Mufti Menk – When You Face Criticism For Volunteering
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The speaker discusses how struggles with faith and control have made them feel empowered and empowered. They share a personal story about their brother's actions during a fight against Muslims, and how they encourage others to take the same approach. They also mention the importance of brothers and sisters in community.
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Assalamu alaikum. My
name is Hafsa, and,
this is a little hard for me because
even though I'm really confident usually,
I find it hard to talk about my
faith and how I struggled with it because
I'm a teenager. I'm I'm gonna turn 16
soon, but the past year has really been
a challenge.
Because
of how I dress and what I wear,
it's been hard to be taken seriously. And
whenever I organize events because I love being
in charge. So whenever I organize events, I
usually come upon someone or some people who
will tell me that you shouldn't be doing
this and you shouldn't be doing that way,
But I've learned that
even if I keep falling down, and this
I have to credit to you because
every time I feel down, I listen to
a small clip of yours, maybe it's 30
seconds, but it's made me feel empowered because
today I'm here and I feel like I've
gotten so much better. So thank you. And
I hope that everyone around me, teenagers and
adults alike,
can achieve this. Masha'Allah. Masha'Allah.
Well done, my sister. And I wanna tell
you something more like my daughter. I will
say something very interesting. When you're young and
you're a teenager,
you always feel like you want to be
in control. It happened to me. I'm sure
it happens to all of us. It did
happen when we were younger. We always feel
like we want to be in control. There
must be something, you know, and so on.
It's difficult to take instructions sometimes.
And sometimes we even feel offended when someone
corrects us or gives us instruction. You know,
like I'm a volunteer at an organization or
at a massive, massive event. And then here
comes people says, do this, do that. Stand
here, don't move, don't do this, don't do
that. No one should be taking pictures and
no one should be You guys are volunteers.
You're here for the sake of Allah and
you're like, oh, that just
brought my entire mountain crushing
because I was planning to do this and
this and this. I tell you what,
we need to learn to take instruction as
well. Whenever it is correct, you must take
it and listen and be disciplined.
It goes back to Khalid ibn ibn Walid
ibn Muhirah
when he was,
on the side of Quraish fighting against the
Muslims in the battle of Uhud.
When those archers that were on a little
mount, for those of us who might have
been to Uhud or those who know the
story,
when they saw that perhaps maybe this war
is over, they left the mount, the hillock,
and they were told by the prophet, peace
be upon him, do not leave the hillock
even if you think we've won. But they
didn't obey that instruction. As a result, there
were great losses inflicted upon the Muslims.
Caused by what? Exactly as I just said,
because they didn't listen to the instructions. So
it's tough. But as time passes, there will
always
be some goodness that Allah will send in
your direction. I tell you, when you volunteer
to to perhaps do the right thing, maybe
to be a person who's gonna help at
an event like this, the minimum is Allah
Almighty will keep you away from lots of
other negative things that people your age might
already be involved in. So that's a positive.
May Allah Almighty always keep us from among
those who are focused on the right things.
Ameen. Thank you so much. I see lots
of cues of brothers and sisters. I'm only
going to be able to take about 3
more there and 3 more here. And then
InshaAllah, we need to call it a night
because
suhoor, my brothers and sisters, is important in
Ramadan. Right?