Mufti Menk – Who Is The Most Honorable Amongst Us

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The speaker discusses his past experiences with shams and how he believes he is better than everyone. He talks about his connection with a dog and how he gives people the jannatul frowns. He also talks about his connection with a shams and how he gives people the jannatul frowns.

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			May Allah bless you guys. Wallahi, I tell
		
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			you something very interesting.
		
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			When I was young, I was living in
		
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			Madinah Munawarra. I used to help volunteer to
		
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			the Hajj. I mentioned this yesterday in my
		
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			talk.
		
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			Help the and help the people and so
		
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			on.
		
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			And, that time now it's a bit better,
		
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			I think. But that time, 1992,
		
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			90 3, 94, and so on,
		
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			we used to be
		
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			immediately
		
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			immediately, we used to know where the Indonesians
		
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			are. Even if my eyes are closed, I'm
		
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			walking the building. I say, here there is
		
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			Indonesians.
		
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			I say, How do you know? I say,
		
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			Because I can smell gudangaram.
		
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			It's the cigarettes. Special It's special from this
		
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			country, right?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			May Allah bless. May Allah forgive.
		
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			It's a bad habit. We should quit it.
		
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			No matter how
		
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			how garam the gudang might be,
		
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			But it's a bad habit. In the same
		
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			way, any bad habits we quit them for
		
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			the sake of Allah. If you can quit
		
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			one for Allah, Allah will give you jannatul
		
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			firdaus.
		
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			If you can quit something for Allah, Allah
		
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			will grant you jannah. Look, I tell you
		
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			something.
		
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			Allah Almighty has granted jannah to those
		
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			who have quenched the thirst of a dog
		
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			for the sake of Allah. Allah gave them
		
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			jannah. When they felt compassion,
		
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			when they felt their hearts were soft, What
		
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			is my connection with a dog? Let me
		
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			tell you what is my connection with a
		
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			dog. Number 1, can we eat dog?
		
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			Haram. Right? You cannot eat. But my connection
		
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			with the dog is the one who made
		
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			me, he also made the dog.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			You see? So, I need to be kind.
		
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			Pig, for example, we don't eat but I
		
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			cannot harm the pig because pig has life.
		
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			Some people, Muslims, they think because it's a
		
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			pig, I can throw stones, I can do
		
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			anything, I can hurt it. That's a pig.
		
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			No way.
		
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			Allah will punish you if you hurt anything
		
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			that has a soul
		
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			unnecessarily.
		
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			When I say unnecessarily, I mean if you
		
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			want to consume
		
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			something that is halal,
		
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			you need to follow a certain method
		
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			of
		
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			making it halal.
		
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			But to harm any animals or birds or
		
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			even the fish or the oceans or the
		
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			trees or the ecosystem,
		
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			and to create pollution unnecessarily,
		
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			and so on. Allah will hold you accountable.
		
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			This earth is not only yours, it belongs
		
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			to me and you in the same way.
		
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			All of us were born here on earth.
		
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			You are entitled to live just like I
		
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			am. You are the same as me. What
		
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			makes you close to Allah is something called
		
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			taqwa.
		
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			Suratulhujurah.
		
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			Allah says, O man,
		
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			we have created you from a single male
		
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			and female,
		
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			and from them we have caused you to
		
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			obviously
		
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			become multiplied in tribes, and communities,
		
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			and nations, and peoples, etcetera, etcetera.
		
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			Allah says, The most honored from amongst you.
		
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			The most honorable, the closest to Allah. The
		
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			one who has taqwa, is conscious of Allah.
		
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			He will be the most honorable. You have
		
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			a status.
		
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			And when you are close to Allah,
		
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			you do not think that I am better
		
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			than everyone else because that's
		
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			from the devil. What was shaitan's
		
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			first deviation? You know what it was?
		
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			When he saw Adam,
		
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			and Allah created Adam, and shaytan saw Adam,
		
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			he wanted to find an excuse not to
		
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			obey Allah's instruction. He said,
		
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			Anakayum
		
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			minhu. I am better than Him. Why should
		
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			I
		
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			prostrate here? I am better than Him.
		
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			Up to today, that better than him is
		
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			a problem with all of us.
		
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			It's a problem with all of us. When
		
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			you think I am better, that is the
		
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			very moment shaitan is holding you and massage.
		
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			Massage nicely. You are better. You are better.
		
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			You are the king. You are smart. Everyone
		
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			has nothing.
		
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			Right? May Allah forgive us.
		
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			A'udubillahi
		
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			sami ilaalimaminash
		
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			shaytanirwajeem.
		
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			May Allah Almighty
		
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			grant us refuge
		
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			in him against shaitan the accursed.