A Salaam alay Kumar rahma to lahiwa barakato.
It's milay Rahman Rahim al hamdu.
Lila was salato was Salaam Ala rasul ilahiwala Ala Ali.
He was happy. Here ajamain we praise the Las
of hana ho Ola. My beloved brothers and sisters,
many times in life we fail to progress because we are stuck in
the past. And this is not only true when
it comes to our own faults and our own sins, but even with
others at times it is in the best of your interests to let go
of something that looks like you cannot let it go.
But in order for you to progress, you must let it go.
Imagine a person who is owed 1000 Rands.
And then and obviously, if he is owed 1000 Rands legitimately, he
can ask for it. He can pursue it legally, He can
actually take up a lot in order to get it.
But is it worth the drama? That's the question.
Why should I pay 10,000 Rands in order to get back 1000 Rands 1
might say, Well, it's to prove a point.
You pay a price to prove points. Remember that we as Muslims are
taught that you must always weigh the pros and cons and
allow the lesser of the two evils if you have no third
option. Remember that and this is
something very interesting because.
Many people are bogged down in life.
They simply cannot move forward. You lost your job, you are fired
unceremoniously, and you want to get back at your old boss by
that occupation that you've now engaged in of getting back to
your old boss. You have stopped your eyes from
looking ahead at jobs that are glaring you in your face simply
because you did not move on. It's OK.
You're not the first person to lose your job.
You're going through a tough time.
Trust me, we've all been through tough times.
It might last a year, it might last five years, it might last
10 years. But it will last longer if you
don't progress and you don't look at the future.
Shine your eyes and take a look at the glass in front of you
that shows you the whole Rd. that you don't even want to walk
on. We become lazy and sad simply
because. We've had something traumatic
that happened in our lives. Maybe a scare in our health,
maybe a robbery we've had, Maybe someone we've lost, May Allah
grant our loved ones Jenna. Or it could be anything else.
My brothers, my sisters, I am here to tell you that it's not
the end of the road. Look up and move forward.
If, if at all, you want to look back, it should only be to learn
a lesson, but not to get stuck in it in such a way.
That you don't move forward, remember this.
So the prophet Salahu Alahi was Salam at the time of the victory
of Makka, which is a powerful example.
He came into Makka with an army of 10s of thousands and what
happened? The people of Maqa who had
harmed the Muslims, they had usurped their wealth, they had
abused them, they had killed many of them and so on.
Here comes Rasulullah Salahu alehi wassalem.
And he asks them the famous question of people of Quresh.
What do you think I'm going to? Do to you today.
Imagine someone who's harms to that degree.
I don't even want to get into it, but it's very bad.
And then here comes the messenger with all the power
saying. What do you think I'm going to
do to you today? Imagine if a guy today from
amongst us had to tell another who has killed from his family
or usurped the wealth driven them out of their homes for
years on end, and he comes one day powerfully what?
Do you think I'm going to do to you today?
They looked at him and says, you're a good man.
The son of a good man. Oh, now suddenly I'm a good man.
You see, all these years I was not a good man.
La hawalawala kuwata illah. Al Ali Al Adim.
Now he's they said, well, you know we expect goodness, what
would we expect? He says if Habufa and Tumu to
Laka. No retribution today.
Go. You are free.
I'm going to tell you what use of Ali his Salaam told his
brothers no retribution against you.
Go you are free. Allahu Akbar.
If the prophet Salah Al Salam
wanted, he could have actually got every single one of them
back. Every one of them.
But no, there was a bigger picture.
Let's move forward. Let's progress.
We have an UMA to serve. We have families.
We have relatives here. We have so much here.
And you know what? A lot of these people are not
Muslim. By us showing them the true
teachings of Islam, they will enter the fold of Islam.
And that's exactly what they did today.
When people look at us, Muslims turn away from Islam because
they let down by us. They all are not do that to us.
Today when people look at us, they are discouraged.
Today we break relations of our families, ourselves.
Here is the prophets of Assalem saying, you know what, let's
make peace. Move forward from today.
Don't go back. He never ever looked back.
As a result, it was considered true victory.
What is the true victory? Don't look back.
Look forward. There is a lot to achieve.
Yes, yes, yes. You need to understand if you
were bitten from one angle, you will.
Learn the lesson and not be bitten again from the same angle
again, but at the same time you need to know.
Just keep moving. I have a brother very recent
story, brother in Islam. He lost the job just before this
COVID thing happened and he told me my brother, I want to get
back at this. These people, I know a lot about
them and I really want to nail them.
And I told him my brother instead of nailing people.
You'd rather concentrate on yourself?
By me mailing someone? It's not going to give me any
goodness. Will it give you a job?
No. You get a bad name, People won't
want to employ you anyway. So what should I do?
Look forward. Make dua to Allah.
Ask Allah, Turn to Allah, he says.
But I've been asking Allah for so many years for an Increment
and instead he's given me the loss of a job.
You see? Do you trust Allah's plan?
That's the question. Do you trust Allah's plan?
You've been making Do I for an increment for so long and
suddenly you lost a job, so you think, look, Allah's doing the
opposite. Subhan Allah.
I just told him. I said, brother, you know what?
Consider this. If you're holding tight to a few
coins with one hand and allow ones to give you 2 handfuls of
gold coins, the first thing he needs to do is to make you open
this hand so that these coins go.
Or at least your hands are now opened.
If the process, you might lose these coins.
Make do our bear patience. Don't worry.
If the prophets of asylum went through it, who are we?
We will go through even more. And he told me, well that's the
mantra that all of you guys utter whenever we are in
difficulty. I said well we are taught that
and you must believe that. Be convinced.
Don't ever leave Allah at the time of your hardship.
Never blame Allah. No way.
Allah tells you clearly. You have harm and evil.
It's not my doing, it's yours or man's doing the harm and fasa do
fin Bari 1 Bari be my Casa. But and he did nassilly you be
come about one Levi amino Allah makes it clear that all this
chaos and corruption and all nonsense you see on earth it has
become apparent. Because of the handiwork of
mankind. You guys did it, not me unless
it don't blame me for the evil people.
Say why does Allah allow murder? Who murdered?
Was it not a human being? Why blame Allah for someone
else's crimes? Well then they might say, well
what was the sin of the innocent child who was murdered?
You say you know what Allah will give justice, but there was
someone who murdered the child. It's human beings who committed
that crime. The fact that Allah knew it in
advance does not make him guilty of being merciless when He is
the Most Merciful. He says to us, I will provide
for those who believe and those who don't believe.
That's what He says in the Quran.
In this world. I will provide for those who
believe and those who don't believe.
The difference is those who believe will have the hereafter.
Those who don't believe, they won't have the hereafter because
they don't believe in it. So I told this brother, I said
brother make duar. And Allah will open your doors.
And he says, OK, you know what? I'm a Muslim.
I've been doing do. I'm not going to leave it.
But please make do I that Allah strengthen me.
Trust me. COVID took over, as you know,
life changed, I hope temporarily.
And you know what Subhan Allah, this man suddenly struck gold.
He was at the right place at the right time.
And there was one deal that he did that was worth a lot.
And it changed his life. It went through another and the
3rd and the 4th and the 5th. And he tells me please, please
use me as an example to tell people don't lose hope.
I almost gave up. I lost my job in such a bad way.
But that was definitely what you were saying, that Allah is
opening your doors. Allah is opening your doors.
I look forward instead. If I had gone back to nail my
previous boss, I would have still been.
In that or on that path, doing the same thing, trying to nail
and I would be busy with this, losing money, going to this one,
that one. But what I did is I focused on
something that was right in front of me and a loss of Hana
Ho Atala opened these doors. Why am I saying this today?
We're all going through struggles, all of us.
Different levels of struggles. Remember my brothers and
sisters, you're not alone. We're in it together.
We all have challenges, myself included.
Learn to help one another, Learn to say a good word to one
another, learn to be focused, Work hard.
A day will come when you will smile, even if it is 2 years,
four years. Another example, people going
through divorce. Divorce is becoming like a
trend. Like a trend.
You married, you got to ask the guy, are you still married?
After two years. You say if he says yes, yes, he
said. Marshala.
Because, you know, now it's like sort of.
Not the norm anymore. The norm is like you married
awas is vana La Grant us is. It's not bad to actually be
divorced for the right reasons or to divorce for the right
reasons. But when it becomes a trend, it
it is scary. We're not prepared to sacrifice
for one another anymore. We're not prepared to forgive
one another anymore. We want a perfect human being
who's spotless without any weaknesses.
That's what we're looking for. Well, that.
You will only find in paradise if you ever get there.
Mira La Granta's Janna. Now people say I'm going to get
the perfect spouse in Janna. I say, are you even going to get
to Janna? That's a question.
How can you say that? You're supposed to give us hope.
I said That's a statement of hope.
Because when you start thinking, gosh, am I really going to get
there, it will get you up for fudge.
But if you didn't think of it that, am I really going to get
there? Well, Lahi, yesterday I had a
question. From someone, a silly question,
very silly question. Someone asks me, will we be
allowed to steal in gender? I mean, how far can your mind go
to be honest with you, How far can your mind go?
Will you be allowed to kill in gender and steal in general?
Because if you can do anything there, like Allah says, you will
be able to do anything. So I said the pure mind will
never ever think in those lines, on those lines in that
direction. Never my brothers and sisters.
When divorce happens, it's not the end of the world.
Not the end of the world. Perhaps it is a door for you to
then get to someone else. Had you not been through your
first relationship, you would never have gotten to this much,
much better person that you subsequently got married to.
See. I see a lot of people nodding
here, Marshall, what's going on here guys?
Allah grant us is Allah open our doors.
But the moral is. Never give up.
We go through challenges. We go through hardship.
Let's look forward. Let's progress.
People sit and say I'm going to fix this X of mine.
You know what? Just move on By making someone
else's life difficult. It's not going to make your life
easy. Not at all.
You want ease? close a chapter, Open a new one.
Let's move forward. Thank Allah.
Beautiful relationship. And that's more.
May Allah grant us goodness. So this is it, my brothers and
sisters. The prophet Salah Al Asalem met
with Khalid Demilwaleed Ravi Allah when he came to Medina and
he wanted to declare his Shahada.
You know who Khalid Demilwaleed, Ravi Allah and whom I was.
He had caused a lot of damage against the Muslims, especially
in Ohan. He was well known and so he
says, oh Messenger Salah Al Asalam, I've got a problem.
The issue is. You know what I've done against
Islam and the Muslims. I'm about to accept Islam.
What's going to happen? He wants to know as a lot of
teachers. The professor Salem told him Ya
Khalid in the Islam mayajub buma kabla oh Khalid.
Islam will delete whatever happened the bad that you did in
the past the same way Tolba deletes the past.
Also if you were to revert or convert to Islam, your past bad
is deleted. The good carries with.
You know they say when you go for Hajj you return as pure as
the day you were born. Do you know in reality it is
even purer than that? Why?
Because that purity is referring to sinlessness.
That's what it's referring to. It's not referring to 0 on your
slate. When the professor Salem said as
pure as the day you were born, he means no sins next to your
name. He doesn't mean nothing next to
your name. Evidence of it is what about all
the good I did before I went for Hutch?
It remains. You get the point.
So the good remains. The bad is formatted, gone.
This is something amazing. Whenever we talk of Hutch and
Toba, we must remember. Yes, it deletes, but it doesn't
make you. You know, they say I'm starting
on a clean page. You're starting on a page that
already has so much of goodness on it because not only is it
clean, but it's clean from sin. It's full of the goodness you
did. Allah says if you changed your
life then we're going to bring back the bad oh oh oh oh.
Allah says in the Quran if you change your life in La Mantaba
or Amana or Amina Amalansala 3 conditions you make Toba Toba
means to return to Allah. What's the difference between
istilfar and Toba? Istilfar is to ask Allah's
forgiveness. Taoba is to return to Allah by
changing your ways. That's the difference.
Taoba is more loved by Allah because it is broader than
istilfar. Istilfar.
I said Allah forgive me, Taoba is now my life changed.
That's the difference. So Allah says those who made
that toba, they returned to me were Aman and they believed they
worked on their connection with Allah.
They believed their Iman. And thirdly, they did good
deeds. Alas says we're going to bring
back those bad deeds and we're going to convert them into good
deeds on the scale, simply because this person could have
done the bad but they didn't because of their love of me and
the connection with me. So Alas says, because of that, I
mean look, a person who is on intoxicants, may Allah protect
us and our offspring, a person on intoxicants who says, oh
Allah, forgive me, and then the intoxicants are still available.
But he says I'm not doing this anymore.
Allah says we're going to bring all of that back and convert it.
You know why? You only quit it for us, nothing
else. You could have done it.
You can still do it. But because you love us and you
know, we said it's wrong and you did not do it.
We love that action so much we're going to show you Subhana
law. That is Allah.
So this is the type of relationship we must develop
with Allah. Subhana Hawataala and he will
assist. Days come in our lives when my
beloved brothers and sisters, we are so low that we feel where is
Allah. Do you know that the messengers
before us and the pious people before us, they used to ask
Allah, oh Allah, when is your help going to come?
Was Ulzino Hattaya Kuna rasunu alavina Amano mahu Matanasula.
They were shaken. They were tested left, right and
center until the Messenger and the people around him with him.
They said when is the help of Allah going to come?
Allah says be patient, Allah in Nanasar, Allah hikari, be
patient. Allah's help is near, Allah's
help is near. I remember sitting with one
scholar and he said every duar is hurt by Allah.
Every single duar is hurt by Allah.
It's a matter of time for that duar to come and plug in.
Some people it's a few days, some people it's months, some
people it's years. Don't ever think that Allah did
not accept your duar. Never.
All of us. If you sit and think about some
duars you've made in your life, that happened five years later.
It happened 10 years later, but you don't realize it came.
It definitely came when the time was right.
That's a last plan. Trust Allah.
We were talking about gender. Sometimes we tend to forget
that. We need to work towards Jenna
rather than arguing about what we're going to be getting in
Jenna, like I say, look at the path.
You can see it's there, you know it's there and you know the
destination is also punched in. You just follow the path.
Don't worry about now when I get there, this when I get there
that. The other day I took my children
somewhere and I punched it on the GPS and we are following the
G PS:. It says turn left, it says turn
right. It says continue.
We did exactly that, knowing in our hearts that, you know, at
the end of the day we're going to get there.
And when we get there, we'll see what there is.
There might be restrictions, they might not.
They might not even let us in. It might be closed, even though
it says it's open because, you know, times have changed, right,
Vallahi. Our conviction in the G PS:.
Of Allah should be far stronger than that.
Far stronger. Don't worry what you're going to
get. I would never bother about what
exactly I'm going to get in gender.
What I'm bothered about is for me to get there, that's all.
And that should be the case with all of us.
Worry about getting there. They say even if you are the
last person to enter gender, you should be excited.
You should Hey I made it. Subhan Allah no matter where
what. Akbar, I have little children.
Ask me some time, you know, if I'm in gender on one level and
another person is in gender on another level and I wish to meet
them, or they wish to meet me, what will happen?
I said Allah will make it happen in a way that I can't explain to
you. But Inshala, when we get there,
we'll just nod our heads and say, hey, it happened.
You see? I don't know.
I just know it will happen. And I know that Allah can keep
you in a certain way. You know, there's a very
interesting hadith that comes to my mind, a very interesting it
says whoever has had intoxicants, meaning that
whoever has had the the intoxicating wines of the dunya
will not be having the wines in general.
Meaning say they're forgiven and they change their lives and
whatever. So now here comes a man, he
says, hey, I had a bad life in the past.
I used to drink. And you know, now I've changed
my life and inshala, I'm looking forward to gender.
But why won't I have the alcohol meaning the the, the wines?
It's called wines. It's not intoxicating.
The one in gender is not intoxicating.
Why won't I have it in gender? Imagine it's going to be
something that I'm going to want and when I want it and I'm going
to say no, doesn't it negate another another verse of the
Quran which says once you get into gender, you get what you
want. So I said the best explanation
of the O Lama is something simple Allah removes from your
entire system. Even the thought of it.
You won't think of it. I mean, if you loved something
and you got into a place where there's something billions of
times better than that, would you even think of that?
You wouldn't even want it. It won't even cross your mind.
Perhaps one day, years later in the dunya, we might think about
it in the Akhira. Allah will occupy you with so
much of goodness. It's not going to come.
Again to the moral, the whole topic of today, to instill hope
in the hearts of the people by telling them don't get bogged
down with the past. Whether it's someone who did
something to you, whether it's your own past, you need to look
ahead, you need to move forward, and you need to understand, make
the most of whatever Allah has given you.
I end by telling you, my brothers, my sisters, those of
us who have sinned against ourselves.
And we have had a past or we have done something evil.
Turn to Allah before it is too late.
Next week. We might not see some of us in
the Masjid next week. In fact, next week is too far.
You can have a scare at any time.
Anything could happen. Don't lose hope in the mercy of
Allah. You are good enough.
You are definitely good enough. Just make amends.
Get up, stand up and move. Move forward.
Get up for Salah. Ask our Lord's forgiveness if
you falter once more. Ask our Lord's forgiveness again
and again and again and don't give up.
May Allah's from Hana Hua Allah bless every one of us and grant
us goodness. I pray that the next time we
meet each other we will be in a better condition.
Today we are in a better condition than we were
yesterday. Humble in love.
Please seek the forgiveness of Allah.
I believe that there is definitely something wrong with
us. That's what I believe.
There is definitely something wrong with us.
Imagine maka Medina, the massage, everything being
affected in this way. We need to revisit our link with
Allah. There is definitely something
wrong with us. And don't point the fingers at
others. It's me.
I need to help myself improve myself.
Life is so short. I have had a lot of people and
I'm sure you may have whom I've known.
Suddenly they know more. Where did they go?
Back to Allah. Its a matter of a few days and
you could go. It would be a blessing to have
started the day I died with fajar and little recitation of
the Quran and then with Dohor. If your death was written after
dohor or then with us, or if your death death was written
after that and so on. May Allah bless everyone of us
and grant the strength, the ability to change, the ability
to help others at a time of need, and the ability to
continue on the path with hope until we meet with Alas of Hana,
Huata Allah Akulu Kawli Hada Wassa Allahu Wassalema Allah
Nabina Mohammed.