Mufti Menk – I Learnt A Lesson Because Of This
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The speaker discusses a woman who died while being confronted by others. She faced negative criticism and even tried to demand forgiveness. She is now facing facing a problem with COVID-19 and is reluctant to express her views.
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I learned a lesson from the death of
Maulana Taha. He stood for something. He knew
what he was standing for. He was backed
up totally by knowledge and he presented it
with great wisdom. He never ever turned
to the side to respond to the naysayers.
Not once.
He never ever bothered about those who swore
him. May Allah grant me and you and
all of us the strength. He never ever
wasted time. He used to say, we have
more important things to do.
Here he is
already
presenting his deeds in front of Allah. And
where were we? We saw Him. We shouted
at Him. We mocked at Him. We made
a joke of Him. We laughed at Him.
We printed pamphlets about Him. And what did
we achieve?
Where is He for us to go and
seek forgiveness from Him to say, you know
what, you were actually right, we were wrong.
Or you were right on 5 things, we
were right on the other 5. But we
were not justified
to call you the dirtiest names. Allah blessed
you with a Friday.
Allah blessed you with such a blessed death.
My brothers and sisters, we need to know,
the ummah is bleeding.
The pandemic is real. And by all means
we will differ as to how to deal
with it. No problem.
But that's your brother.
Love him with the difference.
That's another scholar. Respect him even though you
may respectfully
disagree. And you may strongly disagree. No problem.
He is a scholar. He is a man
of Allah. You don't know his relationship with
Allah.
Indeed the most honored from amongst you
are those who have taqwa, closeness with Allah.
Who knows that? Only Allah Allah knows that.
Be careful my brothers, my sisters.
You might lose your akhira just because you
spoke about someone you did not know was
close to Allah but might have made a
mistake. So what? Mistakes are permissible.
O Allah, O our Rabb. Do not hold
against us our forgetfulness and our errors. Allah
says, no problem. I did that. It's that.
That's okay. I will not hold against you
your forgetfulness and your errors. What about us?
If he made a mistake, we purposely,
without making a mistake, swore back, insulted back,
said the most demeaning things for a man
who is today sitting very calm and so
beautifully
and amazingly
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. May Allah grant
us such a good death.