Mufti Menk – Irresponsibility Can Be A Type Of Murder
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The speaker discusses restrictions in South Africa, including restrictions on people of knowledge and the use of deadly language. They encourage people to be slightly responsible and not to promote irresponsible behavior. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of remembering to do the right thing and not reacting to the virus.
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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.