Mufti Menk – Healthy and Free Time

			Salam Alaikum Quran Weekly, Masha Allah. Today we'd like to speak about something very important
something we all take for granted or a lot of us take for granted. And this is why Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has warned about it as well. Many of us have good health Mashallah thank
Allah for it and use it, use it to do what use it to do that which will achieve the pleasure of the
Almighty your eyes you can see by there might come a day when you cannot see so read the proper
books and read that which will be beneficial look at that which will help you don't look at that
which will earn the wrath of the Almighty. Don't look at that which you're not supposed to be
		

			looking at because these are your eyes. The same applies to your hands today you can move them move
them to achieve that which will earn the pleasure of the Almighty tomorrow you may not have that
mobility today Mashallah. We can walk today we can read Salah people are crying because they have
not read Salah until they get to an age when they cannot bend their backs anymore. They cannot go
into court. They cannot do sujood So why is it that we sometimes become oblivious of the gift of
health? Really the gift of health is a gift that many of us take for granted. And this is why it's
very important for us to look at the gift that Allah has blessed us with some people cannot eat.
		

			Some people cannot eat a lot of the foodstuffs. So when we when we can eat it, let's eat in
moderation. Let's remember Allah subhanho wa Taala has gift upon us say the prayer before eating and
perhaps after eating as well thank Allah Subhana Allah to Allah for the food and asked him to help
us the energy that is derived from that food in something good. And let's make sure that we eat that
which is permissible and which Allah subhanho wa Taala will not be upset by what is extremely
important is we also realize that our organs inside they operate automatically completely. They have
no batteries, they have no no one. No human being sort of remote controlling them. It's the control
		

			of Allah subhanho wa Taala the heart pumps in a magical way. More than 100,000 heartbeats in no time
Subhana Allah and whose battery is that? It's just the automatic plan of Allah subhanho wa Taala
look at the brain, how sophisticated is the ears, look at the mouth, look at the lips, look at the
for example the tongue and how it tastes and the taste buds. And look at how medicine and science is
discovering new things every single day. And this is all a gift of Allah subhanho wa Taala and we
have it and we do not thank Allah for it and we do not use it in the right direction. So hon Allah
How can that be? When we are believers, we know that definitely it's going to come to an end, we
		

			know definitely these eyes of mine will not see at a certain time because I have to die at one stage
and I have to return to Allah hamdulillah I have to go back to my Creator maker. So let me use it in
order to please Him and not to displease him. And Mashallah to particular many people are becoming
more and more conscious of it. Whilst we have a voice let us try and recite the Quran. Once we can
let us try inshallah to do the best of things. The other thing that a lot of people take for granted
is the issue of time.
		

			We have free time people use it to watch television to sit and see the soaps Michelle and you know
the soaps they wash or do they wash your brain Mashallah. So that's why we say some hon a lot the
soap I hope we can have a different name for something beneficial in Sharla. And we have programs of
a beneficial nature. We have perhaps a weekend out perhaps a little bit of a sacrifice to go to the
masjid to listen to some good lecture to attend the Guru's and the lessons that the Lama have the
scholars the missionaries and to be able to benefit to sit in halaqa and try perhaps to rectify the
Quran the understanding of the Quran, perhaps learn something that others have even if it is
		

			something that may not directly be connected to the religion for example, a person has free time
they want to improve their handwriting Mashallah you want to do a course in calligraphy something
that will benefit you somehow, and you can use that talent inshallah, not only to earn a little bit
of money, but even by the will of Allah to build your Asha to build your paradise. May Allah
subhanho wa Taala grant that to us, it's important for us not to waste our time because as the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has said, the two gifts that Allah Subhana Horta, Allah has
bestowed upon us that many people take for granted. The first one is the health and the second one
		

			is free time. So when there is free time, use it, use it, do not abuse it. So I've had a lot people
sometimes say, oh, I've got some free time. Let me go to bed. I can go and sleep. Are you depressed?
What if you are maybe you might think sleeping will help you it won't, to be honest with you. We all
need sleep, and we all need a certain amount of it. But sometimes we need to correct ourselves. We
need to develop a link with our maker in order for us to be able to understand that we have a short
space of time to pack in it as much goodness as we can
		

			Before the time expires and our health expires, so these two things are definitely going to go
because my health even if I die a healthy person, but I'm dead when I die, what happens? My health
is irrelevant, completely irrelevant a few days ago, I spoke of a very interesting point in Sharla.
I may share it with you in one of the episodes to come. But what I'd like to share with you right
now is the fact that even time time when it comes to us will definitely come to an end. May the
almighty bless us all and may make us use our time whilst we have it in the best possible way. set
out a commandment to lie about a cat.