All praise is indeed due to Allah almighty blessings and salutations upon Muhammad
we ask Allah to bless him his household and to bless every one of us
I am very excited my brothers and my sisters to be commencing this beautiful series entitled
reconnecting with revelation revelation is extremely important because as humankind
we require guidance from the one who made us he who made me has to send to me guidance and
instruction what he wants from me without that I would be misguided completely I wouldn't know what
to do on earth and therefore if you were to look at revelation you would realize it's the gift of
the almighty the Qur’an for example is the word of Allah Allah almighty has revealed this beautiful
book as a guide to us in order to tell us why he made us why we are here where we go when we die
what he has in store for us all of this is from Allah and sometimes we tend to forget
that he has mentioned in the same book that he will test us he says in Surat al-Baqarah
indeed I will definitely test all of you with a lot of different things different challenges and
he says glad tidings to those who bear patience so if we are meant to achieve glad tidings through
patience then you need to realize that Allah almighty wants us to endure things he is going to
put us through difficulty upon difficulty hardship upon hardship and that is why every human being on
earth has some form of hardship and difficulty so much so that we consider death a very great
calamity in a lot of cases someone dies you say I was affected by the death of my father and my
wife and my husband and my whoever else it may be because we look at it as something negative
at times not realizing the only way that you can actually go to the hereafter or to paradise is
when you die and you go to the other side
so this is actually a very great gift of Allah almighty where
he has given us an opportunity to pass the tests one after the other
he has given us an opportunity to be tested and to prove ourselves and at the same time
he has sent revelation because of our hardships because of our difficulties we tend to forget that
the almighty has taught us how to navigate through those difficulties and I tell you
you would never be able to achieve true contentment and happiness and true success
unless and until you look at what the almighty has to say about your difficulty your hardship
and you try to resolve it in that particular way so the gift of Allah almighty is revelation
and sometimes we need to be reminded to reconnect with that revelation in order for us to achieve
the greatest success i've chosen to go through the verses of the Qur’an during this month of Ramadan
starting from Suratul and the reason is in the past we have gone through many verses from Surat
al-Fatiha going through to surah al-Baqarah Imran et cetera and we got to Surat al-Hijjar Surat
al-israa and thereafter we found that I didn't want to rush through the verses and therefore
I said we will complete this perhaps in another series here is the series although we're going
to be focusing on reconnecting with revelation the lessons will be beautiful and in sha Allah
they will be apt for the current situation across the globe knowing that we've just come out of this
pandemic or we are just about coming out of this pandemic that has affected the whole world many
people have suffered great losses people have lost loved ones people's health at times no longer the
same people have lost jobs they've lost a lot of money whereas others have gained in the interim
in that hustle and bustle and in those hardships and difficulty we have found
ourselves sometimes drifting away from revelation hence the title reconnecting with revelation
in fact we also had a time where we were restricted from the masjid from the house of Allah
we were restricted from gathering we were restricted from physical meeting and so on
now that things are easing it's important for us to reconnect with Allah and reconnecting with
revelation would help us reconnect with Allah so to be able to attend the masjid to participate
in the house of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to be able to meet with one another for good cause
is all part of what Allah almighty wants of us i'd like to start off with a beautiful verse of Surat
al-Hijr verse number 92 where Allah almighty mentions accountability in a unique way
when we die we are going to go back to Allah when we go back to Allah almighty he is going to ask us
about everything everything you did Allah is going to ask you why did you do this what did you do how
did you do it etc and Allah will reward us based on what we did and obviously we believe based on
his mercy so it's the mercy of Allah that will grant us forgiveness and it's the mercy of Allah
that will ensure that we earn paradise but we have to do as much good as possible the human error the
human nature that we have might lead us to a few sins here and there we may do things we're not
proud of and Allah teaches us always to turn to him if you've turned to Allah almighty you have
nothing to worry about if you are conscious of Allah almighty you have nothing to worry about
so Allah almighty says in verse number 92 of Suratul Hijr fawara bika lanas
by your lord which means Allah is taking an oath
by your lord o Muhammad sallAllahu alaihi wasallam by Allah this is an oath it's a guarantee
we will definitely ask all of them alone about what they used to do whatever they've done
on earth we will ask them they will be held accountable so don't think even for a moment
that you are going to get away with something that you did or an action of yours anything
you will be held accountable by Allah almighty he will either forgive you or punish you or reward
you based on what exactly the deed was and what it was followed by so if you've committed a sin and
you followed it by forgiveness or with forgiveness seeking the forgiveness you will be forgiven
by the will of Allah for as long as you were genuine about it my beloved brothers my sisters
don't forget if you have committed a sin against Allah almighty he will forgive you the minute you
ask for forgiveness genuinely but if you have committed a sin against a fellow human being
you will need to seek their forgiveness they may not forgive you instantly but you will have to
ask them for the forgiveness may Allah almighty make it easy for us because on the day of judgment
what is worrisome is when we have not sought forgiveness from people whom we've wronged perhaps
they may not forgive us when it comes to our actions the most important thing we need to do
is stay away from what's known as association of partnership with Allah in any way shape or
form that is called shirk the biggest warning that revelation has for any one of us is to
abstain from shirk to abstain from association of partnership with Allah in any way shape or
form that would ensure that the mercy of Allah is close that would ensure that Allah almighty
would forgive us because he says to us quite clearly that one thing i'm not going to forgive is
if someone has not sought forgiveness from having associated partners with me again in any way shape
or form may Allah almighty grant us goodness and grant us a deep understanding so Allah almighty
says I swear or by your lord o Muhammad sallAllahu alaihi wasallam which means it's an oath that we
will ask them all about what they used to do when that day comes may Allah almighty have mercy on
all of us and grant us ease I think that's a good way to reconnect with revelation is to understand
accountability and the day that we are answerable to Allah may Allah forgive all of us and grant us