Mufti Menk – Allah Knows YOUR Struggle
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The speaker tells a young man that he should wear the item he has made himself, but the man is still too young to wear it. The speaker tells him that he needs to take his shoes off and leave his home, but he should keep it. The speaker advises the man to take his shoes off and leave his home, but he should consider all of this before starting to wear it.
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In an ideal world, I would have told
you, listen, there's no way we can even
talk about this. This is the way it
should be done, and that's it. But we're
not living in an ideal world, so I
can tell you
congratulations
for considering
wearing the hijab as soon as you can.
You're still quite young. You're still dependent on
your folks. Am I right?
It's wrong for me to just tell you
leave them when you're just gonna be on
the street. Make it worse. Some people will
tell you that. Leave them. Quit them. Don't
worry. Allah will provide. Hang on. It's a
right answer
with the wrong situation.
So
for me to tell you, well done. Whatever
you're doing to me
is probably the best given your circumstance,
which I'm not in and no one is
in. So if you're telling me, I put
on the hijab as soon as I can.
When I get home, you know, I can't
wear the hijab. I leave home. Well, those
are your mahrams anyway. Those are the people
within your home anyway. So there is an
element of
inability perhaps in the in in,
you know, where it doesn't overlap. There is
an element of inability.
Allah knows your struggle more than anyone else.
I know born Muslims who don't even wear
the hijab. It's no justification, but
they might have their own struggles.
I will tell you, do your best. Continue
to ask Allah. Make dua to him and
Allah will give you an opportunity
very soon where you'll be in a situation
and an environment
where nobody's gonna hinder you by the will
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So
again, like what I said to one of
the sisters there, I don't have a little
switch to say, here's the answer from today.
It's gonna be fine. Everything's gonna be okay,
but I'm here to listen to you and
to acknowledge
that if you've done the best given your
circumstances,
Allah knows your struggle
and Allah Almighty will not punish you for
something you were unable
to do. SubhanAllah.
You know, in your situation people might find
people who are not in your shoes might
say, no, it's so easy. Why don't you
take that? You know, what are they gonna
do to you? What are they gonna do
to you? So take it, you know, it's
easy for them to say from outside,
Come into my life and then talk.
I firstly, it's an issue of loving your
folks and so on, which is there. Secondly,
it's dependency. I depend on them. They spend
on me. They've done for me. They've been
there for me. I can't just leave the
house. Where am I going to go? What
am I go those are legitimate questions. You've
got to consider all of that before you
just start jumping.
But for as long as in your heart,
you know that inshallah, you know, as soon
as I have have this opportunity, I always
make the most of it. May Allah make
your struggles easy, and may Allah make the
same, meaning create ease for everyone who's going
through struggles. Ameen.