Abu Bakr Zoud – A Beautiful Repentance
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All praise and thanks belongs to Allah
and May the peace and blessing of Allah
be upon his servant and final messenger, Muhammad
As to our followers, brothers and sisters in
Islam,
Islam,
to accept from us this gathering
and to grant us, reward and to accept
from us and to forgive our sins and
our shortcomings.
Brothers and sisters in Islam, now I'm going
to share with you just a short reminder
from some of the that
we recited from Surah to Surah.
Allah said,
SubhanAllah.
This is such a beautiful air, especially
in these last 10 nights of Ramadan.
Allah
he informed us of a fact.
He began the ayah by saying
It is he, Allah
who
accepts
the repentance
that comes
from the sleeves,
from his sleeves.
This is not just a fact.
Rather, this is Allah
encouraging
us to continuously
take the path of a and
repent and return to him
This
first part of the is enough motivation and
inspiration
for
all of us. No matter what your relationship
is with Allah
whether it's good, it's solid, it's weak, whatever
it is,
we are all encouraged
to make a tawba to Allah
every single
day. With Tawba, my brothers and sisters, in
Islam
is of levels.
A Tawba is of levels.
There is a strong Tawba,
and there are weak Tawba that comes from
the sleeve.
For example, in the hadith of the messenger,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
a woman had committed a during the life
of the messenger, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So she came to the messenger
and she said,
She said, I have fallen into a major
sin, and I deserve a punishment,
a capital punishment.
So establish it upon me,
which is being stoned to death
for what she had done.
So Nabi
turned her away
until she looks after the child that she
gives birth to. And
a few years later, she came back, and
she was prepared
to face the punishment of Allah
in this worldly life.
So when Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam commanded that
she be stoned,
and she was stoned
until
some of her blood
came on one of the Sahaba.
Perhaps it was
as some narrations mentioned.
And then,
Umar
he began
to curse
what had come on him from this blood.
And,
he said to the messenger
Because after she died,
they took her from the hole.
They washed her. They shrouded her.
Prayed upon her.
Umar questioned.
He said, You Rasulullah,
do you pray upon her
while she committed the act of a zina?
So when Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said,
He said to him, she repented such a
repentance
that if her was divided among 70 people
of Al Madina, it would have been enough
for them.
This, my brothers and sisters sisters in Islam,
proves
that there are strong tawba. There is a
strong tawba and there is a weak tawba.
This woman's tawba was so strong
that if it was given and divided upon
70 people of Al Madinah, these are the
best of people,
it would have been sufficient for them on
the day of judgment that they meet Allah
with a clean slate and a purified heart.
And so how does the believer achieve this
strong tawba in his life?
A tawba. We don't want to make a
weak tawba.
We are now in the best of seasons,
in the best of days, and in the
best of nights.
Alhamdulillah,
Allah gave us life until we are witnessing
the last 10 nights of Ramadan. Congratulations.
We made it.
But making it to the last 10 nights
of Ramadan is not an achievement in itself.
And those that reject and deny Allah are
also living the last 10 nights.
There are animals that are also living the
last 10 nights of Ramadan.
The achievement is not only to live and
to witness them.
The achievement is to do something in these
10 nights
that will make you worthy of the paradise,
that will make you worthy of the mercy
and the forgiveness of Allah
That's the achievement in these last 10 nights.
That's why we're witnessing them. We're supposed to
take something of them.
How do we achieve this strong?
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
the strongest Tawba that the believer could ever
make, that Allah will
accept from him
is a Tawba that is known
as And that is the Tawba that Allah
Azzawajal
called us all towards.
He said,
yeah.
Allah
Asojal, he said, oh you who believe
turn to Allah, repent to Allah
with a sincere honest
What is a tober?
Because if we did a tober
then that would be the strongest
you've ever made in your life.
And that's the that you want to meet
Allah
with.
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
the word the
word
the
word
it
means for something to be filtered
and cleansed and purified.
They say in the Arabic language,
If I filtered the honey,
and as a result, I got pure
clean honey,
and all the bee wax and the sticks
and the dead bees were all removed and
filtered out.
If I've removed all that stuff out, the
debris,
and I've got
honey at the end, that's called
that action is known as
So is a sincere,
clean, pure.
And how is this achieved?
Told us.
Number 1, in order to score this
which is the strongest
you'll ever make,
is that you make a from all
your sins.
From all of them.
See, there are some people
that may make a toba from
drinking alcohol, but it doesn't make a tawba
from a that he practices.
Some maybe make a tawba from arriba,
but they don't make Tawba from the oppression
that they have done
against the people.
This is a weak Tawba.
A strong Tawba, a Tawba
is a Tawba from all the sins,
all of them.
And this requires for you to focus
and to be sincere and to be honest.
Because at over from all your sins,
that implies
an honest relationship you have with Allah
That's the first thing, a from all the
sins.
Number 2, that it is actually a sincere
Tawba.
Meaning,
that you're repenting
because you fear Allah
and you fear the consequences of your sins.
And you're repenting because you love Allah
and you know that he loves from you
to make a tawba.
And this is far away from a person
who makes a tawba for a worldly gain.
Let's say someone did some crime publicly,
and then he lost reputation
among the community.
Maybe such a person makes
a so that he can grow in the
eyes of people. That's not
He did that for the sake of the
people.
Is
that the is sincere for Allah because you
actually feed him
And you also loved him as well, and
you know that he's the one who accepts
this from the sleeves, so you did it
only for him and no one else.
And this this is now strengthening your tawba
and making it stronger and stronger.
And you're making a tawba to Allah from
the sins because
they are sins.
They make Allah
displeased with you. They are a road to
the hellfire, and that's not where the believer
wants to go.
So this is the intention in why you
make a tober. Some people
they smoke.
But then
he says, I've made a toba from the
cigarettes,
but the real cause was because he couldn't
afford it anymore. It was too expensive.
So he left it. That's not
a He left it because of a worldly
matter, not because of Allah
I gave you a small example, and you
can use that to relate to other sins
in your life.
Needs to be for Allah
Then it needs to be in the time
of an accepted Tawba.
So if the soul has reached the throat
or if the sun has come out from
the west,
that's not a
That's a rejected It will not be accepted.
So it has to be in the time
of acceptance. And what better time
than these 10 nights of Ramadan?
And also,
they say that the conditions of
one related to the past,
one related to the present, and one related
to the future.
The past
is that you regret what you had done
of sins.
You regret.
You regret. How did you disobey Allah
You regret that you disobeyed him while knowing
he saw you all along.
You regret
that you disobeyed him through a blessing he
gave you.
Because every sin we do
think of it. It's through a blessing Allah
gave you.
If you would sin with your eye that's
a blessing Allah gave you.
If it's a sin you did with your
hand then this is a blessing Allah gave
you. You were supposed to be grateful for
this blessing,
not use it in the disobedience of Allah.
So you're regretful. You're regretful
that you disobeyed Allah
with a blessing he gave you.
You disobeyed him while knowing he saw you.
That's a condition
related to the past, regret.
And one related to the present,
which is you immediately stop the sin that
you're doing.
You cannot be doing a haram
and at the same time making a tober.
There are some people that are fooled.
As he's doing his sin,
he's saying for Allah and making a tawba
with his heart.
And that
is a proof that you know Allah is
watching, and you know what you're doing is
wrong.
So you need to stop the sin and
make a tawba.
Just like when we make wubu.
You cannot be making wubu while relieving yourself.
You need to stop everything,
clean yourself,
then make
And so the idea of the sin, you
need to stop it altogether,
then you begin with.
And one condition related to the future,
and that is that you intend deep in
your heart
that you will never go back to that
sin ever again.
You make this intention.
Forget whether you're going to fall again or
not because if you do so, then you
repeat the process.
But at the time you make the toba,
you do not plan and intend to go
back to it.
Why am I saying this? Because there are
some Muslims in Ramadan. We ask Allah
guidance for us and them
that they put a pause
on some of their sins,
intending
that when Ramadan finishes,
I will go back to the sin.
And that brothers and sisters in Islam, Allah,
that is not an accepted Tawba. That is
missing a condition.
You cannot make a while having in your
heart a plan to commit a sin after
Ramadan.
So you do not plan.
And then if you did fall into the
sin later on,
you had a battle with your nafs with
shaitan and he overpowered you and you fell
into the sin,
then you immediately get up and you repeat
this process once again.
Having in your heart,
He's the one who
meaning continuously
accepts the.
Lord is very generous.
Present tense, meaning he continuously
accepts this from you.
And if you fell into the sin the
next time,
and the third time, and you continue to
repeat that process,
believe it or not,
it doesn't nullify your first tober.
And if I made a proper tawba with
all its conditions now from a sin,
then later on, I fell into the same
sin again without planning for it, but
took control and I fell into the sin.
That sin that I do again
does not invalidate the first over.
The first over was accepted.
The first over,
you earned the reward for making it,
and now you repeat the process, and that
is another accepted Tawba.
And then
Allah said,
and he wipes away the sins.
That's the effect of a Tawba.
He
accepts the Tawba from the sleeves,
then he said,
and he wipes away the sins.
That's the effect.
When you do a, this is what happens.
And
you see this word,
That's the name of Allah
that is supposed to be living in your
heart throughout these 10 days.
Why do we say that? Because
I ask the messenger
You love to wipe the sins and to
pardon and to forgive.
Have you ever heard of anyone
that says I love to forgive?
No one.
Except Allah, he
actually loves to forgive
In an interest to show
that you're in good hands
with a Lord that loves to forgive.
Forgive our sins.
Is the complete erasing of the sin.
The sin goes,
the consequence of the sin goes, you will
not be questioned about it on the day
of judgement, and you will not be punished
for it on the day of judgement.
A complete wiping of it, as the Arabs
would say,
You know, when you walk in the desert
and walk on the sand, there are marks
that remain behind you.
When the wind comes and it blows it
away
and the footprint has completely gone,
the Arabs would say
that the wind
completely
wiped
the footprint away.
Gone.
And so this is what
means. This is what Allah does. Wipes away
the sin. There's no record of it.
See, unlike this worldly life, if you did
a crime,
it's registered against your name, and it's always
there.
It's always haunt you.
Those who've had a
bad past
and then made the tawba from it,
and then they straightened up their life. It's
very hard for them to get a job
if a security check is done on their
name.
He can never erase it. He can never
clear it from the records in this worldly
life.
It's different with Allah. So, Ajali, it's completely
removed and erased.
And finally,
and he knows that which you do.
Meaning, he knows
what type of you're doing. Is it sincere
for him,
or are you doing it
for someone else,
for something worldly
to restore a reputation you once had? Whatever
it is.
So peace and see, we ask Allah
to grant us forgiveness,
to accept our.
We ask him
to forgive our sins and our shortcomings
in.