Mufti Menk – Solutions to your Problems

			Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
		

			smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu Lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala rasulillah Allah Allah He was happy
here.
		

			We praise Allah subhanho wa Taala we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, his household, his companions, we ask Allah Subhana, Allah to Allah to bless them, to
bless every one of us to grant us goodness in this dunya, as well as the next I mean, my brothers
and sisters, the solutions to all our problems are within revelation. Allah Subhana, Allah to Allah
created us, he knows us better than we know ourselves. Many times we go through issues and problems
and we are looking for solutions, where we will never find them. People are looking for happiness,
and they look at the prohibitions of Allah. And they want to find happiness in that which Allah has
		

			prohibited, it's not going to come, it's very short lived, a fake sense of perhaps ecstasy that a
person might feel. and thereafter there is regret for a long, long time, no matter what it is, be
it, someone who wants quick money in the wrong way. They pinch or they are corrupt, or they have
bribed or they have stolen, they will live with that fear for a long, long time, they will be no
blessings in that money. They will never ever be a moment where the person is actually very happy
without any worry or concern.
		

			But when you hand your affairs to Allah, even if you're struggling, even if you're going through
challenges, your health, your wealth, your family, you will be such a happy person, you will be
smiling within you, let alone just on your face. May Allah subhanahu wa taala grant us that
happiness. If we look at the Quran, it has in it a lot of messages that are very, very powerful.
They are reminders when Allah blesses you. He knows what you deserve, and he knows what perhaps is
better for you right now. Sometimes, you and I don't deserve luxury in this world, because it may
result in US turning away from Allah. So Allah says, I'm not going to give it to you. And you are so
		

			upset and angry and praying and asking and saying, Oh Allah, I want this, I want this, I want this.
Allah says, I know I'm not going to give it to you because I love you. If I'm going to give it to
you, it's not going to be good for you, you and I will not have a good relationship, you will forget
me you will go away from me you are going to drop into sin and that which is Devi and such that in
the hereafter the eternal life will be lost the best thing let me let you not have what you want for
a few years and then when you come to me I will give you everything you want. So hon Allah but men,
especially those who don't believe can ban to him bone and gelato.
		

			Allah, Allah says, Nay, you love that which is right in front of you, and you forget that which is
to come which is eternal. You love this world, be life such that in it you want what you want, but
you are forgetting that the eternal life sorry you love this temporary life and you are forgetting
that the eternal life that is to come is the reality. It is what you need to work for. What is your
wealth going to do for you? Do you know that wealth when it is given to you is a very big test from
Allah? children when they are given to you they are a very big test from Allah. Listen to what Allah
Subhana Allah says in Surah
		

			verse number 27 Yeah, I you
		

			know, lotta hula Rasulullah Mata Hoon, Oh, come
		

			on. Oh, you who believe? Are you believe? Do not attempt to deceive Allah or to deceive His
Messenger. You won't be able to you are deceiving yourself. What do you think you're doing? Oh, you
who believe. below you'll be faithful unto Allah and His messenger. You say la ilaha illa Allah, you
know, it means there is none worthy of worship besides Allah, but you are worshiping everything
besides Allah and you are not worshipping Allah, that is the essence of tawheed to worship Allah,
Allah, I bear witness, there is none worthy of worship besides Allah, then I am worshiping everyone
besides Allah and everything besides Allah. That is unrealistic, unacceptable. Then I say, the
		

			Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him is the Messenger of Allah. And his message means nothing to me.
Subhana Allah imagine when you believe someone is the messenger
		

			Allah, you would know that that message is coming with for you is an honor. It is a privilege,
really we are privileged that the man reached us. Imagine someone sends you a letter from somewhere
and the postman looks for you finds you and delivers it in your hand a very important message,
you're going to open it and be grateful, grateful to the one who sent the message and grateful for
the fact that he chose the best of the messengers that though he actually found you and gave it to
you honor. So the same applies the Quran, the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, it is an
honor that he came to us through this blessed messenger, we are saying Mohammedan Rasulullah
		

			sallallahu Sallam Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah sallallahu sallam, but do we really consider
him a messenger? Allah says, Don't deceive, don't attempt to deceive Allah or His Messenger, you are
not going to get any way if you try that. And Allah says, Do not
		

			betray. You know the term Fianna refers to betrayal, do not betray Allah or his messenger do not
betray what you have been entrusted with a mana or mana meaning a trust, whatever you've been
entrusted with, primarily the Shahada, that you hold the dean, the faith that you have, don't
betray, don't be fake, be as genuine as possible, where you have gone wrong, quickly make amends,
and understand that this life is definitely a test. I've said it again and again, that you know
what, the fact that you didn't choose who you were born to where you were born, where you came, what
color you were, already proved that there is an examiner testing us here, we are not in control, the
		

			questions are asked by the examiner, not by the one being tested. So you choose very little, you
actually choose how to respond to the situations you are put into by the examiner? Why are you
black? why someone else white? Why is another person red? Why yellow? Because Allah wants to test
you. That's all if it was for you. Each one would have chosen his own color or nationality. But
Allah says no. Will you respect each other? Will you reach out to each other? Will you understand
that there is no value for a color besides just that it is a test from Allah for you, for I for
every one of us. And the same applies to everything else, your financial level, when the deal comes
		

			to your business. When law hits a test, Allah wants to watch is it going to make you arrogant, I
promise you, when money comes quick, it is a very, very big test those who have not worked hard for
their money, I would like to think the majority of them, it messes around with their attitude. It
makes them think that they are ruling the world and they don't understand. Allah is the one in
charge. They think they can do what they want. Because as the oldest used to say the elderly used to
say they don't know how many 20 make 100 for them, it was just 120 and it was 100 for them. Subhana
Allah, those who worked hard, they know how many ones make 100 May Allah make it easy, because they
		

			earned it one by one by one. But if you got 10,001 shot, you don't even know it's a test from Allah.
I'm not saying they are bad in attitude, but I'm saying it messes with their attitude. It's a
challenge. When you are a multi billionaire and you can come and polish the shoes of someone else
while law he You are a man who is worth looking at. You are a man who has achieved because your
money humbled you It brought you down when you are a powerful figure and you can still greet and
talk to the people in a proper way. You are someone who in the eyes of Allah is trying to pass that
test. If you don't have what you want, and it turned you away from Allah, you are as big a loser as
		

			a person who has what he wants. And he turned him away from Allah. The common factor is both of them
turned away from Allah due to the condition they will put in. What's the difference? This man got so
much he forgot Allah, that man doesn't have what he wants. He forgot Allah he's angry with Allah. So
what's the difference? May Allah subhanho wa Taala keep us happy when Allah gives you say and
hamdulillah That is why on the Day of Judgment, a caller will call Where are those who used to
praise Allah upon all conditions? Bring them forth? They deserve VIP treatment here and Medina Cano.
Medina, la Hafiz sobre la, those who used to praise Allah in good condition in bad condition. It
		

			didn't change their relationship with Allah, it made them better. You asked me who is struggling, I
tell you the richest of the lot are struggling more than the poorest. Those who have seen more money
in their lives find it more difficult to adjust than those who never saw that money. Their life was
always the way it is. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make it easy for us. So be humble become when you
have Allah wants to see. Do you look at those around you who don't have and quietly reach out to
them, empower them, look at them, give them treat them well, that is building your hereafter.
		

			That is fulfilling the trust of Allah. Allah created people around you not for nothing. He chose
them as a test, you will have problems with some of them, you will have friendship with some of
them, you will have dealings with some of them, you will have so much with some of them. Allah just
wants to see, are you still going to make us the focus of your life? Or will you dwindle and drown
in this worldly life in Surah? Allah again, Allah reminds us of something similar, saying that you
know what man loves that which is now the worldly life, and he's prepared to pay as a price, the
eternal life. You want comfort in this world? And what's the payment, you're paying the comfort of
		

			eternity? That's not worth it. A person who believes knows that that's not not worth it at all. So
let's look at the verse, the next verse, verse number 28 of the same Surah Surah Al Anfal surah
number eight of the Quran, Allah subhanho wa Taala says, in one mo
		

			fitna,
		

			yo naumi, we want you to know that your wealth and your children your offspring, adjusted test. They
are a test, they are a trial for you. We have given them to you short term, your children are not
actually your children, they belong to Allah, biologically they are yours because Allah allowed you
to enjoy the statement. They are mine yet. Where were they prior to their birth? with Allah? Where
will they be after they die with Allah? So whose are they? They are allowed, not mine, temporary for
a few years, I can say my son, my daughter, Allah says, hang on, hang on.
		

			Actually our children. We have given this child to you we're going to take the child away. One year
old, five years old, 10 years old, we want to watch when you have the child will you help them dress
modestly? Will you teach them about us? Will you help them grow in our obedience, Salah Moodle,
Allah de combi Salah to whom have not seen in the Prophet peace be upon him says at the age of
seven, you should start instructing your children regarding prayer. Prior to that, they should watch
you and pray without you saying a word because we've kept it automatic within their nature that when
they watch at an early age, they want to mimic that from Allah. That's the last plan. child will
		

			mimic who created that Allah. You keep fulfilling Salah you dress properly, you enjoy growing your
beard, for example. You enjoy doing things Allah subhanho wa Taala has created the power of
mimicking in a one year old child they want to dress like you talk like you, they'll go into
servitude and you cannot yet talk to them in the language but they know what to do why Allah says we
we have given them as a test. as they grow older, you will have less and less authority over them.
When they become much older. They want you to have nothing to do with their lives. So much so that
when they're getting married, the choice of marriage, you will be lucky if you've given them a good
		

			upbringing. They may involve you in it, you're fortunate nowadays, they probably wouldn't, in most
cases, but that's a test from Allah. To prove to you the child is not yours in a holistic sense, but
rather belongs to Allah. So Allah says the same applies to your wealth. Where it was your money
before it was in your pocket, I promise you somebody else's pocket right? Where was it before it was
in their pocket somewhere else before that? Where was it? It was either in the form of gold and
silver. That was in the real world nowadays it was just ink in the printing press right? As they
print $2.8 billion a week in the States, backed by what I believe almost nothing. May Allah bless us
		

			and grant us ease and then they paid to you for having worked for one week and you're so excited.
You've seen the greenback brother, they just printed the paper you are excited because for you It
holds value in the eyes of Allah. It is nothing. It is nothing.
		

			Believe me. When you receive honor from an individual it is more valuable than receiving money from
them. That's why we are taught when you're giving a poor person money, you give it considering
yourself fortunate to have been able to give because Allah says money they will come a time when no
one will want it they will have enough of it. People are giving value to a Bitcoin so when Allah
tomorrow they will give value to a guy who has a they will carry it in a bag and say listen this I'm
paying for what for this carry air in the bag. So hon Allah May Allah grant us ease. I'm speaking
reality. So Allah says these things of value
		

			They're just a test they hold no value in reality, where was the gold before? dug in the ground?
When you're digging the ground, you're either digging your grave or you're digging for gold. What
else? May Allah grant us ease Subhanallah you're digging a pit, either you're going to be buried or
either you might find gold or silver, who gave it value, Allah gave it value, that sand that you
were created from. If you apply heat and pressure, you create glass SubhanAllah. You thought of
that? If you apply heat and pressure to sand, you get glass, and what am I created from the same
sand and dust? What are you created from exactly the same? Allah saying, Man, your body? Even your
		

			body is not yours. It's an Amana. You're going to leave it it's going to decompose into the soil. On
the on the Day of Judgment, we will give you a new body Another one. Another one, not this one.
Subhana Allah Did you notice? Amazing you get into Jenna, you really think you're going to have the
same body, you will have a blemish list body. That's why every one of us there will be a small thing
wrong here or there some major some minor, you look into the mirror. If you look too long in the
mirror, you're not supposed to you just say Alhamdulillah you walk out when you look too long. You
start noticing a this one here, here, right here. There's another one here, you start seeing a bit
		

			that is a bit bigger than this one. And Allah says Look, man, you want perfection. It is for the
hereafter. It is not here. It is for the hereafter. But if you want to achieve the hereafter
understand this life is just a deception. Allah tells you don't be deceived. Fila
		

			Nakamoto hyah to dunya.
		

			Be learn
		

			Don't be deceived by this worldly life. It is short, it is temporary. It's going to end for you
today. Today it's going to end or if you're lucky. Tomorrow, tomorrow means in the near future. I
think some people were worried that me looking saying today like I might go but we may I may go.
		

			You need to be ready. Are you ready? The answer is you're supposed to be if you If your answer is
no. Then you don't know what the world is all about. You don't know what this life is all about. If
you have sinned, my brothers and sisters, remember one thing turn to Allah, May Allah forgive us.
		

			That is one thing that will free you from hellfire. Keep seeking the forgiveness of Allah, there is
hope your Lord is the Most Merciful, the most compassionate, the Most Beneficent, the Most kind, the
most loving, he will forgive you but what is needed from you is to seek that forgiveness. That's
all. May Allah forgive us, Oh Allah, you are merciful. You are kind, you are compassionate. We have
done wrong. We have sinned, we admitted, forgive us, help us to turn Oh Allah bless us for clean us,
grant us paradise. We are only at your mercy and no other mercy. We are at the mercy of Allah. Now
let's talk about the issues we have the problems we are facing. Do you know that Allah says when he
		

			has blessed you, he won't take that blessing away? Unless you deserve for it to go away? Did you
know that?
		

			That ecobee Allah Allah,
		

			Allah.
		

			Allah says, Allah is informing us, telling us that Allah does not change the goodness that he
bestowed upon our community, upon the nation, until they have changed inside, they have become
people who deserve for it to be snatched from them. This is why when calamity strikes, yes, at that
juncture, the scholars, the noble people, they will come to you and say, Don't worry, it's a test
from Allah. Don't worry, because at that juncture, that's what we are taught to tell people, it's a
test. But it might not be a test. It could be a punishment from Allah, how do I know? If I face my
challenge with contentment? It is a trial from Allah, a test from Allah, and it is actually not a
		

			punishment. I'm a happy man.
		

			I met a brother who told me, I grow my food. And I've been eating vegetables and so on for a long,
long time. And I'll humbly thank Allah at least it grows. And I'm saying Subhana Allah, some people
if they don't get meat in the week, it's like piano has come into the home. I promise you spoiled
for what? Look at the difference. Who is in here, the one who has not the one who doesn't? Because
he doesn't know that there are others who have nothing, nothing much, but they are so excited. They
are happy because they've adjusted their lives.
		

			They've adjusted their lives according to what Allah gave them. Tomorrow a change. I must cut. If I
need to sell my kite sold. I catch public transport. I'm excited to interact with the people in the
company. What's wrong Subhan Allah. But no, how can I go in there? How can I go in? Who are you? If
Allah once you go into your walk also? He might he might not even afford that. May Allah bless us.
We still got the legs. Thanks
		

			Allah, if you want to make a disaster out of something, you will make a disaster out of the fact
that the salt is less in your food. When others, they don't even have the food you have.
		

			Allah grant us ease. So when something goes wrong, look at yourself, tell yourself, Am I doing
something wrong? Can I go back to Allah as a whole community as a nation, we need to go back and
check. Why is it that Allah took away the goodness that we have? Perhaps we are involved in sin,
perhaps we are corrupt, perhaps we have turned away from Allah. Perhaps our dress code is worse than
anything we can imagine. Perhaps we have no morals left, no values left. We are cheating and
stealing perhaps something is happening wrong. We need to correct it wholesale. Otherwise, it's not
coming back. Because there is another verse that shows you that the opposite is correct. What's the
		

			opposite? Now when you have a problem, Allah is not going to remove you from the problem until you
change your life. In Allahu Allah.
		

			Allah will not change the bad condition of a nation or other people until and unless each one of
them changes themselves. So we see problems we know the problems, they are becoming worse. We are
passing the buck. It's because of that guy. It's because of this person. No, it's because of me man.
		

			is because of me. I am not fulfilling my Salah. I'm not interested in how to dress how to talk how
to address. Why Subhan Allah? If I'm far from Allah, I told you at the beginning of this talk, the
solution to the problems we have lies in Revelation Didn't I say that? It lies in what Allah has
allotted to us. Allah gave us Come on my brothers and sisters we must change we must cut out the sin
May Allah help us We must seek forgiveness of Allah.
		

			Because Allah says when you seeking forgiveness, you never punish you.
		

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			Allah will not punish them while they are seeking the forgiveness of Allah. A quick way of earning
the mercy of Allah is to seek the forgiveness of Allah. Quickly seek the forgiveness of Allah. Allah
forgive me, forgive me. The Prophet sallallahu Sallam used to repeat it 70 to 100 times a day. He
didn't need to do that. But he did it to teach us so hon Allah and where are we?
		

			So my brothers and sisters, these are the challenges we face. Like I said, Your children are a test
from Allah. If Allah hasn't given you he knows he wants to give you Jenna, just bear patience. Just
bear patience. And if Allah has blessed you with children and taken them away, your reward is with
Allah, you need to be patience, just say Alhamdulillah it's not easy to say Alhamdulillah when
calamity strikes, say it and see what happens. Move on. Allah will unite you in the hereafter
forever and ever. What's the point of losing a child here and in the Hereafter, you don't get to see
them because you lost your Eman. After you lost the child by questioning Allah and becoming angry
		

			with Allah. Look at what's happening to others across the globe. They've lost their homes, they've
lost their loved ones, they've lost their properties. They've lost their wealth, they don't have
food, they don't have anything. And they are still saying Alhamdulillah
		

			we don't have the time, I would have given you so many examples. But my brothers and sisters, I pray
that these few words I've said today on this blessed Friday can actually motivate myself and
yourselves to do something to become a better person. Let's reach out to others with kindness with
goodness, let's try our best to be the most upright and you see what will happen in your life. Even
if you don't have so much money. Money is not everything. Money is not everything. Even if you don't
have so much contentment is what we're looking for and that belongs to Allah. He only distributes it
to those who try to develop a relationship with him. Aku Kali hada sallallahu wasallam Allah Nabina
		

			Muhammad