Hisham Jafar Ali – Names Of Allah And His Attributes #19 The Appreciative & Tolerant
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The importance of sh considered in Arabic is discussed, including how it is used to express gratitude and how it is used to increase money. The use of sh glasses in Islam is emphasized, as it is a way to appreciate and disobey requests from Allah. The importance of forgiveness and sharticipation is also emphasized, as it is a way to maximize and multiply money. The sh glasses of Islam are discussed, including the use of sh heads and twos to show off one's behavior and the importance of forgiveness and sharticipation in appreciating others. The importance of tolerance and tolerance in marriage and marriage is also emphasized.
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Alhamdulillah. Today,
we have 2 beautiful names of Allah.
Allah's name, Al Shakir,
Al Shakur
and Allah's name Al Halim.
And these two names have come together in
the Quran in one instance,
WaqanAllahu
Shaqiran
Halima.
Let me start with the name Ashaqir.
Now, who can tell me the meaning of
shakir in Arabic? Anybody know what it means?
Shakarayashkuru,
shukran
to say thank you, thankful, yes?
Okay. To be thankful, to be grateful to
someone or something.
Now, when you are grateful to someone or
something,
it's because you've had a need and they
fulfilled some need of yours.
But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has no need
of us.
So how can we say Allah is shakir,
Allah is thankful, Allah is grateful.
Allah does not need us.
When we say thank you to someone is
because they've given you something, they've done something,
they've done you a favor.
But no one's doing Allah a favor. No
one is fulfilling a need of Allah. So
how is Allah shakr and a human being
can also be shakr? What's the difference between
the 2? Yes.
Okay, you're saying it's the opposite, we are
grateful to Allah.
Anybody else? Any ideas? Yes?
Okay, you're saying because we pray to Allah
hilishaqr. Yes?
Allah appreciates.
This is the correct answer.
When you say Allah is shakr, Allah
we do not say that Allah is grateful
or He is thanking us because we didn't
do anything for Him.
But rather we say Allah is appreciating.
He appreciates what we have done even though
it is little. Let's look at the word
in the Arabic language to start with.
In the Arabic language
in Arabic, where is it used?
The Arabs would say
the animal
they use this word for an animal if
the animal has become obese, very fat.
Even though
the owner of that animal fed it very
little,
but it's become obese.
They would say this is an animal that
is shakir.
Because even though you fed it so little,
it showed
that it has been eating a lot.
Similarly,
the I would use this word
for for example cows. You know the cows
are grazing or sheep they're grazing on a
land.
Grass, eating grass. And there's specific food that
you'd prepare
for these animals.
But with a little bit of food if
they grow and they become
plump and they're producing lots of milk they
would call the shaker.
And so in Arabic
this word shukr intended to be used
for 2 things. 1 is
a person
knowing there is a blessing. Someone's done you
a favor, someone's given you something. To picture,
conceptualize
the idea there is a blessing. Someone did
me a favor. This is the first step.
The second step,
to show that there is a blessing.
To show that this is a blessing. So
when the when the animal would get obese,
would get fat, it's showing the blessing of
food. It's showing off this blessing.
This is where shukr was used in the
Arabic language in general. And then shukr became
to be used for human beings. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala in the Quran commands us.
If you are grateful, if you have shukr,
you thank Allah, you show His blessings
and Allah will increase them for us. And
gratitude is not just lip service saying thank
you, but being thankful to Allah involves acting
on gratitude as well.
Allah has given us so many blessings. If
we use them for His sake now we
are being grateful to Him. There's no point
just saying thank you to Allah, alhamdulillah, ashukurillah,
but we are using his blessings to disobey.
So this
is shukr when it comes to us, to
you and me.
But what does it mean, ashukr mean when
it comes to Allah?
When it comes to Allah
is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
just as the cow or the sheep or
the horse, a little bit of food goes
a long way. It shows
similarly
you and me, the deeds that we do,
the actions that we do are so small.
They are so insignificant.
Really they are worthless.
But Allah
gives them worth.
He gives them value.
Not just that, Allah
multiplies the value of our deeds.
This is real appreciation from Allah.
You know, I'll give you a simple example.
Let's say your neighbor.
Your neighbor is hungry, neighbor has no iftar
today.
And you're cooking at home and you made
a bit of extra food, a bit of
extra soup. You put it in a box
and you go to your neighbor.
Knock the door, they open the door and
you say, here's some soup for you. We
made some we had some extra food. Here
you go.
Your neighbor says, thank you so much.
Oh my goodness. What would I do without
this soup?
You think it's just a box of soup,
why are you getting so excited?
And your neighbor is so happy and so
grateful and jumping up and down in joy.
You think what's going on with this person?
Are they okay? Maybe the fast got to
them. Hey, they didn't have sorrow today. The
brain is not a 100%.
What's wrong?
You don't know
they had no food today at home.
That little bit of soup that you brought,
it meant a lot to them.
And so the gratitude, the thankfulness, they are
showing you so much.
This is why
this word shukr,
Allah has two names associated with this word.
Ashakir
and Ashakur.
Who can tell me what's the difference between?
Okay. Explain to you in English what is.
Okay.
Okay. Good.
If you someone give you something
Thank you. This is shakir.
Someone give you something? Thank you so much.
I'm forever indebted to you. I'm so great.
This is shakur. It's exaggeration.
It's an extreme version of thankfulness
and continuous,
consistent version of thankfulness.
And so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he's described
with both of these names, al shakr and
ashakur because
we do something small,
you just smile at someone today and you
don't know. Allah
has appreciated this deed and He has given
it weight on the day of judgment.
But is something else.
Is when you do something so small insignificant.
You didn't even realize you did something.
Maybe you're walking across the road and you
saw an old person
and you just helped them across the road
and you walked on continued with your day
and you came on the day of judgement
and this one small act is a mountain
of
weight in the sight of Allah.
A shakur,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
extremely
and emphatically
appreciates the tiniest deeds that you and I
do. Even if to us they were nothing,
to us it didn't mean anything.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam describes this beautiful
quality of Allah.
He says
You know all of us in this room,
we all work hard, don't we? We sweat
9 to 5, sometimes night shifts, days we
all work hard for the penny that we
pay our bills with. The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam said, whoever gives charity the equivalent
of a date seed you know how small
the date seed is?
If you give this much in charity,
and you earned this date seed you earned
it from halal income.
Allah accepts your donation
with His right
and then He grows it.
He grows it. He grows it.
Just like one of you when you have
a seed and you put it in the
ground, in the soil and you water it
and you water it and you and it
grows and grows and grows. The same way
Allah takes your tiny seed of good deed
and He grows it and He grows it
and He grows it.
Until this good deed
has become multiplied
like the size of a mountain.
This is the generosity of Allah, the appreciation
of Allah. Many of us very frequently nowadays
people are always looking for good investments.
Every other day you get the message is
bitcoin halal, cryptocurrency,
forex trading,
this, that,
you know, switches, bonds, switch trading, hedge funds.
You Allah, the the number of investments never
end. And people are always thinking the more
money they earn, how can I maximize and
multiply this money?
And they're always thinking where can I store
it so I go 20 years and I
come back and
it's 30 times it's been multiplied by 30?
People are always thinking about this.
But we always find that all the places
you invest your money it will only give
you back 3%,
5%,
7%.
Anything more than it's a usually it's a
dodgy questionable investment.
People always they come and promise you, you
give me your money, I'll give you double
tomorrow. You come tomorrow, there's nothing. The guy
has disappeared. That happens quite often.
Only 3%,
only 5% of growth, it's a small amount.
But
from the attributes of Allah as shakur,
one day you did some good deed, you
didn't even realize what you did.
You rang your mom and you said, 'salaam
alaikum, mom I love you.'
And you went on with your day and
you forgot about
it.
And on the day of judgement in your
scale of good deeds you didn't see your
Hajj and you didn't see your Umrah, you
didn't see your fast but you just saw
this one sentence you said to your mom
and Allah has appreciated the weight of this
deed and made it a mountain.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam because of
this name of Allah,
he teaches us an important mindset.
Never underestimate
any good deed.
Even just to meet somebody with a smile.
Don't underestimate.
This smile might be the reason for your
saving and your salvation on the day of
judgement.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says
Someone might say a small word, a sentence,
half a phrase.
You don't realize
that word that you said was so heavy
in the sight of Allah. Because of this
you are going 70 depths into the depths
of *.
Never underestimate
the size of a good deed because Allah
is shakur,
he multiplies
and he maximizes our good deeds. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala says in the Quran,
The 2 mountains of Safa and Marwa are
from the symbols, the signs of Allah sit
up
Whoever does Hajj or Umrah then they should
or they must also do tawaf between they
should circulate between these two mountains.
But here is the point.
Allah told you you have to do this
but sometimes you get the motivation to do
extra.
And when you do that extra,
don't think Allah did not see that extra
that you did.
Allah is shakir.
He's gonna multiply that for you. And He's
If you did it to show off, He
knows what's in your heart. And if you
did it sincerely,
He knows what's in your heart.
Always see the names of Allah when they
come in pairs, in twos,
always question why did these 2 come together.
They're as waj.
They complement each other.
Means the outside of your deed.
You prayed 2 rakaasunna.
You prayed the night prayer. Allah shakir, He's
seen that you did something extra you didn't
have to do. You're going to see that
on the day of judgement. But He's also
'alim. 'alim means He knows deep inside your
soul why did you really do it.
To show off, to fit in the crowd.
Someone will say why didn't you turn up
to tawwwih so I came? Social pressure. Allah
knows what is within our souls.
Allah says elsewhere in the Quran.
What would Allah do?
What does he benefit
from punishing you?
He's asking the question, do you think Allah
benefits from punishing you? He gets pleasure from
punishing. He doesn't.
But instead
Allah is shakir,
he appreciates the things that you do and
he is alim, he knows
every instance that you do.
Then we look at the name Ashakur. Now
there's a beautiful pattern with Allah's name Ashakur.
I said shakur means Allah is extremely
appreciative
and He multiplies your small deeds.
A shakur in the Quran only comes in
one instance
when Allah is multiplying the value of your
good deeds.
You gave him £10 in charity,
the day of judgement you find it's £400,000.
You think, 'Ah, this is a good investment.'
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
Now
Allah's name as Shakur comes twice in the
same surah.
In Surat Fatr. I want you to understand
the context because something is a beautiful lesson
here.
Who can tell me
where this ayah comes?
Who is Allah talking about? Allah is not
talking about every Muslim, Allah is talking about
a specific group, special group of people here
in these verses.
Where's my where are my genius kids?
Where's Duqmah and Ammar today?
Yes, uncle?
Alhamdulill. Alhamdulill, uncle has took to the challenge
today.
Surat
Fathir
Allah spends a few verses talking about very
special people. Who are they? The people of
the Quran.
The people who love the Quran,
follow the Quran, understand its meanings, act on
they live the Quran.
Allah talks about them. And when he's talking
about them twice,
they call Allah a shakur.
The first,
Allah describes
those that follow the teachings of the
Quran.
Does not mean recitation.
Means to follow.
To actually follow the meanings of the book.
Those Allah says who follow the book of
Allah,
there are 3 categories.
Who can tell me the 3 categories?
Yes.
Is the last one. That's the one who's
far ahead.
The first category, people follow the Quran but
they fall short right? They still make mistakes,
they still have sins, they still do wrong
to others. Yes this is one category.
Some of them they wronged themselves.
2nd category. People who are
a mix.
They try to follow the Quran, but sometimes
they do good, sometimes they do bad, and
it's about 5050.
And there's a third category
There are those the Quran has impacted them
so deeply,
they race ahead to act on the Quran.
They are left everybody behind. May Allah make
us all of them.
All three groups, the one who wronged themselves,
the one who is far ahead and the
one who's 5050,
Allah says all of them
All of them are going to enter into
Paradise by Allah's mercy.
Look at this.
We all try to act on the Quran
but we fall short. We wrong ourselves. We
commit sins. Allah is not we think Allah
is not looking. In private we do some
sins. We do some we look at things
we shouldn't look, we say things we shouldn't
say.
But look at the
appreciation of Allah,
of the little that we do that He
still promises us that we will be entered
into paradise.
When Allah appreciates you so much for the
little that you have done, you and me,
we know our value, we know how little
our value is. When Allah appreciates this, Allah
describes himself,
Now you tell me. We took gafur before
and we're taking shakur today.
What is the link between gafur and shakur?
Why is it mentioned here?
Yes.
Okay. Forgiving of what and appreciating of what?
You don't have to say. Mhmm.
Mhmm. Forgiving of us. Yes.
Okay. He's forgiving of your sins even though
you have done so many, and he appreciates
your good deeds even though you have done
so little.
In this ayah,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala describes,
there will be people,
and you and me may be amongst them,
our bad deeds will outweigh our good deeds.
But Allah will appreciate the sincerity of those
good deeds and multiply them. And Allah will
forgive from his mercy the sins that we
have done. And he will enter us into
Jannah.
When he has entered us into Jannah,
in this verse, in these verses in Surat
Fathr, we will then start to appreciate
The first thing you will say, Alhamdulillah.
Because we know when you see your deeds,
you will know they do
not qualify you.
We will say gratitude belongs to Allah. He
relieved us of our stress and our sadness.
Because my friends,
that moment in which we will see the
scales of our deeds is going to be
a very stressful moment in our lives.
It's going to be a very straining, a
very sad, a very despairing moment when we
see the mountain of our sins in front
of us.
But when we see the shukr of Allah,
Allah's appreciation and His forgiveness
from the bottom of our eyes it will
come.
Thanks to Allah He relieved off of us
of our stress.
How forgiving Allah was of our sins
and how appreciating He is
of our good deeds.
Allah
mentions in the Quran when it comes to
his name Ashakur.
He says,
If you give Allah a loan,
kardhanhasanan.
Who can tell me what is kardhasan? It's
not a normal loan. Something special about this
loan. What is a kardhasan?
Anyone tell me?
Masjids are always correcting for Karth Hasan.
Yes?
He's saying something, you know what is a
what is a kardhasan? It's a type of
loan between human beings also. But it's specific
type of loan, not any type of loan.
Be be more clear. He's saying charity for
the sake of Allah. No. There's no kardhasan.
Yes.
Okay. More specifically,
when you give somebody a loan and you
tell them don't pay me back.
Someone says to you, I need £5,000 brother.
You say, here's £5,000
He say, when shall I pay you back?
Don't worry about it. This is called kardhasan
because it looks like a loan, but it's
not a loan, it's charity.
When Allah
is asking us to do good deeds and
to spend for His sake,
He's not telling you, give me your money
and it will disappear into a vacuum. He's
saying, who is gonna give me a loan?
Anybody here would say no to giving Allah
a loan?
But he says it's a karbhasan.
You're not going to see the money back
in this life.
But
Allah is going to multiply
what you have given him. Many many multiples.
How many?
The prophet informs us when we do a
good deed Allah
multiplies it a minimum of how many times?
10. Minimum of 10 times. And a maximum
of how many times?
7. We don't know.
That's the thing, it's not 700.
He says
700
plus plus plus plus. We don't know.
Look at this. For you to understand Allah
is Ashakur,
when you commit a sin, how many bad
deeds? How many sins do you get?
1. When you do a good deed, how
much do you get?
10? 2?
Infinity. We don't know.
We don't know.
You can't lose this game.
You know, if there's a game when you
score one goal, let's say you're playing FIFA,
you're playing football, when you score one goal
it gets multiplied by 700.
When someone scores a goal on you it
just gets 1. Can you lose this game?
You've got to be really bad at football.
You got to be very bad at football,
really very bad at football to lose this
game.
This is Allah 'Ashakul.
Our deeds, if you really think about them,
our deeds
they mean nothing.
They have no value.
Allah doesn't need them.
Then why does Allah give them so much
value? Why does Allah multiply them?
From His mercy. As the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam says,
your deeds
are not going to get you into paradise.
They say what about even you, You Rasulullah,
even you? He says
even my deeds don't qualify me for paradise.
Really? Then how do you qualify for paradise?
Unless Allah
gifts me His mercy.
Allah's name, as shakur, makes us realize
how little our deeds really matter
and how much the mercy of Allah matters.
And that really you and me, we depend
on his mercy. We depend on his shukr.
If Allah dealt with us with justice,
none of us would be in paradise.
But because Allah deals with us with His
mercy
and His Shukr, we have a shot. Maybe
we have a chance to get to the
bottom layer of paradise. May Allah make you
and me from them.
This links us very beautifully with the next
name, Al Halim. Because when Allah talks about
this loan, He asks you give me a
loan, don't expect it back. I will multiply
it for you. He says Allah is shakirun
halim.
Now who here is from Pakistan?
Is haleem in Pakistan has different meaning? Don't
go to this meaning. Halim in Pakistan is
a very delicious dish. If you think about
this haleem now, you'll be in trouble. Maghrib's
time still sometime till Maghrib. Don't think about
haleem. Different type of haleem, we think about
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, al haleem. And I
said it so many times, don't get distracted.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, al haleem.
Now in the Quran, before we continue describing
al haleem,
Allah describes himself with this name,
but he also describes a human being with
this name. Who does he who does he
describe with the name Halim?
Ibrahim, who can give me the aya?
You wake
switch
it around.
Switch it around.
Yes.
Who can tell me when did this ayah
come in? What story?
Allah describing the prophet Ibrahim as halim.
What story what context is this happening?
Yes.
No. Not when he leaves the, when he
chops the idols. Yes.
Not when he is told to slaughter his
son.
When the angels come to give Ibrahim alaihis
salam good news and they also give him
some bad news
about Lut alaihis salam. So 2 angels come
to visit Ibrahim alaihis salam. And they give
him the good news of what?
Of he's about to have a son. And
they also gave him some bad news. What's
the bad news?
That Luth alaihis salam,
his people are going to be destroyed.
What does Ibrahim alaihis salam do when he
hears this news from the angels?
Anybody
know?
Ibrahim starts arguing with the angels.
What is he saying to them?
Please
don't destroy the people of Ruth just yet.
Give them some more time.
He's applying for extension.
What does this show about Ibrahim?
Allah says
not his haleem,
he is so
Halim.
Halim
is someone
who tolerates
harm
and they don't rush to take revenge.
Ibrahim
he could have said, yeah those guys finish
them please.
Yesterday you guys are running late. Go quick.
Do you know what they are doing? Finish
them please. The biggest TNT you can find
just I'm done with them. What does Ibrahim
say? Please don't do it. Give them time.
Do we know somebody similar to Ibrahim who
said something similar?
One of the great grandsons of Ibrahim,
he said something similar to an angel.
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. What who did he
say this to?
In Ta'if. What happened in Ta'if?
Very important context you remember, the day of
Ta'if
is the worst day in the life of
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasalam. In
his own words,
he says to his wife, Aisha, this is
the worst day of my life.
He goes to Taif. And remember this year,
you have to understand the background, this year
is the year he lost his uncle and
the year he lost his wife.
He lost his 2 beloveds.
He has nobody.
He is expelled from his city of Makkah
into middle of nowhere, no man's land.
He is removed from all food,
water supplies, and tribal support.
He has nothing. Then his wife dies. His
uncle dies. People are starving.
Last resort, he goes to Taif hoping there
are some distant relatives of his, maybe they
will help help him and support him. He
goes to Ta'if, he brings the leaders of
Ta'if, he calls them to Islam
and they look at him and they spit
in his face. They call the people of
Ta'if to throw stones at him and he
is walking away.
And they are throwing stones at the messenger
of Allah
until his blood reaches his sandals
and he sits outside Taif
bleeding
soaked in blood.
At this vulnerable moment, the angel Allah sends
the angel to him And the Angel says
to him, let me crush these people between
2 mountains. And what does he say?
Don't crush them.
Maybe one day, their future generations,
somebody will be a Muslim.
This is called haleem.
To delay
the punishment
that really they should have right now but
to delay it, to tolerate,
to take the harm from people. You know
how hard it is to take harm from
people.
How hard it is to have a big
heart.
People will come and hurt you, complain, they
will mock you, they will hurt you, they
will gossip, they will take your good, then
when you turn around they will backbite about
you. To take all of that with a
smile
and to say, you Allah,
this person hurt me, stole my money, mocked
me, but you Allah do not put them
in the fire. Nobody should have the torture
of the fire.
This requires such a big heart. The messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam had the biggest
of hearts. This is very important. When we
learn about Allah's names, we should learn how
should we act and react
and embody these names of Allah. You know,
we have such a short fuse
when it comes to our temper with people.
Right? The smallest thing and we are ready
to unleash
the next earthquake.
Yeah. With the biggest tremors on those around
us. The smallest thing and we are planning
when are we going to do revenge and
avenge this person? How are we going to,
you know, give them a hard time? And
Al Halim,
the Messenger of Allah SWAW, he is also
has this helm, this quality of gentleness, softness.
He doesn't rush to judgement. He doesn't rush
to take revenge. He gives people time.
Now anybody here who's from the subcontinent, India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka.
If the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam crushed the
people of Ta'if,
maybe you and me would not be a
Muslim today.
Because the first person to bring Islam to
the subcontinent
was a man who came from Taif.
How many hundreds of millions of Muslims in
the world came from these regions?
If the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gave
them what they deserved
and crushed them,
maybe there would be 1,000,000,000 and billions of
people who are not Muslim today.
But he said, we don't know
Maybe Allah will give Tawfiq to their future
generations.
Allah's name Al Haram.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran.
If Allah were to punish you in accordance
to the severity, the degree, the level, the
seriousness of your sin, nobody would be left
on this earth.
Because
you see, when you and I disobey Allah,
really we are saying I don't care that
Allah was watching.
Me. Allah really we deserve for a lightning
bolt to come from the sky and just
reduce us to nothing right
now. But from the helm, the tolerance of
Allah, that He doesn't punish us immediately,
He delays the punishment
until another life.
He gives us time to realize. He gives
us time to repent. He gives us time
to make up for what we've done.
Look at the helm of Allah. And if
he were really to give us
what we deserved nobody would be here in
this room. This is why it really
it it confuses me when people say
how does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if he
is merciful
then why does he give us an eternal
punishment?
Today,
in the criminal justice systems of this world,
there are so many crimes. If you do
them, you get a life sentence.
Right?
*,
murder,
manslaughter,
etcetera, treason. You get a death sentence or
you get murdered on the spot. You get
executed.
You get death.
Now
somebody murdered, somebody raped,
this deed that they did,
can we say that the punishment they are
getting is equal to the deed that they
did? Not always.
In this world, people's justice systems, not Allah's
justice system, I'm talking about people's justice system.
Somebody commits
a crime
and the punishment they get is immediate death.
The punishment they get is life sentence. Finished.
They're not going to live life anymore. Their
life has practically ended for all intents and
purposes.
No justice system in this world gives a
punishment
that is equal to the sin. The punishment
is always another degree,
a higher level of severity.
You went to the shop and you shoplifted.
You took one piece of gummy bears, halal
inshallah, you left the shop. The gummy bears
were halal, the act was not halal.
You took a piece of gummy bears and
you left the shop, do you know how
much how long you can spend in prison
for that?
For
2 minutes
of bad judgment
and 1 pound of stealing.
You can go to prison for a while,
for months, for weeks, juvenile detention.
The justice systems of this world, they never
give punishment equal to the sin.
But Allah
in this world, look at the level of
his mercy.
1st,
when you intend to do a sin, you
don't get any you don't get any bad
points, black points. No.
In fact, if you intend to do a
sin, you decide I'm going to steal from
this person,
but you ended up not going to his
house today, Allah grants you a good deed
because you didn't commit the sin.
Look at the first level of Masih. 2nd
level of Masih. You decide to do a
sin. You decide to do go do a
bad deed. You decide to backbite, to lie,
to slander, to miss to do something wrong.
Fine.
You have your entire life to repent from
this sin.
The 3rd layer of mercy from Allah. You
repent from this sin.
Let's say you stole from 10 people and
you repented to Allah. You asked his forgiveness.
Allah doesn't just forgive those 10 sins.
He exchanges them for 10 good deeds.
Do you know anybody who does this? You
commit 10 crimes
and when you plead guilty in front of
the jury, the judge says, great. Thank you
for pleading guilty. Your 10 crimes, you now
get £10,000
reward.
Nobody does that. This is the 3rd level
of mercy.
The 4th level of mercy.
Allah gives you time.
You have all the time in the world,
your entire life,
every minute to realize the mistake that you
made
and to change your ways, to turn around
till the end, till your very last breath.
In your very last breath, if you utter
the words La Illaha illallah, he will accept
you.
Anybody like this?
This is the 4th layer of mercy.
There's 5th layer of mercy. You die, you're
gone, you're worm food in this grave, you're
not even around anymore,
but your good deeds are still increasing.
How?
Charity that you gave
knowledge that you disseminated. While I don't saw
your children making dua for you, your good
deeds are increasing. You're not even here. You
don't know anybody so massive?
And here's another thing, Allah is not going
to punish somebody.
He is not going to send them into
jahannam until He gave them all the evidences.
Somebody's in the Amazon rainforest, in the jungle,
they don't even speak English or Arabic, they've
never seen a TV in their life, they
don't know about Islam, anything about Islam.
Allah
is not going to throw that person into
Jahannam.
Allah is going to test them. He is
Al Adal, the just and the fair.
He gives you the evidences.
You commit a sin, He gives you time
to repent. You repent, He exchanges your sins
for good deeds. You done that, you still
fall back, He gives you a lifetime to
repent. You died. You did so many sins.
No problem. He gives you still a chance.
Your children make dua for you. Charity you
gave continues for you. Knowledge you taught continues
for you. How many chances?
How much mercy?
And then after all of that, if you
still end up in jahannam,
then you really deserve to be
there.
Allah has nothing to gain from your punishment
or from you being tormented in the fire.
That's why he gives you 3,000 chances.
He doesn't straight away
throw you and give you the torment.
Yes Habib?
If you did many sins and you ask
Allah for forgiveness,
will you still go to jannah? If you
are sincere
then the forgiveness of Allah is guaranteed.
Because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says
please get off your TikTok Habibi. The prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
if your sins reach
the height of the heavens
then you came to me with no sin
you came to me with sincerity
I will forgive all of your sins. I
will not care the quantity of those sins.
From the meanings and the reflections we have
of Allah's name, Al Halim.
That some muslims committed a very grave sin,
one of the major sins. Allah says in
the
I want you to imagine this moment.
The Muslims are meeting the Quraysh, the Maqans
in battle.
It is one of the earliest battles in
the history of Islam.
There are very few Muslims around.
There are 1,000 roughly 1,000 Muslims around. Which
battle am I talking about?
Battle of Uhud.
There are roughly 1,000 Muslims around.
And how many non Muslims? How many disbelievers?
Many multiples. Yes?
Roughly 3,000?
And in this battle, as the Muslims are
surrounded, they are outnumbered.
A small number of Muslims get scared and
they run away from the battlefield.
They abandon the believers in their most needful
moment. This is one of the major sins.
Al firalum minaz Zahf. To run away from
the battlefield.
This major sin is committed by Muslims by
because of what?
Why did they do it? Why did they
run away from the battlefield?
Sorry?
He's saying they trust Allah that Muslims will
win? I don't think so.
Fear. Fear. They are scared for their lives.
They want to save their own lives. Let
the rest of them die.
When Allah mentions the the greatness of this
sin, you know, because of these people, 70
Muslims died that day.
Because of these because of these because of
these,
these people running away, believers died, lives were
lost.
After Allah mentions how serious their sin is,
Allah says straight away,
Allah has erased their sins
straightaway.
Allah didn't say they asked me to forgive
them. I no, it's Allah. I just erased
their sins. It doesn't matter.
The commitment that they showed to Allah, Allah
does not forget that commitment.
Allah does not forget that.
To come to the battlefield and to risk
your life for Allah is not easy. So
the one who came and risked his life,
if you had a moment of fear, Allah
says it's okay.
I'll forgive you.
This is from the helm of Allah,
the tolerance of Allah.
You know, there are people in this world
today
who curse Allah,
who curse His Messenger
who insult the believers,
who torture the believers, who kill genocide,
murder
incessantly,
who say that there is no Allah in
reality and we all just got here by
ourselves.
But Allah
grants them oxygen,
grants them wealth,
grants them food and continues to provide for
them until their very dying breath.
That is the meaning of helm, of tolerance.
If Allah wished
anybody who says something negative about Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, a brick could have fallen from
the sky and flattened them.
But Allah gives them time.
Who knows?
And today there are people who accepted Islam,
who are the greatest enemies of Islam.
Dutch politicians, German politicians who hated Islam, who
are the forefront of anti Islamic rhetoric and
they became Muslims.
Imagine if Allah had taken their lives the
moment they cursed the Messenger
They would never had a chance to come
back to him. But from the helm of
Allah, the gentleness of Allah, the tolerance of
Allah, Allah takes it from them
and he gives them time.
He gives them time and he gives them
time.
One of the beautiful benefits of Allah's name
Al Halim
is that we learn that we should also
be Halim towards others.
As the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said
to one of his companions, al Ashajubnu Qais,
ibn Abdulkais,
You have 2 qualities Allah loves.
These 2 qualities,
me and you should have them as well.
What are they?
To be gentle and to be tolerant of
others.
Half of good manners, good character, half of
it is tolerating people.
Because when you go out of this masjid,
when we're out of this classroom,
the world
is not a clean and pure place.
People will come after you. People will curse
you. People will give you a tough time.
People will gossip about you. People will do
bad to you. The test is, do we
react? Do we take revenge? Do we avenge
ourselves? Do we incite harm or do we
wait, give them time, remind them, tell them,
explain to them. Do we show
or do we show?
Do we give them wrath or do we
show them patience?
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says,
he made dua, you and me we should
become
If we want the dua of the prophet
we have to become this person.
May Allah have mercy on a person
who is gentle when he sells
and when he buys
and when he judges.
You know when you go to the shop,
you order 1 kilo of lamb.
The
butcher, bless him, he's chopping chopping, he gives
you 998
grams. And you bring Yamul Qiyama today. You
bring it early to the miskin butcher in
the shop, and you bring the shop down.
998 grams. Where are my 2 grams?
Allah loves for us to be halim,
for us to let things go, for us
to be gentle,
for us to turn a blind eye. And
this is so important in marriage.
Half of marriage, the scholars say, is
to just let go of the small stuff.
Don't sweat the small stuff. Because if you
pick every small thing,
never a day will go by except you
will have a fight.
Let it go. Leave it be.
They will realize they will come round. 10
grams, it's okay. £10,
it's okay.
If we start accounting people penny by penny,
we should fear the day if Allah accounts
us for our every deed because we know
our deeds will never stand up to that
scrutiny of Allah.
Allah is shakir and shakur.
He appreciates our small deeds. You and me
right now we are fasting.
We're hungry, we are thirsty.
But how many times today
you and me have committed a sin?
How many times we got lazy, we delayed
our salah? We said something we shouldn't have
said. We slept, many people. Ramadan routine means
you sleep after Fajr and you wake up
at Maghrib.
The nightlife
comes only in Ramadan. Not not the salah
nightlife, another kind of nightlife we don't want
to know about.
And yet because of their fast, just because
they fasted, even though they were snoring all
day and missed 4 salawat,
we don't know that maybe Allah will accept
this deed and it will outweigh the mistakes
that they made.
Allah says, it
teaches us to be gentle with other people.
Because how many are those who are strict
and harsh
and how many are needed to be gentle
and merciful?
As Allah says,
forgive and forget
Do not wish for Allah to forgive us
as well and to erase our sins.