Mufti Menk – Future Building Projects Will Always Benefit You
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The speaker discusses the importance of helping others, specifically those who have faced similar struggles and challenges. They mention a project in Brisbane Islamic Center and a beautiful project in Brisbane's Islamic Center for the future. The speaker also talks about the importance of helping others in similar struggles and challenges, even if it is only for yourself.
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People will get a loan and they will
start paying for a house and they know
it's gonna take 20 years. End of it,
perhaps I might not live there for too
long, but my kids will have a house.
Right?
What about the eternal home? Did you do
a little bit? It's not a monetary payment.
It's a payment in your worship and your
kindness,
because your character and conduct would actually help
you build
your hereafter.
This afternoon in Salatul Jum'ah,
I read
Suratul Layl. And in Suratul Layl, Allah Almighty
makes mention of the person who will be
protected from hellfire.
The one who will achieve ease in this
world and success in the hereafter.
Guess what he says?
The ease that he speaks about is given
to people with certain qualities. One of them
is, they give, they spend on others.
Why? Because He wants you to be selfless
and not selfish.
When you're selfless, you begin to consider
the generations
to come. You preserve,
you build
that which you might not benefit from,
but others will. And then it's called a
sadaqa jariyah, which means a charity that is
going to last longer than your life. The
benefit of what you did lasted longer than
your breathing on earth. So what happened is
you continued to clock a reward
even after
your date of death.
It's a sadaqa jariyah. What was it?
It was your concern for the future. That's
what it was.
I visited this afternoon
a beautiful project, the Brisbane Islamic Center, if
I'm not mistaken. A beautiful project for who?
For the future.
And, masha Allah, I was
pleasantly surprised to see
such concern for the generations to come,
and I'm thinking to myself,
wow. The reward of this will continue to
clock for those who made it happen
way beyond their death. And the prophet, peace
be upon him, says,
sadaqa jaria, which is that type of a
charity that lasts longer,
the benefit of it lasts longer than your
life, would continue to benefit you, one of
the few things after your death.
So the concern for the future. Today, we
are here at this beautiful evening
where human appeal and its work is highlighted.
Surely, we should consider what's going on across
the globe.
Because the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
tells us that through your struggles, what will
help you is when you help others struggling
in a similar way.
Subhanallah.
Are you struggling?
Would you like to see your children succeed?
Yes.
Well, what concern do you have about the
children of others?
Good question.
If it's only about you and your children,
it's going to be tough. But if it's
about our children,
we're going to succeed. It's going to be
made much easier for all of us.
Concern
for others
would definitely prop you up
in one way or another.
So that's why
the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, always
reminded us, you want the help of Allah?
You want the help of your maker, of
the Almighty?
Well help others.
He says Allah Almighty
will continue to help a servant, a slave,
a person
for as long as that person
continues to help another.
While you're busy helping someone, the Almighty is
helping you.
In your struggles, I mentioned a few of
the struggles, be they religious or be they
connected to this worldly life.
These are real struggles.