Mufti Menk – Ramadan 2022 – Reconnecting with Revelation #1 Accountability

			Geeta Boone
		

			who Eli gamba kuliah de mo de Salaam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim
in the Name of Allah, the Most gracious the most merciful. Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala
Rasulillah Hema Allah Allah He was happy here Jemaine all praise is indeed due to Allah Almighty
blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we ask Allah to bless him, his
household and to bless every one of us. I'm very excited my brothers and my sisters, to be
commencing this beautiful series entitled reconnecting with Revelation. Revelation is extremely
important because as humankind, we require guidance from the one who made us, He who made me has to
		

			send to me guidance and instruction, what he wants from me. Without that I would be misguided
completely, I wouldn't know what to do on Earth. And therefore, if you were to look at Revelation,
you would realize it's the gift of the Almighty the Quran, for example, is the word of Allah. Allah
Almighty has revealed this beautiful book, as a guide to us in order to tell us why he made us why
we are here, where we go when we die, what he has in store for us, all of this is from Allah.
		

			And sometimes, we tend to forget that he has mentioned in the same book, that he will test us, he
says in Surah, Al Baqarah, while another new one come indeed, I will definitely test all of you with
a lot of different things, different challenges. And he says glad tidings to those who bear
patients. So if we are meant to achieve Glad Tidings through patience, and you need to realize that
Allah Almighty wants us to enjoy things, he is going to put us through difficulty upon difficulty,
hardship, upon hardship, and that is why every human being on earth has some form of hardship and
difficulty, so much so that we consider death, a very great calamity. In a lot of cases, someone
		

			dies, you say I was affected by the death of my father and my wife and my husband and my, whoever
else it may be, because we look at it as something negative at times, not realizing the only way
that you can actually go to the hereafter or to Paradise is
		

			when you die, and you go to the other side.
		

			So this is actually a very great gift of Allah Almighty, where he has given us an opportunity to
pass the tests one after the other. He has given us an opportunity to be tested and to prove
ourselves, and at the same time he has sent revelation, because of our hardships because of our
difficulties. We tend to forget that the Almighty has taught us how to navigate through those
difficulties. And I tell you, you would never be able to achieve true contentment and happiness and
true success. Unless and until you look at what the Almighty has to say about your difficulty, your
hardship, and you try to resolve it in that particular way.
		

			So the gift of Allah Almighty is revelation.
		

			And sometimes we need to be reminded to reconnect with that revelation in order for us to achieve
the greatest success. I've chosen to go through the verses of the Quran during this month of Ramadan
		

			starting from Surah to hedger and the reason is in the past we have gone through many verses from
Surah Al Fatiha going through to Surah Al Baqarah, Allah Imran etc. And we got to Surah two hedgerow
Surah Surah Surah Nan. And thereafter, we found that I didn't want to rush through the verses and
therefore, I said, we will complete this perhaps in another series. Here is the series although
we're going to be focusing on reconnecting with Revelation, the lessons will be beautiful, and
inshallah they will be apt for the current situation across the globe, knowing that we've just come
out of this pandemic, or we are just about coming out of this pandemic that has affected the whole
		

			world. Many people have suffered great losses. People have lost loved ones people's health, at
times, no longer the same. People have lost jobs, they've lost a lot of money, whereas others have
gained in the interim, in that hustle and bustle. And in those hardships and difficulty, we have
found ourselves
		

			Sometimes drifting away from Revelation, hence the title, reconnecting with Revelation.
		

			In fact, we also had a time where we were restricted from the masjid from the house of Allah. We
were restricted from gathering. We were restricted from physical meeting, and so on. Now that things
are easing, it's important for us to reconnect with Allah and reconnecting with revelation would
help us reconnect with Allah. So to be able to attend the masjid, to participate in the house of
Allah subhanho wa taala. To be able to meet with one another for good cause is all part of what
Allah Almighty wants of us. I'd like to start off with a beautiful verse of Surah, Elijah, verse
number 92, where Allah Almighty mentions accountability in a unique way,
		

			when we die, we are going to go back to Allah. When we go back to Allah Almighty, He is going to ask
us about everything, everything you did, Allah is going to ask you, why did you do this? What did
you do? How did you do it, etc. And Allah will reward us based on what we did. And obviously we
believe, based on his mercy, so it's the Mercy of Allah that will grant us forgiveness. And it's the
Mercy of Allah that will ensure that we earn paradise but we have to do as much good as possible.
The human error, the human nature that we have might lead us to a few sins here and there, we may do
things we're not proud of, and Allah teaches us always, to turn to Him. If you've turned to Allah
		

			Almighty, you have nothing to worry about. If you are conscious of Allah Almighty, you have nothing
to worry about. So Allah Almighty says, for Arabic in verse number 92, of Surah ledger for our
beaker learners, Elena whom a drummer in Kenya, Milan,
		

			by your Lord, which means Allah is taking an oath, by your Lord, oh Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam by Allah, this is an oath, it's a guarantee Lenise Elena who's a drummer in we will
definitely ask all of them. I'm currently I'm alone about what they used to do. Whatever they've
done on Earth, we will ask them, they will be held accountable. So don't think even for a moment
that you are going to get away with something that you did, or an action of yours anything. You will
be held accountable by Allah Almighty, He will either forgive you or punish you or reward you based
on what exactly the deed was, and what it was followed by. So if you've committed a sin and you
		

			followed it by forgiveness, or with forgiveness, seeking the forgiveness will be forgiven by the
will of Allah, for as long as you were genuine about it. My beloved brothers, my sisters, don't
forget, if you have committed a sin against Allah Almighty, He will forgive you. The minute you ask
for forgiveness genuinely. But if you have committed a sin against a fellow human being, you will
need to seek their forgiveness. They may not forgive you instantly. But you will have to ask them
for the forgiveness. May Allah Almighty make it easy for us because on the Day of Judgment, what is
worrisome is when we have not sought forgiveness from people whom we've wronged, perhaps they may
		

			not forgive us. When it comes to our actions, the most important thing we need to do is stay away
from what's known as association of partnership with Allah in any way, shape, or form. That is
called Schilke. The biggest warning that revelation has for any one of us is to abstain from shirk,
to abstain from association of partnership with Allah in any way, shape or form.
		

			That would ensure that the Mercy of Allah is close, that would ensure that Allah Almighty would
forgive us because he says to us quite clearly, that one thing I'm not going to forgive is, if
someone has not sought forgiveness from having associated partners with me, again, in any way,
shape, or form. May Allah Almighty grant us goodness, and grant us a deep understanding. So Allah
Almighty says, I swear or by your Lord O Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam which means it's an
oath, that we will ask them all about what they used to do. When that day comes. May Allah Almighty
have mercy on all of us, and grant us ease. I think that's a good way to reconnect with Revelation
		

			is to understand accountability and the day that
		

			We are answerable to Allah. May Allah forgive all of us and grant us ease Akula Kali habba or
SallAllahu wasallam ah wa Baraka ala Nabina, Muhammad kita Boon
		

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