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Didn't Allah Give You The Brain

Mufti Menk

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Islam

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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I remember a young boy driving beyond the speed limit crazy

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on roads that were unsafe to even go on the limit, on the speed limit.

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You know, I come from a country where even if it says 120 on the speed limit,

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sometimes there are potholes that make you move at 50 and 60 and 40 and even less.

0:25.1

So if you're going to cruise at 120, 130, it's dangerous.

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And you have a young boy with a beautiful motor vehicle trying to cruise at whatever high speeds and then I remember

0:36.4

telling this boy you know what don't do this he told me well whatever's written is

0:41.2

going to happen whatever's written is going to happen.

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Whatever's written is going to happen. I won't be harmed unless Allah has written the harm.

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Well Allah may have written that you are foolish,

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so you harmed yourself.

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It doesn't mean that because Allah has written it

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that you need to now become careless and lose yourself. Didn't Allah give you

1:01.2

the brain? Didn't he give you safety rules and regulations

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that people reminded you of?

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Didn't he give you the ability to distinguish

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between what was safe and not? you have to work towards what you

1:14.5

believe is going to protect you. Do what you believe is going to save you and then if

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something happens you can say you know what it was in the hands of Allah.

1:24.4

Otherwise, you are to blame.

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The whole of judgment is based on how you and I used the choice that Allah gave us.

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