Mufti Menk – Nothing Can Harm You Except What Allah Wills
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The speaker discusses a situation where a fortune teller talks to a man who is walking with his wife and offers to tell him his future for a $70 fee. The man is convinced to believe that he can tell him his future, but the fortune teller is confused and talks about killing people and eventually cutting off everything. The man eventually becomes a fool and refuses to give any money to the fortune teller.
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Imagine someone tells you,
well, you know what?
I can tell you your future.
What's the true answer?
If someone were to tell you, I can
tell you your future, what are you gonna
tell them?
I don't want to know it, and I
don't believe you know it.
And even if you think you know it,
you don't.
I remember a friend, a friend of mine,
and I've said this before, some of you
might have heard it.
He was at an airport and there was
a guy who comes up to him, he
was walking with his wife,
he says, I can tell you your future
for $70.
He says, I don't want to know it.
I can tell you your future for $70.
And he kept walking with them. You know
in some countries people are insisting
on selling you something. They walk for a
mile with you and they wanna sell you
these things. I don't know if you've seen
that in some countries.
I'll tell you your future for $70.
I don't want to know it.
He kept walking, He kept walking. I tell
you your future for $50 he kept walking.
I tell you your future for $30 he
kept walking.
And then there came a time when he
sat down with his wife and he was
now, you know, ready to fly out and
this guy comes and sits next to him
and says, I tell you your future for
$5.
You're gonna live for 70 years and this
and this. And he started rattling things. This
guy is not interested. I'm not interested in
what you're telling me. I don't want to
know.
When he finishes he says, right give me
my $5. He says, look
I didn't want to know anything, you owe
me $5. I told you your future.
He says,
listen, if you didn't even know that I'm
not going to give you $5 how would
you know my future?
Simple, right? You didn't even know the $5
is not coming in your direction, and you
want to come and tell me, I can
tell you what's gonna happen, you're dying in
70 years. Forget about 70 years. The next
7 minutes you don't
know. So the same applies with these fortune
tellers of the time.
You know Allah Almighty says,
Shaytan
says
99 lies
and gives throws one truth at you.
Throws one truth at you. So you're really
confused because you think, oh wow,
that's so true, you know. That's so true.
And then you start believing the lies as
well,
and he makes a fool of you and
a mockery of everyone.
He says to the pharaoh, the fortune teller
that someone is going to take this kingdom
away from you. Who is he? Well he's
a boy born to Banu Israel
and he will be born one of the
odd years.
Well I'm going to kill them. He says
you can do that.
So this guy comes and starts killing Musa
alayhi salam against all odds. When Allah wants
something,
nothing can stop it.
You need to know that if the entire
nation
gets together to harm you, they will never
be able to harm you except with that
which Allah has written against you.