Suhaib Webb – The Names of Allah wImam Imad
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Muhammad
may Allah
accept your fasting. May Allah
accept your charity. May Allah accept all your
deeds in this holy month of Ramadan.
A month of mercy, a month of forgiveness,
a month of pardoning.
We are picking up a few names of
out of the 99 attributes.
All of them are relevant,
to the month of Ramadan,
And it was very hard to pick up
those names, but those are the names that
resonate in the month of Ramadan. Those are
the name, the merciful Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
We spoke in the, Allah first and foremost
in the first episode.
The merciful,
the second episode, the loving, the second episode.
And today, I wanna talk to you about
ataweb.
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, ataweb.
The Tawab at Tawab is an exaggerated name
from the verb Tawba, and the word Tawba
means repentance.
And when we say atawba
with alif and ba,
subhanAllah,
when we say atawba is an exaggeration.
I keep saying exaggerations,
because all the beautiful names of Allah
All these all these are
comforting to us to understand
that there is an exaggeration
of love that that unconditional
love. There's an exaggeration
of mercy. There's an exaggeration of,
accepting repentance.
A Tawab in Arabic or Tawba in Arabic
or Taaba is the verse in Arabic means
to come back
to come back,
to come back to the to the to
the to the to the to the path.
As a matter of fact, as Muslims, we
pray at least 17 times a day and
we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
In Surat Al Fatihah, the opening chapter of
the Quran,
we're praising Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
In the middle of Surah,
Al Fatiha,
we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to for
one thing,
Guide us to the straight path.
Because sometimes,
not sometimes, it's often shaitan takes us away
from the straight path. And as individuals,
we make mistakes. As a human beings, we
make mistakes. As a matter of fact, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, in one beautiful story, when
Adam,
have committed
the the mistake in paradise, the sin in
paradise,
Adam was coming to Earth,
and Adam, peace be upon him, was shy
away from Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, ashamed
of what he did. So Adam, peace be
upon him,
you know, Allah,
he talks to Adam and he says,
do you want me to make you sinless?
And, of course, Adam said yes.
You know, who doesn't not want to be
sinless? Then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
remind us,
in that in that in this hadith that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says to Adam,
oh, Adam, if I make you sinless,
then to whom
will I give my forgiveness to?
To whom will I be generous to?
To whom would I accept the repentance?
So,
Ta'ba in Arabic means to return to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, to return to the path.
The innate nature of a human beings is
to return.
Have you ever,
were lost on the road
and,
your GPS system,
or,
you know,
your your your your iPhone
is saying make a U-turn
or recalculating.
Make a U-turn and recalculating.
Have you ever tried to go,
from point a to point b?
You know, for instance,
we're right here in Oklahoma. If I wanna
go to Dallas, I would take 35,
South. If I take 35 North,
the the there is gonna be that feeling
within our heart that we're lost. There's gonna
be that feeling within our heart that's lost,
and your GPS system keep telling you recalculating.
Make a u-turn.
Dallas is now further. Dallas is now further
and further. The moment you make the u-turn,
there is this beautiful feelings in your heart.
That's what tawba does, give you that beautiful
feeling in your heart. Because as the the
moment you hit 35 and you go south,
towards Dallas, you would see all these, you
know, Dallas, a 160 mile, Dallas, a 140
miles. You are closer
to the destination.
GPS,
I always call it God positioning system, is
in our heart.
And also,
the destination
has been, predestined by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala first and foremost
remind us in Surah Ashura verse 25.
Is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who accept your
repentance?
So
you already been preapproved. Have you ever got
this in the mail? You already preapproved,
those notices in the mail. So you will
not be rejected.
You're already preapproved for Tawba. You're already preapproved
by Allah
because sometimes as human beings,
we might wrong one another. And when we
wrong one another, somebody might not accept our
apology.
But Allah
remind us in the Quran.
It is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala who
will accept. You are pre approved for Tawbah.
You are pre approved for repentance. You just
go back to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. In
Surah Ghafir Ghafir with thembi waqabilitaub
Allah will accept your Tawbah With Allah there
there is a huge emphasis in the Quran
that you will not be rejected. Allah will
not reject you if you come, to him.
As a matter of fact, hadith of the
prophet,
that if you come to Allah
walk in figuratively speaking, Allah will come to
you running. If you come to Allah,
you know, in a closer distance, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala will bring you even closer to
him.
In Ramadan, it's a special a special season
for Tawba, subhanAllah.
The stomach is empty.
The heart is center stage.
The soul,
is taken over. Spirituality
is all around us. And before we got
to Ramadan, it's kinda like, you know, our
battery was not charged. Our battery was like
depleting depleting and and and flashing red. And
it comes Ramadan and you feel all this
spirituality with taraweeh
and fasting and charity and all this stuff
subhanallah.
And it's and it's a time
to turn to Allah
in repentance.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you know, by the
way, repentance is not only for those people
who made mistakes. Repentance is for every single
human being. Allah
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and
repent to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala all, oh
you who be all the believers
so you might attain success.
You might attain success subhanAllah. That is the
whole idea of the month of Ramadan. This
whole idea of this whole life is to
attain success.
In the then,
we say
come to success, come to felicity.
That is that is that is that is
the goal. The prophet
the prophet
whose sins were forgiven by Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
used to Allah ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to accept his repentance and
accept his forgiveness
at least a 100 times per day.
This Ramadan,
when you are,
alone,
when you're alone the masjid,
when you're in the prayer, subhanAllah,
I want you to,
remember.
I want you to remember and reflect, subhanAllah.
I want you to remember, reflect when especially
when you are alone and ponder,
and and count
and and see what you have done, what
we have done in the past.
You know? We can always go back to
the year to the to the to, you
know, year by year or or whatever you
wanna do and just remember, subhanAllah, those sins
and ask Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, You Allah,
forgive me for this. You Allah forgive me
for this. You Allah forgive me for this.
You Allah accept my repentance for this.
Sufian al Thawri, one of the,
he said, I sat down one day, and
I start to count
my sins.
I start to count my sins.
And and he said he came up with
21,000
sins that he have committed. SubhanAllah.
21.
And this is one of the,
you know, the tabi'een,
the followers of the companions, SubhanAllah.
He said there was 21,000
sins that I have done.
Then he said to himself,
He said, I said to myself,
also, Fyan, you're gonna meet Allah with 21,000
sins?
Are you gonna meet Allah with 21,000
sins? And Allah will ask you about each
of these sins.
Then he said I said to myself,
that,
I went I went back and I start
remembering what I have done.
And I asked Allah, oh Allah,
I I sat down.
I I used to sit down and and
and and count my sins
and repent from each and every single sin.
And he said after I finished,
I felt light.
I felt that there is you know, I
felt as if my heart was filled with
light, SubhanAllah.
Because he knows Allah
will accept his repentance,
and he knows
that Allah
will will will will will shine the the
light into his heart.
Speaking of the heart, the prophet remind
us in in, the explaining
one verse,
that this heart, subhanAllah,
the sin in the heart is like a
black spot,
like a dark spot on the heart.
And sin is lonely in the heart. So
the sin,
as it comes, it invites other sins to
the heart. To the moment that the the
the the heart
can no longer see.
Allah reminds in the Quran that blindness is
not blindness of the eyes, but it is
blindness of the heart. The more we sin,
the more that heart is covered
with this dark,
she with with with that with that dark
with that with this dark, clot after another
after another
until the heart become dysfunctional.
And when the when the heart become dysfunctional,
it's time to cleanse the heart. It's it's
it's time to,
you know, run,
what I call it, you know, antiviruses,
antivirus
for the heart.
Allah
in the Quran, you would see the word
A
117,
Surah Tawba. Allah have accepted the repentance of
the prophet
and the the the the migrant the the
immigrants
and the helpers.
Those people migrate for the sake of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
used the word repentance
to elevate their status
as well. In the Quran,
many verses,
Khulya Ibadi. First of, we know this verse
very well, SubhanAllah.
Then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said, Khulya Ibadi
Allah said, oh, my slave servants that have
exaggerated,
that have
outdone themselves with sins, never ever give up
on the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah forgives all sins.
Allah forgives all sins and,
the word
in Arabic that don't ever ever give up
hope. Right? Actually, one of the biggest sins,
in Islam and as the prophet remind
us is
that you think that your sins are so
big
that you cannot that Allah
will not forgive you.
Hadith of the prophet
to tell us about the love and the
mercy and the forgiveness of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala is a man that killed 99 people.
All of us knows. Here's the word 90
9 again. In an analogy, the prophet
remind us,
about the vastness
and,
of of Allah
forgiveness and and how Allah will accept our
repentance
that he teaches a story about a symbolic
story about a man who killed 99 people.
Imagine,
99 people. Here's the number 99 again. Right?
He killed 99 people and he goes to
a monk in the mountain, and he said,
I have killed 99 people. Would God forgive
me? Would God accept my repentance?
Remember Allah
accept all the repentance.
And Allah and and and this hadith of
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is telling you,
you know, a man killed many. How terrible,
how horrible is
that? So so I want you to to
measure your sins compared to that. You know,
your sins will look minute
but in the eyes of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will forgive you.
So the man killed 99 people, he went
to the monk in the mountain
and he said to the monk in the
mountain, I killed 99 people. Would God accept
my repentance? And the man in the mountain
said, no.
99 is too much.
So this man took his sword and he
killed the monk. So now it's a 100.
Is the word a 100 again,
right? So this man, SubhanAllah, as the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he was yearning for repentance.
His heart was connected
with the merciful Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
His heart was connected with Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, and he went to repent.
So he goes find a learned person.
A learned person, he said, of course, God
will forgive you. Of course, Allah will forgive
you, but you have to take action.
And the action he prescribed to him, he
prescribed to him, he said, you need to
re to leave your wrathful village that you
lived in and you killed a 100 people
in it and move to a righteous village
across
the valley
and start a new life. The man
does just that. He moves from the wrathful
village, and he goes to the righteous village
where he dies on the way.
The prophet
continues telling us the story.
The man dies on the way, and then
the angels of wrath came to take his
soul to the hellfire,
and the angel of mercy came to take
his soul
to paradise.
The angel of wrath have a reasoning. He
said, oh, God, he killed 99 people and
1 monk.
And the angel of mercy said, oh, God,
You Allah, oh, Allah.
But he was migrating towards you. He he
have repentance in his heart
and and he was hoping for your mercy
and he's going towards you.
To make a long story short, the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
says that Allah
figuratively speaking said to the angels, we'll measure
the distance between his body and the wrathful
village and his body and the righteous village.
And the angels do just that.
And,
it's been said that Allah
skewed his body just enough
that he was closer
to the righteous village,
and the angels
of righteousness
took his soul to paradise.
That is Allah
accept repentance.
Allah
you have exaggerated
in sins and you have done so much
sins. Never ever give up on the hope
of Allah
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in Zumr 54, 55.
Go back to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Repent to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Go back
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Throughout the Quran
SubhanAllah,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
verse 222.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said Allah loves
loves
the person who who comes in repentance to
him. As a matter of fact, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala facilitate Tawba for us in in
in so many places.
The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said
while our Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala open a
door when he when he open when he
created heavens and earth, and that door is
open
for all until the day of judgment, SubhanAllah.
The prophet asked, do you know which door
that is? And the companions did not. And
the prophet said, that's the door of repentance.
It's wide
open, SubhanAllah.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he said, oh,
son of Adam, who is like you?
If you make if you made committed a
sin, you make wudu and you pray to
rakah and say, Allahu Akbar, you in the
presence of Allah ask for repentance.
The prophet salamahu alaihi wasallam you said that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala extend his hands
figuratively speaking during the night.
So the person would repent
from his sins that he have committed at
night. And he extend his hands at night
so the person will repent,
from the sins that he committed
at night.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
especially in Ramadan, listen, that
that Allah manifest himself
in that last part of from last part
of the night, especially in Ramadan. And Allah
says,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala say every night,
Who's gonna call me so I could answer
his prayers?
Who's gonna ask me for forgiveness and I
will forgive him?
Is there somebody
is there somebody
that is repenting? So I will accept his
repentance.
Brothers and sisters,
those are precious moments in the month of
Ramadan.
I know the best soap operas are in
Ramadan. The most TVs the TV shows are
in Ramadan. Don't waste your time.
Ramadan is a time that passes really quick.
SubhanAllah.
Wake up. Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for
forgiveness.
The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam remind us that
prophet David Dawood.
Prophet
David, Allah
talked to prophet David. He said, David, if
you would if the people who are turning
away from me, they would know
how much I love them and how much
I'm eager
and yearning for them for them to come
back,
and how much I'm eager for them to
come back,
they will melt those you know, figuratively speaking.
Those people those people, if they would know
how much Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants them
to go back, how much Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala wants us to go back to him,
then we love Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The prophet remind
us another hadith that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
says that, me, and the human beings and
the jinn
are
in a in a in a in this
relationship. Listen to what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
say.
I I create them, but they they worship
somebody beside me.
I
give them provisions, but they thank somebody else.
All my goodness is going down to them,
and they they they they reciprocate with sins
going up to me. Allah,
says,
skipping through the hadith, Allah,
said,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala say, if they repent,
then I will be their beloved.
Be the beloved of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Go back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The prophet
gives us an an analogy how Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is happy and rejoice
with the repentance of a person.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said that
Allah
rejoice with the repentance of
of of of his people.
And the prophet give us his example. He
said, imagine you're in the desert,
and you have a camel full of your,
provisions on it. And the camel,
all of a sudden, you went to sleep,
and the camel disappears.
Nothing. No water. Nothing whatsoever.
You're in the middle of the desert,
and, you start digging yourself a grave, and
that's it. I'm, you know, there's there's no
food. I'm starving.
And all of a sudden you open your
eyes between life and death and you see
the camel came back with all your provisions.
That's the analogy the prophet
gives. How Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So how
how
how much,
are you,
how much are you happy to see your
provisions coming back? The prophet tell us that.
There's one point here I wanna make. When
somebody repent to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
becomes Habib alir Rahman, becomes
becomes beloved to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Becomes beloved to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala because
he or she acknowledges
Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Allah facilitate Tawba. Allah said,
In Allah said in Surah Tauba 1 18,
Allah facilitate tauba.
I had a I had a I had
a friend of mine, subhanallah, that he was
far away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And, you know, he was an accountant. He
could not find a job except with a
Hajj and Umrah,
a company. He worked for them.
And one day,
they told him, you know,
you need to travel with us to Hajj
and Umrah. So he traveled with him to
Mecca. And in Mecca there, subhanAllah, he was
in the presence,
of the Kaaba,
and there, subhanAllah, he went back to
Allah. Or a story of, those kids who
traveled from their home country,
of Madinah and Saudi Arabia, and they went
all the way,
to this place in Turkey,
so they could, you know, have fun and
and and commit sins and so on.
But when the clerk right there at this
at this at at the hotel figured out
that those people are from Medina,
they will not start the prayer without them.
Said, you are from Medina, and the blood
of the companions runs through your veins.
You guys are to
lead the prayers. They led the prayers,
and they went back to Allah
So,
go back to Allah
Remorse.
Feel that remorse.
The prophet
said
that
is is remorse. So when somebody feels remorse,
a person,
Allah so feeling the remorse is a form
of of repentance.
Let's stop doing the sins we're doing and
not go back, to these things.
And number 4,
if there's any
any any rights that we have taken from
anyone,
we ask him to forgive us or we
give those rights back. And finally,
do know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala say
at Surah Tuhl 114,
Good deeds will erase bad deeds.
This is the month of Ramadan.
Huge opportunities,
are,
are open to you. Allah
figuratively speaking
have held back all the evils and all
the shayateen away from us. It's an opportunity
to open our heart
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and it's an
opportunity to repent
and go back
to the path of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us among
those.