Ibraheem Menk – Honesty Is The Way Forward

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When A Person Eats All The Time, He
Becomes Known As Someone Who Eats.
And When A Person Drinks Alcohol All The
Time, He Becomes Known As A Drunkard.
But Generally In The Sunnah And In The
Quran, We Find That Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
Does Not Identify People By Their Mistakes.
But When It Comes To Lying And Being
Honest, Allah Rabbul Izzati Wal Jalal Through Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam, Meaning In The Sunnah, From
The Hadith Of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam, Tells
Us That A Man Lies And He Lied
And He Continues To Lie Until He Is
Known Inda Allahi Kaddaba, Until He Is Known
As A Liar With Allah Rabbul Izzati Wal
Jalal.
As For Those Traits Which Are Good, Then
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala, He Mentions Them And
He Identifies People By Their Good Traits.
This Means That Lying Has A Very Bad
Place With Allah Rabbul Izzati Wal Jalal, A
Very Dishonorable Mention With Allah Rabbul Izzati Wal
Jalal.
In The Hadith That We Are Speaking About,
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam Says, It Is Incumbent
And Necessary Upon You To Speak The Truth,
For Indeed Truthfulness Leads To Righteousness, And
Indeed Righteousness Leads To Jannah,
And
A Man Continues To Tell The Truth And
He Continues To Seek Out The Truth And
Speak The Truth Until He Is Known With
Allah As A Truthful Person, Until He Is
Known With Allah As A Truthful Person.
When We Began, We Spoke About How A
Person Becomes Known Amongst The People, As One
Who Eats, As One Who Drinks, As One
Who Sins, Etc.
But This Is Not With The People, This
Is With Allah Rabbul Izzati Wal Jalal, With
Allah Rabbul Izzati Wal Jalal.
So He Becomes Known With Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta
'Ala As One Who Speaks The Truth.
Hence We See That Ibrahim Alayhi Salatu Wasalam
Was Known As A Truthful Person.
He Was Known As One Who Was Truthful
With Allah Rabbul Izzati Wal Jalal, Truthful With
Himself And Truthful With His People As Well.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Says, وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُمْ
مِنْ رَحْمَتِنَا وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُمْ لِسَانَ صِدِقٍ عَلِيًّا And
We Granted Them From Us, We Granted Them
وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُمْ مِنْ رَحْمَتِنَا From Our Mercy And
We Made For Them A Righteous Truthful Mention,
A Righteous Truthful Tongue.
So Allah Rabbul Izzati Wal Jalal Mentioned This
About Ibrahim Alayhi Salatu Wasalam.
So When We Speak The Truth And We
Say That Which Is Correct And We Utter
It Despite The Circumstances Then We Get A
Badge Of Honor With Allah Rabbul Izzati Wal
Jalal And We Are Known As Those Who
Are Truthful And The Truth Is Of Utmost
Importance Because When We Tell The Truth Then
We Are Able To Build A Society That
Is Based On Sincerity Because A Person One
Is Truthful With Himself When A Person Lies
To Himself About Himself So He Tells Himself
That You Know What I Am Great And
I Am Better Because Of Such And Such
And He Convinces Himself Of This Then He
Will Do Anything To Gain One On The
Next Man To Gain A Level On The
Next Man Why Because He Believes He Deserves
It He Believes He Is Better Than Others
So Hence You Find A Person Goes Out
There And He Deceives And He Cheats And
He Lies So That He Can Gain A
Bit Of Money Gain A Bit Of Honor
Gain A Bit Of Wealth So He Lies
And He Deceives And He Cheats And He
Continues To Do So Until He Is Written
With Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala As A Liar
But This Lie Ultimately Will Backfire On Him.
It Will Backfire On Him And It Will
Actually Affect Him And None But Him Because
If You Look At The Story Of Yusuf
Alayhi Salatu Wasalam Allah Rabbul Izzati Wal Jalal
Says That They Went Out With Yusuf And
Then They Wanted To Lie To Their Father.
So They Sought False Evidence ...
So They Came To Yaqub Alayhi Salatu Wasalam
With A * Shirt, A Shirt Full Of
Blood And Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Describes It
As False Blood.
So They Came With A Blood That Would
Seem To Be The Blood Of Yusuf Alayhi
Salatu Wasalam On His Shirt.
If We Look At The Beginning Of Their
Treachery Then They Came With This Shirt And
They Chose To Do It Because They Wanted
To Gain The Affection Of Their Father.
They Thought They Were Better Than Yusuf.
So They Said, You Know What?
Let'S Lie To Our Father And Say That
He Died.
A Wolf Ate Him.
So He'S Gone.
So They Brought That Shirt As A False
Evidence With Their Father.
But At The End Of The Story What
Happens?
What Did They Want?
The Brothers Of Yusuf Alayhi Salatu Wasalam Wanted
To Gain Affection With Yaqub Alayhi Salatu Wasalam
And Ultimately It Led To The Direct Opposite
Which Was That This Distance Them From Yaqub
Alayhi Salatu Wasalam.
At The End Of The Story, It Is
Yusuf Alayhi Salatu Wasalam Who Emerges As The
Victim From This Situation.
In Fact, As Soon As They Present This
Shirt To Yaqub Alayhi Salatu Wasalam, He Says
To Them, But It Is Your Own
Selves That Made Up This Issue, This Matter.
He Knew Immediately They Are Lying.
So This Distance Them Immediately From Their Father.
It Had The Immediate Opposite Reaction To What
They Desired.
When You Lie Not Only To Yourself But
To Others As Well Or About Others As
Well, It Will Have The Opposite Effect.
It Will Affect None But You.
It Will Affect None But You.
Not Only Will You Become A Liar With
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
Imagine Within The Heavens, This Person Is A
Liar.
His Mention Is Made.
He Is Mentioned As A Liar, Allahu Akbar,
Until He Is Seen As A Liar With
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
And Then On Earth As Well, People Begin
To Say That Brother Always Has Stories.
He'S Always Lying.
He'S A Liar.
He'S Always Telling Tales About Other People.
So He Becomes Known Amongst The People As
A Liar As Well.
And This Is In Complete Contrast With How
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala, He Speaks About A
Person That He Loves.
When Allah Loves A Servant, He Calls Out
To Jibreel.
Indeed Allah Loves So And So, So Love
Him, O Jibreel.
So Jibreel Then Calls Out Amongst The Inhabitants
Of The Heavens.
Indeed Allah Loves So And So, So Love
Him.
Then Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Places Acceptance For
That Person On Earth.
He Places Acceptance For That Person On Earth.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Announces This In
The Heavens.
The People, The Inhabitants, The Angels Of The
Heavens Begin To Love That Person And Then
The People Of Earth Love Him As Well
For The Right Reasons.
So This Person Becomes Beloved To Allah Subhanahu
Wa'Ta'Ala And Beloved To The People.
As For The Liar, When He'S Written With
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala As A Liar, Then
He Becomes Known As A Liar With Allah
And He Becomes Known As A Liar With
The People And This Is A Dishonorable Mention.
Nobody Wants To Be Known As A Liar.
Nobody Wants To Be Known As A Liar.
You See Even In Business, When We Engage
In Business, It Is Of Utmost Importance That
We Are Honest And Transparent.
So The Buyer And Seller Should Be Honest
And Transparent With Each Other.
البيعان بالخيار ما لم يتفرقا The Buyer And
Seller Are At A Choice.
They Have A Choice As To Whether They
Want To Continue Or They Want To Exit
So Long As They Are Together And They
Have Not Parted Ways.
فإن صدقا If They Are Truthful وبيّنا And
They Are Transparent In That Transaction بُرُوكَ لَهُمَا
فِي بَيْعِهِمَا They Will Be Granted Barakah In
That Transaction Of Theirs.
They Will Be Granted Barakah In That Transaction
Of Theirs.
You Know, You Are Selling A Car, A
Simple Example.
You Are Selling A Car.
You Know Something Is Wrong Within The Car.
There Is A Default.
There Is A Fault.
So What Did You Do?
You Put Some Oil Over That Part.
It Was Going Clack Clack Clack Clack, Right?
As You Turned It, Made A Noise.
You Put Some Oil Over The Part.
It Stopped Making The Noise.
And You Showed It To The Person Whom
You Are Selling The Car To In Order
To Deceive Him So That He Doesn'T Know.
فَإِن كَذَبَا وَكَتَمَا So If They Lie And
They Conceal, You Have Concealed Something.
مُحْيَقَتْ بَرَكَةُ بَيْعِهِمَا The Barakah Is Taken Away
From Them.
Meaning It Was Present When They Began.
And Then It Is Removed And Snatched Away
From That Team.
Why?
Because They Lied To Each Other.
Today You Have Those Who Are Engaged.
And Sometimes I Get This From Community That
You Are Speaking About These Actions Because So
And So Does It.
And I Will Tell You That Yes, I
Am Speaking About It Not Because Of Him
Alone But Because It Has Become A Norm
In Society.
So If We Cannot Address These Issues From
The Pulpit, When Shall We Change?
When Will We Change?
How Can We Implement That Change In Our
Life?
So When There Was Something Wrong With Someone
Specific, What Did Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Do?
Did He Stand Up And Expose The Person
Or Did He Stand Up And Say مَا
بَارُوا أَقْوَالُ What Is Wrong With The People?
They Do Such And Such.
So He Didn'T Expose The Person But He
Dealt With The Matter As Well.
Today We Have Those Selling Property Of Others.
You Get A Percentage To Sell Their Property.
And Not Only Am I Talking About Real
Estate But Cars And Goods And Any Other
Property.
You Get A Percentage For That Property.
And Then What You Do Is Without Telling
The Person That You Are Buying From, That
You Are Representing.
Your Percentage Is 5% For Example.
You Don'T Tell Him That You Are Getting
A Percentage From The Other Side As Well.
And You Go And Receive A Percentage.
So Now You Don'T Represent The Buyer Only.
You Don'T Represent The Seller Only, You Represent
The Buyer As Well.
So You Have Got A Conflict Of Interest.
And Then There Are People Who Are Trying
To Deceive Allah Rabbul Izzati Wa Jalal And
Sell To A Friend Of Theirs For Less
Price And Get Him To Offer A Less
Price Knowing That He Has Another Person Offering
Much More.
And Then He Sells To The Friend And
He Says, You Know What?
We Will Sell It On To That Person.
The Barakah Of That Transaction Is Removed.
It Is Snatched Away From That Transaction.
In Another Hadith, Qudsi, Which Is From Allah
Rabbul Izzati Wa Jalal.
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Says I Am The
Third Of Two Partners So Long As The
One Does Not Deceive The Other.
When He Deceives Him, I Leave Those People.
Meaning The Help Of Allah Rabbul Izzati Wa
Jalal Is With You.
The Barakah Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Is
With You.
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala'S Assistance Is With You
So Long As You Are Honest With Each
Other.
When One Of You Deceives The Other, Allah
Leads You To Yourself.
Allah Leads You To Yourself.
And This Is What People Are Doing Today.
Why?
Because We Are After Wealth So Much That
We Have Forgotten The Real Wealth.
Which Is The Wealth Of The Akhirah.
The Real Honor, Which Is The Honor Of
The Akhirah.
We Have Forgotten That We Will Be Six
Feet Down One Day And Nevermind One Day.
And You See The Burial Of A Person
Every Day.
Every Day.
In Fact Today, I Believe We Received A
Message.
...
And You See The Burial Of That Person.
You Go To The Graveyard When The Skin
Being Placed Down And Forget Within Minutes.
Sometimes As We Are Leaving The Graveyard, May
Allah Forgive Us.
May Allah Forgive Us.
We Get On To A Phone Call And
We Are Busy Deceiving Another Person, Busy Cheating
Another Person, Busy Lying About Another, Destroying The
Reputation Of Another.
You Have Just Witnessed Someone Go Six Feet
Down Knowing That I Am Going There.
And Now You Are Deceiving Someone.
How?
How Can A Believer Do This?
Someone Who Knows They Are Going To Meet
Allah, My Dear Brothers And Sisters.
I Leave You With Hope.
I Leave You With Hope.
None Of Us Are Innocent.
All Of Us Have Mistakes That We Have
Made.
Sometimes The Evil Side Of Us Gets The
Better Of Us.
But What We Need To Do Is Clear
Our Record With Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
It Is Never Too Late.
So Long As You Are Breathing And You
Are Not In Dhul-Ghara.
The Sword Hasn'T Come To Your Throat And
Escaping Your Body.
Dhul-Ghara, That'S Why It'S Called Dhul-Ghara.
It'S Not Leaving Your Throat.
So Long As That Has Not Happened, You
Have A Chance.
Indeed, Tawbah Is For Those Who Do Bad
Deeds With Ignorance.
They Are Heedless.
They Become Heedless Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
Then They Seek Forgiveness Close To Having Committed
That Sin.
Meaning As Soon As Possible.
The Closer You Are To Seeking Forgiveness From
Allah Is What Determines How Close You Are
To Allah.
You Seek Forgiveness Immediately After.
It Means You Are Actually Pretty Close To
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Because You Recognized I
'Ve Done Something Wrong.
I'Ve Done Something Wrong And With The
People As Well.
You Stole The Land Of Others.
You Stole The Motor Vehicles Of Others.
You Stole The Houses Of Others.
You Cheated Them.
You Deceived Them.
You Attained It By Corrupt Means.
And I Say This Because It Is Becoming
Rampant In Society.
I'M Not Mincing My Words.
I'M Being Honest About The Happenings Of Community
Today.
We Need To Be Honest With Ourselves And
Make Reparations Before A Day Comes When The
Currency Will No Longer Be The Dollar And
The Pound.
It Will No Longer Be Gold And Silver.
It Will Be Your Good And Bad Deeds.
So Make Reparations Between You And The People
And Make Reparations Between You And Allah So
That When You Meet Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala,
Your Record Is Clean.
Your Record Is Clean.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Forgive Us And
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Strengthen Us And
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Make Me Sincere
In This Word Of Mine And May Allah
Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Make Us All Sincere In
Our Intentions Towards Others Only By Dealing With
These Issues Will We Be Able To Make
Progress.