Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to Get Rewarded for Your Bad Deeds [Hikam 50]
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To deter people from even minor sins because we take a look at
it's only it's only mcru Yaki. It's only undesirable.
This they laugh about it. I mean in this month it's not haram. So
that's these are, it's a minor sin. Why are you so particular
about this stuff? You know, we're in England, when the West it's
difficult, we live in a modern, you know, times, it's very
difficult, can't survive. You know without this, all of these kinds
of excuses, look who you look who you're saying this against, then
it becomes suddenly bigger. And then if he wants to take us to
task for it, he's gonna have the right to do it. Because remember,
in the Hereafter, nobody nobody at all, for any punishment that Allah
gives to them is going to feel wronged because it's going to be
so clear there's going to be no delusion in the hereafter. There's
going to be too many proofs against us.
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today it's one of my favorite ones. It's a very it's one of the
short ones, but it's the most simplest one. But it's the most in
can't say most, but it's very intuitive.
It teaches us such a massive lesson about us our sins and Allah
subhanaw taala
that's that triangle that we're constantly dealing with, aren't
we? I mean, there's the good deeds that becomes a square then. Right
but it's generally us
the sins which are a barrier to alive only I won't even call that
a triangle. That's that's a barrier. It's a barrier to Allah
subhanaw taala and we need the good deeds to take us. So this is
number 50 on page 96.
This one he says
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there is no minor sin, when his justice confronts you.
That says send shivers down your back.
There is no minus sin when his justice confronts you.
And there is no major sin when his grace confronts you
is absolutely fascinating, like what inspiration this man had, if
not popularly Skander Rahim Allah to have summed it up, just like
that.
And what he's done essentially, is that when you look in the Hadith
commentaries and the books of
good deeds and bad deeds, and ethics, and so on, there's this
big discussion on what how you define a small sin and a major
sin.
Various views about that.
Multiple views about what a minor sin and what a major sin is. So
I'll read you, some of them so that you understand
what he's saying.
Say that some people say that the small sin is the one that doesn't
have any warning, or blameworthiness necessarily
mentioned against in any kind of harsh way in the Quran.
If it does, like Takara was Zina don't go close to Zina, or cattle
killing is bad or disobedience appearance, you know where there's
a warning against it, then that's a major sin. So anything with a
warning is a major sin, anything that doesn't have such a strong
warning as a minus, and that's one opinion. Another opinion is that
anything for which there's a penalty to be paid, that's a major
sin, for which there's no explanation or penalty, then it's
a minus in
another opinion, is that it's all relative.
It's a minor sin compared to the other one, but it might be major
compared to a one lower than this whole degrees of it. Right? So
there's multiple ways of looking at it. minus sin is the one that
you might have fallen into once and you could be forgiven, but
then if you continue doing it, that becomes a major sin.
So there's multiple opinions about that.
So what he's saying here is that forget all of that.
Just look at who you're sinning against. And the one you're
sinning against who's given us everything, from our existence, to
everything that we sustain ourselves with. The food that I
had today, the food that you you have eaten or that you're going to
go and eat today.
The clothing you wear the air we breathe and everything, just just
the ability to continue and then being in a good situation is, is
beyond that.
With all of this kindness and generosity of Allah, how can you
even do a minus in? Like, what is a minus? And you can't even do
that. That's one. The other one is that
if Allah wanted
to just use his justice and what he means by justice here is that,
okay, you did this minus in, you looked in that direction. You said
this word. Okay? People in the world that Obama called it a minor
sin, but I'm going to punish you for it. Do you think I have the
right to punish you? Yes, I did wrong. So yes, you can punish me.
Then we're in trouble, aren't we?
What difference does it make them?
So to deter people from even minuses because we take a look,
it's only it's only mcru Yaki. It's only undesirable.
There's, they laugh about it. I mean, in this month, it's not
haram. So that's these are, it's a minor sin. Why are you so
particular about this stuff? You know, we're in England, when the
West it's difficult, we live in a modern, you know, times, it's very
difficult, can't survive. You know, without this, all of these
kinds of excuses, look, who you look who you're saying this
against, then it becomes suddenly bigger. And then if he wants to
take us to task for it is going to have the right to do it. Because
remembering the hereafter nobody, nobody at all, for any punishment
that Allah gives to them is going to feel wronged. Because it's
going to be so clear there's going to be no delusion in the
hereafter. There's going to be too many proofs against us. The angels
that we have, that's one proof. Well, Scylla Murphy sudo. Allah
says in the Quran, whatever is in the heart will be revealed. Very
difficult. How does the heart keep track of everything? There's no
chips in there? Well, I mean, I guess recently, Google has showed
us that absolutely. Your phone keeps track of everything. You'd
have to ask for your report and it'll keep track of every single
for every button you press at what time
it has, everything just keeps all of that it just shows how that
the earth that's another bravura into had the two o'clock hubiera
the earth is going to be another proof, the day that it will reveal
its news.
So it's like the Earth is a smart Earth right now. That's why we're
told to pray Salat in different places. So it will bear witness
for us it's keeping track of all of them.
Before any smart objects were created Allah subhanaw taala This
is what was shown to us in the Quran.
And number four, the limbs will speak.
The limbs will speak as mentioned in the Quran as well. People say
Why are you speaking against us so undocking Allah, Allah the undock
ocular che?
So there's no excuse in paradise in this world, people get punished
and they feel they've been wronged even though everybody's telling
No, you deserve it. No, no, because people are deluded
sometimes. And sometimes genuinely somebody's been incriminated
wrongly, wrong evidence or oppression, oppressively.
tyrannically, or whatever. So yeah, you could have the feeling
of unfairness in this world. There is absolutely no feeling of
unfairness in the hereafter. It's what you get. So imagine, for
every little slip we've made if Allah wants to take us to task for
it, then what?
So that's going to be His justice, right? So he's completely just in
doing that.
That's what he's saying. But then what he does is he says,
for those who have committed sins and major sins, and like, oh, no,
we're talking about minus things like that. But he's talking to two
different groups of people first to deter those that don't even get
into if you're aware, if you try to be careful of the big sins, and
you're like, oh, minor sins, okay? No, this is Allah subhanaw taala
you're talking about? That's why the best way to sort ourselves out
is to gain awareness of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada, that is the most
sobering thing you can have in this life, is to get to know Allah
subhanaw taala. How do you get to know Allah subhanaw taala. We keep
saying that, is by reading more Quran with meaning, that Allah
inaction that Allah discourse, he's telling us exactly what he
thinks, how he deals with people, what motivations he wants from
people. And the best thing in the Quran that you're going to find is
how he's just willing to forgive. And to just make, make good. In
fact, I am willing to turn all of your mountain of bad deeds into
good deeds. So I'll start you off with a mountain of good deeds.
You know, one is you're going to start from scratch. And after
you've had a problem with somebody, then you kind of have to
start from scratch. Allah says, once I'm sincere Toba from you,
and you know, that big mountain of deeds that you're worried about,
I'll start you off with good, good deeds in this place. So go and
start from there.
What, what more can you have than that? What more can you want them
that that's why there is no major sin once his grace confronts you.
That's what he's saying. Can there be anything more hopeful than
that? Subhanallah so amazing, all of this small sins, they all based
on the academics of it's what you read, and the apparent matter of
it, just so that there's some kind of system in the world. Right?
That Okay, people tend to do minus things more easily. So okay, you
know, and we're going to wipe them out. So Allah subhanaw taala has
an automatic system for minor sins. Every solid takes away man,
your will do takes away minor sins, your estate for your any
good deed you do wipes away. So in the last interview with hipness,
say good deeds, they wipe out bad deeds. So there's an automatic
system of fear because Allah knows that we can't avoid everything
because we're weak. And the world is like that. So we might end up
doing some minor sins. But
stay away from the big sins like that, you have to make a special
effort to do that, to make sure you don't do it at all. Okay, the
other ones you make an effort not to, but you might still fall into
it, you might think bad about somebody, you might say something
that might just hurt somebody, not in some perpetrated way, in some
premeditated way. But you might just hurt somebody, inadvertently,
without realizing sometimes,
you might just cast the glance at something that you're not supposed
to. These are, these all starts off as minor sins. So you think
that's all we need that kind of system.
However, when it gets to Allah like you, the only way you can
benefit from this, though, is if you release yourself from thinking
of it at such a low level.
And kind of elevate yourself to start recognizing Allah subhanho
wa Taala and look at it from his perspective, then suddenly, things
you look at things differently. That's why they say that the
carrot and the stick the carrot, and the stick is for people who
are still
on the lower level. Once you get high and you begin to understand
who Allah is, then it's a whole different system that you work by.
It's a whole different system that you start working by. You don't
want Allah to be upset with you. Fear Allah is
not the right word really. Because it says, you know, fear Allah,
people translate it duckula as fear Allah, in some sense, in an
extended sense, it's okay, but fear, if you look at the
dictionary definition of fear, fear is an intensely unpleasant
emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat.
Fear causes physiological changes, that may produce behavioral
reactions, such as mounting an aggressive response,
or fleeing the threat. Does that apply to Allah? Are you going to
have an mountain aggressive response? Allah? What are you
going to do? People do though, people do, I don't care about
Allah. I don't believe in him because this is shook my faith.
You know, that's an aggressive response, at least sometimes.
And the other one is, flee, where you're going to flee to
where you're going to flee to. The best example of this is, you know,
when,
at toddler, a little child is misbehaves and a mum shouts at
him, just observe what happens. Where does the child go?
Does he run out of the room,
as some child might do, but most of them were gonna go, they're
gonna go and grab on to the mother and hug her. Man, that's where
that's the one who's sending you off, and you're going back there.
What does that mean? He knows they instinctively know they come from
the realm of Allah. So they instinctively know that this is
the safest place. But what happens when the father shouts at the
child has a different response Subhan Allah, but that's our
response with Allah subhanho wa taala. That's where it because the
safest place is with Allah because there's no escape from him.
There's nowhere to go. So I think what we need to do is rise above
the basic elements of this, it's to rise above and say, I'm doing
this purely for the sake of Allah, that he just needs to be happy
with me, Paradise and held there. That's a side thing. Allah needs
to be pleased me and if I want to go to Paradise because I want to
See Allah because he's promised that we'll see him every week.
That's why I want to go to paradise. That's why I don't want
to go to *. Because I won't be able to see Allah, he'll be
unhappy with me. That's why I don't want that. Can you see the
same thing but it's a different reasoning to higher reasoning. And
when you have a higher reasoning, you're going to do better. That's
what Allah wants from us.
Nah, Illa illa Allah.
But the only way you can do this is to read the Quran carefully.
Because Allah describes himself and he tells us, he engages us, He
speaks to us. He sends us on guilt trips. He makes us think
he tugs at the chords of our heart.
And if you want pure purification, you have to read the Quran. That's
exactly the function for which the Prophet Solomon was sent. Allah
says, Allah subhanaw taala sent the promise of a Loris alum for
year to ID him it was a key him for your honeymoon. Kita will
hikma he recites the verses to them, and he purifies them. So you
recite the verses that has the benefit of purifying your heart.
So start reading the Quran. That's how you that learn the names of
Allah and ponder over each of them. Because Allah has given us
these names so we can know Him. Allah has infinite names, because
he's an infinite in essence, infinite entities is infinite
names. The scholars have tried to get as many as possible up to I
don't know, 500 or whatever, but he has infinite names. Like
there's just a third of the behavioural military behind the
UK, as we say in the DUA, those names that you've kept for
yourself. Anyway, Allah subhanaw taala This is a he tells us an
insert resume or Allah says 14 Verse 14, what better Allah hoomin
Allah Hema la mia Kulu Desi boon
that came became evident
from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada, that thing became evident that they
would never have imagined.
So Allah is going to look at the sum total, and especially the last
state of our life, full of sins, but the last state was positive,
Allah is willing to forgive. What happens with some people is that
if you've messed somebody around, then you've created a massive
distrust, hatred, maybe. But if they're family or collect, and
they have to assist you, and you have to mend the relation to NSA,
okay, we'll see how you do things. Okay, do this. We'll see how you
do this. I'll give you a job again. But we'll see how it goes.
And you're gonna have to really prove yourself so that you're
going to compensate for all those years of misdeed. But with Allah
subhanaw taala, it can be done in a moment.
with everybody else, the heart has to mend. And it takes a while to
mend. And some people are very stubborn about that. Some people
are very unforgiving about that. But Allah is no, I'll forgive you.
I just want to see that sincerity.
So the when the fall comes and all your major sins is nothing, then
he will pull and push the land for you to get you into Jannah as he
did to that guy who killed 99 people, I don't need to tell you
his whole story. Everybody knows the story. But the significant
point for me is well, when the angels came to measure, because is
he going to * or is he going to paradise? So they said okay, we're
going to decide whether he is closer to the new place he was
going to to escape his bad company, or he's closer, he was
actually closer to the place he just departed from, so he should
have gone to *. But Allah says to lead on Okay, to the land on
this side, you expand and you you contract, and then made the angels
measure. Allah moves mountains for you, to get you to where you want,
Allah will move mountains for you, says we don't know Allah, this is
what it is, you know, just how do you explain this, you just have to
develop a relationship with Allah, and your happiness will grow.
Troubles might not go away, but you will be able to deal with
them. If you can't deal with troubles, you're disconnected from
Allah, that's simple matter. Like you may be overwhelmed with
trouble. You may not know physically how to deal with the
leak that's taking place, the rattle in your car, like you know,
you take it to five McCain still can't figure it out. Becoming
aware of Allah doesn't mean that you won't have those troubles. But
you will be relaxed, like okay, that's how Allah once said, What
am I going to do?
So you will deal with it. And if you can just deal with the
difficulties of life in this world and pass through, we got a
successful life. Why have a miserable life? Why have a
miserable life difficulties might come in Sharla they won't come
Allah Allah protect us. But why?
trouble yourself when you can't do anything about some things, so we
have to rise up. We have to rise up to understand who Allah
subhanaw taala is to remember him often to make him part of our life
because he's part of our life which
is ignoring him. So we just have to make sure that we recognize him
for who he is. Because that's where for whomever Allah subhanaw
taala then decides that yes, this guy, yes, he's made amends. He's
sincere now. Then Allah subhanaw. Taala says, For hola ICA, you bet
the Lula who say to him hasn't met these people all of their bad
deeds, Allah changes them into good deeds for them. And for
conservator for con. So you know, all of the time that you mess
around, I'm not going to cut that pay, I'm actually going to pay you
for that now.
All the wages that I cut, I'm actually going to pay you that
now. Because you've just, today, you've shown that you're
different, just one day, you've shown your difference.
Just looking for that one tear to come down, then all the paths can
be wiped out. Okay, you might mess up again. But you can do another
tear. As long as you get tofi. Don't do it the intention that I'm
just gonna do another tear to wipe it out.
So if you look at our deeds, good and bad as just signs of where
we're going, it's just at the end of the day, we're doing more good
deeds, that means we've gone on to the right track. And if we're
still doing more bad deeds, it means we're still off track.
That's why we still stumbling around in the dark and all, you
know, messing around. So the deeds you could say are significant, but
really all they are they just the sign of what I think how things
are and where we're going. That's all it is really. So think of
deeds, the signs, always, if I do a misdeed, that's just the sign
that I'm not there yet, I'm still off track. If I do a good deed
hamdulillah looks like I'm getting on track.
Last whole week was very good. Hamdulillah I was on the right
track, I'm getting closer.
Just look at it that way, as opposed to the deed itself. You
know, so that's why,
even though
they're signs, they're gonna be very different in different
situations, because it depends also the situation in which you do
a deed. That's why it's important that you don't get so hopeful that
you never scared anymore. And you think you're now got some kind of
contract with Allah. And he's promised you and given you a
guarantee or something. And the other hand you don't want to
become despondent and it's not worth it. I'm not gonna get
anywhere I keep messing up. You don't want that as well. It needs
to be in between both as I say.
The reason is that Allah subhanaw taala has decisions have been made
because he knows the future of us and what we're going to do, he
knows that anyway.
So we have to make the best out of that.
When Allah subhana wa Tada deals with us with his as I said
earlier, when Allah subhanaw taala deals with us with His justice,
then no small sin remains small than what the punishment of do
even know what the punishment of a small centers
that were like, Okay, it's just a small sin. It's a small sense that
there is a punishment for it. Do we know what that sin is? Have we
tried it out and it's okay, we can deal with it. We don't. So imagine
when we turn up in the Hereafter, and we didn't care about small
sins, and now just think about it like that. But on the other hand,
if we just please Allah,
we just display that sincerity and maintain that sincerity. Then
Allah subhanaw taala is willing to just give us His grace and His
just bestow us with his in his benevolence, with with his exon
and Jamal and beauty and everything else, then after that
there is no big sin left.
Once you recognize Allah, truly, you can't have a big sin left
because you're going to seek forgiveness straightaway. You know
Allah to Well, that's the benefit of knowing Allah well, so all
these big sins will become small sins. Yeah, here no more of a
Razzie. He says that
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year.
When Allah subhanaw taala grants them His grace then they can't be
any evil deed any sin left they can't be anything left. But
whether although I think he Madeline limped up kala home
Hasina for Allah subhanho wa Taala wants to start looking at things
with a, you know his equations and just and principles, then they
can't be any good deeds left. They all going to be wiped out with
because of the misdeeds. One of the best Hadith, the most
opportune Hadith to think about this, you probably know about it,
where this guy is going to turn up on the day of judgment
and 99
hard drives,
book of deeds, bad deeds 99 of them, it says this or this or when
a sigil records are
All evil bad D patita D padded
Kulu sigil middle buzzer every one of these records is as far as your
eye can see.
You know in a modern sense owners like terabytes of this stuff,
Allah knows best what is going to be
and then after that suddenly you get that little card
little stick
and it's gonna have it's as much as a
fingertip
fee has shahada to Allah Allah Illallah with what kind of
sincerity Subhanallah
and all of those things will just wipe all of them out deleted
because of this La ilaha illallah disbelief Allah Allah Allah Allah
it's just somebody might say okay, I'll just I've got quite a few
Lila How long was
it that proper one? Have you checked it out? Is it that La
ilaha illallah that Masha Allah carries such a virus that it will
just kill everything else. Is it especial Lila life? You know, give
me one as well. That's the thing. We don't know that you know, with
that sincerity. And with that in mind Subhanallah
now that hadith what does that tell us? It tells us about Allah
subhanaw taala is immense Rama, forbearance and generosity and
grace and his his Quran and his bounty upon people. May Allah
subhanho wa Taala deal with us with Your bounty, but main thing
is your Allah allow us to understand you to get to recognize
you for who you are. You created us so that you could be
recognized. But we are not recognizing you. We're just having
a good time.
Yeah, Allah allow us to recognize you. Sheikh Abdullah Ganga he says
on this, his commentary is, should Allah's attribute of justice and
idol be manifested on the earth, dealing with us, and he started
dealing with us according to the strict criteria of such equity,
then the smallest of sins would be treated as an enormity.
We started punishing us for every small thing, imagine it for
everything, you're gonna either get a prick, or a slap or a kick,
or a thump on the head, or something's going to be taken away
from you just imagine, he hasn't done so. Allah is to benevolence,
even with those who deny him, still gives them food to eat.
So,
in truth, a minut action of disobedience to such a majestic
and great lord and benefactor, whose grandeur is infinite and
bounties are in calculable justifies the application of
complete punishment upon the disobedient One, who are you
transgressing against.
If on the other hand, though, his grace becomes manifested, we
invoke his grace somehow, then our greatest sins wane into oblivion,
after becoming insignificant due to his magnanimous forgiveness,
what beautiful explanation that is, may Allah subhanho wa Taala
allow us to take this to heart and allow this for us to develop and
enhance our understanding of Allah COVID Derawan annual hamdu Lillahi
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Allah we ask you, we beseech you for your grace, for your love, for
your benevolence, for your generosity, for your forgiveness,
for your love of Allah, grant us your love of Allah make your love
more beloved to us than cold water on a hot day. Or Allah we ask that
you
purify us, you give us still feek to read the Quran to understand
and ponder the Quran, Allah that You give us the ability to imbibe
the Quran in our life to be illuminated by the Quran to be
inspired by the Quran for the Quran to be the light for us that
it's supposed to be. Oh Allah, we have a lot of negligence. Allah we
have procrastinated or Allah we have delayed, oh Allah we have
been negligent. Oh Allah we have been heedless of Allah we have
been out out out outright sinners of Allah outright violations we
have to our name ya Allah forgive us. Yeah, Allah forgive us. O
Allah forgive us. O Allah make turning towards you easy for us.
Oh Allah grab us by the forelocks and enter into us into Paradise.
Allah pick us up of Allah we are in a fallen state, or Abba. Oh
Allah we see that in the world when somebody needs help people
help them in a system or Allah we ask you for assistance because
nobody else can help us in this regard. Oh Allah, grab us by
had a forelocks and enters into paradise. Oh Allah we ask that you
protect us and our children from all of the influence evil
influences which are out there from all of the distractions which
are out there. Oh Allah the dunya is only getting bigger and bigger.
Every day around us the dunya is just getting more attractive for
us every day that the dunya is beckoning us more and more each
day. Oh Allah the hereafter though is coming closer and the paradise
and that dunya is actually getting further but Oh Allah, we don't see
it that way. Oh Allah allow the Acura to be important for us. Oh
Allah allow the sobering thought of death to overtake us. Allow us
to be balanced and what Allah allow us to be focused, allow us
to invest in the hereafter. We've invested enough in this world, oh
Allah allow us to invent invest in hereafter. Oh Allah protect all of
our investments, protect all of our efforts of Allah protect all
of our efforts do not let us see a bad day especially in the
hereafter when we stand in front of you, oh Allah accept from us or
Allah accept from us, oh Allah accept from us. So Hanabi Kirby is
at your miles if one of them and I are sitting out handling.
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