Mufti Menk – Make Life Easy For Others

The reason why I said distractions for the

ones who are slightly older, sometimes Allah

tests us with some distractions.

And sometimes shaitan comes and he makes us

distracted.

We start looking at other people's lives and

talking about other people in a negative way.

Big people do that too. Young people do

that too. Don't make little circles and take

out one girl and say, no. She's not

in my group. She's not in our group.

And you make it tough for her. I'm

giving you a real life example.

You know, the same thing happens with boys.

This guy is not in our circle. He's

like this like that. So what we pick

on someone, we say nasty words to them.

We tell them how ugly they are when

they're not really ugly. We're the ones who

are ugly because the only people who are

ugly are the ones who call others ugly.

It's the ugliness that makes you say someone

else is ugly. So don't say that because

in the eyes of Allah, he created us

all beautifully.

So, therefore, don't ever call someone else in

a bad way to hurt their feelings. You're

gonna grow old. You know when I was

at the University of Madinah,

we had some friends.

And a lot of them became ministers, prime

ministers,

top notch people across the world. And when

I sit and think, wow. This guy used

to sit right next to me. I have

colleagues who are imams of the haram. Imams

of the haram studied with me. And I'm

thinking to myself, gosh. We didn't even know

that this guy is gonna graduate and become

someone really that we would be embarrassed that

one day we had a fight with him.

I'm not saying I had a fight with

anyone, but I'm giving you an example. Right?

So the same applies. I'm giving you the

same

lesson to say make life easy for others.

Speak with respect.

Give people, you know, good vibes, not bad

vibes inshallah.