Mufti Menk – What Does Allah’s Guidance Provide

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The speaker discusses the upcoming month of dashive, which is the month of dashive, and how people are realizing that they are not just looking at what is true or false, but also realizing that they have become distanced from Allah's image. They advise people to stay away from social media and not engage in negative behavior until they have a better understanding of Allah's image. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of being conscious of what comes out of one's mouths.

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			The Quran, Allah says shahru Ramadan, the month
		
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			of Ramadan in which the Quran was revealed.
		
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			In it, what is there?
		
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			There is guidance for mankind.
		
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			Clear signs from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And there is a criterion Allah distinguishes between
		
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			right and wrong,
		
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			falsehood and the truth. And if you are
		
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			to connect with Allah, he will give you
		
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			the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.
		
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			In this day and age,
		
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			we are living at a time of
		
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			technological
		
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			advancement with positives and negatives. One of the
		
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			negatives
		
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			is that on social media, we see so
		
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			many things. At times, we don't know how
		
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			to tell the difference between what is true
		
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			and what is false.
		
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			We fall victim
		
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			to accusing people of something they were not
		
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			guilty of simply because
		
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			we saw a video, not realizing
		
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			it's either just a clip that doesn't give
		
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			you the context or it is totally fabricated
		
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			and we didn't even realize.
		
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			May Allah Almighty grant us ease.
		
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			May Allah Almighty grant us ease.
		
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			It's becoming more and more difficult to distinguish
		
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			between right and wrong, but when you are
		
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			close to Allah and you develop a relationship
		
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			with Allah, he will definitely
		
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			make you
		
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			from among those who can distinguish.
		
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			And the bare minimum is you stay away
		
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			from that which is futile
		
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			and that which does not concern you.
		
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			Many times people comment about others
		
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			without realizing Allah's not going to ask you
		
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			about them at all.
		
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			You want to help someone? Do so. You
		
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			want to guide someone? Do so. You want
		
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			to correct someone? Do so in the best
		
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			possible way. But don't involve in their lives
		
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			negatively such that you lose, and nothing happens
		
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			to them besides the fact that they would
		
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			get your good deeds if you have any,
		
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			such as when you've backbitten them, when you've
		
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			slandered them, when you've harmed them
		
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			unjustly,
		
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			you're doing things that, subhanAllah,
		
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			have resulted in your connection with Allah becoming
		
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			distanced. This is the month of Ramadan.
		
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			We should be conscious of what goes in
		
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			our mouths, what comes out of our mouths.