Mufti Menk – Just Do What Is In Your Capacity

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Now if we believe we are true mumineen,

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we would automatically,

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as part of our iman, never create problems

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for others. Unnecessary.

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Number 1. Number 2 is we would feel

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hurt when there is a problem anywhere across

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the globe and people are fighting each other,

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especially

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when they on both sides are uttering the

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shahada. La ilaha illallah Muhammadu Rasulullah.

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And thirdly,

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if you were to try to make that

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peace and you succeeded, you will achieve. And

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if you try to make the peace and

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you did not succeed, you get the reward

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of having tried.

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But that trial is definitely something necessary. Now,

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today, we are speaking

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upon the backdrop of the issues we are

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facing globally as a Muslim,

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one disaster that we have is

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shaitan has come to us and make us

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point fingers at one another. Look, there is

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a problem in this country, that country. What

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are you doing about it?

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I mean, why point did the prophet

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ever tell us that what are you doing

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about it? Or did he tell us each

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one should be worried about what he is

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doing based on his own capacity?

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You have a person walking on the street

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who's jobless, homeless. Perhaps his only connection is

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that of iman and Islam, and he is

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a good muslim. What do you expect from

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him besides dua?

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What do you expect from him besides crying

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to Allah? Do you really think the warring

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factions would even be interested

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one without pointing a finger at the others.

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Because the minute you point a finger at

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the others, you have diverted from the problem

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itself and you started a new problem. What's

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the new

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problem? We are at war because I feel

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you are not doing what I think you

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are able and capable of doing and you

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should be doing. That's now a new problem.

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I start hating others based on the fact

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that I think they are not doing what

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I want them to do. SubhanAllah.