Mufti Menk – Ramadan 2010 – Durban – Reminders – Day 29

			salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

			smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa Salatu was Salam O Allah Muhammad Ali Al
amin Nabina Muhammad Allah, Allah Allah He was happy he would have been a woman to be a son in Eli
ahmedinejad. All praise is indeed due to Allah subhanho wa Taala blessings and salutations upon
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we ask Allah Subhana Allah to Allah to bless him and all his
companions and to bless every single one of us, and our offspring those to come up to the day of pm
I mean, honor the rula beloved brothers and sisters and dearest listeners, but describes heaven and
Allah describes what the people of heaven will find ly as my own Ophea Allahu Allah.
		

			They will not hear anything wrong. In general, Allahu Lago meaning nothing sinful will be uttered no
lies, no cheating, no deceiving, no nothing. No backbiting, no slander, no gossip, nothing in Jenna
Subhana Allah. So Allah subhanho wa Taala says, voila, no lies at all. Naturally, those who
abstained from these qualities in the dunya will achieve the Hara will achieve gender in the Akira.
So if we would like gender, we need to abstain from falsehood, from gossip from backbiting and so on
Allah Subhana Allah to Allah protect us. We are indeed in the age of gossip, so much so that good
people without realizing at times we may be overtaken by gossip without even knowing we are actually
		

			gossiping. And we are actually backbiting May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us consciousness and may
forgive us then in the next surah In fact, at the end of that surah Allah subhanho wa Taala says, We
have warned you of a of a punishment that is coming very close. We have warned you don't say the
warning didn't come we gave you the warning. In
		

			kumada bo horiba, we have warned you of a punishment coming very close. And Allah says on that day
every person shall see whatever they have produced in the past, it will be in front of them and the
disbelievers will utter a statement, why a coup
		

			de coup.
		

			The coup far will say we hope and we wish that we were soil we wish that we were just decomposed and
never ever resurrected, out of regret for what they had done well and ever make us from amongst
those. So these are some of the verses of that particular surah. After that we have Surah nazjatar,
in which Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us that Who do you think
		

			oh, what do you think is greater in creation yourselves or the skies and everything else?
		

			I shall do Hello Can I miss them?
		

			Are you greater in creation? Or the skies that Allah has created? What do you think and Allah says
		

			Bana ha He is the one who created that. So imagine if the skies are greater in creation, what about
the creator of the skies? That is what Allah subhanho wa Taala is drawing our attention to? He says
Assam kochava Sawalha.
		

			Ha ha ha ha job Oh Ha Ha making mention of what he has created the sky, he raised it above he did
this he did that the the night and the day and so on and how he created everything he makes mention
of that. Then he asks us to turn to him and in the next era, a similar verse where Allah subhanho wa
Taala speaks about the hour for either.
		

			I told you in the Arabic language, the pronunciation gives away the meaning. The saw is that cry,
the end, the blowing of the trumpet the second time and the screaming and the yelling, and everybody
running from side to side everybody coming up. yo maya payroll mermin he was. He was Sahiba de la
Bonnie. Allah says on that day, everyone, a man will run away from his own child from his wife, from
his parents and from his friends and so on. A man will run away from everyone legally marry him in
whom he shot no money. On that day everybody will be worried about themselves, they will not have
the time to worry about others. This is why the Hadith says ooba Lim inshallah who
		

			give news of heaven of Jenna to the one whom his own weaknesses keeps him occupied from engaging in
the weaknesses of others because if you have that quality in the dunya in the era, Allah will grant
you peace.
		

			But if we have the quality of concerning ourselves with that, which does not really matter to us, in
that case in the era, we will be from
		

			Amongst those who will have to now worry only about ourselves, may Allah Subhana Allah protect us.
The only one, the only one who will be concerned about others is the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, all the other messengers will be concerned about themselves the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam will be worried about us as an Omar, do you know what he says? powerful Hadith? He says, I
will be sitting waiting for you all my followers on the How old? How old is the pond alcocer he says
do not disgrace me. How would a person disgrace the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam? He says I
will recognize those who come by the places they used to wash so many times a day for booboo they
		

			will have a specific shine as they are passing I will say Allah hominy woman Almighty Allah This one
is from my alma that one is from my alma This one is from my alma they will all be coming to the
house and drinking now lawmakers from amongst those then he says was the owner soon dooney for akula
Bimini woman Amati then they will be some who will be taken away and I will say Allah these people
are my alma Why are you taking them away? And Allah subhanho wa Taala will say a Masha Allah Masha
Allah badak waala Hema bajo de una Allah acaba him. You don't know what they did after you left.
They turned away they didn't follow your message and those will be taken into the Hellfire now Allah
		

			Subhana Allah Allah never make us from those. So he says do not disgrace me on the day of the AMA
when I will be sitting on the hold waiting for you. If you are pulled away and I'm still calling for
you. That's a disgrace that Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us the drinking from the house and entry
into Geneva with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in Surah. Allah subhanho wa Taala again asks
a beautiful question.
		

			You
		

			know, mavado Kabira Beagle carry Milla de fala Kaka fossa? waka like me, you
		

			Kabak. Oh man, what is it? That is leading you away from your own creator? Moroccan Arabic al Karim?
What is it that is made you forgetful of your own honored creator, your Creator, the one who made
you who gave you your form? The one who's given you everything? What's making you so arrogant that
you don't want to wish of him you don't want to turn to him? He's your Creator. Oh man, what is it
that has made you turn away? Now Allah subhanho wa Taala not make us from amongst those. And he
described some who turned away. Those who engaged in shady business deals unacceptable business
deals. Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the next era, why mocha Fifi in just one word. destruction to
		

			those who shortchange in business, that's the meaning of it. Those whom when it is for them, they
count more when it is against them, they count less. They don't want to pay but they want to
receive, they lie when they are selling their stock. Allah Subhana Allah says, destruction upon
them. And in the same surah Allah describes the Muslim, the criminals, he says the criminals in the
dunya they will have a chance to laugh at the pious and the good. Sometimes you have people in the
dunya they don't have the ability to distinguish and even if they if they are given part of it,
sometimes they don't have guidance. They laugh at the people who are rightly guided, you grow your
		

			beard, people laugh at you, you wear your niqab, people laugh at you, Allah says in alladhina Jomo
Kenyatta, Amina levena Manu Haku. These criminals used to laugh at the true believers. Whenever they
found that these people are true believers they used to laugh at them Allah says we will have a day
when we will tell the believers those are the criminals lined up going to *. Now you laugh at
them. Hello man. Naveen Amano meenal kusari of Haku on that day, Allah will give the opportunity to
the believers to laugh at those who laughed at them a while back and the believers will be sitting
back on their recliners, according to the verse they will be reclining back laughing at the other
		

			saying, now look who is laughing. Now Allah subhanho wa Taala never make us laugh at those who are
trying to those who are trying to obey Allah commands, may we be supportive of them. And at the same
time when someone laughs at us, that is a sign that you are in the right direction. Normally, if you
want to know whether your beard is the right length, and so on, if someone has teased you either
with a goal to either with anything else, you're heading in the right direction, that's what they
used to do to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam if you're wearing your niqab and you want to
know if you're in the right direction, people will laugh at you they'll, they'll make a joke of you
		

			they'll call you names and so on. Then what will happen is Allah subhanho wa Taala says he
		

			We'll give you a chance to laugh at him Allah Subhana. Allah says goddess, the next year, Allah
subhanho wa Taala speaks about something that we all know. And it's a surah we read often subbase
Mara because Allah in that surah Allah subhanho wa Taala says, belt thirunal hyah dunya well
accurate to higher, O
		

			ne you give preference to this life, not realizing that the life after death is everlasting, this
life is coming to an end. So do not give preference to this dunya. Understand that whatever we do in
the dunya is short lived. Allah gives us chances to repent chances to turn to him because Allah says
you've got a problem or two here, don't worry the life after death, they will be no problem for as
long as you live your life on the right track. Now Allah subhanho wa Taala granted to us, wherever
we have lost the road, we need to quickly come back.
		

			Like when you have a little government in your vehicle and you lose the party tells you make a U
turn. It tells you to go back. We need to have that form of navigational system when it comes to
spirituality that we can just punch in gentlemen, and it will take us every time we deviate. It says
make a U turn go back Subhana Allah, we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to grant us that really, we make
use of technology but do we ever related to spirituality? It's time we did that? Because we want to
go from point A to point B, what do we do? That's a similar rule we need to apply when it comes to
the road when it comes to gender, same rule. You look at the map book it tells you do this do that
		

			we have a map book the Quran, we have the Sunnah. Why don't we follow the roads that Allah Subhana
Allah to Allah grant us a deeper understanding. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about
		

			how he is ever watchful, he watches us at every moment in Surah Al qiyamah, Allah says, I am Sabu I
lamea Oh, had this men think that nobody's watching him when we are the ones who gave men the eyes
that he looks with? Imagine Allah gave us eyes how many eyes are here in this world? If we've got
2000 people here tonight, we've got a minimum of about 4000 eyes Subhanallah 4000 eyes all looking
at once what would happen? What about the giver of these billions of eyes? Nothing can be hidden
from Allah says, Allah nyjah Allah who
		

			didn't we give him two eyes when he said
		

			he didn't we give him a tongue and the lips to Han Allah wa had a
		

			god and we guided him to both paths. We showed him the right path and we told him what the wrong
path is all about. The Quran speaks about the right path. And it also warns us from the wrong path.
Amazing. Allah says now he is going to be questioned, meaning men will be questioned what path or
which path he chooses. Because we gave him eyes. We gave him a tongue. We gave him everything. We
showed him both paths. And we said right now you follow the road and here you will get to a certain
place. That's what we were talking about. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us arrival in Jana amin,
and may He never ever make that arrival. Via Johanna, I always see when a person has to travel the
		

			direct flight is always our first preference. Well, you don't need to go via via via because you
don't know you might end up in Nairobi, then you got a problem. Now Allah Subhana Allah, Allah grant
us all goodness. So Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about also the neffs the soul that we have the
fact that whosoever works hard on that soul and purifies it, they have succeeded.
		

			And whosoever corrupts it has failed. Beautiful surah I'm sure we know it by heart, Allah subhanho
wa Taala says, further.
		

			Success successful is the one who has purified his own soul. And that's a struggle. It doesn't just
come like that you need to struggle to purify your soul. You need to every time something wrong for
the pleasure of Allah you need to leave it every time something that Allah is instructed for the
pleasure of Allah you need to do it. That is how we will purify, purify our souls, and purifying the
soul. We also need to remove the bad qualities from our hearts. constantly check your heart, there's
no room for hatred in the heart of a movement and hamdulillah We ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to
grant us love.
		

			Then Allah says,
		

			what are the habermann the Sangha and that loss is the one who has corrupted his own soul. May Allah
subhanho wa Taala grant us understanding the soul is such that you know, the example we can give up
the world today is that of a computer, you put in whatever software you like in order for the
computer to operate. The minute you have a virus, you got a problem. It goes into every file, you
need a strong antivirus. The same applies when we commit a sin we've uploaded
		

			The virus into our system it goes into every vein of ours to get it out is a big problem. Sometimes
we need a strong antivirus, may Allah subhanho wa Taala. grant that to us, it's important for us to
know this. So if we are going to do something wrong naturally, our computer will become sluggish.
Our spirituality will slow down because we doing something wrong. So if we would like, really, to
enhance the speed of our hard drives spiritually, we need to format that hard drive by Toba. And
then we need to start afresh by loading only that which is necessary. Now Allah subhanho wa Taala
grant us benefit. And may Allah subhanho wa Taala opened our doors, it's very quick when it comes to
		

			technology. We don't even need to bat an eyelid we know what to do. Why then can we not apply
similar rules to spirituality which solve all our problems? Allah subhanho wa Taala open our doors,
then Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks also about how the one who spends in the path of Allah subhanho
wa Taala Allah will ease his own path. When you spend in the path of Allah, Allah will open your own
path because there are certain things that money cannot buy, Allah will give them to you and the
person who's who's stingy. A person who doesn't want to spend Allah says we make their path
difficult. So they ended up spending when they end up not only spending but they will have a
		

			difficult life mela not make us from amongst those. Let's become generous, not only generous with
our wealth, but even with our attitude with our conduct with our smiles with the way we speak and
let's do so for the pleasure of Allah subhanho wa Taala sometimes we as a Muslim oma we read Salah
in one must've we don't know who is reading Salah right next to us. We sit whole month in Ramadan,
we've come we've been reading Salah next to people we don't even know their names. It's important
for us to know at least a person's name without what we call in the Indian language. Punjabi, I'm
sure you know what that is. A person says what's your name? What do you do? Oh, you got that
		

			business? I'm coming there tomorrow. I need a discount. Wait, what? That's why people don't want to
talk to us because every time we want favors from people for what live your life professionally in a
nice way you know people for the pleasure of Allah not so that you can make use of them and extract
from them and and really squeeze from them whatever they have, may Allah protect us if out of the
goodness they offer you Alhamdulillah but the reason to know someone in the deen is not so that you
can extract from them or abuse that relation but it's for the pleasure of Allah. This is why last
night I said when you know someone for the sake of Allah, that relation is bless it. You found
		

			someone in the masjid you met them that's all you know about them. Mashallah, sometimes five years
later, you still don't know exactly what they do in life. That is the relation that was based on
Allah subhanho wa Taala and his love, may Allah subhanho wa Taala. grant that to us, then Allah
subhanho wa Taala speaks in Surah, two teen about something very powerful. He says, I have created
man in the best posture, the best posture, and I challenge any human being or any creature of mine
to come up with a better posture. When Allah says Allah Cornell is an Effie sanita coeem I have
created men in the best posture. Can Allah subhanho wa Taala be wrong? So that is a challenge?
		

			What's the challenge? Oh, man. Oh, man, think of any place to replace any organ of yours and put it
elsewhere on your body? Can you come up with a better plan than alas? The answer is no. Let's think
about it for a minute. Take your eyes from where they are, apply and place them elsewhere in a
better place. Anyway, take your five fingers, the little one put it somewhere else. Allahu Akbar.
Anyway. Take your ears, put them where your eyes are. I wonder how you do your spectacles Allahu
Akbar. Its effect let's think of it. Take your toes move the people on to the end what would happen?
A lot challenges entire creation, saying man has been created in the best form. And that's a
		

			challenge. Nobody will ever come up with any posture better than that. SubhanAllah Have we ever
thought of that?
		

			Then Allah subhanho wa Taala says from Aradhana spell SRP Lena Illallah Nina Amano. After having
raised men so high, we dropped him to the lowest of the low except those who believe and do good
deeds. Why lowest of the low because with the sophisticated brain we've given man, he still comes up
with ideas that even animals don't come up with, such as homosexuality, such as various other ideas,
and he wants to promote them. Allah says Nay, we've dropped those to lower levels than animals
because even the animals with their nature do not think of certain things that men thinks of with
their complex mind. And sometimes men will debate that this is my freedom and my rights. Allahu
		

			Akbar, Allah, Allah subhanho wa Taala protects us and grant us good minds that we'll be thinking in
lines of, or in the same line as the Sharia. And Allah Subhana which Allah speaks about how every
hardship in
		

			Your life if you treat it correctly, it brings about more ease than that hardship. That is in Surah.
Allah Masha Allah says, In the molars reuse run in nama Allah Sreenivasan, definitely with hardship,
there is always ease and with the same hardship there is another point of ease. So in a nutshell
with every hardship, Allah creates two points of ease, Allahu Akbar, if only we know how to deal
with that hardship. And after that Allah Subhana Allah, Allah speaks about the xyzal and the tremor
in Surah xyzal. And at the end of that surah when he speaks about the tremor, and how men will be
running, and men will be saying that Where can I go and so on. Allah says, For my Mal, Miss Carla
		

			donatien Hi, Ronnie era, whoever has done an atom's weights of goodness will see it on the day of
the AMA. It's not going to go and whoever did an atom's weight of evil, they will see it as well.
		

			And then Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about something very important that I think we need to draw
our attention to. He speaks about those who are lazy when they read Salah, and he says, Why alone,
destruction be upon whom ye alone. Gil mousseline alladhina Houma, Sala teams
		

			on destruction be upon those who fulfill their Salah but lazy Lee and they are very dilly dally when
it comes to Salah every time delay every time delay you know if you delay your Salah once twice it's
something else but every Salah of yours you rushing last minute to quickly read it. Allah forgive
myself and yourselves well or not make us from those Allah says destruction to those people are they
playing a game with us? And let me know whom your
		

			own our own Alma own those who do things to show others that Allah protect us. We need to do things
to show off to Allah, not to others, not to creatures to Allah when we read Salah. We need to
imagine that Allah is watching us completely. Allahu Akbar and Allah is watching. purify your Salah,
perfected to show who Allah but the minute we want to show someone else that deed is being being
spoiled now Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us and Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of a
quality that we need to know where he curses such people who stop what is known as my own What is
the meaning of my own? My own means a minor goodness something small a charity someone asks you for
		

			a little bit of salt you say no, but it's not taking anything from you. Allah says those people are
kissed. Someone asked you for five cents you say no, I don't want that's nothing What is it taken
away from you? And sometimes we have bad habits when we give a charity we wait for it to go bad then
we give a charity sadly it happens to a lot of women folk they have cooked the food and I'm going to
say this because I think it happens in a lot of homes and we need to change this The food is cooked
Mashallah beautiful meal we enjoy it We thank Allah for it and so on. The remainder goes into the
fridge Mashallah. Or after when until the fridge smells? Is that when it must go in there? You know
		

			you've got a maid you know you've got someone you know you've got a man coming Who asked you for
charity. We still say No, leave it in the fridge. It's good. It's still good. So what you want to
give them when it goes bad stuff, it'll law stuff. Allah, may Allah protect us. You know you're not
going to have it. Give it away in a good condition with an open heart. How can your heart stick to a
little piece of chicken that you're not going to eat? And nobody in your house is going to eat? You
want to wait for the apple to become rotten?