Mufti Menk – ALERT Merchandise

			Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
		

			I'm just going to push this back to get a slightly clearer picture
		

			there goes I think I can move back as well.
		

			Okay, that's a little bit clearer. Masha Mata Baraka.
		

			Okay, so Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim al hamdu Lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala rasulillah wa Allah,
Allah, he was hobbies, my and my brothers and sisters.
		

			It has been brought to my notice just now that someone somewhere online is actually selling t shirts
with my name and my face, I have absolutely nothing to do with that I don't condone it, I don't
approve of it. And I thought it would be important to make a clarification. Now, it was something
very, very interesting because obviously, things like these do happen. And I'm sure the brother
might have good intentions, but unfortunately, he did the wrong thing. So to actually start selling
merchandise using somebody else's name and face is just not on. Not only is it islamically,
unacceptable, but all norms across the globe would not permit that you just start doing something
		

			without checking with the person.
		

			So inshallah I pray that this clarification can actually be
		

			before the law has vajilla beneficial
		

			to the brother, or the sister, whoever it may be, who is actually selling this merchandise and to
anyone else who might be doing the same.
		

			Please don't do that. Please abstain from it. And please remember that the correct procedure and
etiquette anytime whether it's me or anyone else, is to ask the person first to seek permission, and
written permission. There are a lot of people who do a lot of things thinking that well, you know,
it's only dour, and so on. So someone sent me an image just now and I was quite surprised because
the image was edited number one.
		

			Number two is that
		

			it was just so wrong SubhanAllah. And I felt for the brother because he might have been sincere. I'm
not one to judge his intentions, but he made a mistake, and he did something wrong. So I'd like to
just request the brother and Sharla if he can stop and abstain. And I hope he hasn't printed any of
those t shirts, I hope it was just, you know, an online
		

			beginning of a campaign to see if he can sell it and so you don't Sharla Another thing is
		

			what we also need to know is when people do things
		

			of this nature, we need to try and correct them and help them without swearing without getting angry
without insulting them and trying to think perhaps
		

			or look at it with maybe maybe possibility of them having had good intentions but they didn't know
how to do it.
		

			So inshallah, my beloved brother, I hope that you can correct yourself.
		

			Similarly,
		

			when it comes to
		

			earning, we need to make sure that whatever we do we have the permission of those who
		

			whose names we may be using. I think the issue of intellectual property is not discussed properly.
You cannot just use anyone's name and do anything you want with anyone's face. There are a few
YouTube pages as well, Instagram pages, various other pages that use names of chefs and it's not the
shift. That's actually a fraud. It is a fraud. I know on Tick Tock there are a few pages that use my
name and they are fraudulent to be honest. I do have an account there but I haven't really used it.
And I haven't been on there for a while. I just went initially to check what was going on and it
wasn't really my cup. So my brothers and sisters, let's not create accounts that would mislead
		

			people. And let's not use people's names. And also, what's important is don't ever fall victim or
prey to such people who dm you
		

			ask you for funds or for money. I know someone sent me screenshots of a person on
		

			Instagram as well as maybe the same or a different person on Facebook who was dming people and
saying, You're one of my good followers. And if you want me to make dua for you, then please donate
to this beautiful cause, you know. So that is actually fraudulent, it's not right, and that that's
not the way it should be. So I wouldn't actually dm you to ask you please donate to me, and so on.
		

			That's something I wouldn't do. If anything, maybe I would donate to you, Allah make it easy. But my
brothers and sisters be alette don't fall prey to such people who claim to pray for you. And they
claim they claim that they need to receive donations in order for the prayers to go through. I mean,
that's so foolish. Imagine, you put 20 bucks down and inshallah your prayers can go
		

			500 feet above sea level. So if you put 200 bucks, it's going to be 5000 feet above sea level, and
so on. That's like crazy. But unfortunately, some people fall prey to this, and some people actually
believe it. So it's something we need to remind people about.
		

			Remember, my accounts are the ones with blue ticks, or a verified badge. In the case of those who
have dark mode on a verified badge might be white, or blue. And
		

			on YouTube, it's actually a trick as well next to the name. So you will notice that and you would
actually be able to tell that this is legitimately the person. But when it comes to others, trust
me, you can discount all of them, you can discount all of them. Anyone pretending to be someone
else, you need to be alert. You know, when you receive emails, you must be very, very alert as to
what exactly
		

			you are doing and who it is coming from, you need to go to where it says sender, and you need to
look at who is going to reply the email to don't click on links, don't open attachments, if you
don't know exactly where it came from. mean so silly someone with a, an email address that said
admin at or reply or [email protected] something like that. They had the v.whatsapp.com I
mean, that was obvious that it was not WhatsApp it would have been whatsapp.com That's it, why would
they put the V in front of it and some other letters because they created a bogus account. And then
you have these
		

			people who fall prey to it and you click in they say enter your password. Enter your banking
details. I know of someone recently who lost a lot of money to a person who told them that I have so
many million, you know, that are
		

			in a treasure
		

			somewhere and in order to get it I'm only going to need 100,000 and when I get that 100,000 I'm
going to actually
		

			be able to give you so much of it as in return and this person gave them the money and then they
told me no I'm waiting and you know I've been robbed and whatever. And that's foolish. I mean, you
didn't ask me before you gave them a new to ask me you want to ask me after everything's gone. They
succeeded in conning you It cannot be that people have lost. It cannot be that people have lost
millions of dollars in a treasure in their backyard and to dig it. They're going to need so many
dollars. There is someone saying my dad got scammed for 8000. Tell your dad that I said he's lucky
it was not 800,000. So it's a 419 scam. Yes. And this is a long time back I remember people claiming
		

			that oh, we have US dollars that are half printed. And if you give us money, we can use the formula
of a chemical that is required to complete the print. I mean, come on. Gosh, that is the silliest
thing that I have heard and you know what good people have fallen prey to it. So be careful.
Certainly if you see it going back to the topic of merchandise, if you see things that are
		

			for sale that happened to be
		

			with a chef's face or something that is you know, that is bogus or it's not condoned by the person.
Don't buy it. Just don't buy it. You don't have to buy it because if you buy it you're supporting
the person notice or not mentioning the name of the person or the company simply because it could be
many people could be one person and why should I advertise for them? It could have been a gimmick
also
		

			You know, a gimmick meaning a way of attracting attention where
		

			this whole thing if I responded to them with their name, everyone would then say who it is, and this
person would become even more famous. So that's the reason why I chose to do a YouTube clip.
Perhaps, who knows, I may post this on Instagram a bit later, I may not.
		

			But
		

			Alhamdulillah I thank Allah for giving us this opportunity to speak to one another. And to be able
to look at your comments, I can see them quite clearly Alhamdulillah wa Alaykum wa salam o de la to
everyone here is someone saying you should post it. And the reason why I'm not going to post it is I
don't want to,
		

			you know, blow into the flame and create a bigger flame. I'd rather just say, you know, what, I'm
not involved in it, I don't approve of it. I think it's wrong. And I'm still thinking perhaps the
brother or sister may have had good intentions, but they made a mistake. So a mistake you made
inshallah, you can correct it, you can reverse it. And you know, normally I have the capacity of
getting cross, but we do that after we give you a few chances. And Charla, in the past I've had an
issue where we had to take some legal action against someone because of something they didn't
rectify, and we gave them many, many chances. And they just ignored it. So we had to
		

			go the legal route, which is actually very sad, but I wouldn't do that in a rush unless I really
felt it needed to be done.
		

			So yeah, that's how it goes. So it's been lovely chatting with you guys and take care everyone and
shukran for those of you who have supported us this evening, and salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato.