We Are Human Beings, We Sin. We Falter And At Times We Transgress
Knowingly And The Times Unknowingly. May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
Forgive Us.
That Itself Is A Crisis. While We Know We Are Human.
We Are Believers, We'Re Supposed To Be Obeying Allah'S Instruction,
But Shaitan Keeps Coming, The Devil Keeps Coming.
He Traps Us. He Tries And He Continues Trying, He Comes To
Those Who Are Pious, He Comes To Those Who Are Not So Pious.
He Comes To The Practicing, He Comes To Those Who Are Not Practicing
So Well, But Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Tells Us There Is A Race.
You Must Make Haste.
You Must Make Haste When It Comes To This Race.
It Is The Race Of Achieving Comfort During That Type Of A
Crisis. The Crisis Is Sinful Behavior, The Sins And The Comfort
Is The Race.
What Is The Race, This Race Is Spoken About In A Few Places
In The Quran.
One Of Them Is In Surah Al-E-Imran.
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Says In Verse Number 133
We Want You To Race To Make Haste Towards Two Things.
Number One The Forgiveness Of Allah, Number Two The Paradise
That Allah Has In Store. Now, It Might Sound Very Simple But
My Brothers And Sisters When You Make Haste Towards Seeking
The Forgiveness Of Allah, What Have You Done? You'Ve Developed
A Relationship With Allah.
So Every Time You Sin Like We Said Human Nature, Immediately
Turn To Allah, The Question Might Be How Often? As Often As
Possible Even If It Were To Be Up To A Hundred Times A Day.
What If I Repeated The Same Sin After Seeking The Forgiveness
Of Allah? The Answer Is Well, If The Conditions Of Seeking
Forgiveness Were Met And They Are Four, Then You Don'T Need
To Worry.
If You Had Fallen Back Into The Same Sin.
Again, The Same Four Conditions Would Actually Make You Sinless
And Spotless Once Again, And Again And Again And It Is Endless.
There Is No Limit To That.
How Comforting Is That?
You Committed A Sin You Sought Forgiveness, Committed A Sin
You'Ve Sought Forgiveness, Same Sin Again Sought Forgiveness
And It Kept Going For As Long As The Last Thing You Did, Before
Your Last Breath Was Seeking Forgiveness
You Have Succeeded, Become Used To This.
This Doesn'T Mean You Have A Green Light To Sin But It'S
Only Telling You Allah Has Asked You To Race Towards Seeking
Forgiveness. Make Sure You Make Haste, Don'T Delay.
Don'T Say I'M Going For Hajj.
I'Ll Seek Forgiveness, Do It Now.
I'M Waiting For Lailatul Qadr.
I'Ll Seek Forgiveness, Do It Now,
Don'T Wait For Those Days.
You May Never See Them.
You Might Go Back To Allah Before That Subhanallah.
What Are The Four Conditions Of Seeking Forgiveness? Number
One: Admit Your Sin To Yourself Between You And Allah, Number
Two: Regret It.
That'S Also Between You And Allah, Number Three: Seek Forgiveness.
That'S Also Between You And Allah, Number Four: Promise Not
To Do It Again,
That'S Also Between You And Allah.
Once Those Four Conditions Are Met, You Don'T Need To Involve
A Third Party,
Not An Imam, Not A Leader,
Not A Person.
No One. You Have Those Four
Conditions, You Sought The Forgiveness Of Allah, You Admitted,
You Regretted, You Ask Allah'S Forgiveness, You Promise
Not To Do It Again.
It'S Gone, Wiped Out But You Keep Seeking Forgiveness Again,
Even For Those Sins You Committed In The Past Because The
More You Seek Forgiveness
They More Your Status Is Elevated.
You Are Given Greater Of Ranked By Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
So Allah Says Make Haste Towards Seeking Forgiveness From
Your Lord And Paradise
Make Haste Towards Paradise That Paradise That Has Been Prepared
For Those Who Develop The Correct Relationship With Allah
It Has Been Prepared For The Muttaqeen.
Those Who Are Conscious Of Allah,
They Have Developed The Correct Relationship With Allah, Who
Has Developed The Correct Relationship With Allah?
We Always Say, Oh The Muttaqeen The Taqwa Etc And I Told
You I Prefer The Translation Those Who'Ve Developed The Correct
Relationship With Allah, So Verse Number 134 Of Surat Al-Imran
Allah Tells Us Who They Are?
Those Who Spend During Difficult Times, It'S Hard For You
To Spend But You'Re Spending, We Have A Crisis Across The
Globe, People Have Lost Jobs.
My Business Is Down, But I Still Have, So I'M Spending From
That Which Allah Gave Me. You'Re Developing A Correct Relationship
With Allah. Spending On Who? On Others; Starting With Your Family
Members. Many Wealthy People Are Quite Stingy.
Sorry To Use The Word But They Are Sometimes, They Have A
Lot But Their Own Families Are Struggling Because They
Don'T Spend On Necessity. My Brothers And Sisters Create Comfort.
Because That Is A Crisis And You Know What? If You Can Help
Allah Will Help You In Other Ways.
So Those Who Spend The During Difficult Days On Those Whom
They Are Supposed To Be Spending On Including The Needy And
Those Who Spend During Days Of Ease, Actually The Ease
Mentioned Before The Difficulty But Still Either Way Now
Something Very Important Is Mentioned Immediately After That;
Two Qualities That Will Bring About So Much Of Comfort In
Any Crisis, That Is Amazing Mentioned In This Verse Number
134 Of Surat Al-Imran Allah Has Already Said Those Who Develop
The Correct Relationship With Me And They Are The Ones Who
Spend During Days Of Ease And During Times Of Hardship. They
Are Spending Their Used To Spending On Others, What You Got
Will Only Be Written As A Reward When You Spent It. You Kept
It To Yourself, It'S Not Written As A Reward. As Soon As You
Die It Goes To Someone Else But If You Spent It It'S Written
Next To Your Name, Good Deed Or Bad Depending On How You Spent
It. So My Brothers And Sisters Then Allah Says It'S Not Good
Enough To Only Spend. Some People Spend, Then They Are Arrogant.
They Are Boastful.
They Brag, Allah Says
Those Who
Actually Swallow Their Anger, Those Who Extinguish Their Anger.
They Suppress Their Anger
Those Are The Ones Who Have Developed The Right Relationship
With Allah.
They Are The Muttaqun
They Deserve Paradise.
They Would Have Made Haste Towards Paradise.
So Allah Is Telling You About The Race, The Race To Paradise.
This Includes Extinguishing Your Anger.
Subhanallah.
You Want Paradise Allah Says Well Part Of The Race Is Don'T
Be Angry, Young Boy Comes To The Prophet.
Peace Be Upon Him And Says Advised Me.
He Says Don'T Get Angry.
Give Me More Advice.
He Says Don'T Get Angry.
Give Me More Advice.
He Says Don'T Get Angry.
He Kept Repeating That Why Perhaps That Boy Had A Temper
Problem, A Problem With His Anger; Anger Management.
He Needed. Allah Is Telling
You, Be Conscious Of Me, Develop The Correct Relationship With
Me And You Know What? Race Towards Forgiveness And Paradise
And The Racing Towards Forgiveness And Paradise That Is Prepared
For Those Who Are Conscious Of Allah That Race Includes Spending
You Spend When You Spend You'Ve Won The Race But Together
With That You Need To Extinguish Your Anger. When You Extinguish
Your Anger That Comes At A Time When You Achieve So Much
Of Comfort You Cannot Describe It.
It Is So Comforting, You Could Have Vented It And You Just
Didn'T. So What Subhan Allah, You Are The More Powerful Person
The Prophet Peace Be Upon Him Says A Powerful Person Is Not
He Who Can Out Wrestle Others; A Powerful Person Is The One
Who Can Extinguish His Anger When He'S Angry, Subhanallah.
Can You Do? Well, Then You Achieve A Lot Of Comfort. You Protect
Yourself From Many Crises And Look At This The Last Part
Of That Verse Allah Says,
Subhanallah, Part Of
Of The Race, Part Of Developing Your Relationship With Allah
And Earning Paradise And Winning
The Race Is To Forgive People, Learn To Forgive Others.
It'S Hard.
It'S Very Hard.
Sometimes Let Go, Let Go Try And Develop That Habit, You Be
Smiling All The Time, You Know, They Are People Who Did Wrong
To You.
But You Say O Allah I'M Going To Stay Away From Them.
But I Forgiven Them You See A Mistake
We Make My Brothers And Sisters, When We Say Forgive Someone,
We Expect Them To Embrace And Go Back To What The Life Used
To Be Like Before, Whereas That'S Not A Condition Of Forgiveness
All The Time.
It Depends Who You'Re Forgiving And What They Did, If It Was
Really Bad And You Forgive Them And They Haven'T Changed
In Their Ways And Habits.
You Are Not Wrong To Stay Away From Them To Protect Yourself
From Further Crises.
So To Remain Within Comfort In The Crisis, I'Ve Kept A Distance
Because Every Time I Go Back To The Brother Or The Sister
It Pains Me To Be Back In The Same Crisis.
So I Forgiven Them But It Doesn'T Mean I Have To Embrace
Them, Forgiveness Is One Level, To Forgive And To Embrace Is
A Noble Level.
But It'S Another Level.
It Also Depends Who The Other Party Is.
This Statement Of Qualification Is Necessary Because Many
People Blackmail Us By Saying Well Forgive Them And Embrace
Them And I Thought You Forgave Me So, You Know, I'M Back
To Normal.
No, I Forgave You, But It May Never Be Back To Normal Because
Forgiveness Is Not Necessarily To Embrace Someone. Those Are
Two Different Acts Of Worship To Embrace Someone They Must
Be Worth Embracing, Subhanallah, A Man Who Has A Dagger And
Has Stabbed You You Have Forgiven Them.
But If You Were To Embrace Them When They Have Not Released
The Dagger Yet.
They Will Stab You Again.
So You Need To Understand If The Dagger Is Still In The Hand
Then You May Not Embrace Them.
But If The Dagger Is Dropped, They Are Remorseful Things Have Changed.
They Have Come To You And Warm Tears Have Rolled Down Both
Sides Cheeks In That Particular Case,
We Will Forgive And We Will Embrace But If There'S No Change
Change On One Side.
Then I'M Sorry.
We Cannot Do That Sometimes And That Too Is A Means Of Protecting
Yourself. You Will Achieve Comfort By Staying Away From Certain
People If You'Ve Tried And You Really Are Failing And It'S
Bothering You And Affecting Your Mental Health And Your Spirituality
And Your Closeness To Allah.
There Is Nothing Wrong In Keeping A Comfortable Distance
With Love, With Affection, With No Hatred In The Heart, With
No Ill Feeling And With Having Released By Forgiving Them, May Allah
Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Grant Us A Deep Understanding And This
Is Why Allah Says
Allah Loves Those Who Do Good.
Who Are Those Who Do Good? Those Who Have These Qualities;
They Spend During Ease And During Hardship.
They Actually Extinguish Their Anger.
And At The Same Time They Forgive The People For Allah Loves
Those Who Do That.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Grant Us Comfort, May Allah
Subhanahu. Muhammad Allah Help Us In All Conditions.
Please Control Your Anger My Brothers My Sisters.