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EP03 | Contentment from Revelation | Ramadan Series 2019 | Mufti Menk

In the episode three of the beautiful series entitled ‘Contentment From Revelation’ (CFR) of Ramadan 2019 Mufti Menk made mention some points which take away contentment from the Surah Al-Baqararh and surat Ali’imran; regarding divorce, writing down things, difficulties in life, Allah’s protection (ayatul kursi),  importance  of silence and Allah’s plan.

In order to achieve contentment, there are certain things we should not be doing; these are also mentioned in the Quran. we are to take heed and abstain from certain things or be warned of certain things, we would then be able to increase the chances of our contentment being intact or improving.

In surat al-baqara in verse number 232 Allah subhanahu wa’ta’ala says when you’ve issued a talaq, you should ensure that you are not oppressing your wives.

You don’t leave them hanging in a way that they are neither your wife nor are they the wives of others. They are neither married nor are they unmarried,

Sometimes when a person gives one out of three talaq or 2 out of 3 talaq and they don’t give the next one or for example they keep taking this woman back and they play with her. Allah says release her in goodness and you will achieve contentment.

They are the slaves of Allah. They are not your slaves. when you think people are your slaves you will never ever have the long term contentment that the Almighty has prepared for you but if you are a person who understands and realizes that Allah Subhanahu WA Ta’ala has mercy is upon those who show mercy to others, you will be merciful you release someone in a respectable, respectful way and this is how you will achieve that contentment.

Look at another verse in the Quran. That is very very important. It’s called ayatul kursi where Allah subhanahu wa’ta’ala speaks about the protection, the greatness of Allah, this verse if it is repeated in its recitation every morning and evening and after every prayer, Allah Subhanahu WA Ta’ala will definitely grant us protection from the devil. Hence the contentment comes in.

In the Surat al-baqarah where Allah Subhanahu WA Ta’ala tells us about the fact that He will not burden anyone with more than they can handle.

Whatever difficulties you’re going through, remember you can cope, you can manage, a little bit of patience, a little bit of forbearance, a little bit of effort and keep going and don’t lose hope, keep going, you know you’re so close to the solution and Allah Subhanahu WA Ta’ala will open the doors.

the importance of writing down things when you owe someone’s money, o you who believe when

you have taken money for a period of time from someone, the borrowing, the lending, write it down, make sure you witness it so that subhanAllah,  We’re saying you achieve contentment.

In surat ali’imran, speaks about the importance of silence, before you utter a word, you are in Control of the word. The minute you uttered that word, the word becomes in control of you.

Allah says the sign that we’re giving you is not to speak to people except with some signs and remember Allah a lot increase the remembrance of Allah and declare His praise in the morning and in the evenings. You will achieve success, Allah will protect you. Allah will grant you contentment.

Sometimes we say things; sometimes we end up becoming vulgar, abusive with our mouths. It all comes back to haunt us.

Watch your mouth, what’s your tongue number one, number two develop your closeness to Allah by declaring his praise a lot and by remembering him often and you will see how Allah will calm you down.

 

From the verse number 54 of surat ali’imran they plot and Allah plots and Allah is the best of planners.

Allah has a good plan to combat every evil plot. Just have to bear patience and take heed. The next time someone does something to plan your downfall smile because your downfall or your success is solely in the hands of Allah. It’s not in their hands. Allah has not kept your bread and your butter in the hands of someone else. But Allah has guaranteed that He will grant it to you. You know elevation and izzah comes from Allah, the downfall of a person comes from Allah and themselves as well in the sense that if they were to do something silly, they’re to blame. – Mufti Menk

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EP02 | Contentment from Revelation | Ramadan Series 2019 | Mufti Menk

In the episode two of the beautiful series entitled ‘Contentment From Revelation’ (CFR) of #Ramadan2019 #MuftiMenk made mention of how to achieve #contentment from #fasting and the month of# Hajj:

Oh you who believe fasting have been prescribed upon you just like it was prescribed upon those before you in order that you may develop your relationship with the Almighty in order that you achieve consciousness in order that you achieve taqwa. (2:183)

When we fast how would we achieve contentment? Number one we calm down. Number two we realize that it’s not all about filling our own bellies alone, we control, we achieve discipline and that ‘show you get contentment.  We become Compassionate because when I’m hungry and I start thinking about those who don’t have food at all when I think of them and I develop my relationship with the Almighty.  I will automatically reach out to them by giving them a little bit of what the Almighty has blessed me with and this goes back to the point we raised where by reaching out to those who don’t have we would actually be achieving contentment and happiness. So, it’s amazing how the fasting is all connected to achieving contentment.

The Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him tell us whoever does not leave false witness and bad words, wrong words, evil words during the fast,  Allah Subhanahu WA Ta’ala does not need the fact that they have stayed away from food and drink they have actually wasted their time. So if you watch your mouth and you only say good words to your spouse, to your children, to your family members, to those whom you work with, to those whom you interact with, etc. you will definitely achieve a calmness and a contentment. All these training we receive during the month of Ramadhan.

The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam tells us how important it is not to react and retaliate to someone who’s abused us in any way, in a way that would create a bigger problem. When you are fasting, you should go out of your way to say I am fasting. You’ve sworn me but I m fasting. I’m not going to swear back and I’m going to train myself to become a better person even while I’m not fasting, Amazing which means even during the days I’m not going to be fasting later on, I will still be of this high level of morality, high values and so on.

We need to know where to draw the line when it comes to the Deen and the dunya, when it comes to the spirituality, the religious side and the worldly side. If you don’t know how to draw the line or where to draw the line you will never achieve contentment.

[2:208] o you who believe enter into submission in totality not just a little bit, you don’t just follow one or two things and expect contentment. You want contentment? Enter into submission in totality and don’t follow the path of the devil for indeed he is an outright clear open enemy. – Mufti Menk

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Practice These Simple But Powerful Things To Calm The Soul – Mufti Menk

Change The Way You Look At Things

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Allah has blessed you. Be happy with the morsel of food and always look at those who have less than you. at those across the globe. Our brothers and sisters not only in humanity but in faith as well are struggling without a morsel of clean food or water.

The Quran is here only for us to follow it in order to get happiness, contentment. The Sunnah of the prophet (saw) and its simplicity is only there for us to get contentment and happiness. This contentment is connected to the dunya as well as the Akhirah.

When you lose focus that you are about to go into the hereafter, you become very very  sad because the world is such it progresses faster than you can run behind it. The dunya and the world it will always run faster than you.

You can have the best and the latest and you could be the wealthiest. Someone will something will overtake what you have. There will be things that will progress in a way that you will no longer be at the top. That’s how the world.

But when you are running behind Allah in order to please Allah then you will definitely be the happiest person even if you have a basic salary. Rush towards Allah it will solve your problems of this world and the next.

You will not achieve contentment if there are no five daily prayers in your life. There is no chance of you achieving the total contentment of this world and the next zero chance. You might have temporary happiness due to something material around you but that is not contentment there is a big difference between the two.

Contentment is a condition that you would actually feel and you would live through even if you didn’t have a lot of what others have.

Allah  doesn’t  promise the believers money nor does He promise them that you will have authority on land or good looks or good health and so on with all your sickness and your problems and your unemployment and your difficulties and whatever other issues you have when you are close to Allah it becomes irrelevant. My salah was in order, the minute I said Allah Akbar, I had a smile on my face

Praise Allah by in terms of dikir:

subhanAllah, alhamdulillah,  allahu akbar, la ilaha illa llah, subhanallahi wa bihamdihi, subhan allah al azeem asha’Allah, Tabarrok Allah to get peace in the heart.

In indeed those who believe achieve contentment of the heart through the remembrance of Allah. For indeed it is only through the remembrance of Allah, that the hearts will achieve contentment. (From the holy Quran). –  Mufti Menk

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Who Am I To Disallow What Allah Has Allowed Regarding Marriage – Mufti Menk

The children belong to Allah. Allah gave them to you temporarily and He’s going to take them away. He may take you away before them or He will take them away before you. It is totally up to Him. you have to be happy with the decree of Allah.

We get so attached to our children that we don’t even want them to get married. Allah gave you the children in order to test you. Are you going to do what we want you to do or are you going to do what you want to do against what we want to do? For example your child wants to marry ask yourself a question; the parents need to ask themselves obviously if both the boy and the girl would like it to happen. Does Allah allow it? If the answer is yes tell yourself who am I to disallow, what Allah has allowed?

The brother is too black you know, I promise you I’ve heard that.  Black! Bilal ibn Rabah (ra) was from jannah (paradise). He was the darkest of the lot and the prophet (saw) came back and said oh Bilal I went up to Maharaj and guess what? I heard your footsteps there. He didn’t look at the fairest of the lot and say hang on, who’s more…, who is fair in complexion, yeah yours, your footsteps in jannah, no way. ––

It had nothing to do with color. You slice here, you slice there, you slice anywhere, and the blood is red. My brothers and sisters, racism has no space in Islam, not at all. If you do not respect a person simply because their complexion is less than yours, I promise you you’re doomed.

My brothers and sisters you want paradise, understand ‘people are equal’ that’s what Allah says. The day you get to Allah and he gives you your book of records in your right hand. You can then say I did well. I travel through Africa and I witness some of the best Muslims I’ve seen in my life happen to be in the darkest corners of Africa.

Every time you make halal easy, you’ve protected people from harm and every time you’ve made halal difficult, you’ve encouraged people to engage in haram and facilitate it for them. – Mufti Menk

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FUNNY! SLAP FROM THE MOST PIOUS – MUFTI MENK
⚡️Forgiveness Mostly We Are Taught To Forgive But We’re Never Taught To Forget..‼️
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Make sure that you don’t abuse people; you don’t oppress people to be saved from the hellfire. If you committed a terrible sin, major sin but you seek forgiveness from Allah, he’ll wipe it out. Why? it’s between you and Him.

But the minute you slandered someone there are three people involved meaning three parties involved who, you and Allah and there is another guy or another person. Allah is Ghafoor, Rahim, most merciful, most forgiving that person is not most forgiving most merciful.

By right if you want to be forgiven for something you did wrong against someone else, you are going to have to put put your ego away, your pride needs to go aside; say, listen my brother I’m really sorry for what I said about you. I was totally wrong, totally unjustified and that’s it, please forgive me.

✅ In Islam the forget part of it is not necessary. If you’ve forgiven from your heart ,one or two things; you can either embrace. That’s the best type of forgiveness which means we’re buddies again or you can forgive without an embrace which means I’ve forgiven you but I don’t really want to have much to do with you because I really don’t know if I’m gonna be harmed again from you. People think a pious Muslim is a person who just keeps getting slaps that’s not a pious Muslim. Sometimes a pious Muslim is he who says hey what are doing? Be careful, you know I’ll slap you back; you’re not going to carry on this way – Mufti Ismail Menk
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Your True Piety Is Depicted By The Softening Of Your Heart – Mufti Menk

⚡️When you are softened, it’s a sign of the mercy of Allah ‼️
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Your true piety is depicted by the softening of your heart. People are harsh; when they are harsh they are far from Allah. Open your heart, Be a person who’s good to others; be hard on yourself. Don’t be hard on others.

✅“It is because of the mercy of Allah that you (Prophet Mohammad ﷺ) are so lenient towards those around you. O messenger peace be upon him”. [From The Holy Quran]

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Does Tolerance Mean Giving Up Your Opinion!? Mufti Menk

Many people think  tolerance means I’m going to give up my faith I’ll tolerate. So I don’t have to do what Allah has said. I don’t have to dress in a specific way. I don’t have to pray in a specific way. I don’t have to do X Y & Z that the Almighty has instructed that is a misconception completely. Tolerance has nothing to do with giving up your opinion. It has more to do with respecting the same right that others have of not giving up their opinions amazing!

As much as I am passionate about slam there are people who are passionate about Christianity, there are people who are passionate about Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism whatever other ISM even atheism. I can believe that I am correct and I do right to believe as human beings in whatever they consider to be the most correct, subhanAllah!

Religion has partly been hijacked by those who don’t understand scriptures, those who have misinterpreted it intentionally to suit their own agendas of creating disaster on the globe in the name of the most merciful.

O people, We have created you from a single male and female and thereafter We have made you spread as different peoples and tribes [From the Quran] why? Why is there black and white and yellow and brown, why are there different races, ethnicity, different sizes, different understandings, one word in order that you can recognize each other? You are different, not so that you can discriminate against each other.

Every race and every nationality and every ethnicity has in it good and bad. So you would be totally uneducated if you thought that a nationality in its entirety is bad just because of the acts of a few. – Mufti Menk

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People Told Me That You Are Losing Your Faith – Mufti Menk

🛑How to react with differences in opinion‼️
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📌Everyone has the right to live everyone has the right to believe whatever they feel is correct. We are not in desperate need of a balanced voice that does not take away from us our religion nor does it take away from anyone else their right to believe in whatever they feel is correct but rather it gives us that mutual respect which results in the peaceful coexistence.

⚡️Let’s educate ourselves, let‘s become people who are willing to peacefully coexist that is the entire meaning of tolerance.

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When I Am Totally Different From You – Mufti Menk

🛑Never feel or never allow yourself to become so proud and arrogant that you deny the truth. ‼️
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📌Especially when we become religious, when we become people who are very close to scripture in any religion and sometimes even ideologically, when we believe we are very intelligent and we have the right way. We tend to forget that others could be more intelligent or equally intelligent and their intellect might lead them to something else.

☑️if I am weak and I am a coward, I might want to harm them and attack them but if I am strong and if I display that level of intellect I will engage them in discussion to prove certain factors and who knows they might prove to me that they are right and I am wrong.

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Are You Really A Merciful Servant Of Allah!! – Mufti Menk

🛑The difficulties can be divided into many different categories but two main categories those in this world and those of the hereafter; I promise you the difficulties of this world if you manage them correctly as a believer you will never have difficulties in the hereafter. Some people who don’t manage their difficulties and hardships in this world properly, Allah speaks about them by saying they have lost this world and they have also lost the afterlife.

📌As much as we would like to have hope in the mercy of Allah through our difficulties in this dunya, we need to make sure we are not the point of suffering of someone else, remember that.

✅Prophet Muhammad (saw) speaks about a true Muslim is he who doesn’t use his tongue or his hands to harm anyone; in another narration a Muslim is the one whom the other people are saved from the evil of his tongue or his hand which means no verbal abuse and no physical abuse. One narration speaks of the Muslims protecting the Muslimeen in that way making sure you don’t harm and the other one speaks about mankind at large.

✔️Allah does not have mercy on the one who doesn’t have mercy on the rest of the people, are you a merciful servant of Allah? Are you really a merciful servant of Allah? Do you have mercy in your home with your children, with your spouses, with your daughters, with your brothers and sisters? If you would like the mercy of Allah, you need to show the quality of mercy at least to others- Mufti Menk