Mufti Menk – Who Should Remind You
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The speaker discusses the importance of learning to be a powerful Muslim to achieve a peaceful life and avoid conflict. They emphasize the need to change one's life to focus on one's faith and acceptance of Islam. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of learning to be a member of the Musloum community to avoid negative behavior.
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So the question is,
who do you want
to remind you to turn to your maker?
Who do you want to remind you
that you need to be a good Muslim?
Whoever
it is,
you can hear them reminding you. Nowadays,
it's just a few buttons away. Say the
person's name.
Who ever, whichever sheikh, whichever person
appeals to you,
say their name.
Google them
and listen. They will give you the same
reminder.
Exactly the same reminder.
Amazing.
And then, we're just going to listen and
say, powerful speaker.
Powerful speaker. But did your life change? No,
it didn't. So that wasn't powerful enough.
It wasn't good enough, really.
What's the point of us attending conferences and
conventions
and lectures
And listening to so many lectures on YouTube
and perhaps on the telly and perhaps on
the radio and so many different places. But
our hearts
have not moved.
Our lives have not changed.
I cry
when I think of how much Quran we
read. We call it a khatma.
Which means we complete the entire Quran from
cover to cover. Not once but so many
times. And our lives have not moved.
Sometimes we have not even cried the warm
tears.
And yet, there were enemies of Islam in
the past.
One verse
was enough to shake up their whole lives
and they turned to Allah
Why? It's the sincerity.
It's the search and the thirst,
and the acceptance of Allah
My brothers and sisters, life is not all
about entertainment and enjoying yourself
beyond limits. No, it is limited.
You should know how to enjoy yourself. You
should know what it is that will help
you in this world lead a peaceful life
and in the life after death. Help you,
insha Allah, earn paradise. May Allah, unite us
in paradise. Ameen.
But it's amazing how we read the Qur'an
again and again. We haven't even changed.
And everyone says, Oh. That sheikh.
This sheikh reads very well. Beautiful recitation in
my car. I enjoy this recitation, and that
recitation.
My brother and sister, Islam is not just
about enjoying a recitation.
Do something about it. Come on, man. Allahu
Akbar. Change your life. It's not just about
saying, yeah. We want you to talk about
this and that, because our men are doing
this and our women are doing that. So
talk about this, this, this. It's not just
about talking about things. Change your life first
to start with, the rest of the world
will change.
May Allah grant us goodness. May He open
our doors, really. I am passionate about what
I am saying. And I've kept it quite
simple because
in life,
we have so many things that people are
telling us, bombarding us with so many things.
Yet, it's the simple things that would actually
change us.
May Allah make us better. We cannot resolve
disputes within our own families, our in laws,
within our own communities, and we expect to
be known as the best of people.
The ummah that others should be looking at
and saying, Masha Allah, we want to be
Muslimeen.
How do we expect that if we ourselves,
accusing one another of things that we have
not done?
Allahu Akbar.
So many crises. People are today,
I don't know about this part of the
world, but where I come from, I know
that it's happening.
Businessmen will tell you, I don't want to
deal with Muslims.
And you say, but why? Oh, they are
they will not pay. You know, they scrounge
for the biggest discount.
And on top of that, they will complain
about the product.
If they were to buy the same product
from someone who is not a Muslim, they
will pay the full price and they will
never complain.
What is this attitude?
We are abusing brotherhood in Islam.
Trying to just find a discount out of
the word brotherhood. To say, brother, I'm your
Muslim brother. Come on. Can't you see? Masha'Allah,
We go to the same masjid. You know,
brother. If you're selling this thing at $50,
you know, I'm I read salah with you,
my brother. You can give it to me
for 20. And the next day, it's not
working. I told you it's not working. But
brother, did you follow the instructions and this?
So the best thing people tell you, I
don't want to deal with them.
We should cry if we hear those statements.
I've heard a statement saying,
if a check bounces, it's a Muslim. A'udu
billah. I hope that's not the case in
this part of the world. But I've heard
that happening.
People will tell you that, you know what?
When you find
those who maltreat their women, they are Muslims.
Is that true? I hope it's not. We
are trying so hard. We are trying so
hard, really, with our families, so that we
can lead a life of happiness and goodness.
Remember, I always tell people, you know, you
got married, masha Allah.
And you have a life, masha Allah. You
have your children now. Concentrate on this family
that you have.
Don't try and get everything else. It's like
a person, for example, he's got a business
that is barely
making a profit, and he wants to open
another 2 or 3 branches. What's the point?
Brother, concentrate on that one business, insha'Allah. And
what will happen? You let it grow, and
insha'Allah it will grow, it will become successful,
and people might be able to take it
over and so on. And alhamdulillah,
this would be more beneficial for you, than
if you were without operating properly with 1.
You'd like to just get to another and
a 3rd and a 4th. It won't stop.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala protect us.