Mufti Menk – Proof There Has To Be A Maker
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The speaker discusses the importance of recognizing one's maker and worshiping them alone. They also mention a recent interview where a young man tells them that they want to worship someone who was with them 12 years ago. The speaker emphasizes the importance of remembering one's maker and finding them the greatest.
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My brothers, my sisters,
the almighty
created us.
Like I said, he didn't need to but
he did it.
We found ourselves here, recognize
your maker, worship him alone. I was speaking
to a young boy who told me,
prove to me
that Islam is correct. Prove to me that
I need to worship someone, something.
I thought for a moment and then I
said, How old are you? He said, 11.
Where were you 12 years ago?
He says,
well, I don't know.
Where was I 12 years ago? So I
said to him, well, 12 years ago you
were with the Almighty.
Wherever you were, whoever was
in charge there, all you have to do
right now is to say, oh you who
had me 12 years ago, you are the
greatest. Are you ready to say that?
He says, Yeah. I say, Well, that's all
you need to say.
Oh you whom I was with
12 years ago,
I worship you alone.
And when I return to you, I want
you to have mercy on me. I said,
you know what? Already you have the concept
of oneness in your mind, if you know
that and you understand that.
Because
if you know
that your mind cannot explain to you where
you were, for example, 12, 13, 15 15
years ago, when you're just 11 years old
and you're prepared to say, wherever I was,
whoever was there
in control of everything,
he is my maker. He is the one
whom I owe worship to. Hence,
we have the term Allah that refers to
the Almighty who made you, the worship one
who is the only one who is owed
worship.
And that term, Subhanallah,
it's a name that Allah has given himself
in the Hebrew language, and I've said this
before.
Elohim or Eloha
is the exact as Allah.
Right? It's referring to the worshiped one.
God Almighty.
He alone we worship, the maker, the nourisher,
the cherisher, the sustainer, the provider, the protector,
the curer, the one in whose hands lies
absolute control of every aspect of existence. And
we've repeated this so many times, but it's
so true because
he is in charge.
As sophisticated
as I am, he keeps showing us that
you know very little very little. I mean,
look at this pandemic.
You can't see it. You can't people haven't
really fully understood it.
They say the new variant, may Allah protect
us all from it, say, amen.
They say we don't know much about it,
but the little we know about it, x
y zed. That statement is already enough to
show there is a greater power.
There is a greater power. He is showing
you something
as sophisticated as you are, as advanced as
technology and medicine might be. There is still
a long way for you to go before
you understand
a little bit of some of the things
that Allah wants to show you and to
teach you. And every time you see things
and every time you discover things, they will
lead you towards this maker. So the biggest
blessing is when you recognize your maker. The
biggest blessing
is when he has guided you in that
direction.
Subhanallah.
So keep asking Allah for it. 17 times
a day. If you pray 5 times a
day, minimum 17 times a day, you are
saying,
O Allah,
O Allah, guide me to the straight path.
Because it's the most important supplication you could
ever supplicate by.
Guide me to the straight path.