Mufti Menk – Don’t Let Distractions Corrupt Your Life
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I want you guys to work hard. Why
I talk about distractions is today there are
so many things that can make you lose
your path. Can you name some of them?
Can you name some of them? Yes. The
boys. Name some of the things that may
would make you lose your path. Yes. Stand
up and say it loudly.
Media. Media. Possible.
Social media, it has a good side to
it, a bad side to it.
Do you know what?
You need to make sure you if you
are using it, you use it properly or
don't use it. But don't be from among
those who uses it in a bad way.
You want to do some good something that's
going to help you, benefit you, something that
you might do to benefit others mashallah.
But the minute it's a waste of time
or something haram, something destructive,
you're not there.
Who can tell me some other distractions? Yes.
Did you say PlayStation?
Yes. PlayStation, like I told you, how many
hours do you spend on it?
1. 1. 1. Masha'Allah.
1. 1.
How many hours do you guys spend on
it gaming? 1.
5. The guy says 5 hour. 5 hours
a week or a day? No way.
No. 2 hours. We can compromise. 4 hours.
Woah. Come on guys. The more you are
into gaming the less you are going to
be able to do other things. And then
what happens it becomes a distraction. If it
distracts you from your prayer, your salah, it
distracts you from reading the Quran, it distracts
you from your
studies and so on. Then it's going to
be a problem. Sometimes
it makes you a person who
goes into a shell because you don't want
to talk to anyone, you don't want to
see anyone, you're in your room with your
phone or with your little laptop or with
your little iPad and you're just playing games
with people you're never going to meet. And
your real real people around you who live
with you, you hardly see them. You come
down for food. And what else? What else
do you come out of your room for?
Toilet. Yeah. Okay. Alright. Toilet. What else?
School. Water.
You need to come out of your room
to talk, to play, to interact with your
family, your brothers, and sisters, maybe your parents,
whoever it may be. Don't become a person
who locks yourself in your room, and just
chills on your phone throughout the evening. Don't
do that.
Those are distractions.
Name me another distraction.
Yes.
YouTube.
Yes. It can be a distraction when you
are on it for more than how long?
1 hour. More than 1 hour a day.
You can't be on all of that. What
what's another distraction?
Xbox.
Xbox. Another distraction.
Yes.
Phones. Another distraction.
These are all
Yes.
Yes.
Alright. Put your hands down.
Do you know what? Notice how the distractions
are being mentioned by little kids who barely
know about distractions.
You're noticing?
But the people whom it's supposed to be
closer to the back, they're quiet. They're just
silent sitting.
That's it. They're saying what? Shin. Shin.
Before Shin, there is alif
You go all the way to Shin, then
you go to Shin. But we don't even
have all of those. May Allah Almighty forgive
us.