Mufti Menk – Why People React a Certain Way

			My brothers, my sisters,
		

			when things happen in our lives, generally we react to these things in a specific way.
		

			A lot of the times this way, the way we react to things that happen to us, is connected to our
upbringing. It's connected to the programming of the hard drive that we have the brain. So as
something happens, we react based on how we were taught to react. Now for your information, the best
of creation, the most noble of all messengers, we believe very firmly, is Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam. There is no doubt. We believe that the greatest gift that Allah has bestowed upon us is
something known as a man, a man meaning I believe in Allah, I believe in Rasulullah sallallahu
sallam, I uttered the Shahada, La ilaha illa Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah, and I bear witness that
		

			there is none worthy of worship besides Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad peace be upon him,
is his final messenger. And that means I will follow the system and the plan of Allah subhanho wa
Taala. So, there are so many occasions in the life of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam where
things have happened. And he reacted in a way that we would not react if we were faced with the
same.
		

			Why? Sometimes because we lack that education, we don't know. Sometimes, because we know, but we
claim that we are not profits,
		

			which is actually something weak. The reason is, yes, we are not profits, but we cannot use that
statement to justify the distance between us and the method of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
We have to make sure that we are as close as possible, and sometimes we know it.
		

			We are educated. We understand the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam his reactions. We know we
should be reacting in a similar way, but
		

			we're not bothered. We're too lazy or we just feel like it's going to be tough. It's going to be
hard. I don't care and that's the attitude. We develop.