Mufti Menk – Dont Be A Little Pharaoh At Home

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Speaker 1 discusses the use of the verse"not a pleasant surprise" in Allah's teachings to earn rewards and build one's palace. They stress the importance of trusting oneself and not boasting about others. They also criticize racist behavior and suggest rejecting one's own thoughts and abilities.

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			So his people told him Latifah in Allah Allah you have been very hidden fara in the Arabic language
actually means happiness. And when it is used in a context where that happiness gets to a degree
where it becomes an arrogance and the haughtiness and the boastfulness, that is what is being
mentioned in this particular context when it comes to the story of our own
		
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			come on, down on camera. To me, this verse is absolutely important, Allah is telling him through his
own people, that whatever Allah has given you use it in order to earn the hereafter and to build
your palace of the Hereafter, when Allah gave you power, for example, use it in such a way that you
earn your ophira it's not going to last forever. When Allah has given you any form of power, be it
physical power, or be the authority over others. You might be a father in the home, be a good
father, use that position to earn your Jana
		
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			don't become a little qarun in your own home. Because in our homes, trust me there are some
theorems, there are some little Pharaohs the way they operate in the house as though they have no
connection with Allah and they are not answerable to Allah in any way. My brother, my sister, you
are answerable to Allah for absolutely everything. Don't be too haughty. Your children wants
something Subhana Allah. Remember, sometimes Allah is watching you, he gave you those children, they
are actually his creation, he owns them. When a person passes away, we say in Nadella or in nyla.
Joan, I've said this so many times, that is proof enough to actually convey the message that we all
		
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			belong to Allah. We don't belong to each other here, where was your child, 15 years before that
child was born, who was Allah, one year before the child was born, what Allah,
		
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			Allah gave you and Allah is going to take away. So Allah says, You know what, when the child wants
something, you are only a facilitator for what is halaal that the child would like, but the child is
an independent child, your son, your daughter would like to achieve something, say for example, and
this is happening more and more, now. They want to marry someone. And just because you have some
idea that I don't want to marry people from the other side of the river or another town or another
country or another culture, and therefore what happens, you think you can just reject you can, you
can just reject, but you're answerable to Allah, He will come for you Subhana Allah, He says there
		
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			will be chaos in your own home. We will destroy things for you. If you don't turn back to us. Don't
be a racist. Don't be a person who thinks that he is above the rest. Don't belittle people because
of their complexion, or because of their accent, or because of where they come from, where they were
born. Not at all. We are all the children of Adam and Adam was from the dust and the soil. Could
Luna mean Adam Adam, I mean Torah Subhana Allah