Mufti Menk – Why We Were Created
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The speaker discusses the negative impact of actions taken by Allah, including false accusations and negative experiences. They explain that while negative experiences can be small in their size, they can have a negative impact on one's life and ultimately lead to blessings in the future. The speaker emphasizes the importance of testing one's actions and finding ways to change in order to achieve success.
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Why did Allah make us? That's a question.
Why were we created? Why did we come
onto this earth?
I wouldn't know unless
I looked into revelation.
I would never be able to tell
why
did whoever made me, make me
and put me onto this earth, where it
is full of negativity all around?
And it is full of hardship
and challenges
and
one test after another.
So let me look at revelation
to see
what the almighty, who we as believers believe,
made us, is saying to us regarding
having made us.
Do I sound a bit too technical?
In all honesty, Allah Almighty says,
I have not created mankind or jinnkind
except so that they worship me. When I
was younger,
I thought to myself without much knowledge that
that sounded very dry.
Dry meaning,
as a young person without much knowledge, if
someone were to tell you Allah made you
to worship him, you would say, but why?
I mean, what did he need to do
that for? What was the whole purpose?
So the question is not in order to
defy Allah, never, but just to know more.
You know, when something happens to you that's
negative,
are you allowed to say, why me?
You know when you've lost a job, you've
lost a loved one, you've lost 2 loved
ones, you've lost your wealth, your factories burnt
down, everything's happened that's negative. Are you allowed
as a believer to say, why is this
happening? Well, the answer is,
it depends why you're asking the question. If
you're asking the question in order to learn
more, then it's okay. It's fine to say,
why is this happening to me? Do I
need to adjust something? Is there something wrong
in the way I'm doing things? Is there
something wrong with, you know, do I need
to really change?
If that's the reason why you're asking why
is it happening to me, it's fine.
Because you might find you've wronged someone. You
might find you've done something very bad
and some things are coming back to you
in order
for you to pay the price of what
you've done. Maybe. Maybe.
But if you're saying, why is this happening
to me? Why is Allah doing this to
me?
Defying the maker
or being upset and angry with him, then
we would tell you, my brother, my sister,
you need a little bit of help to
put things into focus and perspective as a
believer.
Because
nothing negative that happens to a believer is
actually negative in the long term.
It's only short term negativity.
If you take it in your stride, you
will find long term benefit. But the question
This is just gonna last maybe a year.
We're getting close on to 2 years and
things don't seem to have subsided much. And
as they were subsiding a little, we found
someone
cry foul once again. And here we are
with the world
threatening to get back to where we were
last year. Hopefully not. May Allah protect all
of us. Say, amen.
May Allah protect us. Amen. Amen. So
these things that appear to be very negative,
in actual fact, when we look at why
we were created and what Allah promised us,
we start getting a few answers and we
start seeing things from a different angle. And
that's why we're talking about the blessings in
life.
You were created and so was I. The
almighty says to worship me. I need to
look back into the book and find out
more detail.
To worship me is just in brief. But
what is that worship? What does it entail?
Well,
Allah Almighty explains to us in many places
in the Quran,
the details of the tests of life.
And that would prove to us that he's
created us in order to test us. Through
those tests, we begin to worship him in
a holistic way that would not only solve
our problems but grant us contentment in this
world and success together with contentment in the
hereafter.
So if I have something really bad that
happened to me, and I look at it
from the angle that Allah wants me to
look at it, I'll nod my head and
it will be made a little bit easier
for me. Although the same problem happening to
someone who doesn't believe in anything at all,
or who has a very loose relationship with
Allah,
a very
small or should I say weak relationship with
Allah,
in that particular case, one
would be going through the same issue with
a smile, and the other one would be
going through an issue half the size of
the first, but with double the stress because
they don't know how to look at it.