Mufti Menk – Where Are These Kind Of VIPs
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The speaker discusses the importance of acknowledging the challenges and limitations of life, rather than just giving negative answers. They use the example of the tests of life and how they are used to test individuals. The speaker emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and limiting one's limits.
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The affairs of a believer are amazing.
The reason why I'm repeating this type of
topic is because we're going through a lot
of hopelessness on earth. People don't realize why
am I not coming right? Well, nobody is
coming right actually.
So what is coming right? If you could
read salah that day, you have come right.
If you have obeyed Allah, you have come
right. If you have thanked Allah against all
odds, you have come right. That's what that's
what is right.
Right is not about your food and your
your money and everything else which everyone thinks.
Today, when you ask someone how's things, they
will tell you very tough. What are they
talking about? They're talking about materialism only. But
the the true answer is
that today I read salah. Today I managed
to get up with the Hajj. Today I
did Fajr. Today, masha'Allah, I did this and
Those are the real answers.
I managed to read Quran. I managed to
obey Allah. I thank Allah. He gave me
one
avocado,
subhanallah, on my tree.
Where are those? That's why on the day
of qiyamah there will be a caller who's
going to call.
Where are those who used to thank Allah
in tough times and in good times? Bring
them, come forth.
VIPs.
When you had a tough situation,
instead of saying any bad words, you said,
alhamdulillah. It could have been worse.
It's just like that exam I told you
about
just now, o level. You walked out, what
did you say? Hey, it was alright. It
could have been worse. The same happens with
us. You have a massive accident. It's your
test. You walk out with one broken limb.
Say, alhamdulillah, it could have been worse. I
could have lost an eye. You lost one
eye. I could have lost both eyes. That
is a mummin.
It's a believer. Allah says you agree. You
are here to be tested.
Don't become despondent because of 1 or 2
challenges in your life, or a 100 or
a 1000 challenges. And you need to know
another thing the prophet salallahu alayhi salam says,
the more Allah loves you, the more tests
He puts in your life. Something you think,
what just happened here? You cry. Allah says,
I love those tears. Why? You are now
relying on me alone. No longer on anything
else. I told you when we didn't have,
wallahi, our reliance on Allah was greater than
now that we've got a little bit.
This was the condition of the sahabah radiAllahu
anhu.
They thanked Allah. They were thankful.
And yes, it's a test of iman, that's
why we are here to talk about it
regularly. The sahaba radiAllahu anhu used to ask,
when is the help of Allah coming? The
messengers of Allah used to ask, when is
the help of Allah coming? Allah says, We'll
shake you to test you. What is your
limit? Then we will take you across
to Jannah.
Another
beautiful verse. Allah said, do you think you're
going to go into Jannah just like that
without a test? Do you know how we're
gonna test you?
The example and the tests that we had
tested those before you have not yet even
come to you.
And you think you're going to go to
Jannah without those type of tests? So you
might ask, O Allah, what type of tests
did they have? You know what Allah says?
They were tested with hardship,
an earthquake. They were shaken
until the messengers
and the believers
asked Allah,
Allah, When is the help of Allah going
to come? Allah is testing us right to
the limit, right to the extent.
Allah
says,
below
the help of Allah is very near.
Don't lose hope,
that's what Allah says.