assalamu alaikum welcome back to Allah Loves so last time we talked about
sincere supplication and many people don't call out to Allah sincerely
because they feel too distant from him to call out to him not realizing that
the calling out to him is a form of closing that gap and actually reducing
that distance now I want to bring the first five episodes into perspective
with this particular episode Shaitaan invites us to commit a sin in the first
place that then causes the distance between us and Allah then Shaytaan
invites us to feel too ashamed to turn back to Allah with Toba and to call upon
him with dua so that we can get back close to him this is a very powerful
connection that Allah makes in the Quran in Surat al-baqarah "in allahu yuhibbu
al tawabeen wa yohibo al mutatahareen" allah loves those who
repent and Allah loves those who are engaged in purifying themselves now some
of the scholars said that this purification is physical purification
it's referring to "wudu" and "tahara" it's referring to the way that we clean
ourselves up for prayer there are other scholars that said that this one
actually has a spiritual implication and will actually talk about in the future
episode how Allah loves "tahara" in the physical sense but I want to
actually focus on this from the spiritual perspective first of all
"al mutatahareen" those who are engaged in purifying themselves so just as Allah
loves those who are engaged in repentance not necessarily those "alatheena
taboo" those who repented in the past tense and they no longer are
committing sin because we're always committing sin and always repenting and
always trying to get back close to him but those who are seeking to purify
themselves those who are engaged in a state of purification the power of that
is that Allah does not expect you to reach some peak purification before you
can be worthy of supplicating him but Allah loves you just for trying Allah
loves you just for the effort and if you think about how beautiful and profound
that is then it actually helps you to repent and helps you to make "duaa"
so there's a very beautiful expression there's a very beautiful explanation for
this verse from the spiritual perspective and it comes
from the way of imam hassan al bars (rahim allah) as well as the great "mufaser"
of the quran the great explainer of the quran Mujahid (rahimahu Allah Ta'ala) they said
that "in allahu yuhibbu al tawabeen" that Allah loves those who repent ie
those who do not insist upon sin okay then "in allaha yuhibbu al mutatahareen"
those who do not return to those same sins okay so the first one they said
"lam useeboha" those that don't engage or those that don't insist upon committing
those particular sins so they're insisting upon returning to Allah even
if they do commit those sins at times they insist upon returning to Allah and
then the second one they said "al mutatahareen la ya'oodoona fee"
they don't return back to those exact same sins over and over and over again
because that would show a disregard of Allah that would show that you weren't
taking your tawba seriously your repentance seriously and that would show
that you haven't learned the lessons now there is something important to
understand here Allah loves you for trying and Allah loves you for being
engaged in the state of purification and Allah loves you for repenting but where is
it that we actually fall short here some of us will repent sincerely for a sin
and then insist that we will not return to the sin yet still return to it that
does not disqualify you from the love of Allah nor does it open up all the
previous times that you committed that sin or nullify the repentance from those
previous sins the type of insistence and returning to that could cause you to
fall out of the love of allah (subhanho wta'ala) out of this journey of attaining
the love of Allah is when you insist upon those sins and disregard the sight
of Allah and disregard the pursuit of Allah (subhan wa taala) in returning to
those sins so that's the difference between falling short again getting weak
again after you sincerely repent and not being sincere in your repentance in the
first place hence not being sincere in your pursuit of purification in the
first place as well so we ask Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) to allow us to always
be engaged in the effort of purification to allow us to reach better states and
to always allow us to be in his state of love even as we fall
short at times just for being in the state of repentance and for being in the
state of the effort of purification Allah homa ameen, jazakAllahu khayran
see you all next time inshallah assalamu alikoum wa rahmatallahi wa barakato