In this lecture #MuftiMenk highlights two things for heading in the right direction. Number one is to recognise the Allah / #Creator and Number two is to develop #relationship with other creatures made by the same Creator in this world Mufti Menk Quotes in this clip
“We respect not just other human beings, we respect other creatures of Allah; why? Because the same Creator has made them that’s the reason….”
In this clip #Mufti Menk reminds us an important hadith regarding #softshoulder in #salah /prayer. #Majid is the house of Allah. Anyone who makes others comfortable here and creates space for them is actually from among the best of people as the prophet (Saw) says the best from among you in Salah is the one who has the softest shoulders. So soften up, a little bit humble yourself.
Mufti Menk quotes here “Are you ready to give others a space? Are you ready to give a lift to someone? Are you ready to reach out to someone? If you cannot reach out to someone in your prayer, do you really think you’re going o reach out to people in anything else? It’s not possible; you need to love for others what you love for yourself from a #hadith”.
#MuftiMenk addresses the qualities what make the best of people (#bestpeople) in terms of #Islam and be beneficial to others as Allah loves those who do good. if you change yourself that is the moment that you will be contributing towards changing community and society, society has changed then many societies will change making it a whole country that would have changed the values become better, the morals what we live by becomes of a high standard and we become the best of people.
Mufti Menk Quotes here “Islam doesn’t teach you to look at others and worry about how good they are; but Islam says your value is based on how good you are not how bad they are…”
In this Friday sermon (kuthbah) #MuftiMenk urges that on the day whoever gets their books and they see goodness in the book they should thank Allah, which book is this? The book that we are writing right now, we are writing a book, every one of us is an author, every one of us is writing a book, there is a scribe on our behalf writing the angels are writing whose book our book who is deciding the #contents of the #book, well our actions, our words, our deeds, are deciding the contents of that book. So write it well.
“You are breathing; it’s not too late, you are alive, it’s not too late. Delete what is in your book, change it and write something else. When you make a mistake you can rub it off, you can erase it and it’s not too late. Never lose hope in the mercy of Allah, Allah will forgive all your sins, you can change all the bad, only put good things in your book”. – Mufti Menk
#MuftiMenk makes mention of we are one body as muslimeen when the finger is hurting the whole body is restless. We should quickly reach out to our brothers /sisters in the need (#difficulities) of the Muslim Ummah in this video clip. Allah promises that He will continue to #help His worshipper for as long as that worshipper continues to help. No matter who they are, forget about what color they are, what race they area tribe they are, etc, you reach out to people Allah promises that on the day of qiyamah (judgement day) I will reach out to you.
“Reach deep into your pockets in order to give generously, Allah will recompense it in ways that you have never imagined, He will draw you closer to Him and the best wealth to give is that when you fear poverty”. – Mufti Menk
The All-Loving 