Mufti Menk – A Funny Incident

			You know, when someone calls you a dog,
		

			if you get angry,
		

			subhanallah, you've lost.
		

			Because if you were a dog, they look
		

			exactly like you anyway.
		

			It would make them the same species.
		

			You know, the last time okay. Let me
		

			end on this light note. I know I
		

			said I would end a little bit earlier,
		

			but masha'alai. It's not every time that I
		

			come to Newlands.
		

			There was a guy on the street
		

			and I was driving.
		

			And for some reason,
		

			they
		

			when when the traffic light turned red, there
		

			is a little solid line. You get 2,
		

			3 solid lines there. So my bumper must
		

			have crossed the 1st solid line. He looked
		

			at me and said dog. I said, woof
		

			woof.
		

			Subhanallah. He was just laughing. He was gone.
		

			You know, subhanallah. Because he wanted to get
		

			me angry.
		

			And so the way I responded, I just
		

			said, woof woof. And he was like, this
		

			man is crazy, you know. And he started
		

			laughing. He's, you know, a human. I could
		

			have gotten angry. He said, you the dog.
		

			You're a cow. You're a this. You're a
		

			relax. Take it easy.
		

			Why are you overreacting to something that's minor?
		

			If he called you a dog, guess what?
		

			He looks just like you. Subhanallah.
		

			May Allah
		

			grant us forgiveness and a beautiful lesson.