Mufti Menk – Having Good Thoughts of Others

			Salam Alaikum, my brothers and sisters, many people do not think good of others. And they do not
think the best of situations or something that happens. In Islam were taught something known as
personal vision, to have a good thought of people or have situations, your initial thoughts need to
be good. So if you see someone doing something, do not think the worst possible thoughts of what
they may be doing. But rather think of the best possible thoughts of what they may be doing. And
give them the benefit of the doubt. Islam teaches us to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Unfortunately, today, we start off on the other side, we think the worst things have the best of
		

			people, and that's where we are failing, because not everyone would sin in this in the same way you
might sin. They may be doing something that you really haven't understood. Similarly, if someone
makes a mistake in what they're saying, consider it a mistake rather than thinking that this person
is evil, and they meant it. Clarify it as simple as that or think good thoughts to think the worst
of people is actually the handiwork of Shavonne where you hear something. Say for example,
unacceptable from a person or you see something online, tell yourself this is edited. This is false.
This is fake. This cannot be true. Don't just fall for a trap. This happened at the time of the
		

			Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him with his blessed wife at Shalabi. Allahu Anna, our beloved
mother, the Mother of the Believers are of the Allahu Allah may Allah be pleased with her when they
accused her of the worst possible sin. And
		

			what happened?
		

			Subhan Allah. Allah says
		

			Lola if Sammy to move more than Mina, Mina to be unforeseen him Hira, Waka Luca, if como be
		

			the true believers, should have been the ones who have said
		

			that, do you know what? We are unable to do something like this? So this is definitely a lie. It's
not true. That's it? And they close the topic there. And then do we do that to one another today?
You see something, you hear something about someone, you find something online? Maybe it could be
fabricated completely living in this day and age where a lot of what we hear and what we see is not
even true.
		

			What do you think you? Would you like to spread bad about this person? Or whoever else? It may be?
Or do you want to think good? Do you want to have good thoughts and say no, no, this can't be
possible. It's not true. And drop it Subhanallah believe me until it is proven beyond the doubt. But
today, we've seen people who are connected to knowledge, sometimes still having the worst and most
evil thoughts of some of their colleagues. And that's not fair. May Allah Almighty make it easy for
everyone? May Allah Almighty grant us goodness, yes, we correct each other where we are wrong. And
we stand by each other wherever we can. We need to understand without this bond and connection,
		

			we're not going to go far. We're not going to go far. We need to have a genuine feeling for one
another, genuine sincere
		

			otherwise we're going to be eaten.
		

			May Allah Almighty forgive all of us. Think good of your brothers, your sisters, I've given you an
example. It's just come to my mind now but I had planned to actually talk about the way we see
people. Sometimes you see a message on a phone sometimes you see, for example, a video or sometimes
you see a person going somewhere it does not necessarily mean that they were evil, or that they
committed a sin or that they really had bad intentions and let It's glaring you in the face.
		

			But the first stop should always be a pure stop. May Allah Almighty grant His purity of thoughts
correct all of us, give us the best of this world and the next as salaam alaikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato.