Mufti Menk – The BIGGEST Hypocrite
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Bismillah walhamdulillahi wassalatu wassalamu ala rasoolillahi wa ala
alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.
My brothers and sisters, hypocrisy is something we
need to talk about.
Hypocrisy is something spoken about by Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala in the Qur'an and
the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam in many
narrations.
We need to know what it means, we
need to know where we fall in when
it comes to hypocrisy and it's a very
important question because if the likes of Umar
ibn al-Khattab r.a was concerned about
himself being from the list of hypocrites, then
who are we?
May Allah Almighty grant us goodness and freedom
from hypocrisy.
Nonetheless, we need to know there are two
major types of hypocrisy and it's important to
learn this and to know it.
One is a blatant fraud, a blatant cheat,
a person who's not a Muslim but pretends
to be one.
That is nifaq of the highest degree.
That is actually hypocrisy of the highest degree.
So a person who is not a Muslim
but either wants to spy or pretends to
be a Muslim in order to infiltrate the
ranks of the Muslims or perhaps for whatever
reason it may be has a double or
triple life.
What would happen in that particular case is
Allah Almighty makes mention of it and He
says Indeed the
hypocrites of this level, of this type are
of the lowest level of hellfire.
The lowest meaning they will have the most
severe punishment worse than a person who says
that I'm not a believer because they weren't
believers anyway and they were even worse.
That's the reason so it's logical.
But that is called nifaq i'tiqadi which means
it is hypocrisy in belief.
From amongst us alhamdulillah we would comfortably say
that it would be difficult to find someone
of that nature in our midst.
May Allah protect us.
It could happen but generally we are free
when we enter the fold of Islam.
We are choosing out of our own free
will to say I bear witness there is
none worthy of worship besides Allah and I
bear witness that Muhammad peace be upon him
is his final messenger.
So when we say this no one forced
us to say it because Allah Almighty has
already taught us There is no compulsion when
it comes to the entry into the fold
of Islam.
Once you've entered the fold of Islam what
you've done is you have chosen with your
free will to have rules and regulations placed
on you.
That's what it is.
I chose to join Islam so I'm only
going to consume halal I'm going to abstain
from haram that is the prohibited and the
permissible.
I'm going to do the obligations that Allah
has asked me to engage in or to
do such as the pillars of Islam and
so on and I will stay away from
what he's asked me to stay away from
and I will believe.
So no one's forcing you.
When you're entering the fold of Islam no
one forced you but the fact that you
entered you are governed or you have chosen
to be governed by rules and regulations all
of which are only placed in your life
in order to ensure that you have the
best life filled with contentment here followed by
the best life filled with eternal success in
the hereafter.
Islam has a lot of rules.
It's filled with discipline.
It has more discipline than any other faith.
It has a lot of rules and regulations
do's and don'ts all of that Allah says
in the Quran is in order for you
to achieve the greatest and the highest success
in this world and the next.
You don't want those rules?
Well, if you've chosen not to be Muslim
then you wouldn't be governed by all these
rules but if you've chosen to be Muslim
then you have chosen to be governed by
these rules like I said and I've repeated
this for a reason and that is there
are people out there whether it be on
social media or various other places who say
well in Islam you know what it's a
religion that forces you this and that do
you know what?
Nobody has ever spread Islam by the sword.
In fact, the sword was used at a
time when the wars took place in order
to defend in order to get back what
was usurped and various other reasons.
And this is why those who lived as
non-Muslim Christians and Jews lived in Medina
even after the time of the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wasallam but the topic like I
said earlier today is hypocrisy.
The first type of hypocrisy is hypocrisy in
belief where a person is lying.
They're not Muslim but they're pretending and like
I said we might believe well look inshallah
we free from that may Allah protect us.
But the second type of hypocrisy is the
one that you and I need to worry
about.
What is it?
It is nifaq amali.
It is in your deeds you have a
shortfall and sometimes it's just sheer laziness.
So what is it?
For me to say I'm a Muslim but
I don't really care about Islam.
My statement is one way and my deeds
are the other way.
I told them I'm heading to Durban but
my car is facing Limpopo.
Allahu Akbar.
I'm driving claiming that I'm going to Cape
Town and yet I'm heading towards Zimbabwe.
MashaAllah you'll end up with us.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant you
ease.
So I claim I'm a Muslim but I
claim that you know what I don't have
to stay away from alcohol I don't have
to stay away from gambling I don't need
to dress in a specific way I'm not
governed by halal haram and so on.
And some people call this sadly moderate Islam.
Islam by nature is moderate.
وَكَذَٰلِكَ جَعَلْنَاكُمْ أُمَّتًا وَسَطًا Allah says we have
made you into a nation that is moderate
in the middle.
Neither this extreme nor that.
We've kept you in the middle.
You can get married to fulfill your sexual
desires that means you can fulfill them.
Whereas others might say you're not allowed, you
must stay in celibacy.
You're not allowed to get married at all.
Islam says no.
Whether you're a religious man or woman or
whether you're a person who's not really teaching
and preaching but rather you are a member
of the ummah who generally engages in what
is called da'wah on a lower level.
You can still get married on all those
levels but do it properly.
If it is listen to this rule.
If what you want to do is regularizable
if I can use that word in Islam
then you can do it after it's regularized.
I really like this girl for example or
she will say I really like this guy.
Well I tell you liking is one thing.
If you cannot marry that person and like
I said if you cannot regularize the relationship
then you are limited in what you can
do by virtue of you being a Muslim.
So I can't regularize it because she's already
married.
Too late my brother.
Don't mess, move on.
Allah will give you something better and give
her inshallah goodness, happiness and perhaps Allah knows
why it happened.
Some people like others they can't get married
to.
If you are sexually attracted to someone you
cannot marry Allah says bear patience.
Don't do something that is displeasing to Allah.
You bear patience.
But don't come and justify it to say
no no no Allah will forgive me it's
okay.
What happens?
We enter the territory of hypocrisy that we
spoke about earlier where you're saying you're a
Muslim but you're starting to believe that you're
not governed by these rules and regulations.
What would happen as a result you might
start slipping from the hypocrisy of deeds to
the hypocrisy of belief.
Where you don't realize what you are following
is not even Islam.
May Allah Almighty protect us.
So for us to say we are Muslim
what are we saying?
What are we saying?
A lot of you may have witnessed people
enter the fold of Islam and many of
you might have entered the fold of Islam.
What do they make you do?
Something known as a shahada, right?
They say are you ready to say your
shahada?
What is a shahada?
A shahada is a declaration it's supposed to
be in your heart already before you utter
it.
It's in your heart that's why you're saying.
Because it starts off in the heart and
it is confirmed by the tongue and then
it is confirmed by your organs and your
body parts that all work towards what you
believed and what you uttered.
So they say repeat after me.
In reality you don't have to repeat after
anyone.
You can say it yourself.
Many times when I have helped people to
enter the fold of Islam I ask them,
do you know the shahada?
They say yes, I say say it.
So they'll say the whole shahada without you
prompting them.
Ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa ashhadu anna
muhammadan rasoolullah I bear witness that there is
none worthy of worship besides Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad peace be upon
him is his messenger and prophet.
Once they've said the shahada what happened?
We all who were witness to it now
bear witness that this person is confirmed a
Muslim.
You don't really have to go to a
masjid to say your shahada.
You don't really have to declare it in
all honesty in front of people but in
order to have witnesses it's better to do
that.
It's proper.
One day you might say I'm a Muslim.
They say who knows about it?
Say no one.
Well you're either telling them right now or
you can say well there's people, I go
to this masjid or this mosque or I
know this person or these people were witnesses
to it.
They might want to write you a letter
in some cases where it is needed.
But there are so many Muslims who no
one really knows that they are actually Muslim.
Because of social media today what would happen?
They would enter the fold of Islam behind
their screens.
And I've known of quite a few who
later told me that I'm actually a Muslim
for two years but I didn't have the
opportunity to interact with Muslims for whatever reason
it was.
In some parts of the United States they
live far away from the closest Muslim community
and masjid and so on.
But nonetheless when you say a shahada, you
are declaring I bear witness that I will
not worship anyone besides Allah.
That's the meaning of it.
You're saying I bear witness that there is
none worthy of worship.
Haven't we all said it?
Don't we all repeat it every day?
So what does that mean?
That means no one is worthy of worship.
So why are you worshipping other things besides
Allah?
One might argue I don't.
No.
Sometimes we worship our position.
We start doing wrong things because we know
we are in authority.
Mashallah.
We start doing wrong things because we know
we are in authority.
We start for example, because we have wealth,
we start abusing people.
What are you doing?
You're worshipping your wealth.
You allowed your wealth to make you forget
that Allah is above you.
And Allah comes first.
You allowed your position to make you forget
that Allah comes first.
Humble yourself.
Allah can take it away now.
Humble yourself.
You allowed your good looks to make you
think I can get away with this.
There was once a sister who started dressing
appropriately and later told us in a certain
conference that because I believe that Allah blessed
me with very good looks, I used to
feel that I need to show this.
Until people started calling me dirty names and
I realized that they, you know what they
start calling people who want to show off
everything.
The cleavage is showing and everything else is
showing.
What do they call you?
The most derogatory words.
But they were the ones enjoying looking.
But you also enjoyed showing.
It did not bring about any contentment.
What did I say earlier?
I said when you follow the rules of
discipline, there are rules and regulations.
They will bring about contentment.
You are happy.
It's for you.
It's for your spouse and Allah knows and
He blessed you.
Enjoy whatever you can within what is pleasing
to Allah.
If you cannot regularize it, you've chosen not
to do it.
I can't regularize showing off something that Allah
told me to cover in a public place
because end of the day it's a form
of difficulty.
Notice I avoided the use of hypocrisy.
Do you know why?
Because when you are struggling to get closer
to Allah, you're not a hypocrite.
Something very important.
Many people forget that.
They see a sister or a brother and
he's struggling with his prayer.
It doesn't make him a hypocrite.
In fact, he is a friend of Allah
coming closer to Allah every day.
So don't allow your struggles to make you
think you're a hypocrite.
In fact, as you are progressing, you should
be thankful to Allah that Allah is allowing
you to get closer and closer to Him.
When we are speaking from the pulpit, we
have to be very careful because if you
are coming to the masjid, say twice a
day or you are fulfilling your salah, say
thrice a day, you know there's five prayers
a day, right?
But you never used to pray at all.
If I told you, brother, you're a hypocrite,
who am I?
Who am I to say that?
So, I can't say that to you because
I don't know your struggles, but rather let
me encourage you and the encouragement will serve
for myself and for others to say, you
are doing better than yesterday, inshallah there's room
for improvement, let's do better than today, tomorrow,
but let's not go backwards.
That's a beautiful speech.
You follow what I'm saying?
A person swears.
When you swear, it's a sign of hypocrisy.
The Prophet ﷺ did not say, you are
a hypocrite, but he says, it's a sign
of hypocrisy.
Let me quickly mention to you a beautiful
hadith.
The Prophet ﷺ mentioned some of the signs
of hypocrisy.
In one narration, there's three.
He says, ayatul munafiqi, thalath.
And he's mentioned different signs on different occasions,
but these three, he mentioned at once, the
signs of a hypocrite are three.
itha ahaddatha kathab When he speaks, he lies.
He lies.
Someone says, so what do you do for
a business?
He says, hey, you know, I sell exotic
motor vehicles.
And brother, you don't even have the Harley
Davidson that rocked up just now.
You don't even own it.
But you started lying.
Did you hear the Harley?
Did you guys hear it?
Guess what?
It's not a Harley.
I just looked out.
But nonetheless, it's a beautiful thing.
Why lie?
Just tell them, you know what, mashallah, none
of your business.
That's a good answer.
You didn't lie.
Recently someone asked me, how many wives do
you have?
Did you hear that one?
I told him, brother, none of your business.
How would it change the price of eggs
in central China if I told you?
It's got nothing to do with you.
Have I done something haram?
My brother, take it easy.
You're struggling to find one fro.
Let's keep quiet.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us
ease.
Wallahi, people want to know things that really
do not have anything to do with them.
The prophet says, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, if
you're a good believer, one sign that you
really follow Islam is you don't involve in
that which does not concern you.
min husni islam il mar'i tarkuhu, ma
la ya'ani?
A sign of the goodness of faith of
a person is they leave that which doesn't
concern them.
You desperately want to know, uncle, what are
you worth?
He'd say three billion.
He lied and you also didn't know what
he was saying.
So there were two things.
Three billion what?
Maybe Zimbabwe dollars, we might agree.
But my brothers, my sisters, look at how
one of the signs of hypocrisy is that
the person lies.
If you tend to lie, my brother, my
sister, I'm not going to say you're a
hypocrite because it could be a weakness where
you are working on it.
Well done.
Work on it.
I'm not saying well done because you lie.
I'm saying well done because you're working on
it.
I want all of us.
You have a weakness of lies.
No matter what it is, work on it.
Today is Jumu'ah.
It's a Friday.
It's a blessed day.
One wonders if we're going to get another
opportunity to talk to each other.
Don't lie.
Cut it out.
It won't get you anywhere.
Even if people really thought you were someone
that you really aren't.
You're not.
It's okay.
Tell the truth.
From now on, just speak the truth.
Keep quiet or tell them it's none of
your business.
But don't lie.
It will help you in your connection with
Allah.
You know why?
It frees you from hypocrisy.
What type of hypocrisy?
The Amali one.
The one which is with your deeds.
Don't lie anymore.
وَإِذَا وَعَدَ أَخْلَفْ A sign of hypocrisy is
when a person promises and they break the
promise.
They tell you don't worry.
I'll give you a job.
Then when you are really looking for that
job afterwards, he says I changed my mind.
That is a sign of hypocrisy.
And then they'll come to you and say
the scholar said that I'm allowed to change
my mind.
But hang on.
I based my life on what you said
to me and you never clarified it to
say I'm going to try or maybe.
You said it loud and clear.
A lot of people have this habit.
Don't worry man.
I'll sort it out for you.
And then when you're in the soup, they
run away.
They run away either because they lied that
they had the context or whatever it was
or they lied about who they were or
they simply say we changed our mind.
Don't do that.
Don't do that to someone.
You let them know from day one that
listen, I had told you that I will
get you a job but unfortunately I'm not
going to be able to get you that
job anymore because what I had planned is
not happening.
But let them know before they have already
done what?
Quit the previous job and so on.
This is one example.
There are so many examples I can give
you.
I can give you one example.
You know, we spoke about a promise that
someone makes.
We spoke about lies.
The two are connected because one is also
falsehood and the other one is a type
of falsehood.
When a person promises, they break the promise.
I give you another example of truthfulness where
people sometimes are lacking.
You see, people use religion to their advantage.
If you do that and you then sometimes
want nothing to do with religion when it
is to your disadvantage, then you need to
work harder on yourself.
You don't want to enter this circle of
hypocrisy that we're talking about today.
So the example Allah mentions in the Quran,
Allah says, وَإِذَا دُعُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ لِيَحْكُمَ
بَيْنَهُمْ إِذَا فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُمْ مُعْرِضُونَ When people are
having a dispute amongst each other and they
are called towards the solution of Allah and
His Rasul, you find a group from among
them turning away.
And in another verse Allah says, وَإِن يَكُن
لَهُمُ الْحَقُّ يَأْتُوا إِلَيْهِ مُذْعِنِينَ أَفِي قُلُوبِهِمْ مَرَضٌ
When they are gaining something from that, they
will quickly come.
Are their hearts diseased?
Allah is asking.
What does that mean?
Say we have a dispute, monetary, whatever else
it might be, and I tell you brother,
according to Sharia, you owe me 20 million.
Again, today we are talking about Zimbabwe dollars,
don't get too excited.
And then, the brother says, no, no, no,
I am not interested in that.
Right?
Why?
Because he is losing.
He will take you to the court.
Why did he take you to the court?
Simply because he thought he is going to
gain there.
You see, then when he is losing his
case and the court says you owe the
guy 40 million, he quickly goes back to
the scholars and says, tell this guy to
sort it out Sharia.
Are you following what we are saying here?
That could just be the biggest hypocrisy you
can think of in terms of your deeds.
What did you do?
You are using Islam like a joke to
your advantage, man.
It happens in marriages.
They will tell you, you know what, I
want access to my child or custody based
on Islam.
Now Islam has rules.
So now, you talk about the rules of
custody and access and they say, no, I
will take you to court.
Why are they taking you to court?
Because they want the child completely.
Beyond what Allah has ordained.
No problem.
When they went to court and they lost
everything.
Then what happened?
They came back and said, these people don't
want Islam.
Come on.
Who took who to court here?
You almost waived your rights on this hand.
Now you want to play the fool with
us?
So all this is a type of hypocrisy
or signs of hypocrisy or could be leading
a person into deeper hypocrisy.
Be careful of this.
Be honest.
Be an upright person.
You said you are a Muslim.
You said you are a Muslim.
Follow it.
It's okay if you lost a little bit
because you said you are a Muslim.
According to Islam, you gain nothing.
Laws of inheritance.
Quickly people want to go that we are
doing it this way.
They think they are going to get a
little bit more.
You know what, you lose it in one
generation.
You lose it in one generation.
You might lose it within that generation.
Because you took something that wasn't yours.
You enjoyed the take.
You enjoyed the fight.
And you gained whatever you gained.
I promise you, you pay a heavier price.
The best thing for you to do as
a believer is to say and Allah says
it in the verses of the Quran Allah
says the true believers are those whom when
they are called to Allah and his prophet
to decide between them in their arguments are
those who say we hear and we follow.
We obey.
It's okay.
I got it.
Alhamdulillah.
I did not get it.
Alhamdulillah.
I gained.
Alhamdulillah.
I lost.
Alhamdulillah.
Because in the eyes of Allah, I only
gained.
Why?
Because I followed his decision.
Remember this.
Never ever is your fight for monetary or
worldly items a win if you went against
what Allah has ordained.
No matter what it was.
Never.
So remember this.
We're talking of hypocrisy.
The last quality.
In fact, I want to mention two more
because one is mentioned in another narration.
One says which means when the person when
a person is into disagreement with someone they
become from argumentative to explosive.
We have a disagreement about the parking.
It happens in every masjid, right?
I hope it's not here because it's not
yet a masjid.
It's only a musallah, inshallah.
It's going to be.
Is it a masjid?
It's coming up, inshallah.
I'm quite impressed by the numbers here today.
May Allah accept it from all of us.
I really thought I'm just coming to some
musallah here.
When I came, they said Bedford View, mashallah.
Here we are.
We have a little argument out here.
Someone says, brother, why did you park here?
Instead of saying, oh sorry, is it your
parking or was I not supposed to park
here?
You know, did I make a mistake?
You know, that's how it should progress.
And then what happens?
Instead of that, someone says, is it your
father's parking?
Now look where the discussion is going.
Am I right?
It happens in our circles.
Let's be honest.
Who you think this is for?
You think you own the world here?
Relax.
Don't get excited.
We're talking about something.
Be respectful.
You're a believer.
You're an ambassador of Islam.
You're a person who the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam will recognize on the day of
judgment when you follow him.
So follow him.
If someone told that to the Prophet peace
be upon him, how would he answer?
He would answer respectfully.
Even if you say brother, I'm so sorry
man.
You know what?
I respect you.
I love you.
But I disagree with you.
I will park here and nobody is going
to move this.
Jazakumullah khair.
Salam alaikum.
We're gone.
What did we do?
He can get angry.
Now it's the ball is in his court.
But you didn't swear him.
You didn't insult.
When you insult, why is it hypocrisy?
Because you are supposed to carry yourself with
respect and when you don't, you are going
to invite trouble that's going to be never
ending.
I know of a case that I heard
of lately in Britain where someone parked either
in the Imam spot or blocking the Imam
and it resulted in huge warfare such that
the Masjid had to close down for some
time if I'm not mistaken.
Nonetheless, what happened?
You have a little argument.
You have a discussion that becomes a slight
argument.
You find someone exploding.
What are they doing?
They're swearing, insulting and that's why we always
say, you know, in our circles we have
a problem of insulting, even among the scholars.
You have someone calling the other names.
Don't do it.
Never mind.
Excuse them.
Make dua for their paradise.
They don't know what they're doing.
You don't ever insult and abuse as a
Muslim.
More so the scholars.
Shaitan comes to everyone.
If you ever hear me swearing someone, insulting
someone I disagree with, remind me that look,
don't do this.
It's hypocrisy.
They say, no, but I have to because
I'm on Haqq.
Okay, no problem.
If you're on Haqq, a sign of being
on Haqq.
Haqq and the truth does not need you
to insult and abuse.
It has a shining of its own that
outshines everything else without your swear words.
There we are.
Without your insults you will outshine whatever.
I am so confident about the truth that
perhaps sometimes I would be beaming to someone
I don't need to insult.
I just need to come and say, look
I believe Islam is the truth.
I believe I've studied the religions.
I believe Islam is actually the truth.
I don't need to swear someone else.
You can study Islam.
You'll come up with the proper answers.
This is just an example, but it happens
in our circles.
So we definitely need to look into our
lives and ensure that we don't have these
qualities.
My time is almost up.
They did try to give me more and
I refused it.
However, I want to mention that last quality.
When a person is entrusted they basically abuse
the trust.
All of these are connected to each other.
You notice, there are actually three qualities in
essence.
But some of them are intertwined and interconnected
used in different narrations.
When a person is entrusted fulfill your trust.
You're a trustee of the masjid.
It's the house of Allah.
Ensure that everyone who comes here is more
than welcome with the house of Allah.
Ensure that you have fair rules balanced.
The first saf does not belong to one
person.
Anyone who comes mashaAllah in Islam, first come
first serve.
You might want to leave a little gap
right behind the imam for someone who may
correct him or who may want to take
over if something happens to him.
So the hadith says right behind the imam
should be those who have knowledge and those
who are able at least one or two
of them who are able to correct the
imam if something goes wrong.
Anywhere else in the masjid, anyone can sit
no matter how much money you have, what
color you are, what race you belong to,
how tall or short you are.
It's okay.
We are all part of the ummah.
We are equal.
When you make someone feel inferior, again, it's
a sign that you're not connected with Allah
the proper way.
Allah made them man.
Allah made you.
Are you going to appreciate how Allah made
them?
Say alhamdulillah and there we go.
If you see something that might be considered
a challenge, some people are disabled in one
way or another, challenged in one way or
another, there is a dua to make for
them and for yourself.
What a beautiful dua.
May Allah almighty grant us goodness.
So I end this short lecture by saying
my beloved brothers and sisters, in order to
lead a life that is filled with contentment,
work on yourself.
Work on yourself and go easy on others.
I've said that every week.
Go easy on others.
In the ummah, we are struggling because we
are going very hard on others and we
are going easy on ourselves.
It's supposed to be the other way around.
Do I swear?
Do I scream and shout?
Do I abuse?
Do I break my trust?
Do I promise people and then I just
forget about it?
If that's the case, I need to work
very hard on myself.
And I swear by Allah, you will lead
the happiest life ever.
Don't hold things in your heart too much.
May Allah help us improve and may the
ummah become one solid ummah.
And may Allah almighty gather us in Jannatul
Firdaus.
Aqoolu qawli hadha wa sallallahu wa sallam ala
nabina Muhammad.