Mufti Menk – Ramadan 2022 – Boost #5 – Shaitan Learns too…

			Salam Alaikum, Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh, my brothers, my sisters, all the messengers of Allah was
sent in order to remind mankind to worship their maker, Allah Almighty alone without association of
partners, which means no act of worship to be rendered to anyone or anything besides he who made
you. Now, if you look at the messengers, and the detail in the Quran of the messengers and their
people, some of these messengers, Allah has mentioned in great detail about prior to their birth and
the birth and how it was and the people at the time of the birth, and when they were little, and how
they grew up. And then thereafter, what happened as they grew older, and when they got their
		

			prophethood, when they spoke to their people, how the people reacted, and what happened and what
didn't happen and the details and how the ending was, Allah made mention of the their call, for
example, and then how long it took for them to respond, how they responded, some of them did this,
some of them did, that the punishment, how it came when it came and what happened. Some of them
Allah mentions no detail whatsoever, very little, very little. Some of them are not even mentioned
in the Quran, but I'm talking about those who are mentioned in the Quran, then there are some whom
the detail is a little bit not so much just about how they call their people. And what it is that
		

			was the problem at the time. And what exactly they said how the people responded, it is very, very
important to know that all of them, were calling people towards the Almighty not towards themselves,
they were calling their people to worshiping their maker alone. And they were telling them to be
upright. In terms of goodness, they're supposed to be upholding the values that are of the highest
possible level, the Quran is full of these beautiful messages. Now, if you look at the people, for
example, over a time, and from before, each messenger was sent, mainly to remind his people of one
major matter over and above the issue that we spoke about of worship. So together with the matter of
		

			worship, there was one major thing wrong in the people. But Shavon Shavon has become an expert over
time, take a look at Adam alayhis, salaam time shaitan there was one enemy, he was shaitan. Over
time shapen began to gain experience. And he started learning that okay, I have distracted man in
this way. I've distracted him in this way. I succeeded here, I failed there. This is the reason why
I failed. This is the reason why I succeeded. Now, if you take a look at that, that itself is such
that it shows us as men become sophisticated. Shaytan also becomes sophisticated. And that's why as
we see the nations coming one after the other, there are more and more issues that the nations are
		

			facing such that now we are the OMA of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. And I promise you,
this ummah, is facing the most challenges more than all of those before us. And we don't just have
one issue, we're dealing with all those issues put together, whether it was the problem of the time
of the people of Luther Alayhis Salam, or the time of the people of New Alayhis Salam or the time of
the people of OD and samode, and so on. All of them put together, we're facing it now. But something
amazing Allah Almighty has kept in us the greatest of messages and that is the Quran, the most
powerful revelation was kept to the end. And the reason why all the stories of the previous nations
		

			that are mentioned in the Quran, are mentioned there. Because Allah wanted us to learn lesson. This
is how shaitaan attacked them. This is how they replied, This is how the successful succeeded and
this is how those who failed have failed. Are you going to take heed when you read a story of the
people of the previous nations in the Quran, don't just enjoy how they were good people and bad
people and this is how the bad were destroyed. No, rather than just enjoy the story which mashallah
these stories are quite enjoyable to read. Ask yourself where do I fit in at this time of the
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him? Am I from this side or that side? Do I listen to I obey? Do I
		

			cheat people in business? Do I not? Am I arrogant Am I not and you will see whether or not Allah
Almighty is pleased with you and whether or not you have succeeded to protect yourself from shape
ban from entering or from getting to you from those particular angles. Extremely important. Another
quick point I want to mention in tonight's boost is my brothers, my sisters, right at the beginning.
The prophets didn't even have loud hailers
		

			Forget about the internet and telephones and everything else. They didn't even have loud hailers.
But if you look at only the life of the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. They right at the
beginning, even the salah that they used to fulfill they will no loudspeakers, no microphones,
imagine the the blessings of Allah as the Ummah expanded as the people grew as the numbers
increased, Allah continued to give us technology and gave us the knowledge to expand this technology
as mankind in order for us to use it in a good way. And to be able to reach the correct number of
people, east and west, wherever they are, they will reach the message of goodness and Islam the
		

			message of worshiping the maker alone, the message of high morals and values will reach throughout
the globe. And it's up to the people once they get the message to react to it in the proper way. So
as the numbers increased, Allah gave us technology of the microphone. As as numbers increased, Allah
gave us the telephone, Allah gave us faxes, Allah gave us telexes and phones and then Allah gave us
the internet. And Allah gave us social media. And Allah gave us so much more. There was a stage when
we had, for example, satellite dishes after the television, and it was together with the television,
it made a big difference. And now people are on their phones all the time, I'm reaching you, because
		

			Allah has allowed us to do that because Allah knew this OMA is going to be a billion or more than
1,000,000,002 billion of us. And not only that, the message needs to get to eight 9 billion people
on Earth. So Allah says and meaning through his favor, Allah Almighty will protect the Quran and the
deen. There is no way that this deen is not going to grow because Allah wants it to grow until a
point where he decides otherwise. So Allah Almighty has given us technology, my brothers, my
sisters, this is the age of technology, make sure that you use every technological advancement in
your favor, that which is in your possession, and that we do have access to use it to serve the Dean
		

			no matter what it is, when you flood all apps and all social media applications and all forms of
technical technology. Wherever it's taken you make sure you use it, be it Metaverse, or whatever it
is, make sure you use it to serve the DNA. Do you know what's a good thing, every person who does a
good deed because you encourage them or as a result of your effort in one way or another you get a
full reward of what ever goodness they did as a result of that effort. So don't ever give up and
make sure you know you're doing it for Allah, Allah will grant you the reward. Imagine if 1,000,002
million people change their lives because Allah used you to say something good. That could probably
		

			just be your agenda. Maybe through the multiplication of those rewards, Allah Almighty will grant
you such acceptance that you can sail through into paradise May Allah grant that to us. So this
evening, I chose to speak to you about these two things. One is about the messengers and the fact
that now that we are from the final messenger, all the issues that shapen used against all these
people, he's used all of them, all of them together against us. May Allah protect all of us. May
Allah grant us goodness as an OMA, we've been warned about every plan of shape. And if shaitan only
had one plan with us, and he didn't learn from his previous plans, we wouldn't have needed the
		

			stories of the previous prophets, but we need them because we need to know how shaytan operated and
shaped pan. Well, he succeeded to a certain degree that Allah allowed him in the previous nations to
misguide certain people who were then destroyed by Allah Almighty. If we're not going to take heed,
where do you think we're going to head and then to spread the message? Allah has given us technology
as the numbers grew. And as the people began to accept the deen of Allah far and wide, we have no
excuse. Use technology no matter what it is, when you're using social media, ask yourself how much
of this have I used in the good? And how much of this have I used to spread goodness? Or am I just
		

			using it for business? Am I just using it in order to spread for example, facade, okay, also
corruption. And my brothers, my sisters, remember that Allah Almighty chooses from his worshippers?
Ask yourselves how much of this social media have I used to earn the pleasure of Allah? May Allah
Almighty grant us the ability to use whatever he has given us in the right direction? Akula Kali
hada are SallAllahu wasallam albaraka ala Nabina Muhammad