Mufti Menk – Can You Follow Your Heart & Respect Your Parents
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Speaker 1 encourages Speaker 2 to not drop out of studies and to focus on helping their parents. They also ask Speaker 2 to allow their studies to develop and to not ever allow them to drop out. Speaker 1 hopes that Speaker 2 will continue to study and pass with flying colors, good grades, whatever their field is.
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As a parent, if if you were my
son today talking to me this way, I
would tell you, look, do yourself a favor.
Do yourself a favor.
Don't drop out of your studies, but you
can do
on the side. You can do whatever you
makes you happy, whatever you feel, you know,
you'd like to see.
And Insha'Allah,
I want to just say one more thing.
We see our brothers and sisters struggle across
the globe.
It's our duty to do whatever we can
to help them
on condition that whatever we do doesn't make
the matter worse.
That condition, a lot of people don't really
think about it. They just do anything and
everything, and sometimes sometimes,
they make matters worse. So we need to
remember while doing something
that would be helping them,
we shouldn't do something
that would make matters worse.
Right?
It's my duty. I don't want you to
drop out completely from your studies
simply
because you wanna help here. But I hear
what you're saying, and I feel it, and
I don't want you to leave this either.
So I want you to continue with your
studies. It's just a few years. Agreed.
If you start slowly sowing the seeds of
this,
Allah might grant it development before you finish.
Or when you are done,
you may want to now close that chapter
and come and concentrate on this. Or by
that time you may have
a different idea in your mind that might
be more beneficial.
Do you get my point?
So inshallah, Allah make it easy for you.
I hope that you don't drop out your
studies like you say, your parents are important
people in your life, be they Muslim or
not. And it's not something unreasonable that they're
asking you to do. The Quran says when
they ask you to do something unreasonable, then
you don't obey them. But if they've asked
you to do something reasonable, and you know
what? It's not in disobedience of Allah, then
you should be listening to what they have
to say.
So, Insha'Allah, I pray that you can further
your studies and, you know, pass with flying
colors, good grades, whatever your field is. And
at the same time, I pray that Allah
use you to assist those who are struggling
and suffering across the globe in the best
possible way. And inshallah, may Allah use all
of us to do the same.