# Heartwork: Made By His Mercy | Ustadh AbdelRahman Murphy | Class 7

An episode of [Heartwork | Ustadh AbdelRahman Murphy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1747587869), 20 May 2025, 1 h 25 min.

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## Transcript

[0:54] Okay.
[1:01] Alhamdulillah. Welcome home everybody.
[1:14] Okay, just one second.
[1:54] Okay. So, we uh we left off last week uh
[1:58] at what a lot of scholars of Quran say
[2:02] is the pinnacle of the passage that
[2:05] we're studying. So we're going through a
[2:07] passage in uh the chapter known as alan
[2:12] and we're going through
[2:15] um a a passage that Allah describes the
[2:20] traits and the characteristics of those
[2:21] who he calls the servants of the
[2:24] merciful, right? And those that he has
[2:26] distinguished and he has given this
[2:28] elect title to. And these people, they
[2:31] display a lot of different
[2:32] characteristics. And a lot of them are
[2:34] are again, we say every week, they're
[2:36] not really the characteristics that you
[2:38] would expect to see when you talk about
[2:41] people that have been uh, you know,
[2:43] chosen to be representatives of Allah
[2:45] subhana wa tala. Meaning that a lot of
[2:47] them are very uh achievable
[2:49] characteristics. They're things that we
[2:50] might just kind of uh chalk up to like,
[2:53] oh, good behavior or like, oh, this
[2:55] person's just a nice person. But in
[2:57] reality, what we see here is that Allah
[2:59] is defining piety by these traits that
[3:04] are so common and accessible, but we
[3:07] tend to overlook them for whatever
[3:09] reason. So for example, when he
[3:12] says that when this person is spoken to
[3:16] by by an ignorant person, they respond
[3:19] with peace. And that trait in and of
[3:22] itself is one that Allahh says is the
[3:24] one that he loves. the ability to avoid
[3:28] engaging with people who uh uh you know
[3:31] they demonstrate ignorance towards you.
[3:33] It's something that Allahh that he
[3:34] loves. So all of these traits they
[3:37] develop over this course of this passage
[3:40] and then now we are at a pinnacle a
[3:43] turning point in the passage where Allah
[3:45] subhana wa ta'ala when he describes the
[3:48] people that commit a certain litany of
[3:53] sins. He says that they are those when
[3:56] he describes these servants of the most
[3:58] merciful. He says that they are
[4:03] those that they are those that
[4:06] throughout their life or the course of
[4:07] their existence they never resort to
[4:10] calling upon or to relying upon any
[4:13] other deity besides Allah subhanahu wa
[4:15] ta'ala and I know that for us you know
[4:18] you hear this and you think to yourself
[4:19] okay you know this is something that is
[4:22] part and parcel of what it means to be
[4:23] Muslim like toed right oneness of God
[4:26] but there is an element here of the
[4:29] apparent and then there's the hidden.
[4:30] The apparent is that every person who
[4:33] believes that God is one should never
[4:35] ever call upon anything else but God.
[4:38] Right? So if I call upon the sun or if I
[4:41] call upon the moon or if I call upon you
[4:43] know a human being other than God, that
[4:46] is a violation of God's oneness, his
[4:48] right upon me is to believe in his
[4:50] oneness. But there's a a layer beneath
[4:52] this. And the layer beneath that is that
[4:55] part of honoring Allah's oneness, his
[4:59] uniqueness is that I don't give any
[5:03] aspect of respect or
[5:06] devotion that is only belonging to Allah
[5:09] to anything
[5:11] else. Let me give an example, right?
[5:15] Um when I was a youth director, I used
[5:20] to work with like teenagers because you
[5:22] know Allah you know he tests everybody.
[5:24] So my primary job was to work with
[5:26] teenagers and so one of the things that
[5:28] I did this is a long time ago is I built
[5:31] uh we put together like a small youth
[5:33] lounge and at the time we had a PS3
[5:35] which lets you know how long ago it was
[5:36] or PS2 I think. Anyways, it was a while
[5:39] ago and uh we had the video game system
[5:42] and we had, you know, NBA 2K and on the
[5:44] cover of 2K, that was the year that they
[5:48] had selected or finally gotten the
[5:50] rights to putting Michael Jordan on the
[5:52] cover of this game. Okay. Now, I'm from
[5:54] Chicago, so for me, you know, Michael
[5:57] Jordan obviously is an emotional topic,
[6:01] right? Derrick Rose, Michael Jordan, all
[6:02] the above. And I will never forget this
[6:04] kid, and he didn't mean it, so don't
[6:06] don't gasp too hard. He's actually like
[6:08] a full-g grown adult now. Uh when I when
[6:11] I was unpacking the games for the
[6:13] teenagers, for the boys that were about
[6:15] to play, he saw the cover of and he
[6:18] goes, "Oh my god, Michael Jordan." And
[6:19] he kissed it and put it on his
[6:21] forehead, which if you've been around
[6:23] like dies and Arabs, that's what we do
[6:25] with the Quran sometimes. So you could
[6:28] see that there was like this gesture.
[6:31] There was this gesture that he did that
[6:33] he thought again was like just kind of
[6:35] him being funny but again it's a gesture
[6:38] of respect and of devotion that really
[6:40] is only reserved for Allah subhana wa
[6:42] ta'ala. That's why we are taught as
[6:45] Muslims what that you never actually
[6:48] even prostrate towards anything. We
[6:50] don't actually we don't put our face on
[6:53] the ground out of devotion or respect
[6:55] towards anything besides Allah subhanahu
[6:58] wa ta'ala. So there's a couple different
[6:59] ways that we understand when a person
[7:01] goes against the oneness of God. Number
[7:03] one is like the obvious when people
[7:05] worship things like other than God,
[7:06] whether they be idols or humans or
[7:08] whatnot. But the other the other side
[7:10] which everyone is susceptible to. Even
[7:12] people that are Muslims are susceptible
[7:14] to this is our behaviors. What we choose
[7:18] over Allah constantly, right? what we
[7:21] choose the devotion that we give with
[7:23] our time with our wealth with our hearts
[7:26] with our emotion what we prioritize
[7:28] above Allah subhana wa ta'ala it may not
[7:31] be the same of course as outright
[7:33] worshiping but there is a level there
[7:35] that we have to reset that we have to
[7:37] reconsider okay what am I devoting
[7:40] myself to so Allah mentions he says
[7:42] these people they never ever call upon
[7:45] or invoke any other deity besides Allah
[7:48] and then he says what
[7:53] that they never ever take a life. They
[7:55] never commit murder or take the life of
[7:58] a person. That action, that life that
[8:01] they have taken is something which God
[8:03] has forbidden. That God has forbidden
[8:06] the act of taking life
[8:09] except except in a case or in a scenario
[8:12] when that is the correct thing to do.
[8:14] I.e. when a person is defending
[8:16] themselves, when a person is protecting
[8:17] themselves, when they're being
[8:19] oppressed.
[8:20] Okay. And they don't commit adultery or
[8:23] fornication. They don't commit zena.
[8:25] Then Allah he
[8:29] says that whoever engages in these kinds
[8:33] of behaviors he says for them is the
[8:36] highest of punishments. They're going to
[8:38] be given the greatest punishment. May
[8:39] Allah protect us. Now why in the middle
[8:42] of a passage, this is kind of
[8:43] interesting. The passage is literally
[8:45] titled the passage of the servants of
[8:48] the most merciful. Why would Allah
[8:50] highlight actions and punishments in a
[8:54] passage that highlights his
[8:58] mercy? Right? His name here, Alman, the
[9:01] most merciful. But now we're learning
[9:03] that there are things, there are
[9:04] actions. And even before the person was
[9:06] praying, oh Allah, turn the punishment
[9:08] of hellfire away from me. Why? Why is
[9:11] the passage inclusive of consequences,
[9:13] of punishments?
[9:15] Why? Anyone have any theories?
[9:19] Why would Allah talk about punishment in
[9:20] the middle of calling himself most
[9:21] merciful? Isn't that Does that not feel
[9:23] like Okay, not you. Does anyone here
[9:25] have a friend that would think that's a
[9:27] contradiction? Have you guys been on
[9:29] Reddit before?
[9:30] Don't. Okay. Yeah. It's a very common
[9:33] question that you'll find across spaces
[9:35] of conversation, which is what? How is
[9:36] it possible that God can be so merciful
[9:38] and there is punishment? Like those two
[9:41] things seem to contradict one another,
[9:42] right? If someone is truly merciful, how
[9:45] can consequences or punishment exist?
[9:48] Why wouldn't the most merciful just
[9:50] forgive everything all the time no
[9:51] matter what? Sounds like a pretty
[9:54] awesome like sweet deal, right? So, what
[9:56] do you guys think? Why would there be
[9:58] that?
[10:03] Yeah. Okay. Very good. By describing,
[10:06] that's one of them. Good. Which is by
[10:08] describing the things that will be
[10:11] consequential. by describing the actions
[10:13] that will uh uh mandate punishment. It
[10:16] is a form of mercy, right? Part of uh uh
[10:20] it would be torture if like you didn't
[10:21] know. Imagine like not knowing what was
[10:25] wrong and what was right. So when Allah
[10:27] talks about in the Quran things that are
[10:29] wrong, it's not contradictory to his
[10:32] mercy. In fact, it's a part of his mercy
[10:33] because he's telling you, look, these
[10:35] are the things that are wrong. Don't do
[10:36] these things. Don't come near them.
[10:37] Okay, very good. What else? How is it
[10:39] possible that the most merciful can talk
[10:41] about
[10:42] punishment? Okay. To teach
[10:44] accountability. Very good. Which is what
[10:46] the default is the mercy of Allah. But
[10:49] every human being when you do something,
[10:51] you have to be accountable. Right? If a
[10:54] person is given mercy and forgiveness
[10:56] all the time, no matter what their
[10:57] intention is and no matter what the
[10:59] outcome is, then that actually could
[11:01] devolve very quickly into a very
[11:03] damaging situation. Correct? Imagine if
[11:05] there were no rules, no laws, no
[11:08] consequences, nothing. And people could
[11:11] behave however they wanted. We would of
[11:14] course rely on the goodness of the heart
[11:15] and the human being. But we know, we
[11:17] know, right? Why do you guys slow down
[11:19] when you see that there's a a police car
[11:21] nearby even though you weren't going
[11:22] over the speed limit, right? You do
[11:25] because why? Because you're just afraid
[11:26] of getting it. You're afraid of the
[11:27] punishment. So, there is some mercy in
[11:31] knowing that there are boundaries and
[11:32] that accountability has to be taken.
[11:34] What else? Yeah. We'll come back in a
[11:37] second. Yeah.
[11:40] Yeah.
[11:47] Okay. Very good. Right. Mercy includes a
[11:51] totality of experience. Meaning that if
[11:54] somebody is deserving or is not
[11:56] deserving I should say if somebody is
[11:58] blessed by Allah's mercy then that mercy
[12:01] might include that those people that did
[12:03] wrong to them will be given their
[12:06] accountability will have to face justice
[12:08] which I think is what somebody mentioned
[12:10] over here right that the justice is a
[12:12] part of that mercy right you that's why
[12:14] they say you can't have peace if you
[12:16] don't have justice because it's it's
[12:18] it's a false idea there's no way that a
[12:20] person could have peace if justice is
[12:22] not there ask anybody body who's been
[12:23] wronged in like a very serious way, you
[12:26] know, is it possible to be to be, you
[12:29] know, to to to give peace or to find
[12:31] peace and they'll say, I need to have
[12:32] justice first, right? It's a part of the
[12:34] human condition. The other aspect that I
[12:36] want to mention is that subhan Allah,
[12:39] when somebody is so merciful, I've told
[12:43] the story about my mom and my dad
[12:44] before, right? The Egyptian and the
[12:46] Irish men. It's kind of like a movie.
[12:48] We're working on it. Okay. So my mom
[12:50] who's Egyptian is very Egyptian. I don't
[12:53] know how else to explain that, right?
[12:54] It's very intense in her love and also
[12:57] in her strength. Mashallah. Okay. My dad
[13:02] who's Irish American convert to Islam is
[13:04] like a very relaxed dude. He's just
[13:07] chilled out. Mashallah all the time.
[13:08] Like nothing rattles him. Really nothing
[13:11] rattles him. And uh that's just kind of
[13:13] like the dynamic that we had growing up.
[13:15] And so I always tell people that, you
[13:18] know, my my siblings, we had there was
[13:20] five of us. Growing up, my mom was
[13:22] always very intense, which is good,
[13:23] right? I I actually I respect a lot of
[13:26] mashallah her her her vision now. And
[13:29] now that I'm old and I have my own kids,
[13:31] but at the time when I was a kid, I was
[13:32] like, "What's yo, what's up with this?
[13:33] What's going on?" And it was funny
[13:36] because as a unit, us siblings would
[13:37] like console each other whenever mom
[13:40] yelled at us. So if mom yelled at one,
[13:43] we would like come back into like the
[13:44] room, you know, whatever it was like the
[13:46] living room or something and we'd like
[13:47] tend to our wounds, you know, we'd start
[13:49] like and everyone's like kind of crowd
[13:51] around us and like my brother's like
[13:52] patting my head, my sister's like
[13:54] massaging my arms like it's okay, you're
[13:56] not worthless, right? She didn't mean
[13:58] it. And uh and and and it was kind of
[14:02] like it was kind of understood that like
[14:04] you got yelled at by mom. Maybe a little
[14:06] bit because of what you did, but also
[14:08] because it's mom, right? Okay. And
[14:10] that's just the way that mom, you know,
[14:11] mama bear, right? That's how the moms,
[14:13] that's how they roll sometimes. So then,
[14:15] but my dad, because my dad had a very
[14:19] relaxed
[14:20] disposition, whenever he got upset,
[14:23] there was no sympathy from the
[14:26] siblings. Do you know what I'm talking
[14:28] about? Like my dad would get upset, we'd
[14:30] walk in the room, and everyone goes,
[14:32] "How dare you? What is wrong with you?"
[14:36] And part of it was like, how could you
[14:38] make that person upset with mom? Like,
[14:41] yeah, it's a coin toss, right? Like, but
[14:43] with dad, with dad, you made dad upset.
[14:46] Like, what did you do? What did you do?
[14:49] There was no sympathy. There was no
[14:50] support. There was no it's okay. There
[14:52] was shame on you. You horrible
[14:55] individual. Mom was right about you. You
[14:57] know, like that's that's really what it
[14:58] was. And so in that way now if we take
[15:01] that example and we elevate it to
[15:03] Allah part of the the extra pinch of
[15:07] this passage including conversations on
[15:10] punishment is that his name is
[15:12] Alman. And so in order for a person stay
[15:15] with me here in order for a person to be
[15:19] punished by the most merciful that
[15:21] person has to be pretty messed
[15:23] up like pretty bad. If we know all of
[15:27] the stories of Allah's mercy and we know
[15:30] all of how we've heard maybe we don't
[15:32] know all of them but we've heard in the
[15:33] hudbas and the lectures and the you know
[15:35] we've seen hadith online not sure if
[15:37] they're weak or not but you know they're
[15:39] they're there they're there somewhere
[15:40] and we've heard about Allah's mercy it's
[15:42] it's almost unfathomable to think that a
[15:45] person would turn down that mercy for
[15:47] themselves and earn the wrath and the
[15:49] consequence of God. It's almost
[15:51] unfathomable. So part of Allah ta's
[15:54] mercy is that when he mentions it, it's
[15:56] part of reminding us, hey, this is
[15:59] actually an incredibly difficult thing
[16:01] to do is to earn the wrath of Allah
[16:03] subhanaa tala. May Allah protect us.
[16:05] It's actually very difficult. And to
[16:07] prove how difficult it is, the next
[16:09] verse or the two verses later, look at
[16:11] what he says. He
[16:18] says he says that their torment will be
[16:21] doubled on the day of judgment and there
[16:24] they will remain in that punishment full
[16:26] of disgrace, full of embarrassment. So
[16:28] the ayah has like a beginning and an
[16:30] end. It has a part one and a part two.
[16:32] There's two ayats completing one
[16:34] thought. And then you have what the
[16:37] scholars have called the most merciful
[16:39] ayah in the Quran which we talked about.
[16:42] We ended last week. week I gave you guys
[16:43] a little cliffhanger, right? There are
[16:45] so many mentions of this verse that the
[16:48] scholars say as the most merciful idea,
[16:51] the most merciful concept in the Quran.
[16:53] In this verse, Allah
[17:04] says he says accept. So whenever anybody
[17:08] mentions a bad thing like you are going
[17:12] to be in trouble, you are in trouble.
[17:15] There's punishment coming for whoever
[17:17] does this, you're going to be in big
[17:19] trouble. And then they say the word
[17:21] except. Okay, in Arabic the grammar is
[17:25] except. So this is now it makes the ears
[17:29] perk up everybody who's reading the
[17:32] Quran. And this is why, by the way,
[17:34] whenever Allah mentions the Quran
[17:35] punishment, very nearby, there's always
[17:38] a mention of Jenna or forgiveness.
[17:40] Always. Because why? Because the idea of
[17:42] the Quran is not to beat somebody over
[17:44] the head with threats. It's not. The
[17:46] idea of the Quran is to guide somebody
[17:49] using the gentle measured approach of
[17:52] reality with potential outcome. Yeah.
[17:57] The reality is there is a punishment,
[17:58] but your potential outcome is
[18:04] whoever the word men in Arabic it's all
[18:08] inclusive this means that you know
[18:11] sometimes we do this weird thing where
[18:13] we think that only the repentance of a
[18:16] person who's already religious is good
[18:19] but the repentance of a person that's
[18:21] really far away that's really really far
[18:24] off the path that person their
[18:26] repentance is like I don't know if that
[18:28] counts but Allah says
[18:32] mena whoever on earth it doesn't matter
[18:35] what they do whoever repents to
[18:38] Allah what is the power of whoever here
[18:41] there's a hadith that I'll share with
[18:43] you and this hadith it kind of rattles
[18:44] people so just hang with me for a second
[18:46] right many of you have probably heard of
[18:49] this narration it's a hadith about a man
[18:51] who came from the previous nations
[18:53] before the prophetat wasam and his his
[18:56] problem his issue was that he would get
[19:00] into fights in disputes and at the end
[19:02] of the dispute he would fight and he
[19:05] would fight to the death basically and
[19:08] in his life because of this issue he had
[19:11] when he would get into disputes and he
[19:12] would fight he had acred a roster of
[19:16] people that he had killed that got up to
[19:18] 99 individuals he killed 99 people
[19:23] okay so he goes one day he wakes up and
[19:27] again like you and I I'm not asking you
[19:29] to judge this person because I know how
[19:31] we would all judge this person. I'm
[19:33] asking you for a moment just suspend
[19:34] your judgment and let let's let's all
[19:37] figure out how Allah might judge this
[19:38] person. Okay, just bear with me. So 99
[19:41] people 99 people and I like how all of
[19:44] us are kind of like oh wow that's pretty
[19:45] bad. 99 people is a lot of people even
[19:49] hurting one person is a big deal in
[19:51] Islam. Let alone killing one person. The
[19:53] Quran says if you kill one person it's
[19:54] like killing all of humanity. He killed
[19:56] 99 humanities. That's crazy. So he feels
[20:00] in his heart one day he wakes up and he
[20:02] feels this remorse. And what would we
[20:04] say at that point? Imagine if he was
[20:06] your friend and he's like, "Hey," you're
[20:08] like, "Yeah, I'm your friend. I'm your
[20:10] best friend." Right? I don't want to
[20:12] fight you ever. Right? And let's say he
[20:14] just calls you and he's like, "Hey, I
[20:15] feel bad." What would you say? You
[20:18] should. You're horrible.
[20:21] Right? And that's kind of what happened.
[20:25] He felt bad. He went to a person that
[20:28] was known to be a very pious person.
[20:30] This person in the village who was like
[20:31] always in the always in the sanctuary,
[20:33] always in the masid, always praying,
[20:35] always doing the right thing, right?
[20:37] Just very pious. And he goes to that
[20:39] person because this is what we do,
[20:40] right? Whenever we feel like we need
[20:41] guidance, we go to somebody who looks
[20:43] religious. So he went to this person.
[20:45] This person looks religious. And he went
[20:46] to this person and says, "Hey, this is
[20:47] what I've done. I've killed 99 people."
[20:50] And he goes, you know, before he asked,
[20:52] he's like, "I've I've done really bad
[20:54] things. Can God forgive me?" And the
[20:56] religious person goes, "Yeah, God
[20:57] forgives." "Yeah, of course. God
[20:58] forgives." He goes, "No, I've done
[20:59] really bad things." He goes, "No, God
[21:01] can forgive. Don't worry. What have you
[21:02] done?" He goes, "I killed 99 people." He
[21:03] goes, "Oh, God." He goes, "God will
[21:06] never forgive you." He said that. He
[21:08] goes, "God will never forgive you."
[21:10] Because he was so taken aback. Because
[21:12] I'm not trying to like make the the
[21:14] pious person, you know, sound evil, but
[21:17] he responded in a way that many of us
[21:19] probably respond. And if you've heard
[21:21] this hadith, I'm going to add a layer to
[21:22] this. So, don't just check out for a
[21:24] second. So as a result of the man's
[21:27] response, the pious man's response, his
[21:29] shock and his embarrassment, he
[21:30] humiliates this guy a little bit, right?
[21:32] He feels embarrassed. The man kills him.
[21:35] So now he's got a hundred. He's got a
[21:38] hundred. Then we got the we got the, you
[21:40] know, the the patented auto daisy.
[21:43] Tongue click. Okay. So yeah, 100 people.
[21:48] Then he goes to the next guy. He's like,
[21:51] I feel bad again.
[21:53] He goes to the next guy and this person
[21:56] is not just like a pious person but this
[21:58] person is a a scholar a learned person
[22:02] has engaged with the text not just
[22:05] devotion and worship but has actually
[22:07] read everything and he goes to this
[22:08] person he says I've done a really bad
[22:10] things will go ever forgive me and the
[22:12] person says yes Allah can for if you're
[22:15] sincere Allah can forgive
[22:17] anybody and he goes no no no you don't
[22:19] know I've done really bad things and the
[22:21] person goes don't worry Allah tells us
[22:23] in his book that he will forgive
[22:25] anything,
[22:27] right? He will forgive whoever he wills.
[22:30] So the man says, "I've killed a hundred
[22:32] people." And the scholar, I'm thinking
[22:35] about the Kevin Hart quote. I can't say
[22:37] it because it's a podcast, but the
[22:38] scholar goes, "Yeah, Allah will forgive
[22:42] anything. Allah will forgive anything."
[22:46] And the man is just like overwhelmed.
[22:47] He's like overcome with like relief. And
[22:49] he's like, "He will." He goes, "Yes,
[22:50] he'll forgive anything.
[22:52] But he said this scholar because he was
[22:54] also like a a scholar of jurist prudence
[22:57] of he said but you have to do one thing
[23:00] and he goes what I'll do anything he
[23:02] goes you have to leave you have to leave
[23:05] and some of the some of the people who
[23:06] who studied this hadith and they you
[23:09] know explained it they said there's a
[23:10] couple reasons for this number one is
[23:12] that it could have been like a
[23:13] psychological thing like you have to
[23:14] leave because this place you've already
[23:16] killed 10% of the town so you have to
[23:18] like get out because like every
[23:21] Everything might remind you of your
[23:22] sins. Which by the way is a very
[23:24] powerful lesson which is that part of
[23:27] the journey of repentance is that you
[23:29] have to sometimes you have to extract
[23:32] you know extract yourself from the areas
[23:35] that will remind you of the wrong that
[23:37] you have done. Which means sometimes
[23:40] environment which means sometimes social
[23:42] circles which means sometimes routines
[23:44] changing up your because why? Because
[23:47] human beings are weak. And at the very
[23:50] very least, we'll feel guilty, which is
[23:52] not a good thing to feel all the time.
[23:53] You shouldn't feel guilty all the time.
[23:55] Guilt has its use, but no one should
[23:58] wake up and go to sleep every day
[23:59] feeling guilt and regret. That's not how
[24:01] Allah wants us to live. But at the
[24:03] worst, that's the least. At the worst is
[24:05] that you might be tempted again if you
[24:08] don't change up your your environment,
[24:10] right? So he says you have to go. Some
[24:12] of the other scholars of hadith say no
[24:14] this actually could have been a like
[24:16] from this nation who had a different
[24:18] prophet than our messenger Muhammad
[24:20] wasallam. This was from their Sharia,
[24:21] which is if you commit like a major sin,
[24:23] you have to you have part of your Toba
[24:25] is you got to move. You got to you got
[24:26] to leave. Either way, he goes, "Okay,
[24:29] fine. I'll leave." So, he packs up his
[24:31] things, you know, his weapons. No, I'm
[24:32] joking. He packs up his things and he
[24:35] starts to go, okay, and he has his his
[24:39] eyes set on this destination, this place
[24:42] he wants to go to. On the journey, on
[24:45] the path there, what
[24:47] happens? He dies.
[24:49] He dies. He sets up camp. He spends the
[24:52] night. He wakes up. He does this over
[24:54] and over. After a little bit of time, he
[24:56] doesn't feel well. He sets up camp. And
[24:58] that's the last time he closes his eyes.
[25:00] He passes away. Okay. Now, here's the
[25:05] question. He was in the middle of doing
[25:07] something that was part of his TBA, his
[25:10] repentance. Did Allah subhana t forgive
[25:12] him or not? Okay, you answered very
[25:15] quickly because you've heard the story
[25:16] before. But I want you to know
[25:17] something. The angels argued. The angels
[25:20] argued. Allah subhana wa ta'ala. He said
[25:23] to the angels as the angels were trying
[25:25] to report back like where does this
[25:26] person go? Will they go to heaven or
[25:29] hellfire? Allah said go and measure the
[25:32] distance between the origin and the
[25:35] destination and the body in between. If
[25:38] the distance to the destination is
[25:41] shorter, then we will consider his
[25:42] repentance accepted. If the destination
[25:45] to his origin is shorter, then we will
[25:47] not consider his repentance except me.
[25:49] He hasn't covered enough ground yet.
[25:51] They go down and the angels go precisely
[25:54] and they measure the distance and it's
[25:56] exactly the same.
[25:58] The hadith says that at that moment when
[26:02] the angels were measuring, Allah subhana
[26:05] wa ta'ala who is the creator of
[26:07] everything took the earth and shifted it
[26:10] slightly under the body of the man so
[26:12] that his body approached his destination
[26:15] ever so slightly. And so when the angels
[26:18] measured again they found that his body
[26:20] was closer to his destination and he was
[26:23] forgiven. When you hear about the word
[26:28] men, whoever repents, I want you to
[26:32] think of the most insane, bizarre
[26:36] scenarios that if Allah can forgive this
[26:39] individual. The question is not whether
[26:41] or not you should forgive them. You
[26:42] know, people sometimes they come up
[26:44] after the lecture like what about the
[26:46] families of the people that he I
[26:47] understand I understand that there's due
[26:50] process and I get it. If a person
[26:51] commits murder, Allah can forgive them,
[26:53] but they still have to deal with the
[26:54] punishment in this life. That's not the
[26:55] point of the hadith, though. That's not
[26:57] the purpose of the hadith. The purpose
[26:59] of the hadith is to demonstrate that
[27:01] Allah is capable. Nothing overwhelms
[27:04] Allah in terms of sin. Nobody can commit
[27:06] a sin where Allah is like, "Oh, God."
[27:08] That doesn't happen. Allah is never
[27:11] shocked or surprised or caught off guard
[27:14] by our mistakes. He's simply waiting for
[27:17] the person to come to him and apologize
[27:19] sincerely. And if that apology is
[27:24] sincere, whoever repents. Now the next
[27:29] one, and there's an interesting thing
[27:31] that happens in Arabic here. I'm sorry.
[27:33] I'm not trying to get too Arabic on you
[27:34] tonight, but it is very powerful in this
[27:37] ayah. So Allah he
[27:42] says okay he could have just said it
[27:45] says basically the English translation
[27:46] is this person does the action of good
[27:53] deeds they do the actions that are good.
[27:57] Could Allah not just have said this
[27:59] person does good? Yes or no? Yeah. Is is
[28:03] the word the actions a little bit
[28:06] repetitive in English? Would we call it
[28:08] redundant? We would if we were
[28:10] describing it in English, if somebody
[28:11] was speaking and they said, "Hey, can
[28:13] you get me the drink, the beverage, the
[28:15] cold one?" You'd be like, you could have
[28:16] just said, "Give me the cold drink." But
[28:18] when a person repeats even slightly with
[28:21] a slight difference, we there's some
[28:23] kind of tool that's being used there,
[28:25] right? In the Quran especially, maybe
[28:27] with human beings, we just like made a
[28:29] mistake. We're like short circuiting for
[28:30] a second up here. But with Allah,
[28:32] there's a value there. And what is the
[28:34] value? Well, this is going to blow your
[28:35] mind. In Arabic grammar, the form that
[28:39] Allah uses here denotes a particular
[28:42] kind of good deed. If a person committed
[28:45] shik, right, if they worshiped other
[28:47] than Allah, if a person killed somebody
[28:50] and if a person committed zena and then
[28:52] they were told, go and do some good
[28:54] deeds. Go and do some good deeds. What
[28:56] kind of good deeds would you expect you
[28:59] would have to do in order to rectify the
[29:02] evil that you had done? Anybody? What's
[29:04] the first thing that would come to your
[29:05] mind? Go and do something good. What
[29:07] would you
[29:08] do? Zakat. Okay, good. Anyone think
[29:11] about like Hajj or
[29:12] Omrah? If you committed murder, okay,
[29:14] well, we got a lot of scary people in
[29:16] the room tonight. You're like, I
[29:18] committed murder. I don't know. I'm
[29:19] going go feed a cat or something. Right?
[29:22] Usually when people do bad things, they
[29:25] think of something in their mind that
[29:28] can offset. So they think of the equal
[29:31] intensity, right? Person does a sin and
[29:33] they're like, "Oh man, I got to meet
[29:34] that intensity." Like if I committed a
[29:37] horrible sin, I'm not just going to go
[29:39] hold the door open for someone at Trader
[29:40] Joe's and think that life is good. I got
[29:42] to do something that matches it. And
[29:45] that's our estimation of it. And maybe
[29:49] you were caught off guard, but when
[29:50] you're in that scenario, when you do
[29:52] something where you feel immensely
[29:54] guilty about that thing, then you start
[29:57] to brainstorm and your mind only goes to
[30:01] the biggest and the best and the
[30:03] greatest of good deeds because in your
[30:05] head that's all that can make up for it.
[30:07] Nothing short of that. But in this
[30:10] grammatical form, the Arabs of the the
[30:14] scholars of Arabic language, they say
[30:16] Allah is actually emphasizing the exact
[30:19] opposite. When Allah
[30:22] says, he's actually talking about small
[30:25] and few good deeds. So interesting.
[30:29] Allah says the one who repents and then
[30:31] does something good, something small and
[30:34] they do it as you know in a small amount
[30:36] and they do it small in size.
[30:39] So all the examples that I gave are
[30:41] actually extremely valid. Now why is
[30:43] this so powerful? Allah mentions the
[30:46] worst of sin, the worst of disobedience,
[30:49] sherik, murder and zena. And then when
[30:52] he talks about the rectification, the
[30:54] repair process, he says what? He says
[30:57] just do something good. Just do
[30:59] something good. Why do you think Allah
[31:01] takes the burden of the great good deed
[31:04] away and says just do something good
[31:06] even small? What do you guys think?
[31:10] Okay, very good. Number one, it's less
[31:12] intimidating. I mean, if you tell
[31:14] someone do something good, do anything
[31:15] good, the person can be like even smile,
[31:18] say alhamdulillah, yeah, do anything
[31:19] good. It's less intimidating. Allah does
[31:22] not want you wallowing in the misery of
[31:24] disobedience. Shaitan does though.
[31:27] Shaitan's goal is to keep you there. Oh,
[31:29] look at how bad you are. Look at how
[31:31] horrible. Allah will never forgive you.
[31:33] Allah will never forgive you. Go look at
[31:35] yourself in the mirror. Right? Allah
[31:37] doesn't forgive people like you who look
[31:38] like you, who dress like you. No way.
[31:41] That's shan. When you hear that
[31:42] internally, when you hear that, that's
[31:45] shanic uh rhetoric that he has trained
[31:49] you to think like. But what does Allah
[31:51] say? Allah says, "Oh yeah, that woman
[31:55] who used to sell her body to anyone who
[31:57] would pay, one day she saw an animal
[32:00] that needed water and she gave it water
[32:01] and I forgave
[32:03] her." Wow. That man who committed murder
[32:06] 99 and then the poor guy who said oh my
[32:09] goodness also got capped straight
[32:13] right 100 and he didn't even make it
[32:17] halfway more than halfway Allah goes I
[32:20] move the earth for him right just do
[32:23] something just do something the
[32:24] intimidation you have something to you
[32:26] raise your hand similar okay what else
[32:34] Yeah.
[32:36] M beautiful. Yeah. One small speck of
[32:40] darkness on the heart of a person can
[32:42] spread. And similarly, we also believe
[32:45] that one small flicker of light from the
[32:48] candle can illuminate a very dark space.
[32:52] Small amounts of light. And you know
[32:53] what's even more powerful? Think of
[32:54] this. Are you ready? Get your floaties
[32:56] on. We're about to get deep. Okay.
[32:58] the darker the room. Hold on. This is I
[33:01] didn't say this, so don't quote me on
[33:03] this. This is from our great scholarly
[33:06] tradition. Actually, nothing I say is
[33:07] from me. It's all from the books that
[33:09] I've read. Everything, Subhan
[33:13] Allah, they are the ones who inspire all
[33:15] this. Listen to this. The darker the
[33:17] room, the more sensitive that room is to
[33:20] even the smallest amount of light. Isn't
[33:23] that true? If I were to light a candle
[33:25] in this room, it wouldn't be as powerful
[33:28] because there's already the presence of
[33:30] so much light. But when a when a room is
[33:33] pitch black, blackout curtains, dark
[33:36] walls, dark this, dark that, and you
[33:38] have a tiny little light, and you just
[33:40] turn it on, it actually illuminates way
[33:44] more by comparison. So when a person's
[33:47] heart is so far gone away from Allah,
[33:50] covered
[33:53] in the Quran says their heart is covered
[33:55] in the darkness of rust because of what
[33:57] they did. Even the smallest of reminders
[34:00] can bring that person back. The tiniest
[34:03] thing, it could be something as simple
[34:05] as a person walking up to somebody and
[34:07] saying, "Remember Allah." You guys
[34:10] remember the story in Ramadan that we
[34:12] told about
[34:13] Bishafi? Such a powerful story. This man
[34:15] used to drink all the time in a Muslim
[34:18] majority society. He was an alcoholic.
[34:21] He was what we would call a person who
[34:23] needed help. He was a drunkard. He would
[34:26] walk through the streets drinking,
[34:28] drinking, drinking, drinking. And then
[34:30] one day, one day he was walking and he
[34:34] stepped on something, piece of paper,
[34:35] and he looked down. He sees it and it's
[34:38] a paper with the word Allah on it.
[34:43] This guy just got done with how many
[34:45] bottles of wine stumbling through the
[34:47] streets, but he sees a paper with Allah
[34:49] on it on the on the ground, dirty
[34:51] because people have stepped on it. Who
[34:53] knows? Maybe it fell out of someone's
[34:54] bag or something. He picks it up. He
[34:56] cleans it off. He polishes it, right? He
[34:59] makes sure it's nice and clean. He takes
[35:01] it home. He perfumes it. He just puts a
[35:04] little bit of perfume on it. And then
[35:06] some scholars when they tell the story,
[35:08] they'll say that he put it in a high
[35:10] place in his house. and others say that
[35:11] he put it under his pillow.
[35:14] Okay, there's a a scholar in the city
[35:16] that he's in. And the scholar has a
[35:18] dream at night and in the dream he hears
[35:22] that, "Oh, Bisher, because you have
[35:25] perfumed my name, I will perfume your
[35:28] name." And he thinks, "What on earth?"
[35:31] The scholar wakes up. This isn't Bisher.
[35:33] This is somebody else. I want to imagine
[35:35] like you have a friend that's really bad
[35:37] and you start having dreams like let's
[35:39] say your friend's name is Abdah Murphy
[35:42] and you go to sleep and you hear oh Abd
[35:44] Rahman Murphy good job you're like why
[35:46] am I having this dream so this scholar
[35:50] is having a dream about another person
[35:52] and he's like okay and he's like maybe I
[35:54] had too much milk I'm going to just
[35:56] write it off he goes to sleep again
[35:58] second night yeahisher just like you
[36:01] perfume my name I will perfume your name
[36:03] he goes H. Two for two. That's not good.
[36:06] Let me see one more night. Let's ride it
[36:07] out for three for three. Three for
[36:09] three, right? He has it the third night.
[36:11] Yeah, Bish, just like you took care of
[36:13] my name, I will take care of yours. He
[36:15] finally goes to find
[36:17] Bish. And he sees Bish. And Bish is in a
[36:20] drunken state. And he says, "Bish he
[36:23] knows him. He's like he's known in the
[36:25] city. He says,"Bish, I had some really
[36:28] interesting dreams about you." And
[36:30] Bisher's like, "What?" He said, "I heard
[36:35] the voice from the divine call out, oh
[36:38] Bish, you have perfumed my name and so
[36:42] now I will perfume yours." And Bisher
[36:45] hears this and he starts crying. And the
[36:47] scholar doesn't know what happened. So
[36:49] Bishop tells him, he says, "I found this
[36:52] paper. It had Allah's name on it. I took
[36:54] it. I cleaned it. And when I got home, I
[36:55] just put a little bit of perfume on it
[36:57] just to honor the name of Allah."
[37:00] And the scholar says, "I think you know
[37:01] what you need to do." And he goes, "I
[37:03] think I know." And he from that day
[37:05] forward never took a drop of alcohol
[37:07] again. Look at how Allah brings people
[37:10] back. Something small, a piece of paper
[37:12] on the floor, don't ever, as the prophet
[37:16] said, do not ever, ever look down upon
[37:20] any good that you do at all. Don't look
[37:22] down upon yourself. If you do something
[37:24] good, that's part of Allah pulling you
[37:27] back slowly, right? bringing you that
[37:30] anchor, that little tug, giving you back
[37:32] to him subhanahu wa ta'ala. So he
[37:36] says the person who turns around,
[37:39] repents, they make that
[37:41] U-turn and they establish
[37:45] belief and they do good deeds. By the
[37:48] way, that is the process of repentance.
[37:50] Allah just listed out for us. Number
[37:52] one, as as the scholars say, there's
[37:54] four steps to repentance. Number one,
[37:56] you have to stop the sin immediately. So
[37:58] whatever you're doing, if you want to
[38:00] repent to Allah, you have to put in the
[38:02] effort to stop it immediately. You can't
[38:04] be like tomorrow, one last, you know,
[38:06] one last harrah, one last night. No. TBA
[38:10] is I'm stopping this now. The second
[38:12] step they say is you have to uh uh uh
[38:16] try to rectify any of the effects on on
[38:19] that sin that are currently like with
[38:22] you or on you, right? So for example,
[38:24] you have to stop the sin. Then you have
[38:26] to say, "Oh Allah, I'm never going to do
[38:28] it again, right? You have to take that
[38:30] promise and you have to get rid of
[38:32] anything that could have been something
[38:34] that gives you that association with
[38:35] that sin." So they say that that there's
[38:37] three steps really. Cut it off, promise
[38:40] never to do again, and cleanse yourself.
[38:41] The fourth step, and this is kind of
[38:43] like an extra step, is that if that sin
[38:45] involves somebody else, like it wrongs
[38:48] somebody, then you have to go fix that.
[38:50] So if I wrong somebody, if I stole
[38:53] something from somebody, I can't just
[38:54] say, "Oh, forgive me." And then drive
[38:56] away with their
[38:57] car. It's not how that works. If in the
[39:01] process of my disobedience, somebody was
[39:03] oppressed, I have to fix the problem. I
[39:06] have to give them back what I took from
[39:08] them.
[39:10] Okay? Subhan Allah. Allah says that they
[39:14] reaffirm their belief. They reestablish
[39:16] their belief. You know what we learn
[39:17] from this is very scary.
[39:20] I'm going to say this and I'm going to
[39:21] say it very carefully because you
[39:24] know
[39:27] yeah shaitan has convinced us of
[39:30] something very very
[39:32] problematic and it's the reason why he's
[39:34] been able to convince us is because our
[39:37] nefs definitely likes to be in a place
[39:39] of comfort. The nef does not want to be
[39:42] challenged. The nuffs here in Arabic
[39:43] means like your you know in in um in
[39:47] psychology they say the ego right it's
[39:50] somewhere between the it and the ego
[39:52] okay so your ego doesn't like being
[39:54] challenged your nef does not want to be
[39:55] told stop stop the nefs is the part of
[39:58] you that wants to eat another plate
[40:01] wants to have more dessert one matcha
[40:04] not enough you know the nef is the one
[40:06] that's more more more more okay the the
[40:10] soul is the part of your existence that
[40:14] Allah gave to you that reminds you of
[40:17] the good things that you should be
[40:18] doing. It's that voice in your chest
[40:22] that feels the guilt when you're missing
[40:25] prayer. That's the and the is where who
[40:30] you really are, your heart, that's where
[40:31] it all lays. Okay. So shan has been able
[40:35] to make the nefs of us all of us here
[40:39] convinced of one thing and that is I can
[40:41] be just fine as a Muslim. It doesn't
[40:45] affect my Islam. My iman is not affected
[40:48] by the sins that I commit. Like those
[40:51] sins, they're not who I am. They're not
[40:54] who I am. And that's true by the way.
[40:56] Just because a person commits a sin
[40:57] doesn't mean that they are the sin.
[40:59] But Shaan has kind of pushed that logic
[41:03] too far which is what yes we do not make
[41:06] the sin into the sinner. We do not make
[41:09] the person into the mistake that they
[41:10] made of course but when we commit a sin
[41:13] we have to acknowledge something and
[41:15] that is every action leaves its
[41:18] traces good and bad. Every action leaves
[41:22] its traces. Have you guys heard the
[41:24] hadith about the perfume seller and the
[41:25] blacksmith? What is that hadith
[41:27] generally?
[41:29] For those of you who have heard it
[41:30] before, you know, you can summarize it.
[41:31] Use chatb. Go
[41:36] ahead. Yeah. So, what's the topic of the
[41:39] hadith? Generally, the prophet is saying
[41:41] what? Make sure you have good what? Good
[41:43] friends, good people in your life. Why?
[41:45] Because he says you can either be a
[41:47] person that visits the perfume store or
[41:49] the blacksmith. For the blacksmith, for
[41:51] those of you who don't know, they work
[41:52] with like iron and steel. There's a lot
[41:54] of sparks, a lot of dust. Think of like
[41:55] a car mechanic. No offense if you are
[41:57] one. May Allah help you. And and you
[41:58] know, help us out once in a while,
[42:00] right? Don't charge us so much. So, if a
[42:03] person is friends with a blacksmith and
[42:04] they go hang out with a blacksmith, what
[42:05] happens? Have you guys ever seen or a
[42:08] mechanic, what do the hands of a
[42:10] mechanic look like? They're greasy. They
[42:12] have some oil because they work. They
[42:14] work with their hands. They're in the
[42:15] engine. They're fixing your car. Right.
[42:17] Right. The perfume seller, does do they
[42:20] have anything? Like if if the perfume
[42:22] seller is going out to dinner after work
[42:24] and the mechanic is going out to dinner
[42:26] after work, which one of them has to
[42:27] shower? The mechanic the perfume seller
[42:30] is like, "I'm good. I'm ready. Like, let
[42:32] me go." You know, whereas the mechanic
[42:35] is like, "I got to go and use a scrub
[42:37] daddy on my thumbs, you know, and on my
[42:38] fingers." So the prophetat wasam, he
[42:41] said, "Make sure that when you pick
[42:42] friends and when you are a friend, ah,
[42:45] see how I did that? Our nef goes
[42:47] straight to what? Other people. Make
[42:50] sure that you are the perfume seller as
[42:52] well. Right? Some of us in here are the
[42:55] mechanics, that people are friends with
[42:57] us and we're actually the ones that push
[42:58] them away. We're the ones that get
[42:59] grease on their hands, right? So, make
[43:02] sure that you're the perfume seller, but
[43:03] make sure that you also try to spend as
[43:06] much time around people that are selling
[43:08] perfume as possible because why? You
[43:10] don't even have to buy anything. Just
[43:11] being in their company, you'll leave
[43:13] smelling good. And even if you don't get
[43:15] sprayed, you don't try anything on, you
[43:16] still enjoy the fragrance of the shop,
[43:18] right? So we learn subhan allah that we
[43:21] are deeply affected by the people that
[43:23] we spend time around. Why am I telling
[43:25] you this? Because the nef is very very
[43:28] sensitive. If we are affected by other
[43:31] people then you better believe that we
[43:32] are affected by ourselves. You best
[43:35] believe that we are affected by
[43:36] ourselves. We are affected by the
[43:37] company we keep and so we are definitely
[43:40] affected by the deeds that we do. If I
[43:42] do something that is good, if I do
[43:45] something that is right, if I wake up on
[43:47] time for fudger and I pray fudger on
[43:49] time, don't you feel the effect of that
[43:53] illumination on your day? Of course. But
[43:55] if I commit a sin and this is how
[43:58] shaitan gets us shaitan wants us to do
[44:02] the sin and then to move on very
[44:06] quickly. Shaitan's like, "Didn't you go
[44:08] to hard work last week? Didn't you hear
[44:09] what he said?" Shaitan will use the
[44:11] Quran to establish his argument, but he
[44:14] will then say, right, he'll try to tell
[44:16] you like, no, no, no, you're fine. But
[44:18] subhan Allah, what you need to realize
[44:20] is something here very powerful. Allah
[44:22] says, the one who repents and then
[44:25] reaffirms their belief. Why? Because
[44:27] your belief can be deteriorated by the
[44:30] sins that you and I commit. When I
[44:33] commit sins, I may not realize it. When
[44:35] I commit sins, my belief can start to be
[44:37] chipped away.
[44:40] has a good metaphor for this. Let me get
[44:41] Are you guys with me? Okay, who's been
[44:44] really thirsty before? I'm talking about
[44:46] actual thirst, not like, okay, who's
[44:48] been very like thirsty before. Okay, I
[44:51] just I just know there was going to be
[44:52] one guy who's like, "All right, relax,
[44:54] buddy." Like, who has really been
[44:56] dehydrated before in their life? Okay,
[44:58] like you needed water. Okay, so when
[45:01] you've done something, let's say like
[45:02] you're doing like a a workout class or
[45:04] you're like lifting or like whatever.
[45:06] It's a hot day outside. Dallas is almost
[45:08] there. Man, protect us, right? We're
[45:09] getting there. So, uh I thought May we'd
[45:12] close out in relative, you know, normal
[45:13] temperatures, but it looks like maybe
[45:15] not. So, it's a hot day and you're
[45:18] looking forward to like a really nice
[45:20] cold glass of water, cold bottle of
[45:22] water. You know, your aala has that nice
[45:25] cold water in it and you're just getting
[45:26] ready to take a nice sip of that. Okay.
[45:30] So, when a person is looking forward to
[45:32] the cold glass of water, what is the
[45:35] worst thing that happens?
[45:39] Okay. Room temperature. That's not the
[45:41] worst thing. You must come from a really
[45:42] privile No, no, it's a It can't be the
[45:45] worst thing. That's pretty bad though.
[45:46] That is pretty bad. Like my my son and I
[45:48] were practicing basketball outside and
[45:49] it was hot and he goes, "Can I have a
[45:50] sip of your water?" I go, "Yeah, sure."
[45:51] He goes, "Oh, it's warm." And I was
[45:53] like, "This kid, man, this is the
[45:54] problem. This is why this country, the
[45:56] empire is cooked because our children
[45:58] cannot drink anything but cold water."
[46:00] So, that's one thing that's bad. But
[46:02] what's even worse than that? There's no
[46:04] water. Very good. There's no water. No
[46:06] water. When you expect water is the
[46:08] worst. No water. When you're expecting
[46:11] water is the worst. When you need water
[46:12] is the worst. He says something so
[46:14] powerful. Are you guys ready for this?
[46:15] This is it's actually very emotional. He
[46:17] said many of us live life traveling
[46:19] throughout the desert. Right? He says
[46:22] this dunya is a desert. We're traveling
[46:23] life throughout the desert. And he says
[46:25] our water skin. Do you know what water
[46:27] skin is? It's like your It's like an old
[46:28] school bottle. They would take the skin
[46:31] of an animal. They would sew it together
[46:33] and they would put their liquids in
[46:34] there and that was like their
[46:36] container. Yeah. So he says your heart
[46:41] is that water skin and the water in that
[46:44] vessel is your
[46:46] iman. And he goes life is like a hot
[46:50] desert. You need when you're going
[46:52] through life to have that iman. You
[46:55] don't have that water, you're going to
[46:57] eventually dehydrate. You're going to
[46:59] eventually become fatigued and nauseous
[47:00] and you may even die. Your soul will
[47:03] pass. Your heart, your iman will be will
[47:06] not will not give your life anymore.
[47:08] Your soul will not have that life. He
[47:10] said the most tragic thing is that the
[47:12] sins that we commit, they pull the
[47:15] thread of the water skin. We commit a
[47:18] sin and a thread is pulled. Another
[47:19] thread is pulled. He goes, "And then
[47:21] eventually a small drip of water is
[47:23] leaking out of the skin."
[47:25] Now, if the water skin just opened up
[47:27] and you felt all the water leave
[47:29] immediately, you would notice it and you
[47:31] would address
[47:32] it. What's more worse or what's worse
[47:35] than that is when the person's vessel is
[47:39] slowly dripping and they don't know it
[47:43] until
[47:44] when? Until they're
[47:46] thirsty and they reach for their skin
[47:48] and they start to feel there's no water
[47:50] in here. He said, "Imagine traveling
[47:53] through life and the point where you
[47:55] need your iman the most is when on your
[47:59] deathbed when you need to
[48:02] say you need it, your family needs it,
[48:06] they need to hear you say it because
[48:08] that might be the only thing that gives
[48:10] them closure is hearing you utter those
[48:12] words." And imagine at that point not
[48:16] having the ability to utter those words
[48:19] because why? because of the slow leak
[48:21] your entire life. Allah does not give
[48:24] that gift to anybody. That's why we ask
[48:26] Allah. We say, "Oh Allah, make the last
[48:28] words that leave my
[48:31] mouthahill. Make the best of my deeds
[48:33] the last of my deeds." This is why we
[48:35] pray for that because it's not
[48:36] guaranteed. It's not a cognitive
[48:38] exercise. You think death is coming so
[48:41] slowly where you're like, I got this. I
[48:43] got quick
[48:43] reactions. No, it happens. And your
[48:46] heart is what your heart is what moves.
[48:49] So he says he gives a long parable and
[48:52] then he says may Allah protect us from
[48:54] being the traveler in the desert who
[48:56] recognizes that their water skin has
[48:58] emptied when they need it most. Imagine
[49:01] that your heart is vacant of iman when
[49:02] you need it the most. May Allah protect
[49:05] us. So the sins that we commit if we
[49:08] don't
[49:09] make those sins pull away at the iman in
[49:12] our
[49:16] heart and they do any good deed they
[49:18] can. Listen to what Allah does. Are you
[49:20] ready? I haven't even gotten to the
[49:22] hopeful part yet. That's
[49:27] crazy. Speaking of water
[49:32] skins. Wow. What would you want from
[49:36] Allah? What would you want from Allah if
[49:38] you had a book that was filled filled?
[49:42] We're not talking about one volume.
[49:43] We're talking about 10 volumes of your
[49:45] sins on the day of judgment. Like, what
[49:46] would you hope for? What's the best case
[49:49] scenario? You show up on the day of
[49:50] judgment and you know that you have a
[49:52] lot of bad things that you have to
[49:53] answer for. What's the best case
[49:55] scenario? Yeah, you're forgiven, right?
[49:57] You're like, "Okay, Allah, can you just
[49:59] forgive me, please?" And Allah goes,
[50:00] "Sure, you're forgiven." Isn't that like
[50:03] the best ever? You can't imagine a
[50:05] scenario better than that. Or can you?
[50:07] Well, you can't imagine it, but the
[50:09] Quran does. Subhan Allah.
[50:12] Says it means to flip.
[50:15] Say Allah's forgiveness is so strong, is
[50:19] so potent. Stay with me
[50:21] here. When a person who has sins against
[50:24] Allah recognizes their mistakes, Allah
[50:27] turns those sins into good
[50:29] deeds. Because why? because it is very
[50:32] difficult for a person who's being
[50:34] carried and weighed down by the sins of
[50:36] their mistakes to even come to Allah. So
[50:40] the reward that he gives for the one
[50:42] who's being burdened by their guilt is
[50:44] he turns their guilt into a source of
[50:47] pride. Look at Omar. Let's let's let's
[50:50] apply this principle to a person. Look
[50:53] at
[50:53] Omar.
[50:55] Omar, the companion of the
[50:57] prophet, the after Abu
[51:01] Bakr, the one who, okay, are you ready
[51:04] for this? Left his house. Left his
[51:07] house, had serious anger, drinking
[51:11] issues, committed horrible sins. They
[51:15] used to know him before his Islam. This
[51:18] is all before his Islam. Everyone's
[51:19] like, "Huh, interesting. before his
[51:21] Islam. He used to commit murder. He used
[51:24] to butcher and torture Muslims. When
[51:27] they saw him in Mecca, they were afraid
[51:29] like, "Oh man, this guy's going to beat
[51:30] us up. We're Muslim." He was literally
[51:33] an oppressor of the oppressors. He would
[51:36] pick on Muslims
[51:38] specifically. That was
[51:40] Omar. And then, Subhan Allah, there's
[51:43] that one narration where the woman says
[51:46] they were leaving her and her husband
[51:47] and he forgot something at home. They
[51:49] were trying to escape. They were trying
[51:51] to leave Mecca. And then her husband
[51:53] goes, "Oh, I forgot something." She
[51:54] goes, "Are you serious?" Can you imagine
[51:56] trying to leave something, trying to
[51:58] leave somewhere, and someone forgot
[52:00] something? Like going to the flight, and
[52:01] they don't they don't have their
[52:02] passport. Half the room laugh, other
[52:04] half is like, "That's me." Right? So the
[52:07] husband goes back home, and Omar bumps
[52:09] into her and she's like, "Oh, we're
[52:11] done." And Omar, he says, "Where are you
[52:13] going?" She goes, "We're leaving." And
[52:14] she just gets the courage to say, "It's
[52:16] all your fault. actually were leaving
[52:18] because of people like you, big
[52:20] jerk. She actually had very tough
[52:22] language with him. She goes, "You're the
[52:23] reason why." And he goes, "What do you
[52:25] mean?" And she goes, "What do you mean?
[52:27] What do you mean?" She goes, "You
[52:29] literally torture us. We can't even
[52:31] exist. We can't breathe because of you
[52:33] and your friends." No. She gave him a
[52:35] little bit and he felt shy. And you know
[52:38] what he said? He said, "May Allah
[52:40] protect you on your
[52:42] journey." And he
[52:44] leaves. Her husband comes back. She's
[52:48] like, "You will have no idea what just
[52:51] happened." He goes, "What?" She goes,
[52:53] "While you were gone, Omar came." He's
[52:56] like, "Oh, God." He's like, "How are you
[52:58] still
[52:59] standing?" And she goes, "I yelled at
[53:02] him." And he's like, "How are you still
[53:05] standing?" And then she said, "I told
[53:07] him that we're leaving because of him."
[53:08] And he said the weirdest thing. My
[53:10] husband said, "What?"
[53:12] She said, he said, "May Allah protect
[53:14] you on your journey." The husband starts
[53:16] laughing. He said, "Wallah, the donkey
[53:19] of Omar will take shahada before Omar
[53:23] does." This is, by the way, in the
[53:25] authentic hadith books. That line,
[53:28] right? That line. Okay. Incredible. And
[53:32] look, Omar, he was the one who left his
[53:34] house one morning drunk to go kill the
[53:37] prophet Isatam. And that same afternoon
[53:40] his hand is in the hand of the
[53:43] prophet
[53:45] sayingahillah his hand was carrying a
[53:47] sword and a bottle and six hours later
[53:50] his hand is dropped both of those and
[53:51] holding the hand of the
[53:53] prophet he left his house to go kill the
[53:55] prophetam and later in life the prophet
[53:58] says actually when Omar walks down the
[54:00] streetan sees him and goes oh and he
[54:02] takes the other road he takes the other
[54:04] road because he's afraid of he's afraid
[54:06] of Omar Omar His life is like many of
[54:11] the companions and like many of us here
[54:13] hopefully is described by this
[54:16] verse. All of the things that he carried
[54:19] that held him back from Allah. As soon
[54:22] as he committed to Allah, everything
[54:24] that made him who he was propelled him
[54:26] to Allah. He didn't become different. He
[54:29] didn't lose his strength. He didn't lose
[54:31] his his personality. No, in fact, he
[54:34] still had very much who he was. you know
[54:36] the like the week that he converted some
[54:38] narrations even say the day he converted
[54:40] when he took shahada imagine I want you
[54:42] to understand this they're hiding the
[54:44] Muslims can't publicly exist like things
[54:46] like roots not a thing okay so they
[54:49] can't have classes they they're meeting
[54:50] in the house of a person the house of
[54:53] and they're having their small classes
[54:55] there and they know that okay the
[54:56] Muslims are meeting here Omar goes takes
[54:58] shahada okay they all think by the way
[55:01] when they hear Omar is coming that he's
[55:02] going to kill the prophet sallam so they
[55:03] all get their swords they're ready to
[55:04] throw Omar shows up. The prophet wasam
[55:07] says, "Yeah, Omar, isn't it time that
[55:09] you become Muslim?" Omar's like, "Wow."
[55:12] He like he called me out like that's
[55:14] actually what I was here to do. He goes
[55:16] in, he takes shahada. Then they're about
[55:19] to pray salah like like a you know and
[55:22] Omar says after all of his torture, all
[55:25] of his what he did, you know, he said,
[55:27] "Why are we praying in here?" They're
[55:29] like, "What do you mean?" He goes, "Why
[55:30] don't we pray outside?" And they're
[55:32] like, "We know that you're kind of new
[55:33] here.
[55:34] But let you know let us explain. And he
[55:41] says, "Aren't we on the truth and
[55:43] they're on the falsehood?" And he and
[55:45] the prophet says, "Yes, that you're
[55:47] right. You're correct. What you said is
[55:49] a correct statement." And he goes,
[55:50] "Let's go pray in front of the
[55:52] Cabba." And they march one line of
[55:56] people with and the other line
[55:58] with and they march to the Cabba. and
[56:00] they pray for the first time in public,
[56:02] protected now by these two giants in
[56:05] faith. He didn't lose who he was.
[56:08] Everything that made him who he was when
[56:10] he was evil turned him into someone
[56:12] better when he was
[56:17] good. Allah will exchange and flip and
[56:21] he will turn all of your debt into
[56:25] profit. All of your bad deeds become
[56:27] good deeds.
[56:30] Why does Allah finish with that line?
[56:32] And Allah is the most forgiving and the
[56:34] one who's most merciful. Because if you
[56:37] hear that line, you naturally
[56:38] instinctively think there's no way.
[56:41] There's no way. Part of us is like that
[56:43] doesn't make sense that Allah would do
[56:45] that. Like why? The other part is like
[56:48] is that a metaphor? Is that like a
[56:50] flowery language? Allah reaffirms, no,
[56:54] this is the forgiveness. The reason why
[56:56] we have trouble understanding Allah's
[56:58] forgiveness is because we're always
[56:59] comparing it to whose forgiveness? Ours.
[57:01] Very good. Right? We're always comparing
[57:03] to ourselves. How did Allah forgive that
[57:07] person? I know. I know we wouldn't. But
[57:10] that's why we're not Allah. What do you
[57:12] mean Allah can forgive anybody? He
[57:14] can. It's between them and Allah. It's
[57:18] between them and Allah. Right? That's
[57:21] the reality. Now, people have to live
[57:22] with the consequence of their actions.
[57:24] I'm not saying that we just let people
[57:25] do wrong and say Allah is going to
[57:27] forgive you. Don't worry about it. If
[57:28] people do wrong, they have to figure it
[57:30] out and they have to repair the
[57:31] situation, right? There's justice in
[57:34] Islam. But we're talking about the we're
[57:36] not talking about here. We're talking
[57:37] about the afterlife. One of my teachers
[57:39] said something really powerful. He said,
[57:40] "In Jenna, you're going to see a lot of
[57:42] people that surprise
[57:43] you." He said, "You're going to have
[57:46] written off so many people in Jenna and
[57:49] then you're going to get there
[57:50] inshallah." Say inshallah. That's
[57:52] assuming you get there. And you get
[57:54] there inshallah and you're gonna be like
[57:55] you you made it. That's crazy. When I
[57:59] used to go for you were the one telling
[58:00] me no, let's go get some shisha, right?
[58:02] Like that's you. You were trying to pull
[58:04] me away. What are you talking about?
[58:06] Right? And the person's like, "Yeah,
[58:08] man. I don't know. I just donated one
[58:09] night and here I am." You know, there's
[58:12] actually there's actually a book
[58:14] literally
[58:16] called this. Okay, I'm not trying to
[58:18] trip you out. Stay with me.
[58:21] Okay. There is a there is a concept and
[58:24] some of you may have experienced this if
[58:25] you have a loved one who passed away
[58:27] that you may have seen them in a dream
[58:29] okay now it's not it's not revelation
[58:31] but it's possible okay and is coming up
[58:33] in just a few minutes so we'll end
[58:34] inshallah shortly so there's a book in
[58:37] Arabic called what did Allah do with you
[58:40] and this book is basically a collection
[58:42] of scholars and pious people who had
[58:44] dreams where they saw people from the
[58:47] past in their
[58:48] dreams and they asked them this
[58:53] question, what did Allah do with you?
[58:55] Like what was your destiny? What was
[58:57] your result? How did you how did the
[58:59] exam go? So they would ask these people.
[59:01] So I want you to think of like some name
[59:03] you've
[59:03] heard that someone saw him in a dream.
[59:06] And imi, if you think about his name,
[59:08] you don't have to know anything about
[59:09] him. Have you heard his name before?
[59:11] Okay, good. Imam Bkari. You guys heard
[59:13] that name before? Okay. Imam Bkari. His
[59:15] name is basically synonymous with the
[59:17] science and the topic of hadith. You can
[59:20] probably anticipate if I told you where
[59:22] do you think I is going to go in the
[59:23] afterlife. You're like, I see his name
[59:25] in every masid in America. I see his
[59:27] work. I see this. I'm thinking Jenna.
[59:29] And you would think that he's going to
[59:31] paradise because of why? The work that
[59:33] he did, right? Makes sense. The guy put
[59:35] in the time. Allah will reward him for
[59:36] that. So in this
[59:39] book, there are people like Bkari who
[59:42] have this amazing resume and they are
[59:46] asked this question and they give
[59:48] shocking responses.
[59:50] The responses are shocking because the
[59:52] thing that Allah gave them Jenna for or
[59:55] forgave them for is thing is a something
[59:57] or is a thing that nobody knows
[1:00:01] about. There's a story that I himself
[1:00:04] quotes where he said that one of the
[1:00:06] pious people of the past was seen a big
[1:00:08] lecture a person used to give big
[1:00:10] lectures. He was seen after he had
[1:00:12] passed in a dream and he told
[1:00:16] him he spoke to him. He says what did
[1:00:18] Allah do with you? How did Allah reward
[1:00:21] you? And he says this beautiful line in
[1:00:25] response. He says gone are the rewards
[1:00:29] of every lecture I ever gave.
[1:00:33] gone. Like I showed up on the day of
[1:00:35] judgment. I'm like nothing was there. He
[1:00:38] said all of the beautiful lines because
[1:00:41] they used to recite lectures more
[1:00:43] beautifully. All of the beautiful lines
[1:00:46] disappeared. And he goes all I saw in
[1:00:49] front of me that was the key to my Jenna
[1:00:53] was two that I prayed in the middle of
[1:00:55] the night one
[1:00:58] night. which means like in the middle of
[1:01:00] the night, in the darkness of the night,
[1:01:02] that's what I saw. That's what I
[1:01:05] saw. Allah will give you admittance to
[1:01:10] paradise as a result of not the biggest
[1:01:13] deed you've done, but the most sincere
[1:01:14] deed you've done, the most sincere thing
[1:01:17] you've ever done. And that thing in all
[1:01:20] likelihood will be something that no one
[1:01:22] has ever seen. It will be something
[1:01:24] you've never posted about, you've never
[1:01:27] shared. In
[1:01:29] fact, the most sincere amongst us in
[1:01:31] this room right now, you may have even
[1:01:33] forgotten that you've ever did it. You
[1:01:36] may have donated to a cause and
[1:01:39] forgot. And that sincerity on the day of
[1:01:41] judgment when you come up to the gates
[1:01:43] of paradise and you're hoping for a key
[1:01:45] to be there waiting for you, you look
[1:01:47] and you don't see anything else. All you
[1:01:49] see is the one time you did that small
[1:01:51] thing for the sake of Allah.
[1:01:54] This is the verse in which the Quran
[1:01:58] this the verse that the scholars of
[1:01:59] Quran have said is the most hopeful
[1:02:01] verse that people in the midst of their
[1:02:04] distance and depression away from Allah
[1:02:06] when they read this verse and they
[1:02:08] reflected on it they felt like you know
[1:02:10] what I have a good chance I have a good
[1:02:12] chance may Allah grant us amongst them
[1:02:14] may Allah ta give us a good chance at
[1:02:16] Jenna may Allah ta take our hearts and
[1:02:18] allow them to be purified and make all
[1:02:20] of our bad deeds into good deeds because
[1:02:22] for him that is
[1:02:24] Easy. Um, let's go through some Q&A.
[1:02:27] Inshallah, we have a few minutes before
[1:02:30] uh, so we'll do two or three
[1:02:33] questions. Can you please talk about the
[1:02:35] difference between halal and zalal? One
[1:02:37] is preferred or is about certification.
[1:02:39] I'm in New York City where most places
[1:02:41] just say halal. Uh, so I can talk about
[1:02:44] this, but I won't.
[1:02:46] Um it it's just look the reality is that
[1:02:50] I I'm I'm of the opinion and the
[1:02:52] preference that the slaughter method for
[1:02:55] any of the meat that a Muslim eats
[1:02:57] should be done according to uh the
[1:03:00] method of the sunnah which is that it
[1:03:02] should be slaughtered by a believer or a
[1:03:06] person who is an a confirmed person of
[1:03:08] the book um and follows those
[1:03:11] guidelines. We're not talking about like
[1:03:12] oh I think Chick-fil-A is like Christian
[1:03:14] or something down the road. maybe. But
[1:03:16] again, there are scholars that hold the
[1:03:18] opinion. There are scholars in Dallas
[1:03:19] that hold the opinion that you can eat
[1:03:23] certain places. And so, I'm not going to
[1:03:25] sit here and say that they're wrong, but
[1:03:27] that is the opinion that I hold is that
[1:03:28] I try to uh prefer meat that has been uh
[1:03:32] slaughtered by Muslims uh with the name
[1:03:34] of Allah being mentioned and done in the
[1:03:36] correct way,
[1:03:38] um but other scholars that hold
[1:03:40] different opinions, I respect them. they
[1:03:42] are more knowledgeable than me and
[1:03:44] whatever you feel comfortable with and
[1:03:45] the teacher that you take then I think
[1:03:47] that you should take from them
[1:03:48] inshallah. One thing we can agree on
[1:03:50] though is that if a restaurant tells you
[1:03:51] it's halal, you need to just trust the
[1:03:54] person that's telling you it's halal.
[1:03:55] You do not need to say which I've been a
[1:03:57] part of this. Actually, there was
[1:03:58] someone that ate dinner at my house
[1:03:59] once, my uh my parents house when I was
[1:04:02] younger, and they asked my mom for the
[1:04:04] receipts for the
[1:04:06] groceries, and my mom said, "Here's your
[1:04:09] plate to
[1:04:12] go."
[1:04:14] Um, what can you say in regards to
[1:04:16] levels of iman fluctuating, going up and
[1:04:18] down? Is it bad to never have a steady
[1:04:20] level of iman? I don't I don't think
[1:04:23] anybody is going to have what we call
[1:04:25] like a steady level of iman. Iman goes
[1:04:28] up and down. What you hope to see is
[1:04:29] this. Okay, watch my finger everyone
[1:04:32] watch. Okay. Up, down, up, down, up,
[1:04:38] down, up, down, up, down. You understand
[1:04:42] the trend is what? Overall up. Okay. So,
[1:04:46] let's do this. January, February, March,
[1:04:50] April, May, June, July. You understand?
[1:04:53] Don't be so hard on yourself. You will
[1:04:56] have some days, some weeks, some months
[1:04:58] where you're going to feel like you're
[1:05:00] not moving forward with Allah. But
[1:05:02] you're going to have some days, some
[1:05:04] weeks, some months where you feel really
[1:05:05] good. Capitalize on those times. Do the
[1:05:08] best you can and stay afloat when you're
[1:05:11] struggling. Okay? And you will see that
[1:05:13] the goal is not January 1st to January
[1:05:16] 3rd. Look at yourself as a Muslim.
[1:05:19] January to March to you know May to
[1:05:24] September to December like follow some
[1:05:27] kind of cadence where you can actually
[1:05:29] measure right the differences that you
[1:05:32] are experiencing in your faith may Allah
[1:05:34] accept
[1:05:38] uh I heard not everyone finds their
[1:05:39] spouse in this dunya the thought scares
[1:05:41] me how can I find peace and trust in
[1:05:43] Allah's plan when it feels so uncertain
[1:05:47] man series I'm never going to forgive
[1:05:49] him for
[1:05:50] that. I tell him this when we play
[1:05:52] basketball every week. I'm like, I'm
[1:05:54] never going to forgive. I'm actually
[1:05:55] never going to forgive you for that. I
[1:05:57] forgive you for everything else. I hope
[1:05:59] you go to Jenna, but on the day of
[1:06:00] judgment, I'm going to remind you. I'm
[1:06:02] joking. And he said the whole marriage
[1:06:04] is risk. It's not written for everybody.
[1:06:06] It's true. Look, the reality
[1:06:09] is for forget marriage. Not everyone
[1:06:12] finds what they want in life. Okay? So
[1:06:14] that that is the reality. All you have
[1:06:16] to do is determine, are you the one who
[1:06:18] is blocking it or is it something that
[1:06:20] has not been destined for you? And
[1:06:22] ultimately, look, if it's not been
[1:06:24] destined for you, you can't do anything
[1:06:25] to change that. But what you can do is
[1:06:27] you can work on yourself and try to
[1:06:29] become a person that has more clear
[1:06:32] standards and expectations for who you
[1:06:35] want to marry. And inshallah, through
[1:06:36] that work, Allah rewards hard work.
[1:06:39] Through that work, Allah will pave a way
[1:06:41] and give you what you want. What I would
[1:06:43] say is this. Do not live life expecting
[1:06:46] not to find marriage because the reality
[1:06:48] is that that is not uh uh that is not an
[1:06:52] optimistic way and that is not the way
[1:06:54] the prophetat wasam advised. He
[1:06:57] said marriage is from my sunnah. So
[1:07:00] everybody should you know maybe make
[1:07:03] that your intention. Ya Allah I want to
[1:07:04] get married because it's the sunnah of
[1:07:05] the prophet and maybe by that intention
[1:07:08] Allah will open the door for you. Like
[1:07:10] maybe it's not about oh Allah like I
[1:07:12] want you know this or I want that or I
[1:07:14] want to be happy or I want to you know
[1:07:15] that's that's all good but maybe you say
[1:07:17] oh Allah my intention is that I want to
[1:07:19] follow the of your
[1:07:23] messenger he says whoever rejects my
[1:07:26] sunnah they're not from me. So we should
[1:07:28] not say, "Oh, I'm just going to live
[1:07:29] life, you know, and I understand this
[1:07:30] person is not saying that they're a
[1:07:32] little bit scared," which is fine. But
[1:07:33] put your trust in Allah's plan. Make
[1:07:35] your intention sincere. And subhan
[1:07:37] Allah, you know, Allah has has has his
[1:07:40] ways.
[1:07:44] Okay? How does Allah's mercy show up for
[1:07:46] the millions of people who have not
[1:07:48] found guidance to Islam? Uh through
[1:07:50] their Muslim friends who talk to them.
[1:07:53] Inshallah. Look uh we don't as Muslims
[1:07:56] it is very important to understand that
[1:07:58] we do not judge where a person's a will
[1:08:01] be. We actually don't have that ability.
[1:08:03] Allah will and he is the only judge for
[1:08:06] anyone's afterlife. I cannot look at a
[1:08:08] person in this life and say for certain
[1:08:10] you are going to heaven or for certain
[1:08:12] you are going to hell. I cannot say
[1:08:13] that. It's actually impermissible for me
[1:08:15] to say that in Islam. My as a Muslim is
[1:08:18] that Allah will decide and he will judge
[1:08:21] and he judges fairly. He does not judge
[1:08:23] unfairly. No one will accidentally go to
[1:08:25] hellfire and no one will accidentally
[1:08:27] slip into Jenna. Okay. Um what we do
[1:08:31] know is we know the characteristics and
[1:08:33] traits of those people who Allah loves
[1:08:36] and who Allah wants to put in paradise
[1:08:38] and those who fall away from Allah. We
[1:08:40] know those traits. But you cannot put
[1:08:42] those traits onto somebody. That's kind
[1:08:44] of the whole lesson of today's you know
[1:08:47] whole thing was Omar. Many of them would
[1:08:49] have said he's going to hellfire but
[1:08:52] Allah tala can guide whoever he wills.
[1:08:54] Okay. And there's many more stories like
[1:08:55] that. So for those who have not found
[1:08:57] Islam, may Allah get give them a
[1:08:59] connection to
[1:09:03] him. Uh we'll go ahead. We'll do one
[1:09:06] more and then we'll wrap up inshallah. I
[1:09:08] got to go run home.
[1:09:12] Uh is questioning why did this happen to
[1:09:14] me Allah after a calamity a form of
[1:09:16] kufur? Even if we accept that we will
[1:09:18] not be able to comprehend the answer. Uh
[1:09:21] no, I would say I would say that
[1:09:25] questioning what's happening or why
[1:09:28] something happened is not a form of
[1:09:33] disbelief.
[1:09:35] Um it's simply a person trying to
[1:09:38] process what's happening. It's all part
[1:09:39] of the process. Okay. Um but if a
[1:09:44] person you know resents and rejects
[1:09:47] Allah as a result of that it could of
[1:09:49] course lead to disbelief but saying you
[1:09:51] know because we have a dua where the
[1:09:52] prophetat wasam he
[1:09:54] says who are you going to leave in
[1:09:56] charge of me so he didn't ask obviously
[1:09:58] disrespectfully no of course not but
[1:10:00] there are human questions to be asked
[1:10:02] when a person goes through difficulty
[1:10:03] and the prophetat wasallam had those
[1:10:05] questions but he always wrapped up his
[1:10:08] questions with what as long as you're
[1:10:11] not upset with me, I'm okay. Right? I
[1:10:13] trust your plan. I trust in you, ya
[1:10:15] Allah. So, you're allowed to process
[1:10:17] through calamities. Of course, that's I
[1:10:19] mean, that's part of the human uh
[1:10:21] condition. But make sure that you
[1:10:24] conclude the wrapping up of your
[1:10:26] processing with, "Oh Allah, I know that
[1:10:29] you are in control, and I'm going to
[1:10:31] submit myself to your plan, ya Allah,
[1:10:33] and I trust that you have something uh
[1:10:35] better for me than the calamity that I'm
[1:10:37] suffering from." May Allah accept
[1:10:41] Uh just a couple of announcements for
[1:10:42] this week. We do have uh the start of
[1:10:45] our new monthly uh series uh inshallah
[1:10:48] this Friday, our mental health series.
[1:10:50] Um oh no, sorry, this Saturday called
[1:10:53] Journey to a Better You. It's going to
[1:10:54] be with myself and Dr. Mahaboo. Um who
[1:10:57] is a counselor here? Oh, parking. Okay.
[1:11:02] Is there parking there? There's cars
[1:11:04] parked there. Okay. Yeah. If you parked
[1:11:06] in the lot next to us. Hi, welcome to
[1:11:08] Roots for the first time ever,
[1:11:09] apparently. Okay, if you parked in the
[1:11:11] lot next to us, please go move your car.
[1:11:13] We can't park there. And they do tow. So
[1:11:16] this lot, this one over there. Okay,
[1:11:18] directly behind me, go move your car,
[1:11:20] inshallah, we pray that your car is
[1:11:22] still there, inshallah. But they do tow.
[1:11:24] They do tow. So yes, hurry on out. No
[1:11:26] one's judging anybody. Okay, if you
[1:11:29] parked your car there, please go move,
[1:11:30] inshallah. Uh, but I'll just end with
[1:11:32] this announcement that we do have our
[1:11:33] series inshallah. It's this Saturday
[1:11:34] from 7:00 to 8:30. It's going to be a
[1:11:38] monthby-month successive series on
[1:11:41] mental health and spiritual health and
[1:11:43] the connection between the two. So we
[1:11:44] hope to see you
[1:11:49] there. Mr. prayer mug prayer is in
[1:11:52] approximately 4 minutes. So you can make
[1:11:54] your way over to the musah and prayer is
[1:11:57] going to be in about four minutes
[1:11:58] inshallaham. like him.

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