Salim Morsy – The Signs of A True Religion
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The conversation discusses the history and potential consequences of not following a plan with a creator. The speakers emphasize the importance of living with others, respecting their presence, and finding ways to avoid regret and achieve goals. Islam's subhan calculations for people to regret actions and replace bad deeds with good deeds is also emphasized. Pr circuit toward forgiveness from the creator's Lord and Lord's is encouraged.
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Dear brothers and sisters, assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi
wa barakatuh.
Actually our ayat that we recited today is
very clear for everybody.
For Muslims and non-Muslims, for believers and
disbelievers, that they need to rethink again about
their relation with their creator, Almighty Allah.
They need to think deeply.
What should we do?
Subhanallah, these ayat, it might describe our circumstance
today.
How disbelievers, they always has bad plan just
to stop the religion of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
In different aspects, even the leaders or even
the individual people.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala explain that they
have only two ways to fight against believers.
وَإِذْ يَمْكُرُ بِكَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُونَ To do, they
have a plan to kill Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam or to in jail him
or to kick him out of the city.
And this is the same way that disbelievers
doing until today.
Only one way they can do, even to
kill the person or to kill believers and
we can see killing everywhere or to in
jail them, to put them into the jail
or to kick them out of their countries.
Why?
What their crime?
Because they believing in Allah azza wa jal.
They don't like to get into the dirty
level like other people.
They would like to keep themselves clean when
they worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This is why the people of Prophet Lut,
they disagree with him subhanallah.
What the crime that Lut alayhi salam did?
Nothing.
That he doesn't like to get involved with
those people in the dirty stuff that they
used to do.
أَخْرِجُوا آلَ لُوطٍ مِنْ قَرْيَاتِكُمْ Take them out
of your village.
What their crime?
Those people, they like to be clean.
They don't like to deal with these bad
stuff.
And after that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
explain وَإِذْ قَالُوا اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كَانَ هَذَا هُوَ
الْحَقُّ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ And they said, you know,
the good way, if you don't know and
you ask Allah, please, O Allah, guide me.
If this is the truth, guide me to
the truth, right?
But they were opposite.
They said, O Allah, if this is the
truth that Muhammad came with, do what?
They were mocking at Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and
his religion.
If this is the truth, O Allah, that
you sent to Muhammad ﷺ, then send down
stones above us from the sky.
Is this way to discuss?
Or otherwise bring, you know, a painful punishment.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala responds, and
this is for disbelievers, by the way.
Allah responds, وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَأَنْتَ فِيهِمْ
Allah will not punish them, O Muhammad, as
long as you still living with them.
Say, Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barik alayh.
Even Rasulullah ﷺ, he was a big purpose
for people not to be destroyed, even disbelievers
around him.
They have a plan to kick him out
of Makkah.
But because his presence, subhanallah, Allah will not
punish the people around him, Muslim or non
-Muslims.
Fine.
How about us?
If we really do love Rasulullah ﷺ and
follow him and imitate him, respect him ﷺ,
and Allah will not punish us.
But as Sahaba, they realized that Rasulullah will
die, for sure.
إِنَّكَ مَيِّتُ وَإِنَّهُمْ مَيِّتُ You will die and
they will die.
And they went to Rasulullah, Ya Rasulullah, how
come that one day you will die?
How we gonna deal with the situation after
that?
And Allah completed the same verse, the other
half of the verse, and he says, وَمَا
كَانَ اللَّهُ مُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَهُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ Allah.
See, it might be for anyone of us
to be a main reason to save the
entire earth.
When you say, أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهُ Because Allah says
it in the Qur'an, وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ
مُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَهُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ As long as you make
istighfar, for sure, you will not be punished
in yourself, and you will be a main
purpose for other people to be saved also.
يَسْتَغْفِرُ It's a great opportunity that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala granted for the one who
asked his forgiveness.
And just to conclude that how the disbelievers
really always have a bad plan.
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ Just look around
you.
Look at the politics around you.
Just take a look with a good lens
of experience.
See around you what's going on.
Those who disbelieve, they will spend their wealth.
For what?
To help people out?
To feed poor people?
No.
لِيَسُدُّوا عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ Ya Allah.
They will put themselves in the position to
clear the war against who?
Against Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ Spend their wealth.
لِيَسُدُّوا عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ To force people not
to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Not to follow a good way in their
life.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us
glad tidings, by the way.
And Allah gave us what will happen.
Even we cannot see what will happen in
future, but we do trust Allah azza wa
jal.
Do you agree with me?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, فَسَيُنفِقُونَهَا They
will spend their wealth.
And what?
ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرًا It will be a
main purpose for them to regret after that.
You know when you invest your money and
you had a big expectation that you will
accomplish your goal, then suddenly you lost your
money.
Subhanallah.
You might have pain in your heart, but
you cannot share with anyone.
This is the way.
They will spend their wealth.
And when they spend it, it will be
a main purpose for them to regret.
And what will happen?
And they will lose in the end.
ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ And this is in worldly life.
وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِلَىٰ جَهَنَّمَ يُحْشَرُونَ And for those
who disbelieve in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
Allah will gather all of them into hellfire
in the day of judgment.
لِيَمِيزَ اللَّهُ الْخَبِيثَ مِنَ الطَّيْبِ Because Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is just.
It's not by luck.
You're gonna go to paradise or go to
hellfire.
No.
You have to have a plan where you
would like to go.
You would like to go to paradise?
You have to work hard.
Somebody would like to go to hellfire?
It's easy to go to hellfire.
But I will conclude with the last verse
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala explained in
these ayat.
قُل لِلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا Allah is telling Prophet Muhammad
ﷺ to convey the message came from Allah
to disbelievers.
Can you imagine?
This ayah came to disbelievers.
How about us that we claim that we
do believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
Even it will be more opportunities for believers.
When we did something wrong in the past
and we decide to go back to Allah
azza wa jal, Allah will accept us.
Allah will forgive us.
And this is the main point that I
would like to explain today.
قُل لِلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِن يَنْتَهُوا يُغْفَرْ لَهُمَّا قَدْ
سَلَفْ Ya Allah, the most merciful subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Say, O Muhammad, to disbelievers, if they quit
disobeying Allah azza wa jal, if they stopped
doing bad actions, doing major sins, Allah will
forgive them.
قُل لِلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِن يَنْتَهُوا يُغْفَرْ لَهُمَّا Allah
will forgive all the previous sins that they
had.
If we do believe in Allah azza wa
jal, we might have bigger chance than disbelievers.
And don't hesitate.
When you feel that you did something wrong,
especially between you and Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, don't hesitate to decide to go back
to your Lord.
Allah will be happy with your decision.
Allah will accept you.
Allah will forgive you.
Allah will even not forgive you.
Allah will replace all the bad sins that
you had into good deeds.
This is what Allah explained in the other
surah, surah al-furqan.
If you do bad deeds all the time
and you decide to quit and to stop
and go back to your Lord, Allah will
replace all these bad deeds into good deeds.
And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala help
all of us out to stay firm in
our religion and to help all of us
out to be able to decide to go
back to Him, Almighty Allah, and to seek
His help and to ask for His forgiveness.
Allahumma ameen.
See you tonight inshallah for isha namaz, for
the lecture of aqeedah inshallah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.