Mohammad Elshinawy – The Story of a Man Who Committed 100 Murders
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The importance of storytelling in the development of human excellence is emphasized, with a focus on forgiveness and showing love for others. The use of words like "has been forgiven" and "has been forgiven" is emphasized, as it is not a result of forgiveness. The importance of avoiding forgiveness and protecting from evil behavior is emphasized, as it is a result of intentions. The importance of forgiveness is emphasized, and exposure to someone in one's own actions is emphasized. The use of words like "has been forgiven" and "has been forgiven" is also emphasized, as it is not a means of forgiveness.
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One of my all time favorite
stories,
true stories because he never uttered anything except
that it was true, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Is the story of the man who committed
a 100 murders.
And before I get into his story, let's
set the stage a little bit because this
is an authentically traced hadith in Bukhari and
Muslim that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
there used to be a man among the
people before you that killed how many?
No? Not a 100 yet. That was a
trick question. 99.
It's gonna be a 100 in a minute.
The issue is that you have to capture
before you walk in on this story
is that number 1, the power of stories.
Right? Human beings, we need stories.
This is why you would think
after they accused him sallallahu alaihi wasallam when
he came with the Quran that he's just
a storyteller,
you would think he'd stop telling stories and
not get accused with that more and more.
But that would have been a huge disservice
to the human project, right? To the project
of human excellence because Allah who created us
knows we need it.
And then, of course, they're right.
He is
no storyteller.
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The stories
he said to us are not just any
stories, right? They're not entertainment,
and they're not just told in any which
way,
Right?
There's no fillers, there's no extras, there's no
useless, there's no dangerous
detail.
It's all betterment,
it's all benefit, it is all wisdom, it
is all guidance.
So he said there used to be
among the people before
you
a man who killed 99 people.
When did this man exist?
The scholar said he existed among the later
generations
of Banu Israel,
the Israelites.
The Israelites, of course, you know who the
Israelites are. This is not the state of
Israel. State of Israel is a genocidal apartheid
state that co opted the name of a
great prophet of God, Israel, Yaqub alayhi salaam,
right? To try to justify the unjustifiable,
right? Two different things, don't ever get it
confused.
The children of Israel, the Israelites
are the children of Israel. Israel is Jacob,
Yaqub alayhi salaam. So they are the 12
tribes that stemmed from Prophet Jacob.
Got it?
The last of their prophets was Jesus, peace
be upon him. He was from the Israelites.
And after him people invented
monkship.
People, their heart was in the right place,
the Quran speaks about them. They invented like
the monastery life, the hermit life, they get
away from the corruption of society life and
live in isolation.
That practice was incorrect,
Allah rewarded them for their intentions.
But why all this? Why does all this
detail matter? It matters.
Because
number 1, it says that this man who
committed 99 murders went to a monk. So
that monk was the indication that this was
from the people after Jesus peace be upon
him because they invented monk ship. Allah said
in the Quran
monk ship that they invented.
And now that tells us they're from Banu
Israel, and Banu Israel
had
the penalty of murder
ramped up on them because they had become
people
of no conscience,
people of great brutality,
people of senseless violence in these later generations.
That is why when one person committed murder
in the time of Musa Alaihi Salam, he
sent the Prophet himself to investigate the murder
and the whole story of the cow that
we have in Surat Al Baqarah, right? And
that is also why many times, you know,
in
the interfaith or speaking to non Muslims context,
we cite the verse,
whomever kills an innocent soul,
it is like killing all of
humanity.
We actually often don't start the verse from
the beginning.
The verse from the beginning says,
because of that, because of that violent nature
they had spiraled into,
we made it on them such that
if they murder 1, they have murdered all
of
humanity.
So that the punishment was ramped up on
them because they were so prone to it.
Is that clear?
Now let's bring it back to our story.
How's that relevant to our story that he's
from Banu Israel and the punishment of murder
is so bad on Banu Israel? Because
this man committed genocide
of the human race 99
times, right? 99 people, each of them is
all of humanity.
That means he killed all of humanity, that's
how
grave his sin was.
All of humanity 99 times over and what
happens at the end of the story?
He's forgiven.
Which means
so long as you have
any life left in you, you too can
be forgiven.
And that is the meaning of Allah's name
Al Ghafoor,
the most forgiving.
Insha'Allah, before this talk is over, I will
share with you
the nuanced meanings, the sort of the slightly
deeper meanings of 3 or 4 or 5
of Allah's names and his attributes that should
be lenses for you, like we were talking
about earlier, through which you see the world.
Allah's name Al Ghafoor
means the Most Merciful,
meaning no matter how vast your sin is,
even if you've killed the human race 99
times over,
the only thing wider, bigger than your sin
is his forgiveness.
He is the most forgiving, the most vast.
As Imam al Shafi'irahibahullah,
it was reported about him as he was
dying, he said in earnest to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, the sincere plea,
My sins became so great in my eyes.
Sometimes shaitan does that. Shaitan tells you your
sin is no big deal, go ahead and
do it. Then you do it and he
flips the script on and tells you your
sin is so big, you'll never be forgiven.
You can never be one of those righteous
people, don't even try anymore. You see the
game he plays with people. So Ashaifa is
saying one time my sin became overwhelming for
me to think about,
but then when I compared it with your
forgiveness, my lord, I found that your forgiveness
was greater.
And that is why no matter what haram
you ever commit in your life,
it's not a bigger haram than
believing Allah can't forgive it.
Can you imagine how wonderful Allah is? It
is haram for you to believe.
It's the greatest haram for you to believe
he can't forgive you
because that's who he is Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So this man killed 99 people.
Hadith says, and then Allah opened his heart
to repent.
And there's a lesson here too. Notice there's
no fillers.
Ever. There's a lesson here as well.
Who opened whose heart? Allah opened his heart
to be forgiven. Meaning what? Allah interested him
in being forgiven.
Some people want they're like, can I be
forgiven? Yeah. You know how I know you
can be forgiven? The fact that you're interested
means Allah wants to forgive
you because
some people are never interested. They're just past
that guilt, they just keep it moving, they're
no longer seeking to reform,
right? The one that turned your attention, that
stirred your interest in forgiveness is the one
who wants to forgive you,
right?
And that is Allah's name by the way,
at Tawwab, one of Allah's names at Tawwab.
Tawba is repentance, when you come to Allah
and repent.
But actually it's his name, at tawba
because he comes to you
to invite you first to come to him.
So he comes first.
That's why even, it sounds a little bit
weird in English,
but some of the scholars say you never
make tawba. Tawbah literally, like in the language
it means a u-turn.
You never come back to Allah, you never
make tawbah, you never repent except that your
tawbah is sandwiched between 2 tawbas from Allah.
They don't mean Allah seeking your forgiveness. It
means Allah comes to you so that he
invites you, so that you come to him.
And if you do, if you take him
up on the offer and you respond quickly,
right?
He comes back to you again with the
acceptance of that repentance, the acceptance of that
plea of yours. So he came to you
twice and he came to you first even
though you're the one that needs their needs
the forgiveness.
So that's his name, at Taweb.
So if ever you want to be forgiven,
if ever you want to change, you need
to know Allah will because he's the one
that opened your heart to it to begin
with.
So Allah opens his heart to this idea
and so he says, Direct me to the
most knowledgeable person on earth.
And that's from Allah's great tawfiq, Allah's great
divine grace for this man that he looked
for the right person.
Yes?
Like,
if I want God, I'm I'm gonna have
proper respect. You know, one brother earlier was
talking to me about like what is and
isn't proper respect for the masjid. It's true.
When you come to the masjid, it's certain
ada, right? You wanna make your wudu, you
want to sort of like turn off your
phone, you want to sort of not step
over anyone else's shoulder, you want to sort
of Because
how you present yourself
is part of the glorification
of what's at hand. You're recognizing
this is sacred. Yes?
Likewise,
when you want Allah, you don't just ask,
hey man, you think God will forgive me?
What do you think I should do? Should
I throw a few dollars in the box?
Right? Should I just Google
it? If you really want it, you'll approach
it right. So he said what? Direct me
to the most knowledgeable person on earth,
Fadaluhu
ala Rahib. So they asked, they directed him
to a monk. You know a Rahib means
like a a guy, a hermit,
you know, in the monastery,
a worshiper.
That's what he is. Someone has sort of
separated himself from society, and we don't do
that in Islam by the way. In Islam
we are taught no such thing as celibacy,
like to categorically refuse to get married, and
like isolationism like you just cut yourself off,
you run for the hills,
in a very limited capacity that may be
temporarily allowed, but by and large, no, we
have a better balance in our deen. You
mix with people to help better them and
better yourself. You'd be doing shaitan a great
favor by telling the best of people, go
off, don't have kids, don't make families,
don't advise those who need the advice, right?
So we don't really have that.
However, I want you to catch the fact
that he asked for knowledgeable
and they directed him
to someone that was
devotional,
right? And this is a mistake that many
many people make
that you should be careful about. There is
a humongous difference
between someone that is sincere
within their own themselves,
a worshiper, right?
He prays and prays more than the rest
of us and fast and fast more than
the rest of us and recites and recites
more than the rest of us and cries
more than the rest of us. Don't wrong
this guy because Allah is very protective of
these people.
But still these people do not compare because
they ultimately for the most part only benefit
themselves.
Maybe we'll get some inspiration from seeing them,
observing them, you're inspired, you're moved, you're motivated,
but there's a difference between Al Aabit, the
worshiper,
and Al A'lim, the scholar. And the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, The distinction between the
Aalim,
the scholar, and the aabit and the worshiper
is like the distinction of me over the
least of you.
In another narration he said like the difference
between
the the moon on the night when it's
full
and any other star. You know on the
full moon night, you can't see any other
star, they just don't show up. But when
it's a darker night, it's not quite a
full moon or anywhere close to it, you
can start identifying the stars.
Yes?
So it eclipses, there's no comparison to begin
with. But most people actually don't know how
to differentiate.
So like, you know, you see someone like
long beard and wears a hat and maybe
dresses like me or something and, right? And
they pray next to you and as soon
as Allah is over, like you notice that
maybe he, you know, he had a moment
with Allah or he's like his eyes have
some tear in. Like, Sheikh, listen. I said
to her she's divorced, she's divorced, she's divorced.
Does it count as 3 or count as
And you ask him this really complicated question.
Sheikh, cryptocurrency.
Yes or no? Right?
There's a difference.
And so anyway, they directed him to a
man that was not very knowledgeable but they
confused
the scholar
or the worshiper for the scholar. And so
he went to the man, he said to
him, I killed 99
souls.
Can I be forgiven? Could someone like me
be forgiven?
So the man said, absolutely not. Oh my
God,
99 people. And so he got angry and
relapsed into his bad habit and killed him
too. Made it a 100 even.
Of course, this worshiper, due to his lack
of knowledge and possibly due to his lack
of piety,
made a huge mistake
that could have costed him more than his
life.
It costed him his life,
but it could have costed him his hereafter
as well, which is what?
Who are you even if you are a
scholar to say this individual will not be
forgiven? That is nobody's.
In Islam, on the individual level, you are
never allowed to pass a verdict, no matter
who you are, even if you were the
prophet of God.
Forget scholar now, we're talking prophet domain now.
Even the prophet.
Allah says, Say to them,
O Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, O Prophet,
I am nothing new, I come with the
same
mission and message of the previous prophets,
and I don't know what's gonna happen to
me, I don't know what's gonna happen to
you. Of course, later verses came to tell
him that he has been forgiven for past
and future and going to paradise but at
that time until Allah told him, he doesn't
even know what's happening to him. And likewise,
we don't know what's happening to us as
individuals.
How can we ever know what's gonna happen
to another individual?
There's only revelation. Revelation reveals the secret. Secrets
are revealed.
We know fir'awns in the hellfire. We know
the prophets are in terror. After that, that's
it.
He could be the most righteous person in
your eyes. He could be the biggest shaitan
in your eyes, hands off.
Don't play God, right?
So this man wasn't a scholar and you
know, like also it's, this guy killed 99
people, man, slow down. Like say, let me
ask a friend, let me text somebody, get
out of there.
But he answered so quickly.
That was not just lack of wisdom and
lack of knowledge. Let me bring it to
the fact that it could be lack of
piety. You see, this man could have been
so pious in his own eyes, right? He
wouldn't even kill an ant. So when he
saw this person kill people,
99 people, it just he could not imagine,
could not imagine that Allah would have mercy
on him.
But Allah's mercy is beyond our imagination, isn't
it?
And so he killed him.
Hold your tongue ladies and gentlemen,
let alone about this subject. You know the
other poet he says what? He says,
Hold your tongue O insan, O human being.
Don't be stung by it, it is a
turban, it's a snake.
How many there are? The meaning there are
so many in the graveyards,
victims of their own tongues
that the bravest of men were afraid to
confront. Nobody wanted to step to this guy
but he did
his own self in, right? He was his
own demise. He didn't need to get anyone
else taking him down. He took himself down
with what? This little piece of flesh in
his mouth,
right?
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said to
us specifically about people's fates, people's outcome in
the hereafter,
that
there's many wordings in Sahih Bukhari, but there's
a more elaborate wording in Sunan Abu Dawood
where the prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam said,
there were 2 brothers among
Banu al Salait, 40 years they're brothers, meaning
they're very tight. 1 of them was righteous,
one of them was a menace. And the
righteous one is always telling the menace, fear
Allah, this is not allowed, that is not
allowed, don't do this.
Until
one time the menace,
the wicked one said to his brother,
get out of my face,
did Allah make you my supervisor?
I'm paraphrasing
the translation.
And so the righteous one slipped,
slipped bad. And he said,
I swear Allah will not forgive you.
Notice that's a slip
of arrogance,
right? You didn't say that for 40 years.
The moment he messes with you, you say
it? Like, is that the biggest sin offending
you? So do you are you the truth
or are you a caller to truth? Right?
And so he said to him, Allah won't
forgive you for that one.
Look how subjective.
Allah then takes them back, either immediately or
eventually at the end of their lives. And
he says to the righteous one,
Did you have knowledge about did I reveal
to you I wouldn't forgive him? Or do
you have control over what's in my hands?
Do you own paradise and hellfire? Are you
God? Man that hadith begins, who is the
one that swears about me that I won't
forgive?
I have forgiven him and I have forfeited
your lifetime of deeds, drag him to the
fire.
May Allah protect us.
And so,
and this is
you know for pulling in Allah Azza wa
Jal's name, this is Allah's name Al Aziz,
he is the Most Mighty, he is the
Almighty Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
He's not harmed by sin, right? And he
does not give
his sovereignty, his kingdom, his domain to his
creation. This is off limits,
right? And whomever
challenges Allah in what is exclusively his, Allah
breaks Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And so he killed him and completed a
100.
The hadith says, and then Allah
opened for him
a door to repent, meaning Allah interested him
again.
This is very important.
He wanted to be forgiven,
messed up again,
wanted to be forgiven.
It is not one of the conditions
for your repentance to be valid that you
stop committing the sin. No.
It is one of your the conditions that
you be determined
to stop.
But if Allah knows you're gonna go back
to it in 5 minutes or 5 days
or 5 months, he will not hold that
against you because you were firm
in your intention. You don't know the future,
you were serious about trying.
And this by the way is the meaning
of Allah's name Al Ghaffar.
Al Ghaffar, remember I said Al Ghaffar is
the most forgiving?
Al Ghafar
is the repeatedly,
the recurrencely,
the perpetually forgiving. He forgives the same sin
over and over and over and over again.
And by the way, while we're here, one
of the signs that Allah will forgive your
sins, it's not the only sign but is
that he conceals it.
Many times we have sins that people don't
know about, sins at home, sins that even
people at home don't know about.
If he has not exposed you yet,
this is of the great signs that you
will be forgiven if you seek it.
We get that from the hadith of the
prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
wherein he said that on the day of
judgment, Allah will bring his believing slave close.
He will have a private conversation. And the
billions, maybe trillions of people there, Allah will
take some people like behind the curtain. Like
you know, let me step to this, let's
talk on the side, I don't want anyone
to hear. Allah is protective, he's sateer, he
loves to conceal, right? And he says to
him, do you remember this and this and
this and this and and he will say,
I can't deny any of it to Allah.
And then Allah Azawajal
will say to him, this is the part,
the point of reference.
I have concealed it for you in this,
in that world and I forgive it for
you today.
So of the signs that you will be
forgiven on that day is when you are
concealed
in this world.
Does that mean if you get exposed,
you will not be forgiven? No.
You might be. At times someone uses up
all their chances and Allah knows they don't
have enough faith inside them. And so being
exposed is part of them
getting
supercharged,
to be serious this time.
You know one time, Umar al Khattab,
RadiAllahu An, may Allah be pleased with Umar.
He A man was apprehended and brought to
him
and he said to him, please, please don't
punish me, it's the first time. Umar said,
you're lying.
Allah is too sateer, he loves concealment too
much
to expose you from the first time. You
must have done it more times and that's
why he exposed you. And sometimes being exposed
will send you down a dark path, people
know anyway so I'm just gonna keep doing
it now. May Allah protect us. That's a
bad sign, right? Remember no more U-turn, no
more interest, right? But if you get exposed
and it makes you better, like the humiliation
in front of the people
compliments, supports,
right?
Because the humiliation in front of Allah is
not very strong in you yet, your faith
is not there yet and that's still in
your best interest. But if he conceals you
to begin with, that's a great sign.
Right?
So
back to the fact that he killed a
100 people now,
then he still wants to repent.
That's what you gotta do.
No matter how many times Satan knocks you
down, you get up that many times. That's
it.
And he says, I need to be forgiven,
direct me to the most knowledgeable person on
earth.
And so this time
they direct him to a scholar, the hadith
says, Deluhu ala'ale. So he goes to the
scholar
and he says soon, I've killed a 100
people.
Can someone like me be forgiven? Can I
ever be a good person?
And the scholar says to him,
and what could ever bar you from
repentance? What can ever get in the way
of you being forgiven by the most forgiving,
by Allah?
However,
this is scholar now, right? Like he didn't
give him what he wants, He gave him
what he needs and the way he wants.
And balancing hope and fear is is a
difficult thing because it varies from individual to
individual how much they need right now. He
sends from him he really wants it. He
said, okay, you can have it. Gave that
to him upfront. However,
on the condition that you leave this land
of yours,
it's a bad place
and sometimes that is the condition. Remember we
said so long as you're serious
If you're serious, you'll relocate.
Right? You'll leave that room or leave that
circle or leave whatever. The environment is huge.
He said to him, leave this place but
for it is a bad place.
How did the scholar know it was a
bad place?
That's the question.
It's easy, like, I'm I'm gonna do that.
Okay. So probability is usually the environment. You
say if he's already killed 99 in this
area, it must be having a bad effect
on him. So probability environment. Yeah. That's a
good answer. Anybody have anything else?
Well, sort of.
How in the world
without machine guns
did he kill a 100 people?
How?
Because nobody stopped him. That makes it a
bad place.
If you're in a place
where people will not be stopping you from
the evil you're doing,
then that's enough to know it's a because
think about it, he said direct me to
the most knowledgeable person on earth. So they
could have sent him to somebody like 3
countries down, right?
2 countries make a left.
One of those things, right?
So how does that guy even know his
neighborhood? He doesn't need to know it. It's
enough that you're able to kill 100 people
there. That means there's no righteous individual there
that knows how to check you, put you
in your place, stop you.
That means it's a bad place and that's
a lesson for everybody.
If you
allow yourself to lock yourself
into the what we call nowadays echo chambers,
All I hear are my ideas or approval
of my ideas
or repetition of my ideas reverberating around me,
echoing around me, that's a dangerous place to
be.
You want thoughtful,
sincere,
disagreeing voices,
dissenting voices within earshot of you.
Umar radhiallahu anhu when people would hesitate to
give him nasiha
because, right? Umar,
may Allah be pleased with him, he would
say to them there is no good in
you if you don't say it And there
is no good in me if I don't
remain receptive to it.
This is profound because the Ummah is a
leader and leaders are often
at, you know, at the bull's eye, in
the crosshairs
of unfair criticism. In general, people don't just
don't understand what they go through, the decisions
they have to make, no one understands. So
most of the criticism leaders get is unfair.
This is true. It's a fact.
And yet he knows he has to remain
receptive to it even if most of it
is
off the mark.
And he's telling them, you keep advising and
I keep listening or else it's no good
in either of us.
And so he says to him,
but leave this land of yours and go
to this other place where there are people
that live righteous lives and worship Allah with
them.
So he sets out
and in the middle of
the way,
death overtakes him.
And so he
falls
and he dies.
And Allah Azawajal sends the angels of mercy
to take his soul
and the angels of punishment take his soul.
And so they begin to dispute over his
soul.
The angels of mercy say,
he left his house determined
to change his life.
He left having intended his repentance,
knew you, right? Knew him.
So he's a new person
and the angels of punishment saying
he has not done any good in his
life.
He hasn't done anything yet.
And so Allah Azzawajal sent a 3rd angel
in the form of a man, the Hadith
says.
And he says, Let me judge between you.
And they agree,
They defer to his judgment.
And he says,
we are going to measure the distance between
the two lands, whichever of them he is
closer to
will associate him with that land.
And so they measure this way and they
measure that way and the Prophet Alaihi Wasallam
says, Allah inspires this land
inspires this
land
to move away.
And he inspires this land to get closer.
You know what that means?
That means he was closer
to where
He was closer to the place he committed
murder
and Allah changed it.
You see that? Why did this have to
happen? Why let's measure and not So that
he can reveal to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam this incident so we can see his
mercy illustrated. That's what it's for. Allah could
have just sent the right angels,
right? They're from the beginning, Allah knows ultimately,
right?
And so he commanded this land to move.
Allah changes the earth, its formation
for the tawba of people. We ask Allah
Azza wa Jal to give us a good
tawba that will change the formation of the
earth in the favor of the oppressed everywhere.
He commands the land where he committed the
murders to move away
and he commands the land where he would
be turning a new leaf to come closer
until he is
found closer to the land of reform
by a shibr. You know what a shibr
is? A Shibr isn't the way they used
to measure before rulers and measuring sticks. It's
the distance between your thumb and your So
they they used to do this
like that is how they measure. One hand
span closer to that land and so the
angels of mercy have him.
And some of the the sub narrators of
the Hadith Al Hasan I believe Rahimahullah
said,
Waqadidnaabi
sadrihi, the man when he was walking and
before he had died,
he leaned his chest forward like he was
just trying to get a little bit closer
as he died.
May Allah Azawajal
be with him and
allow us to meet this great man in
paradise.
And so, ultimately,
Allah Azawajal will not just forgive you if
your tawba is true.
He will forgive you
and love you. You know that's the difference.
Do you realize that we must always reflect
on the fact that there's 7,000,000,000 people on
earth approximately right now.
Any one of them can be loved by
Allah Azawajal
because he is alwadud, he's the most loving.
With human beings,
you can forgive someone but it's hard to
forget the pain,
right?
But to love them like before or even
more than that,
this may be impossible for humans. Right? Like
I forgive you, it's fine, you're Muslim now,
it's good, you know all of that, right?
Like Umar Radialahu Han actually his brother, he
had a brother named Zaid who was killed
by a man,
and then that man became Muslim. So Umar,
one time when he was Khalifa, he saw
he saw this man, he's like, he did
this look like, is that him?
And he said, so why are you looking
at me like that? He said, you're so
and so. You killed my brother.
He said, yeah, I did. I mean years
ago, years decades ago.
He said, so that's why I'm looking at
you like that. I don't like you.
He said, will that prevent me from any
of my rights like with Allah or like
in the like am I in trouble right
now? He said, no, just don't like you.
He said no, that's fine. It's your business.
Nothing to do with me. Right? It's just
we can't flip the switch, right? But Allah
Azzawajal is Al Ghafoorul Wadud.
He's the one that forgives anything and everything
for those who repent
and conceals them until they repent and loves
them after they repent.
You know there's the story,
and I'll wrap up here of
the man from the people of Musa Alaihi
Salam. Musa Alaihi Salam was leading Banu Israel
during his lifetime, they suffered a very difficult
drought
and they were pleading to Allah Azawajal.
They all came out together to appeal to
Allah, Allah we're dying here and the animals
will die and the people will die, we
need rain, oh Allah have mercy on us.
And then nothing was being answered until finally
Allah Azawajal revealed
to Musa Alayhi Salaam, There is among you
a man that has been challenging me, defying
me
with sins for 40 years.
Tell him to leave from among you
and you will get your reign.
So Musa Alaihi Salam stands in front of
Ben al Saraihi and he gives them a
sermon, he says to them,
whoever you are, whatever you've been doing for
40 years, all the crimes you've been committing,
at the very
least, don't commit the crime of killing us
all. Right? Just leave. Let that be your
good deed essentially. Just leave.
And then
nobody left,
and then they got the rain.
So Musa alaihis salam alaihis yalla, nobody left
but when you gave us the rain, what
happened? He said he made tawba to me
just like that, you repented.
That's why I gave you the rain.
He said to him, you Allah show me
this righteous servant of yours. Like this is
the man whose whose repentance was so powerful,
was so sincere that you moved the clouds
and finally sent them our way and we
haven't seen them for ages and show him
to me this righteous servant of yours.
And so,
Allah Azawajal said to Musa Alaihi Wasallam,
O Musa,
for 40 years
he defies me and I conceal him.
The day he repents to me I'm gonna
expose him,
you can't see
him. And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
mentioned to us 2 ahadith about the cutoff
of repentance.
The first of them is in Sayyid Muslim
wherein he said, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
Allah yabsutuyadahu
binaha liatuba musiullay
Allah extends his hands by day so that
those who sinned at night may repent.
And he extends his hand by night so
that those who sin during the day may
repent.
And this will continue to happen
10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years,
right? Imagine someone holding their hand out for
you that long.
Parents even, they're the last ones but even
they have a breaking point and they give
up on their children sometimes and they stop
waiting sometimes, they stop leaving the lights on
sometimes, they stop leaving the door open sometimes.
As rare as that is even parents,
but Allah continues to do it extend his
hand that though he gets nothing from it
until the sun rises from the West.
Meaning so long as this world remains,
the door of repentance remains open.
And the second of the 2 hadith is
a Haythabullah ibn Amrud al Aas radiAllahu anhu
man wherein he said that the prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
said, Inna Allah Iyakubalu
taubatal abidi ma'alam yukaragir
Allah will continue
to accept the repentance of his servant so
long as he does not rattle
or gargle, meaning the rattling of the soul
as it exits the throat.
So so long as this world has not
ended
or your last moments in this world have
not ended,
Allah will accept from you your repentance.
So long as you try, so long as
you regret, so long as you try.
But when that moment comes
that repentance is not repentance.
That repentance is a wish
because there's no room to intent. You know
there's no room and so the intention is
not an intention, it's an idea, it's a
wish.
So make it a reality today and know
that Allah's forgiveness
and mercy and compassion and concealment
is mind blowing. May Allah
grant us the greatest share of it in
the next world and allow us to fully
access it and take advantage of it in
this world.