Mufti Menk – The Extra Deeds Are The Real Test
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The speaker discusses the percentage of wealth held by Zdowns and how it is determined by fulfilling past obligations. They also mention the importance of fasting and practicing Islam's teachings.
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Zakah is a small percentage. In most cases,
it's approximately 2 a half percent.
It does go beyond that for some who
are in mining, some who are in farming,
etc. But in most cases it's 2 and
a half percent of a certain type of
wealth that you've maintained over a year.
That never belonged to you. It was always
a last.
So by you giving your Zakat,
the only thing you've done is you've just
fulfilled something, something that wasn't yours. You took
it out of your system and gave it
to whom it belonged to. That's all you
did. But the real donation is beyond that.
The real donation is your money, your wealth
that is yours. Not connected to Allah, not
connected to anyone else. How much are you
going to give?
That is the donation. Let me give you
more examples of that. Salah, your 5 daily
prayers. The father is the father. You have
no option but to fulfill the 5 obligations.
How are you tested by Allah? You are
tested by
what are you going to do on your
own? You're coming into the sunnah. Let's dive
in. You've done the sunnah. Let's go into
the nafil. You've done the nafil. Oh, let's
add tahajjud and so on and so forth.
That's the real test.
It's a hadi.
You you went for Hajj Hajj is the
fallah. If it's fallah on you, it's there,
you fulfilled it. Are you going to go
for Umrah?
It's voluntary. It's not compulsory.
So every pillar of Islam has within it
something that is compulsory. That's there and something
voluntary.
Look at fasting.
To fast the month of Ramadan is an
obligation. You owe it to Allah. If you
don't do it, you're simple. But the test
is,
are you going to fast Mondays Thursdays?
Are you going to fast
13th, 14th, 15th of every month?
When non Muslim
doctors
confirm
that this type of fasting or intermittent fasting
or whatever else it may be is beneficial.
Then mashallah, we start fasting.
We start fasting.
But the prophet of Allah told us this
a long time back. My brothers, my sisters,
even if
you were to just follow that sunnah without
having known what the benefits are,
you would benefit.
And the quality of your life would improve
just as a gift from Allah for you.
For practicing upon the teachings of Islam.