Kamal El-Mekki – We always have a way to repent to Allah
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The mechanism of Islam's suboxone treatment involves constantly practicing and sining, which takes a few moments and is designed to encourage people to make their good deeds immediately to avoid becoming a sinful individual. A young man experiences a viral attack and is given medication to prevent future severe illness. A man describes his experiences with working in a travel agency and finding work with people from Asia, emphasizing the importance of accepting and welcoming new experiences.
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I wanted to talk about how Allah
has facilitated
Tawba repenting
repentance and turning to him. Allah has facilitated
that so much,
and he's put so many mechanisms
so we never feel too dirty to turn
back to Allah, a zuriel. Too far gone
to come back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And I'm just gonna talk about a few
of these mechanisms.
One of the interesting ones is that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
says,
Indeed Allah loves those who constantly
repent
and purify themselves.
If Allah
loves those who constantly repent, in order to
constantly repent,
I would assume you would have to constantly
sin or commit some kind of mistake
so that it's already saying that you can
be someone who makes a lot of mistakes
but Allah will love you. Why? Because you
immediately turn back to Allah and repent to
Allah
That's the condition.
So you're never too dirty to come back
to Allah. So you're never too far gone
to come back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
From the mechanisms,
as we all know, we have 2 angels,
the one that writes down your good deeds,
and they'll write down your good deed immediately
and and multiply it. And then you have
the angel that writes down your bad deeds.
And the angel that writes down your bad
deeds, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam described in
the hadith that he delays writing down your
bad deed. He doesn't write it immediately.
He delays writing it down for how long?
Sit sa'at.
And a lot of times you find in
books and lectures in English, that's translated as
6 hours.
Right?
But the word
didn't always mean hours.
Sometimes means a few moments.
Some of the scholars said is how long
it takes the imam to climb up the
mimbar, which is 3 steps.
It's just a few seconds.
So
and we have another, like the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam one time was was going through
a
court procedure known as lian,
and he asked
the woman to testify.
And the narrator says,
so she hesitated.
She hesitated.
It means she hesitated for 1 full hour.
If you stop for an hour in court,
is that hesitation or refusing to testify?
So
she hesitated for a few seconds and then
she made it, then she said it. So
would be 6 of these short moments
and that encourages you to make Toba. 6
hours does not encourage you to make Toba.
It encourages you to do it again. Right?
Someone commits a sin and said, okay. Well,
I still have 5 and a half hours.
Let me get it out of my system.
Keep doing it. But after a while, I
have I have one more hour for Tawba.
No. 6 of these short moments, that means
the minute you finish doing the bad deed,
you run immediately and repent to Allah, Azzurajal.
Why? What's the motivation? If you run immediately
and you repent to Allah
and Allah forgives you before it's written,
that means it's not even in your books.
It's not even in your books. That's the
motivation.
6 moments, short moments like that.
That means you finish the deed, you instantly
turn to Allah's will immediately, not later, not
after Aisha, not tomorrow I start over, immediately,
which also doesn't give the shaitan opportunity to
come to you and make you feel worthless
and make you feel dirty and far from
Allah. There's by the time the shaitan comes
to you, you're already wanting to make tawba.
He can't even catch you. That's that's the
mechanism so that we rush to Allah
and repent to Allah.
But what if someone
doesn't come to Allah
Allah
sends you a wake up call. And based
on how much you're asleep,
he will wake you up either vigorously
or it's just a gentle tap.
There was a young man, this is overseas,
he said I started to practice, start to
care about my religion, but I had one
last trip
to finish. Yeah. And it is
there's something haram in that trip. It's not
a very haram trip, but it was not
a very good trip either. So he said,
I finished it even though now I'm a
practicing young man. He said, I'm driving on
the highway. And those of you who've been
overseas, sometimes you'll find things flying in the
air, paper bags, and they do aerial shows
like the Blue Angels,
paper bag,
when it almost touches the ground, it goes
up again. It's entertaining.
He said, I'm driving, and I see in
the highway a paper bag, a a a
plastic no. Wax paper.
You know, wax paper, like, for cooking and
fried chicken and stuff. And it's just flying
like this. And I'm driving and my window's
open.
He says, when I got close to it,
that wax paper came and it hit me
right in the face, kid.
And there was oil on it. It was
it was wrapping some chicken with it or
something like that. He said, I removed the
paper.
I wiped the oil from my face,
and I spoke to Allah. He said,
I understand.
I understand.
Yeah. And in this humiliation,
you just went on this trip. You did
something you weren't supposed to do. So he
got humiliated a little bit with this wax
hitting his face and the oil on his
face, and he immediately understood the message from
Allah
So he's
partially awake. You just need a little bit
nudge, and that woke him up.
And sometimes you need some shaking
and a clear sign to come back to
Allah
This story also oversees.
This man says he he's a doctor.
And, in the old days, in the good
old days, remember, you would get sick, you
would call the doctor, he would come to
your house with his briefcase. Right?
So this doctor said this lady got sick
and went to the family's house
and
I gave her the medication and everything.
Then she says, let my son drop you
off at home.
So he says, I got in the car,
her son's dropping me home. And on the
way, we heard the adhan for Maghrib.
So I told the young man, I said,
let why don't we stop, pray Maghrib, and
then continue, drop me off. Said the young
man said, nah. Nah. Nah. The salah, I
don't deal with that garbage.
He said, I was so shocked, Annie. The
young Muslim man would call salah garbage,
and I was so turned off. The rest
of the ride, they didn't say a word
to him, couldn't wait till they dropped me
off. I just got out of his car.
So the year later, the lady gets sick
again. I went to the house
and
when I finished and gave her the prescription
and everything,
she said,
let Ahmed drop you off. He said, no.
Thank you.
I don't ever wanna see this guy. I
mean, his mind is saying, I ever wanna
see your son ever again. I don't wanna
ride. I'll crawl crawl back home, walk back
home. I don't want this boy. He said,
no. No. Let Ahmed take you. Just wait.
He'll come back. He's coming back from Asia
now.
He said, Asia?
I said, now I wanna see him.
He said, we got in the car, he's
dropping me off, and I asked him. I
said, Yaki, last year when I told you
let's pray, you called salah garbage,
and now you came from Asia. What happened?
So the young man tells him, after I
dropped you off, I continued looking for work,
I couldn't find any work. I started working
with this travel agency,
and
we started taking people to Umrah. To UMRA.
So I just I'm working. I'm not praying.
I don't care,
but we took a group of people to
UMRA.
And I'm wearing a haram and I'm not
doing umra or anything, but I'm just taking
the customers there and everything. He said, while
I'm standing in the haram wearing the ihram,
just waiting for our people to finish,
they started to wash the Kaaba.
And we know when they wash the Kaaba,
they open the doors and sometimes they just
invite random people to enter the house of
Allah, enter the Kaaba. He said the guy
opened the door and he was looking for
people to invite
and we locked eyes. His eyes fell on
my eyes, and he said
he said, well, I I didn't even wanna
go inside the cup.
But how do you say no? Yeah. And
what do you say? InshaAllah after lunch, what?
There's no excuse, like who where's the haram?
It's in the haram and says,
He said, just out of embarrassment,
I walked in.
He said, when I walked in,
I understood.
This guy was so asleep. Allah
took him to Makkah. He didn't wake up.
He put on a Haram. He didn't wake
up. He's in the Kaaba, in front of
the Kaaba. He didn't wake up. Allah jiu
said open the door, let him go inside.
Maybe he'll get it. And he stepped inside,
and then he woke up.
So some so from
Allah subhanahu ta'ala and how much he wants
us to turn to him and how much
he wants us to be close to him
is that sometimes when we don't come to
him, he sends us a message.
And I'll conclude with
what Allah says in the Quran.
Was
when you flee.
But he's saying flee, rush to Allah.
And the scholar said something beautiful.
They said everything in this world, and young
people especially listen to me. They said everything
in this world
that you're afraid of, you run away from.
True?
You're afraid of the fire, building's on fight,
you run out, you run away from it.
There's anything happening, a dog or vicious dog,
what you run away from it. He said
everything you're afraid of, you run away from
except Allah.
Is the only one that when you're afraid
of him, you run to him. Because that's
safety. Running to Allah's will is safety.
Running away from him is just more trouble.
So, Allah
wants us to repent and there's so many
mechanisms, so many invitations for us to turn
to him.
And this is part of our daily activity.
We're always repenting to Allah. We're always making
we're always asking
Umrah when after he questioned the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasalam after Hudaybia
because the conditions were not nice, they're not
fair to the Muslims. So he kept questioning,
but he didn't do anything haram. He would
just kept questioning the prossalom, why are we
accepting the terms of this treaty? But then
later on, he's an older man, he's the
Khalifa,
He says, I spent years doing good deeds
to make up for that, for just questioning
the prophet
People repenting from not things that are not
even sins. They're cleansing themselves from that.
So the invitation and the reminder to myself
and to everybody,
we always turn back to Allah
We never feel that we've gone too far
out. We've done too much that Allah is
not interested in our tawba. Allah is so
pleased and so happy with the Tawba of
1 of us. Just like in that hadith
of the man who lost his camel and
then when he the he woke up and
the camel came back, he was so happy
that he misspoke and he said something severe.
He said, oh Allah, you are my servant
and I'm your lord. That's how much he
was happy. And then the prophet says, Allah
is more happy with your than this man
with finding his camel.
Isn't that an invitation for us? So that's
all I want to say. That's the reminder
I wanted to put out that we always
turn to Allah that Allah is always welcoming
us and will always accept us.
May Allah accept all your good deeds and
your fasting and your duas.