Mufti Menk – Ramadan 2013 – Pearls of Peace – 7 of 27

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

			smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala
		

			nabina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa
		

			ala Medina.
		

			We praise Allah subhanho wa Taala sin complete blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, his entire household all his companions May Allah subhanho wa Taala bless them,
and may He bless every single one of us and our offspring to come up to the Last Day May Allah
subhanho wa Taala guide us and grant us every form of peace, brothers and sisters in Islam.
		

			The question asked in the Quran
		

			is a very important question. If we look at surah, Al anon, verse number 81, Allah subhanho wa
Taala. After drawing, an example of two types of people asks a question, and this question is
directly related to peace for
		

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			Which of the two groups are more deserving of peace? If only, you know, which are these two groups?
One, those who associate in partners with Allah, the other, those who stayed the furthest away from
partnership with Allah, those who follow the example of the Prophet Abraham May peace be upon him,
whom Allah has made mention of in verse number 79 of Swaziland.
		

			We Allah says he was the one who made the statement that we use up to this day, what did Ibrahim
Alayhi Salam say? What john has
		

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			shaky, he says, indeed, I have faced my face to the one meaning I have directed myself and my acts
of worship, to the one who has created the skies and the earth, the one I have directed my face to
him in all purity, in the most pristine form him alone, and I'm not from amongst those who shall
associate even a speck as a partner with Allah subhanho wa Taala. So Allah loves this so much, that
Ibrahim alayhi salatu salam was referred to as the friend of Allah subhanho wa Taala. Because he
made this declaration openly, and he made it his business, to abstain from anything even from a
distance that had something to do with association of partnership with Allah. To the degree that his
		

			father disowned him. His people disowned him, his community kicked him out. They tried to burn him
in the fire, you know, of the miracles that happened at the time, the peace was granted to him, even
though he was cast him to the fire. Amazing. So what was this piece? We are searching for piece,
this piece was by the miracle of Allah subhanho wa Taala through the fact that he worshipped Allah
alone, and none with Allah, none besides Allah, may Allah grant us peace. So Allah subhanho wa Taala
is asking us who is more deserving of peace, those who engage in polytheism of any sort, or those
who abstain and stay far away from it, those who render acts of worship solely for Allah subhanho wa
		

			Taala. So in verse number 82, the response comes
		

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			those who believe and they have not spoiled their belief, with any form of association of
partnership in worship with Allah subhanho wa Taala. They are the ones who are in total peace both
in this world as well as in the hereafter. And Allah says and they are the ones who are rightly
guided, may Allah grant us peace.
		

			As we are searching for more pills of peace, we find a very, very important example also in Surah,
Al anon. We Allah subhanho wa Taala warns us about laughing at those who are calling out to Gods
besides Allah, you find people calling out to sticks and stones some people call out to, to a little
bit of food, may Allah protect us really, like from Allah who says, we used to make idols out of out
of dates, he says, and I'm sure you would know this. And he says, we used to ask that idle a lot of
things including food, and when the food did not come, we ate the either. Love. This is Omarosa.
		

			Talking. And we learn a great lesson because Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us that no matter how
silly people's behavior is, when they are worshiping something, don't laugh at them. Why? Because
although it might make you laugh, sometimes what people do, but they may laugh at Allah subhanho wa
Taala, or joke about him or scoff at what is right out of enmity and hatred, and Allah subhanho wa
Taala says, this would have been a result of your action. So be careful. From this, we learn a pearl
of peace. And that is, like we've said before, think of the reaction of the actions of people before
you actually act. So it might seem easy for you to do something but the reaction of it might be so
		

			huge that you don't you won't be able to handle May Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us and grant us
goodness. So he says, verse number 108, voila, so millennia
		

			and do not swear those are joke about those. In fact, your sub sub boon is actually to swear do not
swear those who are calling out to Gods besides Allah, lest they swear at Allah subhanho wa Taala
out of enmity without knowledge. May Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us, then we are taught
something very, very interesting.
		

			Two types of sins sometimes with us. We are abstaining from apparent sin, but deep down inside there
are hidden sins that we've engaged in and we continue engaging in and that is, what is snatching
away our peace. So sometimes you have a person Mashallah they dressed appropriately, they are in the
masjid, they try to read the Quran, they engage in whatever else they can, but they are hooked on to
*. So no one knows about it besides them. Perhaps they are committing adultery in secret.
Perhaps they are hooked on to some other bad habits in secret. So Allah subhanho wa Taala warning us
telling us obviously, that if you'd like holistic peace, you need to make sure that you've abstained
		

			from two types of sins, those which parent and those which are hidden, fight your knifes fight your
desires and make sure that you have given up that which people may not be able to see right now but
it will result in the snatching away of your peace and your serenity, your contentment. May Allah
protect us all. So this is why Allah subhanho wa Taala says, What
		

			if me about Lina beautifully put in verse number 121, quit the sins, both those that are apparent,
and those that are hidden gains yourself in both ways. May Allah strengthen us in a way that we can
quit both types of sin. My brothers and sisters, let us try and work as hard as we can on that which
we can work on easily first, and let's build in such a way that by the time we meet with Allah
subhanho wa Taala, we will have earned his pleasure because he will have witnessed us quitting
things one by one solely for his sake, if it were just pleasure, we will from amongst those who quit
man Allah subhanho wa Taala bless us and be pleased with us.
		

			Then Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us something very interesting verse number 160.
		

			Do you know to do a good deed is not as difficult as preserved the deed. So a person who will lose
lots of peace and comfort is one who's done a lot of good deeds. But he harms this one, he backed by
this one, he oppresses that one, he cheats that one, he has made this one perhaps he did this
against that one. So when it comes to the rights of fellow human beings, he or she was very, very
weak, very bad. So Allah subhanho wa Taala warns us both in the Quran as well as through the
blessing of lips of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he wants us and he tells us how a bankrupt
person is me, who comes on the Day of Judgment with a lot of good deeds,
		

			Salah that is prayer, and the Chinese and so many other good deeds, but his good deeds will be
synced, they will be given in payment to those whom he has wronged those whom he spread rumors about
those whom he deceived and cheated and ate the wealth of and did this and did that until he is left
with nothing and there are still people asking for justice, then their sins will be taken and placed
onto his shoulders. May Allah protect us what a loss what a loss of peace on that particular day. So
Allah says beautifully verse number 169, on my
		

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			He who comes on the Day of Judgment with good with a good deed, shall have it multiplied tenfold.
		

			Why is it multiply tenfold because you came on the day of judgment and your deed was still intact,
which means today we read Salah
		

			My brothers and sisters it is 10 times more difficult to protect that Salah from being given as a
payment to someone who we have wronged or cheated or spread rumors about and so on. May Allah
protect us. So many times we do good deeds, but it's a waste because we are giving them in payment
to other people. Why should we do that? This is why if you preserve it, you deserve multiplication
of the deed tenfold and even more Allah subhanho wa Taala can multiply even more than that. May
Allah subhanho wa Taala bless us. Now I want to spend a few moments to read to you the list of
prohibitions that Allah subhanho wa Taala has made mention of in verse number 151 of sola to Nam
		

			together with the next two verses, and these verses are in such a beautiful way that Allah subhanho
wa Taala addresses Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam saying,
		

			Tell them oh Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam da ta comm tell them to come at Luma Bo Kumara comb, let me
recite to you that which your ob has made prohibited upon you look at how beautifully to edit so
panela why, if you engage in these things, it will * away your peace both in this world as well
as on the day that you will need it most the day that we need the peace May Allah greet us with
peace on that particular day.
		

			So, Mohammed salatu salam is being instructed to tell the people to come so that he can recite to
them the list of things that are prohibited there are many other things that are prohibited, but in
this particular place, there is a list. Let us work through it quickly and look at every single
item. If we are to engage in these things, it will definitely result in loss of peace either today,
tomorrow, or even in the life after death. May Allah protect us the first one a Latisha Coby she
don't ever involve in association of partnership with Allah subhanho wa Taala. What Meanwhile, he
		

			made sure that you are kind to your parents, while at about Oh,
		

			whoa, do not kill your children because of poverty, because you are poor. And you think now let me
just bury this child and I have let me abort this child. Let me do this. Let me do that just because
of poverty. That is totally prohibited. May Allah protect us. then voila, bada boom, ah, don't even
come close to immorality. This is what Allah is saying. So when we engage in our actions and deeds,
we should do them in a moral manner in a manner that is acceptable in the eyes of Allah immorality
is unacceptable. Then Allah says, Allah taco tolu next and do not murder. Murder is prohibited in
Islam. Obviously prohibited. Suicide is also absolutely prohibited in the Sherry app, we need to
		

			understand it is made mention of in more than one place in the Quran. May Allah subhanho wa Taala
protect us and grant us goodness. Then Allah says, voila, boom alania genie in
		

			the sun, don't eat the wealth of orphans. But if you have spent on their behalf and you'd like to
take what you have spent for them from their wealth, then you may do so but do not eat the wealth of
orphans and what is included in this is the women who will continue cheating when it comes to
inheritance. May Allah protect us if we do that our peace shall be snatched away. And this is why
the next part Allah says what are our needs and abilities when you are waiting, and when you are
dealing in business, make sure you are upright when you wait for people wait proper, don't have your
weight such that when you put the veggies on or when you put the fruit on. You see, it shows one
		

			kilo but in reality it's 950 grams, you're stealing 50 grams from every kilo. Allah says that is the
fire of * that you have consumed May Allah protect us. This is why we say
		

			the businessmen and those who engage in business the buyer and the seller, the Hadith of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says in sadaqa
		

			if the two of them are going to be honest, and they are going to be clear about the commodity that
is being bought and sold here, then Baraka and blessing shall descend upon them regarding that
particular deal of this, but what in Canada, what ketema Baraka to buy him Imagine, if they are
going to cheat in such a way that they are deceiving one another, or one is deceiving the other
whereby they are hiding a fault or doing something underhand or whatever else in a clandestine way,
then the Baraka and the blessings of that deal are snatched away. So make sure when we are dealing,
be open, even if your profit margin has to be less, we need to be really earning the pleasure of
		

			Allah so that we can achieve the blessings and this is why one of the major sins for
		

			your information is to lie about your cost price. Really, it is one of the major sins when a
business is one line. I bought this for 20 rounds and I'm only selling it for 21 rounds. I'm making
one grand on you, and you know that you bought it for 15 Why did you lie? That statement is it will
result in the snatching away of the blessings from the world that you are about to me. May Allah
subhanho wa Taala bless us, if you want tell them look, the cost price is none of your business
paid. Or you may leave lavaca maybe you wouldn't like to be that rude, but inshallah inshallah you
may think of another way of trying to learn the customer, may Allah subhanho wa Taala, correct us
		

			and rectify us, make us people who are not rude and make us people who can really be polite,
something is just come to my mind, you know, when we have commodities and stock and so on, and we
like people to come to our shops, and so on. Voila, here we are so kind to people around, we go out
to flyers, and we want to advertise. And we are so kind to anyone who walks in and shows interest in
the bigger items as well. Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am? What is going on and so on? Would you like some tea?
And would you like to come back for coffee and so on? Why, because we want to sell a commodity.
Brothers and sisters, the dean is more important. So be kind to your fellow brothers and sisters,
		

			they may take a thing away from you regarding the dean, which will result in your paradise, which is
far more valuable than the little deal that you struck. And you were ready to be so kind to a person
who gave you a little bit of wealth in terms of business in the world, which you're going to eat
consumed and leaving the world in this dunya. Whereas we could not be kind to one another as human
beings to achieve the peace of the dunya. And
		

			so this is why we say everything you do is a deal. Yeah, I mean,
		

			I don't know commodity. JOHN, are you who believe can I show you a business? What is the business to
do good deeds. That's the business. We are doing good deeds, we need to be kind to one another adopt
Allah commands. May Allah subhanho wa Taala bless us and open our doors and grant us goodness. And
this is why if you continue on that list, Allah says, Allah will fill tone, you need to make sure
that when you utter your words, you must be upright. Do not lie. When you lie, your PC snatched
away. They say to protect one line, you need to tell 1000 more, you know that. So when you lie,
someone says Where will you give you an example, someone sent me a WhatsApp message a few days ago,
		

			saying that there were two people who happen to become lazy regarding the examination they had and
they delayed. And when they got to the school the next day, they got to the headmaster, and they
told him you know what, we had gone to such and such a place to help someone and on the way back
there was a flat tire on the car. And you know what we really had struggled, we push the car for so
many kilometres, we were so tired, and we could not get up the following morning. And that's why we
would so delayed and we couldn't come for the examination, but we were really keen on writing it.
headmaster says no problem. The two of you should sit separate. I think there were four of them I
		

			don't even know. So you should sit separately, all four of you. And you will have your question
paper no problem and the headmaster prepared for them. Only two questions. First question, what is
your name? Two marks? Second question. Which tire was flat 9898 marks.
		

			The moral of the story is because you lie, you fail to see. So this is why we say when a person
wants to lie, everything is snatched away their piece is snatched away. They fail their exams in the
dunya. No point in telling a lie My brothers and sisters will lie We ask Allah Subhana Allah to
Allah to make us truthful people. Do you know that those who are truthful, they achieve so much
peace and comfort not only in this world, but in the era to the degree that they earn similar ranch
to the pious and the martyrs and so on. And they are mentioned in one sentence in the Quran together
with the prophets, Allah subhanho wa Taala make us truthful.
		

			So then we have something else also connected to truthfulness, where Allah says fulfill your
covenant, fulfill your promises, your promise to Allah. We've spoken about this a few days ago, and
then at the end, Allah subhanho wa Taala says, what
		

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			And this indeed is the straight path, the straight path, so follow it correctly, and do not follow
the little paths on the side for indeed, they will lead you astray. So people are calling you
towards goodness, understand the goodness and follow the path. But if there are people calling you
towards fully fulfilling whims and fancies in that particular case, yes, we may achieve temporary
pleasure. But once that temporary pleasure is over
		

			They will be permanent Doom unless we engage in repentance May Allah forgive us and May He grant a
steadfastness. Let's move to the next tour a beautiful Surah Surah where in the opening verses
something very important is made mention of, I would imagine it is a pearl of peace today my
brothers and sisters we have the Quran in our hands, Masha Allah thank Allah for that. Some of us we
are a little bit shy of calling people towards the Quran. So we don't like to want people to say
look, the Quran says this and I'm warning you or in a polite way, in a perhaps a better way you
might want to choose a beautiful way of conveying the message but some of us are too shy to convey
		

			the message of the Quran to the non Muslims and even sometimes to the Muslims. And some of us feel
this now oh bill, Allah says God has this book. Yes, we know we adopted and so on, but you know
what, just take it easy. Leave it on the side. Let these people do what they are doing. May Allah
subhanho wa Taala strengthen us. Allah tells Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, Allahu Akbar, this is a
powerful verse kita
		

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			this book has been revealed to you, oh Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So, let there be no
distress in your heart, to you to walk by it. And for it, to act as a reminder to those who are
conscious of Allah or to those who believe to those who believe May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us
belief and may He make us true in that belief of ours. So this is why don't be shy to read the Quran
to understand it to convey its message because do you know Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
whose intercession we are so so desperately seeking on the Day of Judgment he says,
		

			Man tala man for an hour and the best from amongst you are those who learn the Quran in all the
aspects of learning of the Quran, and teach the Quran May Allah make us from amongst those, imagine
he is telling you the best from amongst you, those who do the job. Why don't we do that job.
		

			Today, if I were to tell you, my brothers and sisters, that you know what,
		

			if you are to qualify in one year from this university, you will be able to get a job where you're
going to earn 150,000 US dollars a month.
		

			Did you hear that?
		

			150,000 that's about 1.5 million rands at today's rate of 998. We know what the rates are Mashallah.
So my brothers and sisters, let me inform you, we would all go for that you study for one year, you
work for a few hours a day and you're a multi millionaire. They call them Ty * Allahu Akbar,
Allah protect us tycoon in no time. But when we are taught by Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
that the best are those who learn the Quran and teach it. Guess what? We've never even read the
Quran ourselves once and we're about to die.
		

			Look at that. This is why we struggle with our peace because he says the best of those who learn it
and teach it okay.
		

			That's the first step to protect us. So let's remember this is the book of Allah. We've read the
Harry Potter's and we've read Barry Potter's as well, the books that are there in the books that are
not there. We've already read them and fantasize them as well. But come to the real book of Allah,
the word of the creator of entire creation. We haven't yet attempted to try and learn it. That's why
we don't have peace.
		

			That's why we don't have peace. May Allah subhanho wa Taala Grant us peace and may He may cause
people who can become serious about his book, Allahu Akbar. So Allah subhanho wa Taala warns us in
that way, and then we need to be careful of the devil and the plot of shavon. You know, he's
promised Allah makes mention of it. The reason why we say if we fall to the plot of the devil, we
will lose our peace. He says from
		

			verse number 17 of
		

			the devil says, I will attack men from in front from behind from the right and from the left. I will
attack him and going out for him. This is why we have said shavon is your enemy, consider him an
enemy, be on the lookout for him. He comes to you in a beautiful way and tries to beautify things
that in actual fact are not beautiful. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make us from those who who
consider what is really beautiful as beautiful and who can recognize and realize that we
		

			is not. And this is why Allah warns us to say, look at how Adam your father, the first of your type
and kind that was created. Allah subhanho wa Taala says, Look at how he lost a certain place in
paradise because of the deceit of the devil and watch out, let him not cheat you in the same way.
Lie of tienen como Shyvana comma.
		

			Do not let the devil test you in the same way that he tested your forefather la salatu salam which
resulted in his removal from that paradise that he was in May Allah subhanho wa Taala not take away
the goodness that we are in from this we learn that when we follow the devil, all the goodness that
Allah has put us into he will take us out of that at some point. Did you hear that? If Allah took
away the goodness that Adam and his salatu salam was created in because of some error that had
happened, even though he engaged in Toba, and then obviously he was sent on to the earth with us
when we are in goodness and we want to follow the devil. Definitely that goodness will be snatched
		

			away because Allah subhanho wa Taala is the one who has taught us that if you follow the devil, then
you will lose all the goodness that you have. Goodness.
		

			Then Allah subhanho wa Taala
		

			informs us of something very important. You see the clothing today, Mashallah, who gave it to us?
It's Allah, he gave it to us so beautiful, it covers our private paths. And it covers us in a way
that really we become people who are spiritual. This is why Allah warns us regarding clothing dress,
not only appropriately but properly. May Allah grant us goodness, and when he makes us such that
whenever we come to the house of Allah, we take pride in our dress, because we are coming to the
house of Allah. Imagine the house of your maker today. If you had to go to the house of a top
businessman, multimillionaire or top politician, what would we do? We'd make sure we have a bath
		

			we'd make sure we are wearing good clothing we'd make sure we have proper perfume and we make sure
that we are looking decent and we look in all the mirrors before we get there and we make sure last
minute everything is okay you know we put out everything straight and nice Mashallah, this must be
straight that must be straight. my pen must be in order. My watch must be in order my schooners my
shoes must be fine Mashallah, everything should be okay. Allah protect us and grant us goodness.
Brothers and sisters, what about the house of Allah, we pitch up really to the house of Allah and we
don't even know what we read. And, and we don't even take pride in it. So Allah says, Yeah, Bonnie
		

			Adam aku Xena tecoma msgid verse number 31. Oh Children of Adam. Take pride in your dress when it
comes to the houses of Allah subhanho wa Taala workqueue Machado and eat and drink 1234 do not waste
when you always want your PC snatched away. Why? Because you become extravagant. You're setting a
trend. So wastefulness is also from the devil. May Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us? And this is
why Allah says, Yeah, Bernie dhammapada
		

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			are children of Adam we have sent down to you beautiful clothing, we have sent down to you beautiful
clothing in order that you may cover your private parts and beautify yourselves but remember, the
clothing of piety is indeed better for you. This has two meanings one is when you wear your clothing
make sure that our clothings of piety or clothing is that of goodness, not only does it cover you
but properly. You know if it's too tight, it's not correct. It will result in some form of downfall
we always say when people do not dress appropriately, we're lucky my mothers and sisters you end up
paying for it. Why do we want to do that imagine you ended up paying for it. So just dress
		

			appropriately properly. He who is attracted to you because you showed perhaps your legs or your
shape, those legs are not going to look like that for the rest of your life nor are you going to be
maintaining that shape after you've delivered to children. So therefore it's better for you not to
to do that to realize that he who is attracted to your heart and your your goodness and your
character and your deen is the one who no matter what you look like he will love you and adore you
and 60 years down the line. He will tell you honey, you're the one
		

			it's reality. We are losing track because we want to dress with tight clothing. We want to do this
we want to undress and attract people and the day you don't have hair anymore. They don't want to
look at you. Why because I was attracted to that hair that was really, you know, blowing in the
wind. Where is that gone?
		

			I'm now a Muslim and I want to be really obedient to Allah and put on my scarf. My sister did you
wait for you to become bald before you put on your headscarf Allahu Akbar, may Allah grant us inner
peace and outer peace. May He make us dress in such a way that those spouses that are the best for
us are the ones who are attracted to us.
		

			My brothers and sisters, what powerful words may Allah grant us goodness? So remember, when you
dress appropriately, yes, it will attract the right people to you, your company will be correct.
When you want to dress inappropriately, the same clique of people who have that type of life will be
your company. May Allah protect us, Grant both the men and the women, goodness today, the women?
Yes, we speak about them, but the men are as guilty that we have now developed what is called very
sadly, half bombers, they're halfway down your backside. And really, you see people coming to the
masjid for Juma and they engage in servitude and we're standing behind and we just don't know what
		

			to do Allah.
		

			Allah it's happening my brothers and sisters. So let's not only address the women folk when it comes
to dress code, but the men remember type clothing prohibited for men also, did you know that and you
are supposed to be blessing properly, appropriately, may Allah grant us goodness, let's move a
little bit further. This is why Allah subhanho wa Taala warns us In fact, there is one point I did
not get made mention of and that is, if you are to be a person who is conscious of Allah, then even
if your clothing is slightly tacky, and so on, believe me, you will have honor and dignity in the
eyes of people when you are upright and your character is beautiful and amazing. Remember, one is to
		

			wear clothing that people can see in terms of the cloth that you are putting on and two is your
character, your character beautifies you even if your clothing is not that beautiful, and your
character can actually drop you and make you the ugliest person on earth whom nobody wants to talk
to. Even if you're done according to the dress code that you have. Yes, believe me, you might have
something that is state of the art maybe perhaps designer of this nature of that but if your
character stinks, believe me, people will have to block their noses as they walk past. Allah protect
us, my brothers and sisters there is a lot that we will say inshallah we'll leave it for tomorrow
		

			until we meet then again are Sol Allahu wa Sallim wa barik ala nabina Muhammad Subhan Allah Subhana
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