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The segment discusses the negative consequences of the Islam lifestyle and the negative consequences of past mistakes and negative experiences. It emphasizes the importance of forgiveness and the need for forgiveness in the context of the "will" label. The speakers also discuss the return of Islam to "good des" and the return of the beast to-the-you- afraid " afterwards." They stress the importance of expressing one's true feelings and actions in public and avoiding regret in one's actions.

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Salam alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Smilla will hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah he wanted earlier he was so happy he Amanullah your brothers and sisters, despite the challenges associated with being a Muslim in the 21st century, whether it's the endless variety of sins, the unlimited access to them, the active deformation of those who choose to unsubscribe from the and Islamic lifestyle, whatever it may be, we still have every right to be hopeful to be optimistic.

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One of those reasons is because of the ever increasing interest in the alternative lifestyle, a lifestyle that is closer to Allah subhanaw taala and nearer to the happiness of this world and the Hereafter, I speak about people who are in regret of their past fed up with their sins, sick and tired of being miserable, and so their eyes and their souls have finally turned towards telega repentance.

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This blessed group of people, however, they have complaints, they complain of what they perceive to be obstacles that limit their ability to properly repent. Some of these obstacles involve other people, third parties,

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whilst other challenges are purely against themselves. This session is simply an effort to convince the sincere seeker of this alternative lifestyle who wants to turn a new leaf

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that these obstacles are illusionary and that the happiness of being a practicing reformed Muslim is not far fetched at all, it is nearby. So let us begin dismantling these arguments, one after the other, the first perceived illusionary obstacle is this. He says it's only among nursing. It's minor. Other people are doing follow us. See, some of us dear brothers and sisters, despite our shortcomings, we want to justify you want to justify them as well. So we say things like look comparatively speaking, it's only a small thing. Right now that statement

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could only be uttered by someone who doesn't see Allah subhanaw taala in the light that he deserves to be seen. And I want you to think about the words of Prophet knew, for example,

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who had a people who believed him? What did he say to them powerful words, heart melting words, which glow so brightly with the love and the awe of Allah that he had of his Creator. He said to them, Myrna Coppola told Juna Lillahi wa Cara, what is the matter with you that you do not attribute to Allah? Do you grant your now Allah Coolatta junella Hirakata

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he sang to them?

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Why do you not see Allah as great?

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Why do you not feel the Majesty of Allah subhanaw taala within you.

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This was the majesty and the grandeur of the all which every prophet and messenger experienced. And so they exerted every effort to convey this experience and inner feeling to other people, the album or the sovereignty, the all the glory of Allah. We say it's a minor sin.

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What about Allah Abdullah? Hey, Norma, the rights of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam once recited the following area when he was standing on the pulpit speaking to the Muslims, where Allah says one cada hula haka de

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well I will do Jeremy Corbyn dot who Yeoman Tiana was sent our tomato to be a meanie.

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So behind the hotel, and now you should be cool. They have not recognized Allah with the recognition that he is worthy on whilst on the Day of Resurrection, the whole earth will be in his grasp, and the heavens will be rolled up in his right hand. So Glory be to Him, and may He be exalted over what they associate with him. So he was reciting this powerful idea as he was standing on the pulpit speaking to the Muslims, but listen what happened. Abdullah him longer than a writer he continues to say what I saw Allah He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you're all to her Cazenovia de what you heard Rico her Yahoo be her oh you will be will be how are you to be a uma Jido Rob Neff ser who an Al

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Jabbar Anil Musa Kabir an Al Aziz al Karim. He said the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was moving his hand back and forward telling us that Allah will be praising himself on the Day of Judgment saying, I am the compiler. I am the Supreme I am the mighty I am the generous for Raja Sabha Rasulillah

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He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and Bill Barr at the corner. Playa Kuranda behind the pulpit began to shake as he was speaking. It was moving and changing till we said it's about to collapse. He's about to fall.

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This is who Allah Almighty was in the heart of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam shall no sin was ever considered by him as small.

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The exact same thing can be said about the companions and a symptomatic, he said in a con la luna Allah, Allah and here that coffee or Unicom

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Mina, Shari guna now dua, Allah Allah Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in a will be God. He says today, you indulge in things that you see as

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more insignificant than a strand of hair. At the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam we consider those same doings as obliterated, demolish his.

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So brothers and sisters, look, a person may commit what is a minor sin.

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But because of the carelessness involved, the boldness, the belittlement, the lack of Hyak shyness of Allah, such a sin is transformed into a major one, not necessarily because of the sin itself.

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But because of the mentality that came with it. It's only minor, he says, others are doing far worse, she insists. No, you respond to that by saying Latham's role in our slavery then be when I can invoke Illa, Allah T Manasa it, do not look at the smallness of the sin. But consider the greatness of the one whom you have just disobeyed your Allah.

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That was the message communicated by our beloved son Allahu alayhi wa sallam when he said to his wife, ha ha ha Isha to yaki. One will have figurative do know in the law Herman Allah heeta polybag

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Oh ha Isha. Beware of the sins that people deem insignificant, because they have pursuers from Allah, they have pursuers from Allah.

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So, regardless of what your weakness may be, beware of allowing your heart to settle with it. Because the one who knocks on the door of a sin with contentment is very different to the one who knocks on the door of a sin but with burning guilt, and a bleeding heart. That natural category of people are so close to the Mercy of Allah, even with their sins. So say it's the fear of Allah. Allah forgive me Chesterfield, Allah.

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The second argument we want to dismantle he or she may say, if I knew that Allah would forgive a person like me, I would not hesitate to repent.

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Now Yeah, it's true. Some people are ready from this moment to revamp their life. They're willing to make the difficult decisions from a financial perspective, their investments, their clothing, relationships, weekend's social media, friends, breast of it, but he argues, I'm hesitant. I have no guarantee that I will be pardoned by Allah. Why would Allah pardon a man a woman like me with what I have done to date? See, you're not the very first to worry about this. It actually bothered some of the companions before they embraced Islam. When Muhammad Abdullah has

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eventually decided to embrace Islam, he approached the prophets of Allah Allah who has extended his hand to pledge allegiance to become a Muslim, and then he abruptly withdrew.

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to him, what's wrong? 100 Have you changed your mind? He said, I have a condition. The Prophet said What is your condition? He said that my sins are forgiven.

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And here the prophets Allah Allahu alayhi wa sallam said to him,

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and I named them

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and an Al Islam or yeah honeymooner kind of Kabbalah. One then Hirata demon Makanda. Kabbalah one that hijab you had him Oh, my kind of level Oh, hammer.

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Didn't you know

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that embracing Islam brings down all of the sins before it and that the migration from Mecca to Medina brings down all of the sins before it and the Hajj, Allahu Akbar, brings down all of the sins before it.

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Part of perfecting one's repentance is knowing with certainty, that Allah subhanaw taala can erase every one of your crimes,

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making them as if you never did them as if they never existed, he can do that. And not only that, this is the mind boggling one. Allah is happier with your repentance than you are. Allah is happier with your repentance and a person who is saved from a near death experience really allow that one to simmer for a moment. In an amazing analogy, the prophets Allah Allah

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While he was setting them said, I swear by Allah.

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Allah is happier with the repentance of a believing servant than a person imagine than a person who set out on a journey in an open waterless desert. During their journey. He retreated to the shade of a tree fell asleep.

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He woke up only to notice that his camel had run away with all of his provisions on his back. He made his way to a nearby cliff to look around, he couldn't see anything. And another cliff Cliff he looked around, he couldn't see anything. And then he said to himself in despair, REO Isla McCarney lady come to fee for a call Luffy he had the amount. I'm gonna go back to the shade. I will wait there until death comes to me, Ya Allah. And as he sat in despair imagine, all of a sudden he sees his camel making its way back, dragging its rains imagined his happiness. This man then grabs the camel by its rains and enjoy he says hola hola and Daddy were another book by my Lord, You are my

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slave, and I am your God. He made a mistake due to extreme joy. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam comments on this scenario by saying from Allah who I shall do Farahan be tell about the Abdi mean has a bureau hate Bureau hate it He Allah is happier with a person's repentance than that man is with his returning capital.

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All of that analogy is to show you Allah is happy when you come back to him happier than that man. And the Lord who displays this type of happiness when you change your ways. That's a kind Lord. I said, generous and merciful Lord,

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and your invite to repent has come directly from him. And if you respond, his happiness will be as you just heard. So what are you waiting for?

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So you're stuck for Allah. Say you're stuck feeling Ma?

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Argument number three, he or she may say, look, since repentance resets my sins to zero and it does just that, what about the years that I've wasted?

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That's a valid concern.

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See che fine. He will attempt to derail somebody from the path of repentance by saying other people are so ahead of you. I mean, okay, you repent, your sins are erased, but you are hopelessly behind 10 years 2030 years behind.

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Alhamdulillah by Allah's mercy, He has taken it upon His divine self to dispel this incorrect whispering of shape on making a promise that no sinner could ever have dreamed of. What is the promise? Listen carefully. Allah Jalla Jalla who says

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Ilam and tada on? Why Mila, I'm Anna Solley. Ha,

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ha You did Allahu sejati him Hassan. Okay, and Allahu Allah for

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except for those who repent, and they believe and they work righteous deeds for them, Allah will replace their sins into good into good deeds.

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Allah will replace their sins into good deeds, not merely erase them, but to replace them into good deeds. By the way, what does it mean that Allah will replace their sins into good deeds?

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Some scholars have argued that it means that Allah will inspire them to do good in place of their sins. So he will replace bad traits with good traits, etcetera, bad beliefs, good, good beliefs. Others have argued a literal understanding of the idea where things are actually transformed into good deeds. Imagine Xena fornication transformed your good deed alcohol transmitted a good deed.

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And there is an evidence the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said you'll be illogical in fire who said Who unsavory that will be he was a hero Kibera

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Allah can be all Kibera a man will be brought on the day of judgment, and it will be said to the angels interrogate him about his minor sins, but hide from him the major ones.

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So he will begin to hear the interrogation as he is told I mean, take a look at the young Makeda Amil together

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it will be said to him You did such and such on day such and such. And remember such and such sin on day such and such how embarrassing your Allah may Allah forgive us.

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Then he will be given the price it will be sent for you call hula hoop. So, in the Aloka McCanna Coolessay at in high center. You will have every sin that you've committed a good deed in its place, a good deed in its place. Then the man will announce that he will say your umbilical Daniel Tasha Allah Ohana my Lord. The man will say I've committed other sins. Where are my major sins? I don't see them here. He wants to see them being replaced into good deeds as well. And here are the prophets Allah Allahu alayhi wa sallam smiled at

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turbojet no Ijebu he smiled till his blessed molar teeth were visible Subhanallah it is a cause for celebration, good sins replaced into good deeds for he who repents, how are you disadvantaged?

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And I one of my favorite narrations is that which was narrated by aborto. In the nickname his actual name is Shep LM dude.

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Where he approached the prophets of Allah who I knew he was sent him and said,

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Alright, Raju and Amina zuba Kula. So then you have to come in Harsha. Yeah. What was he the only Columbia took Harjit and wallah, they are Japanese. for HANA home in Tonga, Messenger of Allah, what would you say about a person

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who has committed every sin under the sun?

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He hasn't left a single one of them out, can he be forgiven?

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The prophets of Allah Almighty who has sinned and asked him a question Hello As Salam Have you embraced Islam? The man said, I'm a shadow under in, in Allah wa Julio actually color. One Nikka Rasulullah. He said, As for me, I testify that no one has the right to be worshipped but Allah

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and I testify that you are indeed the Messenger of Allah.

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The man was a Muslim.

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So the response was phenomenal.

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to him now Yes, like I forgive you to follow Herat. What a true Costa yd viaja Aloha Nila Holika aka hieratic, Kula Han. He said in that case, yes. Do good deeds, here are the conditions, do good deeds, desist from sinning, and Allah will do what Allah will change every one of your sins into good deeds. The man could not believe what he just had.

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And so he said, whether it was her generosity, even my treacherous ones,

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even my monstrous ones,

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the Prophet sallallahu wasallam said yes.

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The man walked away, saying Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, over and over again till he disappeared.

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So with your repentance, nevermind your sins being raised as if they never existed,

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but they are converted into good deeds that will please you on the Day of Judgment. So how are you disadvantage? Why is tele being delayed? How are you behind? Just say a stockfeed Allah I still feel Allah from the depths of your heart and Allah Allah Allah to fulfill his promise.

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Argument number four, brother or sister may say I've chosen the path of repentance, but I have now pressure from my family and friends. It's unbearable to go back to the old ways.

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And look, I'll be honest with you, this is the way of every prophet and messenger every righteous revivalist every practicing Muslim of the past, present and future. They are harassed by people, and at times by the closest of people to them, but don't give up. And don't give people more attention than they are worth remember that.

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Particularly when they market themselves for you as a better option than Allah a better option that is a better option than that home of the Hereafter.

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Many of our bad decisions in life the Islamic ones, as well are heavily influenced by people. And we may not see the loss of doing so today but on the day of judgment, that will be the beginning of all horrifying revelation. Why?

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Because people will start this owning one another. Allah said for either

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at least for

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ilmiah role not only in XP, when that Deafening Blast comes the Day of Judgment. On that day you will see man fleeing from his brother

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will owe me he Irby and he will flee from his mother and his father.

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Whilst Ah Hey Betty, he went Bernie, and he will flee from his wife and from his children. How come

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NyQuil name Reem, in whom young woman either you shall know ye ogni because every man on the Day of Judgment will have enough to make him careless of others.

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People will flee and this old one another one a day of judgment, why give them more attention than they deserve? In fact, I can remember he says that a man will approach his wife on the day of judgment and He will say to her what type of husband was it Are you well income to Lucky? What type of husband was it you in life? She will say you are a wonderful husband. She will praise Him that He will say to her for in the global elite glioma, hasta la Wahida to heavy la Lally, Anjuman mediterranea. I have a request on my wife

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From you,

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on this day that you just give me gift me with one of your good deeds please. Perhaps Allah will save me from the horrors of what you see. She says to him, I said, I'm not allowed.

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You have asked for something so small and easy to give. When I can Neela otaku unworldly acacia and at the house of Miss Lindsay Taha, however I'm sorry, I cannot fulfill your request. On this day, I fear exactly what you are afraid of, like family and friends, children.

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Today, they may not leave you alone.

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Today, they may employ every technique to bring you back to your old ways back your senses. Apparently, they may send you messages remind you of the good old times of the past.

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And this becomes even more of a challenge when the people have hair, goodness, religion, knowledge Eman. They're not giving you the time that you need of them. I know the problem is compounded, it becomes more challenging, I'm with you. But remember the instructions that Allah gave to His Messenger

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who was being pressured by his locals to stop praying. Allah said to him, cannot lead to Tahoe wasn't good was terrible. DO NOT OBEY Him. This is your motto in life.

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DO NOT OBEY Him and prostrate and draw nearer to Allah. so courageously cast aside every human obstacle between you and Allah don't allow them to interfere, don't give them more worth than they deserve. And see in the liberated we are stuck feeling lost. People love

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argument number five.

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A brother or sister may say I want to repent but friends are threatening me. They say that if I walk away, they will expose me difficult so much material on me.

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Even if they've got photos, videos, documents, other forms of proof, succumbing to their blackmail, means that should you do as they wish and go back to them and delay your repentance again. Then when you do eventually choose to repent later on, they're only going to have more material against you. Now you're a dignified Muslim.

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You're not to be toyed with by the allies of shaytaan

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I agree. It is pressurizing.

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But if you resist it, with reliance upon Allah,

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the plots of Shavon remember by their nature, they are weak and they will begin to wither away and they will become insha Allah sooner or later a memory of the past you have nothing to worry about as Allah said, in Kedah, shaytani cannot bind via the plotting of shaytan is by its nature very weak. Now, don't get me wrong. It's a very unenviable situation to be in where for example, your ex lover calls you, threatens you that you refuse to go back with him or her. They will share the photos they will share the videos, family and friends.

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But Allah has promised to support the true believers.

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He promised He said in Allah, you will die if you're one in that era. And Allah defends those who believe he defends with them.

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And look in all situations. If in the worst case scenario,

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what you fear comes to pass on some of this information gets into the public domain offer an explanation.

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Yeah, I was mistaken say I was in a bad place. I have repented to Allah I've changed my waist what what more can I do? And let us always remind ourselves,

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that the ultimate humiliation is not being exposed in front of 100 or 1000 or so people today is the ultimate humiliation is when your sins are read out before Allah and the angels and the jinn and all of humanity, prophets and messengers at large, including them all the rest of creation. That is the meaning of true humiliation sins that were not changed and repented from today. That is humiliation.

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That is the fate of the person who avoids repentance, regardless of the price, dear brothers and sisters that you and I need to pay for it today. In the meantime, there are a few droplets applications that you should hold tight to Abu Musa Charlene writes that the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam kinda either half a Coleman Allah Allah Allah in geography no hurry him. When all the becoming Shuri him he said whenever the messenger salAllahu alayhi wa sallam feared

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the harm of a people. He would make a particular to ha what was it?

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Hola Hola, Indonesia Handwerker so you know holding one older we can make sure or memorize it which means Oh Allah, we ask you to face to them.

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We ask you to face them, and we seek Your protection against their evil.

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And in every morning and every evening there was a dua that the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would say and part of it included Allah home was to our it were amulet allottee Oh ALLAH cover my weaknesses. Cover my shame and set at ease my dismay.

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So don't allow the threat

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of being exposed. prevent you from the success that comes with repentance

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and with confidence and with reliance upon Allah subhanaw taala Si, si si, Ma, Allah forgive me so yes, there

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are six obstacle that stands in the way of he or she wants to repent. They say I can't forgive myself for what I've done in the past. It's stressing me out.

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So he or she may have cried out their hearts in repentance tilba they've changed their circle of friends, they re re shuffled their life priorities, but still, the ghost of their sinful past never ceases to haunt them.

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Even when they socialize, they eat, they walk to work, they sleep, the the guilt of having crossed Allah's lines, it just never leaves them.

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So what to do in that situation? First of all, it's very important to note that that sentiment is a positive sign of Eman to feel that regret and shame How could I the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in me No, you're either woulda hookah hookah I do data Gemini in your half Who are ya Lee? We're in the third year or Yasuda who can do bobbin Mara Allah and fee for color bat Hi cada.

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The true believer sees his sins as if they are a mountain that he is sitting beneath, and he fears that it may collapse on him at any moment. That's the believer. As for the rebellious sinner,

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he sees his sins as insignificant as a fly which falls on his nose and he casually swats away. So that sentiment we're speaking about that's it. That's a sign of sincere repentance. Because the Prophet said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam another Matoba regret is repentance. And furthermore, even if the sin is raised after repentance, there are things that should never be a raised shyness, or Allah from Allah and having confronted him with the sin to begin with. Where was I? Where was where am I? How could I?

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How beautiful were the words of all Fulda 11 Wilde who said, we're so after a woman can walk in I felt oh how ashamed I am of myself. Oh Allah, even if you have pardon? How ashamed

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and how beautiful were the words of igloo Josie Rahima hula who said for ofin what law? The Mukhtar is the newbie will not see the level the tilava Tata has certain latitude until remote mean whatever goofier Allah How foolish Listen, listen. How foolish is he who prefers that brief moment of pleasure in Haram, the regret of which never leaves his heart, even if he is forgiven, who choose that why would we do that?

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So I agree with you that the shame of having committed those things, they never leave the true believer. But having said that, yet despair that has no place in the heart of a Muslim. Allah was the one who said LM er Allah mu and Allah, who are Yakubu Toba and EBRD. Do they not know that Allah subhanaw taala accepts repentance from His servants?

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Have they not read the words of Allah Himself who said to me Yama to an elderly minister who soon is down here in LA Yoji de la have a Florida Rahima.

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Whoever does a wrong

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or wrongs himself. Where then seeks forgiveness from Allah will find Allah forgiving and merciful, your Allah Allahu Akbar.

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So, when you're thinking about your sinful past, look at it with the eye of regret, but with the eye of optimism as well, with the eye of shame, but hope, with embarrassment, but positive expectations of Allah as well. This approach causes the sinner to to grow and to ascend the ladders of piety, because every time he remembers his past, his skin cringes, his heart shudders and he then is spurred, therefore, to do more good deeds to make up for it, and therefore causing Satan to perhaps say, I wished I had never introduced him to the sin to begin with, because he has now become better than what he was before.

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So say yes.

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A federal law

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argument number seven, he or she may say I don't feel that I have anything particular to repent about. Now look, very few people would actually verbalize those words.

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But it has crossed people's minds. Hamdulillah I mean, I don't drink. Don't find a case I don't use the interest. I don't feel like a sinner I wear the full Islamic hijab. I pray and

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Toba doesn't inspire this person doesn't feel that he has done anything that sanctions are major Toba. Now, if you feel this way, then you have just identified your biggest downfall that requires repentance, the feeling that you've given Allah enough.

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Have you forgotten my dear brother, my dear sister, that no one in existence will enter paradise through their good deeds.

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If it wasn't the Mercy of Allah, the Hellfire would be our rightful home. Have you forgotten your brother, your sister that some of the greatest sins known to man like schicke, associating partners with Allah that He are showing off yet despair,

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arrogance, haughtiness, these are primarily actions of the heart. So even though you may not be doing a physical manifestation of a sin, the actions of a heart may tear someone's head down. So how can you and I feel safe and claim we have nothing to repent from

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Ameerul Momineen Abu Bakr Radi Allahu Taala and once said to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I only need an Adobe if you sold it, teach me or messenger of Allah a dua that I should make when I'm praying. Post here.

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What do How would you think the prophets Allah Allah, Allah who was sitting with Teach Abu Bakar, the greatest of human beings after the prophets and messengers

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of Allah back of the very first adult male to embrace Islam,

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the one who dedicated his whole life and his family's life and his and their resources for the service of Islam, the one praised in the Quran, Surah two lane and others. Despite this caliber, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told him the following words, read or listen and reflect.

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Allah Khomeini, the London of Ceylon Gettier Allah Yun novella and

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so phillium of heroes I mean, I'm Nick Romney in Canton of all of it.

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Oh Allah, He said to him say these words Oh Allah, I have oppressed my soul with great depression.

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And no one forgive sins but you

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so forgive me with a forgiveness from you and have mercy upon me You are the most forgiving the Most Merciful. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught Abu Bakr to say I have oppressed myself,

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who say I have nothing to repent of that.

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In fact, consider the words of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam whose sins were erased. Past and future were erased. What would he say in his salah?

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It is dua

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he will say Allahu McFeely hopefully it will generally

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what he said if he if he Emery, wanna and the Alamo be hearing me, Oh ALLAH forgive my faults, my ignorance, my excesses in my matters, and all of that which you are better aware of myself. Aware of them myself, then he would say

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Allahu maquillage Do you are hustling? What are you RMB what could you do the candy? Oh ALLAH forgive my faults, but I committed in seriousness and in play.

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And those sins that I committed accidentally and deliberately and all of these feelings are in me. Then he would conclude his dua by saying Allah hamaca Lima Pandem to Walmart 100 to one a serum to Walmart Island to warmer and the Island will be here mainly until more Kadima were until work Hebrew and Tala coalition in Kalia Oh Allah, forgive me those sins that I have advanced or I have delayed,

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or those which I've committed in privacy, or in the public domain, and you are aware of all of them than myself. You are the first you are the last and you are able to do all things who said those words, the words these were the words of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So that is a reality check.

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We're drenched in our shortcomings from head to toe.

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And if it wasn't for the veiling of Allah, the city of Allah,

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we would have been exposed, disgraced, unable to show our faces to any human being ever again. Realize this with humbleness and from the depths of your heart. Realize that you have every reason to say a stuffy little law stuff in law.

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Brothers and sisters there is nothing more beautiful than the words of the pen.

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Isn't one

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who cries out in sincere remorse and regret as he says in his Doha, how to how they are Allah my forelock is in your hands my face

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I know what to the floor for you, my heart has surrendered to you. My soul has submitted to you my very shadow prostrates to you.

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Your Allah I knock on your door with the desperation of a lost child.

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And I will not leave your doorstep till you allow me in

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your Allah I have nowhere else to go. I have no shelter but yours no food to eat from but from yours. I have no god to go to but you I have no escape from you but to you. There is no listener and solver of my problems but you I call upon you your Allah despite my pitiful state.

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And I this, I implore you despite the greatness of my crimes, but I have come to learn that your mercy is even greater than my sins.

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Should you not accept me back? Oh Allah subhanho wa Taala then I am the imprisoned one despite my freedom. I am the lonely one despite my family. I am the bankrupt one despite my wealth. I am the exiled one despite my home. I am the ailing one, despite my health. I am the Dead one despite my life. And so I asked you Oh Allah,

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in desperation and need by virtue of your supremacy and my loneliness, by virtue of your richness and my poverty, by virtue of your power and my frailty, by virtue of your sovereignty and my pitiful needy state, that you restore my email that I have injured, that you erase the sense that I have gathered, that you bring back the light to the heart of mine that I have darkened only you can do that. And I My belief is that you will

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you

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I am happy that you are Allah, I am happy that I know you. I am happy that I worship you. And so I beg you Oh ALLAH just as I am happy with you be happy with me. As I am content with you be content with me.

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I've raised my empty and sinful hands to you and I will not put them down till you fill them with your grace and Your forgiveness and your acceptance.

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Your brothers and sisters make peace with Allah subhanho wa Taala