Abdullah Oduro – Invocations of God #19 Good deeds vs. Bad deeds
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The discussion centers around Jesus' actions during Christ's time, which were considered null and void. Jesus' actions caused him to become a Muslim, and his actions caused him to become a Muslim. Finding a good deed is crucial to fulfilling this goal. Jesus' actions, including his actions that caused him to become a Muslim, are considered the "will" that comes with leaving Islam, and leaving Islam means leaving a good deed. Finding a clear understanding of intentions is crucial to achieving forgiveness and magnification in Islam.
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So Ibn Al Qayyim concludes, SubhanAllah,
in regards to,
the expiations
of
sins
by good deeds and then talking about how
this is all built off of a foundational
principle in regards to those that, you know,
those that
enter into Islam
and then they leave Islam and then they
come back into Islam? Do their previous actions
from when they were Muslim
are renewed,
like, the reward for those actions are renewed
after they come back to Islam?
He says it goes back to that and
some scholars say, well,
you know, the fact that some of them
say no. The fact that he left Islam
immediately by default, all those actions are null
and void. Some say no. We look at
it until he dies when he dies what
did he die upon so if they embrace
Islam after leaving Islam those actions come back
and those that say upon immediately leaving Islam,
those actions do not come back even if
they were to become a Muslim. He goes
on to say
And I said, I still don't feel easy
about this issue.
And myself is something that is, discontent with
this whole issue.
And I'm still looking for the correct answer
in it.
Harisson, I'm still diligently looking for this and
trying to figure it out.
And I haven't seen anyone that really has
done a proper explanation of this.
And it becomes apparent to me.
He said and he praises Allah Subha Ta'ala.
Allah knows best and there is only help
except him from him and there is no
strength in power and might in in except
him.
He said that they're
in
in,
how would you say? They're in constant battle
with each other. They're they're, like, in in
in faction with each other.
And the ruling will be for that which
is more,
has more authority
or is
has,
majority of effect being which one is more
basically?
Whether in in number or whether in intensity
of it. Alright?
And it has more power over that which
is,
lesser.
And the ruling will be for it
until the degree that the one that was
lesser wasn't even there.
Okay.
So he said if the individual has a
lot of good deeds
then the good deeds were more than evil
deeds and the good deeds
will,
raise the evil deeds.
So this is the fiqh here right here.
This is actually it. He says, and when
the individual on top of the hasanat, they
do good deeds and when the individual
seeks forgiveness or repents from Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, the response and result of that repentance
is a lot of good deeds as well
and it will increase and magnify
the good deed
that raised that evil deed. So toba is
a good deed and then the toba itself
from the evil deed will magnify
that good deed. The the hasad talati habithot
besayyah. The good deed that was done,
right,
will magnify that evil deed. So
someone becomes a becomes Muslim, leaves Islam, then
becomes Muslim again, right. Becoming Muslim as someone
mentioned is Tawba itself. So that coming to
Islam
relinquishes that fact of leaving Islam,
and it magnifies that good deed as though
leaving Islam didn't even happen with the lost
of the Quran because
that sincerity
is intense.
So and then he just reminds you the
condition. So if
the person was diligent
with their sincerity
in
seeking forgiveness
and the way that they did it was
correct and it came from the depths of
their heart basically was sincere it was the
motivation
the Tawba
was sincere from their heart
It literally gives the word burns.
It relinquishes,
extinguishes,
moves away with intensity
that which happened to him from the evil
deeds or from the evil deeds that took
place.
To the degree as though it wasn't even
there.
And then, he ends it with the hadith
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam for verily
the one that seeks forgiveness
is as though there is no sin for
them. The one that seeks forgiveness from an
act is though is there no sin for
them and that's beautiful from the fiqh of
Ibnokem Rahim Allah Ta'ala and that's fiqh of
the religion. So basically, he's saying is that
the hasanat and the siyyat are there. So
looking at the percentage
of the hasanat versus the siyyat,
the good deeds versus the evil deeds,
the good deeds itself
serving as
a a a a a relinquisher
of the evil deeds but not just the
deed itself. As what we learned from our
Sheikh earlier,
the sincerity and intention of the sincerity
in the action
versus
the intensity
of
non sincerity in the action
or bad sincerity in the action. You are
sincerely
wanting to be seen by others than Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and the intensity of that
and did it happen throughout the whole action.
See there's so much involved here that it
requires Fiqh of the religion. May Allah Subhana
Wa Ta'la bless us with Fiqh of the
religion.
Ibn al Qayyim goes on to say here,
about, he asked the prophet about an action
that he did in the days of polypeism.
Hakim ibn Hazam was the
the nephew of Khadija bint Khaweel.
Right? And he lived around a 120 years,
Masha'Allah.
He asked about the actions that he did
from
freeing slaves and from,
bringing the relatives together, which is huge, and
the righteous deeds he did in in the
days of polytheism.
Is he rewarded for it? The prophet SAW
Alaihi Wasallam
He says that you have been accepted with
all the previous virtues from before.
So if someone had really good deeds from
before and then they become a Muslim,
the actions that they did before becoming a
Muslim,
Insha'Allah,
will apply to them. Yeah. I need the
reward. How Allah
knows best. In this particular aspect of life
and chapter of worship of Allah and understanding
the Deen, this is where Rajat comes in,
hoping from
Allah the best. We don't ultimately know. I
can't say, you know, I've been a Muslim
for 20 something years. You know,
I'm 47.
30 years ago, that good deed that I
did because I became Muslim, Allah is going
to accept it. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows
best.
Allah knows best because there are so many
nuances that take place in this and this
is a manifestation of Allah being an Alim
knowing my intention for every single action that
I do and within the action, that one
action,
motivation behind doing it, within it, which time
frame I was sincere, which time frame I
was not, all of that is with the
law Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, his knowledge, his hearing,
his seeing, his wisdom
and that is the wisdom that the the
importance of understanding
the manifestation
of the names and attributes of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. Then Ibn Uqayim goes on to
say at the very end
he says and so this
request or results in that Islam
will renew, not even renew,
will,
re will cause to return, will bring back
the rewards of those good deeds that they
did that were null and void
with Shirk and this
is so important.
This shows
that the anchor of your actions is Tawhid,
your creed
which shows the importance
of the motivation behind actions in Islam in
life
that the motivation should be for Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala If the motivation is not Allah,
it doesn't matter what it is, it's Baltin.
It is Baltin.
So when the
person
seeks forgiveness from polytheism,
from shirk,
all of the good deeds that they did
before will return to them and it's Ibn
al Qayyim's opinion with the hadith that is
clear by the way that is narrated in
al Bukhari and Muslim hadith. Bukhari, 1,436,
and Muslim, 123.
He says,
and he goes and says what he says
earlier.
He says that the person was to,
seek forgiveness from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'la, a
sincere
truthful forgiveness,
then the previous deeds are erased
and burned away
from the evil deeds, and the good deeds
will return back to me. It's interesting how
he says,
Well, this is if someone was to repent
from an action, they were Muslim.
May Allah
forgive us for our sins, and may He
allow any forgiveness, act of forgiveness,
to serve as an expiation for any previous
sin and to magnify it to where it
is as though we have not committed the
sin. Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi Barikatuh.