05 How to Apologize to Allah

Quran Weekly

Allah taught Prophet Adam (AS) how to ask for forgiveness and how to say sorry. Wisam Sharieff beautifully explains the meaning of this dua (prayer) from Surah Al-‘A`raf. We cannot afford to lose out on this opportunity to learn how to apologize to our Lord for our sins.

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The discussion on forgiveness and apologizing is highlighted in this video. It touches on the topic of a culture shift and how to say sorry to someone. The video provides four steps to forgiveness, including accepting sorry and replacing a bad deed with a good one. The importance of setting a safety net and rewinding apologize is also emphasized. The segment provides links to donating and encourages viewers to visit the Muslim Central website for future support.

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			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah. This is your brother with Sam Sharif for our weekly? Everyone at home?
I really apologize. It's been a couple of weeks, a couple of months. I haven't I haven't shot a
video. And in that I wanted to say sorry to everyone. And that's exactly what got me thinking about
today's topic, and how to say sorry.
		
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			Sometimes it's a very casual thing, like we just say, Sorry, as I go, I didn't mean to that was my
mistake. Or in my case, I'm sorry that I didn't shoot a video for a while. And that made me think
where I learned to say the word sorry. Because if I was never taught the word sorry, then I would
never get the opportunity to convey my regret for doing something. And that made me think about it's
the fourth page in Surah Baqarah, when other Malays Sonam made that small mistake or the
transgression, if you will, I don't know if that's a fair enough word. But when he made that
transgression, he felt remorse but never knew how to say sorry.
		
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			And in that Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the fourth page is the last eye on the page in Surah
Baqarah you can look it up is the fourth page, Allah subhanaw taala says, third dialogue,
		
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			demo May be he can even
		
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			play in the whatsoever Rahim. So human beings made their first mistake. And if there was a God who
was angry, he would never told us how to say sorry. If there was a God who created us, to punish us,
he would never told us. This is how you say sorry. But in this, there are two things that kind of
jumped out to me immediately. Do we ask Allah subhanaw taala is forgiveness? And then generally,
like when we transgress one of my friends, we were joking around and maybe I crossed the line joking
around with him. Do we apologize when we have the ability to? And then the fact that Allah subhanaw
taala told us how to say sorry, do we say sorry to him? I mean, you can rewind, but the last five
		
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			videos first five videos grown weekly were about forgiveness, forgiveness. I mean, for God's sakes
the brothers email addresses.
		
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			I mean, we all get it right. But do we take that opportunity be like, God told us how to say sorry,
when to say sorry. So other Muslim eats from the tree shavon kind of plays an angle with him and
says, Man, you you need to eat from this tree? And he goes, No less panda said no, he's like, No,
no, no, no, you don't get it. So if you eat eat from the tree, you'll become angelic and you'll live
forever. That's a whole nother topic on how Satan sells sins. It's another topic, but I am number 23
is where Allah subhana wa Taala in Surah out off Ayah number 23. Allah subhanho wa Taala teaches
kalimat words Fatah Valley How to say sorry to someone.
		
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			And in this Allah, Allah teaches how to get forgiveness. I have 23 surah out of all while I
		
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			was in
		
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			tow fever Lana
		
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			Lana coonan Amina hos III mean
		
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			it's really it's I mean it's profound I'm I go try to translate it.
		
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			Allah subhanaw taala teaches the words the other Malayalam robina Oh, our Lord, while Amna and
fusina that we wrong ourselves.
		
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			I mean, I'll give you exact translation the translation is our Lord we have wronged ourselves.
That's where I started. And while I'm nan fusina, what ilam delfield Lana, what are Hamner and if
you don't
		
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			forgive us and have mercy on us, we will be amongst the losers.
		
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			And this is really the main thing of forgiveness is not only there four steps to forgiveness and
what let's get into that in a second. If we don't turn to Allah subhanaw taala and we don't say
sorry. Is it Allah subhanaw taala automatic is do we deserve His forgiveness automatically? If I
didn't shoot these videos? And then I don't say anything to the Quran Weekly people? Did they have
to forgive me? If I didn't say anything to him? default you'd be like at least he said sorry. But if
we don't even say sorry, then
		
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			rewind if we don't even know how to say sorry. Then are you asking for forgiveness? Are you truly
asking
		
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			Requesting forgiveness if you're not saying the word Sorry, I smack someone to face and go.
		
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			I meant sorry. doesn't make any sense. If you don't say it the way that the person intends to have
it, then how can you get their forgiveness? If you don't say sorry to Allah Spano Donna, the way he
told us to? And that is just in this verse in this ayah 23 out of
		
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			robina, alumna and for Santa that we have wronged ourselves, what's the first step? before you ask
for less forgiveness? The first step of forgiveness and therefore, the first step of asking
forgiveness is to accept what you did is wrong. Now watch. If I just said, Your I'm sorry, then
what's the likelihood? My likelihood I'm going to do it again, right? It's so easy to say sorry. But
when you say what I did last night on the internet is wrong.
		
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			Then you say sorry, then you ask for less pantos forgiveness. Then the human psyche said Nah, man,
what I did was wrong. Then you ask for less forgiveness. And we'll learn this too at the end. The
third thing is to replace that bad deed with a good deed. Replace the bad deed with a good deed says
panela now it's really simple when you transgress the laws of a lot planned out but say you hurt
somebody. You can't just like Oh ALLAH forgive me. I lied, I backbiting because and I said she was
fat. Now you got to go to her and be like I backbiting about you. I'm not gonna get into backbiting
but let me just tell you, if you backbite about someone and you go to their Facebook, look, I really
		
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			apologize. I said this is not going to do it again. And the fourth thing is to make intention not to
do that thing again to set up to set up safety net. So you don't do that thing. Again, four steps to
asking for forgiveness. But the first step is accepting that you're wrong. If we could read the two
are together, that'd be great. Maybe you could rewind this a couple of times, it is either 23 or are
off or or Bana avoided.
		
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			And for Santa, what he Lem tell he feels Lana, what our Tao
		
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			learner coonan Amina al horsey Dean,
		
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			you can rewind that a couple of times. But my point at today's thing is that the Quran teaches how
to say sorry to things if we're not going to learn to say it correctly, like at least in the Arabic
language, and if we're not going to give the time to learn what Allah Subhana Allah wants from us,
it's gonna be a lot difficult for us how to say sorry, Your brother was Psalm Sharif. Again, I
apologize for not shooting a video for a couple of months or less and bless all of you guys. And I
will talk to you soon. I hope you benefit from these videos in sha Allah wa salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah
		
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			smack someone in the face and go below me. Let me let me let I mean sorry, this audio is brought to
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