Mustafa Khattab – Winners Or Losers Maingate Islamic Academy
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How are you guys doing?
Great. How was the summer vacation?
Great. Good, Marcela. Yes. I was at the
Wisconsin Pet. I saw you, Joseph. I saw
you
at
Okay.
So, Alhamdulillah,
you are students at the, Make8 Islamic Academy.
Alhamdulillah, you get, you receive good education.
You have very dedicated teachers. Alhamdulillah.
You have a new principal.
So, we wish you all the best inshallah.
We know that,
as a recap of what I said at
the end of last year, the last session
we met together, we are here in this
world for a short period of time.
And you are the one who decides
whether you'll live a happy, a decent, a
successful life or not. Right? Your family
has done their part
by bringing you to the Islamic Academy to
get an Islamic education,
to be in a good Muslim environment,
you have good teachers, good friends, and so
on and so
forth. We know that from the lives of
the Sahaba of the Prophet SAW
they try to do something good every day,
either in terms of Salah,
fasting,
giving Salafah,
studying something new with the Prophet, like learning
a Hadith, memorizing a new Surah from the
Quran,
And this is why some of
them, although,
they were youth when they accepted Islam,
they became very successful in life. I'll give
you one example.
There's one of the Sahaba, his name was
Sa'd ibn Mu'adh
How many of you have heard the name?
Sa'd ibn Mu'adh Okay
Sa'd ibn Mu'adh
was only about 35 years old when he
died
35 years old
But when he passed away, the Prophet SAW
Alaihi Wasallam said that 100 of 1000 of
angels came down for his janazah.
And the throne of Allah was shaken
because of him. Because this is how important
he was for Islam and for Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. Very important!
35 years old, right?
You have to read his story, why was
he very, a very significant figure in Islamic
history?
How many of you heard of Abu Qasim
Shafi? How many of you are from Tunisia?
Anyone here from Tunisia?
No one from Tunisia?
So, Abu Qasem Shafi
was 24 years old when he died.
25 year 24 years old.
And Abu Qasem Ishapi is the most important
poet
in the history of Tunisia.
If you heard the National Anthem of Tunisia,
The National Anthem of Tunisia
was made by him.
He was a great poet, and still he
is the biggest, the greatest poet of all
time in Tunisian history. 25 years old when
he died.
Why? Because these people tried to leave a
legacy,
to leave something behind.
They were working hard every day.
Some of the Sahaba, like Abu Lad Nabas,
they used to say,
If
I don't get close to Allah every day,
and I don't get distant from Jahannam,
and I don't get close to Jannah, and
I don't improve as a human being, and
I don't learn something new every
day, this day is lost from my life.
I don't count this day from my life.
So every day, Shaa Allah, try to learn
something new. If you are learning a new
language, try to learn 2 words, 5 words
every day. Try to memorize the Surah from
the Quran, or 1 Ayah.
Try to understand the meaning of 1 Ayah
from the Quran, the Tafsir of 1 Ayah.
Try to learn new skills every day. Right?
Because this is what will make you successful
in life. Any day
that is gone from your life without learning
something new, without you becoming a better person,
this is a day lost from your life.
And if you are this year, what you
were 5 years ago, you didn't learn anything
new, you didn't improve in any way, then
you wasted
5 years or 2 years of your life.
So, inshallah, in conclusion,
I'm going to show you a few examples
of people who are your age.
Some of them became very successful,
some of them became losers.
Why? Those who became successful, they invested their
lives, they learned something new, they tried to
improve, they tried to become better human beings,
and some of them, they have the opportunity
to become good people, learn something new, and
improve, but they wasted the opportunity.
We start with this guy.
I think his last name was Culkin, but
in the movie,
in Home Alone 2, he was Kevin.
So, this is when he was he was,
8 years old, 9 years old.
Eventually, when he was,
about 17,
18,
he became a a drug addict.
You know, he used to do drugs and
stuff. And
Is that Kevin? Yes. This is Kevin when
he was about 20 years old.
He lost his life to drugs.
He wasted his life. Drug addict.
So when he was 8, 9 years old,
he was very famous, a celebrity, he made
1,000,000 of dollars, he won he won awards,
but because he didn't improve himself, he didn't
learn something new, he didn't hang out with
the right folks
drugs.
The second guy,
any guess who who this guy is?
He's an old guy from, like
No.
Okay. I'll I'll I'll tell you.
This guy, when he was young,
he was your age, like in grade 3,
4, he was an artist. He used to
make paintings. And if you go to Google,
you will see some paintings by this guy.
He was an artist when he was young.
So
this is what became of him.
Do you know this guy? Hitler. It was
Hitler.
Yes.
This guy is responsible
for the death of somewhere between 15 to
20,000,000 people in Europe, during World War 2.
So he started off as an artist,
very nice guy,
bright future, great potential, but he wasted everything
because of the bad things he was learning
and the bad people he was hanging out
with.
No. They say he, he committed suicide in
1945.
This guy. We're gonna conclude with 2 good
guys.
This guy was
great.
You know who this guy is? Mandel. Mandelah.
No.
Because of racism and
stuff, he ended up stealing at a young
age.
Thief.
Selling drugs
and so on and so forth. He ended
up in jail,
but while in jail, he learned about Islam,
and eventually
Yes? How old was he?
I think when he was about 17. He
ended up in jail. But of course, no
one gets caught the first time they steal.
Right? So he was stealing
for a long period of time, selling drugs.
Eventually, he got busted, ended up in jail.
But while in jail, he learned about Islam.
He couldn't
threw some inmates.
It's a long story. Maybe I'll give you
the whole story. I I did my,
my thesis on the Nation of Islam and
the life of Malcolm. But, anyway,
he learned about Islam. He couldn't read or
write. He memorized the dictionary, the whole dictionary,
he read many books, he became self educated,
and eventually, he became one of the most
important civil rights figures in the US. And
this guy,
without any without comparison to anyone, I think
no one accepted Islam in the US because
of anyone more than this guy. I would
say literally 100 of 1000 accepted Islam because
of this guy,
Malcolm X.
And he was fighting for the rights of
his people. Are you still left? No. He
died in 1965.
This is a picture of him at Muhammad
Ali Mosque in Egypt
in 1964
when he went for the Hajj.
Malcolm X. So the last guy that I
wanna show you, this guy to the left,
who's it? Mohammed Ali?
Okay. Me me me me me.
Okay.
Can you come here?
Come here. Yes. Over here.
You.
Face the crowd.
Yeah.
He looked exactly like this guy. Did he
go like this? Go like this?
Yeah. You look exactly like you.
Here.
You wanna take the bee or the butterfly?
Bee. The bee. So Muhammad Ali, everyone knows,
he used to, float like a butterfly and
sting like A bee. A bee. This is
why we got the butterfly and the bee.
Can I have the lion? At the age
of,
10
at the age of 10,
his bike was stolen.
And he was crying the whole day. He
thought his life was devastated.
Someone met him and told him, okay, if
you catch the guy who stole your your
bike, what would you do? He said, I
can't do nothing. He said, you gotta learn
to defend yourself.
And he learned to
fight as a boxer, and he became the
greatest He became the best boxer in the
whole world. In the whole world. He's no
longer is better than somebody. The greatest
of all time. Right?
Yeah. He died,
one day before Ramadan of this year. Kalas,
we're almost done insha'Allah,
because you gotta go down inshaAllah to your
classrooms.
So from all these images that I showed
you,
all these people started off at the same
place.
Some chose to be good people, some chose
to be losers.
So, again, the question
is up to you,
and make up your mind, and think of
the answer. Do I want to be a
winner or do I want to be a
loser?
And if you want to be a winner,
successful in this life and in Afrah, what
do you need to do? InshaAllah to be
successful.
And throughout this year, InshaAllah, I'm gonna help
you answer this question. We'll give you many
examples from the life of the Sahaba and,
important figures from our Islamic history, inshaAllah, as
role models for you. We ask Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala to bless you and give you
success
in, this school year. InshaAllah. I give you
the best in this life and the next.
We'll meet you tomorrow at Tassalatul Khurr, InshaAllah.
Jazakum MaFayl Assalaam Alaikum.