Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him Explains To Us Who The
Bankrupt Person Is.
And He Says That It Is A Person Who Has A Lot Of Good Deeds,
A Lot Of Good Deeds, But When They Come On The Day Of Judgment,
It Is Found That They Were Backbiting About Someone, They
Slandered Someone, They Wronged Someone, They Ate The Wealth
Of Someone, They Did Wrong To People. So Allah Took Those Good
Deeds And Actually Gave Them To The Others, Such That There
Were No More Good Deeds
Remaining And Thereafter
They Were Still Some People Who Want To Justice.
So Allah Took The Bad Deeds Of Those People And Put It On
The Shoulders Of This Particular Person Who Had Initially
Come With A Lot Of Good Deeds.
Now, That Is The Ultimate Crisis.
It Is Called....
The One Who Is Truly Bankrupt.
It'S Not About Money.
It'S About Your Deeds.
So This Is Why Allah Says When You Do Good Deeds, Make Sure
Protect Them By Not Engaging In Harming Others And Come With
Them On The Day Of Judgment,
We Will Multiply That For You Tenfold. In The Previous Episode
We Did Go Through This And I Did Say Verse Number 160 Of
Surat Al-An'Am, But I'Ve Repeated This For A Reason Because
The Mercy Of Allah Dictates That When You Do Good, He Multiplies It For You.
But When You Do Bad, He Comforts You By Telling You I'M Not
Going To Multiply The Bad, I Will Count It Against You Just
One Bad Deed, Subhanallah. So Allah Says
As For A Person Who Comes
On The Day Of Judgment With A Bad Deed,
They Will Not Be Recompensed Except Equivalent To That Which
They Did And They Won'T Be Wronged.
So Your Good Is Multiplied, But Your Bad Is Not Multiplied.
Isn'T That The Mercy Of Allah? Isn'T It
So Comforting To Know How Merciful Allah Is In Fact, I Can
Tell You Something
Even More Comforting Taught To Us By The Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam.
He Says When A Person Intends To Do A Good Deed, They Already
Have A Reward By The Mere Intention. If They Were To Follow
Up That Good Deed And Do It.
Then The Reward Would Be Multiplied.
If A Person Intends To Do A Bad Deed, No Sin Is Written Against
Them Yet.
If A Person Intends To Do A Bad Deed And Then Decides Against
It Because They'Ve Realized It'S Prohibited And They Would
Earn The Wrath Of Allah Then It Is Written As A Good Deed.
They Did A Good Deed.
They Stayed Away From Sin That They Wanted To Commit Simply
Because Allah Prohibited It, Amazing.
So To Intended To Plan A Sin
And Thereafter Not To Execute
It, Becomes An Act Of Worship.
It Becomes A Good Deed,
Subhanallah.
Look At The Mercy Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala And Then If
A Person Does The Bad Deed, Allah Instructs The Angel To Hold
On Not To Write It Against Them Yet For A Period Of Time
For A Part Of The Day Or A Part Of The Night, Why?
Perhaps This Person Might Seek Forgiveness.
So There'S No Need To Write It Yet.
So We'Re Given A Time After Committing A Sin To Repent.
What Kind Of Comfort Is This? Imagine Someone Has Committed
A Sin Major Or Minor And The Angels Are Told And This Is
A Correct Hadith
The Prophet (Saw) Tells Us Allah Tells The Angels
Hold On, Don'T Write It Yet.
Just Hold On.
And So Subhanallah, Amazingly If That Person Seeks Forgiveness
Immediately After The Sin Then Nothing Is Written Against
Them. The Sin Is Not Written.
It'S Gone.
It'S Wiped Out.
In Fact, There Is A Good Deed Known As Repentance That'S Written For Them, Subhanallah.
So My Brothers And Sisters,
The Guilt Or The Regret That A Believer Feels Immediately
After Committing A Sin Is Actually The Mercy Of Allah Subhanahu
Wa'Ta'Ala, It'S The Comfort Being Given To You To Say.
Listen,
What Did You Achieve By This?
Did You Gain Anything? Nothing, Seek Our Forgiveness If You
Were To Immediately Say, Oh Allah Forgive Me Allah Says,
You Know What The Angels Haven'T Yet Written It.
You'Re Fortunate, Subhanallah.
And Then If A Person Does Not Repent And The Time Stipulated
By Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Passes Then One Sin Is Written
Next To Their Name. May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Grant Us
Forgiveness. Look At The Mercy Of Allah. On Top Of That If
Later On A Person Seeks Forgiveness, Then The Sin That Was
Written Against Them Is Still Wiped Out.
In Fact If It Is A Minor Sin, Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Tells Us,
Indeed Your Good Deeds Will
Automatically Wipe Out Your Minor Sins, Without You Seeking Specific
Forgiveness For Minor Sins, Allah Says When You'Ve Done A Lot Of
Good Deeds We Automatically Wipe Out Your Bad Deeds, Remember
Allah Will Set A Scale On The Day Of Judgment, He Weighs Your
Deeds So Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Wants You To Have Had
More Good Deeds Than Bad Deeds.
If You Have More Good Deeds Than Bad Deeds You Have Succeeded.
But If You Have More Bad Deeds Than Good Deeds, Then You
Have None To Blame Besides Yourself.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Is Telling Us So Beautifully
That You Seek Forgiveness.
I Will Forgive You. If You Haven'T Sought Forgiveness And
It'S A Minor Sin.
And You Continue To Do Good Deeds.
I Will Automatically Wipe Out Those Minor Sins But If It Is A
Major Sin And The Major Sin Is That Sin
Wherein Allah Has Stipulated A Punishment For It In This
World And The Next And Allah Has Spoken About How Severe
It Is That Becomes A Major Sin.
Those Who Engage In Major Sin Would Require A Specific Repentance
In Order To Be Forgiven.
So You Can'T Just Say Oh Allah Forgive All My Sins That I'Ve
Committed Knowing That You Committed Major Sins.
You'Ve Got To Say O Allah I Did This On That Day,
I'M Confessing To You Alone.
I Regret It.
I Admit My Sin, I Ask You To Forgive Me And I Promise You
I'M Not Going To Do It Again.
The Minute All Those Four Conditions Are Met Immediately
The First Time You Asked Allah'S Forgiveness For That Sin.
You Were Forgiven. You Are Taught To Repeat The Act Of Repentance
Again, And Again In Order To Elevate Your Status And To Become
Closer To Allah Not Because You Are Doubting The Mercy Of Allah (Swt).
So Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Says In That Verse
Number 160 Of Surat Al-An'Am
They Will Never Be Oppressed,
Trust Me, My Brothers And Sisters, The Comfort Allah Gives
Us Is Such That He'S Looking For Any Excuse To Show You His
Mercy, His Looking For Any Excuse To Forgive, To Wipe Out, To
Actually Help You Forth Into Jannatul Ferdous/ Into Paradise.
May Allah Grant Us That Paradise. So My Brothers And Sisters,
Remember When You Have Done Something Wrong Seek The Forgiveness
Of Allah And Move On, Don'T Let Shaytan Make You Believe Even
For A Moment That You Do Not Stand A Chance In The Eyes Of
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala. My Brothers And Sisters,
We Move On To The Next Surahtal Al-A'Raf And
I Do Know That We'Re Taking Our Time In These Verses Because
We Must Derive These Gems That Will Give Us Comfort In Times
Of Crisis. Allah Addresses Us In Surah-Tal Al-A'Raf In Several Times
By Using The Term.
Ya Bani Adama' Oh Children Of Adam Amazing.
It Is An Honor To Be Called After The First Of Our Species
And Allah Saying You Are Children Of Adam.
I Want To Give You Advice.
Oh Children Of Adam.
Listen To This Now, We'Re Listening.
So Let'S Go Through Some Of These Where Allah Says O Children Of Adam.
What Exactly Is He Talking About?
The First Thing He Mentions In Verse Number 26 Of Suratul Al-A'Raf, He Says
Oh Children Of Adam,
I Have Sent Down To You Clothing That Will Cover Your Private
Parts And Adornment And Allah Says
Remember The Clothing Of Piety Is The Best.
So Allah Is Telling Us I'Ve Sent You Clothing To Cover Yourselves
Giving You The Main Aim Of Clothes. Some People Nowadays Clothes
In Order To Reveal. That'S A Sign Of The Hour, The Prediction
Of The Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him
He Says People Will Cover To Be Uncovered, People Will Cover
To Show Whereas Primarily We Are Supposed To Cover To Cover
Subhanallah. So Remember That Allah Is Telling You O Children
Of Adam I Have Sent You Clothing
To Cover To Cover, That'S The Main Aim To Cover Your
Private Parts And Allah Is Saying As Adornment. Now When He
Speaks Of That Adornment, He Quickly Tells You Remember To
Clothe Yourselves With The Clothing Of Piety Of Modesty That
Modest Where And That Clothing Of Piety Is What Allah Will
Be Pleased With. So Allah Is Telling You
You Want To Achieve Comfort Make Sure
You'Re Dressed In The Most Appropriate Way. Don'T ,Don'T Be
From Among Those Who Really Wants To Reveal The Beauty That
Allah Has Concealed Within Your Private Parts And You Want
To Show It Off, Allah Says Don'T Do That.
You'Ll Plunge Yourself Into Crisis, The Best From Amongst
You Here Allah Says
What Is Better For You Is The Clothing Of Piety. To Wear
The Clothing Of Piety Would Mean To Cover According To What
Allah Has Told You To Do.
And Also To Adorn Yourself With Piety Means It'S Not All
About Your Clothing Alone, But It Is About Your Character,
Your Conduct The Do'S And Don'Ts, The Way You Carry Yourself
As A Human Being All Of That Is Included In The Term
The Clothing Of Piety.
You Cannot Be Covered From Head To Toe And Still Do That
Which Is Immoral And You Cannot Be A Person Who Is Not Bothered
About How They Address Others Or How They Carry Themselves
And Simply Say I'Ve Grown My Beard.
I Have Perhaps Just Covered My Private Parts.
It'S Not Good Enough.
But What Allah Wants You To Do Holistically Ensure That Your
Dressing Is Also Appropriate And It'S That Of Piety And Your
Attitude Your Character Your Relationship With Allah
And The Rest Of The Creatures Were Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
Is Also That Of Piety Then You Will Be Able To Achieve That
Comfort Even In Times Of Crisis.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Grant Us All Goodness.