Mufti Menk – A Path to Paradise 1

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

			smilla hamdulillah salat wa salam ala rasulillah who Allah Allah He was heavy Jemaine, we praise
Allah subhanahu wa Jalla we thank him upon all conditions we send blessings and salutations upon
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, his entire household all his companions May Allah Subhana
Allah Allah bless them all. And may He bless every single one of us and May He grant us goodness in
this world and the next And may Allah subhanho wa Taala protect our offspring in a way that they to
serve the dean in an upright manner such that they also contribute towards this beautiful Dean and
earn Jenna by the mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala. My beloved brothers and sisters in Islam, we
		

			have just completed the month of Ramadan. And the Hadith speaks of a DA of jabril alayhi salatu was
salam, as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was climbing on the member and one of the drawers
was way Lululemon andraka Ravana Phantom yoga formula will be or destruction be upon the one who has
witnessed the month of Ramadan and did not achieve forgiveness. This means Ramadan is the month of
forgiveness, where forgiveness is being distributed and literally in our language dished out
completely. Foolish is a person who does not get from that forgiveness, if you desperately in need
of something. And you heard that it is being distributed wholesale just outside. It is only
		

			arrogance and pride that would make you not want to go and get from it. May Allah subhanho wa Taala
help us. So when a person is searching for forgiveness desperately in need of that forgiveness, and
Allah says I'm dishing it out completely, then it would only be the pride and the arrogance within a
person that would not want them to achieve that forgiveness. However,
		

			there are many other deeds that need to be taken into consideration because they too would result in
a person's entry into Jenna. Ultimately, that is what I want and that is what we all want. May Allah
Subhana Allah Allah grant us, Jenna. So I want to spend a few moments looking at these deeds, the
deeds of gender, the deeds that would result in a person entering gender.
		

			We spoke about fasting and we spoke about how one can achieve forgiveness in Ramadan at the same
time, although it may be important for me to start with Eamon but let me start with the issue of
fasting. Because indeed, not only the month of Ramadan, should we be fasting in but rather evening?
Sure. Well, you and I know there are six fasts that are a Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam
and highly recommended he says when sama Ravana Tomas bajo Sita Misha. Welcome to Casa Madara. And
I'm sure by now we know what that means. So, above that, two days a week, every Monday and Thursday,
it's as soon as Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam try that, try it out. Sometimes it's not far out. It's
		

			not compulsory, but it's a tsunami. Also, we have the fasting three days in the lunar calendar, the
month, the lunar month. So the 13th 14th and 15th. Try it sometimes you will find the benefits of it
not only spiritual, and religious, but even the health benefits of it are tremendous. On top of
that, there is a special door through which those people who are serious about fasting in this world
will enter from when it comes to gender. So those who are fasting and those who used to take it
seriously did it for the sake of Allah for the right reasons. They will be granted entry into gender
through a door known as Arabian why we say those who took it seriously. Some people fast to lose
		

			weight. Some people sadly gained weight in the month of Ramadan. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant
us guidance, some people fast in order for it to be solely and only beneficial to their health. If
that is the case, perhaps you might achieve some of that. But what will happen regarding your link
with Allah? The answer is well You've spoilt it because your intention was wrong. However, if your
intention is correct, and on top of that you do see the health benefits etc. That was a bonus. May
Allah subhanho wa Taala help us and guide us so let's take fasting more seriously my brothers and
sisters, outside the month of Ramadan. I call on yourselves and myself to become a little bit more
		

			serious about the six facets of chawan they do not have to be consecutive. They can be any days of
the month of shall Well besides the first one. And at the same time. If you have Kaaba or you have
missed fasts of Ramadan, do them first because those are obligatory and the rest become
		

			Soon and we cannot give preference to the student over that which is foreign, although they are both
very important. So my brothers and sisters that is one thing also Let's become more serious about
the two fasts every week. Try it out sometime like we say, also the fast of the month the three fast
May Allah subhanho wa Taala make it easy for us. We have several other fasts in the year, but if we
start with these then inshallah we will be introduced to those similarly, going to Jenna you require
a man but together with a man something else, your Eman alone will not take you two gentlemen
Remember that? No way in the Quran does Allah say the moon will get Jenna he always says when levena
		

			mano y mano Sani had una Inca.
		

			If you want to guarantee place in Jenna, you need to believe and on top of your belief, you need to
work towards it. You need to do good deeds. So Allah subhanho wa Taala did not say those who believe
will attain genda because he knows there will be people who say I believe we believe we believe but
in essence they don't believe because evidence of belief is in your deeds. You can say what you
want. Allah says Allah to Allah. Amen. column two minnow Allah kuno Islam.
		

			While I'm a man who ficolo become the Bedouins at the time, they said, We are believers, Allah says
tell them you are not believers, you've only surrendered. But a man has not yet entered your heart.
You might be doing deeds outwardly, but only Allah knows the condition of your heart. So your
condition needs to be correct in terms of the insides in your heart. And on top of that, your deeds
need to prove that you believe you say with your tongue and you work towards it also with your with
your body parts. May Allah subhanho wa Taala. Grant us goodness. So Eman, it's extremely important
for us to realize that together with a man, you also need good deeds. One might say well, I have a
		

			man but I'm weak and weak in the sense that I've committed certain sins here and there. Well, I want
to inform you another way of earning Paradise is to keep seeking the forgiveness of Allah subhanho
wa Taala. You ask Allah forgiveness and Allah subhanho wa Taala will grant you gender at a boomin
and then become an Adam Bella, I'm sure we've heard this a few times, the meaning of which is the
one who has repented from sin is equivalent to He who has no sin at all. So if you want to wipe out
your past, there is a way in the eyes of Allah subhanho wa Taala and that way is to seek
forgiveness. But you have one problem, what is the problem? When you have wronged a fellow human
		

			being? Then Allah subhanho wa Taala says, Go and sort your mess out with that fellow human being
first, and then I will forgive you the rest of it. But I will not take the rights of a fellow human
being of yours away when you have wronged him. He has the right to say Oh Allah, I want justice
here. And the court of Allah subhanho wa Taala is the ultimate court where Allah says lavonne
melanio On this day, there will be no oppression, the truth is manifest. It is clear. This is why
the Prophet sallallahu wasallam speaks about sorting out the problems between yourselves before it
is too late. If you sought it out in this dunya perhaps you will achieve the mercy of Allah. If
		

			people have the arrogance to say I leave this for the day of the AMA. They have no clue perhaps it
will turn out that they would have been wrong. May Allah subhanahu Allah grant us ease sometimes we
are convinced that we are right. But in the eyes of Allah subhanho wa Taala we are totally wrong. It
would be absurd to leave that to the day of judgment and suddenly you find out on that day. Oh no.
What did I do? No matter what we'd rather have sorted it out. It's one of the ways of earning Jenna.
Allah says what Sadie Oh, Ella was woofie Ratan Ravi Kumar Jang.
		

			It's a long verse, but the beginning of it is,
		

			race towards Make haste towards the forgiveness of Allah and paradise. These two things, what does
that mean? Anything that will result in me getting to Jenna, I need to rush towards it. I must not
worry about anything. I must run towards achieving gender, I must run towards achieving the
forgiveness of Allah subhanho wa Taala. Ultimately, if you have lost the entire dunya your whole
life was a mess. But if it was in the right side in the eyes of Allah subhanho wa Taala of the page,
then you have achieved gender, you will achieve the mercy of Allah you lost nothing. People will
forget about the difficulties they had for the 60 or 70 years that they were on this earth. Once we
		

			achieve the goodness of gender we forget of the problems of the dunya and once we achieve the evil
of Johanna, may Allah protect us. We forget about the luxuries of this dunya that we had so much
		

			My brothers and sisters the luxuries we have are all temporary. They are very, very temporary like
we say, may Allah subhanho wa Taala Forgive us, we will make use of what the dunya has offered us on
condition that we do not give it preference over the mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala or the law and
the rule of Allah subhanho wa Taala May Allah subhanho wa Taala guide us all. Similarly, what is of
utmost importance for us to notice one of the ways of achieving gentlemen and Paradise is to develop
your consciousness of Allah, it is known as dukkha dukkha. Take a look at the beautiful hadith of
Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam where he was asked by the companions or messenger sallallahu alayhi wa
		

			sallam, what are the deeds that if I were to do them, I would achieve paradise? Or what are the
deeds that the people who entered paradise have engaged in? What are their qualities? They entered
gentlemen, what are their qualities? He made mention of two things, just two things. What are they?
He says, the koala. He was known for loci, Allahu Akbar, my brothers and sisters, he says, the
consciousness of Allah and
		

			great character and conduct those are the two things that will take you to paradise. think very
carefully of what I've just said. Great character and conduct can actually make you get a rank of a
friend of Allah. According to one of the narrations. The prophet SAW, Selim says a person can
achieve the high ranks in the eyes of Allah through good character and conduct. And also emulation
makes mention of how when a person's character and conduct is not good, it is a sign of their loose
connection with Allah. They don't have a strong connection with Allah. They don't respect the other
creatures whom the same Allah has created. May Allah subhanho wa Taala help us so a sign of your
		

			piety is your character, your conduct exemplary, absolutely beautiful. You work hard on developing
it the same duration says or messenger tell us about the people of the fire. What are the
characteristics of this, he says two things would land them in jahannam Alpha Mo, will follow photo
stokfella May Allah subhanho wa Taala Forgive us, he says two things, the tongue and the private
parts. And this is why in another narration, he says to his companions, any one of you who
guarantees me that correct use of that which lies between the cheeks, meaning the tongue, and that
which lies between the thighs, meaning the private parts, I guarantee him a place in general, think
		

			of it carefully it means it has to be a serious matter. immorality is something that can lead you to
jahannam and at the same time, your time is something that can lead you to jahannam this is why
Allah says regarding the tongue, woman, Sano coulomb
		

			illallah wa rahmatullah
		

			wa Paula in any non Muslim me, who can be better than the one who calls towards Allah using that
tongue, who can be better in speech, Poland means use of the tongue, who can use the tongue in a
better way than he who calls towards Allah subhanho wa Taala. But on top of that, he does good deeds
himself, and he considers himself from amongst the Muslims from amongst this large group known as
Muslims. The minute you say, I'm a Muslim, and you have used your tongue in the correct way. And at
the same time you have done good deeds, you can be rest assured that before you die, the angels will
come to inform you of a good place in general, that's according to this beautiful verse of surah to
		

			zomer. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us general for those where Allah subhanho wa Taala clearly
says that the angels will descend upon such people prior to their death, just before their death to
give them good news. Don't worry, don't panic, what's about to happen to you? Don't worry, you are
going to a beautiful place there. May Allah subhanho wa Taala guidance. So my brothers and sisters,
the use of the tongue can either make you a person from those who will enter Heaven, or make you a
person from those who will enter hellfire. Take a look at another narration one of the most powerful
narrations that I'm sure a lot of us may have heard, because it is the last Hadith in Sahih al
		

			Bukhari and it is a hadith that is oft repeated Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam says, Kelly mahtani
fatahna Allah Listen, Shaquille attorney filmyzilla Annie Habib attorney, Allah Subhana Allah He
will be handy Subhana Allah Allah him the use of the tongue. Again, the prophets of Allah Salaam
says there are two words that are very light, two little sentences, very light on the tongue. They
take nothing from you. Nothing at all very light on the tongue, but very, very heavy on the scale.
		

			And at the same time they are so loved by Allah subhanho wa Taala What are they Subhana Allah He
will be Hamdi. Subhana Allah he'll have him spend the moment to say these words right now Subhana
Allah He will be Hamdi. Subhana Allah, He loves him. They are so heavy in the eyes of Allah, it
shows that you can use your tongue to achieve the love of Allah. Once you have the love of Allah,
what are you worried about? May Allah subhanho wa Taala help us but shavon keeps attacking, and he
keeps telling us to use swear words, falsehood, etc, etc, hurt people's feelings, utter that which
is incorrect, invalid, etc, and so on. May Allah subhanho wa Taala safeguard us if we do that what
		

			would happen? We would be negating the good that we've done. It's now like a seesaw. When one goes
up, the other one goes down, one goes up, the other one goes down, we need to choose which side we
want to be heavier. May Allah subhanho wa Taala help us and guide us. So my brothers and sisters,
the tongue, absolutely important for us to be able to use it or become conscious of how we use it in
such a way that we can engender to feel those through the tongue. Remember when Allah says that you
will earn gentle with this deed? It might seem simple, but in another narration, the prophets Allah,
Allah says Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah Allah, He says, Behold, the commodity that Allah is selling to
		

			you is very expensive. That is genuine, Allah is giving it to us, it's very expensive, it's not
something light, you need to work towards it, it's going to be a tough road there. That's what it's
all about. It's a tough road. And as you go through, you need to know how to, you need to know how
to wipe out the bad that has happened on your path, and convert it into good in such a way that at
the end of the race, you find yourself in the front, you know, if you have watched these races, or
if you know about races, say Formula One or any other ways you find people going around the track,
it doesn't mean even if it comes to athletics, it doesn't mean the person who is at the front at the
		

			beginning is the winner. Ultimately, those with experience will tell you no way someone near the
back, who knows what he's doing. He's consistent, even in a small way he's running but he's
consistent in his pace, he's going to win the race, not the guy who started off with a big bang and
suddenly halfway through his legging, you know, you have a puncture, you have an accident, you have
this you have that, you know, you went round the race, one split second can drop you behind how far
you know that the same applies to our path regarding gender, the Hadees is a Llama Llama de la,
we're in the best deeds are those that are done regularly, even if they are little small deeds.
		

			Those are the ones where now you're watching the race and you're actually running slowly. So you
know that you are consistent, you are trying, Allah says Don't worry, you will win the race. But if
you think today I'm a pious man, I'm going to read the whole Quran. And then for the rest of the
year, there's nothing happening. You are similar to a person who was right in the front, suddenly,
you had a flat out a blowout, and it took you so long to fix it that everybody beat you. And now
you're the last person they had to disqualify you such that people beat you in the lab such that you
were still in the previous lab when they were in the lab that was ahead. May Allah subhanho wa Taala
		

			grant us an understanding. So if you take a look at these types of examples, obviously I'm bringing
them just to become closer to our understanding. They apply also in our own Deen some people you
find them extremely pious, and suddenly the very next day, everything else happens and they head in
the wrong direction. The Hadith says a person can do good deeds for 70 years, right at the end, they
can do such a bad deed that they it can result in their loss of entry into gender and perhaps their
entry into jahannam. And the person can have done bad deeds for 70 years right at the end, they can
have done such a powerful deal that Allah subhanho wa Taala grant them gentlemen, it is in the best
		

			of our interest to make sure that we don't fall into the first category. May Allah subhanho wa Taala
help us consistency in our deeds, the fact that we soften our hearts We finished the month of
Ramadan. You see the month of Ramadan, what happens on the day of eat, the phone vibrates, someone
was actually joking about it and seeing Perhaps that is shapen with his network now being activated
once again. May Allah subhanho wa Taala forgive us remember the parties that we have on the day of
Eve and never ever parties to welcome the devil back. But they are parties to be thankful to Allah
for giving us the opportunity to worship Him. So on that day, we have an extremely bad which is
		

			known as the Salah of Eden the hotel of eat, we are thanking Allah subhanho wa Taala my brothers and
sisters These are just a few beautiful words. Obviously it's a vast topic. If Allah Subhana Allah
gives us the opportunity to continue with it I will probably continue on how to attain gentlemen,
the reason is all of us would love to intergender May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us or Jenna or
sallallahu wasallam or Baraka, Allah Nabina Muhammad