Mufti Menk – Do You Enjoy The Suffering Of Others
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The speaker advises the audience not to say that they have deserved something because people are jealous and would be glad if it happened. They also suggest reaching out to people who have lost loved ones because they are helping others. The speaker emphasizes that helping others means giving oneself permission to help others, rather than just awarding them something.
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Many people many people
would prefer to see another
being destroyed
or going down. They it would make them
more excited
when they see something
bad that happened to someone, they begin to
say,
You're
supposed
to
say,
You're supposed to be sad when someone else
is suffering a loss.
But unfortunately,
we are witnessing a growing number
who show happiness at the loss of others
simply because
they're jealous, or they've had a difference of
opinion, or they might have had a little
bit of
an altercation,
and now suddenly they're excited that this brother
or this sister has suffered.
We should never say they deserved it. No.
Don't say that.
Even if you think they did. No. Because
the next person in a problem could be
you.
Try and reach out to them.
Offer some help because when you're in a
disaster you will also find others offering help.
And that help when Allah puts it in
your heart to reach out to others, remember
it is Allah helping them through you.
We always say this. I remember in this
hall, I spoke last year and I remember
saying, in fact earlier this year. And I
said,
when you pledge to a certain cause that
is
a necessity,
people are struggling, you've pledged, It's Allah who's
giving them but He loves you so He's
put it in your heart to give
to the right place. So you can earn
a reward
while helping them. That's what it is. But
if Allah wanted, He did not need to
use you.
He's giving you an opportunity.
And when you help, you will always find
that the Almighty will help you in other
difficulties and hardships. And in your own life,
like the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
says,
Allah continues to assist
a worshipper for as long as that person
is busy helping others.
So if you help others you will be
helped. In what? In your own matters, in
your own affairs.
So thank Allah for this.