Mufti Menk – Can A Disease Be A Gift
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A woman describes her struggles with a stomach pain and loss of everything, including her money and life, which led her to find success in finding the right doctor. A man named Jesus Christ promised to make a prediction for cancer, but Jesus Christ only gave up when he was interrupted by a police officer. The situation is described as a death sentence where if one has a diagnosis of a disease, they will be cured immediately. Jesus Christ is encouraged to encourage people to bring their own health issues to the church, and he emphasizes the importance of learning to pass exams and avoid mistakes.
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You find
a certain brother, he says himself, I did
not used to pray. I have money. I
have power. I have everything.
I have
superb life,
and so I did not use to pray.
He says, one day,
I felt a pain in my stomach
and I thought perhaps it might be something,
you know, maybe a little bit of gastric
or whatever it might be, something I ate.
He says,
the next day the pain was still there.
I decided let me go to the doctor.
He went to the top doctors. The doctor
had
all the checks
and they diagnosed him with what? With cancer.
May Allah grant cure to those who are
suffering with cancer. Say, Amen.
And the doctor told him, you know, you
don't have much to live
because there is no guarantee. This is aggressive
and it's very bad.
He says, I told that doctor, who do
you think you are?
How can you decide that I have very
little to live? Are you God Almighty?
Suddenly, he's talking about God Almighty, but all
these years, he says that I didn't even
think of God Almighty because I had everything.
Are you God Almighty?
The doctor says, hey. Hey. Hey. Let's not
go there. I'm only giving you what the
results are of your own, the tests, and
so on. And I'm telling you from my
experience
that this is what it is. He says,
when I left and I came home and
I shared it with my family and I
realized what exactly happened, he said,
for the first time in my life,
I washed myself
and I stood on the sajada. You know
what's a sajada? A prayer mat. I stood
on the prayer mat and I faced qibla,
and I said, let me offer 2 units
of prayer and change my life.
So he offered 2 units of prayer,
and he said, I cried in sujud. Oh
Allah, cure me. Oh Allah, cure me. Oh
Allah, cure me. You are the only one
who can cure because medicine
has already given up. But he says my
life
turned around within 3 days.
I was so healthy, and suddenly,
the 3rd day, when the results were out,
it was
a total end of everything in my eyes.
My money meant nothing any longer. I was
no longer happy to see my cars
and my houses and my businesses
and how much they were bringing back every
day just because my stomach was paining. That's
all.
Just because my stomach was paining.
And so what happened?
He says, I cried in Sujood
begging Allah to change
this condition and to make it
such that the next test he has will
be cancer free. Oh Allah, You are the
giver and the creator of miracles. Create for
me a miracle. Cure me and so on.
He says,
after the two units of prayer, I cried.
I
made tawba, meaning he repented to Allah. I
led a life. I forgot you, and here
you are. I am begging from you and
you alone, oh Allah.
He says he fulfilled
the salah in the evening.
Early morning he was in the Masjid looking
for who? The imam. The sheikh.
Oh,
this sheikh.
He was the same guy who they used
to treat very roughly.
You know, sometimes they treat very roughly. The
sheikhs, they are not paid sometimes in the
sense that they are not looked after. When
we when they are delayed by 2 minutes
in salah, they will complain, hey, next time
don't read too long.
I don't know if it happens in
sulk,
but I think it happens in other places.
By the way, brother, while SK stands for
Sultan Qudrat. Masha'Allah.
Am I right?
Do you call it SK?
Yes. Masha'Allah.
There it goes. You see? I didn't know.
I just guessed because in the Philippines they
love to put abbreviations.
So,
he's looking for the imam. He says, after
salah, I greeted the imam. He was. He
had a big smile, and I was looking
very sad,
and then he says,
I heard some guys
some guys
say
I heard some guys say in the background,
look who is in the Masjid today.
You understand what that means?
Look who is here today. Meaning they are
surprised. They are shocked.
One guy
said, look who lost his way today. Allahu
Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Which means we don't expect
this
rich, wealthy, powerful guy to be in the
masjid. We don't expect him today. Maybe he
lost. He's lost. That's why he's here. Now
obviously, I want to correct that because
it is wrong to say that to someone
who comes to the Masjid. No matter what,
even if they have never been there, it's
wrong.
It's wrong. You need to encourage them. You
need to bring them through and say, mashaAllah.
Welcome them. It's the house of Allah.
So what happened? He
says, I was so embarrassed, but he says,
I was shivering. I said, Imam, I need
to talk to you privately.
I need to talk to you privately.
And so the imam says, no problem, my
brother. Come forth. And as he sat and
as he sat with the imam telling him
that in the last 3 days my life
has changed. I have one result and this
is the sickness that I have. The imam
says, my brother don't worry. Allah is a
Shafi.
Allah is the cure. You need to drink
Zamzam. You need to have hope in Allah.
You need to start with black seed. You
need to have a juwa. You need to
you know what these things are. Right?
You need to have pure honey. You need
to do this. You need to have an
alkaline diet. You need to whatever the imam
was saying, he said a lot of things.
So the brother says that
the imam said one thing
that woke me up.
He says, brother,
there is one of 2 things that can
happen to you. Either Allah gives you cure,
so you live for a few more years
before you will still go back to Allah
anyway because those without cancer have also died.
Right?
And he says or if Allah did not
cure you in the worldly sense, He will
cure you in the heavenly sense because if
you die as a result of the sickness
now,
thank Allah He gave you the chance to
turn to Him before you died. Allahu Akbar.
If you die suddenly,
so many people, they die suddenly. They did
not have an opportunity to repent.
They did not have a chance to turn
back to Allah. They did not have a
chance to say I'm sorry for what I
did. They did not change their lives.
They led a life, for example, far away
from from their maker. They are now going
back to their maker. Is that better or
is it better to have an opportunity to
change and to turn? So when Allah has
given you a diagnosis of a disease, a
disease, a disease, a disease, a disease, a
disease, a disease, a disease, a disease, a
disease, a disease, a disease, a disease, a
disease, a disease, a disease, a disease, a
disease, a disease, a disease, a disease, a
disease, a disease, a disease, a disease, a
So when Allah has given you a diagnosis
of a disease that is considered terminal by
worldly standards,
remember it is a gift of Allah.
He's giving you a chance. Are you going
to turn to me? Because you know what?
It's enough.
It's enough to lead your life. What are
you going to achieve? What are you going
to get? Every day you are committing a
sin, the same sin repeated again. Every day
you are doing bad things. You don't ever
read the Quran. You have never prayed. You
don't ever do the right thing. You are
out doing the wrong things, whether it is
intoxication, whether it is whatever else it may
be, the gambling, the
intoxication, whether it is whatever else it may
be, the gambling, the losing of money, the
abusing of people. You've been doing wrong things
all along.
I want you to change your life. Here
is a beautiful opportunity.
I want you to be diagnosed
a disease that
medicine is going to give up and tell
you we cannot
cure you so that you can turn to
Allah because He is the curer.
He says at that juncture, when I listened
to this imam, my life changed permanently and
I said, oh Allah,
even if You cure me, I'm not going
to change
to go back to my bad ways.
I will remain steadfast
even if you cure me because sometimes
what happens to us?
The Quran says
that when man
is in trouble, he calls out to Allah.
And when Allah
alleviates the trouble and the struggle,
he forgets Allah as though he never ever
called out to Allah before.
Oh Allah, help me to pass my exam.
Oh Allah, help me to pass my exam.
I have an examination
this evening or tomorrow or this coming week.
Oh Allah, I have examination tomorrow. Help me.
Grant me the
ease. Make me pass, oh Allah. What did
you do? You made your Fajr. You made
your Duhr. You made your Asr. You made
your Maghrib. You made your Isha. You read
your Quran. You did your dhikr only because
of one silly
examination.
As soon as you got your result and
you have all A's, what did you do?
You had a party where there is alcohol,
where there is
dancing, and enjoyment to the degree that everything
is free. And you know what? Everyone was
just forgetting Allah. You forgot to say, oh
Allah,
I thank you for answering my dua.
I promise you I will be steadfast.
You see the difference?