Morad Awad – The Problem of Sins
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The speakers discuss the difficulty of avoiding sin and the importance of knowing and understanding Islam's rules. They stress the need for individuals to imagine scenarios and consequences of sin in their daily lives, and advise avoiding fear and remorse. They also emphasize the importance of accepting promises and forgiveness as means of graduation. The speakers stress the importance of not taking pride and allowing negative thoughts to accumulate, and encourage listeners to accept their promises and forgive their actions as means of graduation.
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Brothers and sisters,
I remind myself and yourselves
on this blessed day of yamuljumu'atafir
As Allah
said in the noble Quran,
after
All you who believe,
fear Allah the way he should be feared
and do not die
except in the state of submission to him.
We ask Allah to die in the state.
And we ask Allah to be resurrected in
the state. And we ask Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
to keep our hearts firm
on
this state, the state of complete and total
submission to Him. Amin.
Brothers and sisters,
in the
times that we live in,
and in the place that we live in,
there's no doubt
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has surrounded us
with
an immense amount of blessings
and comfort in life and in livelihood.
Seeing what is going on around the world,
and seeing
our daily struggles here,
and how they are different from
those who are
oppressed
in the lands, those
who are living in war torn countries,
those who are living in poverty
around the world. We realize,
and we have to realize and recognize how
much of a bounty Allah bestowed upon us
and thank Him for this.
But with this,
we also live in a time and place
where it is
extremely
difficult
to cling on to this deen. It is
extremely
difficult
to avoid sin
Because we live in a society
where sin is accessible,
where sin is normalized,
where sin
is seen as something good in certain cases.
And as a matter of fact, we live
in a society
where it is abnormal
to avoid sin in certain
When we talk about certain types of sins.
And because of this,
it is extremely hard to hold on to
the deen and the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam
told us this.
He told us that there will come a
time
in the future
where the person who is holding on to
their deen,
it is tougher for them
to do this than to hold on to
a burning piece of coal.
And I want everyone to imagine when the
prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam gives us an
example,
we don't just let it pass without imagining
it.
We should imagine holding coal. We all did
barbecues before.
We all know what burning coal is like.
Imagine holding on to this.
The prophet said,
holding on to this
is simpler and easier
than holding on to the deen on in
these times.
And there's no doubt that we live in
these times where it is so difficult to
cling on to our faith.
A lot of us,
we go about our day to day lives.
We might listen to khutbanjumah
like today. We might listen to a lecture
on our way to work, on our way
back.
We might have someone who's close to us,
a good friend who reminds us of Allah
but then it's over.
It's there.
We get reminded
for an hour,
2 hours,
3 hours,
one day, but then we go back
to the same vicious cycle
of sin.
Sin brothers and sisters,
is something that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
warned us against
in multiple ayat in the Quran.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not just
tell us
to avoid it.
Allah describe those who are successful
as
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he described
those who believe as those who are constantly
avoiding sin.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he reminded us that we have
on our right and our left side angels
who are waiting for everything
that comes out of our tongue.
Everything
that we do so that they can record
it and then it will be read to
us on the day of judgement.
It is so difficult for us
to imagine this in our day to day
lives being submerged in this fitan.
These tests that surround us in every aspect
of our life.
Whether it's when we go to school or
when we drop our kids to school,
when we go to work and we do
all types of dealings in business, and when
we have to engage ourselves in all types
of things that
perhaps are displeasing to Allah and are sinful
in nature.
Everyday,
we go in and out things
that the sahab
would have saw as mountains on top of
their heads.
As a matter of fact, Alas radiAllahu ta'ala
said in a narration,
and he lived he was the longest living
sahabi
after the one of the longest living sahabis
after the Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam.
He said that,
there are sins that you see
smaller than the Abid.
Some of these sins you see
are so light and small. At the time
of Rasulullah
we used to see like mountains
on top of our heads.
There's no doubt
that this is the time of the tabi'een
and the tabi'i tabi'een.
So imagine in our
times, imagine how light we see these sins.
Well I was preparing,
when I was preparing for this hutba,
I was
reading
some of what
the salaf said.
Some of how the sahaba spoke about sins.
When the sahaba gave a khutba
about sin, what would they say?
And I stumbled upon
a khutba for Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu.
Turjuman al Quran, one of the most noble
sahaba
and one of the most knowledgeable
of the companions of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
He stood up
because he wouldn't only give khutba khutba to
to students of knowledge.
Tulabna Abbas,
Every day of the week was for a
particular knowledge.
One day is all tafsir, no other. One
day is all hadith, no other. One day
is all fiqh, no other. One day is
all Arabic language, no other. And he would
go about his life like this. He would
dedicate whole days to one
aspect of knowledge or one science.
But he gave one day to the public,
to the people, and he would stand up
on the pulpit and he would advise the
people whether it's in a khutba or in
a lecture.
And in this particular khutba,
Abdullah ibn Abbas
who
said, and I would say it in Arabic
and then I would translate it into English.
And he
gave this khutbaan, directed it to the people
of sin.
Because even he noticed that the people became
more and more easy going when it came
to sin.
He said,
He said, O
sinner.
O sinner.
Do not
feel comfortable
with the consequences of your sin.
Because you must know that what comes after
the sin,
maybe greater than the sin itself.
What comes after the sin
maybe
greater than the sin itself.
You knowing
or
you
not being shy from the angels on the
right and the left, writing your sins
may be greater than the actual sin itself.
And whilst
you are laughing
and smiling
and enjoying this sin,
that by itself, by Allah can be even
greater than the sin itself.
And perhaps
your joy
when you finally attain this sin,
when you are traveling to do it, when
you are going to get it, when you
are searching for it and then you'll find
it and you'll get it. That joy that
you feel
is perhaps greater than this actual sin itself.
And then he continued saying in his
And perhaps
your feeling of remorse
or your sadness
when you want to do the sin but
don't get a chance to do it, that
feeling of sadness
is greater than the sin itself.
And then he says,
And you
being fearful
of the winds passing by to uncover you
to the people,
And them
discovering
you in this sin
and not being fearful of Allah. Being constantly
watching you and
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
He
said,
For 18 years,
he was tested
with a sickness
and afflicted with pain.
For 18 years until everyone left him, all
his close friends. Although he was the noblest
of his people,
little by little as his pain got excessive
and his sickness prolonged,
the people stopped coming to visit him. By
the end, it was only his wife and
his close close friend who never stop visiting
him. Everyone else forgot about Ayub alaihis salam.
What was the lamb of Ayub alaihis salam
that Allah tested him for this long as
a prophet?
That test
and calamity befell him because
one miskeen,
one needy person, one oppressed person came to
him and told him, can you help me
uplift this oppression?
Can you help me against this oppressor?
And he did not help him.
And that was enough for this test.
So do not belittle
the sin brothers and sisters. Do not look
down
at the sin.
Do not think
that the sin is something light because the
in the past they said
that That insisting on a small sin
is like doing one of the major ones.
Fear Allah, brothers and sisters. Fear Allah, when
you're by yourselves, fear Allah,
when
you
are constantly in the state of dying,
when your age is only getting
older and older, and your time is getting
nearer and nearer and Allah is sending signs
to you left and right. Signs
on your body like white hair, like wrinkles,
like back pain, like joint pain. And when
you see signs of your friends and people
around you that are of your age that
are dying
and being afflicted with all types of tests
and calamities.
Fear Allah,
when you know that
death is approaching you and you are but
merely days,
hours,
minutes
and seconds,
That is what you are comprised of. That
is what we are comprised of brothers and
sisters in Islam. So let us fear Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Let us fear Allah and forget those childish
days, those days of heedlessness,
those days of forgetfulness,
those days of godlessness.
It is time to make the change before
it is too late. Do we want to
be in a casket like the brother today?
We prayed a janazah after the first jumu'ah.
And everyday
someone dies.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
Our Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then he said,
And then you see people from around you
being taken and taken and taken yet we
still do not take heed.
Taking heed brothers and sisters is not by
listening to a khutba and shedding a tear.
Taking heed
is not by changing for 1 or 2
days.
Taking
heed is not by saying, Wow. That's deep.
Man, I like your khutba. Allahu Akbar. That
is not taking heed. As a matter of
fact, that is a sign against you and
that is a proof against you on the
day of judgement.
But the one who is awake, the one
who is wakeful, the one who truly expects
to meet Allah with their actions is the
one that listens
and then obeys.
Listens
and takes accountability
and responsibility.
And the one who listens
to the haqq,
and then follows it.
Indeed the ones who remember are the ones
who truly believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We ask Allah to make us from them.
The poet said,
Leave the times
of of of enjoyment
when you are young. Leave the times of
foolishness when you are young and remember instead
the sins that are going to be accumulating
against you on the day of judgement.
Indeed the angels did not stop
recording when you stopped thinking about them. Indeed,
they wrote more when you stopped thinking about
them.
And know that this dunya that you're running
and chasing after. This dunya that you're trying
so hard to attain. The wealth, the status,
the cars, the houses, the respect, the nobility,
the status. Everything
will end and only Allah's face will remain.
It will all stop. It will all cease
to exist. And then when you are resurrected,
the only
right now we're wearing, we're wearing beautiful custom
made thobes. We're wearing Gucci. We're wearing
Prada. We're wearing nice clothes, designer clothes that
we go and pick and choose. But on
the day of judgement,
the only thing that will clothe you
is
or are
the good deeds that you accumulated in this
life. So let us The same way we
shop for clothes and we pick the best
garments for ourselves and the best smells for
ourselves, let us go and prepare the garment
for the akhirah. Let us prepare the garment
for yomul kiyama. Let us prepare the garment.
We will meet Allah
with yomulqiyama.
So that Allah says to us,
Let us be from the ones who Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala tells,
O
nafs.
O nafs that was very tranquil and calm.
That was very serene
in this dunya, comfortable with the promise of
Allah.
Come back to me.
Come back to me with pleasure
and with my pleasure.
Enter into my jannah.
Enter with my righteous servants. We ask Allah
to make us from the righteous.
We ask
Allah
to make us from those who are completely
forgiven for their sins. O Allah, accept our
tawba. Oh Allah, make this a day for
us
that is recognized as a day of repentance
by you You Rabbi Alameen.
Oh Allah, make this
jum'ana pass except with a sincere repentance to
You from every sin that we did. Oh
Allah,
we repent to You from all the false
and short repentances that we did in the
past. O Allah, forgive us. O Allah, we
ask you on this blessed day of yomuljumu'ah
where you promised to answer dua.
We ask you, You Rabbi Alameen, to accept
our du'a and to forgive us for our
sins, and to make us obedient to You,
You Rabbi Alameen. And to make us obedient
to our parents. And we we ask you,
You Allah, to make us beakers of light
and du'a'at in this land. We ask you,
You Allah, to make to guide us, and
to guide with us, and to guide through
us, and to make us sources of guidance
to others, You
Allahu Akbar.
Sameya Allahu
Liman
Just a couple quick announcements inshallah.
So tonight we have a action packed night
after the tarbia program.
Right? And between Maghrib and Isha, for the
whole community,
we have Sheikh Abdul Adib and Sheikh Ahmadib
who came all the way from Michigan,
from Toledo.
Is that Ohio or Michigan?
Ohio. Yeah. Ohio. Right? He came from Toledo,
Ohio to join us today Insha'Allah
to do a special program
about the
3 first commandments to humanity by Allah
It's gonna be a nice panel discussion.
And it doesn't finish there. It gets even
better. After 'ishah, we have the world renowned
Qari,
Sheikh Hassan Salih joining us tonight, Insha Allah
Ta'ala.
Him and a panel of Quran that are
gonna do Qur'anic recitations,
they're gonna do some nasheed, and we're gonna
kick it and have fun like we always
do on Friday nights, inshaAllah ta'ala. So make
sure you do come tonight bayibn Allah Azawajal.
Bring your family, bring your kids. And for
the tarbia program, make sure to come 6
PM sharp if your kids are registered for
the tarbia program inshallahta'ala.
Asar is at 5:45,
so we're gonna start 6 PM sharp.
We also make dua
for our beloved Sheikh Abdullah Mahmoon.
Sheikh Abdullah Mahmoon, he lost his father,
earlier today, SubhanAllah.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
forgive him and have mercy on him.
And, that's it,
If anyone else has questions about anything, I'll
be in the back. You can ask. Barakula.
Assalamu alaikum.
Also,
the last one. We might as well make
tomorrow's programs announcement.
Tomorrow,
we have for our children, our youth, a
safety
and self defense workshop.
Insha
Allah. Our captain, Shahid,
Shahid Azzam Mohammed is joining us. He's a
captain of police department, and it's gonna be
a whole workshop and presentation.
How to defend themselves, how to be vigilant,
how to notice, you know, dodgy and shady
people. So, if you want to give this
training to your kids, it's very crucial, very
important. I would urge everyone to come out.
I'm bringing my kids, inshaAllah you bring yours
as well.
It's gonna be 2:30. So after
2:30 to 4,
2:30 to 4. 2:30 to 4.