Maryam Amir – His mercy is greater than your deeds

06 April 2024

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The speaker discusses how Facebook's recent posts caused people to focus on themselves and not acknowledge their own worth. They argue that Allah's Mercy is greater than the amount of hope people have in their own deeds, as it is not theirs that matter. The speaker suggests that people should focus on themselves and not acknowledge their worth.

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On the 27th of Ramadan, you're thinking about how you haven't

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done enough this Ramadan. Ramadan is finishing, and you didn't read

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as much quota, and you didn't do as many prayers as you wanted. You

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wasted your Ramadan, and Allah must be so upset with you, and

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you're not even trying to make dua as much as you could be, because

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you're like, I don't deserve to. I want you to know that you have

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more hope in yourself than you have in Allah, and that's not a

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lot of hope, considering how much you're struggling with your

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internal thoughts. Ibn Al Taylor teaches that when you say things

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like, Okay, I didn't read as much Quran as I did last year,

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Therefore Allah must not want me to pray to Him. Allah must not

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want to answer my prayers. I don't deserve to turn back to Allah. I

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don't deserve to ask and ask and ask because you care about

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yourself. You're focusing on yourself. You don't you don't

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think you're getting up, you don't believe that your deeds are

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enough. And he teaches that you you have more hope in your own

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deeds than you have in Allah's mercy. Allah's Mercy is greater

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than your mistakes. Don't have hope in your own deeds. Have hope

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in Allah's mercy.

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