Mufti Menk – Are We grateful?

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

			smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu Lillah wa Salatu was Salam. O Allah Rasool Allah, Allah Allah He was
happy.
		

			We praise Allah Subhana Allah to Allah we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam his household, his companions. We ask Allah Subhana Allah to Allah to bless them to
bless every one of us and to grant us goodness, my beloved brothers and sisters, indeed, We are
blessed by Allah subhanho wa Taala. With many favors, if we were to look into our lives, we will
realize very clearly, the verse of Allah subhanho wa Taala, wherein he says, what he
		

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			if you were to try and count the gifts of Allah bestowed upon you, you will never be able to do
that, you won't be able to count all of them. Because there are too many, there are plenty, starting
with yourself as a person, whatever you have in terms of faculties of your entire body, the organs,
etc, the man that you have, the food that you have, the clothing that you have the oxygen that you
have, and the list is definitely endless. But what man does is man looks at what Allah did not give
him That's why he becomes upset. Allah gave you a billion things, but two things you wanted that he
did not give you. So now you are depressed. From this, we learn that gratitude is important to show
		

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			Mila Shadi. Allah says if you are going to show gratitude and gratefulness to Allah, He will grant
you increase, he will give you more than what he has given you. And in what he has given you, he
will grant you blessings, for example, people make do are all have blessed us with offspring say I
mean,
		

			or Allah blessed us with offspring, I mean,
		

			and when they get the offspring, that offspring comes either with Baraka or without Baraka. So if
you are thankful to Allah for the offspring you have, by adopting what Allah wanted you to adopt
regarding those offspring, then Allah will bless you in lead offspring of yours. But if you have the
offspring and you forgot Allah, and you the way you operated with your children with your offspring
was far from Allah command, then you can expect the same children to be the source of your misery
and your depression, perhaps because you did not adopt the thankfulness and gratitude towards Allah.
So when you make dua for something, follow it up with gratitude by obeying the instruction of Allah
		

			regarding that particular thing, after you have got it because if you don't do that, the same thing
you asked for might become the means of your downfall. I hope we are following what we are saying
someone says Oh Allah grant me cure grant me Shiva or align sick or align ill pure me Allah, may
Allah grant Shiva to all those who are sick. And Ill say I mean,
		

			once Allah gives you the cure, don't go back to your sinful ways. Don't go back to your bad
behavior. Part of showing gratitude to Allah is when Allah gave you something you desperately
wanted, it must bring you closer to Allah, it must bring you closer to him. Imagine your child is
crying to you, Daddy, give me 50 rands and you say No, daddy, give me 50 rounds. You say no. And the
child cries to you and the child is trying again with you every day, the same story, and then you
see the tears and then you start feeling sorry for your own child.
		

			And then you start saying, Okay, finally you give him and you say, here's the 51st thing they run
and they go and buy some drugs. Or perhaps they might go and buy alcohol. What What will you do the
next time they asked you for the 50 rounds? Are you going to give them never not at all, you're
going to show them that what you did was so bad. Now the example of Allah is way higher than what I
just said. Now, Allah says in the Quran, when Illa Hill metal,
		

			the highest level of example is Wallah, we cannot give low examples. But these examples are only to
put it closer to our minds as human beings that look you would treat your child that way. Allah is
more merciful upon us in our own parents, but Allah tells us while in Kaffir tominaga Bella Shadi if
you are going to be ungrateful, my punishment is severe. In other words, I may choose to
		

			punishing, you are ungrateful, I may choose to punish you. So therefore when we are not well and we
make a dua to Allah for us to get better as you are getting better become regular with your prayer,
become a better person, change your life change your ways. The same applies to a job. Some people
are looking for jobs May Allah grant us good jobs. I mean
		

			then suddenly we cry we are in the machine we are calling out to Allah we are in the first software
reading Quran we make amends We are doing is still far next thing you find your job. What is the
salary 25,000 grands a man who after we got the job we are not in the machine not in the first stuff
we are nowhere to be found we become arrogant we no longer greet people we don't talk to others. We
look at the brother who was our main brother, the one who may do our that we get the job we no
longer Salaam to him. Why? Because we are now proud. I have something I have a lot of money. I have
my job. Your job you miss a lot of Juma you miss Paula Lee You are late for Salah to eat imagine
		

			just because you have your job. So Pamela, when you forgot the days when you were crying to Allah
saying Oh Allah, please, I need a job, I'm struggling, I'm suffering I need food for my family, for
myself for everyone else. This is what Allah is saying. Allah is saying sometimes we keep you in
what you might think is hardship and difficulty because we want to bless you by you coming closer to
us. So the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam clearly says in Allah either a hubbub
Donatella, when Allah loves his worshiper, he tests him, he does not give him what he wants. He
gives him what Allah wants. Allah gives him what Allah wants, not what you want. Why? Because he
		

			loves you. When you have what you want, maybe it's a sign that Allah does not love you, maybe it can
be.
		

			But when you have what Allah once and it is different from what you want, it means go back to the
Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, he clearly says in Allah EDA, hubub, then it Allah, it is
only when Allah loves his slave, he tastes him he puts in his life, something that might be a
difficulty, something that might be a hardship, so that the heart is suffering. If you are a
movement, what happens when you are ill, I'm going to give you an example of sickness, because every
one of us, myself included, we get sick and ill, and we get tired and our health fails sometimes. So
I give you that example. You get sick and heal. And then suddenly someone says, You've got to go for
		

			a test. And then you go for this test. And then you find some handler. You know what, it's not
looking good. And then what happens? You start crying to allow when you're a dreamer, I mean, your
sickness brings you closer to Allah. So isn't that the love of Allah? You started crying for the
sake of Allah, you started fulfilling your Salah, you reading more Quran, you became a softer
person? Isn't that the gift of Allah? Allah says, that's your gift, we gave you the gift. What was
the gift we made you see, and even the same applies a big loss. May Allah protect us from loss.
Sometimes you have your business and what happens? You are proceeding and progressing. When Allah
		

			loves you, He will make you see days when you don't know what's going on. Suddenly, you suffer a
huge loss. If you are ready to accept the idea of Allah, Allah will bless you and show His mercy
upon you in a way that you cannot imagine.
		

			Allah will grant you goodness in the dunya and the Sierra, the reason is, you have accepted Allah
stick deal. That was part of your faith, your immersion, when you had the difficulty you became
closer to Allah when you had the hardship, it brought you nearer to Allah subhanho wa Taala. That is
the goodness of incense. Allah says. Those people who turn towards Allah are always successful. You
seek the forgiveness of Allah, you ask Allah goodness, you keep yourself away from haram as best as
possible, as much as possible. Allah will bless you in a million ways. But Subhana Allah, the One
who does not have Eman when the law takes away something from him, he starts asking Allah questions.
		

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			and insulting.
		

			Why did Allah do this to me? Why me? How come I'm sick? How come I lost my job? Why did my business
catch fire? Why did this happen? Why did I lose this? How come I made the accident? Why did I break
my leg? Why did Allah do that to me, my brother, my sisters, do not question Allah. Use the
opportunity to get close to Allah. Don't question him. Because you are not going to change anything.
When Allah once goodness for you, the whole globe can try whatever it wants, they will never be able
to take that goodness away from you. It's going to come to you and when Allah
		

			intent, that goodness is not going to come to you. The whole globe can try and give it to you, it
will not come towards you. So Panama is Allah. Allah is in control Allah is in charge. So thank
Allah use these opportunities to get closer to a bull. Is that you Angela? It is Allah subhanho wa
Taala who is the maker, the creator, no one questions him.
		

			Now I want to pause for a moment and take you through the blessed life of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam. He was born in Russia and he passed away in Vienna when he arrived in Medina with the
hegira in Russia and over so many things happened in Ruby and a woman Subhan Allah, what a great
man. Can I tell you something? He went through tests after test after test it is the sign of the
love of Allah. Who does Allah love the most? Isn't it Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who is
the best of creation, the most noble of all prophets of Allah, isn't it? Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, how come then he lost his children. He lost his sons. They passed away. He lost his
		

			daughters. When they were older, they passed away. He lost all of his children in his lifetime.
Besides one who passed away a few months after his own death, may Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us
Jana with Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and May Allah grant us the intercession of Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on the day of BM Amin.
		

			So it is a sign of the love of Allah. I always look at something very, very interesting. And I tell
myself look at Allah, how merciful he is to us. How many of you seated here are actually orphans?
You were an orphan from a young age? How many? I think the number would not be a majority, it would
be a small number. Do you know that Allah only chooses the special ones to be orphans? Did you know
that? Do you know that if you are an orphan, you are a special child. You are more loved by Allah
perhaps, than the others. And one of the reasons is, his most beloved, was an orphan. Subhan Allah
Have you thought of it? Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the most loved by Allah the best of
		

			creation, the most noble of messengers, the one whom when we say his name, we have to say peace be
upon him, otherwise we are insulting ourselves. And Allah says, we made him an orphan Allah,
		

			not only an orphan, but when he was very young, he lost his mother, he had to go and live with his
uncle. And then he lost his sorry, his grandfather, then he lost his grandfather, he went to live
with his uncle one after the other, but that did not stop him from being the best of the creatures
of Allah subhanho wa Taala. Imagine. So it does not mean that when you don't have something, Allah
is upset with you. No, it is your attitude. It is your, the condition of your heart and mind, your
connection with Allah that makes you the winner.
		

			Remember this, Allah subhanho wa Taala is so great, he is so powerful, so merciful. His plan is such
that he doesn't have to take away things from you. He doesn't have to. One Hadith says if everyone
on earth had to seek from Allah what ever they wanted. And if Allah were to give every single person
whatever they wanted, it would not displace from the kingdom of Allah more than what the head of a
needle would displace, if it were to be put in the water of the ocean. Imagine how powerful is the
kingdom of Allah. If Allah gave all of us what we wanted, not just assitive in the mosquito, every
single human from the beginning to the end, if they got whatever they wanted, it would not decrease,
		

			it would not decrease the kingdom of Allah. And the example given is that of putting a needle head
into the ocean to serve Allah, even if I were to dive in the ocean, my whole self, what has been
displaced from the ocean, so pan Allah, that is Allah, so seek from Allah be happy with the deer of
Allah keep on working hard, but these tests and examinations need to make us become closer to Allah
subhanho wa Taala.
		

			They need to make us come closer to Allah. There are two things I'm talking about here. One is when
a lot takes away from you get close to him. Because a disbeliever person who has no belief in the
almighty when Allah takes away from them, they get angry. Sometimes you lose a loved one. Many
people they lose loved ones May Allah protect us. May Allah grant them who have passed away,
Jonathan fair dose, but you lose a loved one. I'm sure we all have lost loved ones, right? Whether
It's Your brother, whether it's your father, whether it's your mother, your sister, your uncle, your
aunt, your child, etc. May Allah make it easy. The person who is left behind when they lose someone,
		

			it is their opportunity.
		

			To earn the pleasure of Allah by engaging in Sabbath, and Allah says in
		

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			Indeed Allah grant recompense to those who Allah subhanho wa Taala grants a recompense to those who
have borne patients in a way that is without limits. It's without limits Subhanallah that is Allah
who grants you the reward because you were patient.
		

			Have you ever thought, why does Allah give the ones who have patience, or reward without account
without limits? Because only you know how much you have gone through. People from all over the world
struggle, different ways right now, as I'm speaking, one lucky, every one of us, our hearts should
be bleeding for those who are struggling and suffering across the globe. There are people driven out
of their homes, there are people whose homes were burned. And I cannot even begin to mention the
names of the places where the people are suffering because it's no longer one or two places. It is
more like so many places, I can't even say the names. Where should I start? If I start in the
		

			Rohingya? What happens to Syria? What happens to Afghanistan and Pakistan? What happens to all of us
what happens to those in Africa who are struggling? What happens to those who are suffering at the
hands of their own brothers and sisters who are Muslims? So so much suffering is happening across
the globe? People say why is a lot doing this, my brother, my sister, Allah is the Creator, we are
the ones who are doing the evil on Earth, of our heart, I will feel sad to feel bad we will be
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			Allah says this chaos and corruption on earth that has become rampant. Why? What's the reason Allah
gives? There is chaos on earth and on see on land and not see chaos, corruption. Why? Because of
what man has done himself, man has done himself who is killing who here, who is harming who here,
man is doing it. Don't blame Allah subhanho wa Taala. So Allah says, in order for them to taste a
little bit of their deeds, what they are doing themselves, we will let them taste it so that they
can turn back to us so that they can come back to us from this verse, we learn that when calamity
strikes, what are we supposed to be doing? Getting closer to Allah, get closer to Allah and Allah
		

			will grant you success. You know, I heard of a brother. And this we hear every single day. I heard
of a brother who was murdered in cold blood as he was going for salata alpha job a few days ago, in
Johannesburg, he's a scholar of Islam. He was working, he was teaching young children, young men,
May Allah give him genital fair dose. And I thought to myself, look how short life is we have no
guarantee some people die of sickness others they die healthy because they are killed by someone
some die by what we call accident yet it's just an excuse something for you and I to blame.
		

			But the bottom line is you don't know when you are going. So cut your bad ways. Cut your bad habits
become a better person. Turn to Allah fulfill your Salah. It might be the last Salah you are going
to fulfill. We have watched the video clips on WhatsApp where there was an Imam who led Salah to
Lhasa in the masjid. He turned around and he's reading his car and he fell. Someone says Mashallah
blessing Allah He it is a blessing. We watched another clip of a more admin who before Salatin
before he could call the event he was reading Quran in the masjid waiting for the time and he
dropped dead Subhana Allah manakala mode came to visit him the Angel of Death visited him and took
		

			his soul away while the Quran was open. Surah Al anon he was reading, I even saw the page. And you
know what? He was gone. People came for Salah to fetch it but the morphine is gone. They said, bless
it, death. Bless a death. Okay, I'll give you a third example. There was another party who was busy
reading in the public under the helical moto l hyah. Talia boo, boo komatsuna, Milan, and he dropped
in Indonesia. He dropped and he passed away. People said bless it get Mashallah. Another example.
Someone in Madina munawwara Institute in salah and they didn't get up, people all made a circle
around him. They started taking photos for the internet. let's admit my brothers and sisters.
		

			Don't be deceived by shape. And you know why? Don't be deceived by shavon shavon makes you say
blessing, death blessing, death blessing death. That part? Yes, it's correct. But beyond that, what
did you do about it? Nothing. We just pass the WhatsApp message to everyone. When we sit in Allah,
May Allah give him Jana, what about you? People say May Allah give me a similar day, but you are not
there for Salah you are not there before Salah you haven't read the Quran, you are not there in sudo
you don't even make sudo for Allah subhanho wa Taala How can you have the same day? Now on a lighter
note, one day I was talking to young people, and I said, make sure that you pass away Institute. So
		

			they all said army loudly say amen. Amen. May Allah grant us the things to do. Allah, it's a
blessing.
		

			So the youngsters came along and they were saying, You know what? But these youngsters they don't
read Salah. So I said, Why are you not reading Salah? You want to die in solitude? But you are not
fulfilling Salah? Look at that. It's ironic, isn't it? You know what one young man said and people
have answers nowadays. They have a quick answer very fast in thinking you know, very quick, he says
but if I don't want to reach Allah right now I want to die in so dude, yes, but when I'm ready to
die, I start reading Salah so that I can die. And come on my brother, my brother, what is it? Who
are you fooling? How can you say that? You understand what his point is? He's trying to say I'm
		

			going to keep on making our law take means to do when I'm not going to be there because one day when
I'm okay, now I will go It's similar to those whom when had you started on you you need to go you
can say I still need to sit for a few years no, show gratitude to Allah, I will go You have blessed
me now My life is going to become more organized. I'm going to be responsible mature Muslims,
because my brothers and sisters Enough is enough. How much are you going to sin? How long are you
going to continue in that sin of yours? What do you want? Do you want the law to take you away while
you are sinning? If that is the case, we're lucky it's a loss. It's enough. discipline your life cut
		

			out the sin that is gratitude to Allah you are showing gratefulness for what you have. It's not
difficult Do you know for sins you have to pay but to obey Allah instruction you don't have to pay
Subhanallah we come to the masjid free go to the nightclub you pay what else? He wants to have
alcohol you got to pay to drink water free what else Subhanallah you want to go for drugs you got to
pay you want to breathe fresh air you don't have to pay so man Allah. Look at this. Everything you
think about you want to leave or an Subhana Allah you will get the mud madrasa. They will teach you
v. But you want to do evil and you want to do something bad, you're gonna have to pay for it. People
		

			pay to go to jahannam and genma is free. They don't want to come so Pat Allah, May Allah forgive us.
May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us a deep understanding. It's a reality. This is why Allah gives
us a chance. And another chance. I can tell you something very interesting. Each one of us we have a
specific number of chances. Say for example, you have 1000 chances. Each time a chance comes it's
ticked off your list, but you didn't change. Allah says we give him another chance. Another chance
you get us some sickness or something else. You still didn't change. Allah says no. We'll give him
another chance. We'll give her another chance. Something else happened You still didn't change. We
		

			give her another reminder. You got the reminder you didn't change until one day bang. That's it,
your life is gone and it's over. How many chances did you have? That is why that is why in Surah,
Zuma and in other places in the Quran, Allah subhanho wa Taala says that when a person is going to
jahannam the angels will be surprised the angels who are standing at the door of Johanna they will
be surprised how come How come? How could you make it to Jannah Allah is merciful. Allah is the fool
ALLAH is forgiving. alized Rahim Allah is Most Beneficent. Allah is the Greatest Allah loves you.
Allah reminded you How come you still made it to john when Allah was looking for any excuse to give
		

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			Cano. Bella, the angels who are standing at the doors of jahannam will ask a question to those
coming into Johanna Minh groups saying did Allah not send you someone from amongst you to remind you
about this and to ask you to change your ways and habits etc, etc, etc. Did Allah not say
		

			Use someone to read his verses to you. How come you are here? They will say yes, Allah did say we
did hear the verses. But you know what? That's it too late. We got reminder, another reminder,
another reminder, we never ever change. So I am here to tell myself to change. May Allah help me to
change to become a better person. And I am here to remind my beloved brothers and sisters, you know
what? Our time is ticking. We are not becoming any younger, we have to become disciplined people. We
have to leave the sons we have to obey Allah instruction, we have to come for salatu wa. So today,
we have to do Maghrib and Isha. Today, we are not Muslims only for Salah to Duma, we must make an
		

			effort because if we don't, my brothers and sisters, we don't want to be from among those whom those
angels are going to say, didn't someone come to you from amongst you reading the verses of Allah and
we will regret and say, Yes, they did come but you know, we just ignored them. Allahu Akbar. They
call it a blackfriday you heard that word?
		

			What does that mean? Things are for sale. Everything is cheap. Subhana Allah, I promise us every
day. We are supposed to be looking for bargains. How many of us when we look for the bargains, and
we find a mobile phone 90% off. We can't even believe it. We go there we want to buy. Please don't
ask me where it is. I'm making it up in my mind. Okay, so if you find a mobile phone 90% of for
example, you want to buy 2030 you can wait for the following week. You have a green Friday, when you
might be selling those back at the same price. So
		

			we are all interested in the bargain. We're lucky we need to search for gentlemen in a greater way
than that. We need to search for gentlemen in a greater way than that your jumeau are today. The
Hadith says joumana to lol joumana Chica, fara to Lima Bahama
		

			erotica, fara to Lima Bahama, so many a hadith different acts of worship. If you were to do this
Juma and the next Juma the minor sins between the two shall be forgiven. How's that? Even Salah with
Gemma if you are to read for example, Salah to another Salah Allah may forgive your minor sins
between the two without you even knowing what a bonus Allah gives bonus every day. Let's make use of
these bonuses My beloved brothers and sisters. So the point I wanted to raise and I have raised is
we've got to show gratitude to Allah by turning towards Allah when Allah gives you be grateful when
Allah takes away from you, by our patients, but still be grateful. Look at what Allah has given you.
		

			The losers are those who concentrate on what Allah took away. The winners are those who say Allahu
Akbar, Allah took away from me one thing he still has bestowed me with another million days. May
Allah subhanho wa Taala bless every one of us, and my brothers and sisters, something very
important. We have little children. We have people who look up to us, it is about time we became
true leaders for our own children.
		

			How many of us, we have children who look up to us but we are leading a life of embarrassment. We
are leading a life where we are not even leaders for our own children. If they were to look at us
and what we do, they would actually be led astray. We can't let that happen. We need to thank Allah
May Allah subhanho wa Taala bless us all. May Allah grant us goodness aku colada or sallallahu
wasallam albaraka Allah Nabina Muhammad