1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,320 A Salaam alay Kumar rahma to lahiwa barakato. 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,240 It's milay Rahman Rahim al hamdu. 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:10,400 Lila was salato was Salaam Ala rasul ilahiwala Ala Ali. 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,800 He was happy. Here ajamain we praise the Las 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:31,260 of hana ho Ola. My beloved brothers and sisters, 6 00:00:32,220 --> 00:00:37,580 many times in life we fail to progress because we are stuck in 7 00:00:37,580 --> 00:00:41,500 the past. And this is not only true when 8 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:46,580 it comes to our own faults and our own sins, but even with 9 00:00:46,580 --> 00:00:53,580 others at times it is in the best of your interests to let go 10 00:00:53,580 --> 00:00:56,940 of something that looks like you cannot let it go. 11 00:00:57,410 --> 00:01:01,090 But in order for you to progress, you must let it go. 12 00:01:02,570 --> 00:01:06,370 Imagine a person who is owed 1000 Rands. 13 00:01:07,370 --> 00:01:13,290 And then and obviously, if he is owed 1000 Rands legitimately, he 14 00:01:13,290 --> 00:01:17,010 can ask for it. He can pursue it legally, He can 15 00:01:17,010 --> 00:01:19,850 actually take up a lot in order to get it. 16 00:01:20,650 --> 00:01:24,570 But is it worth the drama? That's the question. 17 00:01:25,050 --> 00:01:31,770 Why should I pay 10,000 Rands in order to get back 1000 Rands 1 18 00:01:31,770 --> 00:01:33,690 might say, Well, it's to prove a point. 19 00:01:34,010 --> 00:01:38,930 You pay a price to prove points. Remember that we as Muslims are 20 00:01:38,930 --> 00:01:44,050 taught that you must always weigh the pros and cons and 21 00:01:44,050 --> 00:01:47,730 allow the lesser of the two evils if you have no third 22 00:01:47,770 --> 00:01:50,850 option. Remember that and this is 23 00:01:50,850 --> 00:01:53,010 something very interesting because. 24 00:01:53,450 --> 00:01:55,890 Many people are bogged down in life. 25 00:01:56,170 --> 00:02:00,130 They simply cannot move forward. You lost your job, you are fired 26 00:02:00,130 --> 00:02:05,170 unceremoniously, and you want to get back at your old boss by 27 00:02:05,290 --> 00:02:10,090 that occupation that you've now engaged in of getting back to 28 00:02:10,090 --> 00:02:13,770 your old boss. You have stopped your eyes from 29 00:02:13,770 --> 00:02:18,450 looking ahead at jobs that are glaring you in your face simply 30 00:02:18,450 --> 00:02:22,830 because you did not move on. It's OK. 31 00:02:22,830 --> 00:02:24,750 You're not the first person to lose your job. 32 00:02:24,990 --> 00:02:26,350 You're going through a tough time. 33 00:02:26,350 --> 00:02:28,830 Trust me, we've all been through tough times. 34 00:02:28,990 --> 00:02:32,350 It might last a year, it might last five years, it might last 35 00:02:32,350 --> 00:02:35,270 10 years. But it will last longer if you 36 00:02:35,270 --> 00:02:37,910 don't progress and you don't look at the future. 37 00:02:37,990 --> 00:02:42,710 Shine your eyes and take a look at the glass in front of you 38 00:02:43,190 --> 00:02:48,190 that shows you the whole Rd. that you don't even want to walk 39 00:02:48,190 --> 00:02:50,790 on. We become lazy and sad simply 40 00:02:50,790 --> 00:02:53,130 because. We've had something traumatic 41 00:02:53,290 --> 00:02:56,730 that happened in our lives. Maybe a scare in our health, 42 00:02:56,970 --> 00:03:01,370 maybe a robbery we've had, Maybe someone we've lost, May Allah 43 00:03:01,370 --> 00:03:05,810 grant our loved ones Jenna. Or it could be anything else. 44 00:03:05,810 --> 00:03:09,770 My brothers, my sisters, I am here to tell you that it's not 45 00:03:09,770 --> 00:03:12,850 the end of the road. Look up and move forward. 46 00:03:13,210 --> 00:03:17,010 If, if at all, you want to look back, it should only be to learn 47 00:03:17,010 --> 00:03:20,570 a lesson, but not to get stuck in it in such a way. 48 00:03:21,010 --> 00:03:23,090 That you don't move forward, remember this. 49 00:03:23,530 --> 00:03:28,130 So the prophet Salahu Alahi was Salam at the time of the victory 50 00:03:28,130 --> 00:03:30,450 of Makka, which is a powerful example. 51 00:03:30,690 --> 00:03:34,330 He came into Makka with an army of 10s of thousands and what 52 00:03:34,330 --> 00:03:37,560 happened? The people of Maqa who had 53 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:41,240 harmed the Muslims, they had usurped their wealth, they had 54 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,920 abused them, they had killed many of them and so on. 55 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,000 Here comes Rasulullah Salahu alehi wassalem. 56 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,880 And he asks them the famous question of people of Quresh. 57 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:54,280 What do you think I'm going to? Do to you today. 58 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,200 Imagine someone who's harms to that degree. 59 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,520 I don't even want to get into it, but it's very bad. 60 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,040 And then here comes the messenger with all the power 61 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:05,920 saying. What do you think I'm going to 62 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,880 do to you today? Imagine if a guy today from 63 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:13,640 amongst us had to tell another who has killed from his family 64 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,880 or usurped the wealth driven them out of their homes for 65 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:21,000 years on end, and he comes one day powerfully what? 66 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,240 Do you think I'm going to do to you today? 67 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,040 They looked at him and says, you're a good man. 68 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,000 The son of a good man. Oh, now suddenly I'm a good man. 69 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,520 You see, all these years I was not a good man. 70 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,930 La hawalawala kuwata illah. Al Ali Al Adim. 71 00:04:35,410 --> 00:04:39,090 Now he's they said, well, you know we expect goodness, what 72 00:04:39,090 --> 00:04:42,730 would we expect? He says if Habufa and Tumu to 73 00:04:42,730 --> 00:04:45,690 Laka. No retribution today. 74 00:04:45,690 --> 00:04:46,850 Go. You are free. 75 00:04:46,930 --> 00:04:50,010 I'm going to tell you what use of Ali his Salaam told his 76 00:04:50,010 --> 00:04:52,050 brothers no retribution against you. 77 00:04:52,050 --> 00:04:54,650 Go you are free. Allahu Akbar. 78 00:04:54,930 --> 00:04:58,010 Allahu Akbar. If the prophet Salah Al Salam 79 00:04:58,010 --> 00:05:02,210 wanted, he could have actually got every single one of them 80 00:05:02,210 --> 00:05:03,570 back. Every one of them. 81 00:05:04,420 --> 00:05:06,380 But no, there was a bigger picture. 82 00:05:06,380 --> 00:05:08,100 Let's move forward. Let's progress. 83 00:05:08,340 --> 00:05:10,740 We have an UMA to serve. We have families. 84 00:05:10,740 --> 00:05:13,300 We have relatives here. We have so much here. 85 00:05:13,420 --> 00:05:15,420 And you know what? A lot of these people are not 86 00:05:15,420 --> 00:05:18,340 Muslim. By us showing them the true 87 00:05:18,340 --> 00:05:21,060 teachings of Islam, they will enter the fold of Islam. 88 00:05:21,060 --> 00:05:22,980 And that's exactly what they did today. 89 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:26,540 When people look at us, Muslims turn away from Islam because 90 00:05:26,540 --> 00:05:29,260 they let down by us. They all are not do that to us. 91 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,800 Today when people look at us, they are discouraged. 92 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,040 Today we break relations of our families, ourselves. 93 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,880 Here is the prophets of Assalem saying, you know what, let's 94 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:41,720 make peace. Move forward from today. 95 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,680 Don't go back. He never ever looked back. 96 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,960 As a result, it was considered true victory. 97 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:49,960 What is the true victory? Don't look back. 98 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,200 Look forward. There is a lot to achieve. 99 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,040 Yes, yes, yes. You need to understand if you 100 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,720 were bitten from one angle, you will. 101 00:05:58,970 --> 00:06:01,610 Learn the lesson and not be bitten again from the same angle 102 00:06:01,610 --> 00:06:04,970 again, but at the same time you need to know. 103 00:06:05,130 --> 00:06:09,530 Just keep moving. I have a brother very recent 104 00:06:09,530 --> 00:06:14,290 story, brother in Islam. He lost the job just before this 105 00:06:14,290 --> 00:06:19,250 COVID thing happened and he told me my brother, I want to get 106 00:06:19,250 --> 00:06:22,450 back at this. These people, I know a lot about 107 00:06:22,450 --> 00:06:24,250 them and I really want to nail them. 108 00:06:25,010 --> 00:06:28,010 And I told him my brother instead of nailing people. 109 00:06:28,350 --> 00:06:29,950 You'd rather concentrate on yourself? 110 00:06:29,950 --> 00:06:32,910 By me mailing someone? It's not going to give me any 111 00:06:32,910 --> 00:06:34,550 goodness. Will it give you a job? 112 00:06:34,590 --> 00:06:36,390 No. You get a bad name, People won't 113 00:06:36,390 --> 00:06:39,150 want to employ you anyway. So what should I do? 114 00:06:39,310 --> 00:06:41,150 Look forward. Make dua to Allah. 115 00:06:41,670 --> 00:06:43,710 Ask Allah, Turn to Allah, he says. 116 00:06:43,710 --> 00:06:47,150 But I've been asking Allah for so many years for an Increment 117 00:06:47,150 --> 00:06:49,950 and instead he's given me the loss of a job. 118 00:06:50,430 --> 00:06:53,870 You see? Do you trust Allah's plan? 119 00:06:53,950 --> 00:06:56,830 That's the question. Do you trust Allah's plan? 120 00:06:56,910 --> 00:07:00,830 You've been making Do I for an increment for so long and 121 00:07:00,830 --> 00:07:03,110 suddenly you lost a job, so you think, look, Allah's doing the 122 00:07:03,110 --> 00:07:04,710 opposite. Subhan Allah. 123 00:07:05,070 --> 00:07:06,710 I just told him. I said, brother, you know what? 124 00:07:06,710 --> 00:07:09,910 Consider this. If you're holding tight to a few 125 00:07:09,910 --> 00:07:13,430 coins with one hand and allow ones to give you 2 handfuls of 126 00:07:13,430 --> 00:07:17,510 gold coins, the first thing he needs to do is to make you open 127 00:07:17,510 --> 00:07:19,150 this hand so that these coins go. 128 00:07:19,150 --> 00:07:21,110 Or at least your hands are now opened. 129 00:07:21,110 --> 00:07:23,150 If the process, you might lose these coins. 130 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,160 Make do our bear patience. Don't worry. 131 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,720 If the prophets of asylum went through it, who are we? 132 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,640 We will go through even more. And he told me, well that's the 133 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,920 mantra that all of you guys utter whenever we are in 134 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,360 difficulty. I said well we are taught that 135 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,760 and you must believe that. Be convinced. 136 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,320 Don't ever leave Allah at the time of your hardship. 137 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,320 Never blame Allah. No way. 138 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,410 Allah tells you clearly. You have harm and evil. 139 00:07:50,410 --> 00:07:56,490 It's not my doing, it's yours or man's doing the harm and fasa do 140 00:07:56,490 --> 00:08:02,530 fin Bari 1 Bari be my Casa. But and he did nassilly you be 141 00:08:02,690 --> 00:08:11,290 come about one Levi amino Allah makes it clear that all this 142 00:08:11,290 --> 00:08:14,970 chaos and corruption and all nonsense you see on earth it has 143 00:08:14,970 --> 00:08:18,140 become apparent. Because of the handiwork of 144 00:08:18,140 --> 00:08:20,620 mankind. You guys did it, not me unless 145 00:08:20,620 --> 00:08:22,660 it don't blame me for the evil people. 146 00:08:22,660 --> 00:08:24,980 Say why does Allah allow murder? Who murdered? 147 00:08:25,260 --> 00:08:28,020 Was it not a human being? Why blame Allah for someone 148 00:08:28,020 --> 00:08:30,580 else's crimes? Well then they might say, well 149 00:08:30,620 --> 00:08:33,260 what was the sin of the innocent child who was murdered? 150 00:08:33,380 --> 00:08:36,460 You say you know what Allah will give justice, but there was 151 00:08:36,460 --> 00:08:39,980 someone who murdered the child. It's human beings who committed 152 00:08:39,980 --> 00:08:43,030 that crime. The fact that Allah knew it in 153 00:08:43,030 --> 00:08:46,710 advance does not make him guilty of being merciless when He is 154 00:08:46,710 --> 00:08:49,790 the Most Merciful. He says to us, I will provide 155 00:08:49,790 --> 00:08:51,870 for those who believe and those who don't believe. 156 00:08:52,190 --> 00:08:53,350 That's what He says in the Quran. 157 00:08:53,990 --> 00:08:55,950 In this world. I will provide for those who 158 00:08:55,950 --> 00:08:57,790 believe and those who don't believe. 159 00:08:58,110 --> 00:09:01,150 The difference is those who believe will have the hereafter. 160 00:09:01,390 --> 00:09:04,230 Those who don't believe, they won't have the hereafter because 161 00:09:04,230 --> 00:09:09,270 they don't believe in it. So I told this brother, I said 162 00:09:09,270 --> 00:09:13,400 brother make duar. And Allah will open your doors. 163 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,080 And he says, OK, you know what? I'm a Muslim. 164 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:19,760 I've been doing do. I'm not going to leave it. 165 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,040 But please make do I that Allah strengthen me. 166 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:24,960 Trust me. COVID took over, as you know, 167 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,840 life changed, I hope temporarily. 168 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:32,640 And you know what Subhan Allah, this man suddenly struck gold. 169 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,080 He was at the right place at the right time. 170 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,680 And there was one deal that he did that was worth a lot. 171 00:09:40,630 --> 00:09:43,390 And it changed his life. It went through another and the 172 00:09:43,390 --> 00:09:48,710 3rd and the 4th and the 5th. And he tells me please, please 173 00:09:48,710 --> 00:09:52,390 use me as an example to tell people don't lose hope. 174 00:09:52,390 --> 00:09:55,870 I almost gave up. I lost my job in such a bad way. 175 00:09:55,870 --> 00:09:58,990 But that was definitely what you were saying, that Allah is 176 00:09:59,030 --> 00:10:01,870 opening your doors. Allah is opening your doors. 177 00:10:02,110 --> 00:10:06,550 I look forward instead. If I had gone back to nail my 178 00:10:06,550 --> 00:10:09,030 previous boss, I would have still been. 179 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:14,360 In that or on that path, doing the same thing, trying to nail 180 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,320 and I would be busy with this, losing money, going to this one, 181 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,840 that one. But what I did is I focused on 182 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:23,000 something that was right in front of me and a loss of Hana 183 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,160 Ho Atala opened these doors. Why am I saying this today? 184 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,600 We're all going through struggles, all of us. 185 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:34,120 Different levels of struggles. Remember my brothers and 186 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,000 sisters, you're not alone. We're in it together. 187 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:39,920 We all have challenges, myself included. 188 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:43,520 Learn to help one another, Learn to say a good word to one 189 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,960 another, learn to be focused, Work hard. 190 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,160 A day will come when you will smile, even if it is 2 years, 191 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:52,240 four years. Another example, people going 192 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,280 through divorce. Divorce is becoming like a 193 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,000 trend. Like a trend. 194 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,800 You married, you got to ask the guy, are you still married? 195 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,720 After two years. You say if he says yes, yes, he 196 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:04,000 said. Marshala. 197 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:05,400 Because, you know, now it's like sort of. 198 00:11:06,090 --> 00:11:08,490 Not the norm anymore. The norm is like you married 199 00:11:08,850 --> 00:11:13,730 awas is vana La Grant us is. It's not bad to actually be 200 00:11:13,730 --> 00:11:16,210 divorced for the right reasons or to divorce for the right 201 00:11:16,210 --> 00:11:18,410 reasons. But when it becomes a trend, it 202 00:11:18,490 --> 00:11:21,530 it is scary. We're not prepared to sacrifice 203 00:11:21,530 --> 00:11:24,290 for one another anymore. We're not prepared to forgive 204 00:11:24,290 --> 00:11:27,250 one another anymore. We want a perfect human being 205 00:11:27,250 --> 00:11:29,290 who's spotless without any weaknesses. 206 00:11:29,490 --> 00:11:30,970 That's what we're looking for. Well, that. 207 00:11:31,810 --> 00:11:35,490 You will only find in paradise if you ever get there. 208 00:11:35,490 --> 00:11:39,890 Mira La Granta's Janna. Now people say I'm going to get 209 00:11:39,890 --> 00:11:42,050 the perfect spouse in Janna. I say, are you even going to get 210 00:11:42,050 --> 00:11:43,330 to Janna? That's a question. 211 00:11:43,690 --> 00:11:46,090 How can you say that? You're supposed to give us hope. 212 00:11:46,130 --> 00:11:47,570 I said That's a statement of hope. 213 00:11:47,770 --> 00:11:50,210 Because when you start thinking, gosh, am I really going to get 214 00:11:50,210 --> 00:11:51,570 there, it will get you up for fudge. 215 00:11:52,290 --> 00:11:55,050 But if you didn't think of it that, am I really going to get 216 00:11:55,050 --> 00:11:57,290 there? Well, Lahi, yesterday I had a 217 00:11:57,290 --> 00:11:59,470 question. From someone, a silly question, 218 00:11:59,470 --> 00:12:02,670 very silly question. Someone asks me, will we be 219 00:12:02,670 --> 00:12:06,870 allowed to steal in gender? I mean, how far can your mind go 220 00:12:06,870 --> 00:12:09,950 to be honest with you, How far can your mind go? 221 00:12:09,950 --> 00:12:12,670 Will you be allowed to kill in gender and steal in general? 222 00:12:12,670 --> 00:12:15,310 Because if you can do anything there, like Allah says, you will 223 00:12:15,310 --> 00:12:18,310 be able to do anything. So I said the pure mind will 224 00:12:18,310 --> 00:12:22,710 never ever think in those lines, on those lines in that 225 00:12:22,710 --> 00:12:26,230 direction. Never my brothers and sisters. 226 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,920 When divorce happens, it's not the end of the world. 227 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,520 Not the end of the world. Perhaps it is a door for you to 228 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,840 then get to someone else. Had you not been through your 229 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:43,880 first relationship, you would never have gotten to this much, 230 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,960 much better person that you subsequently got married to. 231 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:48,480 See. I see a lot of people nodding 232 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:50,120 here, Marshall, what's going on here guys? 233 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:54,040 Allah grant us is Allah open our doors. 234 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,340 But the moral is. Never give up. 235 00:12:56,340 --> 00:12:58,860 We go through challenges. We go through hardship. 236 00:12:59,140 --> 00:13:01,140 Let's look forward. Let's progress. 237 00:13:01,860 --> 00:13:04,820 People sit and say I'm going to fix this X of mine. 238 00:13:04,820 --> 00:13:08,820 You know what? Just move on By making someone 239 00:13:08,820 --> 00:13:12,100 else's life difficult. It's not going to make your life 240 00:13:12,140 --> 00:13:13,500 easy. Not at all. 241 00:13:13,620 --> 00:13:16,580 You want ease? close a chapter, Open a new one. 242 00:13:16,580 --> 00:13:18,340 Let's move forward. Thank Allah. 243 00:13:18,340 --> 00:13:20,260 Beautiful relationship. And that's more. 244 00:13:21,380 --> 00:13:25,230 May Allah grant us goodness. So this is it, my brothers and 245 00:13:25,230 --> 00:13:27,670 sisters. The prophet Salah Al Asalem met 246 00:13:27,670 --> 00:13:32,990 with Khalid Demilwaleed Ravi Allah when he came to Medina and 247 00:13:32,990 --> 00:13:34,590 he wanted to declare his Shahada. 248 00:13:34,590 --> 00:13:37,270 You know who Khalid Demilwaleed, Ravi Allah and whom I was. 249 00:13:38,510 --> 00:13:41,430 He had caused a lot of damage against the Muslims, especially 250 00:13:41,430 --> 00:13:45,230 in Ohan. He was well known and so he 251 00:13:45,230 --> 00:13:49,390 says, oh Messenger Salah Al Asalam, I've got a problem. 252 00:13:50,230 --> 00:13:52,720 The issue is. You know what I've done against 253 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,920 Islam and the Muslims. I'm about to accept Islam. 254 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:59,520 What's going to happen? He wants to know as a lot of 255 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,080 teachers. The professor Salem told him Ya 256 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,440 Khalid in the Islam mayajub buma kabla oh Khalid. 257 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:10,360 Islam will delete whatever happened the bad that you did in 258 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,080 the past the same way Tolba deletes the past. 259 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:17,000 Also if you were to revert or convert to Islam, your past bad 260 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,560 is deleted. The good carries with. 261 00:14:21,070 --> 00:14:23,630 You know they say when you go for Hajj you return as pure as 262 00:14:23,630 --> 00:14:28,790 the day you were born. Do you know in reality it is 263 00:14:28,790 --> 00:14:30,870 even purer than that? Why? 264 00:14:31,350 --> 00:14:35,110 Because that purity is referring to sinlessness. 265 00:14:35,310 --> 00:14:38,830 That's what it's referring to. It's not referring to 0 on your 266 00:14:38,830 --> 00:14:41,110 slate. When the professor Salem said as 267 00:14:41,110 --> 00:14:45,670 pure as the day you were born, he means no sins next to your 268 00:14:45,670 --> 00:14:48,320 name. He doesn't mean nothing next to 269 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,800 your name. Evidence of it is what about all 270 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:52,320 the good I did before I went for Hutch? 271 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,320 It remains. You get the point. 272 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,440 So the good remains. The bad is formatted, gone. 273 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,680 This is something amazing. Whenever we talk of Hutch and 274 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:05,120 Toba, we must remember. Yes, it deletes, but it doesn't 275 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:06,960 make you. You know, they say I'm starting 276 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,480 on a clean page. You're starting on a page that 277 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:14,160 already has so much of goodness on it because not only is it 278 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:18,090 clean, but it's clean from sin. It's full of the goodness you 279 00:15:18,090 --> 00:15:20,770 did. Allah says if you changed your 280 00:15:20,770 --> 00:15:26,250 life then we're going to bring back the bad oh oh oh oh. 281 00:15:27,090 --> 00:15:30,890 Allah says in the Quran if you change your life in La Mantaba 282 00:15:30,890 --> 00:15:36,130 or Amana or Amina Amalansala 3 conditions you make Toba Toba 283 00:15:36,130 --> 00:15:39,260 means to return to Allah. What's the difference between 284 00:15:39,340 --> 00:15:42,220 istilfar and Toba? Istilfar is to ask Allah's 285 00:15:42,220 --> 00:15:45,300 forgiveness. Taoba is to return to Allah by 286 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:47,260 changing your ways. That's the difference. 287 00:15:47,580 --> 00:15:51,140 Taoba is more loved by Allah because it is broader than 288 00:15:51,140 --> 00:15:53,380 istilfar. Istilfar. 289 00:15:53,380 --> 00:15:56,140 I said Allah forgive me, Taoba is now my life changed. 290 00:15:56,340 --> 00:16:00,060 That's the difference. So Allah says those who made 291 00:16:00,060 --> 00:16:03,540 that toba, they returned to me were Aman and they believed they 292 00:16:03,540 --> 00:16:05,260 worked on their connection with Allah. 293 00:16:05,260 --> 00:16:08,450 They believed their Iman. And thirdly, they did good 294 00:16:08,450 --> 00:16:10,170 deeds. Alas says we're going to bring 295 00:16:10,170 --> 00:16:14,130 back those bad deeds and we're going to convert them into good 296 00:16:14,130 --> 00:16:19,010 deeds on the scale, simply because this person could have 297 00:16:19,010 --> 00:16:22,490 done the bad but they didn't because of their love of me and 298 00:16:22,490 --> 00:16:25,850 the connection with me. So Alas says, because of that, I 299 00:16:25,850 --> 00:16:28,890 mean look, a person who is on intoxicants, may Allah protect 300 00:16:28,930 --> 00:16:32,170 us and our offspring, a person on intoxicants who says, oh 301 00:16:32,170 --> 00:16:36,690 Allah, forgive me, and then the intoxicants are still available. 302 00:16:37,420 --> 00:16:38,780 But he says I'm not doing this anymore. 303 00:16:38,860 --> 00:16:41,500 Allah says we're going to bring all of that back and convert it. 304 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:44,060 You know why? You only quit it for us, nothing 305 00:16:44,060 --> 00:16:45,180 else. You could have done it. 306 00:16:45,260 --> 00:16:48,060 You can still do it. But because you love us and you 307 00:16:48,060 --> 00:16:50,380 know, we said it's wrong and you did not do it. 308 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:54,340 We love that action so much we're going to show you Subhana 309 00:16:54,340 --> 00:16:56,180 law. That is Allah. 310 00:16:56,460 --> 00:16:59,380 So this is the type of relationship we must develop 311 00:16:59,380 --> 00:17:02,100 with Allah. Subhana Hawataala and he will 312 00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:05,440 assist. Days come in our lives when my 313 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:10,319 beloved brothers and sisters, we are so low that we feel where is 314 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:13,560 Allah. Do you know that the messengers 315 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:19,599 before us and the pious people before us, they used to ask 316 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:22,599 Allah, oh Allah, when is your help going to come? 317 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:31,200 Was Ulzino Hattaya Kuna rasunu alavina Amano mahu Matanasula. 318 00:17:31,990 --> 00:17:34,310 They were shaken. They were tested left, right and 319 00:17:34,310 --> 00:17:40,710 center until the Messenger and the people around him with him. 320 00:17:40,710 --> 00:17:42,590 They said when is the help of Allah going to come? 321 00:17:42,590 --> 00:17:45,950 Allah says be patient, Allah in Nanasar, Allah hikari, be 322 00:17:45,950 --> 00:17:48,550 patient. Allah's help is near, Allah's 323 00:17:48,550 --> 00:17:50,590 help is near. I remember sitting with one 324 00:17:50,590 --> 00:17:53,830 scholar and he said every duar is hurt by Allah. 325 00:17:54,030 --> 00:17:56,590 Every single duar is hurt by Allah. 326 00:17:56,670 --> 00:17:59,630 It's a matter of time for that duar to come and plug in. 327 00:18:00,210 --> 00:18:02,930 Some people it's a few days, some people it's months, some 328 00:18:02,930 --> 00:18:05,890 people it's years. Don't ever think that Allah did 329 00:18:05,890 --> 00:18:07,330 not accept your duar. Never. 330 00:18:07,810 --> 00:18:09,890 All of us. If you sit and think about some 331 00:18:09,890 --> 00:18:12,690 duars you've made in your life, that happened five years later. 332 00:18:12,850 --> 00:18:15,570 It happened 10 years later, but you don't realize it came. 333 00:18:15,610 --> 00:18:18,170 It definitely came when the time was right. 334 00:18:18,250 --> 00:18:20,290 That's a last plan. Trust Allah. 335 00:18:21,090 --> 00:18:25,850 We were talking about gender. Sometimes we tend to forget 336 00:18:27,370 --> 00:18:30,050 that. We need to work towards Jenna 337 00:18:30,050 --> 00:18:33,450 rather than arguing about what we're going to be getting in 338 00:18:33,450 --> 00:18:37,050 Jenna, like I say, look at the path. 339 00:18:37,570 --> 00:18:41,050 You can see it's there, you know it's there and you know the 340 00:18:41,050 --> 00:18:45,290 destination is also punched in. You just follow the path. 341 00:18:46,010 --> 00:18:48,410 Don't worry about now when I get there, this when I get there 342 00:18:48,410 --> 00:18:50,010 that. The other day I took my children 343 00:18:50,010 --> 00:18:54,490 somewhere and I punched it on the GPS and we are following the 344 00:18:54,490 --> 00:18:57,370 G PS:. It says turn left, it says turn 345 00:18:57,370 --> 00:18:59,050 right. It says continue. 346 00:18:59,130 --> 00:19:02,690 We did exactly that, knowing in our hearts that, you know, at 347 00:19:02,690 --> 00:19:03,970 the end of the day we're going to get there. 348 00:19:04,490 --> 00:19:06,770 And when we get there, we'll see what there is. 349 00:19:07,170 --> 00:19:08,930 There might be restrictions, they might not. 350 00:19:08,930 --> 00:19:11,770 They might not even let us in. It might be closed, even though 351 00:19:11,770 --> 00:19:14,970 it says it's open because, you know, times have changed, right, 352 00:19:15,850 --> 00:19:18,820 Vallahi. Our conviction in the G PS:. 353 00:19:18,820 --> 00:19:20,940 Of Allah should be far stronger than that. 354 00:19:21,100 --> 00:19:23,100 Far stronger. Don't worry what you're going to 355 00:19:23,100 --> 00:19:25,980 get. I would never bother about what 356 00:19:25,980 --> 00:19:27,980 exactly I'm going to get in gender. 357 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:30,580 What I'm bothered about is for me to get there, that's all. 358 00:19:30,820 --> 00:19:32,500 And that should be the case with all of us. 359 00:19:33,660 --> 00:19:36,700 Worry about getting there. They say even if you are the 360 00:19:36,700 --> 00:19:39,620 last person to enter gender, you should be excited. 361 00:19:40,020 --> 00:19:42,700 You should Hey I made it. Subhan Allah no matter where 362 00:19:42,700 --> 00:19:45,640 what. Akbar, I have little children. 363 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,080 Ask me some time, you know, if I'm in gender on one level and 364 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,440 another person is in gender on another level and I wish to meet 365 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,880 them, or they wish to meet me, what will happen? 366 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,440 I said Allah will make it happen in a way that I can't explain to 367 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,200 you. But Inshala, when we get there, 368 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:02,600 we'll just nod our heads and say, hey, it happened. 369 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,120 You see? I don't know. 370 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,920 I just know it will happen. And I know that Allah can keep 371 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,200 you in a certain way. You know, there's a very 372 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:15,360 interesting hadith that comes to my mind, a very interesting it 373 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:19,280 says whoever has had intoxicants, meaning that 374 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,400 whoever has had the the intoxicating wines of the dunya 375 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,520 will not be having the wines in general. 376 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,440 Meaning say they're forgiven and they change their lives and 377 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,240 whatever. So now here comes a man, he 378 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,040 says, hey, I had a bad life in the past. 379 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:35,990 I used to drink. And you know, now I've changed 380 00:20:35,990 --> 00:20:38,070 my life and inshala, I'm looking forward to gender. 381 00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:41,990 But why won't I have the alcohol meaning the the, the wines? 382 00:20:41,990 --> 00:20:43,950 It's called wines. It's not intoxicating. 383 00:20:43,990 --> 00:20:45,670 The one in gender is not intoxicating. 384 00:20:45,830 --> 00:20:48,390 Why won't I have it in gender? Imagine it's going to be 385 00:20:48,390 --> 00:20:51,870 something that I'm going to want and when I want it and I'm going 386 00:20:51,870 --> 00:20:55,030 to say no, doesn't it negate another another verse of the 387 00:20:55,030 --> 00:20:57,550 Quran which says once you get into gender, you get what you 388 00:20:57,550 --> 00:21:00,430 want. So I said the best explanation 389 00:21:00,430 --> 00:21:04,190 of the O Lama is something simple Allah removes from your 390 00:21:04,190 --> 00:21:06,910 entire system. Even the thought of it. 391 00:21:07,630 --> 00:21:11,430 You won't think of it. I mean, if you loved something 392 00:21:11,950 --> 00:21:15,110 and you got into a place where there's something billions of 393 00:21:15,110 --> 00:21:17,350 times better than that, would you even think of that? 394 00:21:17,470 --> 00:21:20,110 You wouldn't even want it. It won't even cross your mind. 395 00:21:20,110 --> 00:21:23,390 Perhaps one day, years later in the dunya, we might think about 396 00:21:23,390 --> 00:21:26,430 it in the Akhira. Allah will occupy you with so 397 00:21:26,430 --> 00:21:28,070 much of goodness. It's not going to come. 398 00:21:28,890 --> 00:21:33,010 Again to the moral, the whole topic of today, to instill hope 399 00:21:33,010 --> 00:21:36,050 in the hearts of the people by telling them don't get bogged 400 00:21:36,050 --> 00:21:38,050 down with the past. Whether it's someone who did 401 00:21:38,050 --> 00:21:41,010 something to you, whether it's your own past, you need to look 402 00:21:41,010 --> 00:21:44,930 ahead, you need to move forward, and you need to understand, make 403 00:21:44,930 --> 00:21:47,210 the most of whatever Allah has given you. 404 00:21:48,410 --> 00:21:51,250 I end by telling you, my brothers, my sisters, those of 405 00:21:51,250 --> 00:21:53,090 us who have sinned against ourselves. 406 00:21:53,510 --> 00:21:56,630 And we have had a past or we have done something evil. 407 00:21:56,830 --> 00:21:58,590 Turn to Allah before it is too late. 408 00:21:58,590 --> 00:22:00,870 Next week. We might not see some of us in 409 00:22:00,870 --> 00:22:03,830 the Masjid next week. In fact, next week is too far. 410 00:22:04,110 --> 00:22:05,990 You can have a scare at any time. 411 00:22:06,030 --> 00:22:09,550 Anything could happen. Don't lose hope in the mercy of 412 00:22:09,550 --> 00:22:10,870 Allah. You are good enough. 413 00:22:10,950 --> 00:22:15,030 You are definitely good enough. Just make amends. 414 00:22:15,190 --> 00:22:18,150 Get up, stand up and move. Move forward. 415 00:22:18,430 --> 00:22:20,960 Get up for Salah. Ask our Lord's forgiveness if 416 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,680 you falter once more. Ask our Lord's forgiveness again 417 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,480 and again and again and don't give up. 418 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,080 May Allah's from Hana Hua Allah bless every one of us and grant 419 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,560 us goodness. I pray that the next time we 420 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,600 meet each other we will be in a better condition. 421 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,880 Today we are in a better condition than we were 422 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,000 yesterday. Humble in love. 423 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:42,720 Please seek the forgiveness of Allah. 424 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:47,000 I believe that there is definitely something wrong with 425 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,520 us. That's what I believe. 426 00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:51,540 There is definitely something wrong with us. 427 00:22:51,540 --> 00:22:55,580 Imagine maka Medina, the massage, everything being 428 00:22:55,580 --> 00:23:00,380 affected in this way. We need to revisit our link with 429 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:03,460 Allah. There is definitely something 430 00:23:03,460 --> 00:23:06,540 wrong with us. And don't point the fingers at 431 00:23:06,540 --> 00:23:07,740 others. It's me. 432 00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:10,860 I need to help myself improve myself. 433 00:23:11,020 --> 00:23:14,380 Life is so short. I have had a lot of people and 434 00:23:14,380 --> 00:23:16,180 I'm sure you may have whom I've known. 435 00:23:16,380 --> 00:23:18,970 Suddenly they know more. Where did they go? 436 00:23:18,970 --> 00:23:21,810 Back to Allah. Its a matter of a few days and 437 00:23:21,810 --> 00:23:24,130 you could go. It would be a blessing to have 438 00:23:24,130 --> 00:23:27,570 started the day I died with fajar and little recitation of 439 00:23:27,570 --> 00:23:30,850 the Quran and then with Dohor. If your death was written after 440 00:23:30,850 --> 00:23:33,810 dohor or then with us, or if your death death was written 441 00:23:33,810 --> 00:23:36,470 after that and so on. May Allah bless everyone of us 442 00:23:36,470 --> 00:23:39,190 and grant the strength, the ability to change, the ability 443 00:23:39,190 --> 00:23:42,350 to help others at a time of need, and the ability to 444 00:23:42,350 --> 00:23:46,150 continue on the path with hope until we meet with Alas of Hana, 445 00:23:46,150 --> 00:23:49,230 Huata Allah Akulu Kawli Hada Wassa Allahu Wassalema Allah 446 00:23:49,230 --> 00:23:49,990 Nabina Mohammed.