Allahs Beautiful Names – How To Receive Allahs Forgiveness – Al Ghafour
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The speaker discusses the importance of forgiveness in obtaining Islam's forgiveness. They explain that good deeds can be forgiven, but bad deeds can also be forgiven. The speaker also discusses the importance of good deeds in avoiding harm and achieving victory over one's they've experienced.AI Generated Transcript ©
All three names have to do with the
forgiveness of sins. Ghafara means to conceal,
And so Maghfira is the concealing of sins.
Ghafar is the one who covers and conceals
the sins of his servants.
Afu is the one who erases the traces
of sins. So the Arabs would say
that the wind erased the trace. And these
beautiful names have to do with the forgiveness
of sins. Our relationship with Allah
is 1 where we are creatures that sin,
and Allah
is a lord who conceals
the fault of our sins, conceals the harms
of our sins, forgives our sins.
That every son of Adam is a sinner,
and the best of those who sin are
those who repent. There's no scenario where you're
gonna go every day of your life and
not commit mistakes.
But know that you have a Lord who
forgives you when you seek his forgiveness. The
prophet
he
says, sometimes in hadith is in Muslim, he
says sometimes I feel a veil over my
heart and so I seek Allah
forgiveness
over a 100 times a day. That's the
prophet
So what about us? So what are some
of the ways to obtain Allah
forgiveness? Number 1, goodness to his creation. The
prophet said it says in Hadith that said
bukhari that while a dog was walking around
a well about to die from thirst,
a prostitute from Bani saw it and then
took off her shoe. She went into the
well, got water from the well, and gave
it to the dog and Allah forgave her
sins because of that. And also in another
hadith, it's also in Bukhari, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam tells us that there was a
merchant who used to loan people money. And
whenever he would go and send out his
collectors, he would say to them, whoever
you find not able to pay, forgive them.
May
Allah forgive us. And so Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, so Allah
forgave him. One of the ways that we
engage with this name is to ask ourselves,
are we forgiving people? Do we forgive?
And I wanna give you one of the
most
difficult things to forgive.
Abu Bakr
had a relative named Islam,
and he used to spend money on him.
He used to support him financially. There was
a moment in the seal that would become
a very painful moment
in which the hypocrites of Medina began a
rumor, a slander really of Aisha
that the wife of the prophet they
accused her of adultery. Unfortunately, it wasn't just
the hypocrites, but some of the believers lent
an ear to that slander and some of
them even spread it themselves. And one of
them was mistar. Could you imagine
the insult to Abu Bakr not only is
the honor of his daughter being disparaged,
his honor being disparaged, and the honor of
the prophet
who Abu Bakr cared for even more than
himself was also
being attacked. And it's being attacked by who?
But someone who Abu Bakr literally supported before
this was getting involved.
I mean, this person is literally biting the
hand that feeds him. So when the verses
in Surat An Nur declaring
forever
our mother Aisha's innocence was revealed,
Abu Waq did what anyone of us would
have done. He declared
that he was gonna cut him off and
he was never gonna help him again. And
then Allah
revealed, let not those of virtue among you
and wealth swear to not give to their
relatives and the needy and the migrants for
the cause of Allah
And let them pardon and overlook.
Would you not love that Allah
forgive you? And Allah is forgiving and merciful.
Abu Bakr's response was immediate. Yes, I would
love for Allah
to forgive me. And he immediately began to
financially support him again.
Ask yourself this question.
If by forgiving that person, no matter who
it is,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would forgive me, would
I forgive them?
We have to remember that even as we're
seeking Allah's
forgiveness for our shortcomings,
our mistakes, and sins, we should manifest that
forgiveness in our old capacity towards others. Number
2, doing good deeds
because
doing good deeds forgives sins. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala says,
Allah says, and establish the prayer at the
two ends of the day and at the
approach of the night. Indeed, good deeds do
away with misdeeds. Good deeds erase bad deeds.
One of the greatest ways that sins can
be forgiven is by simply good deeds. And
we all know that Umrah to Umrah and
Ramadan to Ramadan and Jum'ah to Jum'ah and
the prayers one after the other that they
all erase the minor sins. And so good
deeds continue to erase bad deeds. And that
brings me to Al A'afoo. And the Al
A'afoo is to pardon sins, to erase them
completely.
And Aisha she asked the prophet
in the hadith is reported by if I
experienced laylatul Qadr,
what should I ask Allah
for? And he taught her to say,
Oh Allah, you are You
love to pardon sins, so
pardon my sins. And so we ask Allah
in these last 10 nights to pardon our
sins, to erase the trace of our sins.
A person might then ask and say, hold
on a second. If is to erase the
sins, and
is for the sins to be concealed but
they're still there. Why would I ever ask
Allah for
I should always ask Allah
for for the sins to be erased. That's
the higher level. Right? Well, the answer to
that is you wanna ask for both. Right?
You wanna have all of your bases covered.
If you don't get then at least you
get that you are protected
from the harm of your sins. And then
the last nugget that I wanna share with
you is the concluding verses of Surat Al
Baqarah. That du'a that you make at the
concluding verses of Surat Al Baqarah you say,
And you're starting from the highest. You're asking
Allah for
Pardon our sins. Erase the trace of our
sins. Make these sins not on our record
anymore.
And conceal our sins. Protect us from the
harm of our sins. So if they're not
erased completely, then let us not be harmed
by those sins on the day of judgment.
Have mercy on us. Now let's say that
we're not protected from the harm of our
sins. Let your mercy envelop us. So I'm
asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. I'm trying to
cover all of my bases with regards to
this dua. And then you say,
oh, Allah. You are our protector.
So give us victory over the disbelievers.
You might ask yourself,
where does the shift happen from asking Allah
for forgiveness to asking for victory over the
disbelievers?
You have to understand and appreciate something that
Umar ibn Khattab
taught us and he knew very well. And
that is that you are not given defeat
except because of the cause of your own
sins. That our sins are the cause of
our defeat. And so one of the things
when we're trying to bring victory so much
to our brothers and sisters all over the
Muslim world, all of these problems that we
see, one of the causes undoubtedly is our
sins. So we ask Allah
to forgive our sins, that Allah
give us victory over the disbelievers,
and we ask Allah
to accept from us our deeds and to
forgive us our sins. Oh, Allah, you are.
sins, so pardon ours.
sins, so pardon ours.