Mufti Menk – Powerful Example of Right Speech

			Be careful we should not create
		

			disaster.
		

			We should not spread the deen
		

			with
		

			with a poisonous word,
		

			with a word that is abusive, disrespectful.
		

			Don't.
		

			I always love the example of
		

			Musa alaihi salaam when Allah says to him
		

			and to Harun alaihi ma as salam.
		

			Allah
		

			He has transgressed. He's gone astray.
		

			He's perpetrating
		

			crimes.
		

			Go and remind him. But when you remind
		

			him,
		

			we want you to talk to him with
		

			soft words.
		

			Why would Allah say that?
		

			Is Allah not in control? Answer is yes.
		

			Is Allah not the lord of Firaun? Answer
		

			is yes. Did Allah not create him? Yes.
		

			His brain was made by Allah. Yes. Is
		

			the control of his heart not in the
		

			hands of Allah? Yes. So why is Allah
		

			telling Musa alayhi salaam go to him?
		

			It's an opportunity for Musa alayhis salam, the
		

			nubuwa. The test is for the pharaoh and
		

			for Musa alayhis salam. And Allah is saying
		

			go to him, the 2 of
		

			you, and
		

			who I am with you.
		

			Allah says I'm with you. Allah's
		

			help and guidance and assistance directly with them.
		

			But Allah says,
		

			Speak to them with some soft words, words
		

			of wisdom.
		

			So now when they went
		

			before I even say what happened,
		

			Firaun was the worst of the time.
		

			Firaoun was the worst of the time,
		

			and Musa alayhi salaam was the best of
		

			the time. None of us here can be
		

			better than Musa.
		

			And I don't think any 1 of those
		

			we are ever going to talk to will
		

			actually be worse than Firal.
		

			So if Allah told someone better than us
		

			to speak to someone worse than the ones
		

			we are going to talk to in a
		

			soft way, who are we? To talk to
		

			our brothers and sisters who say the shahada
		

			with such harsh hard words that we actually
		

			chase them away from the straight path.