Mufti Menk – The Surah for Orphans and Widows
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The speaker discusses the history of Islam and the need for people to be mindful of their responsibilities. They also talk about the crisis on the Muslim Um indicators where widows and divorced women are being kept in marriage, and the importance of helping them. The speaker emphasizes the need for people to be prepared for a situation like this and offers a solution to the crisis.AI: Transcript ©
So widows and orphans come first. And Allah
has revealed a whole surah, surahun Nisa, dedicated
to widows and orphans
and the women.
That's why he says right at the beginning,
don't eat their wealth. Be careful. Don't cheat
them. Look after them. Take care of them.
Subhanallah.
There will come a point when you have
young widows.
Initially, they might say, you know what? I
never want to get married again. Wallahi, it
is the duty of the family and the
community to ensure that they encourage them to
get married and to help them in that
marriage.
I know of families who don't want their
sons, widows to marry again simply because
they don't want the children perhaps to be
in the care of another man.
What selfishness
is this? When the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam himself
did the most noble thing by marrying only
widows and divorced women besides 1.
You had a greater chance of getting married
to the prophet of Allah, salallahu alayhi wa
sallam, if you were a widow than if
you were a virgin.
And nowadays, people make it difficult. They it's
taboo. Widow wants to get married, they say
astaghfirullah.
What's so astaghfirullah about it? Say masha Allah,
alhamdulillah.
Allah grant us ease.
We should be helping them. I know of
so many who probably shy away from the
topic.
My beloved sisters, it's about time we open
our hearts. We have a crisis on the
globe at the moment in the Muslim Ummah
where we have hundreds of widows, if not
thousands. Hundreds are just here in our own
countries.
1000 across the globe
who don't know where the next
rental is going to come from.
And here we are stopping our men from
even assisting,
from even trying to be
protecting.
We need to think about it. Do you
know why?
I could be next. That's why.
I could be next.
It's a serious matter. It's easy for people
to just brush it under the carpet,
but it's a crisis. Look at the Ansar
and Muhajireen.
At the time of the prophet it was
not about being widowed.
It was more about
being driven out of your home
and your belongings taken away.
The Ansar of Madinah opened their homes and
they shared half of their wealth
with the Muhajireen who were total strangers besides
for the Shahada,
besides for being Muslim,
besides for being followers of Nabi Muhammad salallahu
alaihi sallam.
They were strangers.
They opened their houses. They shared half of
their belongings. In some cases, much more than
that happened.
Subhanallah.
We're not even prepared to do a portion
of that for someone whom we grew up
with. In our community, our society, we saw
the loss they suffered, but no, we don't
have a big enough heart. And guess what?
Then it happened to us,
and the rest of the community did exactly
the same to us. But we did it
to someone else before, so it's just a
circle. Break it.
May Allah forgive us.
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