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Mufti Menk

Dealing with Difficulty #28 Cancel Culture

Mufti Menk

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Islam

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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www Muslim Central.com forward slash donate. Mohammedulahy O'Alakato. The cancel culture, what is it? When someone does something wrong,

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or they were misunderstood even though they did not do something wrong or they did something we don't like at times they may have made a mistake

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or committed a sin or sometimes they may have been exposed.

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All of these reasons and even more reasons people come about and want to obliterate these guys.

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Remove them from social media.

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Take them out of existence, never to hear from them again, never allow them to come up again. That's it, cancelled. We don't want you, we don't want you to come up again, we don't want to hear of you, we don't want you to be given a chance to be heard ever again, and you just be careful because we're all out there to mow you to the ground.

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That's a cancel culture.

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They cancel people for many reasons.

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Now I want to ask you a question, do you think it's fair to cancel people?

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My brothers and sisters, it obviously depends what exactly it is, but you need to know giving the person the benefit of the doubt is your religious duty.

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Religious duty.

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Another thing, sometimes if a person is repentant, give them the benefit of the

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doubt to believe that that repentance is genuine. The cancel culture, the difficulty

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surrounding it is from more than one angle. One is those being

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cancelled which we will get to in a moment, but more than that is those doing

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the cancelling. You're not a saint either. So remember, if you want to say what's right and wrong, do so by all means. If you want to clarify things, do so by all means, if you want to say something, do so by all means, but do not, or try to avoid hurting someone to the degree

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where you want to mow them out of existence, especially when they don't deserve it.

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Have you given them the benefit of the doubt?

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Have you thought about it?

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If your son or your daughter were to make a mistake is at the end of them completely.

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