh, and the former Mufti

of, Egypt, Sheikh Mafluf, and many other scholars.

Even the scholars who limited this recipient,

Fisabeel that, they to shihad, they said, building

the sajid in the West, in Canada, is

shihad.

Teaching your children Islam

and helping them to prove, to preserve their

Islamic identity is in the West is jihad.

Making dua to the people, presenting Islam to

them, helping them to accept Islam is jihad.

In this masjid, every month, average, 3 to

4 people accept Islam. And there are some

of them who accepted Islam recently. They're among

us today.

So the third question for today somebody might

ask, okay. I have this agreement

with the way the masjid is run. I

don't like the administration of the masjid, or

I have this agreement with someone in the

masjid, in the board. I don't like this

person. Whether you disagree with something they said

or something they did, or maybe you don't

like their haircut. Any reason.

Should you still go ahead and give zakat

to the masjid?

My answer is you are giving zakat to

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and to the house

of Allah. Forget about the people.

You are dealing with Allah

When you gave the zakah, you give it

to Allah

not to the people.

In this authentic hadith collected by Bukhari narrated

by Abu Burei radiallahu anhu that the prophet

says, a man says, tonight,

I'm gonna give zakam or sadaqa fee saberillah.

So when he went out in the darkness,

he gave money to the first person he

met. And it turned out to be that

the the person whom he gave the money

was a thief, Tuk,

in Sumal.

So

the people in the morning, they were saying,

okay. Last night, somebody gave zakah to a

thief.

So the man was saying, laha lam. My

I lost my zakah. I lost my salah.

I will do it tonight again. So the

next night,

he went out. In the darkness, he gave

it to a lady, and it turned out

to be this lady to be a prostitute.

In the morning, they people were saying, tonight,

somebody gave a charity to a prostitute.

So the man said,

My my salafaith got another time.

The 3rd day, he went out in the

darkness and he gave the money, and it

turned out that the person whom whom he

gave the money was a rich person. He

didn't need the zakat. So in the morning,

people were saying, somebody gave zakat to a

rich person.

He said, laha marbu. The money zakah is

lost in the 3 nights. The prophet, salaam,

says that a war is guaranteed.

You didn't put the money in the hands

of a prostitute.

You didn't put the money in the hands

of a tomb or a thief. You didn't

put the hands the money in the hands

of a rich person. You put the money

in the hands of Allah,

and this is what matters.

So tonight, I expect, and I make dua

to Allah

that each and every one of us,

man or

woman, boy or girl, come to the fundraiser

and pledge something, kisabeel, and that this is

what will remain for us in the next

life, and this is what will take us

to Jannah, as the prophet says in Hadith.