Hisham Jafar Ali – Names Of Allah And His Attributes #4 The Forgiving
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Last lesson Alhamdulillah
we covered
not in any
depth one of the
greatest names of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
that is the name
Al Rahman.
And we touched on Allah's name Al Rahim.
And in today's lesson we're going to stick
on the same theme
of Allah's mercy and we're going to cover
a few more names of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Al Ghafoor,
At Tawab,
and Al Ghafoor.
So today, whoever came today,
you got the mega deal. You got the
3 in one sale. So you should all
be very excited.
When you think about these names of Allah,
Al Ghafoor,
At Tawab, Al Afoor.
Whenever they are mentioned in the Quran, they
are mentioned in pairs,
not on their own. They are mentioned in
pairs, two names side by side.
Who can give me one example of this?
Rafur Rahim.
Tawabur Rahim.
Another?
Has the has the order ever been flipped?
Yes?
As is on Hakim. We stick to these
names.
Sameer al Basir. Sameer al Basir.
Stick to the names Afu,
Ghafoor, Rahim. Who can tell me the name
Afu in a pair?
Sorry? Afu and Ghafur. Correct. Yes.
So you always find these names in pairs,
but is there something you noticed?
What do you notice? There's a pattern.
The name Al Rahim always comes last,
and the name Al Rahim is always there.
In another part of the Quran, Rahimun Ghafoor.
But Rahim is consistently there.
Why?
This is where you need to think.
Why does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala always mention
his name Ar Raheem
after mentioning these other names of his?
Damil, so beautiful. What's your name? Ahmed. Ahmed
is saying it's because in a hadith the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam conveyed to us
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
My mercy overcomes,
Super it overpowers
my wrath.
Everything Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala does comes from
his rahma, from his mercy and his compassion.
Even his punishment,
even his tests,
all of that is a form of his
mercy.
And so, this is why Ar Raheem is
always consistent.
I will add some detail to this.
It's not just that
because Allah's mercy supersedes all of his other
attributes,
but it's because Allah's forgiveness,
and Allah's acceptance of your repentance. When you
come back to Allah and say, I'm sorry,
forgive me, his acceptance of your request
and his forgiveness of your sin,
all of this comes from his rahma.
And that's why he is ghafur because he
is raheem. It's like if I said to
you, I'm a very strong person.
Because I'm strong, I can lift. I can't
actually lift. You should ask those who know
I am very not very good at lifting
things. Because I'm strong I can lift. Because
I'm strong I can run. Because I'm strong
I can stand.
But all of it's coming back to my
strength. Right?
Because Allah is Raheem,
ultimately merciful,
unlimited in his mercy,
because of that he forgives the sinner and
the criminal.
Because of that he's He
erases the sins.
All of that comes back to his mercy.
That's why you will never see
That's it. You'll always
see
Everything goes back to the mercy of Allah
Now, why did I introduce so many names
in this lesson? You're going to understand
very shortly.
But these
three concepts,
Allah's rahma, his mercy,
Allah's magfira, his forgiveness,
and Allah's aafoo,
these are very closely related.
I'll explain how.
You have a file on your computer,
and you want to get rid of this
file.
So what do you do? You go, you
click on the file, and what do you
click?
Delete. Where does it send the file?
To the recycling bin. But it the file
is still there. It's still on your computer.
Right? It's only going to be raised after
30 or 60 or 9, but it's still
there in your computer.
After 30 days, it gets removed from the
recycling bin.
But somebody who's a specialist, can they come
and see that one day there was a
file on your computer by this name? Can
somebody come and find out? Yes, ma'am. Yeah.
What remains? There's a record.
There's a there's a log, a history.
Hisham deleted the file, x y zed file.
The file went to the recycle bin. The
recycle bin got emptied on this date. All
of this history is still there. Someone, if
you go to a shop to repair your
laptop, they can find out which files you
deleted, when you deleted,
not why you deleted. That is only known
to Allah
But the history, the record is still there.
Until you go and you ask somebody, format
my hard drive, clean it completely.
There should be no trace of what files
I had, where I put them, what I
did with them. Clean it completely.
This is the formatting.
Now the computer is as good as new.
Everybody got the example?
You delete a file,
it's still there.
It goes from your recycling bin, the the
history is still there. Someone can come later
and find out. But if you really want
to clean it, you've got to go format
it.
Nobody can ever know what was on this
computer. It's new, it's a brand, it's a
baby.
Nobody can see what was in it before.
Allah's Maghfirah.
In Arabic,
is to cover something.
When you get fresh food from the oven
and you cover it, this is called
You concealed it, you hid it, you covered
it. When you take a dead body, you
put it in the grave, and then you
put sand on top of it, or you
cover the grave, this is You've covered it,
you've concealed it, you've sealed it.
This is
When Allah forgives our sins,
gafara,
he just conceals them, he hides them.
We won't be affected by these sins on
the day of judgment, we won't be asked
about these sins, but
if you go to the angel on your
right and left shoulder, the record is still
there.
Hisham
backbited
Fulan.
The record is still there. Allah may have
forgiven me, but it's still there. The angels
know it happened. It's in my record. On
the day of judgment, if you want to
check, it's still there. This is Maghfirah. But
Allah has concealed it. He's hidden it, so
there's no consequences on you, no punishment on
you. He's forgiven you.
But it's still there.
The next level after that is
is to clean something
such that there is no trace left behind.
Like if I were to bring some baklava
to this masjid, and I were to give
it to this brother here. What's your name,
Harib?
Luqman. Luqman has a bite. He passes it.
He passes it. When the plate comes back
to me, will I know what was inside
the plate?
You guys will not even leave one crumb
for me.
You will do. You will eat clean, no
traces.
Yes. 1 one day I went to a
restaurant,
long time ago, and in this restaurant they
come and they serve you, they keep serving
you like,
eat as much as you can.
So they fill your plate and then you
start eating, then they come back to say,
here's some more curry, more rice, more vegetables.
You eat some more, they come back. At
one point,
I had cleaned the plate so much
that the man came back and he said
in Urdu,
what was in your plate? You cleaned the
food, the plate so well, I don't even
know what was in here in the first
place. This is clean.
Yes, some of you when you eat mandi,
you do this to the plate.
Nobody knows what was ever in the plate.
This is
to format, to clean such that there's no
trace, no history, no record left behind.
This is
So the lower level of forgiveness is al
maghirah.
Allah forgives your sins, but the earth still
knows you did it. The angels still know
you did it. On the day of judgment,
it's still in your book. But also in
your book, Allah forgave it, so you're not
going to see any punishment. But Al Afu
is the greatest extent.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala erases the sin.
The angels forget that you did it. It
is no longer in your book of deeds.
Nobody knows except Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that
you did it and you will now be
faced with its consequences ever again.
That is why when Aisha
asks the prophet if
laylatul qadr, the night of decree is to
come, what should I ask Allah? He doesn't
say say,
oh Allah forgive me.
Conceal, cover my sins. He says,
oh Allah you clean the sins.
You love to erase the sins.
Format my hard drive, remove it of all
the traces of sins so nobody knows,
no effect is left, and I am like
a newborn baby yet again.
This is
And so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, one of
his names is Al Ghafoor, the one who
consistently,
constantly forgives and conceals the sins.
And one of his names is Al Ghafoor,
the one who not just forgives,
not just he covers it up,
but he cleans it so nobody ever knew
it was there.
That's why
when Allah mentions the Quran
but when he mentions his name, it comes
first.
Who can tell me a dua in the
Quran? A dua, a supplication to Allah in
the Quran, which has Afu
and Maghfirah and Rahmah.
Dua.
Dua. Dua in the Quran
that has zafu,
maghfirah and rahma, all of it.
In the Quran, fill Quran. In the Quran,
yes.
Who said?
Sheikh, I don't have enough chocolate for you,
Sheikh.
Every time the Sheikh gets the right answer.
Uh-huh. Tell me, Sheikh.
You all know this ayat, the end of
Surat Al Baqarah.
You first before you ask Allah for magfirah
and rahma, first you ask Him for
because believers have to be ambitious. We have
to ask Allah the maximum. We should never
ask Allah, oh, Allah, just forgive like today's
sins. No. Allah
cleaned the whole plate for me.
Then
then
he mentions,
when we say to Allah, oh Allah,
that means, oh Allah, clean the sin, the
effects of the sin between me and you.
When we say
that means, oh Allah, cover the sin from
the eyes of other people.
Don't let people know that I did this
mistake.
And then when you say
that means in the future, oh Allah, continue
to have mercy on me despite my history,
despite my mistakes.
You are our closest
loyal protector.
One day we will come to this name,
Al Mawla from Surna Al Qaumul Kahfir.
Now,
what we learn from these names of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
is that Allah's Rahmah, Allah's mercy affects everyone.
Muslim, non Muslim, every human being, animal, plant,
the wall, everything receives some portion of Allah's
Rahmah.
But forgiveness, is that for everybody
And for every deed? Are there deeds which
Allah doesn't forgive?
Allah doesn't forgive that you make anything equal
to him.
And is Maghfirah for everyone? Does Allah forgive
everyone?
He
says Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgives everyone and
he quotes the hadith
except the one who refuses Allah's forgiveness. Now
would anyone refuse that?
The one who does not
follow the way of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Forgiveness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
comes to those who seek it and those
who ask for it.
And so in the Quran,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks about a third
concept.
To seek Allah's forgiveness, to search for it.
And he talks about another concept very similar,
a tawba.
A comes from the root
word, which means to return. If I'm driving,
I'm driving in this direction. And suddenly Google
Maps tells me, you made a wrong turn.
You have to take a u-turn.
This u-turn in Arabic is called
to make a detour, to make a u-turn.
You're going in one direction, but you return
back to the direction you were supposed to
go in. This is the meaning of tawba.
You are going in the wrong direction, you're
disobeying Allah, you are far from him, but
now you're going to make a u-turn back
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This is tawba.
And the first
example of tawba in the Quran is the
example of our father Adam alayhis salam.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells Adam,
don't eat from this tree. Everything else is
halal, just avoid this tree.
But Shaitan,
our enemy,
his job is to continuously whisper to us
and distract us, and to make this one
tree look like the best thing on earth,
the best thing since sliced bread.
And so Adam, alayhis salam eventually falls into
the mistake and he eats from the tree.
And Adhamalaihi Salam has a consequence. Allah
sends him from our original home of paradise,
that home that came without a mortgage, without
a high price, Allah
gave it to us and he sent him
to this earth, the the the place of
tests and tribulations,
and the place place where we have to
prove ourselves. Now,
when Adam, alayhis salam, comes down,
the first thing is he realizes his mistake.
Now he realizes his mistake, he doesn't know
how to apologize. Nobody's ever apologized in the
in the history of humanity just yet. The
first apology.
Someone has to teach Adam, alayhis salam, how
to apologize.
Adam learned some words from Allah
and Allah accepted
his repentance, his u-turn.
Allah is Atawab.
Who is Atawab?
Means Allah
doesn't just always accept. If you come sincerely
to Allah, He will always accept your apology.
Doesn't just mean that. There's an additional meaning.
The majority of linguists, the Arabic language scholars,
they said
means Allah inspires you to come back to
him.
You don't feel like it. You're drowning
in your sins.
In the night club with a cigarette in
one hand, in you're
looking at things you shouldn't be looking at.
Whatever it is that you're doing,
you're drowning in it. You're immersed in it.
You find no escape.
One morning you wake up and there's some
feeling in your heart that says, I can't
continue to live this way.
I have to change.
Who inspired you? Where did that inspiration come
from? And one of the most beauty that's
the beauty of Allah's mercy is he inspires
us
by putting fear in our hearts.
Because if we think Allah is only mercy,
all nice, all everything's happy, everything's perfect,
we become complacent. We get too relaxed. That's
why Allah
whenever he introduces
a consequence, a punishment, he always mentions there's
also reward if you can escape this deed.
In fact,
when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions some of
the worst deeds in the Quran,
Surat Al Furqan.
Allah says those who don't worship another creator
with Allah, Sheikh.
And they don't murder
and they don't commit fornication. They don't have
intimacy outside of marriage.
These are major sins. In fact, the first
is disbelief.
If you do these things of our says,
there's going to be big consequences in the
afterlife.
In fact,
Your punishment will be multiplied
on the day of judgment.
Oyakhloodafeehi
muhanna.
And you will stay there forever.
Forever.
How does that feel?
You feel that fear?
You feel that consciousness of Allah?
You feel that consequence in your mind?
Now watch what Allah does.
Except
for those who make a u-turn and they
return to Allah.
Is that enough? Is it enough just to
say, Allah, I'm sorry. I did dinner. I
murdered.
Yes. It can be enough. But there are
levels
of repentance.
There are levels of returning to Allah
and Allah's response
and Allah's mercy in your life, and Allah's
forgiveness, and your happiness
depends
how
much you did, how much effort you made
to come back to
Allah. Now if you did the maximum, what's
the maximum? Number 1, you did tawba. You
said, oh Allah, I'm sorry. I was wrong.
I shouldn't have done this. Level 1.
Wa'amana.
You renewed your iman.
You revived, you
refreshed your iman.
But then the most important thing.
It would have been enough for Allah to
say wa'amila saliha.
He did good deeds. Allah says, aamila amalan
saliha. He repeats the idea of action.
See,
returning to Allah is not just about saying
sorry,
it's about changing.
That is the maximum level of repentance and
return to Allah, is to change.
Let us take an example, a real life
example,
about a person who really turned their life
around. Umar ibn Khattab, the man you all
know and love, radiAllahu anhu.
Before Islam, he was known to be very
friendly with the women. He was known to
be a man of rage and anger, had
a temper.
He was known
He was known to be a fierce man.
Okay. In fact,
Umar ibn Khattab, this man that we adore
and respect so much, one of the funniest
stories about his life that he tells is
he said, one day I went out on
a journey,
and I forgot my idol at home.
But I had some dates with me.
So I molded the date into the shape
of the idol and I prayed.
Then later I got hungry and I ate
it.
He ate his idol.
And he laughed at himself. Imagine, this is
what Umar ibn Khattab was. He was a
man who would turn dates into a god
and he would eat it afterwards when he
got hungry.
This is the level of intelligence Umar ibn
Khattab
used to have.
Now let's fast forward
30 years to the end of his life.
The end of his life, in Sahih al
Bukhari, it's mentioned that too, a man came
to the Umar ibn Khattab
to criticize and complain to him.
To say to him, you are not just,
you are unfair ruler and Allah is going
to punish you. A man came to his
court just to say this to him.
And Umar Abu Khattab's face went red.
And then someone reminded him.
He said, You Umar, You Amir Al Mumineen,
you are the leader of the believers.
This man who's come to insult you and
abuse you,
he's an ignorant person. And Allah says in
the Quran,
Be forgiving
and command to what is good
and ignore the people who are ignorant. Turn
away from them. Overlook their mistakes.
This man is ignorant. You Umar. You Amir
Al mumineen, O leader of the believers, don't
do anything to him. Let him go.
Umar ibn Khattab begins to cry.
Isn't he the powerful leader? Can't he get
this man's head chopped off? What made him
cry?
The recitation of the words of Allah
How soft he became.
How gentle he became. How just he became.
This is the same Umar who ate his
idol made out of dates 20 years later.
This is what tawba means ultimately.
Not just saying to Allah, astaghfirullah.
O Allah forgive me. Tawba is to change.
Tawba is to transform.
Uthman ibn Affan radiAllahu. Same person who used
to worship idols, 15 years later, he reads
the entire Quran in 1 raka.
This is what Tawba means.
Tawba is to change.
And imagine,
what is the first name of Allah that
Umar heard in the Quran? Who knows? The
first name of Allah that Umar was exposed
to. Surataha.
Al Rahman.
The first name of Allah, Umar Al Khattab,
ever heard from the Quran was the name
Al Rahman.
This is the motivator to change.
Because when you know Allah's mercy is limitless,
when you look at your criminal record, and
you look at how many black points you
have, and you think there's no hope for
me, but when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
his mercy is unlimited.
When Allah says,
my dear slaves
who have
made crimes against themselves.
Don't despair, never lose hope in the mercy
of Allah.
Allah forgives every single sin.
Every single sin.
And so if we want more mercy of
Allah in our life, then we have to
show more effort in front of Allah.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says, in
the hadith of Abu Huraira and Sahih al
Bukhari, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala conveyed to the
prophet.
I am the companion
of one who remembers me.
If he mentions Allah on his own, Allah
mentions your name on his
own. And if you mention Allah in a
group, Allah will mention you in a better
group, the angels.
And if you come to Allah
this much forward,
Allah
is going to come to you this much
forward.
And if you come to Allah this much,
he's going to come closer to that much.
And if you come to Allah walking, Allah
comes to you running.
What is the point of this hadith?
If you want to receive the mercy, the
forgiveness, the blessing of Allah,
make some effort.
The more effort you make, the more you
will see that blessing and that mercy in
your life.
And the bare the more those who do
the bare minimum,
they will see the minimum from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala as well.
And that is why we mentioned this last
ayah from Surat Al Furqan.
Allah talks about people who do the most
deadly sins, murder,
fornication,
shirk, but then Allah says,
if they repent
and they believe
and they change their actions, they change their
ways,
doesn't just mean they do good deeds.
Is to fix something.
When you go to your bike and your
bike is rusting, it's brown, and you go
and you put some w d 40 and
some Pepsi Coke and you scrub it and
you clean it, aslaha at the rajah. You
fixed it. You've rectified it. This is what
means. Means you fix yourself. It's not just
about saying sorry to Allah, but changing your
ways. You drop that cigarette addiction and you
replace it with a mizwaq addiction. You drop
that * addiction and you replace it with
siddiq al minshawi.
You drop that whatever music that you're listening
to and instead you start to listen to
Surat Al Furkan in Masjid Al Furkan,
and that will help you on Yawmul Furkan.
You change,
you replace,
and when you do that,
Allah promises you something he has never promised
in the Quran. I told you about forgiveness,
covering the sin. I told you about aafu,
erasing the sin completely from all records. There
is something even greater than that,
even more than that.
Who can tell me the end of this
ayah?
Those who repent, they return to Allah. They
apologize to Him. They refresh their iman. And
they change their ways.
They change themselves.
Allah is not just going to forgive them.
He's not just going to clean their sins.
He is going to exchange their sins for
good deeds. Imagine,
somebody who murdered a 1000 people,
and they return to Allah, and repent to
him, and change their ways, and Allah gives
them the reward
of giving life,
reviving a thousand people. Imagine somebody who memorized
all the music albums of today, and they
came to Allah, and they repented, and they
sought forgiveness, and they changed their ways, and
Allah
rewards them as though they memorized the whole
Quran.
He swaps
your sins for good deeds. Imagine that.
Imagine that.
He doesn't just erase, he doesn't just forgive,
he exchanges.
Today the exchange rate for the pound is
not very good.
But Allah's exchange rate will never disappoint
you. If you want Allah to replace your
sins with good deeds, then come to him
running.
Change your ways. Change who you are,
and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will always find
room to forgive you. The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam said
that Allah
said to him,
my slave,
if your sins reached
in quantity
from the ground to the sky,
but then you came to me sincerely.
Without doing any shirk with me, without making
anyone equal to me,
I would forgive whatever you did
and I would not care.
Is there anything,
is there anyone more merciful,
more forgiving,
more accepting
and more tolerant of Allahu
What do we do
if we want to earn this mercy of
Allah? I said one thing,
to return to Allah. Iman, refresh your Iman,
and then 'amal, change your ways and you
will see something phenomenal in your life. You
will see miracles happen in your life. When
the people of the cave, there's 7 people
in the cave, who can tell me?
What did they ask Allah?
Oh Allah, give us mercy.
Give us your mercy.
But
did they just say it like that? Oh
Allah, give us your mercy.
Go back to bed.
How did they say give us your mercy?
What's the beginning of that ayah?
Yes.
They went and they found a cave.
They got up and they said to their
King, we're never going to worship this stuff.
Then they made du'a to Allah. If you
want the mercy of Allah, the forgiveness of
Allah to fill your life, you better stand
up like they stood up. You better go
look for your safe cave just like they
look for a safe cave. Make the effort
and you will see the response from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And Allah's response will never
disappoint.
But there's another thing.
Many of us expect the mercy of Allah,
the Tawbah of Allah,
the Maghfirah of Allah, but we are not
willing to do that for other people.
In the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam's lifetime,
one of the events that shook the city
of Madinah
where the prophet himself was tested. Who can
share with me what was this event?
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's marriage was
tested.
Hadithatulifq,
the slander of Aisha radiAllahu an.
You all know the story?
Aisha radiAllahu anha comes from
with the believers are coming back from an
expedition. Aisha is left behind. A man a
believer a man by the name of Safwan
finds her. He brings her respectfully back. The
moment the hypocrites see these one man and
woman coming inside, they start to spread a
rumor that those 2 did something on the
way.
Now this rumor is spread.
And who's spreading the rumor?
Believers.
Spreading a rumor about the wife of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Now,
one of these believers
is a man by the name of mister
ibn Uthatha.
Mister ibn Uthatha.
He's related to Aisha radiAllahu Anand he's spreading
this rumor, this slander,
this spice filled story about our mother Aisha.
He's a believer, and he's related to her.
But there's something that makes his situation even
worse.
Do you know who was paying his rent?
Abu Bakr as Siddiq,
the father of Aisha. Imagine.
Imagine. If I pay your rent and your
council tax and all your bills,
and then you start spreading lies about my
daughter.
If it was you and me, we would
go and slash their tires.
If it was you and me, we would
go break a few bones. Yes? If it
were you and me, there would be a
different consequence.
Then maybe there might be a janazah at
some point in time. May Allah forgive us.
Abu Bakr al Sadiq, all he did, he
said I'm not gonna give you any money.
I'm not going to spend on your rent
anymore. You're on your own.
You spread this lie about my daughter.
Why would I give you Why would I
keep paying your rent?
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reveals
Quran
talking to Ubakr.
Who can give us the ayah?
A sheikh.
Other than this sheikh, is there anybody here
who can give me the ayah? Yes.
If sheikh Mohammed takes all of the rewards,
what's left for the rest of us? Come
on, Shabab. Yes.
Allah says,
people of great character like you Abu Bakr.
People of character and people who are generous
like you Abu Bakr.
You should never stop doing good to other
people.
The poor, the needy,
and the orphan. You are doing it for
the sake of Allah. Don't stop. And what
does Allah say at the end of this
ayah?
Forgive and forget.
Don't you want Allah to forgive you as
well?
And Allah is forgiving and merciful.
Open your contact list on your phone today
on Whatsapp. How many people have you blocked?
How many people do we not speak to
anymore?
How many people we are not on talk
talking terms with?
How many relatives?
How many friends? How many people we see
them in the masjid. They say salaam alaykum
wa rahmatullah, and we give them our backs.
How many people in our lives
we have broken relationships with?
How many times?
And then we want Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to overlook all of our mistakes.
How can that be?
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam has said
If you don't show mercy, you will not
be shown mercy.
And another version of this narration,
If you don't forgive, Allah is not going
to forgive you.
And if you don't forget people's sins,
Allah will not forget. Allah subhanahu will not
erase your sins.
Look at Yusuf alayhi salam. Yusuf alayhi salam.
After 5 decades of being in the well,
of being in the prison, of being tortured,
being away from his father, in the end,
when his brothers come back to him and
they say,
forgive us. What does he say?
There's no blame on you today.
Allah will forgive you. He didn't say maybe.
Maybe Allah
Allah is guaranteed to forgive you. Why? He
saw the sincerity in their eyes.
And whoever is sincere, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
forgives and that is a guarantee from him.
But look at this, something many of us
don't notice in the story of Yusuf, alayhis
salaam.
At the end of the
story, when he brings all of his family
together,
he brings all of them together, and his
parents do sujood in front of him, and
fulfill the dream, he begins to make dua,
he begins to speak to Allah.
Who can remember the ayah?
The I before this.
And you are the one who took me
out of prison
after the shaitan whispered to my brothers.
My lord is so gentle to whomever he
wishes. Now,
in this dua, he mentions his story, but
he leaves one part of his story out.
He says, oh Allah, you are the one
who brought my parents from the desert
after I was in the prison,
after the shaitan whispered to my brothers.
Which part of his story has he not
mentioned?
The well. The well.
Why didn't he mention the well?
He forgave his brothers. Right? So he's not
going to mention their sin again.
And so he mentions his whole life story,
but he leaves out
the part of the story where his brothers
wronged him.
Because they're sitting there,
and he said, yaghfirullahahuwalaqum,
Allah is going to forgive you. He's not
going to rub it in. What do we
do instead?
We we give someone £100. We say, 2
weeks, give it back. This poor guy, he
delays it 6 days.
The next 6 years, every time we see
him, salaam alaikum.
6 days, remember?
Hey, Sheikh.
Every time.
You know, someone hurts you, someone gets in
a fight with you, you use chalas, you
talk, you have some lemonade, you have some
tea, you make friends.
6 months later, that you're in an argument,
remember that time?
You are the one who did this. We
do not forget.
You know, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, wamaqana
rabbuka nasiyyah. Allah does not forget. But you
and me we can forget.
Allah says to the prophet
open a new page.
Try today to do this with 1 person.
1 person
you have an argument with, you don't talk
to anymore, you're on bad terms. 1, just
send them a smiling emoji.
You don't have to say anything.
Forgive them in your heart.
Just forgive them. We know the hadith in
Muslim ad Ahmed, where the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said, hadith is disputed in its authenticity.
But many scholars like Zainuddin al Iraq said
it's a hadith hasan, it's a sound hadith.
That a man entered the masjid and the
prophet says to his companions, today somebody will
enter this masjid who is from the people
of paradise. He says it three times.
No one knows who this man's name is.
Eventually,
one of the companions of the prophet goes
and stays with him, and a few days
tries to see what's so special about this
man that makes him a person promised paradise.
And what does he find out in the
end? He doesn't do anything special.
He asks him,
why would the prophet say this about you?
He just says one thing. When I go
to sleep at night, I make sure there's
nothing in my heart
of hatred, of anger, of resentment,
of grudges towards other believers.
How many grudges do we hold?
How many people do we not talk?
If we want the mercy of Allah, in
his everlasting mercy and his forgiveness,
then we have got to start seeking it.
We have got to start forgiving.
We have got to start forgetting.
A man who attended the battle of Badr.
The people who attended the battle of Badr
are
of another level. Premier League. Not a league,
not b league, not county. They are Premier
League people.
Hatib
has a great history as a believer, but
one day he makes a very, very big
mistake. Who can tell me from the youngsters
what mistake did he make? Youngsters meaning under
the age of 40.
What mistake did Hatib make?
Come on, let's.
Yes? He was selling
dates. No. No. He wasn't selling dates. This
was somebody else. Yes, Sheikh. I'm not sure.
As he's gonna reveal the information, I actually
reveal. Very good. Ahmed, right? Masha'Allah. Good.
The prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam is making preparations
to
make an offensive to Makkah.
Now what's one of the most important things
in war?
Surprise.
If you can surprise your opponent, that's half
of the job done.
Now, Hatib,
he has some relatives in Makkah, and he's
scared if the believers come if the believers
from Madinah come and attack,
they're going to go and kill his family.
So Hatib writes a letter
informing the Makkan leadership
that Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasalam is planning to
attack.
This is treason.
This is a big crime.
This could foil the entire operation.
And of course the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, it is revealed to him that this
is happening and he goes and he brings
a letter.
And what does Umar ibn Khattab say when
he catches him?
Yes.
He can't
Yes.
He says let me chop off the head
of this hypocrite.
What did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam do?
He says, why did you do this? Yes.
Who said?
Umar ibn Khattab is ready. He's ready to
take him,
but the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam stops
Umar,
and he says, Umar, you don't know.
He is from the people that fought Badr.
His rank may be so high that maybe
Allah looked to the people who fought Badr,
they had the guts to fight at Badr,
and he says, do whatever you want from
now on, I have forgiven you. You do
not do not judge a man.
Regardless of the size of the crime,
he has hasanat in the past that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is holding for him.
And Hatib did Tawba, he asked Allah for
forgiveness.
Hatib tied himself to to a pillar in
the masjid. He says I'm not leaving until
Allah forgives me.
He could not accept that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala would be displeased with him.
There's always room and margin for us to
return to Allah.
We know that Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, forgave
a woman from those before us who was
a prostitute.
What did she do to deserve that forgiveness?
She
gave
water.
She gave water to a thirsty dog.
The man who killed 99 men, and then
he killed a 100.
Who can tell me some more?
He said, no, I don't think so.
He said, yes. And then Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala forgave him. You see, when it comes
to the rahma and the mercy of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
We don't know which deed we have done
in our lifetime that may save us on
the day of judgment.
3 men,
one day it's raining, the prophet tells us.
3 men go out on a journey,
and it begins to rain heavily.
And when it rains heavily, they find refuge
in a cave.
And when they're in the cave, a big
rock or boulder covers the front of the
cave,
and they begin to supplicate to Allah.
When there's no way out, when you're backed
into a corner, when you've got no way
to run and hide, you have to remember
Ar Rahman.
They say, oh, Allah.
There's one deed I did in my life.
If this deed is sincere, oh, Allah, please
move this boulder.
Go home and look at what did these
3 men do.
Simple things. Small things.
But as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
says, never
belittle any deed.
The smallest of good deeds. Do not think
any deed too small in the sight of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This is part of Allah's Maghfirah and Allah's
Rahmah is that you your small deed,
Allah magnifies it because of your intention.
Your small smile that you gave someone, Allah
magnifies it because of the quality of the
deed.
We don't know which of these deeds will
be our saving grace.
What stops people from returning to Allah and
making a U-turn? There's 2 primary things. Who
can tell me what they are?
Why would someone
do something
wrong
or many things wrong, but they don't come
back to Allah?
Arrogant.
Arrogant?
How so?
They don't want to, like, to say that
you've done a mistake or They don't want
to admit to their mistake.
Okay.
Peer pressure.
Peer pressure.
And the uncle of the prophet. Like the
uncle of the prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He had that peer pressure. Yes.
They don't believe Allah.
They don't believe Allah will forgive
them some more.
They just wanna carry on doing what they're
doing.
If you take all of these examples for
why we do not come back to Allah,
it comes down to 2 things.
Either 1,
we are not scared of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala's punishment. We don't think there's any consequences.
Arrogance.
We don't need to go back to Allah.
All of this comes back to one thing,
which is we don't really think Allah's what
is he going to do to me?
This is the first.
Very dangerous.
But the second reason is
we think even if we go back to
him,
he's not going to forgive us.
And both of these, Allah
deals with them in the Quran.
The first,
to think there is no consequences for our
actions. Abdullah bin Mas'ud
said,
Today, Abdullah ibn Mas'rud looks at the Tabireen,
the generation after Sahaba, and he says to
them, you guys are doing some sins. You
think it's nothing. You think it's a hair.
Nothing.
In our days, we used to consider these
major sins.
So Fianna Thawir Rahimahullah says,
don't look at the size of the deed,
but look at who you disobeyed.
Remember,
why does Allah say in the Quran?
Know that Allah is the forgiving and merciful,
but also know he is severe in punishment.
Watch out.
These deeds are going to have consequences,
And every small and large deed is going
to be recorded,
so be careful.
But there's the other extreme,
is to think Allah is not good. What's
the point? I've done so much. There's no
point.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us,
if you come sincerely to Allah,
my mercy is unlimited.
Unlimited.
You have to make that decision.
You have to humble yourself.
We have to come back and seek his
mercy and Allah will forgive. And after that
forgiveness,
we have to make effort. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala says,
Those who believed
and then they left their homes and they
migrated
and then they fought for the sake of
Allah. These are the people who are seeking
Allah's mercy in their lives. They want to
see the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And so today we learn the difference between
Afu
and Maghfirah
and Rahma.
And we learned that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, Allah in the Quran teaches us to
call him and ask him for all 3,
but especially to ask Allah for his for
him to erase our sins. And we also
learned
what it takes to do tawba. What is
the meaning of tawba? Tawba is not just
about saying sorry, but about changing and changing
our lives. And we will see Allah will
swap our sins with good deeds. And we
understood the levels of returning to Allah. And
then we looked at why what stops people
from coming back to Allah.
One of them is
being too relaxed, one of them is being
too extreme.