Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 15 Allahs Mercy Ramadan 2011

One proof

for me as a imam that the Shayateen

are chained in Ramadan

is the fact that no one is coming

to the Masjid for divorce

in

Ramadan. This is, seriously, Allah. Before Ramadan, they

gave, like, every 5 minutes, divorce, divorcing.

And I don't like the d word, divorce.

The way that the shaytan will keep you

away from the path of Allah

2 ways.

Number 1, he will underestimate

the sin or your sins, and number 2,

he will overestimate

your sins.

How?

So he makes the sin looks very tiny

in your eyes

by showing you that all people make bigger

sins than yours,

or by showing you that all people are

simple like you, or you are even better

than them. And in this case, you don't

think I mean, there's

The prophet salaam in the authentic hadith, he

used to say,

oh mankind,

make tawbah to Allah and ask Allah for

His forgiveness, for I make istifar and tawbah

to Allah

a 100 times every day.

So who has more right to make Istifar

to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala? You or the

prophet who

has no sins?

His past and future sins are forgiven, as

Allah says in the fu'an, You fialalakkal babu

malakatamamin

them become malakha. So

this is the first way.

So

this is the second way. He will overestimate

your sins. He will say, you have a

lot of sins, and your sins are bigger

than the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

So this is how some people think.

They are not coming to the Masjid because

they used to drink or chase women or

do this or

stuff.

Weed and joints and

exchange marijuana and all the good stuff. Okay?

So

He will keep you away from Allah Subhanahu

Wa'ala and He will tell you, He will

whisper to you, no matter how hard you

try to repent or get close to Allah

Subhanahu

Allah will never forgive you.

So what does Allah say? Okay. Don't listen

to the shaitan. Listen to Allah

What does he say?

Say, oh, my servants,

who have exceeded the limits in sinning and

disobeying Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala,

Don't you ever lose mercy or lose hope

in the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

He forgives all sins. He is the most

forgiving, most merciful.

The prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

says in an authentic hadith, they're written by

Abu Burbeir, by Anas ibn Malik, and it

is in Sahih Tabmili

that Allah says so in Zafutsi Hadith,

O mankind,

If your sins

fill the distance between the heavens and earth

and you ask for my forgiveness,

I will forgive you. So this is what

Allah says.

In this hadith, in Al Tabarani,

there is my Abu Waibullah, the

prophet

says that Allah

will shower

his mercy and his grace and his forgiveness

from the day of judgement

so much so that even the shaitan would

have hope in his heart that Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala will forgive them. Pig me. Pig

me.

Because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is forgiving people.

In this hadith,

the prophet

says that on the day of judgment, Allah

will bring a servant of his forth

for judgment.

Then Allah

will show him the record of his minor

sins and he will keep away

the record of major sins.

Then he will look at his sins and

say Allah

will ask him, do you deny or reject

any of these sins? You haven't committed any

of these sins? He say, no, Allah. I

have committed everything. I admit.

I confess.

Then Allah

will say, is there any sins that are

missing from your records?

He knows that he committed horrible sins, but

he says, oh, Allah, everything is here. That

is enough. It's enough to take me okay.

Okay. That's good.

Then Allah

will say, today I'll shower My mercy on

you and I'll forgive you. Maybe the servant

made tawba before his death, and this is

the reason why Allah

is forgiving him. Then Allah

will tell him, that's all for you. You

are going to Jannah. So this servant will

make the calculation in its head when Allah

told him that I'm changing your my sins

into good deeds.

So he will say, oh, Allah, wait a

minute, wait a minute, there are major sins

that are not here.

Somebody

what's going on? Somebody forgot to put my

major sins in this book because

he knows if Allah turns them into good

deeds, he will go to the highest place

in Jannj. When the Prophet narrated this hadith,

he smiled,

and the Sahaba smiled. That's Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala.

The

question for yesterday was, if you come in

Taweel,

can you make the intentions of Aisha in

prayer Aisha with the iman who's praying Tawhid

to Rahaz? Can you pray Aisha to Rahaz?

The answer is yes.

Yes.

And the winner for today is sister Aisha

Ali. Is there anyone to take the words

for her?

A question for today.

Some Imams are mizdah,

okay, in the salah. The imam is mizdah,

completed.

So the imam is praying Rishab.

After the second tashawat in the 4th rak'ah,

the imam stood up for a 5th rak'ah,

and the people are reminding him, Subhanallah, Subhanallah,

and he is not listening. What should you

do? What should you do in this case?

Yaani

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