Mufti Menk – Ramadan 2021 Boost 20 – Seek Forgiveness & Forgive others, but don’t Forget!

			Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakato My beloved brothers and sisters, a very important lesson
when we would like to seek the forgiveness of Allah we need to say beautiful words praise Allah
subhanho wa Taala we seek forgiveness from Allah, we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad
Sallallahu sallam, and we ask our need, and then we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad
Salah solemn again at the end and our supplication is complete. Now, one thing to earn the
forgiveness of Allah we must remember, there are many different wordings you can use any words if
it's not within Salah itself, you can actually use any language to be honest with you. You just need
		

			to be genuine, sincere and Allah will always forgive you remember that Allah will always forgive
you. So with the prophets Allah Sanam was asked by his wife, our mother, I shall be Allah and if I
were to witness the Night of Decree laylatul Qadr, what should I say? He said, say Allah home My
inaka are 412 hibbeler, four, four and ni, O Allah, you are most forgiving, you love to forgive, so
forgive me.
		

			As simple as that, yes, as simple as that. As simple as that. Oh Allah, you are most forgiving. You
love to forgive, so forgive me. For me, what's more important than than anything is to understand
these qualities of Allah, Allah is our full, Allah is most forgiving, you know, he just forgives a
laugh. It's okay, you know? That's it. It's fine. You know, you just tripped over someone. Well,
that's a mistake. And they said, Okay. Reminds me when someone does something wrong, you know? And
then Allah says, okay, you sought forgiveness. It's done. Allahu Akbar. And then to hit Bulava, you
love to do that, Oh Allah, Allah loves to do that. I mean, human beings will get irritated. When you
		

			when you did something wrong once, twice, thrice. By that time a human being would probably punish
you in a tremendous way. But Allah says no, if you The more you seek forgiveness, the more you have
understood that your maker can either punish you or forgive you. Now that you've recognized me I
forgive you. That's Allah. Allah Abdi and Allah who Robin Yeah, how to be them. Beware of Pharaoh,
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			Allah tells the angels at that point that you know, my slave has recognized that he has a lord who
can, meaning whom he is answerable to, who can punish him or forgive him. So now I want you to bear
witness, oh, my angels that I forgiven him.
		

			So behind Allah, that's a beautiful too. And now a quick question.
		

			you achieve forgiveness more readily when you are prepared to forgive others. And Allah subhanho wa
Taala says in Surah, to note as well, well, yeah, for Well, yes. faco Allah to him. Allah, Allah,
Allah, Allah for rain, you know, forgiven embrace, will you not like Allah to forgive you? For
Indeed, Allah is most forgiving, Most Merciful. Now, Allah knows we are human beings, and he knows
we have a heart and we knows we feel hurt. And he knows that we might find it difficult to forgive.
He asks us to look into the matter seriously, you may forgive and you should forgive. And you should
try and forgive. But the question is, what if I can't forget what was done? You never, ever need to
		

			forget what happened. You don't need to, if over time you have forgotten, it was good, because the
relationship might have built and you forgot what happened. Or it slipped your mind or it is no
longer in the front of your mind. But initially, it's very difficult. And, you know, sometimes you
don't even need to interact with the people you forgiven, but you've let go. This is something that
many people don't understand. I've spoken about it in the past. And I'm speaking about it again,
because someone's asked me a question. And this is the answer to it. You forgive, but you don't
forget.
		

			That's it. And you forgive. It doesn't mean you need to embrace to forgive is one act of worship,
which is more important to embrace is another act of worship, which is not as important as the
Forgiving, because sometimes, you might have a person who is really a nasty person, you forgiven
them, they may not be genuine in seeking that forgiveness. You may you may not know you're a human
being, but you've let it go. But you want to limit your interactions with them. Bravo, that's
actually a good thing. So panela it's good to limit your interactions with those who may be toxic.
Those who may not have changed their ways, I can't handle being in their company. It's very
		

			stressful. My mind has a pressure on it whenever I'm with this person. I feel so you know strongly
about not being with them.
		

			It just stresses me and gives me the jitters or I get depressed, whatever else it may be, you just
don't want to be with a no problem. There's nothing that says you have to be with them. They've
wronged you in the past, they belittle you, they mocked you, they lie about you, they cause problems
for you. You can minimize your relationship with impart, you've forgiven them more Am I going to
hold it in my heart for It's okay, forgiven. That's a very important lesson, I thought I'd share
that with you. It's Ramadan. We want to forgive but let's be genuine. And there are a lot of us out
there who are nasty people, I'll be honest with you. There are a lot of us out there who are nasty
		

			to someone in our lives, be it a parent, one of your in laws, maybe a sister in law, maybe a sister,
maybe a brother, sometimes we're very nasty to them. And you know what it? It's just because we
think we have an advantage over them. And so we say bad words, we say cutting remarks, we make
people cry, they cry quietly because of us. They cry because of what we said because of what we've
done. They are hurt, their heart is painting those type of people, Allah watches What's going on?
Allah knows, don't think you're a big deal. And you're a powerful person and so on. You know, it's
very serious. You make people cry for what? Why did you do that you know, in with your words, you
		

			think you are superior, you think you're the boss, you think you're the big person you think you are
the one who can dictate the pace, not at all, Allah dictates the pace, not you. So if you would like
to make someone else's life difficult, I've said it, Allah creates a person, or a situation where
your life will become difficult, even worse, just wait for the day. But if we seek forgiveness, we
can save ourselves, we seek forgiveness, we can earn the pleasure of Allah. So I thought I'd just
share a few of these words with you to say, let's seek the forgiveness of Allah, let's forgive
others as well. You don't necessarily have to forget what happened. You're just a human being. But
		

			at the same time, you will always
		

			you know, be a content person because you've let it go. And you know, in your heart, I don't hold
things, it's fine. I don't have a spot in my heart to hold things against those who have said or did
things against me because I ultimately just want generally, it's a very high level of thinking.
Because when people do something against you, they can spread rumors, they can do things. And now
with social media, it goes far and wide. They've said nasty, ugly things about you, untruths about
you, they've spread it, they've said whatever, and it's gone to the whole world, you have an option,
you have many options, the best option is just forgiving them, let it go. Don't hold it against
		

			anyone and just, that's it. I don't want to interact. I don't want to talk to these people. But
okay, I don't hold it in my heart. I just, I want to have a clean heart when I sleep every night and
that's it, and inshallah with that I want genital feathers. The reason I say this is because of the
Hadith where the Prophet Solomon pointed out a companion who always looks at his heart and takes out
from his heart, any ill feeling against anyone else. And he says, well, that man is from Paradise,
he's going to get paradise. So for me, there's a lot of ways of getting paradise and we are trying
very hard. One of the beautiful ways isn't just let go of things you let go Alesis will let go of
		

			all your sins and everything. And it will give you gentle metal for those May Allah grant us genital
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