Mufti Menk – When People Exaggerate Their Roles

			Ibrahim alayhi salam as he was leaving his family and by the way, no man can ever come today and
say, I've just lifted my wife and children to fend for themselves because I'm just following the
example of Ibrahim alayhi salam I've actually had one case I was an arbitrator in a problem and the
man was so such a religious guy with such a nice mashallah, you know, long bed and so on. I don't
think he would miss the head. But he actually told me that Loki primalist Salam did it you know?
		

			I said, Brother, are you a prophet of Allah? Did Allah instruct you to do something that like there
was another case where a guy comes up and says, you know, you brought in Malay salaam my father told
me to divorce my wife. I don't have a problem with that. But I divorced her. So but why? Because my
father told me so your father, you remain on your own. I would inform my dad rather than ask him at
this juncture. I mean, I'm close on to 60 Come on guys. In a few years,
		

			a few decades.
		

			But my brothers my sisters, I tell you, it's a fact of life. You are not a prophet, Ibrahim alayhi
salam according to one narration went to his his son or he told the wife You know what, tell you the
owner of the home that when he comes in, it's change the the doormat.
		

			So when Ismail alayhi salam heard about it, he said that was my father telling me to divorce you and
you can go home.
		

			That was a prophet of Allah, if at all that narration is correct. It was a prophet of Allah. Yes,
indeed. And if a prophet is told by Allah, they wouldn't say something from their own pockets. But
if your father comes to you and tells you to divorce someone, you have no problem with you love
them. You tell your dad, goodbye, salaam alaikum. And you walk towards your wife. So what if they
call you whatever you ever taken her with the name of Allah, you don't do that.
		

			We love our parents, we will respect him. We will be kind to them. But never did Allah say obey them
when they are unreasonable. Not at all. One of some of the difficulties we have today are based on
the fact that sometimes we just follow what's unreasonable. We know but we say that's my father. I
cannot replace him. That's my mother. I cannot replace her but you I can replace you. What a
statement what fraud what a blackmail. May Allah Almighty protect us.