Mufti Menk – Act And Change The Evil Through This Way
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The speaker discusses the concept of the "will" that comes with actively changing behavior. It is important to use words that make the truth according to oneself, rather than just resorting to actions. It is also important to consider one's actions when making a comment or commenting on a social media platform.
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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.