Mirza Yawar Baig – Forgiveness
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The importance of forgiveness in Islam is highlighted, as it is a fruitful fruit of everyone's actions. A woman describes her frustration with a man who killed her in a remote village and describes his behavior, including praying and being in a bakery. Her experiences with the man and his actions are discussed, including his behavior and actions. The culture of the Wall gallery is also discussed, with a emphasis on forgiveness and remorse.
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My brothers and sisters, we come to the
last of the elements of the Seerah that
we need to learn from, and that has
to do with relationships.
We dealt with one aspect of it in
culture, which was the culture of equality that
Islam promotes, and this has to do with
relationships, how we relate with one another.
And in that context, Rasulullah gave us the
single most powerful principle, and that principle was
the principle of forgiveness.
I submit to you that the root of
all goodness, the root of all relationships, is
mercy, and mercy is forgiveness.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala described himself as
Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim, as the most beneficent,
the most merciful.
Forgiveness is mercy in action.
What does mercy look like when mercy is
watching the earth?
It looks like forgiveness.
Many times when you ask people, and you
say, why don't you forgive your husband, why
don't you forgive your wife, why don't you
forgive your son, your daughter, your friend, your
business partner, whoever, people say, no, but you
know, he did this, he is guilty.
So you say, of course he is guilty.
Did I say he is not guilty?
Of course he is guilty.
That is why you need to forgive.
Who will you forgive?
Somebody who is not guilty?
Right?
The reason you need to forgive is because
you have been wronged.
We accept that you have been wronged.
We accept that your right has been denied.
We accept that you have been transgressed against.
And that is the reason why you have
to forgive.
And this is what Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala emphasized.
And see how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
dealt with it.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, قُلْ يَا
عِبَادِي مَنُوا الِبَادِي؟
Allah did not say, قُلْ يَا عِبَادِي مِنَ
النَّبِيِّين وَسِدِّقِين وَشُهَدَنُوا Allah said, قُلْ يَا عِبَادِي
أَلَّذِينَ عَسْرَفُوا عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ Say to them, O
My Ibad, O My slaves, who have transgressed
against yourselves, against themselves.
My slaves who have transgressed against themselves.
Why is Allah saying transgressed against themselves?
Why does Allah say transgressed against Me?
Because the reality of transgression, the reality of
disobedience of Allah, is that the only one
it harms is the person himself or herself.
We don't harm Allah.
We cannot benefit Allah and we cannot harm
Allah because Allah is Allah.
Allah is beyond any benefit, beyond any harm.
Allah does not need anything.
Nothing that we do touches Allah.
So when we decide to disobey Allah, we
are transgressing against ourselves.
So Allah is saying, Say to them, قُلْ
And then Allah said, O My slaves.
Just think about this, you know.
Normally our tendency is if somebody is good
to us and is obedient and is pleasant
and nice and so on, we say, No,
you're My friend.
You're My family.
In our Hyderabadi culture, it's something we see
all the time.
If the child is good, the father will
say to the mother, See how good my
son is.
And if he does something wrong, She says,
See what your son did.
If he does good, he's My son.
If he does something wrong, he's the mother's
son.
Not my Rab and your Rab.
قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيُّ O My slaves.
Allah is calling them, Come to Me.
Not the Siddiqoon and the Shuhada and the
Annabiyyin.
No.
Those who transgressed.
The Khatta'oon.
The Zalimoon.
The Musrifoon.
The Fasiqoon.
Allah said, قُلْ هُمْ عِبَادِيُّ They're My slaves.
Say to them, Say what?
I will throw you in the fire.
I will burn you.
No.
Do not despair of the mercy of Allah.
Verily, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgives all
sins.
Verily and truly, He is the Most Forgiving,
Most Merciful.
Just see this beautiful, beautiful Ayatul Karima.
First and foremost, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says, Those who transgress, those who disobey, He
says, My slaves.
Then take this Ayah, grammatically speaking, and my
Sheikh will correct me if I am wrong.
Grammatically speaking, supposing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has said, قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَصْرَفُوا عَلَىٰ
أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ خَلَص Complete.
Right?
This is complete.
The meaning is complete.
Don't despair of the mercy of Allah.
Means what?
Don't despair.
Alhamdulillah, there is hope for you.
خَلَص No.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is هو الملك
الحق هو رب العرش الكريم He does not
stop small things.
لا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ
الظُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا Verily, Allah forgives all sins.
الحمد لله هذه الآية مُكَمَّل At this point.
Complete.
But no.
My Lord Jalla Jalaluhu His generosity is boundless.
Has no limits.
إِنَّهُ ٱلْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمِ لا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ
إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الظُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا إِنَّهُ ٱلْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمِ
Three times Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
encouraging the people and encouraging me and you.
Make istighfar, make tawbah.
Turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
خَسْتَغْفِرُوا ثُمَّ تُوبُوا إِلَيْهِ Make istighfar and turn
towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Why?
Because Allah will forgive.
Mercy is the root.
Mercy is the root.
And istighfar is the way to get mercy.
Make istighfar.
The hadith in Musnad ibn Muhammad where Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is reported to have
said the meaning that when the person makes
istighfar, the one who makes istighfar a lot
of times, right?
He makes a lot of istighfar.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala solves his problems
for him.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will remove his
difficulties.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will expand
his rizq.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will provide him
from sources he cannot imagine.
And this hadith is the exact meaning of
the ayat of surat al-Talaq.
وَمَن يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجَال لَهُ مَخْرَجًا وَيَرْزُقُهُ مِنْ
هَيْثُ لَا يَهْتَسِبُ وَمَن يَتَوَكَلَ اللَّهِ فَهُوَ هَزْبُ
The meaning of this ayat is this hadith.
And there is this beautiful story, true story,
narrated by Imam Ahmad himself, rahmatullah alaih.
He said he was travelling once and he
landed up in this place, in this remote
small village, late in the night.
So he found a small masjid and he
took his, he was alone, just his baggage.
So he put the baggage in one place,
in the masjid, and he prayed.
When he finished praying, the caretaker of the
masjid, he was the imam or muazzin, whatever
he was, the caretaker, he was there.
So he asked the caretaker, he said, salam
alaikum.
He said, can I have your permission?
Can I sleep in the masjid?
I'm a stranger here, I don't know anybody.
Can you give me some shelter?
The man said, no.
He said, no, you cannot stay here.
It was very strange, because first of all,
the Arabs are very generous people.
So this man's behaviour is very different and
against Arab culture, number one.
Number two, he's a Muslim man, he's in
the masjid, he's a Muslim man, very obviously,
Imam Ahmed.
And this was the tawaad and the humility
of the imam.
He did not say, I am Ahmed bin
Hambal, I am the khatib and imam of
Masjid al-Rabab al-Sharif.
He didn't say all this, right?
He could have said this, no?
No, he didn't say anything.
He did not even give his name.
He said, I'm a man.
Here is this man, he's got a white
beard.
He was quite old at that time.
He has a white beard and so on,
he's an old man.
In the night, he's come here, right?
Can I sleep here?
No.
So he said, okay, can I sleep in
the sand, in the courtyard of the masjid?
The man said, no.
Go from here.
Not only did he do that, he picked
up Imam Ahmed's bedding, he took it out
and he threw it in the street.
And he pushed Imam Ahmed, out in the
street.
Imagine this behavior.
Now, when this happened, there was a bakery.
There was a man making bread.
Making a bakery across the street.
This baker, he saw this whole thing happening.
So he came from the bakery, he picked
up Imam Ahmed's bedding, he said, Sheikh, please
come with me.
Leave this man, just come with me.
He took him in the bakery, he made
his bed, and he said, you stay here
in my bakery.
He said, I work all night because I,
you know, the bakers, they make bread in
the night, so it is ready first thing
in the morning.
So he said, I work all night, you
sleep here, no problem.
Alhamdulillah, whatever happened, don't worry about it.
So Alhamdulillah, Imam Ahmed, Alhamdulillah, he is very
happy.
He said, Alhamdulillah, Muslim man, mashallah, good manners,
you know, he is like my brother.
So Imam Ahmed rested there, and Imam Ahmed
said, I noticed that the whole night, this
man, while making his bread, he is making
istighfar.
Astaghfirullah illa zi la ilaha illa huwa hayyul
qayyum wa atubu ilayh.
Different, whatever he was doing, he is making
istighfar, continuously making zikr, continuously making istighfar.
He does not say anything, he does not
talk.
Only this, and he is working.
Imam Ahmed, Alhamdulillah, he said, I watched him
all night.
The whole night, this man was doing this.
He said, in the morning, I said to
the man, I have been seeing you, watching
you, I watched you all night, you make
continuously istighfar.
This means that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
inshallah is pleased with you and Allah would
have shown you His karama.
Allah would have shown you His pleasure somehow.
Tell me, what has Allah shown you?
What have you received from Allah?
The man said to him, Alhamdulillah, what I
received from Allah is, Allah never denies or
refuses any of my dua.
Allah has made me mustajab, Allah accepts whatever
I ask Allah, Allah gives me.
Except one thing.
So the man said, Allah gives me everything,
all the things I have ever asked Allah
for, Allah has always given me, except one
thing.
Now Imam Ahmed said, what is this thing?
He said, what is the one thing He
did not give you?
He said, I am a poor man, but
I have this desire to meet Ahmed bin
Hanbal, the Imam of Majlis al-Nabawi al
-Sharif.
And he said, I have been making dua
to Allah.
O Allah, make me meet Ahmed bin Hanbal,
Alhamdulillah.
He said, this dua Allah did not accept
till today.
Imam Ahmed started crying.
He said, why are you crying?
He said, because I am Ahmed bin Hanbal.
He said, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did
not allow me to stay in his house.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent me out
of his house.
To you.
Because of your dua.
He said, now I understand why I could
not stay in the house of Allah.
I was not allowed to stay, now I
know why it happened.
Because of you.
You are the cause, you are the man.
He said, because of your dua.
Make istighfar.
Make this into a habit, may Allah make
this for all of us.
Make it at least 100 times, right?
I am not giving you some formula, just
at least minimum that.
But do as much as possible.
Astaghfirullah illadhi la ilaha illa huwal hayyul qayyum
wa atubu ilayh.
Or just astaghfirullah, whatever is convenient for you.
But make istighfar.
Continuously.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala promised, and
Allah's promise is true.
And the Nabi alayhi salatu wa salam, he
promised and his promise is true.
Sadaqallah wa sadaqa Rasul.
Allah will solve our problems.
Allah will remove our difficulties.
Right?
Forgiveness.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam, beautiful beautiful hadith.
We know from our mother, Sayyidina Aisha Siddiqa
radiyallahu anha, she said one day, Nabi salallahu
alaihi wa sallam was, he looked very happy.
So she thought, this is a good time
to ask him to make dua.
He said, Ya Rasulullah, please make dua for
me.
So Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam said, O
Allah, forgive Aisha.
Forgive everything that Aisha has done, forgive her
past, and forgive her future.
Sayyidina Aisha Siddiqa radiyallahu anha said, I was
so happy, I started laughing.
And she said, I fell into his lap,
literally.
So he said to her, Aisha, does my
dua make you happy?
She said, Ya Rasulullah, how can this dua
not make me happy?
This dua makes me so happy.
She said, Ya Aisha, I make this dua
every day for my Ummah.
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
It's not only for the one he loved
the most.
He said, I make this dua every day
for them.
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
This is our Rasul.
This is our Rasul.
Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala aali
Muhammad kama sallita ala Ibrahima wa ala aali
Ibrahima innaka aminul majid.
Allahumma barika ala Muhammad wa ala aali Muhammad
kama barakta ala Ibrahima wa ala aali Ibrahima
innaka aminul majid.
So forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness.
Forgiveness all the time, right?
Now think about this.
Sometimes we say, as I mentioned earlier, we
say, forgive.
We say, no, no, no, I can't forgive.
This man did this, he said this, she
did that.
See what all happened to him.
So that's the reason why we should study
the Seerah.
His own family cast him out.
As I mentioned to you, you know, the
Arabs, it is a tradition of the Arabs.
Even today, even today, even though, you know,
the traditions have diluted and they have, people
have become sort of lax.
But even today, I have a friend in
Saudi Arabia, Bandar Awad Al Mahmadi from Medina.
He is a Madhu.
So I was in Jeddah, he was also
in Jeddah.
I said, I want to go, it's the
weekend, so I said, I want to go
for Ziyarah to Medina.
He said, Sheikh, I will take you.
I said, okay.
So I said to him, mother, please call
somebody, make a reservation for me near the
Masjid, near the Haram.
He said, yes, everything will be, I've done
it.
So we go to Medina.
He goes straight to his house.
And then he said, Sheikh, please come.
I said, okay.
So we went to the washroom and so
on.
And we sat down.
Beautiful, beautiful dinner.
Beautiful.
So we had dinner and all that.
And then I said, we went to the
Masjid, we prayed and so on after that.
Then I said, let me go to my
room to rest.
He said, yes, please come.
I said, get up.
He opens the door.
This is your room.
It's a bedroom, everything.
I said, yeah, I mean, I will just,
he said, Sheikh, you are my Sheikh, you
are my teacher.
I have a house in Medina.
How can you stay in a hotel?
Is it possible that I have a house
here and you are staying in a hotel?
My teacher is staying in a hotel.
Hinnalillah Ibn al-Hajjah.
So what to do?
So three days I stayed there, three days
in his house.
Every day, the food, beautiful, beautiful.
Every new thing.
This you have not eaten, this you have
not eaten, this you have not eaten.
And at the end of three days when
I am leaving, from behind the door, Sheikh,
my mother and my grandmother and my wife,
they are here.
And they are asking you to forgive them.
I said, me, forgive them?
For what?
He said, because you were here, maybe they
did something, maybe the food was not so
good or maybe something happened and you did
not like, please forgive them.
This is Arab culture today.
1400 years later.
Imagine what must have been the Arab culture
in the day of Prophet Muhammad.
Despite that culture, his own family disowned him.
We must reflect on these things.
Rasulullah s.a.w. said every Nabi was
troubled, was tortured and suffered pain and he
said, I suffered more than anyone else.
Now think about this.
Rasulullah s.a.w. was not tortured.
They did not burn him, they did not
cut him.
So what did he suffer?
Wallahi, mental suffering, emotional suffering is much worse
than physical suffering.
For a strong, brave man, physical suffering is
not much.
They can put up with it.
But mental suffering will destroy you.
Filavashan, Rasulullah s.a.w. had to suffer
that.
His own uncle.
Again, in the Arab culture, the uncle is
like the father.
The uncle is equal to the father.
Abu Lahab was his own uncle.
The same Abu Lahab when Rasulullah s.a
.w. was born, he was wearing two gold
bands.
The slave girl who came and informed him
that your brother Abdullah, his wife had a
son, Abu Lahab was so happy, he freed
the slave and he gave her the two
gold bands.
Same Abu Lahab became his worst enemy.
How much that must have hurt him.
He was a man who had honour.
He was a man who had the title
of a Sadiq ul Ameen.
And he was abused in public.
Rasulullah s.a.w. He was abused in
public.
You know, it's a different thing.
If you are nobody, it's nobody.
But this is somebody who is hugely significant.
His grandfather is Abdul Muttalib.
He is the Sheikh ul Sheikh.
Sheikh ul Mashayikh.
He is the head of the tribe.
He is the man who discovered Zamzam.
Yet, when Allah s.w.t. gave him
power, Rasulullah s.a.w. forgave everyone.
When Julius Caesar conquered Gaul, Gaul had a
population of three million.
Julius Caesar slaughtered one million.
He made another one million slaves.
And the last one million he said, Welcome
to the Roman Empire.
This was the way of conquerors.
This was the way of conquerors.
That was the way of the time.
And believe me, this is the way even
today.
But when Rasulullah s.a.w. conquered Mecca,
what happened?
He enters Mecca.
He is bent down like this.
Rasulullah s.a.w. with his blessed head
almost touching the pommel of the saddle.
And he says, Allah
said there is no one worthy of worship.
No God except Allah.
It is true to his promise.
And he gave victory and he helped his
slaves.
And he defeated the armies, the confederates by
himself, alone.
Rasulullah s.a.w. did not enter and
say, Hey, I am the victor, I am
the greatest.
No.
Bent down.
This has nothing to do with me.
This is my Lord.
People who harmed him.
People who caused him so much pain.
He forgave them.
Completely.
Today there is no blame on you.
Like Yusuf s.a.w. said to his
brothers.
He stood on the door of the Kaaba.
He called them.
So they all came.
Because now he is the commander.
He has 10,000 soldiers.
So they come.
When you call them, they come.
So they all came.
He said, What shall I do with you?
They said, You are our honoured brother.
You are the son of our honoured brother.
Which honoured brother?
Same one you chased out.
Same one you troubled and tortured and did
all kinds of things for 13 years.
Then you were not the honoured brother.
Now you are an honoured boy because the
honoured brother now has power.
Strange human being.
But Alhamdulillah.
So what does he do?
He says, Go.
Free.
That is why the people of Mecca who
became Muslim after Yusuf s.a.w. Conquered
Mecca.
They are called Atul Aqa.
They are called the freed slaves of Muhammad
s.a.w. Because it was his right
to make them slaves.
The other interesting thing which I always think
about.
He forgave everything.
Fine.
But now, he lost property, right?
He had his house, he had property.
The Sahaba who migrated, who went from Mecca
to Madinah, Mahajirul, they all lost property.
But Rasul s.a.w. never asked for
his property back.
Think about that.
Did he ever say, Okay, fine.
I will not kill you, I will not
punish you, no slavery.
But you took my land, give it back.
My house was here and my house was
worth so many thousands or whatever it was,
dinar.
Give me that money, compensation.
Don't give me more, I am not asking
for ten times.
Ten dollars, give me my ten dollars.
He did not ask, no Mahajir asked.
Nobody.
This is the Waqar of the Nabi s
.a.w. He does not ask except from
Allah.
So my question to myself and you.
Who am I willing to forgive right now?
So, look in your heart.
Whoever you have in your heart about whom
you feel you may have some ill feeling,
some irritation, some anger, some enmity, something, forgive
them.
For the sake of Allah, forgive them right
now.
In your heart you say, I have forgiven
them.
Make dua to Allah s.w.t. Say,
Ya Rabb, I have forgiven this person.
You also forgive them.
You need not go and tell that person,
I forgave you, don't worry about that.
Sometimes people say, if I tell him now,
leave that.
You do it.
Please don't move until you make sure everyone
forgives everyone.
Wallah, jazakallah khair Sheikh.
No, seriously.
Sheikh is saying, don't move from here until
you forgive.
So I am going to sit here.
We will pray Tahajjud and Salatul Fajr and
everything.
Seriously, my brother and sister, I will tell
you something.
Today, one of the biggest problems, if not
the biggest problem, of our people is this.
We carry gadgets.
Somebody says something, we get upset, how can
he talk to me?
My Sheikh used to say, Ramadullah Ali, he
used to say, what is your haqiqa?
Somebody said, I am upset.
He said, why?
He said, because, you know, my Izzah.
He said, your Izzah?
So let's see, what is your Izzah?
I said, who are you?
I am Mirza Yawar Beg.
No, no, no, forget Mirza Yawar Beg.
Who are you?
He said, you are somebody who, when you
were established in the womb of your mother,
your father and mother both went and made
ghusl.
That is who you are.
You are a drop of *, which made
both your father and mother impure enough, their
wudu was not enough, they had to make
ghusl.
This is your haqiqa.
This is who you are.
Now what is the Izzah of this drop
of *, tell me?
Your Izzah?
What is your Izzah?
Whatever Allah has given, Imam Shafir Rahmatullah used
to say, if somebody is praising you, they
are not praising you, they are praising the
cover which Allah put over you.
They see the cover, they say, oh, mashallah,
mashallah.
Mashallah, what?
Your cover.
Not you.
They don't see you.
Alhamdulillah, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
always to keep the cover, never to remove
the inshallah from us.
So forgive.
Alhamdulillah, ya Allah, for you I have forgiven.
Don't worry about, he said this, he said,
makes no difference.
Alhamdulillah, let them say what they have to
say.
This is the supreme sign of confidence that
you are complete in yourself.
You do not need somebody from outside to
confirm you.
No, if you are getting offended, what does
it mean?
It means that if somebody from outside says
to me, oh, mashallah, mashallah, you are a
great sheikh, I know I am not a
great sheikh.
Why do I get…
Imam Shafir Rahmatullah, may I just…
So many beautiful things.
He said, if you do not want to
be offended when somebody insults you, don't feel
happy, no, he said, if you don't want
to be hurt when you get undeserved criticism,
right, if you don't want to be hurt
by undeserved criticism, don't be happy with undeserved
praise.
See the beauty.
He said, if you don't want to be
hurt with undeserved criticism, don't be happy with
undeserved praise.
What's our nature?
If somebody says, mashallah, mashallah, sheikh, you are
the ocean of darkness, mashallah, you are a
great scholar, I say, ah, mashallah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah,
la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah.
Which ocean of darkness?
Which sheikh?
Which what?
La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah.
I am not a sheikh.
I am a sheikh with a beard.
Because my beard is white.
No, there is no other reason for being
a sheikh.
You are, may Allah bless you.
People's kindness, alhamdulillah, may Allah bless the sheikh.
People's kindness.
Don't take it, don't believe it.
No, no, no, no, no.
Alhamdulillah.
We thank Allah.
That Allah SWT has put a good impression
in the minds of our brothers.
They make dua for me, alhamdulillah.
I say, please ask Allah to forgive me.
But never believe that, no.
You know who you are, right?
So we like to get praise.
When we get this big praise, we are
very happy.
But then somebody criticizes, oh, I did not
deserve that.
Of course you did not deserve that.
I agree.
You did not deserve the criticism.
But you did not deserve the praise also.
So why did you become happy with the
praise?
So make istighfar.
Make istighfar and forgive.
Whoever, whatever is in your heart.
The sheikh told me now, I cannot get
up unless you tell me to.
So, have you forgiven?
We start from there.
I will start myself.
Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
With everyone.
Alhamdulillah.
Me also.
Alhamdulillah.
Right?
Seriously, I am telling you, life will become
very easy and happy.
Forgiveness, the first person that forgiveness benefits is
the individual himself.
Your heart becomes clean.
You can sleep peacefully in the night.
There is nothing to bother you.
Yes?
So forgive everybody.
Alhamdulillah.
Leave it to Allah.
It is between Allah and that person.
Say, have I forgiven?
Ya Allah, I have forgiven them.
You forgive me.
Because Nabi S.A.W. said, have mercy
on the people of this earth and the
one on the Arsh will have mercy on
you.
And we have finally, I want to end
with this.
Nabi S.A.W. said, Allah S.W
.T. hides the faults of those who hide
the faults of others.
So become the lihaf of Allah for others.
If somebody, even if you see one of
your brothers or sisters doing something wrong, don't
broadcast that.
Don't inform others.
You cover it up.
In the khaybah of Jawaharlal Nehru, a beautiful
saying, he said, if I see my brother
with alcohol dripping from his beard.
Now imagine, the man is obviously drunk to
the extent where now he is pouring it.
He said, the alcohol is dripping from his
beard.
If I see my brother, alcohol dripping from
his beard, I will say, it was an
accident.
It fell there.
And if I hear him, he is standing
on the hilltop and he is saying, Then
I will say, he is reciting the Kalam
of Allah.
Hajeeb.
Husn-e zann about the brother.
He will not say, he is a kafir,
he is declaring, he is saying he is
God.
No, no, no, no.
He is reciting Quran.
This is an ayat from Surah Taha.
Alhamdulillah, he said.
Husn-e zann about the brothers.
And even if you know, I am not
saying be fooled.
Don't need to be fooled.
Even if you know something is wrong, cover
it up.
Cover it up.
If you are seriously interested, go and sit
with that brother alone by himself and say,
please, you are doing this thing, don't do
it.
My brother, please, have mercy.
Cover it up.
Don't go and broadcast it.
You know what this man is doing?
He is the president of the masjid.
He is the imam.
He is this.
This is la hawla wa la quwwata illa
billah.
No.
Don't do that.
Cover it up.
And make dua to Allah SWT.
Ya Rabb, please forgive my brother.
Ya Rabb, we are all weak.
Ya Rabb, he is weak, I am weak.
Please forgive him.
Strengthen him.
Make him strong.
Let him become, you know, get out of
this problem that he is in.
Because the biggest problem is disobedience of Allah
SWT.
So he is a big problem.
He is disobeying Allah.
Ya Allah, please forgive.
Right?
So, let us do that.
Matrix, like we said yesterday.
And then ask yourself.
If you are not able to forgive, ask
yourself, What is it that prevents me from
forgiving others?
Because I am holding back.
Remember, if I am not forgiving others, you
know what is the block?
The block is for Allah to forgive me.
This is the block.
When I am not forgiving somebody else, I
am putting a block between myself and Allah,
for Allah to forgive me.
Because Allah SWT said, You forgive the person,
I forgive you.
No, no, I won't forgive the person.
Which means what?
Allah won't forgive me.
I don't want that.
No?
I want to be forgiven.
So if I want to be forgiven, forgive
the individual.
I don't care what they did.
Nobody here, Alhamdulillah, has any injury done to
them, which is more than the injury done
to the Rasul of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He suffered more than you and I suffered,
and he forgave people.
So there is no reason why we cannot
and should not forgive people.
So forgive everybody.
Clean the heart.
Alhamdulillah.
And if there is still a block, ask
yourself, Why is this block?
Because this block is not between, this block
is between me and Allah.
So remove this block between me and my
Rabb.
So like we did yesterday, what will we
start doing?
What will we stop doing?
What will we continue to do?
Think about that.
Reflect on it InshaAllah.
We come to the close.
A final reminder, I remind myself and you,
that the Sahaba, Ridwanullahi Alaihi Majmain, their biggest
strength was that they acted.
They took action.
They did not sit and make bayan.
They did not sit and make khatarat.
They acted.
When they learned something, they implemented.
Whatever they learned, they immediately followed in their
lives.
So let us make this niyyah, that InshaAllah,
whatever I learn, I will apply in my
life.
Right?
Jahidun InshaAllah.
Mustahidun.
Ready InshaAllah?
Okay.
To bring the Seerah into our lives, to
live by Islam, to show the world Islam,
not for showing them in the sense of
riya, but in applying it in such a
way that Islam is presented before the world.
Like I said yesterday, I am saying again
today, I will say till I die, all
change can only begin with me.
If I change, then my environment will change.
I cannot say I will be the way
I am but our Sheikh must change, this
must change.
No, no, nobody will change.
I have to change.
If I change, then automatically something else will
happen.
If I am a lamp, and if I
come into a dark room, I want the
room to be lighted, what must I do?
Light myself.
I cannot simply sit there without lighting myself.
Everyone else light.
No.
Light yourself.
Right?
Alhamdulillah, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala Ali
Muhammad