Mufti Menk – How To Tell You’re Doing Something Good

I learnt a good 1 from 1 of

my colleagues.

He says, if you want to know

if something is good,

you should be

able

to

say,

When you start doing it, and when you

are finished with it, you should be able

to say, Alhamdulillah.

Then it's a good thing.

I imagine you are lighting a cigarette.

You want to put in your mouth, are

you going to say bismillah?

You can't say Bismillah because the minute you

say Bismillah, it will drop from between your

lips. It's on the floor.

Imagine you take a puff,

I don't even want to say it. I

don't even want to say it.

I don't even want to say it. Can

it be a good thing?

Like imagine someone going to the club, they

say, Bismillah, Bismillah, I'm entering. No. No. No.

Not at all. Only you come to that

which is good, you say, Bismillah.

You want to know if what you are

doing is good, you must be able to

say Bismillah when you are starting. And when

you are done with it, you must say,

Alhamdulillah. Then you know you have done something

good.