Mufti Menk – You Can Be From This Group of Special People – Who Are They
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The importance of fasting during Easter, with Muslims being rewarded differently, is emphasized. Visits and outings can have negative consequences, but helping others can boost their chances of achieving goals. Visits and outings can lead to feeling overwhelmed and confusion, but it is important to purify intentions and facilitate change. Visits and outings can lead to feelings of frustration and confusion, but it's important to take action and change one's lives.
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My brothers and sisters,
doing a good deed in the month of
Ramadan in the condition of fasting is definitely
rewarded differently by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
as compared to the same deed done outside
the month of Ramadan,
not in the condition of fasting.
Similarly, when it comes to the supplications
in the evenings in the month of Ramadan,
the nights being the most powerful nights of
the entire year
as per our belief as Muslims,
we need to realize Allah chooses
us for Ibadah and acts of worship
during those nights. May Allah Almighty bless us.
We know and I'm sure we would know
that Laylatul Qadr is not necessarily
one of the odd nights, but more likely
to be one of the odd nights according
to narrations,
but not necessarily.
So we need to work hard all of
those nights. I want to address you as
mostly as volunteers who will be volunteering
or who are volunteering for the event that
is happening today.
My beloved brothers and sisters, the first thing
you need is purification of intention.
There is no doubt. We are doing this
for the sake of Allah.
Just this morning, someone asked me a question
about myself
that why do you do this and why
not. I said, why do you think I
do it? Why do you think we do
it? Do you really think that we are
serving any other cause
besides that of Allah?
If we
are and the intention is contaminated,
this is the moment to rectify it and
purify it. May Allah Almighty
never make us
just want to do things for people or
for show. Nowadays with social media, it becomes
very tricky
with a person's intention because people love to
show.
Remember, if you are going to show something,
do it in order to encourage others not
to show off. There's a difference. And fine
tune between the 2 in order not to
lose the reward of such a great act
of worship.
What is the act of worship?
Well, this act of worship is encouraging people
to become better Muslims, to repent to Allah,
to turn to Allah, to take
the relationship with Allah more seriously, and we
want to facilitate and help people coming in
and going out. We want to help them
be seated, we want to help them
open their fast, we want to help them
when it comes to the prayer that is
going to happen and Insha'Allah they leave from
here
empowered
and we were a tooth in the cog
that
was part of the entire machine. Had it
been missing, perhaps the machine
would have
been affected.
If anyone of us does not do our
job correctly,
definitely the machine will be affected because one
tooth missing in a cog, you know what's
going to happen. May Allah help us to
do the work correctly and properly for His
sake. Amen.
I want to mention that if Allah has
guided a single person through you
or if you were part of the entire
mechanism through which one person was guided, you
get a reward better than Humrin Naaam which
means the red camel.
The at the time, the most
expensive,
the most valuable of the conveyance
and the mode of transport. Today, it's probably
in its millions. May Allah Almighty
grant us a reward bigger than that. Amin.
Allah's used you to guide one person. Somewhere
in the equation, you were there, the beauty
of Islam, you get a full reward. Not
just a reward
which is a a portion of it. You
are a 20% shareholder, 2%. No. 100%
we all get. May Allah use us and
continue to use us.
Similarly,
when you are
helping someone in Ramadan, it will be different
from helping someone outside of Ramadan. Indeed,
Aren't you fasting? Aren't you in the month
of Ramadan in the last 10? Are you
not at a time where you could've been
anywhere else but here you are, Allah brought
you here. And like I said, we purify
intentions.
And at the same time if you are
used in the month of Ramadan,
you will be rewarded 10 times, 70 times,
700 times and beyond 700
as per
the discretion of your maker
based on your intention and the situation and
condition you are in. So it's amazing.
Greet people with respect. As you know, they
will be coming in. People from different backgrounds.
People who perhaps you don't even know the
issues they are going through. Offer them a
smile, offer them a good greeting. Some might
have just gone through difficulty.
They might be difficult in the sense that
they are stubborn on something. No problem. You
continue to keep your cool and continue to
offer them the respect right up to the
end come what may. And Allah will bless
you. Allah will bless you, your future, your
spouse,
your children, your families, and Allah will grant
you goodness in your entire system by his
will.
This is the father of Allah. Bear in
mind that in this particular night,
there is a great possibility it would be
Laylatul Qadr. So as you are working,
constantly ask Allah, Allahumma innaqahafuwun
tuhibbullafuwafafuwani.
Afuwani.
Oh Allah forgive me. As you're working,
and as you're working make your du'a. Whatever
other supplication you want, there is a greater
likelihood. Whatever you want, Allah will open your
doors. Repeat the du'a. Allah loves repetition. Man
does not like repeating. When you repeat the
same thing to a person more than a
few times, he will get agitated with Allah.
It's the opposite. He gets happier when you
repeat things.
So this is a very, very blessed occasion.
Many of you might be returning in 2
days time to assist again.
Congratulations. It's Allah.
And remember when everyone is done and they're
about to leave,
volunteers
leave right at the end usually. That's the
reason why they have such a great reward.
The most difficult
part of everything
is when everyone leaves, you gotta pack up.
That's more difficult than laying things out because
when you're laying things out, you're still energetic
and excited.
And once the excitement and everything has come
to an end, then you know
it's not so easy. May Allah Almighty bless
us. I want to remind you, manqama Ramadana
imananwahtisabanwufi
ralahu matakaddamaminthambe.
The hadith says,
whoever stands in the month of Ramadan in
prayer in the evenings,
and another narration speaks about the fasting in
the month of Ramadan.
Whoever fasts with conviction, hoping for a reward
from Allah, Allah
literally
wipes out all the previous sins. But there
is another narration, exactly the same reward
for having stood only Laylatul Qadr,
manqama Laylatul Qadr,
iman and wahti saban Whoever stands in worship
on Laylatul Qadr, the night of decree with
iman, conviction, faith, yaqeen, hoping for a reward,
expecting goodness from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
All their previous sins will be wiped out.
SubhanAllah.
What I want to say
on a night like this,
understand its value and greatness. The first thing,
we don't sin.
We don't sin. Even if we have not
engaged in many acts of worship, sin is
heading in the right direction in the wrong
direction. Reverse.
And if you want to head in the
right direction, you start off at a certain
point. If you haven't done anything, at least
you did not go in reverse.
And then inshallah, you take it in your
stride. Do as much as you can. A
little bit of Quran and so on as
you have a few moments and even later.
May Allah make it easy.
Then I want to speak about one last
thing. My brothers, my sisters,
this is an opportunity to change our lives.
I know from amongst you, just like I
said, there are so many people who are
going to come this evening, each one has
a different issue and different circumstances
perhaps
that you may never know, so go easy
on them. Just like I said that about
those who are going to come from amongst
us, everyone has the same. The same in
the sense that we have issues
and our own unique
circumstances.
I ask Allah to make it easy for
every one of you. Whatever it is that
is bothering you, the difficulties you are going
through, the hardship, whatever it may be, may
Allah make it easy for you. And may
Allah bless you
abundantly.
Remember,
this is the time we want to get
closer to Allah. May Allah make us closer
to him. May Allah help us change our
lives. Certain things we need to get done,
certain habits we need to quit, certain things
we need to adopt. This is the moment
and this is the time. We don't wait
for another time because that other time may
not even come. May Allah Almighty
grant us all goodness.