Mufti Menk – A droplet of semen!

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

			smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu Lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala rasulillah who Allah Allah, he was
happy.
		

			We praise Allah subhanho wa Taala we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, his entire household, all his companions, we asked Allah subhanho wa Taala to bless them
all and to bless every single one of us. I mean, my beloved brothers and sisters, you and I know
that Allah subhanho wa Taala created men from dust, he created men from soil, one might say, well,
there is a difference between the two. The reality is these are different stages within the creation
of men, Allah subhanho wa Taala decided to use two components, dust and water. So if you take a
careful look at it, it was very possible for Allah subhanho wa Taala. To use gold to create men, or
		

			to use silver to create men, or platinum or anything that today we would consider valuable. But
Allah subhanho wa Taala decided to use dust or soil. And on top of that, when you and I are unclean,
we would use water to cleanse ourselves. If there is no water available, we are asked to use dust,
it will cleanse you. Similarly, we do know that part of the component of men is water. A lot of what
we have in us is actually water. May Allah subhanahu wa taala help us understand that he has chosen
these two in order to create us for a reason. Similarly, when he created a female, it was his
choice. Before I get to that, let me explain to you that there is nothing insulting. In being
		

			created from dust. Someone says What were you made from now you cannot say gold, you can't say US
dollars. You can't say anything else. You have to say dust. That's it. It is not an insult to you
that Allah chose to create you from dust. Your value is determined by what you are today and who you
are today. And now. And when you go back to Allah subhanho wa Taala what deeds you are going to take
back? That is what your value is determined by. So why did Allah choose to create me from dust, like
I said, many reasons, we were souls at one stage, before we were given bodies, we were all souls,
Allah wanted to test these souls. So he gave you a uniform to say I have a place. But in order to
		

			get there for the examination, you need to wear something known as a body, I'm going to put the soul
into that body for a short period of time, some of the limbs and organs you might lose while you are
in that examination. And some of them, you may lose towards the end of the exam, knowing that the
whole lot you're going to leave behind. When you finally return to us. This is why when you and I
die, we are taught to bury the body back into the soil and to leave a little gap between the body
and way the soil actually goes on top. And the reason is that oxygen that is trapped there is what
is used to
		

			decompose the body if there was no oxygen there, there will be no combustion, there will be no
decomposition. So that's one of the reasons why you have to leave a gap of oxygen before you
actually put the soil you cannot put the soil or it is not correct to put the soil straight onto the
body.
		

			My beloved brothers and sisters, a female is created from the rib of men according to the Hadith
Sahih of Abu huraira the Allah one. Now sometimes you have women who start arguing no that narration
is like this, and that man is like this now the biller, it's insulting to say we are from a rib, I
want to tell you if you think it is insulting to be created from a rib, it is even more insulting to
be created from dust. So choose which one you want. One of the two, you either say dust or rip, I
think it's a greater honor to be created from a rib from something living hence the name Hawa or
Eve. It means one who has created from something living Subhana Allah, this is an amazing, amazing
		

			creation of Allah subhanho wa Taala let me get to the point I want to raise. When we say dust, it's
valueless. When you have dust on your motor vehicle, you cannot wait to wash it, especially if that
motor vehicle is a dark color. If you have dust in your room, it means there's something wrong but
you will create it from dust. Look at how we look at dust so low. But with us. We suddenly think
we're a big big deal. And a lot raises this with us. You know we read surah in the Quran.
		

			If I were to tell you have any of you read surah Yaseen, the majority would say, yes, we've read it
and we haven't just read it once we read it often. But if I were to tell you Do you know the meaning
Some will say yes, the bulk will probably say no. And if I were to tell you have you ever pondered
over the meaning, I think most of us would say no, there is a verse there that is repeated, listen
to it. Our
		

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			being, does man not realize does men not see that we created him from a droplet of *? Now one
might ask, Just now you said dust now you're seeing droplet of *, the original creation from
dust, the reproduction, Allah chose a certain method of reproduction. That's his system. So that is
a droplet of *. And Allah says, has men not seen that he was created from a droplet of *.
		

			And then suddenly, after being one little
		

			nucleus and multiplying, becoming a little zygote, an embryo and thereafter growing by the will of
Allah, and you were born Allah subhanho wa Taala says in another verse of the Quran, Allah Raja
		

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			con la la Muna Shang.
		

			Indeed, it was Allah who took you out of the wounds of your mother's, you knew nothing. You knew
absolutely nothing, you couldn't even speak and you don't even remember that moment. None of us here
can remember the moment we were born. It's because as much as you know how you were born, and when
you came onto the earth, you will not be able to remember Allah says, in order to show you all men
that this life is all about a test. It's a test.
		

			So getting back to that verse, when we were born, we knew not how to speak but when we learned how
to speak, we started swearing our builder, we started lying stopzilla we started speaking bad. And
Allah says, hang on, we taught you how to talk in order that you do not lie in order that you do not
swear in order that you do not cheat and you are going exactly into cheating and lying and stealing
so you don't even know why you were made. So Allah says at the beginning, that has men not seen we
created him from a droplet of *. And then Allah says beautifully and powerfully for either who
are causing him
		

			to be suddenly when he gains a little bit of ability to speak a little bit of money, a little bit of
authority, he starts becoming so argumentative. He starts arguing about what number one about us,
Stan, viola, there are people who claim Allah does not exist. That's one. But worse than that are
those who claim Allah exists but they don't follow. They don't obey. Subhana Allah so Allah says,
Look at men, he knows he was nothing. In fact, you know, so I'm sure we read it. In this machine,
mostly all the Fridays we try to read the Sunnah of Surah Surah sajida and so on. You will hear the
first verse I'm sure we've heard it. * Atal
		

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			Mina de la Mia. She
		

			has men not passed through a phase when he was nothing even mentionable nothing worth mentioning.
Look, if I am 45 years old, for example. Where was I? 46 years ago? No way. Where was I 50 years
ago, definitely no way to where was I 100 years ago, and I come on to the earth. And I have the
audacity to start swearing, cheating, lying, deceiving, lying about Allah and committing sin against
Allah knowing fully well that I'm going to return to the same Allah and knowing that the test is
going to come to an end and I'm busy writing the wrong answers and I know what the right answers
are. So that's why Allah says in Surah, Yaseen, Look, man, look at him, you know, when you and I see
		

			a young person growing up, and we saw them as children, and suddenly, you know, they perhaps used to
talk and so on when they grow big and they develop homes, you know what that means? They develop
homes, they become wild, they want to argue and fight, they will come to you as an elderly person
and sway you, they will disrespect you in full view of the whole public. And the only thing you can
say in your mind is I feel sorry for this little child here, who really doesn't know that they were
a droplet of * at one stage, and they were born in such a way that if no one managed them, they
would have died stavroula and look at him today. He wants to come and argue and fight and he wants
		

			to come in, put his point forth in the most disrespectful manner. Where were his men what happened
to him. He was such a cool, calm youngster a long time back and suddenly now that he's been given
the opposite
		

			tunity to show his true colors, he has begun to show those true colors. We always say money does not
spoil you. It only gives you the opportunity to show who you really were always. If you were really
compass and you really love Allah, you had good character and conduct. No matter how much money you
have, you will always remain calm. And you will always understand this is from Allah. I am a person
humble it will bring you closer to Allah. But if you always had within you this complex that needed
to be shown, but because you didn't have money or authority, you could not show it the day you got
it. That's the day you started showing everything. Wow, these are your true colors. Allah says for
		

			either who has seen the movie look, suddenly he became so argumentative. He became so sinful he
became such that he's transgressing day and night. How can men do that? Let's go back to Surah two
dar. I mentioned the verse where Allah says there was a time when men you and I, we will nothing
even mentionable we couldn't even be mentioned. If someone said there was a baby born or there is a
fetus, someone might say what is the gender, you could either say it is a he or a she a male or a
female. But before that, before you even came into that particular place, people could not refer to
you as he or she, they could not even refer to you as it. It, they couldn't even say it because they
		

			don't even know you will not even there. The child you might have, after five years you don't even
know. So Subhan Allah May Allah subhanho wa Taala help us the very next verse, Allah says in fala
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			Allahu Akbar, Allah says, Do you know we created men from a droplet of * here goes once again.
This is another verse. The first one was surah. Yaseen. This is the second verse of surah to dar,
where Allah says, indeed, we created men from a droplet of *, droplets of * that is mixed in
a mixed droplet of *, you have male and female, the gametes fuse creating a little zygote.
Subhana Allah, and what would happen? a fetus is there. Amazing. That's the will of Allah. Allah
says, in order to test him, why did Allah make you Allah made you in order to test you like I said,
this is a testing ground 70 years, if you went before that, that was the will of Allah, if you went
		

			after that, also the will of Allah but you had the bonus. Subhana Allah, you had the bonus because
now you know, I'm old, I better prepared to meet with Allah, there is no way that you are going to
be able to run away from Allah, you might run away from a man, you might run away from the truth in
this world, you might get away with lying and cheating in this dunya that's fine. Allah says, Don't
worry, you fail the test. When you come to us. We're going to show you what it's all about. Take it
easy. We're going to show you if you're a winner, you will recollect while you are living, and you
will turn back to us while you are living, and you will humble yourself once again, and you will
		

			bring yourself down to the ground once again. But if not, it's not going to reduce anything from us.
In another verse, Allah says, Have they not seen add and remove the previous nations? In another
verse? He says, Have they not seen the pharaoh? These people and these nations were more powerful
than you are, but we punish them. They thought they were gods besides us. Allah says Pharaoh was
also created from a droplet of * like Allah says, And what did he do when he grew a little bit
older, he got a little bit of power a little bit of money authority, he started saying an Arab
Bakula Allah, I am your God the highest will call
		

			him to let
		

			him go. He told his cronies and his people Oh my people. I don't know of another god for you besides
me imagine, yet he knows he was created from a droplet of *. He too died. So Allah says Hang on,
man, we created you from a droplet of * that was mixed, and we gave you the in order to test
you. We created you in order to test you. That is why we gave you your faculties of hearing and
seeing Why did Allah give me is it's part of the test. You cannot enter an exam room and tell me you
don't have a pen or a pencil. You cannot enter an exam room without a paper. So yours, your
examination and mine is of a life. And one of the things you need, hearing the faculty of hearing
		

			the faculty of seeing Subhanallah it's a gift of Allah. If Allah has taken it away, he will deal
with you in a different way. But for the rest of us, Subhan Allah.
		

			Allah says I gave you these faculties as part of your test. So when you're young, you cannot even
see clearly as a little baby. Weeks few weeks later, you start seeing shapes A little while later
you start recognizing and after that you might cry when you see something you don't recognize.
		

			Part of a loss plan. So Allah says, Can you worship that which you don't recognize as your deity as
your god, look at man, we made him now suddenly he worships all the other things. Allah says, you
know, when you came onto this earth, you came with nothing. So don't pretend like your entire life
is all about money and making money to the degree that you employ haram and disallowed methods to
earn money.
		

			It's not wrong to earn part of our test is to earn halon It's a reward to go out and stay away from
Haram is a big reward. to go out and do something that is purely halal is a big reward. But that's
not your main aim. That's only to help you live through. It's like someone saying, you know, when we
write our examination, you need ink, the ink for the pen. So now you come with five buckets of ink
and you put it next to your table, they're all going to laugh at you. How long do you want to write
for here, you're going to be writing for 30 minutes, you only need one small pot of ink, you came
with five buckets. That's how we treat money. You made the money you made your little, you know, a
		

			container of ink. And now you want a bucket and two buckets and five buckets, you're going to finish
your exam and that ink is going to be spilled and it's going to miss everybody who you left behind.
That's what happens. May Allah Subhana Allah Allah guide us, if it comes in a halal way?
Alhamdulillah If not, trust me, you don't need it. You don't need it, you will fail your test. You
might leave, you might live a life of luxury, leave a lot behind, but there will be no blessing in
it, there will be destruction in it. So this is Allah. Allah says, I gave you your faculty of
hearing and seeing in order to test you and I have guided you, as you grew older, I showed you what
		

			is right, what is wrong, you know what is right and what is wrong, you know, you're going to come
back to us. So don't choose the wrong path. If you choose it, you might get away with it in this
world. But if we choose we might even punish you in this world. Wait, it's a time Allah gives a
chance to people, Allah gives one chance to chances he has a quota of chances. After those chances
are over. The punishment descends, the wrath comes down when it comes down. Nothing can stop him in
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			when the fixed time of Allah comes, it will never ever be delayed. He knows. And this is not only
speaking about death, anything appointed by Allah when he appoints This is it, that's it, you will
not be able to change it. So this is Allah subhanho wa Taala warning us and telling us listen, you
know what is right or wrong? The next verse is in Medina who Sabina
		

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			we have indeed guided the people to the paths, what are the paths, you know, this is the path of
gratitude. This is the path of ingratitude. This is the path of belief. This is the path of
disbelief. This is the path of the pleasure of Allah. This is the part of the displeasure of Allah,
and we put you at the beginning of the road. When you add the beginning of the road, you start
walking, you know which way it is, but you want to take a shortcut, to what to fame, to popularity
to money to anything else. If it is wrong, trust me, you heading in the wrong direction. It's not
all about things that will happen in this world, while transgressing the commands of Allah subhanho
		

			wa Taala. It is about what you choose to do and decide to do by the help of Allah. This is why in
Surah Fatiha every time we repeat a dinner Scirocco, Mr. King, that's the only dua in Surah Fatiha,
it's the only supplication in Surah Fatiha and it is compulsory to repeat it at least 17 times a day
or more, in fact, much more Subhan Allah. Why? Because Allah is reminding you listen, your test is
all about Owner of the Day of Judgment you alone, we worship you alone, we seek for help guide us to
the straight path. That's what it is. Why do you repeat Sora to Fatiha Why is it so important? Why
is it melodious? Why do your children when they are two years old and three start repeating Surah Al
		

			Fatiha if they've heard it, they start saying it again. You find the small baby as they grow a
little bit. They listen within the Muslim home to Surah Al Fatiha and they start repeating it.
That's the power of Allah subhanho wa Taala a child will repeat. Let's keep our homes alive in
Sharla with beautiful words of Allah rather than them learning all the latest bollywood Hollywood
songs and so on when they don't even know so to fattier, my brothers and sisters, this is Allah. So
Allah says oh man, don't forget where you came from. Don't ever no matter who you are today, don't
forget where your your beginnings were. Firstly, they will no way after that, it was a little
		

			nucleus after that, it came in the form of a droplet of * after that, it was mixed with the over
ovum or as male
		

			Female getting together. They say the gametes fuse, okay? thereafter, you started multiplying in the
womb of your belly of your mom, your mother, everyone seated here and everyone who's going to listen
to this today or another day, it's a reality. That's how you started. So don't develop horns. For
the sake of Allah. You can be a president, you can be an ambassador, you can be a manager, you can
be a CEO, you can be a multi millionaire billionaire. Don't forget your beginnings. And more
importantly, don't forget your ending.
		

			Remember this that's what life is all about. So people are thinking to themselves you know what,
it's all about just this world. That's it. I just live my here in La Jolla tonight. dounia Animoto,
Anna here, it's only going to do with this world, you know, we did and we are alive. That's it,
enjoy you live once. That's it. Those are the losers to join them. Do not remember your beginnings,
in fact, with a lot of us. Remember the times when you had nothing, perhaps no shoes, perhaps no
clothing.
		

			Perhaps nothing at all. Remember that. Always be grateful. Like Allah says, We showed you the path
of gratitude and ingratitude. If you want to be ungrateful, you're not going to harm people. You're
not going to harm Allah, you are harming yourself. What is in gratitude, I do good to you. As a
result of that you do bad to me. Allah did good to us as a result of that we do bad to Allah.
another human being does good to us some way in the past somewhere in history, and as a result of
that we do bad to them. We forget goodness. Yet the Quran says held his
		

			son in law.
		

			For a true believer can the recompense of goodness be anything besides goodness, someone did good to
you? Wow, you do even better to them. A man helped you come on your feet. When you're on your feet.
You help him fly Subhana Allah, amazing. That is gratitude. And if you don't show gratitude to men,
the Hadith says you will never be able to show gratitude to Allah. Because when men does good to
you, it's clear you saw the man give you you saw the man help you if you appreciate that you will
understand where Allah fits in that picture. This was physical. So you understand the unseen only
when you've understood the physical. May Allah Subhana Allah Allah bless us all. The message that I
		

			have for myself and yourself today is let's never forget the beginnings. Let's never forget how we
were some time back whether it was before birth during birth, immediately after birth. And let's
look at where we are today. Thank Allah be thankful don't show ungratefulness Don't be from amongst
those who are filled with in gratitude know when we die voila, here we went to die having pleased
Allah subhanho wa Taala we don't want to die on the wrong side. The last thing is brothers and
sisters there is always hope. What is that hope? Allah subhanho wa Taala always says what to boo
Illallah Hey Jamie and I mean Allah Allah come to flee home. If you really want success. Oh, you who
		

			believe. Turn to Allah in repentance. Repent, ask Allah forgiveness. He will wipe out whatever
you've done in the past, he will start a new slate for you. You become a person very close to Allah
through repentance. So remember, do not undervalue and underestimate repentance Toba seeking the
forgiveness of Allah May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us that And may Allah Subhana Allah Allah
bless us all in this world and the next was Allahu wa Sallim wa barik ala nabina Muhammad