You're Not Shaytaan... Right? | Mufti Menk

0:00السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إن رمضان تمبر فليه as much as people say that shaitan is tied and yes it is correct to a degree that the big shayatin or the chief shayatin are actually tied but the little ones are roaming around remember one thing تمبر فليه in رمضان you need to control your anger because the reward of your fast will be nullified or minimized and you might even be sinful actually when you do not control your temper to the degree that you begin to abuse others you oppress them, you say wrong things and it causes a problem that will flow beyond the month of رمضان رمضان is a month of solving matters finding solutions, bringing hearts together bringing people together but unfortunately many people creating problems in the month of رمضان or become prey to those who create problems

1:01without realizing that you know what here is the hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he says that if someone were to abuse you or to say something bad to you you reply to them by saying I am fasting that's the hadith the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم instructs us to say I am fasting why should you say I am fasting because I am not supposed to be getting angry I am supposed to be a person who is conscious of Allah this is my moment to develop takwa and consciousness of Allah I want to come out of every day of رمضان closer to Allah than I was the previous day and I want to exit the entire month a changed person one of the things you and I suffer is the tempers either our own or others or a bit of both so what we need to realise is if you are not going to work on your tempers nothing is going to happen it is going to get worse as time passes you become less and less tolerant of others

2:01or you become a person who really doesn't even think before he or she speaks is that what you want? in fact Allah does not want that Allah knows you are a human being but he wants you to work hard on your character your conduct, your tempers so this is the month of رمضان tempers flare in the month of رمضان I have witnessed it and I am sure nearly every one of us has witnessed it whether it is this رمضان previous رمضان or whenever it might have been but you find Muslims good people sometimes decent people who pray five times a day people who fast the whole month but they do not control their tempers they do not control themselves they become so angry at little things calm down every time you have squeezed yourself every time you have actually extinguished that tempers you get such a great reward Allah says

3:10the ones who will earn paradise are the ones who control their tempers meaning they have extinguished their tempers and the ones who forgive others now that topic of forgiveness is a topic of it on its own, however what we need to know is don't hold petty things in your heart and mind it will make you ill it will cause problems for you in your mind and your body and your relationships little things let them go major things look into them and try and see how best you can navigate through them solve the problem perhaps and Allah will grant you goodness in this world and the next may Allah bless us all and help us to control our anger and temper and remember when we say the Shiaatina tied in the Ramadan we are only talking of the chiefs of the Shiaatina the little ones are all roaming around and still causing disaster on top of that sometimes we as human beings

4:10that's why the Qur'an speaks about minal jinnati wan nas insura to nas when Allah refers to the Shiaatina of jinn kain the Shiaatina of mankind in fact in another place in the Qur'an Allah Almighty actually says Shiaatina inswal jinn that there are two types of Shiaatina here that from humankind and that from jinn kain we Allah protect us such that we are never considered Shiaatina and at the same time control yourself Allah grant us ease that we are never considered Shiaatina