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Mufti Menk

How To Handle Challenges with Cultural Sensitivity

Mufti Menk

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Islam

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Amazing. May Allah make it easy for you. Number one. Number two is in anyone's situation and you know your situation

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It's it's quite simple for me to say you know what just quit your situation. It's quite simple for me to say, you know what, just quit your job and go and get something else. But there's no jobs out there. I need to survive and so on. So what do I do? What really, what do I do? I have found a few things. Number one is regarding the diet, you know what's

0:26.7

Halal and what you can eat and what you can't eat. Sometimes if you say, this is Halal, then people might be a little bit hostile towards the term.

0:37.6

But if you use another word within which there is more Halal than something there, they are more receptive of it, like I'm vegan

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or I'm vegetarian. It's different. I give you an example. We were on a flight one day and there was a beauty page in that had happened in the country and myself and a few of the sheikhs were sitting in the front of the flight and these girls walked in semi dressed and we were just

1:05.9

talking to each other a little while later one of them developed the courage to come

1:11.6

up to us and say,

1:13.0

we'd like to take a big job.

1:15.2

Now, we were the only guys with these big bays, you know.

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So the rest of the men on the flight,

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it was quite a big plane. The rest of the men on the flight, I don't know what made

1:25.6

them pick us out from everybody else. So immediately a colleague of mine, a friend of mine

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says, you know what?

1:33.8

My wife would kill me.

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My wife, or what, will kill me?

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Oh, no, no, no, it's okay.

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It's fine, don't worry.

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That's why we understand understand and she went away.

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I was busy thinking about using the religious card and telling him

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haram I'm a Muslim, you know, in Islam it's not a lot,

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what, what, what, he just showed me,

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