Mufti Menk – Future Building Projects Will Always Benefit You

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People will get a loan and they will

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start paying for a house and they know

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it's gonna take 20 years. End of it,

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perhaps I might not live there for too

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long, but my kids will have a house.

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Right?

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What about the eternal home? Did you do

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a little bit? It's not a monetary payment.

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It's a payment in your worship and your

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kindness,

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because your character and conduct would actually help

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you build

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your hereafter.

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This afternoon in Salatul Jum'ah,

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I read

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Suratul Layl. And in Suratul Layl, Allah Almighty

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makes mention of the person who will be

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protected from hellfire.

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The one who will achieve ease in this

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world and success in the hereafter.

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Guess what he says?

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The ease that he speaks about is given

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to people with certain qualities. One of them

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is, they give, they spend on others.

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Why? Because He wants you to be selfless

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and not selfish.

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When you're selfless, you begin to consider

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the generations

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to come. You preserve,

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you build

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that which you might not benefit from,

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but others will. And then it's called a

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sadaqa jariyah, which means a charity that is

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going to last longer than your life. The

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benefit of what you did lasted longer than

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your breathing on earth. So what happened is

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you continued to clock a reward

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even after

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your date of death.

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It's a sadaqa jariyah. What was it?

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It was your concern for the future. That's

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what it was.

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I visited this afternoon

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a beautiful project, the Brisbane Islamic Center, if

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I'm not mistaken. A beautiful project for who?

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For the future.

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And, masha Allah, I was

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pleasantly surprised to see

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such concern for the generations to come,

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and I'm thinking to myself,

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wow. The reward of this will continue to

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clock for those who made it happen

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way beyond their death. And the prophet, peace

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be upon him, says,

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sadaqa jaria, which is that type of a

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charity that lasts longer,

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the benefit of it lasts longer than your

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life, would continue to benefit you, one of

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the few things after your death.

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So the concern for the future. Today, we

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are here at this beautiful evening

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where human appeal and its work is highlighted.

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Surely, we should consider what's going on across

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the globe.

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Because the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,

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tells us that through your struggles, what will

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help you is when you help others struggling

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in a similar way.

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Subhanallah.

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Are you struggling?

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Would you like to see your children succeed?

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Yes.

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Well, what concern do you have about the

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children of others?

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Good question.

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If it's only about you and your children,

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it's going to be tough. But if it's

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about our children,

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we're going to succeed. It's going to be

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made much easier for all of us.

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Concern

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for others

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would definitely prop you up

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in one way or another.

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So that's why

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the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, always

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reminded us, you want the help of Allah?

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You want the help of your maker, of

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the Almighty?

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Well help others.

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He says Allah Almighty

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will continue to help a servant, a slave,

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a person

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for as long as that person

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continues to help another.

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While you're busy helping someone, the Almighty is

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helping you.

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In your struggles, I mentioned a few of

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the struggles, be they religious or be they

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connected to this worldly life.

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These are real struggles.