Mufti Menk – Be A Proud Believer

Be a proud believer.

Be a proud believer.

When I say a proud believer,

be happy to be

who you

are.

If you have to dress in a certain

way, alhamdulillah,

I will do it and I will make

a difference. I remember back in the day

we had to

grow

a

beard.

And, mashaAllah, I was looking forward to it,

but at the same time, a little bit

worried about what everyone's going to say because

nobody had a beard besides 1 or 2

guys at the college I went and, subhanallah,

it was not so easy because you're a

youngster.

You want to have it, but you're fearing

what people would say.

And then I remember

because I

lived with it, people started saying, wow, that's

cool, man. That's cool.

It suddenly became cool. When I grew a

little bit older, a little bit too late,

it became a trend.

Allah. Right? Trendy.

But back in the day, it was almost

taboo to grow a beard.

Look how the Almighty changes things.

Today you see people from all walks of

lives with lovely beards, masha Allah. They look

at your beard, I like your beard, bro.

That wouldn't have been the case some time

back.

That's gonna happen with the hijab as well,

by the way.

May Allah grant us ease.

My beloved sisters, my brothers,

don't give up what you believe firmly just

because of what people may say, have said

or are saying. Not at all. We're stronger

than that. We believe. We're firm.

And the Almighty will bless you in so

many ways as a result. And not just

you,

but your children, those around you, your loved

ones. And if he has not given you

so many family members, he will have granted

you something else.

Look for it.

Try and think how did the Almighty bless

me? Wallahi, I want to share with you

something

amazing today.

It's a verse of the Quran

where Allah Almighty says, and I'm sure we've

heard it before, but if we haven't, here

goes.

And if you are going to try to

count the favors of Allah or if you're

going to count the favors of Allah, you

will never be able to count them all.

That's the meaning of the verse.

What Allah has blessed you with, you will

never be able to count all of those

things. If you want to start right now,

you're going to have to start with your

faculties of hearing and perhaps your sight and

whatever else it might be, your organs, your

limbs, your bodies,

everything and then

you broaden the circle. You'll never be able

to count the favors of Allah upon you.

But I want to tell you what is

more amazing

than that.

The opposite.

If Allah has tested you,

you are able to count the number of

tests in your life.

SubhanAllah.

Isn't that amazing?

Ask yourself,

what challenges do I have? What negativity do

I do I

I have? What problems or issues do I

face?

I swear you would be able to count

them on your fingertips. You can say I've

got this problem, this problem, this health matter,

this issue at home, this issue at work,

this, this, this, 9 things, I'm done.

But what about the billions of things that

are a favor of Allah that you cannot

count? Man is so weak that he becomes

despondent due to 9 things that he is

challenged in or tested in, and he

loses track of the 1,000,000 or the countless

things that Allah has blessed him with. That's

man. You concentrate on the one negative. It

shows your body is fine, nothing wrong with

it. But the mosquitoes bitten you in one

place, That itself is the source of depression.

Why? That bite is on my nose. The

whole world sees it.