Mufti Menk – It’s An Honour To Worship Allah Alone

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A Muslim worshiper discusses his faith and how it is an honor to worship his maker alone. He talks about his past struggles with the prophet Muhammad and how he has been standing up to his peers. He also talks about his plans to educate people and teach in a way that is more positive than negative.

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			I'm a Muslim. It's an honor to worship
		
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			Allah alone. Because that's the primary teaching of
		
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			my faith. To worship my maker alone. It's
		
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			an honor to be following Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam. You and I know people call him
		
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			names.
		
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			They call him names from the beginning.
		
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			As soon he came up to say, I'm
		
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			the prophet of Allah to warn you about
		
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			a day that is going to come when
		
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			you have to answer for your deeds. What
		
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			happened? They said, you're a liar.
		
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			You know the famous statement of Abu Lahab
		
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			and what he said and verses that were
		
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			revealed. The whole surah revealed.
		
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			What was this all about? It was about
		
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			how even the relatives of the prophet Muhammad,
		
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			peace be upon him,
		
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			happened to say things against him the minute
		
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			they realized, you know what? This man
		
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			has spoken the truth, but by us accepting
		
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			what he's saying, we're going to lose a
		
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			little bit of the worldly stuff that we
		
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			have. Be it wealth or authority, whatever else
		
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			it may be. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam continued in the mission.
		
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			They spoke against him and they spoke about
		
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			him, but those who knew him the most
		
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			and the closest, closest, they all accepted the
		
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			message.
		
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			His circle of friends
		
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			immediately accepted this message.
		
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			Who was the closest to him before Islam?
		
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			Was it not Abu Bakr as Siddiq Was
		
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			he not the first from among the men
		
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			who accepted the message?
		
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			Because he knows this is my friend. He's
		
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			not a liar.
		
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			He's speaking the truth. It's an honor for
		
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			you and I to come 1400 years
		
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			later and say, I swear by Allah, the
		
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			man was truthful.
		
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			I bear witness
		
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			that you have fulfilled the message, O Muhammad
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			You have conveyed it. You have struggled in
		
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			the cause of Allah. You have been upright
		
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			and honest.
		
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			Really we ask Allah to reward you on
		
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			behalf of all of us as the Ummah.
		
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			May Allah Almighty gather us with Nabi Muhammad
		
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			salallahu alayhi wa sallam in the hereafter.
		
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			It's an honor to follow such a great
		
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			man and when people say negatives about him,
		
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			I'm a Muslim, so I'm going to stand
		
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			up. What am I going to do? I'm
		
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			going to think about ways to educate them.
		
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			I'm going to think about ways to stop
		
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			it. I'm going to think about ways to
		
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			come up and teach because at that moment
		
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			there are 1,000 if not 1,000,000 who are
		
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			watching what the negative
		
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			that was said was, and what the positives
		
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			that come out
		
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			of us are.
		
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			And they then fall either on that side
		
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			or this side.