Mufti Menk – Act And Change The Evil Through This Way

Then the hadith says, fa'ilam

yastata'ah.

If he is unable to change it by

hand, then

he should change it

by his tongue. Fabbilisanihi.

How is the changing by tongue? The changing

by tongue is not through uttering bad, abusive,

vulgar words that some of the pious and

also those who are not so pious do

today.

Where people see someone,

not doing something appropriate, maybe they've posted it

on Instagram, You might see a sister, for

example, who might have exposed a little bit

too much and or, something you may consider

immoral.

Do you just swear them? Do you utter

hateful words, hurtful words? No. You're making the

matter worse. Think about it carefully. You have

to utter words that

make the truth according to you manifest in

a very

respectful way.

Your intention is to change the evil,

not to cause more evil. A lot of

people falter here as well. You have people

who start refuting others and swearing them, belittling

them, calling them very bad names. Don't do

that. You're actually engaging in an evil

in order to get rid of another evil.

That doesn't help. 2 evils don't make you

right just because you engaged in 1 after

the other.

You have to make sure that you did

something

that would be convincing enough with your tongue,

with your capacity. And the tongue would also

mean perhaps online, you know, you said something

online.

You you wrote an article. You might have

had a video. You might have, you you

know, did something more than just feeling it

in your heart. The first level was to

physically change. The second level is to convince,

to address the mind, to talk to the

people.

And the 3rd level, if you cannot talk,

you cannot

express yourself, you cannot correct it, you think

that it's going to make matters even worse.

If I were to open my mouth or

comment in any way, be it online or

offline, if you think by your commenting it's

going to make matters worse, you have the

right

not to comment. You can just feel it

in your heart to say, you know what?

That was wrong. I shouldn't do it. I

won't do it. I pray that that person

is guided and I pray that they see

the light and they don't do it either.

So this is something very interesting and very

important because

many people are falling in this regard today.