Mufti Menk – Talking to Kids about Allah & the Prophets

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

			That was so awesome. I'm so excited man Mashallah. Mashallah, I'm so so happy man. How many of you
are happy put up your hand?
		

			Or Shut up, put your hands down? Put your hands down. Mashallah, Mashallah. Mashallah. So today I
would like to talk about what should I talk about? What should I talk about?
		

			Nope. Put up, put up your hand, put up your hand.
		

			Put up your hand. Put up your hand.
		

			We asked, What should I talk about?
		

			Profits? Okay, put your hands down. Right? We're gonna talk about profits. Okay? Who knows? You're
not allowed to just scream the answer. You have to put your hands up. Right? Who knows? The names of
three prophets Put up your hands. Wait, I'm gonna choose. Say one say one.
		

			Adam Alayhis Salam Correct. Say another one. Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam
		

			say a third one. Yes, you say you will Eunice Ali Salam put your hands down Wow. Mashallah. So you
guys know your work? You know your work?
		

			How many? How many of you know how many of you know how many prophets are mentioned in the Quran? If
you know how many prophets are mentioned in the Quran, put up your hands. Yes, how many? Yes.
		

			You don't know how many?
		

			Not six. How many?
		

			Not five. How many prophets names are in the Quran? Yes, how many? More than 10? Yes, how many? 5
million? No, come on. No, come on. Yes. How many?
		

			25 Mashallah, mashallah, how many?
		

			2525 prophets names in the Quran correct answer Mashallah. Tabarrok Allah Masha Allah, I'm so happy
to hear that. So you guys know your beans. Do you know your beans right? Mashallah. Mashallah, okay,
let me tell you something. One day there was a prophet, I am going to tell you a story. I'm going to
tell you a story and I want you to tell me which Prophet it was okay. One day there was a prophet.
And he told his people worship Allah alone. Wait, wait, hang on, hang on. Hang on. All the prophets
said the so far worship Allah alone. Why worship Allah, I can tell you why worship Allah. People
come and say why should they worship Allah? Well, look, how old are you? He's eight. Where was he?
		

			Nine years ago. He's only eight years old. Where was he? Nine years ago? Yes.
		

			No, nine years. He was only in his mom's stomach for nine months. But one whole year before that.
Where was he? Yes. In Jana. Okay. Put your hands down. She said in Jana. What she means he was with
Allah. You were with Allah nine years ago, if I'm 50. Now 51 years ago, I was with Allah. Right? If
I was with Allah, I want to ask you a question, say, if I'm going to die at 70, right? Where will I
be? 71 when I'm sick when I'm supposed to be 71? I'd be I'd be back with Allah. Right? So I came
from Allah. I'm here on earth for a short time, and I'm going to go back to Allah amazing. So while
I'm here, I need to worship who made me and who made me. So that's why we worship Allah. So when
		

			people say, Why do you worship Allah say, well, he made me before I was born, I was with him. And
after I die, I'm going to go back to him. So while I'm here, I'm going to worship Him. So the
prophets all said, worship Allah alone. Now, you know the reason, right? Right? Because I came from
him, I'm going to go back to him. And then what they said, the same prophet says that you must do
good, you must respect others. You must not lie. You must not cheat and steal, you must not harm
people. That's what the Prophet said. And then some of the people were so naughty. They were so bad.
They used to steal and cheat. They used to rob they used to do all sorts of things. They were
		

			unruly, put your hands down, put your hands down. And then
		

			this prophet was there for so many years, not 10 years, not 20 years, more than 100 years, more than
200 years, more than 500 years, more than 900 years. Who was this prophet?
		

			Ah, come here, come here. You guys are saying that be sallallahu alayhi salam, he said no. alayhi
salam, and he's right. He's right. Wow, who else said no Alayhi Salam.
		

			You guys are champions of
		

			Get go and stand back there what's your name? Wow shake my hand shake my hand mashallah, wow he got
the answer right and all of you got it right. Well done well done Mashallah. No aleyhi salam, he was
telling his people to do good deeds for 950 years he kept talking to them talking to them talking to
them after that Allah subhanho wa Taala said, You know what, if these people are not going to listen
any more, then I'm going to cause the water to come down and all of these people will drown
		

			oh
		

			that was the bell. Mashallah, you know what the bell was saying?
		

			The bell was saying what you're saying is right.
		

			Okay, so now, after that a lot of them drowned. Those who are outside, all of them drowned and those
who were in the ark, you know, what's an ark? It's like a, it's like a big ship that's covered from
the top right. They stayed and I want to tell you something.
		

			Yes, they put the animals and they put to the pier, few people and so on. All of us who are here
today, all of us who are here today. We are the children of new Alayhis Salam, did you know that?
		

			We are the children. I want to tell you something. I want to tell you something. I want to tell you
something. We are the children of Adam Alayhis Salam and after that, no. halaya Salam was the only
man who had children from the people who remained in the ark. So we are the children of Noah Alayhis
Salam. Okay. So if someone says, you who's you're the oldest forefather? You're gonna say we from
Adam Alayhis Salam and we from no Hello, Salam. Okay. So we are lucky because yes, our parents had
survived. So if we want to continue surviving Inshallah, and we want to please Allah, then you need
to remember what I just said, you're going to, you're going to read your Salah Inshallah, you're
		

			going to dress nicely, you're not going to be naughty, you're not going to lie and cheat and steal
and you're not going to make mischief. You know what mischief means? Like, when you do a bit of
mischief and you know that you're naughty, and then you want to
		

			you want to fool around No, we're not going to do that inshallah. We're gonna, we're going to work
hard inshallah. Enjoy your time at school, work as hard as you can, and Inshallah, we will all meet
again by the will of Allah subhanho wa taala. So today, we spoke about the prophets, right? We first
found out how many prophets they are in the Quran, how many are there in the Quran?
		

			25 Mashallah. And then we heard a little bit about a prophet who lived for so long. He spoke to his
people for 950 years, but he lived for more than 1000 years. He lived for more than 1000 years.
		

			Knew Alayhis Salam that's it. He knows who was the prophet
		

			mashallah, you guys are very clever. You guys are very clever. Mashallah. Well done. Well done. I
enjoyed myself talking to you Inshallah, can I stop speaking now?
		

			Okay, I can tell you something. I can tell you some we can tell all your teachers to go home and
I'll stay with you guys. Is that fine?
		

			Ah, Mashallah. Amazing, amazing. I'm so happy. But you know what, I also have to go I have to do so
many things. So inshallah I'll leave it to the teachers. You guys stay here. When I come next time.
I'm going to ask you again. And then you can know what what we said. And you can tell me what to
talk about next time as well, isn't it? What's your name? What's your name? Ilhan. Can I tell you my
eldest daughter's name is Ilan as well. Mashallah, that's such a nice name. Alhamdulillah Okay,
guys, Baraka Luffy come take care and thank you so much. Lovely to talk to you guys.