Mufti Menk – We Should Not Have This Disease
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I have been working in the field
since 1998.
And before that, also, at the age of
14, I was appointed imam of the muslim
for salat al tarawih because I was
I had memorized the Quran.
And what I noticed is
when you are in the field, especially when
you graduate, you've learned something, you have sat
in a circle,
you have studied something.
At the beginning you always feel and believe
which is not bad.
You believe you are right.
You have reason to believe that you are
right. This is the evidence of why I
am right.
To that point, it's still a good thing.
It's a good thing. You follow what I'm
saying?
Then we think to ourselves,
I need to spread what is right
so that others can actually follow what is
right. It's also a good thing. Still a
good thing. Right? It's
required. Then what happens
beyond that?
When beyond that,
we tend to have an idea
that
there is no scope for anyone else to
interpret this in any other way besides my
way and the way of my Sheikh.
Are you following what I'm saying?
That itself is a disease.
That's a disease. You and your sheikh can
fly a kite,
both of you.
If you think you are the only one
and you have, what is the difference between
us and the others? If we think that
our Sheikh is the only Sheikh who's right
in this dunya, come on. That is a
disease that others have. We should not be
having that. So no matter who you are,
you can believe you are on Quran and
sunnah but you cannot believe that
you cannot make mistakes and your sheikh cannot
make mistakes. That is a disease.
That is a big disease. And the problem
is shaitan comes to everyone including the one
who is on haqq.
Shaitan comes to those who are on haqq
more than he goes to others because he
look at the kufar,
he's already got them in his trap. He
doesn't bother with them, they are excited, they
are happy. He's got them in on his
side But shaytan comes to those who are
coming towards the right path,
those who want to call others towards the
good path. Shaytan comes and what does he
do? He tries to contaminate you in so
many ways. He's very deceiving. Let's not think
he doesn't come to us, he comes.
SubhanAllah.
So why I'm saying this is because I
have noticed over the years there is a
war
between us
based on who your Sheikh is.
So what's the point? I laugh at it.
My Sheikh is Mohammed bin Abdullahi Hashmi Al
Qurashi.
If there is anyone besides that, I respect
them.
A lot of them have more right than
wrong, but I would not be
a person who just says blindly.
This sheikh is 100% right. Everything he has
uttered. Who is he? Can you explain to
me who is he? Say the biggest name
on earth today according to you. It will
be a different name according to Him and
it will be a different name and we
are all on Quran as soon.
So it's a disease because if you look
at the the groupings that we have created
out of a good heart,
We have created too many groupings. I know
of scholars who are
all on Quran and Sunnah. They are fighting
each other like nobody is on the right
path. You have all this me and my
sheikh are right, the rest of you. And
I know that some of them grew up
together, studied together. They they they know what's
right. And a lot of the times, their
their students are the ones who created a
bigger disaster than them themselves.