Mufti Menk – Why Didn’t They Follow The Only True Way

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At that time they tried

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to bring about

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any

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excuse

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to derail or to distract people from him.

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What did they do? Let me say some

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of these things. Very important. It depicts and

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it shows

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our relationship as believers with the prophet Muhammad,

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peace be upon him. And the contrast,

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those who disbelieved.

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At that time they were leaders of Makkah.

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They clearly said the reason why we're disbelieving

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is if we believe what this man has

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said

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he is going to overtake and be the

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leader and we will lose our leadership. That's

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the reason.

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We will lose our leadership.

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So you find Abu Jahl, one of the

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men, Amr ibn Hisham was his name. He

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fought the prophet peace be upon him because

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he was worried about leadership.

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What did they do?

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They picked on whatever they thought they could

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but was there anything?

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In actual fact there was nothing they could

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pick on but they picked on the nothings

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that were there.

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SubhanAllah.

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For example they said he's a madman,

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Allah answers, wamaasahibukun

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bimanjoon.

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You know that verse?

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Your companion is not mad. You call him

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a madman, he's not mad. Listen to him.

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He's not mad at all.

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When they told us about how

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big the earth is,

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verses came.

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How huge,

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how huge this entire creation is. And Allah

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says,

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The creation of

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the heavens and the earth or the skies

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and the earth. Far greater than the creation

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of man.

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Man is insignificant.

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Check what we've made.

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It's mind boggling.

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Well,

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long ago

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humankind just looked up and they saw, wow,

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subhanAllah,

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look at the sky.

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In the evening they saw the moon, wow.

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They saw the stars,

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wow.

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SubhanAllah

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look at the creation of Allah. Believers

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would look up and say

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amazing the creation of Allah. They would look

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at the earth and check how big it

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is. MashaAllah. Look at it. Allah

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says,

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we have stretched this earth. It is so

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wide and broad.

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Does not mean the earth is flat. It

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means we've

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stretched it. We've made it so wide and

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broad. There's a lot of space in it

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and mashallah it goes on and on and

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on. It's Allah's way of creation.