Mufti Menk – Why Allah Gives You Illness

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The speaker talks about a woman who met a brother for the first time in Qatar and eventually passed away. She found out about the illness of the woman and the importance of preparing for death. The speaker encourages people to be convinced of their likelihood of being cured by Allah by finding a way to make their lives better.

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			I met a brother, one of my beautiful,
		
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			beautiful brothers called Azhar Safwan.
		
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			I met him for the first time in
		
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			Qatar.
		
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			He facilitated so many Islamic programs, massive, huge
		
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			5-star events.
		
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			And I found out some time back, he
		
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			has cancer, shafa'u Allah wa'afa.
		
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			Allah grant him shifa.
		
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			I was passing, coming here, and I decided
		
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			to go and see him at the hospice.
		
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			He's not doing well at all.
		
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			Doctors have already given him a period of
		
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			time that has expired.
		
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			But nonetheless he's alive, he's doing well.
		
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			And I went there and I said, you
		
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			know what?
		
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			I said so many things.
		
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			We have hope in Allah.
		
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			We have conviction in Allah.
		
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			While it's important to prepare in case you
		
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			pass away, your will and a few loose
		
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			ends and so on, because you have to
		
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			do that, you're a human.
		
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			You can't not do that.
		
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			You can't let your relatives say, shut up,
		
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			don't talk about death because he might not
		
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			die.
		
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			We want him to be cured.
		
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			Do you know what?
		
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			Let him prepare.
		
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			Allah has given him an illness so that
		
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			he can at least prepare.
		
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			Sometimes people go with no notice whatsoever.
		
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			In this case at least, you know, we're
		
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			hoping that he's going to be cured, but
		
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			there's no harm in tying all loose ends
		
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			and making sure everything is going to be
		
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			happening.
		
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			You know, your children, your whoever, your grandchildren,
		
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			your business, your work, your passwords and what
		
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			not.
		
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			You can have a moment to delete a
		
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			few things and so many other things, right?
		
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			Hey, at least Allah has given you.
		
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			So, I said we should be preparing to
		
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			meet with Allah.
		
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			Yes, correct.
		
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			But at the same time, we have full
		
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			hope that Allah will grant you a miracle.
		
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			Convinced.
		
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			I am convinced that you are going to
		
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			be cured by Allah.
		
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			And I ask her, Oh Allah, I know
		
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			you're going to do it.
		
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			I'm convinced.
		
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			Allah will either grant him because he has
		
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			granted people, so many people whom the doctors
		
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			have said six hours to remain.
		
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			I know someone who was given six days
		
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			here in London.
		
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			Wallahi, it's been more than six years.
		
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			The guy is as fit as a fiddle.
		
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			MashaAllah.
		
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			I meet him and see him and I
		
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			say, Good example, subhanAllah.
		
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			How you've been given this time and you're
		
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			still alive.
		
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			That's Allah.
		
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			What happened?
		
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			The miracle, the dua, all of the combination
		
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			of everything.
		
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			When the doctors gave up and said, You
		
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			can go home, palliative care and whatever else.
		
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			And you know what?
		
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			Next thing, this guy starts healing.
		
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			How did he heal?
		
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			By the miracle of Allah.
		
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			Allah wants to show you, when everyone's given
		
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			up, see what we do, subhanAllah.
		
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			See what we do.
		
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			Allah can, He has.
		
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			But if Allah has written that you're going
		
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			to go, what happened to you?
		
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			You have hope.
		
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			You kept on saying, Allah, I know you're
		
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			going to let me live.
		
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			I know you're going to cure me.
		
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			I know you're going to give me.
		
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			I know you're not going to let me
		
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			go just now.
		
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			I'm convinced, Oh Allah, I call out to
		
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			you.
		
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			I gave a sadaqa, I did this, I
		
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			did that.
		
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			Allah says, Do you know what?
		
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			The fact that you made all these duas
		
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			with such conviction in me, believing in me,
		
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			that belief has plugged in on a level
		
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			that will deserve you my mercy, that will
		
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			grant you entry into Jannah.