Mufti Menk – Life Is Short, Spend Time With Your Family

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The speaker talks about his upcoming motivational evening and talks about his desire to get married and not do anything crazy. He tells his wife that he needs to work on himself and asks her to help him with this. He tells her that her spouse is telling her that she should not do things that are out of her control and that she should focus on her own happiness and not her children.

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			I love my parents. I wouldn't ever want
		
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			to do a thing to hurt them.
		
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			But I love the rest of my family
		
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			starting with my wife.
		
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			And by the way she's seated here this
		
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			evening, mashallah.
		
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			Now you know why I said all of
		
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			that.
		
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			But my brothers and sisters to be very
		
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			honest with you, may Allah Almighty grant us
		
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			goodness. Pray to Allah to help you eradicate
		
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			bad habits and develop good habits. Let there
		
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			be something unique about you. We're talking here.
		
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			It's a motivational evening and I am going
		
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			to tell you that wallahi I need to
		
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			work on myself and so do you. Become
		
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			a better person.
		
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			How can you get married
		
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			and then after some time you say, but
		
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			I'm only going out with my friends. No
		
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			my brother, it's wrong. Those are all bachelors
		
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			and if 1 or 2 of them are
		
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			married they have marital problems. They are also
		
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			facing a disaster. Their spouses are telling them
		
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			how do you like it for example. Sorry
		
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			let me finish that sentence. Their spouses are
		
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			telling them the same thing.
		
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			How would you like it if
		
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			it was the other way around? Your wife
		
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			went out every night up to 2 and
		
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			3 in the morning and decided I'm just
		
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			with my friends. What are you doing? Shisha,
		
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			hookah, whatever they call it, right?
		
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			And by the way the flavor was quite
		
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			nice. You would have liked it if you
		
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			were there, right?
		
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			Imagine, what would you do if it was
		
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			the other way around, unacceptable. If it is
		
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			unacceptable that way it is unacceptable this way.
		
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			Thank you very much.
		
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			So why why on earth did you get
		
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			married? You have no time for your kids.
		
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			You have no patience with them and you
		
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			call yourself connected to Allah. You call yourself
		
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			a believer. You're a Muslim. You're a Mu'min.
		
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			You should be ashamed of yourself.
		
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			May Allah protect us. Go and spend more
		
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			time there. Do what's right. Your life is
		
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			short. You will die before you know you're
		
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			going to die. Has anyone known I'm going
		
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			to die tomorrow morning 8 o'clock? That's it.
		
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			I'm going. Goodbye.
		
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			No.
		
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			You die without all of that. You're gone
		
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			and that's it. You don't want to regret
		
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			it. Allah has blessed you with a faith
		
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			that governs every aspect of your life if
		
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			only
		
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			you understand.