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Mufti Menk

Extravagance!

Mufti Menk

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Islam

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Friday Jumu'ah Lecture from Masjid Quwwatul Islam on Upton Lane, East London, UK

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0:23.2

His household his companions we ask Allah Subhanahu

0:26.5

wa ta'ala to bless them all and we ask Allah Subhanahu

0:30.7

wa ta'ala to bless every single one of us too.

0:33.8

I mean my brothers and sisters in Islam every one of us is looking for what we

0:41.7

term risk or sustenance. Risk is predestined by Allah

0:48.6

Subhanahu wa ta'ala. He has already written how much you're going to get.

0:53.3

He has already written what you will get, what you will achieve through what you get

0:59.3

and so on. That does not mean that we should not make an effort because we don't know.

1:05.5

Sometimes people say if Allah knows who is going to heaven and who is going to hell,

1:11.6

who is going to jannah, who is going to jahannam, what's the point of me doing things?

1:17.0

One simple answer is because you don't know. Simple, nothing else.

1:22.6

So the fact that you don't know you need to work, that's all.

1:26.7

The same applies to sustenance. Allah's written you will get two million pounds, don't worry.

1:32.2

But when someone says don't worry it does not mean that they can sit back at home

1:36.9

because they don't know they're going to get two million pounds. You have no guarantee

1:40.2

you for you. You don't have a guarantee meaning you don't know what Allah has written.

1:45.8

Whoever tells you things and they say that Allah will take care of you,

1:49.8

you don't know whether that will be through what is termed ease for you or difficulty for you.

1:56.3

But in the eyes of Allah it was always better for you because the Hadith says

2:00.1

Arabic

2:03.9

The affairs of a true believer are amazing because everything that happens,

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