Maryam Amir – Do you think youre going to hell
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The speaker discusses the importance of forgiveness and not just giving things back. They explain that forgiveness is not just a response to mistakes, but rather a reflection on one's behavior and actions. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of forgiveness for one's own happiness and for others' happiness.
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I was sitting with a friend of mine, and she was weeping because
she felt like there's no way that she's going to go to paradise. As
we're sitting and she's crying, she gets a text message, and that
message was from a friend who I know and she hasn't spoken with in
a really long time, and that friend told her that she just had
to share the dream that she had. That dream she had had was that
she was with this person, the one who was crying because she didn't
think she was going to go to Paradise, had a beautiful home
in Paradise, and she was so moved by how beautiful the dream was
that she wanted to send her a message and just tell her, and the
fact that she got that message right as she's crying about not
knowing whether or not she would ever be good enough to go to
Paradise, was very moving, but I want to tell you that you don't
need to have a text message from a friend, and not you, the person
who made the video, but anyone who felt this way, because I saw so
many comments saying they feel the same, you already have text
messages from God, you have messages, you have letters from
Allah in the Quran talking about his mercy. I know none of us can
promise paradise to anybody else, obviously, but I'm sure many of
you are familiar with the story of a person who was completely
forgiven for absolutely everything because they gave water to a
thirsty dog, who is the most merciful that would forgive a
person for their past just because they were kind to an animal. In
one instance, how many times have you done something right? How many
times have you been kind and caring and intentional in the way
you interact with your own siblings or parents or friends or
a stray a stray animal or your own pet? Why is it then, when we think
about Allah and our relationship with Him, we think about ourselves
in a deficit. Our deficit is that we think about the things we're
doing wrong and the things we've done in the past, and we loathe
ourselves for that, and then we cast that loathing onto God, and
we assume that he sees us with the hatred that we have for our own
selves. That's how you feel about you. That doesn't mean that's how
Allah's panahy sees you. You know in the Quran, he promised that if
you have made mistakes but believe in us for forgiveness and do
righteous deeds. Again. Righteous deeds are so vast. You could do so
many things with a righteous deed that he doesn't just forgive you
for your mistakes, but he turns the bad into good. And the
Prophet, peace be upon him. In explaining this, this ayah, talked
about a person who will come on the day of judgment, and they will
be shown their record of bad deeds, and they will be asked, Did
you do everything here? And the person will be like, yes, because
on that day, your own hands will testify against you. There's You
can't lie. I mean, your own body's gonna say I did on the one who did
it. And then it will be said, replace all of these bad deeds
with good deeds, as in, all those bad deeds are flipped and turned
into good deeds. Because this person asked for forgiveness. They
had asked they had they'd made mistakes. They'd made mistakes,
but they recognized that they were mistakes, and they tried to do
better, even if they weren't perfect about it. And so then it
said to them, turn all of those bad deeds into good deeds. They
all turn into good. And the person says, but there are things that
are not here that I've done because they want, they want every
single bad that they've ever done to be written so that it could be
turned into good. That the reason that it's not there, I mean, God
is so merciful. Allah's panata is so merciful that if you make a
mistake, but you ask for forgiveness before the angels are
asked not to write it down, just to give you time to repent. Allah
wants you to win. Allah wants you to win, also today and every
single day. Free watermelon.