Mufti Menk – Are We Good Muslims
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The speaker discusses the importance of obeying instructions given by Allah to reduce one's life to entertainment and spend time with family. They also share a statement made by their own family about their belief in Islam, which they consider to be a "moodier Muslim" than their own. The speaker concludes that the world can become a better place for Muslims to start studying and see questions, and that anyone who is not good enough for their own good will be punished.
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My brothers and sisters, that's not what life
is. If you're a good Muslim, how can
you reduce your life to entertainment alone? Yes.
You may want to enjoy yourself within the
limits once in a while, and you take
your family, you spend time with your family.
But you need to know, the greatest enjoyment
is achieved by obeying the instruction of your
maker. He tells you
to eat that which is pure and good.
He tells you to earn in a beautiful
way, if you're a good Muslim.
He tells you to spend time with your
family members. Today,
the crisis we are facing,
people are prepared to spend time with their
friends every night,
doing only what Allah
knows and they know.
And their spouses and their family members whom
they are supposed to be spending time with,
they are responsible for.
A literal orphans
whose parents are alive.
Orphans whose parents are alive because we don't
even spend time with our family members.
And we call ourselves good Muslim.
And then we are depressed, we are sad.
And then sometimes we lose our families. We
have children who grow up all on drugs
and bad habits, because you never spent time
with them.
Rather, enjoy yourself going on a holiday with
your own family.
So, mashallah,
take your family and go out. And enjoy
that
Force yourself to enjoy that little shell that
Allah has given you
to start with. What's the point of having
a 1,000 friends, when your own family is
crying for your company? And you cannot spend
5 minutes with them, and you cannot speak
with them with a good tongue.
This is why I read before you the
verses of Surat Al Furqan towards the end,
where Allah
makes it very very clear to us. Who
are the true worshipers of the Most Merciful?
Very clear to us. Who are the true
worshipers of the Most Merciful? And one of
them is, and Allah
says, when they walk, they walk with humility,
humbleness.
Humility, humbleness.
We do not want to give the impression
to others that we are haughty, we are
arrogant because
we are just one of the rest. SubhanAllah.
I remember,
once I was traveling
and we had stopped to refuel
in one of the,
we call them petrol stations.
And there was a group of people in
another vehicle,
who looked at us and started laughing. Because
we were Muslimine.
And they started laughing at us and scoffing
and so on and we could see it.
I told the brothers with me, please just
ignore them. It was actually my family. I
said, just ignore these people.
And
I came out, we bought a few, you
know, a little bit of water and drink
and whatever else, whilst the motor vehicle was
refueling. And thereafter, we came out and
happily, we went onto the road. They had
left 5 minutes before us.
Somewhere down,
they made an accident. A huge accident.
A very, very big accident. And we were
one of the first people who came in.
And
that was an opportunity.
I didn't just look at them and say,
you guys laughed at me. You guys were
scoffing. You guys were so arrogant. And now,
goodbye.
No, we didn't say that. Not at all.
I stopped,
ignored what happened before.
Let's deal with you. Are you guys okay?
Is everything fine?
And I noticed there was injury.
And in no time, not only with my
vehicle, but a few other people. And we
took them to the nearest hospital.
And thereafter,
we happened to help them tow their vehicle
and so many things happened.
As a result,
I want to share with you a statement
that was uttered to me a month down
the line.
1 of the brothers
came to visit me.
And he told me,
I thought Islam was a very barbaric religion
that never ever respected human life.
And I've changed my mind forever.
That's all.
I've changed my mind forever.
I didn't ask him, brother,
enter the fold of Islam and so on.
I told him, my brother,
here are 3 booklets
and here are 2 DVDs.
I only want you to know
what I believe.
Here you are. That's all. That was enough,
subhanAllah.
By the will of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
at least the bare minimum is,
the world can become a better place. People
can start studying, they can start seeing, they
can ask questions. What a great opportunity Allah
gave us. This is what supposed to be
the quality of a Muslim. May Allah make
us good Muslim il. And I'm sure it's
happened to a lot of us. But my
brothers and sisters, the worst from amongst us
is he,
or she, who behaves in a way that
those who already have
a not so bad impression of Islam, start
having a worse impression of Islam. Then we
have done a disservice
to not only to ourselves and to Allah
to Muhammad
as well, and the deen at large, and
every other Muslim on the globe.
So we call ourselves good Muslim, and then
we complain about the image of Islam on
the globe when we have contributed towards it.
Imagine.