Mufti Menk – Irresponsibility Can Be A Type Of Murder

And the reason I'm speaking with so much

of seriousness is because there are people of

knowledge who are saying things that are so

irresponsible

and they begin to swear others. Notice I'm

telling you what I believe without swearing anyone,

without belittling people. I'm just saying, look, they're

wrong. That's it. Did I call them names?

Did I say bad things to them? Did

I want to beat them up? No. But

I'm just letting you know

that this is what you should be doing.

And that's the reason why we have restrictions

today in this Masjid, SubhanAllah, and many other

places

across the globe, not just here in South

Africa, but elsewhere.

There are restrictions. Follow those rules.

Understand it's for your better. Things are not

getting any better at the moment because of

the irresponsibility

of people. Don't say only because of the

will of Allah. It is the will of

Allah indeed.

But even a thief steals by the will

of Allah. A murderer murders by the will

of Allah. What does that mean? Does that

make them free of the guilt? Not at

all.

They are guilty. Although what happened was the

will of Allah,

because Allah gave them a choice to do

the right thing and they did the wrong

thing. Allah told them what not to do,

and that's exactly what they did. Allah told

them to preserve life, to preserve the sanctity

of property and so on, and they didn't.

So that's the reason why they are considered

guilty in the eyes of Allah. And this

is why we do say, and I repeat,

when you're irresponsible and you promote irresponsibility,

you are guilty of causing

death, which would mean

a type of murder.

It would because you would be guilty. But

if you took your responsibility and if you

encourage people to be slightly responsible, at least

then when people died, Alhamdulillah,

that would have been obviously

the death was always going to happen, but

you didn't play a role in it. You

were responsible. So you're not guilty.

Like we said, what's going to happen is

going to happen. How it happens is up

to Allah. And you know what? We have

been given a choice to a certain degree

to do the right thing.

So remember to do the right thing by

the will of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grant us goodness and

may he open our doors. Remember, my brothers

and sisters,

there are so many out there who've lost

loved ones. There are so many out there

who have,

lost their health.

SubhanAllah,

they are struggling with ill health. They've recovered

from the virus, but not fully because the

virus has come in and it has actually

wreaked havoc within the body of a person.

Something, somewhere, somehow is wrong.

Remember, not everyone's going to react to this

virus the same way.

Different people react differently. You might have come

out and you for you, it could have

just been, you know, a flu perhaps, maybe

with very little symptoms or you might have

come out of it beautifully. Others have not

and may not.