This millahi will hamdulillahi was Salah to Salah Moallah Abdullahi or asuli Muhammad Allah Ali Wasahi Jamain.
My beloved brothers and sisters, one of the favors of Allah Subhanahu Atallah upon us is the fact that we can repent, seek forgiveness, earn the forgiveness, earn the pleasure of Allah Subhanahu Attallah. And if we change our ways and habits permanently, Allah says He will convert that bad which we did or used to do into good on the right side of the scale on the Day of Judgment. So to put this into perspective, what it means is that if you used to do bad or you have done
bad, and not only do you seek the forgiveness of Allah, but you leave it for the sake of Allah. And nothing would make you leave it unless you have a connection with Allah, unless you feel that you need that bond with Allah, and unless you realize the status of Allah. So if you have left your ways that you may have had or you have quit it and changed your life, Allah says, I love that so much, the realization of Insan, the realization of mankind.
When He turns to me seeking forgiveness after having sinned for a very long time, I love it so much because He only did it for me. Only for me that I will take those bad deeds and convert them into good deeds. Because it was very possible that he could have continued doing it if he did not want a relation with me, Subhanallah. So this is one of the favors of Allah that we don't realize. We all have weaknesses. We are all Bashar. We are all human beings. Human beings falter.
Sometimes we make more mistakes than sins, and sometimes we make more sins than mistakes. What's the difference between the two? When I'm saying mistakes and sins, A mistake is something perhaps you might not have planned to do and you fell into it. I bumped into a car. Its a mistake, its not a sin right? But when I intentionally want to ram into someones vehicle in order to do something that is criminal, that becomes a sin. You see the difference?
So the same applies. If you planned not to get up for Salat al fajr, then that is something sinful. But if you overslept even after having set the alarms and having planned to get up, that is a mistake. So This is why there is a difference between the two. As for the mistake, Allah Almighty can forgive it even if you may not have had specific repentance depending on what exactly it was. Minor sins are forgiven by Allah subhanahu at Allah at times even without you seeking the
forgiveness. Because when you do a good deed, the bad one is automatically wiped out. You make will do. The hadith says when you wash yourself in preparation for prayer, that water the droplets that actually fall down with each droplet, your sins are falling down. That's the hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So its very important to realize all of this is the favor of Allah, the favor of Allah upon us. Imagine if there was no toba.
Imagine if you committed a sin, you have to pay for it, whether you say I'm sorry or you don't. Imagine if that was the case. Now some people have a misunderstanding regarding the issue of shirk. What is shirk? It is association of partnership with Allah in worship. When a person engages in shirk, there is a major, major concern because if that person dies in that condition, what would happen is Allah has issued a warning.
He says in Allah, Allah forgives or Allah will not forgive association of partnership with Him, but besides that he will forgive whatever He wills and whatever he wants to forgive. That verse is very clear. It appears more than once in the Quran. Allah has that warning in several places in the Quran, in some places worded a little bit differently, but the misunderstanding is that if a person commits shirik, are they
always not forgiven? Bear in mind the verse is only talking about a person who died without seeking forgiveness from shirk. So if you and I were to die right now, I'm sure there might be some sins we havent sought forgiveness of or from right? If you die right now, I die right now. Allah says I may forgive you, I may forgive anything and everything you've done. Allah has his own. He's the most merciful, the most kind, the most forgiving, the most unique, the most just.
And what so many qualities that are amazing, superb qualities of Kamal, qualities of the highest level of that particular quality, they belong to Allah. So if Allah is most forgiving, most merciful, most kind, most loving, we have a lot of hope. But if a person dies right now, Allah says I can forgive anything no matter what it is, its up to me. That's why its important to have your personal relationship with Allah, your personal relationship with Allah, its
your secret. Have have some communication with Allah, something you know when you do something wrong, talk to Allah, say oh Allah forgive me, I'm wrong, I'm in sun. I did this not because I defy you, You are my maker. I have no option but to go to you. But I'm so weak. I ended up doing this. I feel embarrassed. Forgive me. Oh Allah. That's your connection with Allah, Your personal private relationship that no one knows besides you and Allah.
Do you know that there is nobody on earth who can know you better than Allah? In fact it goes a level higher. Allah knows you better than yourself. Allah knows you better than yourself. So ask Allah for guidance, He will guide you. Ask Allah for goodness, He will grant you. The problem is if a person has died and they engaged in shirk and they have not repented from it, that's where this question comes about to say will Allah forgive such a sin?
He says no I don't want to, how and why I have no option. I have nothing to tell you because I just have to read to you. This is what Allah said and its full stop. It stops there. I can't explain to you beyond that so please be careful. Something dangerous but the good thing you and I are breathing. May Allah forgive us. May Allah forgive us for the sins we've committed knowingly, unknowingly, astafiru kalimalla
alamuhu. I seek the forgiveness of Allah for that which I might have committed without even me knowing Allah. Hum ini oudu bikamin and Ushirika bikashe and Allah mohu. Oh Allah, I seek protection, refuge in you from shirk, from committing sin, of association, of partnership with you knowingly. And I seek forgiveness for that which might have happened unknowingly. Allahu Akbar, may Allah forgive us. So there we are covering
ourselves. Allah Almighty says to us, you are alive for as long as you are alive and you are breathing and you have your consciousness and you are conscious, you can seek forgiveness. Allah will forgive you. Allah says when you seek forgiveness, I get very happy. Why would Allah get happy? Today I want to explain to you why Allah who does not need you, would even become happy that you seek forgiveness. He doesn't need to be happy but he tells you. I get so happy.
There's a hadith that actually explains how happy Allah gets. Subhanahu to Allah. Let me tell you why he gets happy. Because Allah created the angels. The angels do not have the capacity to transgress. And Allah, Subhanahu Atallah created shaitan. Shaitan out of his arrogance, sworn enemy, He will not obey Allah's instruction.
That's why he's called Shaitan. You know Shabana in the Arabic language, that root it is derived from one who is away from the obedience of Allah, one who actually catapulted himself out of the obedience of Allah. Subhanahu Atallah, he came out. He doesn't want. He knows Allah, Shaytan knows Allah. Shaytan knows what's right. But his arrogance made him think he's higher than man. However, all of that was a plan of Allah.
Why did he do it? We only have the answers from Him. We can't go into it deeper than what Allah said. If Allah said I created man because of this, He created man because of this. If Allah says I created shaitan because of this, He created shaitan because of this. I created the angels because of that. He created the angels because of that. You and I are believers. We believe. And for your information today, I've said this three times in the last few days.
I have to say it again. Today we have artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence can comb through the whole of whatever is available on line, everything, every book, every Bible, every Quran, every Torah, whatever there is, every website that has it, I mean, and everything completely the discussions of whatever there is on earth. And they've come up with artificial intelligence, various platforms. The probably one of the most reputable of them is known as ChatGPT.
You might have heard that right if you were to ask. And there are people who have people who have asked, non-Muslims and Muslims have asked ChatGPT. Tell us about the most authentic book in existence. It will tell you the Quran. The Quran Tell us about the faith that is the most authentic Islam. What about Christianity? It will tell you whatever it wants to. It will still confirm Islam. So much so there is a sister who said, well would you be Muslim?
So ChatGPT says yes, if I were a human I would be Muslim. And I'm telling you this because look, look who are we? Even if you didn't have knowledge, forget about it. Just ask if you know. I'm not saying its always correct but in this particular instance its backing. The evidence is backing Allah. I should be thankful to Allah
that I didn't need all of that. I believed it without all of that Allahu Akbar. It reminds me of Abu Baker Siddiq or the Allahu and he became known as a siddiq because when Miya Raj happened and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam went up to the heavens and Allah Subhanahu attallah took him and favored him in a billion and one ways. That night he came back to a warm bedding and the kufar was saying, do you know if anyone were to do this and to claim
this, would it be true or false? Abu Baker al Siddiq al Allah and who said, well if he is claiming it then it's true, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, if he is claiming it then it's true. It reminds me of Ibrahim Ali Salaam when he when he was instructed to sacrifice his son, when he was instructed to leave his family in the desert and go a wife and a child and nothing with them, no water, no drink. He says if it is Allah instructing me, I'm walking. He started walking Subhanallah.
So without any need for any evidence, without any need for any explanation, it did not make sense to Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam to sacrifice his son. It did not make sense. But he says, you know what? I know where the instruction is coming from, so I will do it. That resulted in him becoming Abu al Ambiya. He became the father of all those messengers to follow you and I. If we sacrifice, Allah tells you to dress in a certain way. Don't question it. Are you a believer?
Yes, put it, you know what to do. Men and women. I'm not talking about women alone, Men also the boys also sometimes nowadays we wear these half bombers that are really, really embarrassing. You know that we don't. We are believers. Carry yourself with respect. You want a haircut, beautiful haircut. You respect, you're a believer. You need to have good language. You swear FS and BS no need for that. You are a believer on a very high level. You have a status beyond what
you you can imagine. You have a favor of Allah that you don't even realize the value of. You know you don't need to swear. You don't need to cheat and deceive. You don't need to be a person who is abusive or belittling of others. You don't need it. You are such an amazing person gifted by Allah. Allah is telling you not to do certain things. The fact that Allah says don't do it, do not do it. See what it will do for you in your life.
When Allah instructs you to fulfill Salah, He tells you fajr vohor asor maghrib isha at certain times. Fulfill it as Allah asked you. No need to ask, no need to doubt, no need to get, you know, a person who's justifying why they didn't pray. Someone says, you know, I didn't pray, but you know, like now I heard about what did you hear? There's no excuse, there's nothing. No one who's a true Muslim can ever say that. You know what, never mind, you don't have to pray.
Who are you to say that? When Allah tells you just say something in our apana, that's it. And This is why when Allah looked at the hearts and the souls, the best and the greatest was that of Nabi Muhammad Salallahu Alayhi wasalam, created by Allah.
That way Allah made him the final of the messengers, the most noble of all of them, the highest of all of the creatures of Allah Subhanahu Atallah. Here's the soul going into the blessed body that is Muhammad Salallahu Salam, created as though he was made the way he wished to be. That's what the Sahaba of Allah and who said about him. Then Allah Subhanahu Atallah chose the best of the souls, made them the companions of the Prophet Salallahu.
This is why one of the most dangerous things to do is to talk bad about any one of the companions, because they were chosen by Allah to carry the Dean. Anyone who starts talking bad about companions of the prophets, Allah Salam, their aim is only one thing, only one thing to destroy the whole Dean because it was carried only by those people. If it was only carried by a certain number of people and you're talking bad about the main people who were there, Abu Baker, Omar, Othman, Aisha,
Hafsa, etcetera, etcetera. Your aim is only one thing to to to destroy the Dean. That's it. To destroy the true teachings of this faith. Why? How can Allah make such a big blunder to have 120,000 companions and only six of them were good? How can you say that? So we need to be careful because we will not talk bad about any one of them. Lata subbu as habi for Latina CBD he had to commit Don't ever talk bad about my companions.
The prophets are seldom says it himself, and he said it at a time when some of the newer were speaking, saying one or two things about some of the older. He says Don't ever you dare say a bad word about any one of my companions. For. Indeed, if you were to spend Mount Uhud full of gold in the cause of Allah, it would not be equivalent to 1 handful that they spent, or even half of it they spent at a time when it was most needed. Look at the battle of Badr. The battle of Badr, how many
people were there? 313 Initially they went out. The intention was not even to go and fight the Kufar, but rather do you know what was the intention? These companions were driven out of Mecca and the people of Mecca stole their wealth and usurped whatever their belongings were and they took that and they went to a sham which is the Syrian region and they were bringing back caravans with merchandise.
So the sahaba of the Allahu and whom were given permission by Allah, the professor Sallam was given permission by Allah Subhanahu at Allah that they can go and they can get back. What was this? Abu Sufyan was coming back with a group of people. The Prophet Salallahu Salem took a few, not even well armed, but 300, a few people and he went with them and he ended up Subhanallah right in Badr because they changed the route and they went the other way and
they decided to go back. You read the story, you probably know some of the details. The point I want to raise is that when they faced an army of 1000 strong, strong, heavily armed Meccans superpower of the time and these guys were 313, what did they have? Very few weapons, little bit, nothing much. They had an option. What do we do now? Allah gave them revelation to tell them to calm them down. Don't worry, you believe we will send angels to protect, We will send angels to fight.
These people pitch up in better and they look at the statistics, see how many they are. They already started having a party. The war hasn't even taken place and what were they doing? They were partying. Now, when you party, why do we tell our youngsters, don't go and party and drink yourself out and don't go and do all these things. You're a believer. You are higher than all of that. You are so high that you don't need to do cheap things to be happy.
You don't need to do low things. You don't need to be on drugs. You don't need to go out and gamble all your earnings. You don't need all of that in Islam is considered Haram because Allah says you are Ashraf al mahlukat. You need to be higher than that. You don't just go and intoxicate yourself. The difference between you and animal is your brain. Why block the same brain? Allahu Akbar, these people started drinking and partying and they were partying all night.
In the morning when the war was taking place, they couldn't even look properly. They couldn't even stand properly. They didn't even know what was going on. And in the in a short while the Muslim men had already won. They were shocked. What happened? You got knocked. That's exactly what happened. May Allah Almighty protect us. But the point I want to raise is Allah Subhanahu at Allah had given Rasool Allah Sallallallah Salaam some good news.
And Rasul Allah sallallahu Salaam says, oh Allah, we are as you can see, this number, this number meaning they were 313. If you would like to be worshipped after today, grant us victory. Allahu Akbar. What does that mean? There's only this, there's no one else who's going to come. We these were the only people. Now I want to tell you something interesting.
They were granted victory. And after that, later someone spoke about one of the companions who had done something, who was from among those who participated in Buddha later on. And people were talking, hey, this guy, did you hear what he did? He did this and he did that and maybe whatever. And the Prophet Sallalla Salaam gave us good news.
He gave U.S. news that every single one of those 313 who took part in the Battle of Badr, whether they were martyred or remained and died later or martyred in other battles, all of those 313, Allah was pleased with them and told them do what you want from today because I've forgiven you everything to as you please for in because I have forgiven you. Allah looked at the hearts of the people on that day of Badr and He saw what they were ready to give for His sake.
You and I are not ready to forsake the blanket for fajo or lie. You're not prepared to wear a thin piece of cloth for the sake of Allah if needed. You, we, you and I are not prepared to correct something that is not even giving your life. No ones asking you to sacrifice a son like Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam. No one is asking you to participate in a battle of battle. But simple things, we can do it, we should do it. We are high. Those companions look at what
Allah gave them. You mentioned any name. What do you have to say after the name? Radhi Allahuan Ho Abu darda Eradi Allahuan, Abu Hurairahi Allahuan, amrab nullahas Radhi Allahuan, Abu Baker Ibn U Abu Allahuan Othman abney afan Radhi Allahuan and sometimes we would say also Radhi Allahuan Huma because both the son and the father are both Muslim mean and sahaba Allahuan.
Imagine the status now, don't you think that even though we were not chosen as sahaba and Allah knows why, you and I are born in this era, we are born in this era, we are not born in the era of the prophets of Sallam, but we are part of his ummah. Allah knows we are so weak that if someone came and told us this is Haram, we will say I'll think about it, am I right?
Sometimes the Imam gets up or anyone gets up and tells you, you know what brother, this is not allowed sister, stop judging me. Oh wow, you you're getting so emotional. Relax I'm only telling you what that's right and wrong man that's it do you not? Its our right to advise you know. But you heard you hear how quickly they say stop judging me Allahu Akbar. I also want to add please when you correct someone don't don't issue harsh statements.
Do it in a beautiful way. You know when you talk to someone you don't tell them brother why don't you pray say my brother Mashallah we all need to improve inshallah when it comes to our prayer. I need to do better, you need to do better. Come together, we will do better. That's how you talk. That is hikma, that is wisdom. When you belittle someone, they're not going to come. You see someone smoking, say Haram, yes, we all know what it is.
But you say, brother, you know Mashallah, Allah has blessed you in so many ways. My dua for you Inshallah is and for me. You pray for me for so many things. I pray for you inshallah. You know the habit of cigarettes by the will of Allah. Recently someone asked me, hey, I no longer smoke man, I no longer smoke. I said, oh Mashallah, that's a big achievement, am I right? I was smoking for 15 years and I was smoking like a chimney and I no longer smoke.
I said, oh Subhanallah. A little while later he takes out some vapes and he's puffing away like like no man's business. I'm thinking to myself, I better keep quiet here for now because Allah knows best, you know, Allah knows best. So may Allah Almighty grant us ease. The point here is when you want to correct someone, do it in a beautiful way. Think hard. How would I like it? You want to tell someone you know that you need to correct
this or that. Please go easy and then put yourself also inside that whole picture. Talk about your weaknesses also and then mention one or two things in a lovely way so that they can feel that you know what this person cares for me. So the sahaba of the Allahu Anum, I said we are not sahaba because Allah knows. If we were sahaba, I think may Allah forgive us, we might not have just listened to the instruction.
When alcohol was banned, someone read a verse and it the message went to the people of Medina. They didn't ask, is it true, is it not true? I'm going to go, I'm going to ask, I'm going to see. They immediately spoiled whatever they had to spoil, gone today, they will phone a, you know, I got this. I don't know. Is there any halal way of coming out of it? I'm going to suffer a loss. Maybe this, that's how we talk. Let's be honest, that's how we talk. But look at that. They got a status.
They won the dunya and they won the ahila. Why did they win the ahila? Because Allah chose them. Up to today. I've never seen Abu Baker of the Allahuan, but trust me, not only me, all of us, we love him so much that when someone says something negative about him, they are actually degrading themselves, not him. Its like the prophet Salallahu Salam, no matter what anyone says about him, negative. Allah says we've protected your
reputation. They will never be able to damage it. Its impossible, its impossible. You cannot harm the reputation of Nabi Muhammad Salallahu Salam at all. You harm yourself. You might think it will cause a little bit of this and that you might meaning a person who's doing that type of behavior and engaging in that type of statements and so on. They might think I'm going to cause harm to Muhammad Salallahu Alayhi wasalam. They won't.
Actually, Allah Almighty has protected him in Kafina Kal mustazi. In what a beautiful verse, Allah says we have protected you from those who want to scoff and mock and joke and whatever else they want to do in order to degrade and belittle. It can't happen. We have protected you. In another verse, Allah tells the Prophet sallallahu sallam and I tell you something, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam had people standing
with him. They used to stand while he was asleep and they used to take turns so that no one harms him. They loved him. A day came when he sent them away. What happened? A verse was revealed. Messenger get up and convey the message and then part of that later on, Allah says Allah will protect you from the people. They won't be able to harm you. How many times someone came with the sword and suddenly the process and just lean forward to see what's going on in the sword
drops. How many times there there are incidents where things like that have happened, People intend to harm but the harm actually came on them. Allah says we protected you, We have protected you completely. That day the Sahaba of Allah who said we heard a light snore from him, he had such a good sleep and no one was standing around him. No one was standing around. He had such a good sleep. They heard a light snow. Allah subhanahu at Allah Grantas good sleep.
So the point I'm raising is look at the blessing of Allah on us. Allah tells us to turn to him. Allah tells us repent, I'll convert it. Change your life. Its the day to change. You won't have gatherings of this nature so often, they'll happen a few times in the year. But sometimes you find Allah wants you to change so he gets someone to come and stand and tell you today is the day. You wanted to change your life, you wanted to do this. You knew what you had to do today.
You got to do that. Make sure that it's done. That's it. I want a better life. Look at my brothers and sisters struggling in Lebanon, in Palestine and so many other places across the globe. Do you think that we don't care? Well, Lahi, we care. Right now there are teams working in Lebanon to help our brothers and sisters and we're not going to go to them and say brother, sorry, what sect do you belong to?
Before I help Wallahil Avim, you're a Muslim, you say the shahada, I will help you to the degree that even the non-Muslims, if we can, we will help them. That's who we are. We are Muslim mean we are taught. They will come to the Dean of Allah by looking at who we are and what we stand for. All that becomes irrelevant. So remember one thing, you are not going to survive on your own in your small little cocoon.
No, you will have to cooperate with the rest of the ummah whether you like it or you don't like it in order to get power. Because Allah says well, living in a cafaro bar, the whom? Only Allah talks of Kufar, He says they support and protect one another. If you're not going to protect one another in a similar fashion, there will be chaos on earth. Hence we are witnessing the chaos today. It's in the Quran. Why is chaos happening? We don't care.
This enemy has succeeded in making us into so so tiny groups. Each one thinks I'm on the Hut and everybody else is going to Jahannam for them. Jahannam would probably empty place, no traffic, no nothing. Subhanallah, you'll be shocked when you go there. The people you least thought were going to be there will be there waiting for you. But it's going to be full inshallah with all of us. I mean, Mela Grant is Jannah. Seek the forgiveness of Allah, have a good heart, have a clean
heart, learn to love people. There will be differences. Allah has created us. He made sure we are different. He made sure that everybody's understanding is unique. Your understanding and mind, your brain capacity and mind, your way of thinking and mind is unique. It's different. It's completely different. Why Allah made it that way. He wants you to get the reward by bearing the interactions with one another.
I'm going to meet you. You're a difficult person, you're tough, You've got a mouth that is very shy, sharp meaning a tongue that's really sharp, a mouth that wags and just keeps moving whole morning and evening. I'm going to be able to inshall and navigate through it because I'm also a human. Part of my duty on Earth is to learn how to interact with people like you. Sorry, I'm not pointing at anyone by the way, but you know what I mean. Its OK, people will be
different. Learn to love them. So what? He might have said one or two bad. Oh my brother man, he's my brother in the deal. I love this person. That's when you develop your heart. Today many people say purification of the heart let's but their own hearts need help sometimes. Because you know what? A little bit of hatred and jealousy. That's it, its over. Take it out, its not worth it. Try to bring people, try to learn. Learn to love people who don't
look like you. Learn to love people who look poorer than you, who might be a different race from you, who might come from a different part of the globe than you. That is Islam, that's the beauty. People enter the fold of Islam because they see no racism in Islam. But racism is alive. But not A true Muslim is not supposed to be racist, but racism is alive. You see someone looking shady, coming from a totally different range, No importance.
Another guy is coming and he's looking smart at Salaam Alaikum. My brother, we are Muslim. What Muslim you talking about? Which Islam? Islam would have started with the other guy, right? You should have been fair with everyone. Come on. May Allah Subhanahu, Attallah forgive us.
This is the Dean of Allah. And I say this as an ambassador of Abdullah Aid as well, that when we go out and help, we've been to Far East Asia, we've been to Africa, we've been to the Middle East, and we've been wherever is needed, including in this country when it was needed. May Allah Almighty grant us
cease. May Allah Almighty, except from us, my brothers and sisters, imagine if we have to say submitting our apana to Allah Subhanahu at Allah, don't you think we will get a very high rank? What is the meaning of submitting our apana when Allah has instructed something we say, we have heard and we have obeyed. We have heard and we have obeyed. Allah says Salah. You will get up and push yourself.
And for your information, you are not going to be able to better yourself unless you push yourself because Allah has given you a capacity. Shaitan keeps wasa wasa, wasa wasa. What's that? He whispers in your ears, He massages you, He makes you want to do that. Don't worry Allah, forgive you, Don't worry Allah. You have to push yourself to protect yourself from Haram and you have to push yourself to do the right thing without pushing yourself you're not going to get
anywhere. But I want to give you another piece of good news. See this body of mine, Allah has created it in a way that when you get it used to something, that thing starts happening without an effort. If you go to the gym for example, you start picking weights first few days what happens? A my muscle is paining, a this is stretching or you know, I lifted 20 KGS what? What keep going every other day regularly, regularly and what would happen?
You would be a solid person, but it was the fact that you pushed yourself to go. You become addicted to it such that you cannot let go. But there was a time when you couldn't even start. That's why they say do Salah with Jamaah 40 days, see with the Kabir with when the imam says Allahu Akbar, you should be there standing 40 days.
If you haven't missed anything. A lot of the people say Allah will help you to become so regular that when you're not there you feel like something happened that's wrong. Force yourself to get up for Salat al Fajr. When you've done it for a few months, you know what will happen. You set your alarm, you'll get up two minutes before the alarm and switch the alarm off. Ask the people who do it. They will tell you Allah, here you are telling the truth. It's Allah, He made your body.
Allah says initially, I want to see, are you coming? When you come to me, I will come to you faster than you. Hadith, Hadith. When Attorney Yamshi ate to Harwala, whoever comes to me walking, I will rush towards him. But did you come walking? That's the question. Did you come walking? Don't lose yourself. We have the most beautiful game. We have an amazing ummah there is. There is life in the ummah, there is. Its not all doom and gloom. There is. Look at us seated here in Gloucester.
I did not expect this Masjid to be full. I in my mind, I thought to myself, Subhanallah will go and meet a few brothers. I didn't even know there was an accident on the way. We were delayed a little bit. I messaged one brother. I told him, brother, we are only going to arrive after Salatul Maghrib. Perhaps they can fulfill the Maghrib and then we will come in. It was Allahs plan that there was a little accident on the road and it delayed us by quite
a bit. Nonetheless, look at the ummah seated here, people from all over, different types of people, different faces, Whoever Allah, he, we love each other for the sake of Allah and Allah alone. Allah alone. If your life does not change tonight, then I don't know what you're going to answer to Allah because this is a Masjid of Allah. We are here reminding each other just to go back to Allah. Even if its a few inches, make one move tonight, one move. Allah will help you to make 10
other correct moves. If you don't make that one move, what's the point? Learn to have good friends. I see a lot of youngsters here wherever I'm going. A lot of young people mashallah sitting near the front as well. I my advice to you is just to have good friends, very good friends, very very good friends. If you have good friends in Charlotte, do you know what will happen? You will grow in goodness. When you have bad friends, do
you know what happens? Allahu Akbar, you become worse than them sometimes and you don't even realize it. I always tell parents, you know what? Just ensure that you have the friends come over at your house rather than go to someones house. I don't know them. Meet the parents perhaps of the person whom your kids a friend of. If they're on a decent level etcetera, like you, then you can trust a little bit this way. That way, you know, we have
something known as a sleepover. Have you ever heard that word sleepover? They say, oh, let's go and have a sleepover at my friend's house. Don't ever do those. Never. No matter who, what, where, when, how, don't do it. You regret it. I'm a counsellor for years, 25 years since 1999, and I can tell you one of the things that people have regretted terribly is to allow the girls to go and have a sleepover at another friend's house.
That's it. You might think, oh, but it's simple, what are you talking about? You will know. You don't want to cry tears of blood one day. Leave it. You look after your kids yourself. May Allah bless you all and all of us. May Allah grant our children goodness. I see youngsters wallahi, I see hope Allah here. I see youngsters in the Masjid coming right to the front to listen to a talk. I see hope. The elders need to really thank Allah. You guys have done a very good job.
By the will of Allah you guys have done a good job. The parents have done a good job. Given the circumstances and the age were living in and the surroundings. Allahu Akbar, For someone to come to the Masjid is a big deal. Its a very very big deal. Come to the Masjid, come to the Masjid, learn to participate in some halaqat, learn to have a little group of people who are good. You know why you can't survive alone, even dunya in the world.
If you want to earn money, you can't just earn money. It's not popcorn. It's not going to just start popping in your in your bag suddenly apply heat to it and you can pop pop pop pop. Hey, I got 1,000,000 bucks. No, you have to interact with people and do business. Someone might come into your shop that might do a deal worth 20,000 lbs but you don't like his attitude. You're still going to smile. Why? Because you're getting the money. Am I right or wrong? Am I right?
So what is more important? The Dean of the dunya? You prepared to smile and behave nicely with someone who's ridiculous simply because they're giving you 20,000, but you're not prepared to talk to him properly for the sake of Allah, to come for Salah or whatever else it may be without you talking. When you show you're a brilliant person, they will mark your life. They were. Its automatic dower.
They will want to wonder. They will start wondering what is it that is driving this person towards being so good and so kind, yet they're getting nothing from me. Allah hits Allah, its Allah. Allah is the one who brought me and taught me and gave me. Every instruction that Allah has ever laid down can only be a brilliant instruction. Allah cannot ask you to do something destructive ever,
never. If the prophet Salallahu Salam told you this is Haram it means it came from Allah and if it came from Allah and his messenger it means the fact that they said its Haram, it is bad. That's what it is. It's not good, it's something as a believer you should not participate in. So now you and I have a test. What is the test? Are we going to improve ourselves? Are we going to improve our relationship with Allah? Are we going to connect and do
the right things? I don't need to come here and read a list of halal and Haram and dos and don'ts. You already know them, but I'm here to encourage you to say this is the Dean of Allah. We are fortunate to have it. Allah has favoured us by allowing us to say oh Allah forgive me, keep seeking the forgiveness of Allah.
Tuba Lehmann wuji dafi Sahi fatih history faran kathira tuba Some explaining meaning those who explain the Hadid, they say it is a place in Jannah. A special place in Jannah for those. In whose records there's a lot of is still far. Oh Allah forgive me, oh Allah forgive you committed 50 sins but you said is still far 50,000 times. I'm not repeating it because I'm doubting Allah. Don't doubt Allah, Allah loves
you. Allah is happy when you turn to him and I explained to you why He's happy. He's happy because you are doing it yourself, your own accord. He gave you the capacity. He created Angel and Satan and He created us in the middle. And He told us I will give you the capacity. Yes, I've destined and I know what you will ultimately do, but I have given you a capacity. I've shown you the right and the wrong. I've told you to walk in the right direction and stay away
from the wrong direction. Let's see what you will do Go forth. Stupid example I can give you is that of football. If you know the rules of football, right when the whistle blows and the game starts, imagine someone from a team kicking the ball in the wrong direction. What will happen? That's what we are doing in our whole life. The whistle was blown, we supposed to kick the ball towards Jinnah, we kicking in towards Jahannah.
Exactly. So as much as you think it is silly for a footballer to be trying to kick the ball to court to to score an own goal, that's what we're doing in real life. We're scoring our own goals every day because you want to go to Jannah, but you heading the other direction. May Allah not do it to me and not to you. So This is why when Allah tells you what to do, what not to do, if you fall, what will make you seek forgiveness? Nothing besides your connection with Allah.
So Allah says, oh, I'm so happy that the, the, the angels had said when Allah was creating Adam Alayhi Salaam, the angels said, why are you creating someone on earth like this who is going to, you know, cause corruption and chaos and kill, spill blood on earth? Allah says, I know something you don't know. I know what I'm doing. I know better than you. That's Allah.
What was it that Allah knew? Allah knows that in sun when he falters, he will regret it and go back to Allah and say, oh Allah, forgive me. Now as we grow older, I want to give you very good news, very, very good news. As we grow older, we start looking back and we regret what we did when we were younger because why? Now I'm older, I realize I am going to go back to Allah. Subhanahu at Allah. But I did a lot of things in my point. I was young and energetic.
I there were times when I even forgot about Allah. It happens to a lot of people. You know what Allah says, Allah Almighty says as He grants you age, He grants you forgiveness. As He makes you older, He gives you a bigger opportunity to turn to him. When you turn to him, he wipes out every single thing that you've ever done in your past completely and totally. And then Shaitaan comes and say, no, you're not forgiven, you're not forgiven.
So Allah says he be careful, do not ever despair or doubt the mercy of Allah. No way. If you're doing that, you're falling into the trap of shaitan. So anytime Shaitan makes you think that perhaps Allah did not forgive me, kick him out and say no, Allah forgave me. And Allah says I'll treat you the way you think of me. You think I forgive you, forgive me. Hadith.
May Allah Almighty bless us all, may Allah grant us the goodness of this world and the next and truly may Allah subhanahu at Allah help us to help one another. We are an Ummah today. We are bleeding. Its true we are, but at the same time there are so many people standing up and doing things to try and help the Ummah. We might not be able to solve every pro problem, but at least amongst us we will try our best to show that there is no problem
new one created in our midst. May Allah Almighty help us truly never lose hope in the mercy of Allah tonight. Whatever I have said was short, concise to the point. My main aim was to explain that Allah has favored us by giving us the opportunity to turn to Him. And He tells us He's going to convert the bad into good and He has kept so many goodnesses that He will give the ones who turn to him as soon as they hear I need to turn to Allah. Don't worry, don't worry what people think.
Change your life in a nice way. If you want to do it step by step, do it step by step. Inshallah, head in the right direction. You want to do it all at once, do it all at once and Allah Almighty will really help you. When you come towards Allah, you get a contentment. And one of the signs that you are truly getting towards Allah is when you go easy on other human beings. Treat them respectfully. It's a sign that you are pious or you are getting there. Treat others where you see
someone. Salaam alaik, my brother, how are you? Everything good, Hamdullah? I won't harm you. My tongue is not going to be used to harm you. That's the most important thing. You you are humble. Allah says rohamma ubai nakum the believers are merciful towards one another so show that mercy and Allah Almighty will show you mercy. May Allah bless you all. Akuli Hada Salallahu Assalam Island been Muhammad Salaam alaikum.