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Mufti Menk's reminders this week, helping others and praying for one another

A summary of the short clips on Mufti Menk's official channel from 6 to 12 October 2026, from helping others for Allah's sake to his call to pray for other Muslims' hearts to soften instead of praying for their ruin.

By Meja Berita
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Thumbnail for the Mufti Menk short Help Others, Allah Helps You, showing him in a white robe and white head cloth with both hands raised, against images of one hiker pulling another up a hill at sunset and a man handing a box to an older man
Image: Mufti Menk, YouTube

Mufti Ismail Menk is an Islamic scholar from Zimbabwe. The Muslim 500, a yearly list of influential Muslims published in Jordan, describes him as the Mufti of Zimbabwe under the Majlisul Ulama Zimbabwe. From 6 to 12 October 2026, his official YouTube channel posted nine shorts: eight clips from his talks and a sketch promoting a Qur'an app. His last full lecture, The Ummah Can't Heal Without This One Thing, went up on 25 September.

Helping others, for Allah's sake

Help Others, Allah Helps You

Uploaded on Wednesday, 7 October 2026. Watch the clip.

  • Allah keeps helping a person for as long as that person is busy helping others, he said.
  • He asked whether we are a help or "a thorn in the path of others", including at home, where some people swear and their family hurries away when they walk in. "Today is the day to change that," he said.

Be A Beautiful Person

Uploaded on Thursday, 8 October 2026. Watch the clip.

  • He urged people to live so that others weep for them when they die.
  • He recalled people saying "alhamdulillah" at the news of a recent death, and said we should instead pray that Allah grants the person Paradise and mercy. Do not be someone whose death people welcome because the harm has ended, he said.

Do It For Allah's Pleasure

Uploaded on Saturday, 10 October 2026. Watch the clip.

  • He recited the verses about people who feed the poor and the orphan for the love of Allah, wanting neither reward nor thanks (Surah Al-Insan, verses 8 and 9). Help people for Allah's pleasure, he said, "and you see how Allah will open your doors".

How Muslims treat one another

This Is How We Progress

Uploaded on Saturday, 10 October 2026. Watch the clip.

  • The ummah is bleeding, he said, citing the genocide in Gaza, yet one of the biggest harms comes from within, as Muslims hate, slander and envy one another.
  • Progress comes from being happy at a brother's success and supporting one another. If you cannot do good, he said, at least do not do bad.

Ask Allah To Soften Hearts

Uploaded on Monday, 12 October 2026. Watch the clip.

  • Some people use the hour of accepted dua on Friday to ask Allah to destroy another Muslim, he said. He once told a man that his dua had been made against Pharaoh, and another that his was Prophet Nuh's (Noah's) dua against his own people.
  • Ask Allah to soften their hearts instead, he said, since the Prophet Muhammad made dua even for Abu Jahl.

Fasting and keeping good deeds

The Real Aim Of Fasting

Uploaded on Tuesday, 6 October 2026. Watch the clip.

  • He recited the verse prescribing fasting so that believers become conscious of Allah (Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 183). That means guarding your tongue against abuse, lies, slander and backbiting, he said.
  • He cited a hadith that many people gain nothing from fasting but hunger and thirst, and said you know your fast is accepted when your life has changed.

Protecting A Deed Is Harder

Uploaded on Thursday, 8 October 2026. Watch the clip.

  • Allah promises to multiply a good deed that a person comes with on the Day of Judgement, he said, which in his view makes protecting a deed ten times more rewarding than doing it.
  • Reading the Qur'an takes effort, but guarding its reward for the next 10, 50 or 60 years is harder. "Don't give it away," he said.

Paradise, and a Qur'an app

Trust Allah For The Rest

Uploaded on Monday, 12 October 2026. Watch the clip.

  • He joked about spouses who say, out of frustration, that they would skip Paradise if it meant the same partner. There, he said, Allah gives people the best of what they desire, so even the same spouse would be very different. Ask for Paradise and "trust Allah to make you happy".

A sketch for the Quranly app

Uploaded on Tuesday, 6 October 2026. Watch the video.

  • In this comedy sketch for the Quranly app, he visits someone skipping Qur'an class and says a few verses a day is enough. The video cites the Prophet's teaching that the deeds Allah loves most are those done regularly, even if small.

His main message this week

Most of the clips came back to how we treat other people: help others for Allah's sake without expecting thanks, be glad at each other's success, and pray for hearts to soften, not for ruin. His other reminders looked inward, from a fast that changes how we speak to a good deed guarded long after it is done.

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