Suhaib Webb – Acts Which Brings About Forgiveness for A Persons Past & Future Sins
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The speaker discusses various hadiths and the importance of forgiveness, including the use of words like ridden, forgiven, and desire to live life. They emphasize the importance of learning and embracing one's choice in order to live life. The speaker also provides information on the Kaaba of Allah and the importance of conversion and worship. The importance of forgiveness for one's actions and the need for forgiveness for others is emphasized.
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back. We're having a technical issue.
Hope everybody's doing well. Masha'Allah. A lot of
people here, and it's great to be with
you guys. And I've really had a perhaps,
you know, I would have never
imagined that I would have had such a
great Ramadan,
with everybody, Alhamdulillah.
But certainly it is a blessing,
and an honor to be with you, Insha'Allah.
And,
ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
to increase us and increase you, Insha'Allah.
If you can't hear me, you know, it's
not on my end. I think it's on
your end.
I'm doing my best, but you can also
watch on Facebook live. You can watch on
YouTube, and you can watch on Twitter. So
what I thought we would do,
in this time together is just read a
few a hadith from a really beautiful book
written by Sayna Imam Ibn Hajar Al Askarani,
Rahim Muhullah.
And Imam, ibn Hajar,
he is, of course, one of the great
late scholars of hadith. He's known as Amir
Mu'mineen Fil Hadith.
And he wrote a book
that is dedicated to the hadith of the
prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam that I think is very
important for us now in this month of
Ramadan, especially if you saw the clip that
I put out earlier,
about that, like, amazing person who wrote that
question, you know, like taking baby steps.
And it's important that we're all taking baby
steps.
Alhamdulillah. None of us are are are like
giants in that regard.
But I thought what I would do, of
course, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, we're gonna
be be reading Al Mun Faridja,
write the poem Mun Faridja. But the rest
of the nights including tonight, I was going
to read this book of Sayna Imam Al
Hafiz, ibn Hajar,
or Himu Allah al Khisaru almukfarah
alzanub
which is a collection of ahadith
that talk about the acts that you can
do
to be completely forgiven of your sins.
Man. Like, how many of us we hope
that we come out of this month
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will forgive us
all of our sins.
So one of the beautiful things about Islam
is that
when we say something, we'll always find a
text that causes us to be responsible.
Right? When we say something,
we'll always find a text, and that's why
the prophet said, Al Quran.
Right? That the Quran is either a proof
for you or against you. Like, I can't
say something
except I'll find it in the Quran and
Sunnah. So how many of us right now,
let's be honest with ourselves,
we said at least once
in this month of Ramadan,
oh, Allah forgive me.
How many of us we had that quiet
moment
with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala where we raised
our hands
and those beloved drops there. Can you imagine
how much water is needed to put out
fires in Australia?
Whereas one drop from your eye can put
out the fire of *
as mentioned by the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Can you imagine?
So
how many of us we had that moment
alone?
We said,
Oh, Allah, forgive me.
How many of us we made we
admitted, like, all our mistakes.
All the things we did, man. We we,
like, we edited our lives in front of
Allah.
We we mentioned everything,
and we said, oh Allah,
nothing is hidden from you.
Enter Sami'un,
Alimun,
Mujeebun,
Basirun,
Raqibun.
Like, everything that I've done,
you you saw it, you you know about
it,
so forgive me.
If we said it,
what this book is going to do is
call us to account for what we said.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
that all of the prophets
are brought as a proof against us
to to expose the contradictions in what we
say
and what we feel
and what we do.
Allah says, we'll bring you, oh, Muhammad, as
a witness
against them,
against what we said.
So,
I thought, like, we can read every night
just a few hadith and, hamdulillah, I have
a asaneed in this book,
Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. I have aasaneed in every hadith,
alhamdulillah, in this book.
That doesn't mean anything. You know? Asaneed is
something that any student of knowledge should do.
But alhamdulillah be barakat Asaneed ilasaiduawareen
salallahu alayhi wasalam and narwe hadithil hadith.
Ilasaidu Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam.
But more importantly is
if we act on these things,
we'll be forgiven of our sins.
Before we
get into the hadith,
it's very important to mention a very important
principle in Usul
related to these kind of hadith. The hadith
of.
The hadith that talk about if you do
this, you go to Jannah. If you do
this, you go to *.
The ulama, there's a very beautiful principle that
says every hadith
that promises you Jannah
for doing something
is conditioned on how you live the rest
of your life from the moment you heard
the hadith.
Allah.
Every hadith that promises us Jannah
is conditioned on that we stay upright
after we heard the hadith. As though the
prophet
is
in front of us, and we heard it
directly from him. And at that moment, we
have to change our life.
And also, masha'Allah,
any hadith
that threatens someone with hellfire
is conditioned on the fact that they did
not make Tawba.
Allahu Akbar.
Any hadith
that says if someone does this this this
this and this,
they'll go to *.
The ulama said, mushtaat
is conditioned
that that person might have illallah.
That they didn't repent to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
Who didn't repent is the loo is the
one who's wrong. He didn't say the one
who sins,
the one who didn't repent.
And look,
Allah taught us something, the story of Satan
Adam.
You know that Adam the words of Tawba,
Adam approached them and he said them.
The of Sayna imam ibn Kathir. It's
As though the words of Tawba
were sent by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
directly to Adam, and Adam received them as
though they came from Allah.
So this is the month of forgiveness.
Right? Isn't this the month that Sayna Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he rose on his minbar,
and he said, Amin
Amin
Amin 3 times.
And then afterwards,
the Sahaba, they asked him, why did you
say Amin?
And one of the things he said was,
sayna Jibril, he came to me and he
said,
far away from Allah's rahma, far away from
success
is the person who was not forgiven in
the month of Ramadan.
You know why? Because it's impossible not to
be forgiven in this month.
Like, there's too many opportunities. There's too many
things we can do. So it's like a
loser, the only one who could not find
repentance
in this month because Allah's mercy is so
intense and amplified in this month, and the
deeds are amplified, and the sins are reduced,
and the Tawba is accepted.
Only a loser would fail to be forgiven.
SubhanAllah.
So I thought Alhamdulillah
as a means to like, you know, make
sure Alhamdulillah that we're able to be forgiven
of all of our sins because this is
the time, right? Where we we review our
year, you know, review our life and we
say, Yeah, Allah, I wanna be better. Here's
some simple things we can do Insha'Allah.
That sayna Imam Ibn Hajri, he wrote in
this book, Yasal,
this collection of a hadith that discussed the
things you can do to be completely forgiven
of your sins.
What came before
and what came after.
Allahu Akbar.
So the first hadith, Wa'anhuqal,
we mentioned the hadith from Sayna Al Imam.
Qala Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaiba fee Muslim
Nifi Wafi Musnadi.
That Abu Bakr ibn Abi,
Shaiba, he has a great book called Al
Musnad. Alhamdulillah.
And we have Asanid from our Sheikh Shakab
Dukhman Kitani to
Sayna Saydina,
Ibn Abi Shaiba and also through doctor Akram.
Alhamdulillah.
In both
texts. He mentions this hadith
from Sayyidina Uthman ibn Affan radiAllahu anhu
that he asked people to bring him some
water. And also this hadith is in Sahihayin,
but in a different wording. And they brought
him water
and say, he made wudu.
And after he made wudu, he said,
that he heard the prophet
say, here's the first action.
That no
servant of Allah performs wudu correctly
except he or she is forgiven for their
sins, which they did
previously
and which they will do in the future.
How many times do we not take Wodou
seriously, man?
There's another narration that says an authentic narration
that when you make wudu,
the sins fall off you like drops
off your off your limbs.
And we know the hadith of Satan Sayduna
also from Bukhari and Muslim
that we will have light in our faces
and also the Muwata
in our faces from wudu in the hereafter.
And that's how the prophet will know you.
When you make wudu,
right, when you make wudu, that's why Abu
Horeira, subhan'ala, he used to make wudu up
to his shin. And they used to ask
him, man, why why
are you washing, like, all the way up
to the top of your knee?
He said, so my light will be bright,
you know, so that the prophet
will see me.
So think about it. You're gonna be beaming
in the hereafter
every time you make wudu.
And it's by your wudu that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam will call you and
know who you are.
Allahu Akbar.
And here,
this hadith,
the Sayyidna Imam Ibn Hajar
is mentioning,
That nobody performs wudu correctly. And what that
means is to observe the Farahid of wudu
that are mentioned in the 6th verse
of the 5th chapter of the Quran.
You know?
Wash your faces
to your elbows, wash your arms.
Make sure you wipe your head.
And then wash up to your ankles.
And then to add to that, the sunnah
voodoo, which are also 7
according to Sadat Al Marikiyyah. So then to
add the 7,
Sunan of Wudu and then the Fada'il of
Wudu. This is Isbaagul Wudu. Most of you
are doing it right.
But what it means is to take your
time. Sayyiduna
Umar ibn Abdul Aziz, he used to take
time to make wudu.
One of my teachers used to say, a
salah.
Salah starts in wudu.
When you start the wudu, like, you're already
at.
And we know that Sayyidina Uthman ibn Hasan
one time he was making wudu. It was
very cold.
And he made wudu slow. And the people
said, like, why you making wudu slow? It's
cold. And then he mentioned this hadith,
Allahu Akbar.
How how many of us we made wudu
today?
So from this point on in our life,
when we make wudu, we should have this
intention. You Allah.
I'm going to make this wudu
as best as I can.
Forgive me of all my sins.
Obliterate my sins.
As this water
is purifying me for salah,
I ask that you purify my heart and
my record of bad deeds so that when
I meet you,
all my sins are forgiven.
So, Masha'Allah,
a very simple hadith, which is Sahih, which
is authentic,
but the prophet mentawad,
and then and then earth man of Nafani
said mentawadaha
Hakada.
Whoever made will do, like, how I just
made will do.
Will be forgiven
of his or her previous sins.
Just wudu.
Allahu Akbar.
And that's why the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
he said,
right? That making wudu is the key that
opens up the door that's closed for everyone
else. What you make wudu,
you are using the key to open the
hadrah, al Muqaddasama
Allah.
That this is the opportunity for you to
have this conversation with Allah, for you to
pray to him, to make ruku to him,
to make sujood to him. SubhanAllah.
The second hadith
is pertaining to a salah.
And the next few hadith that we'll read
inshallah then we'll stop. I don't wanna take
too much of your time.
And for those of you asking questions, I'm
not gonna answer,
those kind of questions now. I I'm super
excited. Like, I love that you're asking these
questions, man. It's amazing.
But,
I wanna stay focused on the topic. You
know? And then we'll have q and a
tomorrow, every other day or so.
I actually you know, I'm really excited to
see how many people are asking questions. You
know, may Allah bless you and increase you
with that awesome enthusiasm. Masha'Allah.
This hadith is from Amr ibn Abi Saad.
And Amr ibn Abi Saad is the is
the son of Saad ibn Abi Waqqas.
Whoever hears the adhan,
whoever hears the caller to prayer
and says another narration says
Whoever says at the moment they hear the
caller to prayer
making the adhan.
You know, If
Tahara,
if Wudu
is
shahara is miftahujannah.
Allahu Akbar.
They say that wudu to salah
that the shahara to jannah
salah. So
when you say,
you become eligible for Jannah. You should say
it now.
The Prophet said in a sound hadith from
Imam Abu Dawood that the best thing I
ever said and any of the prophets ever
said
was La Illaha illallah.
Imam Al Ghazari,
he said La Illaha illallah is so powerful
that if someone says it immediately
their
Wudu is the key to prayer.
Is so powerful that Allah
himself
said it, and the Malaika said it.
Allah and his angels
and the people of understanding, the people of
Ma'ifa,
they say la ilaha illa.
Subhanallah.
You know, Imam Al Hakim
in Al Mustadrach,
which is a book he wrote where he
collected narrations, which he he wasn't able to
finish it. He died before he could finish.
Imam Adha Habibi, he did a critical addition
when he was 17 years old.
But Imam Sayna Al Hakim, Aynae
Saburi from Iran, from Faris,
he wrote a book called Al Mustadrak.
He mentions a hadith, which he said meets
the criterion of Sayyidna Imam al Bukhari in
the Sahih al Jammah.
Sayyidna Imam a Muslim.
And Imam
Imam Zaha'i agreed with Sayyidina Al Hakim. Listen
to this hadith, man, and then say, La
ilaha illallah.
That
a man, he will be presented in front
of Allah
on the day of judgment to be judged.
And he will be shown
books that go all the way to the
as far as the eye can see.
And the last will say to him, do
you know what that is?
And he will be haf.
He'll be so terrified.
He'll say no.
Allah will say to him,
that
is your evil deeds,
and then he will be overcome by fear.
He will surrender to his fear. He's a
good abd, he's a good servant of Allah.
He's not arrogant.
And then he will be so frightened.
The prophet said that Allah will say to
him,
Did you do Halamil did you do?
Did you did you do any good?
And he will say no.
He's so scared.
He can't talk.
Then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will say to
him, no, no, no,
you did good.
And a small,
like, piece of paper
will be presented. Those those books will be
on one scale.
That small piece of paper will be put
on the other scale.
And that side of the scale, the good
deeds, will be heavier
than the bad deeds.
Then Allah will say to him,
can you imagine hearing this?
I forgive you.
You're forgiven.
Enter him into Jannah.
This man as he goes into Jannah,
he will ask him.
The man will say, You Rabi,
oh Allah, Astagh Ziluk,
can I have your permission to ask?
Allah will say, yes.
He will say,
what is on that piece of paper?
And then Allah
will order it to be opened
and written on that paper is
I testify that there's no God except Allah,
and I testify that Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasalam
is the messenger and servant of Allah.
Allahu
Akbar.
So Sayyid Nabi salallahu alaihi wasalam
from the hadith of Sarib An Abi Waqqas,
we know Sarib An Abi Waqqas ashamwabashirim
biljannah is from one of those 10 promised
Jannah
in this most strongest narration.
He said that the prophet
said whoever
when they hear Adhan
says,
I have Riba with Allah as my Lord.
We're gonna talk about the word Riba as
we finish.
And I have rida with Islam as my
deen.
And I have reba
with Muhammad
as the messenger.
Will be forgiven of his or her sins,
which they committed previously,
or they will commit in the future.
This hadith also Alhamdulillah
had the hadith Un Sahih.
Waqeel Hasan.
Let's quickly, as we finish,
talk about this hadith. Number 1 is to
say,
I testify.
People asking me actually these are not my
books. These are my father-in-law. My father-in-law, he's
a shaykh, Masha'Allah.
This this library you see me in, this
is my father in law's library. My books
are in storage,
in Washington DC. We ask a lot to
make our books for us and not against
us.
So this is my father-in-law. He reads everything.
You know, any type of book you wanna
read,
keto diet, anything, you know, it's like everything
in here, but he's a shaykh mashAllah. So,
may Allah bless
him.
1st is the Shahara.
But then the second is the idea of
Rida. The word ridda is translated as content.
But the word ridda actually has a number
of implications.
First of all, ridda is about a choice.
Rida is about a habit, something that I
always go to,
something that I always refer to.
So, like, for example, iftar, if there's a
lot of different types of food,
right, you see all these different type of
dishes, the one that you always choose,
Right? The one that you always choose, that's
what your rod be.
That's what you're content with. It might not
even be, like, super nice biryani or incredible
mansev or some filet mignon. It might not
be any it just might be like a
very simple dog.
Like some some some others. Right? Some lentil
soup, but that's what you like. That's what
you have arrived with. So everything else around
you, it may be like 5 stars, but
you don't notice it because that's what you're
content with.
So in the table of dunya,
all of the Haram,
all of the evil,
all of the glitz,
all of the likes,
all of the attention,
all of that becomes nothing
for the person
who always at the table of dunya
is content with what's with Allah.
They don't need anything else.
That's why they say,
To be content with Allah is the foundation
of Zuhd. I don't need all this to
be happy.
I don't need the attention to be happy.
I don't need the likes to be happy.
This person every every day someone sending me
a message, would you like to buy some
likes? You know, like, would you like to
go to Jannah? Say,
whatever they have the likes of the malaika
in the heavens when the prophet says
that Allah
loves the person of riba.
And when Allah loves somebody, he calls Jibreel
and he says in Allah
Allah loves this person in Bukhari Muslim, so
you love this person.
Imagine,
SubhanAllah,
Steve Allah Singh, and I see Steve in
the comments, I love Steve,
so love him.
Can you imagine?
In the comments.
I love this person so love them. Jirreel,
he becomes because Jirreel, he has to obey
the commands of Allah.
So Sayna Jibril, he will turn to all
of the malaika in the heavens. And the
prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said there's
not a space in the heavens like this
except there's a angel. Well, Sayid Nari Radiallahu
Anhu, he said that the first heaven to
the second heaven is like a ring in
the desert. The second heaven to the third
heaven is like a ring in the desert.
The 3rd to the 4th is like a
ring in the desert. The 4th to the
5th is like a ring in the desert.
The 5th to the 6th is like a
ring in the desert. The 6th to the
7th, how many likes you got there? How
much attention did you get? How many malaika?
Allah says in short, they're seeking forgiveness for
you.
Those malaikasin
Allahummaqfir.
Oh Allah forgive this person.
Oh Allah forgive Yahya. Oh Allah forgive Fatima.
Oh, Allah forgive this person. Oh, Allah, how
many likes you want? You can you you
will blow the Internet with all those lights.
If all the angels showed up one day,
slid into your DMs, and light your
Instagram, it would explode.
So
all of the Malaika will love you,
and the prophet
And then
every everything creation will love you,
except
that Hadu of Allah.
So rida
means to make the right choice.
And we believe in Islamic theology and this
is very important
As I finish,
that the challenge of Radi to be Allah,
I'm pleased with Allah. I'm content with Allah
is my Lord.
Means that in the face of choosing what
I see,
in the face of choosing what I don't
see,
I choose what I don't see. What do
I mean? Is that in our aqira, we
have 3 things. It's very important. Number 1
is the Kaaba of Allah.
The decree and pay attention. This inshallah will
give you a good good
understanding.
That we have the command of God,
the decree of God that happened before creation
before creation.
Then we have the order of God,
do this, don't do this, what's called Amrullah.
And the third, we have what's called kasbullaabd,
your choice.
You you have a choice how you wanna
live your life.
Allah has given us that choice.
So the Kaaba,
the command and choice.
Sometimes the Kaaba and the command can contradict
one another.
This is very important to know.
We should teach this to young people in
aqeedah. This is the foundation of our aqeedah.
What do I mean by that? Allah
has ordered all of us to believe,
but his Kaaba was that Abu Jahl would
be a Kafir.
So here the order and the Kaaba are
different.
And sometimes we ask ourselves,
why is all this evil happening?
Why is all this bad stuff happening?
For the believer, that doesn't matter.
Because the believer doesn't have to what go
on what they see if it contradicts
what they don't see.
So if everybody around me is living ratchet
lives
and Allah has commanded me to be from
the people of Taqwa,
I have rebal with Allah
to the extent
that I chi choose the unseen
over the seen.
So for all the people in my high
school or in my college or at my
work are doing something wrong, or in my
family are doing something wrong, or in the
streets are doing something wrong, I don't allow
that to justify me to act wrong because
then my faith is in that. Mariablah is
with that. But mariablah is with Allah to
the point that if the Kaaba of Allah
has allowed creation to contradict the command of
Allah,
I choose the command of Allah.
This is very important.
Now you can appreciate
who created death and life. Even Abbas said
death is dunya.
Well, Hayat, life is akhira
to test you
so you can know what are you really
made up of.
And this is the height
of worshiping Allah
as though you see him even though you
can't see him. This is ihsan,
that in the face of everything that's happened
in the world, if it contradicts the most
popular successful people or contradicting what's in the
Quran and sunnah, I choose what's in the
Quran and sunnah. As though I see God
in front of me telling me,
no.
Don't do it.
As though you are saying that Yusuf who
saw
He saw the proof of God.
That's what the prophet meant when he said,
To worship Allah as though you see him,
even though you can't see him, meaning and
that's why there's another narration from Imam Saeed
and Shaul
Hassan
and
to act as though you see God.
When I first converted, one of my best
friends, he got shot and killed
right after I converted.
So I went to the the the funeral.
This is a week after conversion.
And then after the funeral, I went to
the barbecue.
And those brothers were pulling out guns, and
they were saying, we're gonna go and kill
the guys who killed j dog.
And I remember saying to myself,
I'm a choose what's with them,
or I'm a choose what's with Allah. And
my chest was like, it felt like it
was being ripped in half, man. Like it
was being torn like a tug of war.
Right? That's really conversion. The early stages of
conversion or coming back to Allah is that
that battle. Right? Alhamdulillah.
I went straight to the Sheikh. I went
to his house. I told him everything that
was happened. And the Sheikh, he told me,
you chose what's with Allah.
Allah saved you.
Just like he saved the people on the
boat of Nuh
who chose the Mujiza
over what was popular.
So Reza with Allah,
the height of it is Ihsan.
To worship Allah is though you see Him,
even though you can't see Him. A) to
stick to the halal, to stick to the
farut,
even if even if my own nafs doesn't
want it. That's jiharu nafs. My nafs are
telling me, do this do this do this,
but I know it goes against the command.
I choose what's with Allah.
Everyone around me, this this this is what's
good, this is good. I choose what's this
is what emancipate Muslims.
Yesen is an act of emancipation.
It's an act of spiritual resistance from the
material world.
So rida with Allah means to choose what's
with Allah.
And is in rida with Islam is to
submit to Islam Alhamdulillah
and choose Islam
in the face of every other religion,
ideology,
philosophy,
iteration,
identity,
and I'm in a Muslimi.
And the last
will be Muhammad and Nabiyan
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Warasulah
as a prophet and a law giver
is to choose
the sunnun
of Sayidina Muhammad
and
the way of Sayidina Muhammad
over all other ways. If we have that
rida,
Prophet said, you will be forgiven
for all your sins,
the past
and the future. So Annette Tafi inshallah be
hada. I don't wanna take too much of
your time. Tomorrow,
we'll continue reading from this book, Yesal al
Muqaffarah
al Zunub
al Muqaddama
from Sayna Imam ibn Hajjar. And tomorrow, we'll
pick up with Salatul Tasbih.
It's a lot of controversy.
If people fought more about teaching people how
to read
and climate change and how to improve the
life of Muslims, like the way they fought
over Salatul Tzbih, the world will be a
different place.
People fighting over
You Allah, You Sheikh. Relax, man.
Sometimes people fight over things that are simple
to fight over because they can't really fight
over what matters.
So they waste their time or they waste
other people's time. So tomorrow
Insha'Allah, around 1 o'clock around this time, Suratul
Tazbih and Suratul Duha,
and 2 or 3 other hadith, inshallah. And
then by the end of Ramadan, we hope
to finish all of these ahadith that we
can give those who continued every night if
they reach out to me.
In the book.
We'll see you tomorrow night. We'll take questions.
Today, I don't have to rush off to
something else. But may Allah bless you, and
I'll see you also tomorrow for q and
a. Really appreciate you guys asking questions and
engaging. Have a lot of love and respect
for you. And and forgive me for my
shortcomings, those of you who I'm not able,
to get to your questions. Be patient, Insha'Allah.
So tomorrow, 1 o'clock, around the same time,
1, 1:20.
This time we'll start Insha'Allah.
And
I love all of you for the sake
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And I ask
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to bless you, to
raise you. We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to forgive us. We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala to forgive us
all of our sins from the future and
the past. We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to make this Ramadan
a means of us entering Jannah and being.