Mufti Menk – This Is NOT Our Business
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The speaker advises the audience to not pass statements that encourage others to fight and to pray for them. They stress the importance of acknowledging one's weaknesses and not letting negative statements discourage others from following what is right. The speaker also encourages the audience to say their brothers, sisters, and family, and to not give up.AI: Transcript ©
I want to address all of us, myself
included,
to go easy on others.
When you see people struggling,
don't pass those statements. Meaning don't be on
the other side of what we were saying
today.
Because
a good statement that comes from your mouth,
if it were to encourage someone struggling in
their weaknesses,
would not only help them, would help you
and those around you whom you love when
you belittle others. The almighty may create a
situation where you are belittled
at some stage.
You mock and jeer, you swear to someone,
the opposite will be created. At some point
you might face that unless you've been forgiven
or you've changed completely.
So when you see someone struggle, please pray
for them.
That would depict the most genuine feeling towards
them.
If you see someone doing something that you
believe should not be done in terms of
sin as a believer.
If the first thing on your mind is
to expose them and to belittle them and
to make sure that everyone knows about it,
then you need a lot of help, my
brother, my sister. Are you genuine enough
to understand that we all have weaknesses?
We all do.
If we if it was our business to
expose others, we would have been exposed a
long time back.
But if you
immediately ask the almighty, oh my lord, here
is someone
really,
perhaps not on the right path. Help them
and help me too.
Woah. Now you're speaking.
This is what we're taught as believers, to
care for one another in a way
that you acknowledge you're also one of the
rest of us. That's what it is. I
might be standing in front of you on
this podium today,
but I'm no better than you.
I have my own struggles.
If I'm standing here,
the reminder
is for me before it is for you.
Because subhanAllah,
if I don't have the mercy of Allah,
I wouldn't ever be able to earn his
love.
Allah is still most forgiving, most merciful. So
that's why I say the 2 things. Number
1, remember the almighty is by you. He's
by your side. He's with you. Don't worry.
Keep going. Improve yourself. If you're struggling with
your 5 daily prayers, keep going. The reason
is,
as you improve,
one day you will get there but push
yourself.
When people utter a statement that is negative,
don't let it make you slide back
because that's shaitan.
If you have come so close to the
Almighty and like I said you already know
and so do I what is required of
you as a believer.
I'm not here to recite what's halal and
haram and permissible and prohibited and what's an
obligation and what's not and so on.
You know that.
But I'm here to encourage you to say
my brothers, my sisters,
don't give up. Let every day,
like I said this afternoon in the Friday
prayer, let every day that passes be better
than the previous day. Then you're heading in
the right direction.
And in the process,
do not let the statements of others
ever
discourage you from following what is right.
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