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