Are We Good Muslims

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

Imagine.

Imagine.