Will God forgive me?

Tonight's topic we've entitled it Will God Forgive Me? My brothers and sisters, about twenty years ago here in the mosque, twenty-five maybe, a young sister came into the masjid and she was very She looked devastated. She looked scared. And she had a friend with her. She came to ask one question. She said I've lived a life of sin. Over and over again. And now I want to make things right. I want to turn back to my creator. I want to get closer to him.

But my mother is telling me that there is no way for my sins to be forgiven. They will always stay there. So my question is, do I have any chance or hope that my sins will be forgiven? Or is my mother right that I am forever cursed with my past sins? And we had a long conversation that day, Alhamdulillah, here in the Masid. He said to the non believers and to the believers, this verse.

that I'm about to quote came down and was revealed to the non believers at the time of the Prophet peace be upon him to every time and to the believers. Allah says in the Quran يا عبادي الذين أصرفوا على أنفسهم Altyazı M.K. اشتركوا في القناة RASHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Say, O my slaves who have committed excess against their own souls, despair not Of Allah's mercy. Verily, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, He is the all-forgiving, the all-kind.

Umar ibn al-Hattab, he said at the time of the Prophet, peace be upon him, The sins that we did in our past, we thought that they are going to be everlasting on our souls. And that there is no way of exiting from it until this verse came down. And was revealed to Which was coolness to our hearts and peace to our souls. I couldn't wait to send it to the non believers from among my family who recited it, and Allah granted them understanding of this verse and was the cause for their salvation.

Some people think that because of the guilt of so many sins and past crime that they have done. That they're somehow stuck in that world and they are destined to the fire or to the punishment of Allah and there's no way out. But in fact Allah has revealed various and several verses in the Quran to catch us and to tell us no. No.

In fact, Our Prophet Muhammad elaborated on this verse and the hadith is collector and Sahih Muslim and others He said, By the one in whose my soul is in his possession. By Allah the Almighty. If you did not commit sins, اللہ would have gotten rid of you. Human beings. Waja abikomi yudnibun and would have recreated a people who commit sins. فَيَسْتَغْفِرُونَ اللَّهِ and then as a result they seek Allah's forgiveness تعالى the Most High فَيَغْفِرُ لَهُمْ and then Allah forgives them

Seven things we learned from this hadith in elaboration of the verse I said I recited before. Number one, this hadith. teaches us that this is a manifestation of Allah's names, Al-Tawwab and Al-Ghafoor. At Tawab is one of Allah's names, which means He loves to accept His servant when his servant wants to return to him. Wants to return to him from losthood, from misguidance to guidance, repent. At Tawab is one of Allah's names, the one who constantly and repetitively loves to accept his servant.

Man or woman after losthood when they want to return to him and seek his forgiveness. Al-Ghafour, the one who constantly and repetitively loves to cover up his servants' past sins. Number two, we learn that this hadith tells us That Allah acknowledges that the human being has many weaknesses and desires they fall prey to every now and then. The weakness of man, and that no one is immune to sin and mistake. في الحقيقة النبي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم قال كل ابن آدم خطأ و خير الخطأين التوابون

And the best of those who sin and make mistakes are the ones who constantly repent, who constantly repent in its place. The third thing we learn about this hadith is that Allah gives us hope. And he tells us that this is not a concession. To say I am weak, look, even God said that I make sins and then you stay in your sin. No, no, no, the opposite. The hadith is an encouragement. for self development and continuously to have hope so that you don't fall into despair and identify yourself.

Rydyn ni'n ymwneud â'r cyntaf, rydych chi'n ymwneud â'r cyntaf, rydych chi'n ymwneud â'r cyntaf, rydych chi'n ymwneud â'r cyntaf, rydych chi'n ymwneud â'r cyntaf. And that there is always a door open for you for Allah to accept you and you can change. Number four. That mistakes in this world are necessary. Mistakes are necessary, so that the right and good is manifested and known,

If there's no mistakes we cannot know the right. If there's no wrong we don't know what the right is, and if we don't fall into mistake we won't know what The proper way is. If we don't have pain, we won't know health, and vice versa. Number five, we learn from this hadith that there are two categories of people: the pious and the honest.

They're the ones who repent and acknowledge their mistakes and realize that they are weak and that they need Allah to repent and fix themselves and grow. And the second category of people are the criminal and rebellious. They're the ones who know that they're doing the wrong, they don't care about it.

They're indifferent to it, I don't care, and they're rebellious. They'll even sit there justifying their sin, and they will fight you tooth and nail and argue and find justification, twisting and gaslighting to make themselves feel good about their sin to continue. Two categories of people. We want to be the first. Number six, there is a difference between a person who is muhte and a person who is はーておはた

is someone who naturally is weak and ignorant when they do their sins. You do your sins because you are weak. Your desires overtook you. Even when you knew that it was a sin, your desires overtook you, or you were ignorant about the sin. This is one type of a person who is a normal, natural person who makes mistakes and sins. And the second type of person is a chat.

A Khatar is one who is a rebellious, deliberate sinner. Rebellious deliberate means they do the sin knowingly while being rebellious about it. I don't care. There are two different ones. So Allah addresses the one who naturally commits sins because of their desires and their weakness, or because of their ignorance, and the one who knows the sin but is rebellious against God. and hates the fact that Allah made a haram, so they rebel against Allah.

And the seventh one, seventh lesson we learn, it is not a free pass to commit sins and mistakes, but a call for the believers and for those who have a sense of moral, a sense of conscience to repent and always be a person who is improving in their life.

They fall, they get up, they fall again, they get up, they fall again, they get up. In fact, the Prophet also told us in the hadith is in Tabarani, Sahih al-Jamaya, That there isn't a servant of Allah who is a believer, except that they will be tested with a sin that they cannot get rid of for a long time. Maybe you're addicted to a particular sin and you hate yourself for it.

So you start doing good deeds to try and compensate, and you're trying, but you can't get rid of it, you find yourself falling back into it. The Prophet peace be upon him said Yeah. They will fall into it, they will leave it, then they find themselves relapsing, going back to it, then they will repent, then they'll go back to it.

And some of them they are cured from it, and others they continue this battle until they meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and then the Prophet peace be upon him said, The believer is created with trials. A believer, however, is constantly repentant. A believer forgets sometimes, but a believer when they are reminded They are that when they are reminded of Allah, at that moment their hearts shiver and their conscience moves and you find them, they react.

So what is the difference? A person who loves their sin And wants to continue in it indifferently, doesn't care. And there is the one who doesn't like the fact that they are addicted to that sin. So they compensate. When they're reminded of the Quran you find that tears fall from their eyes sometimes. Sometimes they feel that sense of guilt and shame. They try to fix but they

Sometimes fall into it, and some of them continue that way. And the Prophet peace be upon him acknowledge this type of a person who is a believer. He is better and she is better than anyone else who tries to rebel and justify their sin.

I remember another story having said this. It was about two AM back in the days, I'm talking maybe thirty years ago. I was still younger that time. Younger. And that time I remember a nineteen or twenty year old young man who I knew quite closely. He knocks on my door waking me up, so I answer the door, and he walks in pale faced, shivering, eyes red, bloodsh, or I don't know what colour they were. He was delirious but also scared.

So I said, What's it? Come in, come in. Took him to a room. And he said to me, I've got one question. What happens if a person dies from drugs? Is that a person who goes into hellfire eternally? I just want to know that. Is it like suicide? Is it something like that? I'm scared. I fear Allah. The story was that this young man, he prays Alhamdulillah, on and off. Uh he has a weakness towards women.

And the friends around him, unfortunately, are not the best to guide him in the right direction. So one day a friend of his, in Ramadan, إن رمضان Comes to him and says, Look, man, there are these sisters, these young ladies who are at the mosque. And their parents have gone into Praetarawi. You know, we we meet behind the mosque in the car.

Shuf Hadaj Shaitan comes to you and says, use the opportunity of Taraweeh and Ramadan in order to commit sin. SubhanAllah. Hasbun Allah Namaluakil. So let's go and spend some time. They went behind the mosque. Into the car, and these young ladies had some pills. They were colourful, they looked like lollies. And had emojis, li smiley faces.

So these are pills, brothers and sisters, if you ever do come across them, be aware of them. They're called ecstasy pills. Normally they come in such a design. And the word ecstasy is in order to entice you. It's called consumer this is how they entice people to buy things. They know that drugs is bad and there's guilty conscience, so they make you feel less guilty by giving them different names.

by letting you see that they are they look like lollies, so they remind you of just as if they're trivial childish things that you little kids do. And that's how the shaitan comes. He makes he decorates وَزَيَّنَ لَهُمَ الشَّيْطَانُ أَعْمَالَهُمْ Fasodda humani Sabi Fahumlayah Dadun. The Shaitan decorates to them the people who uh he wants to lead astray, he decorates to them the sin and makes it look attractive and nice.

For Sudda Human Is Sabir, he managed to deter them off the straight path for those who fell to his trap. Fahum Laya Hatadun and then they get so immersed into that sin and that decoration that they get into a form of justification, they they they feel it's good, they uh get whatever you know evidences they want to justify it, cognitive dissonance. And then they are never guided. They get trapped into misguidance.

So this young man, he he looked and said, No, no, I don't I don't want to taste these and these young ladies said to him, Oh, you're not a man, you're not um you're not brave, you know. And so the ego kicked in. His manhood ego kicked in and said, No, I'll take'em, I'm not scared. And you know, all in the name of a desire.

And so he took those pills and he's never taken drugs before. And he described to me the situation was like he felt like his soul was gonna come out of his body. Um, you know, a person who's not used to pills in the beginning. They have a reaction.

And then they take it again and again and the body starts to accept it and then you start feeling good about it, you remember the feeling, then you want more, but the problem is that the body wants more because then you become um tolerant of that drug or what and by extension anything that you become addicted to, then you want more and more of it until a person, subhanAllah, is deluded and gone into holes that they can't climb out of and hell on earth.

So this brother he comes to me, says, I felt like I was gonna die. So I left the car and I drove here and I didn't know anyone else to come to. I said to you're very welcome, Yah. Sometimes brothers and sisters, um some people they'll never talk to you or they'll never think about you or probably they'll never they'll probably avoid you. Right, because you maybe remind them of Allah or something. And then subhanAllah when they fall, the only light.

That they see among all these people is you. So if you're one of those people whom Allah sends someone to in this time of crisis. Don't get annoyed, but know that Allah has brought to you a pathway to paradise. And for your sins to be forgiven by helping and guiding this person, if you can, as much as you can, and if it's safe. So I took this brother inside and said, Let's make we'll do it together, we'll pray two rakas, we'll turn to Allah and ask Allah to forgive you.

And that way you'll feel safe. So we did that first and then I said to him, No, insha'Allah, you will not be a person of hellfire. The fact the fact that you fear Allah. And you've come to find a way out shows that your soul and your heart is has still got Iman inside of it. You still trust in Allah. Your Iman is still there. Your faith is still there.

Some people think that the action itself destroys you. But the thing is if your heart and your soul is void of Iman, that's what will destroy you when you have no remorse whatsoever. So this brother he prayed and he slept that night, next day he felt good. The fact that he turned to Allah and found a safe haven with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Ignited the Iman and helped him never to return back to it. My brothers and sisters, the point of mentioning this story is this.

that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala first looks into your heart. That is close to Allah when they fall into sin, when they fall big or small, they react. They feel pain, their conscience hits them. Alhamdulillah is one of the biggest signs. that you are still close to Allah. InshaAllah. Or it could be a matter of time before you come back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So that flame in the heart

Is your evidence that insha'Allah you're still on the right path. There is a problem, and of course this is not a green light for people to say, Oh, since I feel the iman. No, this iman actually leads you to repent. It's not an iman where you say, Well I love God, I love Allah and all this Allah will forgive me. No, you're a worse you're a worse person than that person. I remember a story of a man

who didn't pray much, didn't fast much, and then one day an eclipse happened. And this man, he used to say every time an eclipse happened he would He would um isolate himself in a room and he would pray to Allah to forgive him. while everyone else went outside to look at it as a scientific phenomenon and just you know, an amazing thing, which it is, but it's also a sign from Allah's greatness and power. And this man he used to sit and say,

Allah is powerful. It would remind him of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and to return to him. Now, of course, this man would commit a lot of these sins, but this is hope. This man with that heart and with that fear.

reminder of Allah. It could be that maybe Allah he hasn't had the chance of somebody to come round to help him. Maybe he's still ignorant. Maybe he doesn't know any better. Maybe he's been raised a different way. And that's why a Muslim doesn't judge a person just based on what they see on the outside. As a contrary, you'll f I've I've met people who are knowledgeable in religion. They'll come to the mosque, they'll know their salat, they'll know sins, they'll know everything, right?

And because of their knowledge, they use the knowledge to deter themselves off. So for example, they might come across a verse in the Qur'an where Allah says, Allah forgives all sins, is the most merciful then they'll say, Huh, Allah is merciful, don't worry, I'll go to Umrah and everything's gone. Or sometimes they may recite a verse in the Quran where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says continue to pray and uh uh Uh and keep doing good deeds, good deeds wipe away bad deeds. And then they use that

as an excuse to continue their bad deeds. And so they look at sins very, very trivial. Whereas this young man and the other young man I spoke about and this young lady who came to the masjid, they didn't see these sins as trivial. Yes, they were acting out in a wrong way, but subhanAllah something was gonna drag them, and that is the burning sensation of guilt about sin, because it shows that your thought of Allah is extremely great.

And that's the real meaning of Allahu Akbar. Allah is the greatest. How do you know that you truly believe Allah is the greatest? When these senses come to you and you truly have this awe feeling with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so you rise and improve, inshaAllah. My brothers and sisters.

The door of repentance is open for everybody, right up to the point of your gargling at death on your deathbed. إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَقْبَلُ تَوْبَةَ الْعَبْدِ مَا لَمْ يُغَرْغِرُ God accepts Allah accepts the repentance of a slave until the gargling of death begins. The goggling of death. Is when a person reaches a point of death Where they now can see, according to Islamic belief, they can see the angels coming to him. This is the Quran, it talks about it.

الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول في القرآن إِنَّمَ تَوْبَةُ عَلَى اللَّهِ للذين يعملون السوء بجهالة is only for those who commit evil out of ignorance ثم يتوبون من قريب And then they soon repent. فأولئك يتوب الله عليهم وكان الله عليما حكيما It is towards such persons that Allah turns graciously. Allah is all knowing, all wise. What does it mean that repentance is accepted from those who commit evil out of ignorance? And then soon repent. Ignorance has two meanings in Islam.

Number one, when you truly didn't know that something was haram, And you committed it, and then you found out, and then you say, Oh Allah forgive me. Allah accepts that person's forgiven uh repentance. The second meaning of ignorance in Arabic, means weakness. Thank you. And when you fall weak to your desires and temptations. Sometimes our desires and temptations take the better of us.

And you commit sins as a result, you may even repeat it. At the time that you're doing that, this is called jahl, which means that your desires. are stronger than you, you've let them overcome you, so that is lack lack of control of yourself. It's called Jahad. And this Allah also accepts your repentance when you return.

And then he says, soon after. What does it mean soon after? Means you are encouraged to repent to Allah as soon as you can. Don't delay it to the next day. And if you delay it to the next day, don't delay it to the next one. Don't procrastinate. And then there are some people who leave it and then towards the end they repent, but it's before their death.

And that also means soon. But some people take this ayah, this verse, and they start to take it for granted, to say, well, you know, since Allah said He'll accept my repentance until the gargling point, then I might as well just wait. I'll wait until when God forbid a disease comes to me like cancer or something and then that will be my little you know sign. My brothers and sisters remember from our last talk, nobody knows when the time of their death will arrive.

It could be tomorrow, it could be tonight. How many people have passed away without any sign and without any warning? May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us forgiveness and mercy. Amin Ya Rabbilame.

But the point is, brothers and sisters, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's door of repentance is open, and He will never punish anybody until all the avenues of reminders come to you. Allah brings people to you. He sends signs. He sends signals. He sends reminders. He takes away something from you sometimes, hoping that you will remember, hoping that you will return. Sometimes He'll give you, hoping that you will be grateful for that blessing.

Sometimes he will bring you hardships in the hope that you will return. Sometimes he will delay you. Sometimes he'll remind you on Nu Khutbah. Maybe you attend the Jumwa prayer and the Imam is talking about a topic and you say to yourself, SubhanAllah, it's like God Allah has read my mind and you know He's brought me this reminder. You may open up

Your uh phone or WhatsApp or social media and a reminder comes to you and hits you and you say, Subhanallah it came at the right moment. All these brothers and sisters are examples of Allah bringing you reminders. So, and sometimes you may fall into sin and there's harm that comes out of it, and that reminds you as well. All reminders around you, Allah never leaves anybody out, whether you're Muslim or non-Muslim. So watch out for those reminders, brothers and sisters.

And remember that even if you commit the sin again and again, repent again and again. Listen to this beautiful hadith of hope as well. That Yeah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that the the Prophet peace be upon him said الحديثة في صحيح بخاري Abu Hurrahu says, I heard the Messenger say, A servant may be stricken with a a a sin that they do. And then after they do the sin, they say, Oh my Lord, I committed a sin, forgive me.

Oh Allah, I've fallen again, forgive me. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala replies by saying, My servant knows that he has a Lord who forgives. My servant knows that he has a Lord who forgives and will hold him accountable. I have forgiven my servant. Then the person waits and then falls into the sin again. Then the person says, Oh Allah my lord, I have sinned, forgive me. And then Allah repeats, My servant knows he has a Lord who forgives.

And he holds him accountable, I have forgiven him. And then he stays and then does the sin again and then returns to Allah and the hadith keeps going about three, four times, and in the end Allah says My servant knows that he has a Lord who forgives, and he will be accountable, so I have forgiven him. فليعمل ما شاء

What does this mean? It doesn't mean it's a green light to continue your sin, but when Allah knows that a servant continuously returns back to Allah and truly feels the the the the the shame of it, and knows that there is someone to turn to, it means that this person has learnt how to trust Allah. This person has learnt that there is a remedy and that the remedy is with his Creator Allah. The fact that you are returning washes your sins and cleans your heart.

And then what happens? Allah forgives you. Because what happens is that you don't let your heart become dirty enough for you to feel good about your sin. So once we can repent all that's why Allah says it doesn't matter how many times a person commits their sin, they're gonna be safe. And eventually this person will leave that sin, most likely.

So, for example, one man, young man, came to the Prophet and he said, Ya Rasulallah, I This is an Arabic statement. I fell upon a woman. I did things that I shouldn't have done with a woman who was not lawful to me. And he said, How far did you go? And he said, I you know, just before what a husband and wife do. Your salat, your fasting, your sadaqah will wipe it away.

Now someone might say, Well, there you go, this is probably a concession for me, I'm alright, I can just go and play around and do all these things and I'll just go and pray and my sins are forgiven. This is what happens to people who don't heed Allah as He should be. These are people who are too smart for themselves. Who say that? Instead, this is telling you the opposite. It's telling you how to remedy your guilty conscience. and how to not return back to your sin.

By admitting your fault, by returning back to Allah, by covering it with good deeds, because when you start doing salah, when you give sadaqah, when you start fasting to get a get that sin away from you. What's that going to do? It's going to keep you reminding of Allah, it's going to keep you stronger, it's going to give you even closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

And that man, the Prophet peace be upon him, saw that he was really repentant. He wasn't just saying it because whatever. He was saying it because he really felt the shame of the sin. He wants Allah to forgive him. So this type of a person, the likelihood of repeating the sin is much less than somebody who just sits there and takes it for granted. Because Allah tells us he is also severe in his punishment. You see, how do we remedy Our guilty conscience.

So that we don't fall into despair, but at the same time we don't go the other way and we take everything for granted. Both of them are a sickness. It is a sickness to let yourself go completely, in the name of freedom, and say, I'm free, my or in the name of mental health. Some people use mental health in the wrong place. They say, For my mental health, I don't want to feel guilty about anything. And so they turn away from Allah and they fall into other problems.

They fall into other problems. Because remember when when we said last time, Allah did not forbid something except that there is harm in it to for you, isn't that correct? Spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, or With your dignity. So something wrong is gonna happen when we continue going down the wrong path.

And something even worse when we rebel against Allah's guidance. And I don't want to turn this lecture into all the statistics that we can see, but just two examples. Number one I use the classic example of drinking alcohol, one of the five highest rates of domestic violence, and even murders are the result of alcohol. And rape and sexual abuse and so on. The other example is promiscuity when people sleep around.

Right? In the name of I'm experimenting or they want to go and and and do all this, you know, um Sexual promiscuity. What happens? We all we all know the diseases that can result from it. We all know what it can lead to. We can see that when Allah forbids something, the harm is unlimited to how far things can go. So brothers and sisters, we see the harm we see the harm of interest and riba usury and how it has created unfairness and injustice in the world and for individuals and communities.

We see, for example, the harm of gambling, we see the harm of theft, we see the harm of abuse and so on. So when something is forbidden we can't say, I just want to be free and just go ahead and the other side is true. Mental health of a person becoming fully despaired and saying, I'm a loser, I'm lost, I've got no purpose in life, I'm a bad person. No, Allah wants you to be somewhere in the middle and be hopeful and be happy inside. And he told you you're gonna make mistakes.

Allah is telling you in other words, Allah is telling you, I know Mm-hmm. All your challenges.

And all the problems and hardships that come around you. The bad friends, could be the bad s community, the bad society, the social media that you're prone to, the um Uh you know, the education that you probably went through, the problems that you have in your family, the problems that you have in your marriage, the problem that you have from your children, from your parents, from this, from that knows all of this. But he's telling you, find your safety with me. Come to me. Come back to me.

And the word tawbah in Arabic tawbah repentance means to come back. To come back. So my brothers and sisters.

On those who avoid grave sins and shameful deeds, even if they may sometimes stumble into lesser offenses, in Narabbaqah wa'asi al-Magfirah, surely your Lord is abounding in his forgiveness. If you stay away from the major sins, then Allah will wipe away your minor sins automatically. In another verse Allah says, If you continue acts of worship and goodness and good deeds

Good deeds wipe away bad deeds. If you are worried about your minor sins which you fall into on a daily basis, then continue in good deeds. Continue in your worship. Avoid the major sins, Allah will take care of the minor sins for you.

What are major sins? I gave once a talk about that. You can refer back to it, a long talk about major sins and minor sins. But in a nutshell, major sins, brothers and sisters, are the ones which, when you learn about them and you ask, people of knowledge, they're the ones who appear in the Quran or in Hadiths with uh a warning or a threat or a punishment attached to them.

Allah curses so and so. They've got to be careful of that. It's a major sin. Uh or there is a punishment for such and such who does such a thing. Examples are adultery and fornication, gambling, theft. murder and killing, um, extortion, taking the rights of others um causing harm to others. Depends on the level of harm, of course, major harm, for example, uh um accusing a chaste woman of adultery when she is innocent.

Um you know, things such as uh riba usury, uh these are examples of major sins, my dear brothers and sisters. So Minor sins may sometimes become major. How? If a person continues doing them insisting without care. Without care. But a person who still feels a flame of shame about them, then inshaAllah with repentance and good deeds.

They are always reduced, inshaAllah ta'ala. In fact, brothers and sisters, those people who used to do major sins before and then have repented, guess what happens? Their major sins are not wiped off their record. Your past major sins will remain in your record. Did you know that? They will always remain. But I've got a better news for you. They remain as a reminder in your records, but not to make you feel bad on the day of judgment.

Because those bad deeds are going to be transformed into good deeds. All those major sins a person has done in the past. And if they have sincerely and honestly repented to Allah and stopped them and returned back to Allah, those bad sins will be turned into good deeds. And on the day of judgment, they will be brought. And you will think you're doomed, but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will say, Turn them into good deeds and put him in this scale of good deeds.

All of them are transformed, subhanallah. Major sins, brothers and sisters, what is the way out of it? There are four conditions. Number one, number one, that you stop. Number two, you sincerely ask Allah to forgive you from your heart. Number three, you regret. Now some people might say, What if I can't feel the regret? Then Allah says, Allah does not burden a person more than what they can bear. So the wanting to regret is enough, inshaAllah. That is regret in itself.

and the prophet peace be upon him said And nadamu tawbah. Regretting sincerely. If you do regret a sin, it is repentance or a sign of Allah's forgiveness. The fourth condition of major sins, brothers and sisters, is very important. I want you to listen carefully. All of what we've mentioned are rights between you and God, you and Allah.

the rights however of people Once they are violated, is not the same thing. The fourth condition for people's rights that you and I may have violated. is to s make it up to them or to seek their forgiveness or to compensate them or give back what we talk about. Depending on how severe it is. Some things we don't remember them, so we say, Oh Allah, forgive and grant goodness for anyone who I've ever wronged and I've forgotten about.

But if you have taken something from someone and whether it's theft or say you've you've you've ruined their reputation or you've done something that was that has affected them, you know, to a serious point, then what you need to do is you need to make it up to them somehow. Either you ask for their forgiveness, or you return back what you took from them, or you go back to where you ruined their reputation and try to mend it.

Or if all else fails and uh you can't Fix it, you can't do anything, or you've you can't reach that person anymore, or it's long gone and whatever, then la worst case scenario, you give sadaqa on their behalf. Give charity and say, Oh Allah accept this on behalf of that person and you make dua for them. You make dua for them. So, my brothers and sisters, the rights of people that are violated are not automatically forgiven by Allah, just by you asking Allah to forgive you.

I can't come up to you and harm you and then go and say, Oh Allah forgive me. You're still harmed. I need to give you back your right. I cannot come and lie to you, for example, and sell you something. And I knew that there was a fault in it. And then you go away suffering, and I run away and I use all excuses to say you took it as it is, and then I go and ask Allah to forgive me. No, you can't do that.

I extort you and then I take your money and I say Stakhfirullah from the side of my mouth that is not a repentance. The rights of people, brothers and sisters, your neighbours, your family, your friends, the people that you Muslim or non Muslim Any kind of wrongdoing, brothers and sisters, is not automatically forgiven. Yn ymwneud â phobl sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n sy'n.

Let's say they both died, and the Prophet tells us that on a day of judgment there is a place, a bridge above hellfire called Sirat, and there is something called Al Qantarah. Al Qantarah is like A high place don't know what it looks like. It's a station where the believers who are destined to go to paradise they passed all the day of judgment. And then they come to Pas al Sirod, the bridge, and people have fallen into the fire or taken away. These believers are halted.

They are halted, they are arrested. The angels arrest them. And they say, You're detained. You can't move forward. We've got to look into your case. These are good believers. Who are they? They are the believers who have violated each other's rights. They are arrested and detained before they're sentencing to before they are allowed to go to paradise.

What happens to them? Their matters are settled while they are detained. And Allah settles their matter and their affairs until they have forgiven one another and compensated. One thing to be aware of, and then Allah forgives them and goes, These are certain people, believers, who both of them Allah knows is good in them, but certain things remain between them. You don't want to be detained, my dear brothers and sisters.

And also, to be a weary of this, the Prophet once said, Do you know who the truly bankrupt person is? They said, who is the bankrupt person, Ya Rasulallah? He's the one who's lost all his wealth and business. The truly bankrupt person, the real bankrupt person, is the one who arrives on the day of judgment. and has taken the right of this person, and slandered this person, and harmed this person, and so their good deeds are taken off and given to the victim.

Depending on how bad it is, some of them run out of good deeds and they still owe other people. And so the other people's sins are taken off them and placed on top of the sins of the person who violated. Allah Tumma Yuttra Hafinnar and then he's thrown in the fire until the time comes to take him or her back out. My brothers and sisters, we do not want to be among those. Please, the rights of people are something else.

My brothers and sisters, I end with this. Here are uh ten ways that we can wash away our sins inshaAllah ta'ala. Number one. And these are the ones that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and His Messenger have told us in the Quran and Hadith. Number one. Performing your prayers completely.

And if you can perform them at their time is even better. The Prophet peace be upon him told us, between every prayer, from one prayer to another that you pray, Allah forgives the minor sins that you did in between them. And for every step that you take to the masjid the mosque, ten good deeds are given to you and ten bad deeds are taken off you. And when you pray Salah sincerely and properly

When you go to bowing and prostrating, your sins fall off your body. For the Prophet, peace be upon him, said the Hadith Muslim, he was once walking with his companions, and they pass by a tree. that had lots of leaves in it, and some of the leaves were ready to fall. So he grabbed a branch and he shook it violently until the dead leaves fell. And he said, When a person prays their salah, their sins fall off them like the way these dead leaves fell off this tree.

The second way that we can expiate our sins, brothers and sisters, is wudu ablution. The Prophet peace be upon him used to say, Shall I not tell you of something that would arise your mistakes and sins and raises your rank with Allah, they said, Oh yes, O Messenger of Allah, He said, Doing your wudu properly, especially when you don't want to do your wudu.

Some people might think, oh, if I don't want to do wudu, does that make me a hypocrite? No. There's a difference between when your heart, when your heart disbelieves in it, And when your natural desires find it annoying. Some people that want to make wudu, maybe they've got some sisters might have facial cream that they put on five times a day. Every time they've got to make wudu, the cream comes off.

Some of them may not be able to hold their will door, they say, Oh, here we go again, I've got to apply the cream again. So the nafs, your desires will come to you and say, Here we go again. Maybe a brother, you wake up and you say, Man, I can't hold my wudu, I'm one of those that has to make wudu every single salah. Here we go again. That's why the shaitan comes and makes this small act so heavy.

That's the nature of human beings. It doesn't mean something's wrong with you or that you're a hypocrite. Forgive yourself. d discomforted with it or um you know when when when something is inconvenient for you yet you still do it. Guess what? You're rewarded and your sins are dropped off. Another way that sins Saying with your mouth Astaghfirullah Ladim and there are different ways you can say it, but that's the easiest way. Astaghfirullah Astaghfirullah Ladim.

Constantly saying Istighfar wipes away sins automatically, even if you're not thinking about the actual sin. The Prophet, peace be upon him, used to say, Say istighfar, for I say it more than a hundred times a day. And the best time to say istighfar is straight after your farad prayers.

Sadaka Giving in Charity. When you give charity, your sins are wiped away. Depending on how much charity you give and how sincere you are. The proper peace be upon him is to say Guard yourself from the fire even if it's half of a date that you give in charity. He also said, Prayer is light, it's noor, and fasting is a protection, and sadaka, which means charity, extinguishes The flame of a sin, just like water extinguishes fire.

And jealousy and envy eats away at your good deeds the same way fire eats away at the wood. So envy and jealousy can destroy our good deeds. Envy and jealousy is when, what is envy and jealousy? Because just so I don't want to scare anyone off. Envy and jealousy becomes a problem when you despise. What another person has that you don't have. And you wish that you had it and they didn't have it. Or you wish they didn't have it.

That's a sinful jealousy. But if you are jealous in a sense, a light way, like you say, Oh, I wish I I could have that, but you're happy for the person. You don't wish for them to lose it. It's not considered a sinful jealousy. So Sadaqa, charity. And charity is not just money we say charity sometimes, also giving from what you have of goodness. Number five. Uh fasting. Fasting also wipes away sins. Number six. Forgiving and pardoning others for wronging you.

Someone did something wrong to you, someone said something that hurt you, somebody even even even you know, I'll give you something really easy for everybody who drives. You all do you all drive on the streets? You got your license? Okay, once you get your licence, for those of you still not eighteen yet, you're going to encounter an opportunity to either earn you sins and your immune system goes down and your stresses go up, which is called road rage.

Or you can use it as an opportunity to have your sins forgiven. Someone passes in front of you, you have an opportunity to go road rage and to swear and put your finger up at them and do all that stuff. Or you can be patient and say, you know what, Allah's gonna compensate me. I remember You know, Brother Bilal at the mosque, uh he said you get your sins taken off your body and then you say, Wow, okay, this is an opportunity for you. I've been compensated. That's one way of helping you.

So anything by pardoning, forgiving, and especially if somebody's closer in relationship like family, if you forgive them, the rewards and the wiping of sins is even greater. Of course, disclaimer, it doesn't mean that you forgive people who are using your forgiveness as an opportunity to abuse, extort or to take advantage of you. A Muslim can forgive but draw the boundaries A Muslim can forgive but still ask for their right back.

That doesn't mean just because you forget some people think they're get they get afraid of forgiveness because they think that if you forgive someone, You've got to return the same way you were before. That's not a condition. Like let's say you were really good friends, and then things kept going bad, and you found out that that friend is not really.

a good friend, maybe they're two faced, maybe you know you've given them chances. You can forgive, but it doesn't mean you have to return back the way you were. You can create boundaries and a bit of a distance. So separate the two inshaAllah and forgiveness is good for you anyway. Number six

Or seven, he's doing Hajj and Umrah, then that also forgives your sins. I've got to make a point on that. Some people think. That Hajj Hajj is like the biggest, greatest thing that forgives our sins, that that makes our sins forgiven. Like they think, out of all the good deeds and worship that we do in our life, they think Hajj Like that's like the ultimate thing. So what happens with this false this is wrong. Hajj is only one of the many different acts of worship that play the role of

F sins being forgiven. It's just one. One of of hundred. But the the the the problem with people making Hajj the ultimate thing Number one, and I've seen this happen, you probably agree with me. People start to delay their hajj. They say, you know what, I'm still young. I still can't lower my gaze. I still can't stay away from drugs. I can still can't, you know, do this, I c still can't um you know, I I still got a lot of sins.

So I'll just wait until I'm really old, that way my desires are less, you know, I'll probably be married then and or or maybe I'll my desires and my weakness will get there and then you know I'll stop doing sin and whatever, then I'll go to Hajj. And then Hajj like hitting two birds with one stone. I had a good time being young in Haram and Hajj.

It's a hack, just an easy way out. Forgive all my fifty, sixty, seventy years of sins. If you're thinking with that mentality, you're actually putting yourself in a bigger problem. Because you can't trick Allah. Can't do little deals with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that way. And anyway, some people might think if I do my Hajj, then I return and commit sin, then I've got to do my Hajj again and again. And then they get into this frenzy, this O C D with Hajj and Umrah.

Also, a person may think, I did my hush, they come back, and then they start feeling ten times more guilty when they do their sin, which is good, but it gets to a sickening state. So brothers and sisters, this is not how we work with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. And plus you might not know if you're going to do Hajj or not. So I wanted to make this point. Number eight. He is patience and perseverance during times of calamity.

If you're stricken with hardship or sadness or grief or some kind of harm or stress or worry or fear And you're patient. What does patient mean? Patient means that you try to work through it and you don't let yourself lose yourself to do sinful things. And you hold on, then your sins are constantly being forgiven as you are patient throughout the calamity. Until it goes. And some people

Nearly all their life until on the day of judgment they arrive with not a single sin on them just because why? Because they were patient and persevering through the calamities and hardships Allah. Put them through. Sometimes Allah puts you through hardships because He knows that is your salvation. That is the way out for you. He knows that you will pass that. Had He given you blessings and wealth, maybe you'll destroy yourself. So this is the meaning of أحسن الظن بالله أو أنا عند حسن ظن عبد بي

In the way my servant thinks of me, assume of me well. It means that Allah forgives. It means Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will accept you if you repent. And the last two are number nine. Um sponsoring or donating to an orphan. Looking after an looking after an orphan, so long as you are looking after them, your sins are constantly being wiped off.

Not only that, you have a special place with the Prophet, peace be upon him, on the day of judgment, a neighbor. Hadith is in Bukhari. And the tenth way is goodness to your parents. Goodness to your parents has a special place and connecting family ties, if you can, as much as you can, wipes your sins away because it is a high virtue. These are important people to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and if it is harder for you, your sins are wiped off even greater.

So every reward and every compensation and every forgiveness is equal to the pain and struggle that you endure. Nothing goes without compensating you fairly and justly and fully by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and more than what you can think. So the Prophet peace be upon him, for example, once said, May his nose be rubbed in dust, whoever reaches his parents in old age, and still they could not enter paradise.

meaning that that is the greatest opportunity for any person, sinful or not, or whatever, that when they look after their parents as when they go an old age, as much as you can to enter paradise. Now of course we have to make a disclaimer here. Brothers and sisters, this does not mean that when you get married, that because your parents are there, you abandon or neglect your spouse.

Some people when they get married, the man says, You have to to his wife, you have to live with my parents, for example, and you have to serve my parents. And you have to obey your husband. So he uses the verses that a woman has to obey her husband and then says My mother and my father come first Yes Your mother and father come first But it's not your right. To make your wife serve them. If she does so, she's rewarded.

But it's not her obligation. And I'm not saying to sisters, go and fight with your husbands about it. I'm talking about those who take this matter to extremes and then they have starting having fights. Yaachi, you you as their son Need to serve them. You don't make others. They get their wife, marry her, serve them because my mum and dad come first and he goes out. What's that?

By taking the right of others? No. Tell you if the parents are important and you should serve them and they come first. What about her parents? Why can't she serve her parents and say, my mum and dad come first? Is it just for the boy? Only the son says, My parents come first? What about the daughter? What about her? Don't they come first for her? No, her in-laws come first. This is haram.

Now remember, I'm not saying that we don't assist and help each other. Definitely a good husband and a good wife, they have courtesy to their in-laws. They serve and assist. But there's a difference between when we cooperate out of love, out of kindness, out of courtesy. And the boundaries and rights are met, and the wife has her rights and the husband has his rights and their privacy and so on, while still helping your parents, and between when they turn it into a threat.

an obligation, a taking of right. Away. And some of them it can even lead to big family dysfunction. This is wrong, wrong, wrong. So, brothers and sisters, remember Forgiveness from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is you serving your parents and obviously without taking the rights of others.

ما هي النظر من التعبير الذي يدعى من الله سبحانه وتعالى؟ بعض النظر. الأول. إنما المؤمنون الذين إذا ذكر الله وجلت قلوبهم. The true believers are the ones who when Allah is mentioned to them, their hearts shiva. So the first sign of repentance is that your heart moves. Your heart moves towards it.

Uh wa either tuliat alayhim ayat was addatum imana. And when the verses of the Quran are recited upon them, their iman increases. So the second sign of repentance accepted is that you find that your faith, your iman, your closest to Allah, goes higher. You feel closer to him after it. Number three. You find that you start to like

Doing more good deeds. That's a sign of repentance. Number four, you start to hate your past self when you used to do that thing. That's a sign of repentance, inshaAllah. So these are four signs of the repentance, insha'Allah, being accepted. Now. You know you feel it. You feel it, you feel a a relief subhanallah. And you feel a closeness and the love And you l when you think about yourself in the past you go.

How can I? I I can't I can't like myself in that day. These are all signs that your repentance is accepted. One more is sincerity and honesty. The fact that you are honest and sincere, you know yourself, that's a sign of repentance being accepted. So that's six of them, insha'Allah.

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us understanding, forgiveness, and patience. My brothers and sisters, this is my topic for tonight. I hope that. Uh I've managed to help you with a bit of hope tonight. I don't I didn't deliver this topic to make you feel guilty. I gave you this topic to show you the remedy. And how Allah is much more merciful and forgiving than what you think.

But at the same time I had to be sure that you don't take that for granted, don't take Allah for granted and His goodness for granted and think you got a green card. You're always balancing yourself and what we're saying is that please don't get despaired. And label yourself, no matter how far you go, you can always come back. And don't also let yourself go without care or anything, because that will harm you as well.

And remember that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the Prophet peace be upon him, said Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wrote in the preserved tablets above in the preserved tablets before he created the humans. My mercy has beaten my anger. إن رحمتي Sabakat Radabi, Allah's anger and displeasure. His mercy overcomes and beats his what? His displeasure and his anger. For Allah to be angry with you takes a lot. And Allah forgives and pardons from the moment you're born, you are sinless.

And then when you get the sins Allah gives you avenues out, again and again and again, how merciful is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So assume well of Allah, my brothers and sisters, and keep going on this journey together, and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us among those who will meet together.

And not against each other. And we will intercede for each other and make dua for each other. My final words I just forgot about that. If somebody dies with sins and they haven't repented and you love them, Especially if they're close to you, continue to make dua for them. Ask Allah to forgive them, especially your parents.

And anyone that have passed away, make dua for them. And there will be an angel right next to you saying, Oh Allah, give him or her the same, give him the same. So we are believers who are merciful towards one another because Allah is merciful and this is how you connect with Allah. ترجمة نانسي قنقر You owe something to a company or an organisation that you took took from them. The first thing you need to do is that if you still got that possession, you need to return it to'em. ASAP.

Even if it was a spoon that you took from the kitchen of the staff room or something, you need to return it. Or you let them know and you pay for it. Now you might say, Well what if I get charged or reported to the police, for example, as a crime, and you fear? Then there are other avenues. You can I did this once with a young a young lad, a young boy, young man, who stole a pair of jeans from one of the shops here in uh in Melbourne.

And uh about seven years later he felt guilty. I said, Where are the jeans? He said, Oh they're gone. Said is the guy still there at the shop? He said yes. Said put a letter in an envelope and how much of the jeans cost today says seventy dollars they put seventy dollars in there and say anonymously I stole this pair a long time ago.

And my guilty conscience I couldn't live with it. Please accept this. And that's it. I said, What do you do? He goes, wait till he closes the shop and put it underneath his door. So if you can find a way to compensate that company or organization, whether through someone else, Uh then do so. So find a way to compensate'em anonymously. If, however, you this company is no longer there or business longer there, then

You can ask Allah to forgive you and repent to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, give charity in its place, and hope that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala forgives you if you cannot reach them anymore and they're completely gone. So uh this is what you gotta do, inshaAllah. You can't say, Oh, but they're kufar, they're disbelievers. If I give them the money they're spending it on alcohol anyway. This is how the shaitan gets to you to do the wrong. No.

Probably I would say to you, it's even more crucial to compensate the disbeliever than the believer. Because the believer, you still maybe have a chance on the day of judgment that Allah will compensate both of you. But the disbeliever will stand on a day of judgment to save themselves. And you are going to be held highly accountable. Not only that, our image as Muslims, if we stand up for the character of what a Muslim is, this will be bad da'wah, bad image for Islam and Muslims.

So that's my answer to that one. Any other questions? How do you revive a heart that is very deep into sins? Ya Khilkarim. If something is dirty on the table, where do we start? We start by cleaning a little bit. We get a sponge and we clean it. We have a sponge that's dirty, you wash it over and over again. So, in order to revive a heart that is full of sins

You start doing good deeds more. Start with the good deeds that you enjoy. Start with the good deeds that you can do. And start doing them, even if they're small. But this time what you're going to do is this is the secret. Even if it's something really small, you know, cleaning something or moving something off the street, do it with the intention that you're doing it for Allah, to look at your deed, to clear your heart, to wake up your heart.

Wallahi, that has an immense effect on you. And this is, you know how people misunderstand that hadith about the woman or the man who used to do... indecent things, and then she wanted to repent, and she saw a dog and who was panting, she gave him drink water. And Allah forgave her. Some people think that, oh, you know, I can do all bad things and just give a doc to drink. No.

This lady wanted what you are saying right now. She wanted her heart to open up. She wanted her sins to go. She wanted Allah to accept her. So she came and found this only good deed because no one else was going to open the door for her. So the only good deed she can do meant a lot to her. But she did it.

Because of Allah, not because of just feeling sorry for the dog. Like he can feel sorry for the dog, but when it comes to sin and forgiveness and waking up your heart and getting close to it's not gonna work. It's gonna make it closer to dogs, maybe to pets. But if I do it out of sorrow for the dog, which softens the heart. And out of wanting Allah to forgive me, suddenly that little deed that I do will start to have an effect on my heart.

That's why in Rasulullah is to say, for example, an orphan just patting the orphan on their head or on their shoulder or something like that, anything that is culturally acceptable that would make the orphan feel Safe with safe and and and loved, you know, by by someone. eerie, but to visit the cemetery and to you know reflect

You know, doing those things will start to wake up your heart. Uh giving charity for the sake of Allah in secret. In secret for the sake of Allah, not because anyone's watching you, it will open your heart. Offer a voluntary prayer just because at any time. Make a wadu and offer your prayer. All of these little acts ya ikhi if you do them, wanting Allah to open your heart, your heart will open up inshaAllah. Uh it's not in theory, it's in practice.

Uh maybe even practice forgiveness, forgiving others for the sake of Allah. Not because you you had to, but because you wanted to. Suddenly wallahi your heart's gonna open up. All of these open up. But as I said, the intention is so that Allah can open up your heart. And why and finally If you can, sometime in the night, if you can't wake up in the middle of the night, maybe just before Aisha, maybe before ten, eleven, twelve, you're waking up, just offer yourself a couple of rakas.

And then say, Oh Allah Or maybe if you don't want to pray, just lift your hands up and say, Oh Allah. Please open this curtain and get this barrier away. My heart is diseased and just talk about it. Wallahi all these combination of all these things will open the heart and revive it inshaAllah ta'ala.

As opposed to just l sitting there and just thinking about it and not doing anything. Very good question. So is it necessary to tell people about their sins when they are repenting? The way to repent from a sin is to confess it to Allah and only Allah alone. The only time that you have a concession to tell someone else about your sins is when you're seeking advice. or counselling from that person.

From a person who knows their stuff, then you're allowed to talk about it. Ought for a person, it could be a family member, a friend, who can help you through it. So if you feel like you need to talk about it to get help or advice, that's okay. But to just merely think that I need to confess my sins to someone so that the guilt gets off me, that I've told someone, that is wrong. That in itself is a sin.

And we talked about it last week that the Prophet peace be upon him told us a servant of Allah is in continuous safety of forgiveness and pardoning by Allah so long as they do not Freely expose their sin. Once you expose your sin, you have removed the veil that Allah covered you with. If Allah wants to expose you, He will expose you. The fact that you're not exposed is a sign from Allah that He hasn't let you go. Did you know that? Did you know that? SubhanAllah. Only Islam teaches us that.

Maybe other religions, I don't know, but I know that only Islam, this is as far as I know, it teaches you the opposite of what the rest of the world says. You don't confess it to an iman. You don't confess it to your parents, you don't confess it to your friends or to anybody. Unless what you are confessing to involves that other person. If a person does a sin, for example, that is going to affect or harm their spouse, for example, their husband or their wife.

It's gonna harm them, then I think they should talk to them about it. But if it's between you and Allah. Keep it between you and Allah, repent and fix yourself. Never tell anyone about it, unless for advice or counselling.

Brother is asking a question. There is an ayah in the Quran, and whoever kills another believer deliberately, they deliberately murdered them. Then his consequence is Jahannam, Halfire, Khalid and Fiha, he will stay in there. Uh and Allah will bestow his anger upon him or her and curse him. And you'll have a severe punishment and torment. When we read that verse, it seems to us automatically as if a person who is a believer in Allah muwahid doesn't do any polytheism, is not a mushrick.

If they've killed or murdered another believer, they are in hellfire forever and will never come out of it. But that is the wrong tafsir. خالدن Has two meanings. To be in there has two meanings. Khalid means eternally, and Khalidan means he will stay in there until the time is up. Until the time is up. And what clarifies this is the authentic hadith of the Prophet about the man who killed 99 lives. The hadith is in Bukhari and Muslim.

He killed ninety nine lives, and many of them were believers. So he went to a monk who did not have knowledge but was practising. And asked him, Have I got any room for Allah to forgive me? He said, You are the worst of the worst. Allah will never forgive you. So then he killed the monk as well.

100 Then he searched for a knowledgeable scholar, and the scholar said to him, Yes, the doors of repentance are always open, but you have to leave the friend group that you are around, you have to leave this community and go to another you have to migrate to another community.

So as he was going to the other believing community in a good community, he died halfway through, and the angels of heaven and hell came to take him. They had a dispute, and then an angel in the form of a man was made to judge between them. And then he said, measure the distance, and he was closer to the land that he was going to. So Allah forgave him.

Fa there is forgiveness, Yachi. And the word Khalidan eternally doesn't mean forever and ever. It means right up to the appointed time meaning you know when for example In court, a person may get life sentence. We say life sentence. But then they say life sentence. neu gyffredinwch gyffredinwch gyffredinwch gyffredinwch gyffredinwch gyffredinwch gyffredinwch. Non non parole, whatever you want to call it. I don't know. I think it's American. Anyway, the point is uh

The difference is that one is live and can't get out, and one is open to reducing the sentence if they've given, for example, fifty years. So same thing here. Khalidan meaning in the hell fire. for a very long time, but they have to complete the entire sentence and then they get out.

Whoever dies testifying لا إله إلا الله ومحمد رسول الله في وطوحيد لا يشرك بالله شيئًا لا يشرك بالله شيئًا لا يشرك بالله شيئًا لا يشرك بالله شيئًا لا يشرك بالله شيئًا لا يشرك بالله شيئًا Even if he commits adultery and steals. he said even if he commits adultery and steals then abu dhar said even if he steals and commits a doctorate and he said, yes, even if he steals and commits a doctorate. He says, third time. Even if he steals and that, he says.

Yes, even if he steals or commits adultery, whether Abu Dhar likes it or doesn't. And what does this mean? It means that, yes, they may be punished for their theft and for their adultery, but eventually they'll enter paradise. So if a person dies, even if they've murdered someone, they'll be punished, and it's up to Allah to reduce their sentence, to forgive them for whatever reason.

Maybe the person repents and starts to save lives in its place and Allah accepts their repentance. So the ayah, the verse of the Quran, is talking in general that they stay for a long time, up to the time that they deserve to be in there and it will not be made shorter. No suspended sentence. Allah Yaqbuddhun Bajami. The one we recited before, Allah can forgive all sins altogether. But Allah says إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَغْفِرْ أَن يُشْرَكَ بِهِ وَيَغْفِرُ الْمَدْوَنَ ذَلِكَ لِمَن يَشَاءَ

Shirk polytheism will not be forgiven on the Day of Judgment. Any other sin can be forgiven. We say , Allah's mercy.

And brother is asking a very good question. The somebody who's converted to Islam or reverted to Islam? Um are all their major sins forgiven and if they've wronged someone. Well, I mean that applies to both, right? Whether a person is converted or reverted to Islam and a person who was living a life of sin and then repented from that life of sin. Same thing, right? Both of them is called Tawbah, returning back to Allah.

In any case, yes, if they truly repented, all their major sins are gone. There is an exception, a difference. The person reverts to Islam, all their major sins are gone, without needing to repent from each one by itself. But a person who is already a Muslim and knows what the major sins are and has committed major sins needs to repent from each major sin alone. Okay. Now the person is reverted to Islam after that

If they continue with the old major sins, then they have to repent from each major sin. But the Prophet peace be upon him told us that anybody who has become a Muslim that one s Sahabi said, Ya Rasulallah, I will pledge allegiance with you. On one condition. He says, What's your condition? He said on a condition that all my past sins are gone. And he said, And what do you think that Islam does, O so and so? Al Islam u Yajub Maqabla Islam wipes away and covers up everything that was before.

Everything. Same with a Muslim who's repented, who's always been a Muslim. If they he or she repents, but specifically from each major sin, stops it, repents sincerely, it's wiped off as if it never existed. But if they owe rights to someone, whether they've reverted to Islam or they are already a Muslim from the beginning, both of them are the same case. Same case applies. You still have to return the rights to those people.

I can't come and say Ashadu allaylullah Anna Muhammad Rasulullah and then you know walk away from giving the people their rights. The rights of people remain, remain, remain. The Prophet peace be upon him told us in the authentic hadith that even if a person is martyred on the battlefield, a shaheed, a real shaheed, all of their sins are gone. No matter how big they are, accept the rights of people. Accept the rights of people, subhanAllah.

Even the prophets, although the prophets never take the rights of people. Even if the Prophets take the rights of people, Allah will hold them accountable. Allah says about the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam if he were to make up anything about this trust that we gave him, because what's this trust? Who's it for? It's for the people. Therefore it's the people's right.

If you, O Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, if you were to twist around anything of these verses and teach people the wrong stuff deliberately Then you have betrayed the rights of people. Allah says, لَأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِالْيَمِينَ ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنَا مِنْهُ بِالْوَتِينَ فَمَا مِنْكُمْ مِنْ أَحَدٍ عَنْهُ حَاجِزِينَ He says, we would have taken him, we would have seized Muhammad ﷺ. And then we would have cut off his jagular vein and none of you can prevent us from him.

Meaning the prophets, right? Although the prophets uh uh immune from ever taking people's rights, Awdul Billah. However, the the matter is quite serious, my brothers and sisters. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us forgiveness. Of course, look, there are some minor things that people take the rights of. Depends. If the backbiting gossip causes harm to the other person, like serious harm, then it's a major sin. If it's

minor harm, then it's a minor sin that can be wiped off inshaAllah with salat. If they're day to day things that you know, I let's say I said something silly about someone. They wouldn't like me to say it. It's a minor sin. But it's not gonna last for the next minute. Everybody forgets about it. Then my salat and my forgiveness inshaAl my uh good deeds will wipe it off inshaAllah.

Yes. If a person has done major sins, an a a number of them, and do they have to specify each major sin? Yes. They have to specify each major sin. Why? Why? I'll tell you why. Uh The condition of each major sin is that you stop it. So let's say for example, gambling, alcohol, and fornication. Three major sins. You have to stop the gambling.

By stopping the gambling doesn't mean you've stopped the alcohol and fornication, correct? So repentance means you've got to stop. Stop the gambling, stop the alcohol, stop the fornication. After that, you say, Oh Allah, I repent to you sincerely from my heart, from the gambling, from the alcohol, and from fornication. Why do you have to mention him? Because that's the healing process.

If you don't mention it, it keeps it. The shaitan gets a hold of you. Say it to Allah. Say it. Because it has an effect on your iman and your mentality. Then promise and say, Oh Allah, I promise you not to return to it. Say it, each one of it. Now, if a person returns to it and fails later on, repent again, the same way I told you.

Third time, repent again. Four times. Imam al Nawawi, he talks about the hadith I said before in my talk, that a person commits a sin returns and Allah forgives and all that. He said even if a person did it a thousand times. So long as they are sincerely and honestly repenting each time.

Remember, Allah knows our hearts and intentions. So if a person does it and says, Well, because of that hadith, tomorrow I'll get another chance that's not a repentance. Allah hasn't accepted it. It has to be sincere each time. Each time. And you don't know, you might die tomorrow. And if you were sincere today, and let's say had you lived another seven days, Maybe you would have done it two more times, but then Allah took your life the next day. Guess what?

You die on the repentance the day before. Had you lived on and you would have done it twice, it's not counted anymore. Do you understand the difference?

Gone. So I hope that answers the question. Ah, good question. Rasulullah says, Idahamma hadukum bisayah. If any of you is a b is is intending to do a good a bad deed and then doesn't do it, will be rewarded a good deed. But if they do it, they'll be rewarded, they'll be consequent, they'll be given one bad deed. But what you're asking is not intended, you're saying thought.

Thought is called Al-Khatira. Al Khatira is just a thought. Oh badsi and it passes. That's not called ham. Hama means you're intending to do it. That's when it becomes a sin. Either you do it or you don't. Feither if so what do I mean by this? If you intend to do it, then you go ahead to do it but you couldn't do it, Imma Saddam, I want to go and do a sin on my way.

uh some an accident happened and I didn't get to go to do the sin. It will still be written as a sin because I intended to do it, but something stopped me. But if I stop myself, then it turns into a good deed. Okay? But if a thought came to my head, no, that's not a sin at all. At all. Any for example, you might be talking to me, I'll do it my forgive me if I give you this example. You talk to me, I talk to you, I get annoyed, and in my head I swear at you.

But it's just a thought, right? It's not a sin. It's only when I intend to do a sin. So if I thought to swear at you and you kept on annoying me and then I swore at you, then it happens. Or let's say I want to swear at you and then you walk away and then I chase after you.

And then you turned the corner and I couldn't swear at you and I go, Oh, I wanted to really swear at that person, it's written as a sin. So when if if the thought turns into a decision, that's when now you've got a chance. You either do it Or you stop. And if you go ahead to do it, but you couldn't do it, it'll be written because you decided, you intended. Yanni, make a difference between intention

And just a mere thought or a desire. Sometimes our desires come up. And you must say a person may see a woman passing by and then a thought comes to their head. I'm gonna go and do this sin. But if a person intended and planned and then goes ahead and does it, then it's a sin. Or you planned for it but you couldn't do it, but the intention is still there, then it's a sin. Question here is, how can I?

Stop feeling like my right has been taken when I keep forgiving and the people keep taking my right and taking advantage. No, don't forgive. Don't forgive. What I mean by this, don't forgive. Okay, so forgiveness is your right. You can forgive, or you can choose not to forgive. And I'm going to give you good news. If in this case Your forgiveness that you did the first time and then you did the second time. You did the third time.

Or even the first time. And then you realised that person has taken my forgiveness for advantage. They're taking it for granted. They're continuing to take in the rights. Now I want to ask you, is taking rights sinful? Is it sinful or not? Yes, it's sinful. If I forgive that person and my forgiveness is now empowering that person to continue their sin, guess what? By not forgiving them and telling them, I now get rewarded.

I get rewarded for not forgiving them. Why? Because now I am not forgiving them because this is enabling that person to continue taking my right, number one, and number two, it's enabling my brother or sister to continue to sin. So no, you don't forgive them. And in fact, the Prophet peace be upon him said, assist and support your brother or sister, whether they are the victims or the wrongdoers. So like that person is taking her right, I say to you. Go to them and draw the boundary.

Let's say for example they're borrowing money from you and then they don't give it back and you forgive them, come back and say, sorry, I don't want to assist you on this sin because you don't stick to your promise. So what have you done? You have assisted your brother from continuing their oppression.

So help your brother, whether he is the oppressor or the victim. So ha we know how to help him when he's a victim. How do we help him when he's the wrongdoer? It says by stopping him from doing his or her wrongdoing. Whether you want to forgive or not forgive is up to you. If you can, good. If you can't, you don't have to. But remember what I said. Just because you choose to forgive does not mean that you've got to give up your right.

Once again, if you choose to forgive someone does not mean you give up your right. You continue to go and take it. But forgiving means that you're not going to hold a grudge against that person or revenge or du'a against them. Right? It means you're not going to take action As a revenge against them in any way. That's all what forgiveness means. And letting go of it, you're not gonna sit there stressing about it and you've got to let go of it. But it doesn't mean you don't take your right.

I can still take my right. And in my heart, forgive you, I don't want to hold anything against you, but I want my right back. And then if you don't give me my right, and then my heart starts holding something against you, that's my right. I have a right to do that. Allah will not hold me accountable. But the first time I forgave you, the second time I forgave you, my sins go off, insha'Allah.

The third time, you're you're now taking advantage and that's a sin. Now I'm gonna do it for the sake of Allah. I'm gonna not forgive you for the sake of Allah. I'm gonna not let you off for the sake of Allah. That's a different story. No, no.

Yeah, that's a very classical um piece of knowledge in Dean, that we do not judge people based on what's in their hearts. We don't know. Um in fact that's That's sinful to judge a person by their intention unless they expose their intention, instead of tell you what their intention is.

If they tell you what their intention is, then you judge them by their intention. But you see, you're no longer judging them by the intention, you're judging them by what they said about their intention. Correct? So let's say they told you my intention is such and such, but they're lying to you. And you judge by that. Did you really judge by the intention?

No, they hit that intention, they told you something else. And if they told you the true intention, you uh you act on that. But if you tell me something and I don't know what's in your heart, I don't judge my intention. But there's a difference between judging you or not trusting you or having my reservations. That's okay.

Right, that's okay. But if it's going to harm you, like if I'm going to accuse you of something, or I'm going to take something from you, or I'm going to report you, so that's harm on you, I cannot do that based on judging your intention because I don't know what your intention is. I do it based on the action. Right? Let's say, for example, I stole, but my intention is good. Do you judge it on my theft or my intention?

On the on the on the on the theft. That's correct. So we judge on it. And um in fact that's a very good point because some people this is what they do. Rasulallahu alayhi actually told us authentic hadith you just remind me comes to mind. He said, A person whose property has been stolen the proper peace be upon him said a person whose property has been stolen, that person, the victim, is most prone to accuse other people.

He or she will start throwing accusations at every person based on just signals and words. And then what was victimhood for him now becomes a perpetrator. Now he's sinful. So he's saying be careful not to jump to conclusions and say so and so stole so and so. And that's in answer to your question. The f the the the harm of judging people based on their

intention unless you know truly what the intention is. But if it's something that is your right, like it's let's say I want to do business with you, I want to buy something from you, you want to buy something from me, but something about me made you hesitant. Now, that's a different story. You're allowed to have reservations. But what you're not allowed to do is to go over and say

That person is sneaky, that person is uh is a thief, that person is a liar. But you have no evidence to say that I'm sneaky, a thief, or a liar. You just had your reservations, the way I look, or just the way the store looked, or some of the words I said. So you made you based an assumption.

Now when does an assumption become haram? It is when you base a judgment, an accusation on that person. But you just say, look, I just didn't feel right, I didn't really trust the person, but Allah maybe they're good people. Just personally I didn't really feel. Gut feeling. So that's okay, a person can do that. So long as you don't base it an accusation on that person.

excellent good question no no no that's a good point there is a verse in the quran Ordinarily ordinarily does not like that people attack others or can speak out loud harshly against others. Yani say you're a this, you're a that, even swearing at someone, except whoever has been wronged. So if I wronged this brother here I took money off him. I didn't pay it back. Over and over. And the brother is requesting.

He can have the right to stand up in the mosque, for example, or somewhere, and say that person does not fulfill his promise. That person over there, Bilal, does not pay money back. You are a thief for doing that. Then he has a right to say that about me.

He has a right to say that. But uh but don't transgress. Like don't start talking about my family and about my dignity and about my nose and about my hair and about my whatever. No. Just about the action. In that case, you're allowed. Now You don't get sinned for that? Nor do you get rewarded, but it is your right because Allah has made a way for people to vent. Otherwise you explode. People take your rights, can't even talk. No.

So Barakallahik. So rather he has given numerous verses in the Quran where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Don't do this, and another one says don't do that, don't do that, don't do that. For example, do not do not Be do not withhold too much. Yeah, and do not extend too much. in giving and do not hold back too much in preventing. Okay.

Kill your children, fearing that you will not be able to provide them. And do not approach the wealth of the orphan. Ah no. Each one has a different hukum, each one has a different judgment. And that's based on the context. Do not kill your children. means things like abortion or real killing. Here, we have to now see a supporting evidence from the Quran or authentic sunnah that tells us that this action has been cursed or there's a punishment to it. What do we find? There is a punishment to it.

So now this one is a major sin. But the other one you mentioned illao no click don't withhold too much and don't extend too much. There's nothing a karina, there's no associate evidence. Which has talked about it as being a punishment. This now is an advice. It means Uhululatan illa unukik, which means when you do in fak, when you um look after your family and you look after others, do not be so miserly. And do not extend it, meaning don't be Musrif, meaning don't spend when you can't afford.

Okay. In that case, it's not by itself a major sin. But if you repeat it too much and it gets to a higher level where people start getting harmed by that, then it becomes a major sin. That's the accumulation. But this will harm you. Okay? So, very good question. Not everything that Allah says don't do is necessarily a major sin. Some of them are minor sins, and some of them are not even sins at all.

رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم قال Uh no one will enter paradise who has an atom's worth or or or a seed worth, mustard seed worth of kibir, of haughtiness and pride. Here It depends on how you're walking. If you're walking on earth boastfully Out of worldly possessions, any showing off about my car, showing off about my clothes, it's not a major sin. But if I walk feeling of superiority above others. Yani, I deserve more.

And others are below me, and I refuse truth unless it comes from an important man or something like that, then that is a major sin. Okay? And not entering paradise here means that in the beginning you won't enter paradise, as long as you're a muhid and a true believer, unless you have pride or boastfulness against Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's laws.

So good questions, but this now requires to sit down and have look at each case and then to see what the scholars have said about it. Good question, insha'Allah. That's a student of knowledge question. بارك الله فيكم. Thank you for listening. May Allah increase you in iman and forgive all our sins and shortcomings.