Abdal Hakim Murad – Forgiveness

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Allah.

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and in a sound Hadith, a sambal in this suburb

which means fasting is half of Sabah

and Allah subhanaw taala says in NAMA, you have a sabe Runa, agita

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those whose

those who are sober those who have patients will be given their full

reward without reckoning, which is an interesting expression, the

fullness of it is the limitlessness of it.

Sober is that which makes us human, there is patience in not

doing certain things like not eating and drinking, and those the

patients and persisting and certain things like staying until

the last record of tearaway for instance, or

not knocking off work early and treating your boss during Ramadan.

So two forms of sub sub in abstaining and sub in doing

things.

Now,

this principle is hard nowadays, because the age seems to be in

such tumult and turmoil.

Nafs seems to be ruling

egotistic rulers everywhere east and west, north and south.

The shocking behavior of the super rich increasing gulf between rich

and poor,

extreme civil wars and population flows. Desperation, dispossession,

confusion, loss of hope, loss of faith, these are rough times.

And where do we turn?

We look at the hum dia. We find this

phrase

this world is too wide. All its charms like a bride. The times are

so dark and bereft of a guide. They hiring the off like the fish

in the tide, and status and silver and gold and my pride.

You made me to praise you and honor your name. And he who obeys

you shall never no blame. My foolish forgetfulness fills me

with shame. Take hold of your servant his spirit reclaim this is

the still fire of money being which is just like a big prayer

for Allah's help. And the times are so dark and bereft of a guide.

We need a shared of machine more than ever. Somebody who can give

us

reliable fatwas not swayed by some governmental agenda or personal

strange egotism or sense of inferiority in the face of Western

demands, but authentic fatwas

and we also need authentic Taqwa as fetter. That's taqwa, we need

the inner guide. And the Mufti won't give us that we need the

*. Why do you find I do have these categories in this age

that is dark and bereft of a guide. So people are confused,

which means consequence number one that we need to be more forgiving

than we would have been in past ages. more forgiving of people who

don't pray, who can't manage Ramadan, who have difficulties

with relationships, etc, etc, and more forgiving because it's hard

for people, where do they go?

Increasingly, religion is sought

on the internet,

which is just a sea of questions and answers and egotistic

babblings. And nobody really knows the authenticity in the Senate of

most of what is said.

And that adds to people's confusion. So this is the month of

forgiveness and forgiving each other and being Helene with each

other. Let's remember in this age, particularly people deserve to be

forgiven, is not made for being judgmental.

The Holy Prophet says I'll let you select to us

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upon a law,

it says literally you are in an age when if somebody neglect a

10th of what he's been commanded to do, he will be just

Right.

But a time will come upon people when if somebody does a 10th of

what he's been commanded to do, he will be saved.

This is the MISA, and this allows justice. It was easier for them.

They had wrestled loss. I don't know who it was. And I'm walking

before them, leading them in prayer, giving them the fatwa

giving them the air shed, and we're just, we just have Google or

something.

Or libraries, where most of the books, people don't really know

what they are. It's a difficult time. And according to this

prophetic wisdom, that means it should be a time of overlooking

differences or forgiving differences of embracing one

another despite differences, otherwise, the Muslims will just

implode in arguments and how does this work?

How do we find the courage within ourselves, to forgive, to

overlook, to find this TCU to find excuses for people to mess with

all the

through overcoming that part of us that loves to blame, I'd love to

feel superior and operationalizing, that part of us

that actually finds a joy in forgiveness.

It's part of the paradox of the human condition that you can do

things that don't seem to serve you but can be amazingly

pleasurable.

Like

looking after a homeless person, or giving a lot of sadaqa

or spending a long time in prayer, and you feel a kind of joy Yeji to

Halawa to hopefully Alby to sweetness you find in your heart.

So this is part of part of the wisdom of the believer that he

looks for those pleasures. It's not as if religion is about

abandoning pleasures and looking for really hard stuff as if Allah

simply wants us to stagger towards the gates of paradise carrying as

much weight as we can. So unbelievers think this with their

bare hands, that just load us with more and more stuff. And it's as

if we're kind of Egyptians slaves carrying huge blocks of, of stone,

this is not a last intention, he wishes to give us life. Now, your

econ he wishes to give us happiness, to bring us the abode

of solder, and to be saw that happy in this world.

And this is this pleasure that the believer finds is in doing what is

noble and what's beautiful and what gives pleasure to the higher

self, the higher self and not to the neffs. So, it all depends on

remembering Allah of the Corolla and overcoming the ego by whatever

possible means we can, identifying it, seeing it as a mammal Junaid

says he learned

his spiritual way by watching a cat that was observing and

Mousehole. These times the ego pops up zap it because each time

it succeeds, it becomes stronger and fatter to zap it do not give

it any excuse because it is always your enemy. Every single time

whatever story it tells you, it's always your enemy. And it is

always in your interest without exception to zap it and then

you'll feel happiness, not the happiness or the ego promise do

but something that is more real and more lasting.

And then you will find that that things become easier. And this is

part of the blessing of Ramadan. That's as we fast and make this

big effort. Other things kind of become easier. Or at what other

time of the year when we go to the masjid and pray rack after rack

after rack

listening to the noise of the air conditioning and with the crowd.

That's a commitment.

Ramadan fortifies us for that. Why? Because we have this module

header. That's an important lesson when let the ninja huddle, Fina.

And at the end of homeschooling those who struggle for our sake,

Allah says we will guide them to our paths. In other words, you

make this effort. Catch the mouse chased the mouse away overcome the

lower self stab the ego with a * knives Mujahidin as Imam

Junaid says, and things will get easier for you.

All of these things in religion which are quite abundant and

formidable they will become easier. All those boundaries will

become your natural boundaries you won't even think of going near

them. Because you will be given this this joy of

guidance and then there will be inward gifts

Menza yen as our hero will be been Buddha has sent a love or Sarah

era who be more shahada

whoever adorns his outward

Nature by overcoming his ego and complying with the divine

intention for human beings, Allah will make his inward self

beautiful through witnessing.

So Mogera had at least two more shahada is from Abu Ali and dakak

radula. One, what it means is overcome the ego and what you

really are, will start to open its eyes and become itself. Normally

you sitting on it, squashing it throwing your rubbish on it. It's

kind of obscured, but the more shahada, which here means looking

around and not seeing stuff, but seeing what Allah is making and

doing, and his beauty and His Majesty and His commandments in

everything, having a really rich and extraordinary deep view of

things. That's the meaning of more shahada to see not the world, but

creation.

This is the gift of Mujahid. And this is where we should be moving

in Ramadan, to look at things differently, not as something that

trees that you can pick fruit from. But what is the tree who

made the tree? Why is it so orderly? Why does it obey these

extraordinary things? Why is it so beautiful? That's the more shahada

that the Mujahidin leads to So may Allah subhanaw taala in these

difficult times make us forgiving people make us mild people, make

us people who overcome the ego, rather than point to the antics of

the egos of others. And in sha Allah grant us this Moshe header

so that all of our deen and duniya becomes a delight because we just

see a lot of action in all things. barnacle all fecal coliform and

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