Mufti Menk – How to earn the Mercy of Allah

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

			smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu lillahi wa salatu salam ala rasulillah when it was
		

			on praise is indeed due to Allah subhanho wa Taala blessings and salutations upon Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we ask Allah subhana wa Jalla to bless him, his household, his
companions, to bless every one of us to grant us goodness in the dunya and the alpha and to bless
the offsprings who shall be coming right up to the end of time. May Allah subhanho wa Taala keep us
and then steadfast on the deen my brothers and sisters, you and I know that today is a Friday, it is
not like the other days of the week. We also know that the month of Ramadan is not similar to any
other month in this hegi calendar, the Islamic calendar that we have, we also know that the days of
		

			Hajj, for example, or in Muharram, we have the beautiful days of Muharram. And we have the 10th of
it, we do realize that the days are not equal, the months are not all equal in Islam, some are more
blessings than others. And if a person is not softened on those days, then we should understand that
there is a problem. For example, when certain things happen in our lives, they happen in order to
soften us, but sometimes they make us even harder. They make us harder. And if that is the case,
then there is something wrong. Now every one of us is searching for the mercy of Allah subhanho wa
Taala sometimes Allah subhanho wa Taala decides to inflict us with hardship in order for us to
		

			soften up to get closer to Him so that we can attain His mercy.
		

			It's amazing how Allah subhanho wa Taala works. Therefore, don't look at the negatives. And think to
yourself, that this is just the rock and the punishment of Allah subhanho wa Taala when you know you
are trying to please Allah, but we do know that you are not trying to please Allah subhanho wa Taala
that even a mosquito that is flying close to you, you should be worried of
		

			Allah grant us goodness. So the idea is to try we are human beings, we faltered, we made mistakes,
we do things we're not proud of every one of us we may have done things that perhaps we would not
want to repeat.
		

			That is part and parcel of oneness plan. Allah sees Do you
		

			understand? What is my plan? Do you remember? Do you suffer now? Do you become closer to Allah? How
many of us due to sickness we become so close to Allah because we realized nothing helps. Sometimes
you have a beautiful human being. Sometimes you have a beautiful human beings, Pamela, who is so
healthy, they go to the gym every day. They perhaps eat healthy, they do everything in the best
possible way. But guess what happens? They suddenly have a heart attack. And then we're a person who
was nice expected to go through that from a human perspective. And then they start asking, Why did
this happen to me? I am so highly conscious. I eat so well. I am at the gym every other day. It has
		

			happened to you because Allah wants to show you who is in control. That's all. There's no other
reason. Allah wants you to know who is in charge who is in control. He does not mean that Allah
dislikes you. But Allah subhanho wa Taala is giving you an opportunity to gain closeness to him to
understand Oh man, you are helping us. Like I said moments ago when a mosquito should want to you
when you are distinct from Allah, but you're trying to become close to Allah Subhana Allah, may
Allah subhanho wa Taala Have mercy on us. I want to spend the next few minutes Sharma speaking about
an important topic.
		

			I knew I was coming to Cape Town, you and I know that we have an issue in Cape Town that is glaring
us in the face. I don't want to talk about it. The reason is, I guess and I presume that almost
every other week and everywhere you go people are speaking about the same thing. We need to speak
about something else connected indeed connected II, but
		

			it is somehow different. Why is it that when I call out to Allah, I feel sometimes Allah has not
responded. Do you think that sometimes
		

			whether it's the weakness of faith, that's what it is. Somehow it's easy for someone to say no
		

			But please give me a deeper explanation. Right? When you say I'm making Guatemala, people say, Well,
I'll always use you. Yes. He definitely hears you. And Allah gives you what he knows is better for
you. Yes, I believe that. But look, my conviction sometimes Subhana Allah, it differs from person to
person. Right? So what do I need? My brothers and sisters, when you call out to the Almighty, you
need one, one quality that many of us forget about.
		

			And that is our relationship with him. So Panama, a relationship with Allah, you need to have a
relationship with that maker of yours. You know, I look at you and I see faces I recognize Mashallah
beautiful. Some I may not recognize, but guess what, they're still beautiful. If I want something
from you to kind of make it that we need anything from each other, but some kind of love. May it be
really part and parcel of our goodness, that we assist each other.
		

			If I needed something from you, I need to have a relationship with you. Salaam Alaikum, I greet you
every week, every week, two years later, I say you know what, I need this. You'd say? Not to
mention, don't even worry, don't even ask. I'll do it for you. Right now. Five minutes. So Pamela,
why? Because I had a good relationship from the days I did not need anything. So kind of love.
Suddenly, if I see a man, and I've not had any relationship with him, or someone no relationship,
and I need something from him or from meaning from that particular person, a man in this case, just
an example. And I say Uncle, I needed 10,000 grants from you. Now, when you're talking about men, I
		

			mean, we saw the biggest outside data companies look, they must be struggling Mellotron, the keys,
I'm not encouraging begging, but at the same time, I'm saying we need to learn that lesson. And we
need to make the alphabet because a lot of them are desperate. If it was not the case, they probably
wouldn't be there. But we see them how many would actually give them. Today I want to teach you
something we all have to give. Whether you like it or not, you see a beggar. It is compulsory for
you to give if you don't use a simple, you are sinful. You must be thinking how how I've had to
become a beta, it's a new sort of a thing. If it's fun to give them obviously I'm gonna quit my job
		

			and become a rich person. No, I didn't say cash. I didn't say money. I didn't say you have to give
give them what? From the complexion that Allah has given you.
		

			Your whole woman Phil
		

			Murphy sama, have mercy upon those on Earth, the one in the heavens, who will have mercy upon you.
So when you pass by the beggars, they were placed there and installed there. And Allah tested you
it's a test for them to some might be called human. Who knows. Don't let that cross your mind. The
minimum you could do is say Oh Allah help them and walk away. So Allah did you give him You gave
them some time, something way beyond what money could have given them? So Panama? So when I say a
person begging, you have to give give them what minimum your feelings you don't let it become
negative. That's why it's horrible. baja Allah subhanho wa Taala says,
		

			well
		

			as for the beggar, the one who is begging, don't rebuke them, don't disrespect them Don't abuse
them. So Panama. How many of us have ever thought of it that no one better? It's my duty to give
give was some kind of love movies, a spray of good thoughts.
		

			To help us feel good about one another, even if we're not the type of business that we are speaking
about. Again, another way we are makers. Yeah, you
		

			Allah, ma, ma.
		

			Me the OB bu You are indeed, beggars unto Allah, you are in absolute need of Allah. Allah is
independent, amazing dependent. He doesn't need you at all, nor does he need to give you what he has
given you.
		

			So go back to the question. Sometimes I call out to Allah, and I feel some kind of love. It hasn't
happened the way I wanted.
		

			Let me explain. Like I said, you need your relationship with Allah.
		

			You need the mercy of Allah, you have the mercy of Allah, you will have what you want and what you
wish. Because, you know, it is the mercy of Allah that has given me and I know that I'm facing the
mercy of Allah. So the big question, how am I going to achieve the mercy of Allah, our number one,
always seek the forgiveness of Allah. It's something we
		

			lack the prophets of Allah seldom used to seek the forgiveness of Allah 70 to 100 times a day when
logging, we've said it so much, but many of us, myself included, sometimes we haven't sought the
forgiveness of Allah subhanho wa Taala anywhere near the extent to reach the one who did not need
it. Some of it he was seldom Saudis.
		

			Bahama, perfect What did he mean? Did we need to seek the forgiveness of Allah? No. But he did. So I
showed you one of the reasons is to earn the mercy of Allah. ask Allah suckiness. And it's different
from a human being. If someone told me every few minutes, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, forgive me, I'm
sorry, forgive me, I will get irritated with them at a certain point. But with Allah, it's the total
opposite the more you ask, the more he becomes pleased with you. And the greater the chance of the
mercy of a man descending upon you when that happens, is answered. Because you know.
		

			So my brothers and sisters, point number one, don't forget it. seek the forgiveness of Allah every
day.
		

			Now, we wouldn't be hypocrites if we sought the forgiveness of Allah on one hand, and the other
hand, we kept drilling that hole to kind of love we kept going through where we were not supposed to
go, we get doing that which was earning the Wrath of Allah subhanho wa Taala. So Allah says, when
you're seeking forgiveness, you abandoned sin. You promised Allah you becoming a better person, so
can Allah and if she makes you fall, once again, come back immediately to Allah, immediately, don't
become despondent. People say, I sought the forgiveness of Allah but I fell again and I sought it
again and I fell again, don't count how many times that happened. Don't keep on seeking the
		

			forgiveness of Allah. It's a sign of the mercy of Allah upon you. The urge within a person to seek
the forgiveness of Allah is already is already a sign that the person believes. Now do you realize
why you're willing to earn the mercy of Allah.
		

			When you don't feel like seeking the forgiveness of Allah, it's a sign that there is something wrong
with your core belief. Eman is lacking. That's why the Prophet sallallaahu salam says, either
subotica Salah takamasa. II
		

			mean, if your good deed makes you happy with yourself, and if your bad deed makes you regret, it's a
sign that you're a true believer. Wow. So Pamela, have you thought of it? I think every single one
of us were seated in the house of Allah, if we were to do something wrong, even if it's a habitual
sin, May Allah help us eradicate those sins, I promise you, we will regret. No true believer can
actually just sit and be excited about the sin without thinking in the heart that you know what,
this is something I need to quit. So Pamela, good news to you. It's a sign of a man if it was not
for the man, person would not think that way. So number one, we seek the forgiveness of Allah number
		

			two, learn to be merciful towards the creatures of Allah, because Allah says law, common law, common
law, meanness, Allah does not have mercy upon those who don't have mercy upon other people, not
Muslim. It doesn't say only the Muslims and must be merciful towards Muslims alone. Yes, you must be
merciful towards Muslims. But it goes beyond that, to the non Muslims, to those who differ from you
or with you to those perhaps who are not even part of your species. I'm talking here of animals, I'm
talking on birds, the ecosystem has mercy upon the creatures of Allah. That's why the previous
Hadith that I quoted your hammelmann in other complimentary summer is unique, because of us. Hana
		

			what Allah tells us have mercy upon what is on Earth.
		

			Subhan Allah, have mercy upon those on earth, and Allah will have mercy the one in the heavens will
have mercy on you.
		

			You see how unique The wedding is have mercy upon those on Earth. Those includes everything. Do you
not agree, everyone?
		

			We've read up a hardy where merciful
		

			behavior towards or compassionate behavior towards an animal has been the person forgiveness and
gentlemen, etc, etc. You want the mercy of Allah. change your ways and habits cut out pride. Allah
does not like pride.
		

			Become a humble person, and you have the mercy of Allah. When you're at the mercy of Allah, you call
out to Allah, you will be convinced Ally's head. And you know what I'm saying? Whatever Allah does
for me now is through His mercy. If he kept it away from me, you
		

			He's mercy. He gave it to me. It's his mercy. So Pamela, why I've got a good relationship with
Allah. I developed it by having a good relationship with the creatures of Allah, something special
to Allah needs to be special to you.
		

			Why would Allah make the creation if it was not special to him some kind of money.
		

			So be
		

			mindful
		

			of your relationship with one another. Like I said, cut out the elegance cut out the bribe, some of
us cannot even greet each other. So kind of love. Some of us don't even smile, even in our own
homes. Some of us, when we get into the house, we have a relationship with our children such that if
they made a mistake or two, that's it, throw them out.
		

			But those are your children. And we wait to meet people off just because of a mistake they made,
everyone would be flicked off, because we all make mistakes. And this is why I plead with those who
are married to help your spouse when they earn rather than just first call, first out of coal, but
in a marriage. That's the advice people are giving today.
		

			That's why we find important divorce that managed if 50 people got married in the month 16 year got
divorced. That's what's happening now. May Allah subhanho wa Taala said goddess, I really plead with
you if you want the mercy of Allah, be patient, be a patient person with all others and Allah will
be patient with you.
		

			Here's something common. So Pamela, we're not prepared to forgive and we want the forgiveness of
Allah. If you want the forgiveness of Allah, find it in your heart to forgive those who sometimes
it's quite difficult to forgive, especially when they are family members, because in that way you
have
		

			shunned the devil and alone will reward you for that. Indeed, Allah does not need to forgive you.
But he will because he sees the quality within you. That is beautiful. What is it, find it in your
heart to forgive, even though it's very, very difficult. I really didn't want to do this, but our
love for you and
		

			so if you want the mercy of Allah, you need to understand that Allah subhana wa tallas mercy should
be called upon by good deeds to good deeds, increase your good deeds and mercy will descend decrease
the bad animals mercy will descend you see it you will feel it. When when you call out to Allah,
Allah Krishna okay movie to marry a movie and nafion available.
		

			That is a powerful pseudonym to have for rain, you will find not just the clouds that come about and
tease you, but you will find proper rainfall because you know, that the minutiae of Alaska you come
in every one of us changes his or her life in a positive way, I promise you the mercy of Allah will
descend upon us. And this is why there are certain things that block the mercy of Allah, one of them
is sin, to the second is pride and arrogance, which is also sinful. where we come from, we think
we're better. You know, I'll give you an example. There are certain things like oxygen, every one of
us needs. Well.
		

			No matter what race, no matter what nationality, no matter how much knowledge, no matter what
denomination a person is, from what religion we need, oxygen, it's common. If it was contaminated,
it would heat every one of us.
		

			indiscriminant
		

			so we should realize that when we want the mercy of Allah, we shouldn't begin to care for others.
This is why if you look at the Hadith, the prophet SAW someone says, that he man, a sign of a
believer, the man is upset several categories, right one religion says 70 something categories
right.
		

			The last category that is mentioned is Mr. Patil as I
		

			listen to how beautiful disease the Prophet says.
		

			To remove a harmful object from the path of the people is a sign that your belief on
		

			the part of the people so people are walking Who are they my friends will walk by enemies will walk
the ritual walk the walk, Muslims or Christians will walk, everybody else will walk, whoever will
walk, and guess what I did. I cared enough for them to remove the harm that was on the path because
it might damage the vehicle of the Jewish man behind me and I actually took it away. Wow, did you
hear what happened?
		

			I actually removed it. Because I didn't have a guarantee as to who is coming or going, I did it for
Allah. I did it because my maker says, when you care for others, it's a sign that you believe in the
maker of whom you are caring for,
		

			to see the common factor.
		

			And this is where we're going wrong. Many of us, I need to look into myself as well at times, many
of us are selfish.
		

			And it's easy for you and I just have been selfish. Think about it, just like many of us are racist.
It's easier for us to say no, we're not think about it. Think very carefully. I'm going to give you
one question. You see, many of us come from tribes and places and clans and so on. Don't all our
clans speak we are better than those. That is the problem. That is a major problem doesn't mean that
you think mining village is better than another, the new thing that I am better than the other
Wallah. Here we have a huge disease with your email and your connection with Allah and the mercy of
Allah will not come to you as quickly as it should. Because you need to rectify your heart, the
		

			condition of the heart is still wrong. So the minute I think, you know what, yes, Mashallah, I come
from this place, but my shoulder, the others, they are also very good people, etc, etc. Now we're in
business, what type of business with Allah, Allah, Allah,
		

			Allah, no matter who you are, you could be local form, outside refugee, non refugee, wealthy, this
clan, that group this one money, the moment you think my type of people are better than the other.
It is the disease that Islam came to fight. Unfortunately, nearly all of us are guilty of this. And
I'm not going to make exceptions here. Because if I do, we won't work on it. But the reason why I'm
not making an exception is even I need to work on this, constantly up to the point of death, because
shapefile keeps on coming to you. It shows clearly, some times in your life, your child wants to get
married to someone, perhaps totally different from you from another part of the globe. And suddenly
		

			the first thought in your head, how can I allow this? That is Jackie Lee and that thought itself
will already keep the mercy of a lot of weight because you're failing your test? Come on, what are
you supposed to look at? Go back to the hygiene, check it out and follow it. This is the mercy of
Allah Subhana Allah tan. So my brothers and sisters, this is why I say when we talk of pride,
handguns, racism, etc. Many times we all think I'm not a racist, you know, sit there, think about
it.
		

			When you think about your behavior, think about your attitude. Think about your thoughts, you will
come right. And don't ever think when something is being spoken about, that this is not referring to
me. You know, people tell me, someone tell me what to say. And I'm sure it happens with a lot of the
months. No, I don't know what to say. They just caught up and thought to themselves and Pamela will
talk about this. I wanted to talk today about how to live in the mercy of Allah how to get you to
responded and so on and how to become a better person because we're all in the house of Allah, what
do we want, we want a bit of encouragement.
		

			So I will never come up here and start dooming someone and start attacking someone else. Because
that's not what people would like to hear. That's not what the guests of Allah need to hear from the
house of Allah subhanho wa Taala I'd rather come in and show you where is the mercy of Allah,
because I need it as much as you do. This is why I say my brothers, my sisters, Allah knows my
needs.
		

			Allah knows my needs, and I really don't need
		

			to call out to Allah for him to know my need. He knew it before I call out to Him, but He wants me
to call out.
		

			He's needed an act of worship. So that brings me to another point you want the mercy of Allah do
something unique, something unique. You know, when we commit a sin, we commit sins secretly,
privately. We don't want people to know what we've done. Especially when it's a big deal, big sin. I
don't want people why don't we do good deeds, a few of them that are also a secret we can do at a
		

			time tried out supplement, no one knows you do this. I recall a story
		

			where this certain uncle used to give
		

			something every week to poor families without people knowing.
		

			One example it's only one that there are so many others, even if it's a smile or whatever else it
is, Allah knows you help someone you did something good and the day he passed away. That is the only
time that
		

			People started thinking, you know what? How come the stock and when they started hunting Some time
later, the news got back to the family that you know what this uncle used to actually give this
family, that family that family and no one knew.
		

			Now he's gone. So kinda love. Imagine the day that the sins of the same person come up. They were
done in secret, and no one knew besides Allah and then suddenly on the record, there are so many
good deeds that no one knew besides the law, that's my secret between you and I, isn't that going to
be a means of bidding for the mercy of Allah?
		

			Isn't that great to be a means of bringing forth the mercy of Allah don't want to brag and boast
about what good you've done. Although sometimes up there is an encouragement. For others, you may do
it, it's not wrong. But sometimes you need to do something no one knows. And keep in constant
constant will lie not only will you feel the mercy of Allah in this world, but even in the
hereafter. Because Allah is more merciful than you and I, and Allah, he was better than you align.
If you're a wealthy multi billionaire. And one day you were stuck somewhere and someone shopped and
they didn't know who you were, and they helped you and they did everything for you, and they pay
		

			your vehicle to do it. You may not mean and you let what would you do? You know, you're a multi
billionaire, you're gonna want to reward this guy, even if you didn't know who you were. If you're
the smiles, you know why we weren't smiling. We waiting for that day.
		

			And you know what, suddenly you get a certain amount of money and suddenly you ask this net, how
exactly how excited would you be? I want to ask you how much went from the wealthy person? For them,
it was a negligible amount, right? You know what Allah tells us through the blessing glimpse of
Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, that if all all mankind from the beginning of humanity, right up to the
end, were to ask Allah, everything they wanted, and allow us to give them absolutely everything that
they asked for, it would not be
		

			in the kingdom of Allah, subtracting more than what the head of a needle subtracts when it's put
into the ocean.
		

			Together,
		

			we think it will be and we don't need the relationship with Allah. So my brothers and sisters, let's
promise that we're going to develop a relationship with Allah, we start off with this. We develop
our attitude, we eradicate bad habits. Like I said, prior pride is something Allah says in
		

			one of the verses we
		

			like those who are deceitful alguns doesn't like them. If a man doesn't like you imagine someone
comes up to you say I don't like you. You You're gonna meet the man is mad.
		

			But when the law says I don't like someone, he mentions characteristics, the reasoning behind it is
He wants you to make sure that you're not from among those extra reason. So develop this. And then I
want to end it off by saying my brothers, my sisters, a Salah, Ursula, Ursula Salah, remember, the
key to success is your 5 million plays.
		

			You may not see the lights, when you're young. As you grow old, it will keep you away from it will
keep you away from so much it will develop your unique will allow you grow the mercy of our
descendants. It is a relationship with Allah just you know, and Allah knows. So I really asked you
to look into how you fulfill your Salah and to improve on that. And I remind myself about the same
we should ask Allah subhanho wa Taala and we definitely need to make sure that we do better when it
comes to Salah in this way inshallah we will be at the mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala this is only
a tip of that huge iceberg. But at least we've started it I asked him not to have mercy on us. And I
		

			asked Allah subhana wa Taala to help us on a Friday like this in his house, to soften our hearts so
that we can become better people so that we can preserve the mercy of Allah. And Allah is such even
if we don't deserve the mercy he still gives us at times. But he mentioned if you're trying to know
the mercy of Allah, He will never let you down. Aku Cody Hannah Montana