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Mufti Menk

What is true success?

Mufti Menk

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Islam

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:04.2

My brothers and sisters, while we are helping people with water, with drink, with food, with so much more,

0:10.5

you need to understand underlying, you must help them with a good message of the deen of Allah.

0:16.9

You must and in order to be able to achieve that correctly, we need to look within ourselves to begin with, to rectify the weaknesses we have.

0:25.4

Everything, everyone of us here today and every one of us who may listen to this message later, we must admit we have weaknesses.

0:33.2

We must identify those weaknesses, it might be yelling, screaming, shouting, it could be drugs, gambling, whatever else, it could be adultery, it could be so much more.

0:43.4

Identify your weakness within yourself.

0:47.2

Promise Allah you are going to work on it and start now. That success, true success is when you are moving closer to Allah.

0:56.4

Today I decided I am stopping to swear.

0:59.0

So, I met a friend of mine after a long time, a few weeks ago, and he told me good news.

1:05.7

I said, what, he said, I could smoke. In my mind, I said, Mashallah, brilliant news.

1:09.5

Imagine if a person never read Salah and suddenly they tell you good news, I started doing Salah.

1:14.6

Wow, that's even better news, don't you agree?

1:17.6

A person who would tell you good news, you know what, I used to be an alcoholic, I quit it.

1:22.5

Subhanallah, that's amazing news. Someone hooked onto pornography, they say, I've stopped it. That is beautiful news.

1:29.6

Subhanallah, we are talking business, it's more important than food and drink.

1:33.4

Because food and drink without it, something will happen. Subhanallah, you may lose this world, but you won't lose the hereafter.

1:40.0

But if you don't have that connection with Allah, that you are going to need to get into genital virtuose.

1:47.0

Subhanallah, there is going to be a big disaster on that day.

1:51.5

That's why if you look at Revelation, whether it is the Torah, the Telmun, the Injil,

1:56.8

all the books that were revealed to the previous prophets as well as the Quran.

2:01.0

And we take you from the Quran every time Allah speaks of the greatest success.

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