Mufti Menk – During A Flight, Do You Think About This

Nothing on Earth has value in the eyes

of Allah. Nothing.

A Hadith I mentioned in the past, and

I want to repeat it again because it

is superb. It is superb. And let me

give you an introduction to the Hadith. You

know, if you are to catch a flight,

you drive to the airport, mash Allah. You

get to the airport. You jump onto the

aircraft. And what happens thereafter?

Subhanallah.

You take off. When you take off, you

start noticing things becoming smaller

and smaller.

Right? As they become smaller,

you can barely see the cars and the

buildings. And there comes a point when you

cross 20,000

feet above sea level and you can barely

see the buildings.

And then you go beyond that to 40

and you can see nothing.

But in that nothing that you can see,

there is something.

In that nothing that you can see, there

are 50,000 people, each one thinking he's the

boss. Each one having his own perfume and

clothes and everything else and accessories,

and each one having a motor vehicle and

a house perhaps, and family members and feelings,

and each one having the eyes. Yet Allah

says, you know what? If you look at

that,

you yourself cannot see it. That's how insignificant

it is. The only thing you need to

do is come a little bit lower and

things become bigger for you. So Allah is

the greatest and the highest. For Him, it's

nothing. The Hadith says, and this is the

Hadith I was introducing.

If everyone from the beginning of creation to

the end of creation

were to ask Allah Almighty for every single

thing he or she wanted and Allah were

to give you every single thing you ever

wanted,

It would not decrease

from the kingdom of Allah, except that

which is equivalent to the water that is

displaced from the ocean when a needle is

dipped in for a moment. That's it.

You dip a needle into the ocean. How

much does it displace?

0. Allah says, well, from the beginning of

mankind to the end of mankind, if I

were to give every one of you every

single thing you ever wanted, it would not

even displace that much of mine. How do

you know? I can tell you today we

can understand it because of technology.