A Salaam alay Kumar rahma to lahiwa barakato. It's milay Rahman Rahim al hamdu. Lila was salato was Salaam Ala rasul ilahiwala Ala Ali. He was happy. Here ajamain we praise the Las of hana ho Ola. My beloved brothers and sisters, many times in life we fail to progress because we are stuck in
the past. And this is not only true when it comes to our own faults and our own sins, but even with others at times it is in the best of your interests to let go of something that looks like you cannot let it go. But in order for you to progress, you must let it go. Imagine a person who is owed 1000 Rands. And then and obviously, if he is owed 1000 Rands legitimately, he can ask for it. He can pursue it legally, He can actually take up a lot in order to get it.
But is it worth the drama? That's the question. Why should I pay 10,000 Rands in order to get back 1000 Rands 1 might say, Well, it's to prove a point. You pay a price to prove points. Remember that we as Muslims are taught that you must always weigh the pros and cons and allow the lesser of the two evils if you have no third option. Remember that and this is something very interesting because. Many people are bogged down in life.
They simply cannot move forward. You lost your job, you are fired unceremoniously, and you want to get back at your old boss by that occupation that you've now engaged in of getting back to your old boss. You have stopped your eyes from looking ahead at jobs that are glaring you in your face simply because you did not move on. It's OK. You're not the first person to lose your job. You're going through a tough time. Trust me, we've all been through tough times.
It might last a year, it might last five years, it might last 10 years. But it will last longer if you don't progress and you don't look at the future. Shine your eyes and take a look at the glass in front of you that shows you the whole Rd. that you don't even want to walk on. We become lazy and sad simply because. We've had something traumatic
that happened in our lives. Maybe a scare in our health, maybe a robbery we've had, Maybe someone we've lost, May Allah grant our loved ones Jenna. Or it could be anything else. My brothers, my sisters, I am here to tell you that it's not the end of the road. Look up and move forward. If, if at all, you want to look back, it should only be to learn a lesson, but not to get stuck in it in such a way. That you don't move forward, remember this.
So the prophet Salahu Alahi was Salam at the time of the victory of Makka, which is a powerful example. He came into Makka with an army of 10s of thousands and what happened? The people of Maqa who had harmed the Muslims, they had usurped their wealth, they had abused them, they had killed many of them and so on. Here comes Rasulullah Salahu alehi wassalem. And he asks them the famous question of people of Quresh. What do you think I'm going to? Do to you today.
Imagine someone who's harms to that degree. I don't even want to get into it, but it's very bad. And then here comes the messenger with all the power saying. What do you think I'm going to do to you today? Imagine if a guy today from amongst us had to tell another who has killed from his family or usurped the wealth driven them out of their homes for years on end, and he comes one day powerfully what? Do you think I'm going to do to you today?
They looked at him and says, you're a good man. The son of a good man. Oh, now suddenly I'm a good man. You see, all these years I was not a good man. La hawalawala kuwata illah. Al Ali Al Adim. Now he's they said, well, you know we expect goodness, what would we expect? He says if Habufa and Tumu to Laka. No retribution today. Go. You are free. I'm going to tell you what use of Ali his Salaam told his brothers no retribution against you. Go you are free. Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar. If the prophet Salah Al Salam wanted, he could have actually got every single one of them back. Every one of them. But no, there was a bigger picture. Let's move forward. Let's progress. We have an UMA to serve. We have families. We have relatives here. We have so much here. And you know what? A lot of these people are not Muslim. By us showing them the true teachings of Islam, they will enter the fold of Islam. And that's exactly what they did today.
When people look at us, Muslims turn away from Islam because they let down by us. They all are not do that to us. Today when people look at us, they are discouraged. Today we break relations of our families, ourselves. Here is the prophets of Assalem saying, you know what, let's make peace. Move forward from today. Don't go back. He never ever looked back. As a result, it was considered true victory. What is the true victory? Don't look back. Look forward. There is a lot to achieve.
Yes, yes, yes. You need to understand if you were bitten from one angle, you will. Learn the lesson and not be bitten again from the same angle again, but at the same time you need to know. Just keep moving. I have a brother very recent story, brother in Islam. He lost the job just before this COVID thing happened and he told me my brother, I want to get back at this. These people, I know a lot about them and I really want to nail them.
And I told him my brother instead of nailing people. You'd rather concentrate on yourself? By me mailing someone? It's not going to give me any goodness. Will it give you a job? No. You get a bad name, People won't want to employ you anyway. So what should I do? Look forward. Make dua to Allah. Ask Allah, Turn to Allah, he says. But I've been asking Allah for so many years for an Increment and instead he's given me the loss of a job. You see? Do you trust Allah's plan?
That's the question. Do you trust Allah's plan? You've been making Do I for an increment for so long and suddenly you lost a job, so you think, look, Allah's doing the opposite. Subhan Allah. I just told him. I said, brother, you know what? Consider this. If you're holding tight to a few coins with one hand and allow ones to give you 2 handfuls of gold coins, the first thing he needs to do is to make you open this hand so that these coins go. Or at least your hands are now opened.
If the process, you might lose these coins. Make do our bear patience. Don't worry. If the prophets of asylum went through it, who are we? We will go through even more. And he told me, well that's the mantra that all of you guys utter whenever we are in difficulty. I said well we are taught that and you must believe that. Be convinced. Don't ever leave Allah at the time of your hardship. Never blame Allah. No way. Allah tells you clearly. You have harm and evil.
It's not my doing, it's yours or man's doing the harm and fasa do fin Bari 1 Bari be my Casa. But and he did nassilly you be come about one Levi amino Allah makes it clear that all this chaos and corruption and all nonsense you see on earth it has become apparent. Because of the handiwork of mankind. You guys did it, not me unless it don't blame me for the evil people. Say why does Allah allow murder? Who murdered? Was it not a human being? Why blame Allah for someone
else's crimes? Well then they might say, well what was the sin of the innocent child who was murdered? You say you know what Allah will give justice, but there was someone who murdered the child. It's human beings who committed that crime. The fact that Allah knew it in advance does not make him guilty of being merciless when He is the Most Merciful. He says to us, I will provide for those who believe and those who don't believe. That's what He says in the Quran.
In this world. I will provide for those who believe and those who don't believe. The difference is those who believe will have the hereafter. Those who don't believe, they won't have the hereafter because they don't believe in it. So I told this brother, I said brother make duar. And Allah will open your doors. And he says, OK, you know what? I'm a Muslim. I've been doing do. I'm not going to leave it. But please make do I that Allah strengthen me.
Trust me. COVID took over, as you know, life changed, I hope temporarily. And you know what Subhan Allah, this man suddenly struck gold. He was at the right place at the right time. And there was one deal that he did that was worth a lot. And it changed his life. It went through another and the 3rd and the 4th and the 5th. And he tells me please, please use me as an example to tell people don't lose hope. I almost gave up. I lost my job in such a bad way.
But that was definitely what you were saying, that Allah is opening your doors. Allah is opening your doors. I look forward instead. If I had gone back to nail my previous boss, I would have still been. In that or on that path, doing the same thing, trying to nail and I would be busy with this, losing money, going to this one, that one. But what I did is I focused on something that was right in front of me and a loss of Hana Ho Atala opened these doors. Why am I saying this today?
We're all going through struggles, all of us. Different levels of struggles. Remember my brothers and sisters, you're not alone. We're in it together. We all have challenges, myself included. Learn to help one another, Learn to say a good word to one another, learn to be focused, Work hard. A day will come when you will smile, even if it is 2 years, four years. Another example, people going through divorce. Divorce is becoming like a trend. Like a trend.
You married, you got to ask the guy, are you still married? After two years. You say if he says yes, yes, he said. Marshala. Because, you know, now it's like sort of. Not the norm anymore. The norm is like you married awas is vana La Grant us is. It's not bad to actually be divorced for the right reasons or to divorce for the right reasons. But when it becomes a trend, it it is scary. We're not prepared to sacrifice for one another anymore. We're not prepared to forgive
one another anymore. We want a perfect human being who's spotless without any weaknesses. That's what we're looking for. Well, that. You will only find in paradise if you ever get there. Mira La Granta's Janna. Now people say I'm going to get the perfect spouse in Janna. I say, are you even going to get to Janna? That's a question. How can you say that? You're supposed to give us hope. I said That's a statement of hope.
Because when you start thinking, gosh, am I really going to get there, it will get you up for fudge. But if you didn't think of it that, am I really going to get there? Well, Lahi, yesterday I had a question. From someone, a silly question, very silly question. Someone asks me, will we be allowed to steal in gender? I mean, how far can your mind go to be honest with you, How far can your mind go? Will you be allowed to kill in gender and steal in general?
Because if you can do anything there, like Allah says, you will be able to do anything. So I said the pure mind will never ever think in those lines, on those lines in that direction. Never my brothers and sisters. When divorce happens, it's not the end of the world. Not the end of the world. Perhaps it is a door for you to
then get to someone else. Had you not been through your first relationship, you would never have gotten to this much, much better person that you subsequently got married to. See. I see a lot of people nodding here, Marshall, what's going on here guys? Allah grant us is Allah open our doors. But the moral is. Never give up. We go through challenges. We go through hardship. Let's look forward. Let's progress. People sit and say I'm going to fix this X of mine.
You know what? Just move on By making someone else's life difficult. It's not going to make your life easy. Not at all. You want ease? close a chapter, Open a new one. Let's move forward. Thank Allah. Beautiful relationship. And that's more. May Allah grant us goodness. So this is it, my brothers and sisters. The prophet Salah Al Asalem met with Khalid Demilwaleed Ravi Allah when he came to Medina and he wanted to declare his Shahada.
You know who Khalid Demilwaleed, Ravi Allah and whom I was. He had caused a lot of damage against the Muslims, especially in Ohan. He was well known and so he says, oh Messenger Salah Al Asalam, I've got a problem. The issue is. You know what I've done against Islam and the Muslims. I'm about to accept Islam. What's going to happen? He wants to know as a lot of teachers. The professor Salem told him Ya Khalid in the Islam mayajub buma kabla oh Khalid.
Islam will delete whatever happened the bad that you did in the past the same way Tolba deletes the past. Also if you were to revert or convert to Islam, your past bad is deleted. The good carries with. You know they say when you go for Hajj you return as pure as the day you were born. Do you know in reality it is even purer than that? Why? Because that purity is referring to sinlessness. That's what it's referring to. It's not referring to 0 on your
slate. When the professor Salem said as pure as the day you were born, he means no sins next to your name. He doesn't mean nothing next to your name. Evidence of it is what about all the good I did before I went for Hutch? It remains. You get the point. So the good remains. The bad is formatted, gone. This is something amazing. Whenever we talk of Hutch and Toba, we must remember. Yes, it deletes, but it doesn't make you. You know, they say I'm starting
on a clean page. You're starting on a page that already has so much of goodness on it because not only is it clean, but it's clean from sin. It's full of the goodness you did. Allah says if you changed your life then we're going to bring back the bad oh oh oh oh. Allah says in the Quran if you change your life in La Mantaba or Amana or Amina Amalansala 3 conditions you make Toba Toba means to return to Allah. What's the difference between istilfar and Toba? Istilfar is to ask Allah's
forgiveness. Taoba is to return to Allah by changing your ways. That's the difference. Taoba is more loved by Allah because it is broader than istilfar. Istilfar. I said Allah forgive me, Taoba is now my life changed. That's the difference. So Allah says those who made that toba, they returned to me were Aman and they believed they worked on their connection with Allah. They believed their Iman. And thirdly, they did good
deeds. Alas says we're going to bring back those bad deeds and we're going to convert them into good deeds on the scale, simply because this person could have done the bad but they didn't because of their love of me and the connection with me. So Alas says, because of that, I mean look, a person who is on intoxicants, may Allah protect us and our offspring, a person on intoxicants who says, oh Allah, forgive me, and then the intoxicants are still available.
But he says I'm not doing this anymore. Allah says we're going to bring all of that back and convert it. You know why? You only quit it for us, nothing else. You could have done it. You can still do it. But because you love us and you know, we said it's wrong and you did not do it. We love that action so much we're going to show you Subhana law. That is Allah. So this is the type of relationship we must develop with Allah. Subhana Hawataala and he will
assist. Days come in our lives when my beloved brothers and sisters, we are so low that we feel where is Allah. Do you know that the messengers before us and the pious people before us, they used to ask Allah, oh Allah, when is your help going to come? Was Ulzino Hattaya Kuna rasunu alavina Amano mahu Matanasula. They were shaken. They were tested left, right and center until the Messenger and the people around him with him. They said when is the help of Allah going to come?
Allah says be patient, Allah in Nanasar, Allah hikari, be patient. Allah's help is near, Allah's help is near. I remember sitting with one scholar and he said every duar is hurt by Allah. Every single duar is hurt by Allah. It's a matter of time for that duar to come and plug in. Some people it's a few days, some people it's months, some people it's years. Don't ever think that Allah did not accept your duar. Never.
All of us. If you sit and think about some duars you've made in your life, that happened five years later. It happened 10 years later, but you don't realize it came. It definitely came when the time was right. That's a last plan. Trust Allah. We were talking about gender. Sometimes we tend to forget that. We need to work towards Jenna rather than arguing about what we're going to be getting in Jenna, like I say, look at the path.
You can see it's there, you know it's there and you know the destination is also punched in. You just follow the path. Don't worry about now when I get there, this when I get there that. The other day I took my children somewhere and I punched it on the GPS and we are following the G PS:. It says turn left, it says turn right. It says continue. We did exactly that, knowing in our hearts that, you know, at the end of the day we're going to get there.
And when we get there, we'll see what there is. There might be restrictions, they might not. They might not even let us in. It might be closed, even though it says it's open because, you know, times have changed, right, Vallahi. Our conviction in the G PS:. Of Allah should be far stronger than that. Far stronger. Don't worry what you're going to get. I would never bother about what exactly I'm going to get in gender. What I'm bothered about is for me to get there, that's all.
And that should be the case with all of us. Worry about getting there. They say even if you are the last person to enter gender, you should be excited. You should Hey I made it. Subhan Allah no matter where what. Akbar, I have little children. Ask me some time, you know, if I'm in gender on one level and another person is in gender on another level and I wish to meet them, or they wish to meet me, what will happen? I said Allah will make it happen in a way that I can't explain to
you. But Inshala, when we get there, we'll just nod our heads and say, hey, it happened. You see? I don't know. I just know it will happen. And I know that Allah can keep you in a certain way. You know, there's a very interesting hadith that comes to my mind, a very interesting it says whoever has had intoxicants, meaning that whoever has had the the intoxicating wines of the dunya will not be having the wines in general. Meaning say they're forgiven and they change their lives and
whatever. So now here comes a man, he says, hey, I had a bad life in the past. I used to drink. And you know, now I've changed my life and inshala, I'm looking forward to gender. But why won't I have the alcohol meaning the the, the wines? It's called wines. It's not intoxicating. The one in gender is not intoxicating.
Why won't I have it in gender? Imagine it's going to be something that I'm going to want and when I want it and I'm going to say no, doesn't it negate another another verse of the Quran which says once you get into gender, you get what you want. So I said the best explanation of the O Lama is something simple Allah removes from your entire system. Even the thought of it.
You won't think of it. I mean, if you loved something and you got into a place where there's something billions of times better than that, would you even think of that? You wouldn't even want it. It won't even cross your mind. Perhaps one day, years later in the dunya, we might think about it in the Akhira. Allah will occupy you with so much of goodness. It's not going to come.
Again to the moral, the whole topic of today, to instill hope in the hearts of the people by telling them don't get bogged down with the past. Whether it's someone who did something to you, whether it's your own past, you need to look ahead, you need to move forward, and you need to understand, make the most of whatever Allah has given you. I end by telling you, my brothers, my sisters, those of us who have sinned against ourselves. And we have had a past or we have done something evil.
Turn to Allah before it is too late. Next week. We might not see some of us in the Masjid next week. In fact, next week is too far. You can have a scare at any time. Anything could happen. Don't lose hope in the mercy of Allah. You are good enough. You are definitely good enough. Just make amends. Get up, stand up and move. Move forward. Get up for Salah. Ask our Lord's forgiveness if you falter once more. Ask our Lord's forgiveness again and again and again and don't give up.
May Allah's from Hana Hua Allah bless every one of us and grant us goodness. I pray that the next time we meet each other we will be in a better condition. Today we are in a better condition than we were yesterday. Humble in love. Please seek the forgiveness of Allah. I believe that there is definitely something wrong with us. That's what I believe. There is definitely something wrong with us. Imagine maka Medina, the massage, everything being
affected in this way. We need to revisit our link with Allah. There is definitely something wrong with us. And don't point the fingers at others. It's me. I need to help myself improve myself. Life is so short. I have had a lot of people and I'm sure you may have whom I've known. Suddenly they know more. Where did they go?
Back to Allah. Its a matter of a few days and you could go. It would be a blessing to have started the day I died with fajar and little recitation of the Quran and then with Dohor. If your death was written after dohor or then with us, or if your death death was written after that and so on. May Allah bless everyone of us and grant the strength, the ability to change, the ability to help others at a time of need, and the ability to
continue on the path with hope until we meet with Alas of Hana, Huata Allah Akulu Kawli Hada Wassa Allahu Wassalema Allah Nabina Mohammed.