Assalamualaikum. Warahmatullah my, brother's, my
sister's many people, find it difficult to turn back to the
almighty. After they have led a life
filled with sin. And shaitan has a plan that he
thinks works and sometimes out of our ignorance, we fall into
his trap. So at the beginning, he wants us
to transgress. So we start committing the sins
one after the other. You know, when you sin and you
regret it then, That's a good sign.
Regret is only a sign because you believe that Allah or
someone is you know going to hold you responsible for what
you're doing. So you regret it and there comes
a time when you commit the sin again and again when you don't
regret it anymore you don't think about it and then it
becomes major and this is why when you commit - ins for a long
time it actually becomes major sin so shaitaan comes and makes
you commit these sins. So now you're away from Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala and Allah gives Tziu reminders every other
day different ways whether it's a health matter, whether it's
something social, whether it's, whatever your economics,
whatever else might be a situation that is created by
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to tap you on the shoulder.
Hey, you need to turn. You cannot continue leading your
life in this way. You cannot oppress people.
You cannot harm and hurt others, you cannot forget about us.
So that's the mercy of Allah, then you want to turn back to
Allah, but shade Keeps telling you know, you're not good
enough, you've committed, the biggest sins, your sins are two
big, you've committed adultery, you've gambled.
You've been on toxicants, you've actually done whatever there is
in the book to be committed in terms of sins stavroula.
So shaitaan tells you, no hope for you.
Listen to what Allah says in Surat az-zumar.
Let upon out. Don't ever lose hope in.
The mercy of Allah, he will forgive every single sin of
yours. He is most forgiving, most
merciful, that is Allah speaking to you.
And I Subhan Allah, Allah says o you who have transgressed
against yourselves, that's what Allah is telling us.
So remember when Allah says, don't lose hope in my Mercy now
shape. Comes, he's very upset, he had
you in his clutch, you were sending he was excited.
He was proving a point to Allah. You see, I told you these guys
are not going to worship. You are going to worship me.
Now when you're turning to Allah, he's losing grip and so
he comes to you and says you're not good enough, you're not
going to be forgiven. So as you seek that forgiveness,
there comes a time when he makes you start thinking.
You have not been forgiven. Did you know my brothers and
sisters the first time you seek forgiveness from a sin if you've
done it since Sincerely, you repenting you regret it and you
don't want to commit it. Again, that sin is wiped out
when the first time you seek forgiveness, it's already wiped
out. Look at Adam alayhis-salam him
and Eve may peace be upon them. How why, alayhim as-salam when
they ate from the tree. It was the only thing Allah told
him not to do. They did it when they did that.
They just told Allah. We regret it and we seek your
forgiveness. If you don't forgive us, we're
going to be Among the losers Allah says, I forgiven you
subhanallah as straightforward as that, they asked for it once
and they had committed a major sin.
And they asks, forgiveness and Allah forgave them.
And Allah says, didn't I warn you about the devil?
They said, we know, but we were wrong and we're sorry, and we
apologize. And we repent, and so on, Allah
says, it's okay forgiven. Now, you can go onto the Earth
and this is what should happen whenever someone has faltered.
They should seek my forgiveness. So we are just human, don't be
too hard on yourself. Self.
Don't think you're not going to be forgiven, you will falter not
out of the Defiance of Allah. You will falter out of human
nature weakness. So this is Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala my brothers and sisters.
Never let your past, haunt you to the degree.
That it hinders your relationship with Allah.
That is something. Never let your past, haunt you
to the degree that you don't believe in the mercy of Allah or
you don't understand who is Allah you're dealing with Rob
bunraku. Rahimullah dude on Masha, Allah,
you're dealing with Rahman, as-samawati one-armed or ahima
Houma, you're dealing with the most merciful, the most
compassionate, the most kind of the most forgiving, the most
merciful, etc, etc. The one whose Mercy is
incomparable to anyone or anything.
The one who would have more mercy on you, than your mother
who could have ever had mercy upon you.
That is Allah, when you tell him, oh Allah, forgive me.
It is wiped out. So we keep on repeating that.
Toba, or we keep on asking for forgiveness.
Again, and again, not because we are doubting that he has or has
not forgiven us. We should know.
He has forgiven us conviction, convinced smile and move on
subhanallah, but we repeat it in order to develop a better
relationship with Allah Allah. I'm so sorry.
You know when you love someone, you've heard them or harm them,
they love you too. And you say, look, I'm very
sorry for what I said the other day and they said, no, it's
okay, don't worry, forgiven forgotten and let's not talk
about it a day later. He say, Hurting me.
No, I'm so sorry. What?
I did I told you it's okay a day later, you tell them, but I'm
still thinking about it, you know, it pains me how I spoke to
you, or what I said and they say no, no, it's fine.
Why are you repeating it? Because there is a sense of true
regret. So when you repeat it, it should
make you feel good. It's assigned, you have a good
relationship with Allah. Not that you're doubting Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala. You have a beautiful
relationship with Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
That's the whole reason why you are continually seeking
forgiveness. And Allah elevates your status
more and more than there are some sins.
We don't even know we've committed.
Those are automatically forgiving when you do good
deeds. The Quran says, 'I'm in has an
entity with Hibbing, as saying, when you do good deeds, they
automatically Wipeout - in the the bad Deeds that are minor
that you might not even know of or you may have known about
them. But there are small signs, but
we are talking of massive since the big sins.
Yes, you engaged in all of that. Atkins and whatever it may have
been in. You did this and did that, you
know what, a terrible minute them become and learn them by
Allah. The one who seeks forgiveness
from a sin is equivalent to he or she who did not commit the
sin in the first place. And Allah says, if you change
your life after you led a bad life solely for my sake, I'm
going to go back into your records and convert all the bad
into good because you only quit it because of your love of me.
Your relationship with mean subhanallah.
So If you want your bad Deeds to be changed into Good Deeds.
The condition is after repentance.
You must actually change your life.
Your ways and you must do. Good deeds, then Allah will go
back. Take those bad deeds and convert
them into good, but if you have just sought forgiveness at that
juncture, your sins are wiped out.
Now, we have a little problem. The problem is when you commit a
sin, Allah judges you by your repentance and not by the sin.
If you have repented, good news, if you haven't bad, So seek
forgiveness and constantly seek forgiveness of Allah and have
hope in the mercy of Allah. You are just a human.
Don't be too hard on yourself. Don't ever think Allah is?
Not merciful because that is a bigger sin than the original sin
that you committed. Because when you committed the
adultery, or when you committed, the sin that you did, whether it
was in participating or partaking of intoxicants etc.
Etc, that was a sin. You committed against Allah yet
you knew, who Allah was Right now, when you are doubting the
mercy of Allah, you're doubting Allah, so you're now not even
knowing who you're talking to and you're not, no, you're not
understanding the greatness of this Lord who has created you
and loves you and wants goodness for you.
The Quran says Allah who you re doing too bad, I income while
you re don't let he Nia. Debbie Rune eyes shower tea, and
Tammy Lou my in. And now, the Allah says Allah
once. To forgive you.
Allah aim is to forgive you, that's the whole reason why he
put man on Earth because on one hand, he has the Angels who
don't commit sin at all. They don't have the capacity to
commit sin and on the other hand, you have the devil who
does not seek forgiveness because he sends out of defiance
of Allah. It's like, he tells Allah, you
told me to prostrate, I'm not going to do that.
What are you going to do about it?
I still fear Allah we as in son, humankind Believers would never
do that. So you have the devil on on one
hand, that Angels on the other, we are in the middle.
We commit sin out of human weakness, but we come back to
Allah. And how often should we come
back to Allah everyday? When will we sin?
We may send at any time, shaytan can come and try and trap us.
The beauty is if you've been following shape and for 70 years
in one day, you shed a warm tears of repentance, it wipes
out, 70 years of sin, remember that?
So no matter what you've done and how long, you've led a life
away from the Almighty, Moment of Truth will bring you straight
back back on track and you have a lovely relationship with Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala. So Allah judges you based on
your repentance, not on your sin but man will judge you based on
your sin. This is where the difficulty
comes people belittle us. They remember us for the bad.
We did they think that we haven't changed our lives.
They think we are hypocrites. Unfortunately, that some of the
negativity we may have to live with, but remember your
relationship with Allah is unique, it is Is a gift of Allah
for us. You and I seek forgiveness to
Allah, I don't need to confess any sin to anyone besides Allah.
Remember that. When we confess sins to
humankind, we will regret it because they will not really,
and truly, forgive us. It's only Allah who really, and
truly forgives you. If it's a minus sin against
someone they met, but usually man does not forgive, and they
always do not forgive as readily as Allah forgives.
And this is why. If you've committed a sin in
marriage, your spouse may never forgive you subhanallah.
But Allah will forgive you. Even if it was something that
broke your marriage, Allah will wipe it out and Grant you
elevation your spouse, didn't they broke the marriage, but
they didn't realize I had they, perhaps, forgiven, you and
embraced. You, you would have come back
with a stronger Bond than ever before, just like those who
return to Allah. After leading a life of sin,
come back with a bang, they come back with a more powerful.
Relationship with Allah, but those who were always Muslim or
they were always in obedience. Sometimes, they don't know how
valuable it is to to taste those moments of repentance when
you've turned back to Allah and you feel so clean.
May Allah grant us that cleanliness.
Why do you feel good when you cry when you cry to Allah?
Because it the scenes actually are washed away by your tears,
that's why the Hadith says subhanallah.
Ha ha Joon on the Kerala Holly and forethought, I know a person
who remembers Allah while they're alone, and they remember
Allah alone and they remember the relationship between them
and Allah and their, their eyes are filled with tears.
That person deserves a special shade on the day of judgment.
According to what Allah has told us.
The tear has not yet, rolled down your eyes.
The eye has just filled up with tears and that's enough for
Allah. Some people they want to cry,
but the She doesn't roll down the cheek but it feels the eyes
for Allah, that's good enough. If it rolls down your cheek,
Subhan Allah, then Allah speaks about those in a few places in
the Quran and he Praises them. Imagine the sahaba radiyallahu,
anhum, and others who they were mushriks.
Before they committed a sin, that Allah says he will not
forgive if you die in that condition.
So he forgives all sins if you repent from them, but if you die
in the condition of not having Painted.
Then there are certain things. He says, I will forgive
everything and anything I want to forgive, but the if it is
shared, I don't want to forgive that.
So, that's a warning for us from Allah.
Subhanahu wa'ta'ala saying, don't engage in this, the sahaba
radiallahu anhum prior to Islam engaged in that when they
accepted Islam, do you know what the Hadith says in Islam,
ahjumma Kabbalah the same words used for Toba.
When you accept Islam, when you say your shahada, all your bad
Deeds. Are wiped out totally deleted
formatted in a beautiful way. So your bad Deeds are gone.
Just like when you seek the Forgiveness of Allah, your bad
Deeds are wiped out. Just like when you go for Hajj
and it's accepted from Allah, your bad Deeds are wiped out
now, change your life, change your life, and make sure you
lead a life filled with smile filled with joy.
Don't forget you're a human, you might fall to here and there.
You will have to commit a sin or to none of us.
Can say we've never committed a sin.
I've never made mistakes. We've never done something wrong
because shaytan is around all the time coming and trying to
turn us away from Allah. If you've gone on the wrong path
for a while. Come back to Allah, he will open
your doors. He will grant you that goodness
that is Allah rabbul izzat, he will jealous.
Oh my beloved brothers and sisters, no matter what you've
done. Come back to Allah, you may have
committed sins. No matter what they were now if
the sin was committed between you and a fellow human say, for
example, You committed adultery or say I'm going to give you an
example of rape you raped. Someone may Allah protect us,
what will happen there two elements here, there is the
right of a fellow human being that Allah says I won't get
involved in. It's up to them to forgive you
and there is a right of Allah. Allah told you not to do it.
You did it. That part of it, Allah says, I
will forgive you that part, but you have to sort the matter out
with the fellow human being. So you go to them, you apologize
to them or you face the punishment.
And whatever the punishment is, if that person doesn't want to
forgive you, then you have to face the punishment now, Allah
has kept its such, this is an amazing point that every
punishment is proportionate to the sin, but human beings don't
believe that. Sometimes Allah says, if you
committed the sin with 500 grams, your punishment will be
500 grams. If you committed a sin with a
ton, your punishment will be worth a ton that's what Allah
says, but you Not have a person who just swore someone so now
you execute them. No, you cannot have a person who
perhaps stole something so now you execute them.
No, no. The punishment needs to be
proportionate to the crime committed nowadays.
People have the cancel culture where they've probably got
screenshots of some maybe messages that are not even
proven that one person wrote to another person from a distance
or said something. And as a result Human beings are
such that they will actually meet outer punishment Way Beyond
proportion, so that it may be the person deserves a reminder.
Maybe they did something wrong. They may need to apologize.
Perhaps it might even be fake or false.
We don't even know, but the cancel culture actually makes
people depressed and then they don't mind cancel those person.
Whether the person is now depressed to the degree that
they have committed. In some cases or they're
contemplating, is it really what that sin they committed would?
Actually warrant, do you really think they deserve to have
Suicidal Thoughts? Simply because they told a
little lie in their lives or a big lie in their lives.
I'm not saying it was, it was, you know, I'm not belittling the
sin but I'm telling you proportion.
I'm trying to speak here about the proportion.
So you need to understand what did this person do, you know
when a person Person steals we don't ever blame the one whom
the item was stolen from but sometimes we might want to look
at why was this motor vehicle open?
Why were the windows open? I mean, this person stole the
phone from the passenger seat, when your windows were open,
we're going to punish him but surely it's our duty to remind
you, hey, please close your windows, man.
Subhan Allah, that's a powerful point.
A lot of crimes are committed and we will only blame the
criminal, but we will continue to remind the victim to say,
take precaution. Why do we get excited when
someone remind you to say? Hey, take precautions.
What precautions did you take? Why were you at such a place?
Imagine there is a den of thugs and you decide.
Well, I'm walking through this den and people told you, don't
you get robbed and you say no, I'm walking through there.
Nothing will happen. And you walk through there and
you robbed and then you want to claim like there is no role that
you played in this. Come on, weren't you told,
weren't you want when Allah has warned us about so many things
and he's told us be careful follow these rules.
These regulations if you don't you're going to pay a price we
don't and then when we want to pay a price it's like we were
not to blame. Well, maybe we agree the
criminal is to blame but surely the reminder was good for you.
You know you need to tell yourself.
I could have done a bit better than this.
I could have locked my home. I could have actually close my
windows. I could have used an alarm, I
could have had a CCTV. I could have kept myself a
little bit better. I'm not saying the criminal is
Innocent but I'm saying save yourself.
Protect yourself. That's what Allah says.
So now when a person has committed a sin that is between
them and a, fellow human being, there is has an element of Allah
in it because Allah was the one who told you not to do it in the
first place. Allah May forgive you for that
part but the other part like I said, you need to seek the
forgiveness. If they don't forgive you, the
punishment is meted out. If the punishment is meted out,
you're actually Clean even in the world.
So now I want to address people who are welcoming those who have
come out of prison, my brothers and sisters who are incarcerated
right now. If you're listening to me, we
love you. We know.
You might have made a mistake, we know some of you are totally
innocent and the law found you guilty because of loopholes or
whatever. Other reason false witness is
rampant in today's world. So you may be innocent, but when
you come out after serving a sentence, we're here to welcome
you. We're here.
To reintroduce. You back into community and give
you another chance. That's what we're here for.
So alhamdulillah, the same applies when a person has been
on drugs or has had led a life that was very dark when they
come back. Come on, guys, we have to give
them a chance. We have to embrace them, try
them out. Give them a little bit of a
chance. Anyone could have gone wrong and
if you were to cancel them, you have lost Humanity humankind, we
shouldn't be canceling people over some mistake.
Made. We can warn them and we can
punish them. We have the right to actually
get the punishment served against them.
If it is deserved, it's our right.
If they've committed a wrong against us but to cancel them in
totality. It could have been you, your
sibling, your spouse, your child, your parent, whoever it
could have been a loved one. What about that person?
Do they not have loved ones? Are they not human?
Why should we torture others to that degree?
Where because of one thing they did wrong.
Wrong. I've had people who committed
Affairs in marriage and lost the marriage.
They were then, separated or divorced that person is
remorseful, Allah will forgive them.
You don't rub it forever and ever this person committed an
affair because they are so many out there who have committed
Affairs and continue to do it. And for some reason, they were
not exposed, but when Allah exposes you sometimes, it's
because he loves you and he wants the negativity to stop.
So say, for example, a person is having An affair when they're
exposed to the spouse my beloved spouse has.
It's not always because Allah wants you to break your
marriage. It's probably because Allah
loves that spouse so much, he wanted you to find out so that
he could stop the rubbish or she could stop the sin and after you
found out it stopped, isn't that the mercy of Allah?
Well, I always say when people say, should I break my marriage
or shouldn't I, I say to them, listen, very carefully if that
person was evil and bad and they were not a good person, Person.
Then this is your opportunity to get out of that marriage, but if
that person was really good really kind, there's a lot of
goodness and they made a mistake.
Perhaps you should, you will be better off if you forgave them
and embrace them. And I know this advice, some
communities might say it's not applicable but Allah he living
in a free world today shape on his very, very strong in his
traps. I'd rather forgive someone who's
committed an error. And I know we have a better
relationship than live with someone whom I don't even know
how hypocritical, They are, and they are committing worse,
crimes day and night. It's just that I don't know
about it. May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
protect us, you know, man is not hurt by something.
He or she doesn't know the minute, you know.
Even though it was happening for 10 years and you were so
excited. Throughout the ten years you
found out in those five minutes, you are so uneasy that you can
die of a heart attack. That's man.
We are so weak. Allah says holy akane-san who da
man has been created so So weak, so weak, we can't even think
sometimes we cannot put things into perspective.
So don't let your past haunt you, and don't haunt other
people because of their past. Whoa, that's a very powerful
statement. Don't let your past haunt, you
and don't want other people because of their past.
If they've changed come on embrace them.
I've known of people whom they're nude images and videos
have found their way online stomach hula.
It's really difficult I've spoken.
About it in a separate video, but you know, what is there hope
for those people? Yes, there is don't lose hope in
the mercy of Allah, we are here to help you to help you out of
that mess. We are definitely here to
empower you to show you that, you have a lord who loves you,
you will pay a little price because of that thing happening
to be there. If you chop your hand and then
you realize, oh, I did something wrong or Allah, forgive me, he
will forgive you, but you'll have to live with a chopped hand
for the rest of your life. Perhaps, unless Allah.
Gives you the opportunity to have an artificial hand.
People may not notice unfortunately people are not as
forgiving as Allah. So my brothers and sisters.
Don't let the comments of people bog you down.
I remember a brother recently, he wasn't even sinful, but he
was blamed for something. He did not do, and he was
canceled because of something he did not, even participating, he
didn't stand for those values that he was being canceled for.
But at the same time, the world So merciless.
So merciless Allah is merciful my brothers and sisters.
I call on you to think very carefully as much as we would
like to support the victims. We need to understand that the
perpetrator is also a human being and we will definitely
punish them if needed, or we will call for their punishment
if needed, but only to the proportion of the sin, don't go
beyond that because that becomes reverse crime, it becomes
reverse crime when you want to punish a person, Person beyond
what they actually deserve for the sin.
They committed in that case, it's reverse crime subhanallah
and who knows Allah might hold you responsible for that reverse
crime and that person may die and enter paradise.
And who knows what's going to happen to you?
If you are unable to answer to Allah, why did you penalize this
person to the degree that they committed suicide or their life
was totally messed. So we need to strike the
balance. I am supporting the victims
hands down, but I'm also saying, The perpetrators, we need to
help them. We need to perhaps re-educate
them. We need to counsel them.
We need to perhaps rehabilitate them, and reintroduce them into
society. Give them a chance.
If you look at today, people who have committed crimes sometimes
since sometimes it depends, what, what's in?
It is to be honest, but the way they're punished is so bad that
sometimes these people have a lot to offer society and
community and they're totally cancelled and all the good they
ever stood for is completely gone.
Is that fair? Is it really fair?
When Allah says, on the day of judgment, we're going to weigh
your Deeds. If you have more good than bad,
you're a good person. Will give you Paradise.
If you have more bad than good, you're going to pay because
you're bad is too much and your good is too little but there are
some people whose good is tremendous on Earth because they
made one mistake. They're wiped out completely.
That's man. It's our weakness.
My brother's my sisters. I Can strike a balance in this
regard. So this talk was all about not
letting your past, haunt you and not haunting others because of
their past. Remember to be proportionate
when you're calling for justice. It should not be beyond the
point that is deserved. And at the same time, Allah
says, if the victim is willing to forgive that is something
that is very very encouraging and for as long as we know that
this particular perpetrator is not going to commit this again
and they are remorseful. And like I said it It depends,
what's in. It is in Islam when someone's
committed murder, if the family of the one who was murdered
actually, pardons the murderer. They would be pardoned in the
eyes of Allah, that's what Allah says.
And as for forgiveness, in the eyes of Allah, your Paradise is
not compromised if you seek the Forgiveness of Allah and you
have served the punishment in this world.
When you've committed a sin against another person, then
your Paradise is not compromised, Allah will keep it
for you. And Allah knows the Was Allah
knows. We will be shocked when we
arrived on the day of judgment. Some people whom we thought were
innocent will be so guilty and some whom we thought were guilty
would be so innocent and some whom we thought were guilty and
were penalized, because they were over, penalized, we are
going to see them floating in there, glories, may Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala grant us understanding.
So, there are people someone was telling me talk about this and
talk about this person. And that person, I don't know
the exact details of their stories.
So it would Be wrong for me to mention names.
But I do know my brothers and sisters, go easy on others.
And at the same time, stand up for victims, sometimes people
have agendas and some people could be actually, you know,
maybe faking what has happened to them, it's possible that is a
possibility. Although we take claims
seriously always, but we will study it, and we will see
whether it has evidence and whether it has weight because
there are false accusations from Time of the Prophet Muhammad
peace, be upon him. And even before that, so the
possibility of being falsely accused is also there we have to
consider it while taking the allegation.
Seriously, because we don't want to make a mistake of sidelining
a victim. That would be absolutely
dangerous. I think I've spoken a lot.
It's a long video. I haven't made such long videos
in a while, but here goes, I love you all.
And I pray that anyone who's committed a sin is actually.
Powered by what we've said today to repent to Allah and to have
hope you will be as clean as the day you were born and even
cleaner because it's only the bad that is wiped out, the good
is never wiped out, but when it comes to your, your sins that
you have committed against fellow humans, you'll have to
make a little bit of peace with them and remember they may not
forgive you inshallah tomorrow. I'd like to talk about tattoos
and a few other things that really have a place with in
Repentance and within Islamic teachings for or against.
I would get to that but I want to speak about what to be done.
When you've done something that you cannot really reverse and
you want the mercy of Allah, may Allah.
Bless you all. Assalam o alaikum,
warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.