Maryam Amir – Do you think youre not a good Muslim

So Inshallah, today, in this moment, we are going to speak

about a different verse, and it is, oh people of faith, be

conscious of Allah and believe in His messenger, and he will grant

you a double share of His mercy. We go to the next slide. Provide

you with a light to walk in on day, on Judgment Day, and forgive

you, for Allah is all forgiving, Most Merciful. I would like to

share with you a story that I heard from about Mensur Schumann.

Man is a photojournalist who was in Laza, and he recently was able

to leave the genocide. And I'm sure many of you follow Him, and

you've heard me speaking about him many times. If you've ever joined

in any of these sessions, it's it's, it's such a such a blessing

and an honor to be able to hear the the witnessing of

you know these, these you know our our Ummah, owe so much to them.

But one of the things that he shared was that one time he was

talking about how he witnessed the Quran come to life so many times.

He saw so many instances of the Quran

just in front of him. He would recite an ayah, and he saw

something, and he would know that, like this is the manifestation of

that verse. And something he shared was that one time he and a

few men were running from home to home, and these houses are

demolished like they've been destroyed by airstrikes, and they

are seeking shelter and protection from the IOF which was there in

the area. And they are in this distro, destroyed home. And all of

a sudden, they're planning to go in a certain direction, as before

they go towards that direction, all of a sudden, three men come.

They see these three men. And these three men came out of

nowhere. They are wearing white, pure white clothes, pure white

clothes with not a speck of dirt. And they just they don't have a

speck of Jahannam, and I would like us to think about the images

we're seeing out of there is no person that we're seeing that

doesn't have a speck of dirt with pure white clothes on, and that

there's a reason, because they're being genocide. And we ask Allah

to make every speck of dirt a witness for them and a witness

against their oppressors. Their every every speck of dirt is a

means of beautification and the raising of ranks for for the

people of but in this instance, they were wearing completely clean

clothes with no with no nothing on them. And these men tell Mensur

and the men that he's with that they are going in the wrong

direction. They say, don't go the way that you were going to go.

That's the wrong direction. Go the other way. And so they go a

different direction. And a few minutes after they had left that

area, like they had already been a safe distance away, that exact

spot that they were going to go was hit by an airstrike,

and those men were they had disappeared. They were gone,

and man was just talking about all of these different realities of

seeing the ayat, seeing the verse of the Quran, seeing the angels,

the taste of rasa, the feel and the air of rasa, one of such

strong Iman, is different than what it feels like outside of it.

And why I thought of that when reading this first if we could

just go back to this verse, the second part in particular, Allah

says, Here, be conscious of Allah and believe in His Messenger,

sallAllahu, alayhi, he will send them and He will grant you a

double share of His mercy. Now, looking at the first part of this

verse, there are so many verses of the Quran that discuss salah,

zakat Hajj, like there are so many different aspects of the Quran

that talk about what we should do, what we should, what we should

enjoin, what we should, what is forbidden from us, what we should

stay away from. But this verse, and obviously we take all of them

as a whole, but this verse doesn't say that, oh, people of faith or

oh, oh,

you know, it doesn't say, oh, foremost in faith. Oh, foremost in

faith. Oh, you who practice you know the best of faith. Oh, you

who are always at the forefront of faith.

It's those who are conscious of Allah.

And the second is believing in the Prophet, sallAllahu, alayhi wa

salam. And that's everybody here. Or if you don't yet believe this,

feel free to join the Ummah tonight. Your shahada is we're

happy to accept you as part of our Ummah tonight, sha Allah. But if

you have this conscience of Allah and you believe in the Messenger

of Allah, He will grant you a double Allah will grant you a

double share of His mercy, and then give we go to the next slide.

Thank you so much.

Provide you with a light to walk in on the day of judgment and

forgive you, for Allah is all forgiving and merciful when I see

a light to walk in on the Day of Judgment,

we are not going to be alone on the Day of Judgment, just like

Allah get.

Brought brought angels to guide, brought angels to protect, has

shown us real life examples of the angels interacting with us on that

day, Allah panatada is going to give us a light. And this light is

not conditioned in this verse with being a

perfect believer. It is not conditioned in this verse with

being somebody who

never makes mistakes or never commits sins or or or tries but

falls short and then tries again. Yes, the levels of light are going

to be different on the Day of Judgment. The amount of light is

going to be impacted on the day of judgment, but Allah promises a

light on the day of judgment, and the fact that all you have to do

is be conscious of Him and believe in the Prophet sallallahu, that he

was telling for that reward to be doubled and for that light to be

you to be blessed with that light and forgiven on the Day of

Judgment. That in and of itself is assigned to us, that Allah wants

us to win, Allah wants us to win. Allah wants us to win, and the

fact that Allah is all forgiving, Most Merciful. And the reason why

I, you know, focus so much on these messages very often when I

address

anything related to spiritual connection, is because what I'm

finding you know for sure, there are people who say ALLAH is

forgiving. Allah's merciful. I can commit all these sins and He will

still forgive me Absolutely. There are people who say that, but the

vast majority of people who speak to me say that they are so afraid

of Allah's punishment, and we should be the punishment is real,

and if anything, what we are seeing in the destruction and

oppression in Sudan and in the Congo and in Gaza and in all of

these different parts of the world, it affirms why we need a

hellfire, but we don't want to ourselves be someone who

experiences * and so on one hand, yes, we need to have the

balance of being cognizant of Allah. It says fear Allah, the

translation, but be cognizant of Allah. Because if you're conscious

of someone who you who, who you know, is watching you on in two

ways. One, watching you because, yes, we are being tested. Are we

going? How are we going to live? What is our life going to look

like? But two, because He loves you, don't you watch over your

child when you love them? Where is your phone right now? Do you know?

You probably do, unless you're watching on your phone, but you

probably know where your phone is. Why? Because we have a love for

watching wherever we need our phone. We love our phone. What You

Love you will watch out for and that is the way that

described who a rockibas, you watch out for someone you love. So

on one hand, Allah, Spano Tala is watching us out of His love for

us. He is watching us out of,

you know, his concern for us. And how are we? And the other hand,

yes, it's We. Are we are going to be responsible for our actions. So

how are we going to navigate living in a world where we know

it's a finite amount of time,

and then there's a hereafter that is eternal, and in the in the

process of from here to there, what are our actions going to

focus on? Are we going to back, go back to him, because he says he is

the most forgiving and he's the most merciful, like that in and of

itself. Instead of focusing on the fact that Allah is not going to

forgive because I don't deserve it, is an act of worship, and

Allah SWT tells us that he is as we think he is, so being

optimistic in who Allah is, having a host of one good thoughts about

Allah, that in and of itself, is an act of worship. Having good

thoughts about Allah is an act of worship. Being optimistic with

Allah is an act of worship. Leaving Ramadan not being so

dependent on your deeds. You know Ibn Al tawilah, who is a,

you know, scholar of Islam, that that's that teaches beautiful

wisdoms like secrets with Allah. He speaks about a person who is so

dependent on their own deeds that they don't they, they depend more

on their deeds than Allah's mercy. How do you know if that's you?

Okay? This Ramadan, I didn't read as much Quran as I normally do.

This Ramadan, I didn't pray as many extra prayers as I wanted to

this. Ramadan, I didn't go to the masjid like I used to last

Ramadan, so what does that mean? That means that I didn't do as

many good deeds, and therefore Allah is not as happy with me, and

therefore Allah is not going to answer my dua. You are dependent

on your own deeds, if that is the way that you think, Allah's Mercy

is greater than your own deeds.

Allah's Mercy is greater than our actions, because Allah is the most

merciful, whether or not our actions reach the.

Level of mercy.

So this Ramadan for you to exit. Ramadan, yes, you didn't do as

much as you wanted to. Yes, you wish you had done more. Yes, it

wasn't as good as it was in the past. Your circumstances may be

different. This Ramadan, your emotional reality is different.

The world is in a different place. This Ramadan, okay. Are you going

to have more hope in Allah forgiving you, and Allah having

mercy on you, in Allah rewarding you anyway, wanting to answer you

anyway, going to him anyway. Are you going to have more hope in

that? Were you going to continue to believe that Allah is not happy

with the small amount of deeds you've done, and therefore you

don't even deserve to pray to

Him, because that right there is the shift leaving Ramadan knowing

Allah is more merciful than than I am to myself, is an active is an

act of worship, and you deserve to know that Allah wants to answer

you as long as you turn to him. Subnica.