Mufti Menk – Seek Forgiveness In The Closest State To Allah

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The speaker discusses the importance of asking for forgiveness in schools of thought, rather than just sending a simple " Aveem." They suggest that asking for forgiveness is the starting point and that it is mandatory in some schools of thought. The speaker then describes a specific example where a slave is asked for forgiveness, and uses the phrase "verbalipped choice" to describe the situation.

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			To seek forgiveness of Allah is something that
		
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			is the starting point. When you want to
		
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			ask Allah something, the closest you can ever
		
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			be is sujood,
		
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			prostration.
		
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			The closest that a slave can ever be
		
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			to their Lord is
		
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			in the condition of prostration.
		
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			Now I was telling you between the two
		
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			prostrations we say Rabbirli.
		
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			Do you know that dua? You're supposed to
		
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			be making a dua at different times, right,
		
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			in your prayer. One of them is between
		
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			the two prostrations
		
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			in some of the schools of thought it's
		
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			actually mandatory and some of them it's not
		
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			mandatory. But what is the dua? The dua
		
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			is rabilfirli.
		
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			That's the simple part of it. A simple
		
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			way. You could say a slightly longer dua.
		
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			The point I'm raising is, oh Allah forgive
		
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			me. I went down prostrated. I said, Subhanahu,
		
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			Rabbi Allah, You are the greatest, O my
		
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			Lord. Glory be to the One who made
		
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			me, the One who is in control of
		
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			every aspect of my existence. And what are
		
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			we saying? You are the highest. Come up
		
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			from sujood. You say, Allahu Akbar and say,
		
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			Rabbir Fili, O Allah forgive me. Who is
		
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			going to forgive you? The one who you
		
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			just described in your sujood. And then you
		
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			go back to another sujood. SubhanAllah.
		
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			Amazing.