Mufti Menk – I Know Someone Who Needs This

			Salam aleikum. Every time we listen to a message shaytan comes to us and makes us think that you
know what? Yes, I know a few people who could benefit from this, or I know someone who desperately
needs this. We forward it to people. And sometimes we say yes, this is what that guy is doing. And
this is what that guy is doing. Without realizing that actually, the message is primarily for me
Subhanallah people hear stories about how others are doing something and involved in this and that
and gossip and backbiting. And when they hear a lecture about not, you know, not gossiping as a
Muslim, not backbiting, they immediately think of names. And SubhanAllah. Those names happen to be
		

			people whom they know not realizing shaytan is actually diverting your attention to someone else
when you need the message to begin with. In no way. Am I saying others don't need it? They probably
do. But we need it more at times, and we don't realize it. So people say you should treat everyone
well listen to this lecture. But are you treating people? Well, you shouldn't deceive people, are
you not deceiving? You shouldn't do this, are you not doing that. And that's why whenever we listen
to a message, a verse of the Quran, whatever it may be, remember, initially, it is a message for you
to be inspired by to change your life by and at the same time to act upon in the best possible way.
		

			And then yes, you would like to pass it on to others and so on. But don't fall into the trap of
shaitan, where he makes you think that this message is for x, y and Zed and not for me. May Allah
subhanahu wa taala strengthen us and help us to work on our own weaknesses in such a way that we
don't engage in the lives of others in a negative way. What negative way means is, if you're just
going to spread about someone else, and they're bad, and they're evil, you have not helped the
situation in any way. You have actually involved in a sin of a different kind. But if you involve
positively by firstly praying for them, secondly, reaching out to them in a good way, maybe talking
		

			to them, communicating with them such that they can solve the matter and so on. These are just some
positive ways of dealing with what people may be facing in terms of weakness, and in that way we
would help ourselves too. May Allah subhanho wa Taala Bless you all akula Kali hada masala Allahu wa
salam ala nabina Muhammad