Wasim Kempson – Engaging In Al-Istighfar
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Yeah. Anil
Indeed, all praise and thanks is due to
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, the lord of the
worlds.
I bear witness that there is none worthy
of worship except Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone.
And I bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa ahi wasallam
is his final messenger.
The people of Jannah, the people of paradise,
When they are entered into a place
where they will have anything that they wish.
That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala at this time
will have removed from them
any responsibility
in terms of a tiklief.
That they will not be commanded like they
were commanded in this worldly life.
At certain times you are commanded to make
salah.
At certain times of the year to fast
and to give zakah.
In
Jannah, you'll not have that.
But in the paradise, what you will be,
you will be required to make the zikr
and the remembrance
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And imagine that the people of Jannah,
the one thing that they will remind themselves
of in this world day life,
if you like some form of If you
want to call it regret
or something to think over,
is the amount of times
that they did not remember Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
That if only we could have remembered Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
more frequently.
But that is that time has not come
yet for us.
We are of course now living our lives,
a specific
ajal,
which is being decreed to us by Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
But as a reminder,
the importance of reminding ourselves
about what it is
to remember Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
How great it is
to remember Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
That only through and by the remembrance of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will our hearts
find
any tranquility.
If you try to find that tranquility somewhere
else,
you will be looking for a lifetime and
more.
But it is only through the remembrance of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And when I say the remembrance of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
it is not just something that your
tongue is just moving and that there is
no attention paid to what you are saying.
But rather when you say
and mention Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala frequently,
that it keeps you in line.
And it brings about happiness, a
a
tranquility,
and a sakinah within your life.
In the sound hadith
That the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
That Allah
has angels.
And that these angels, what are they commanded
to do?
They're commanded to go out in caravans, in
groups,
out into the roads and streets.
Looking for the people of remembrance.
So some angels,
they are.
They are given responsibility
to bring the rain.
The of the jibal,
the angel of death.
These angels,
they're looking for the people of remembrance.
So as you leave this Masjid today
and that you may be in the continue
the continued remembrance of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
that you are mentioned in this Hadith.
You are mentioned in this hadith by description.
Not by name but by description.
If
these
mala'ika, they find a people.
They find a people who are remembering Allah
Come to that what you are asking for.
And then these
angels,
they place their wings upon these people of
dhikr.
And that they raise their wings up until.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, their lord asks
them.
What are my servants? What are they saying?
And Allah he already knows.
And they respond to the man
They glorify you.
They praise you. They glorify you.
Have they ever seen me? Allah says.
They have never seen you, oh my lord.
And how would it be Allah
says how would it be if they ever
saw me?
And then the malaika, they reply,
They would be more intense in their worship.
That they would increase their praise and glorifying
of you, oh lord.
And what are they asking for?
These dhikr, these people of dhikr, what are
they asking for?
Allah asks the ancients and he already knows.
Subhanah.
And the they say, yes,
They are asking
for the paradise.
Have they seen it?
If these people of dhikr, these people of
remembrance
had ever seen the paradise?
The malaikr, they reply
that they would be more
intense in their request.
In their request of asking
for the paradise.
Their desire of the paradise would be even
more.
And what do they seek refuge from? Allah
says.
And then the, the malaika, they say.
They seek refuge and protection from the hellfire.
And have they ever seen this? Allah jalu'ala
says.
They have never seen the hellfire.
And how would it be
if they had ever seen the hellfire?
That they would be even more intense in
their fleeing from the hellfire.
And that their fear would be even more.
I testify, Allah jalu'ala says,
that I have forgiven these people.
These people,
we have never seen Allah
This is for the people of Jannah.
We have never seen the hellfire. We have
never seen the paradise,
but we ask for it.
We seek protection from the hellfire,
and we have never seen it.
And how would it be in each situation
if we had, subhanAllah?
We have never seen Al Nabi alaihis salatu
salam,
but we give everything to be like him.
So the prophet so Allah
tells us that these people who ask for
these,
that they are forgiven.
And then the with
an inquisitive question.
They say,
there's an individual.
There's a person with them
who wasn't actually from the people of Dhikr,
but he happens to be with their their
with them.
So what's his situation?
It's a good question.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
That I will also grant in the meaning,
I will also grant pardon
to that person who happens to be with
the people of Dhikr.
That whoever sits and is in the company
of these people of Dhikr,
they will never suffer misery.
So a person who is in the constant
remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will never suffer a misery.
Now dhikr is, of course, many types.
So many types of dhikr
praising and glorifying Allah
That we ask Allah
to make us those who frequently remember Allah
Even when Allah
commanded An Nabi alaihisattusallam
And know
that there is no one worthy of worship
except Allah.
And seek forgiveness
of your sins.
We take great benefit.
That from the greatest of zikr,
from the greatest of remembrance
is to seek Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's forgiveness.
And what does it mean to say
Astaghfirullah?
How heavy that word
how heavy it is in the heart of
the true believer.
Grants sincerely
to say,
Oh Allah,
I seek your forgiveness.
An acceptance
of your weakness,
of your shortcomings,
of your need of Allah
No arrogance,
full humbleness,
only to ask Allah
alone
to forgive you of your sins.
You may have noticed and continue to notice
that if you've ever performed Hajj or seen
people making Hajj,
how many
old older people we say this with
respect. Older people in age make the Hajj.
And, of course, the encouragement is that if
you are young, you have the strength, don't
delay your Hajj.
But nonetheless,
people for whatever reason at times have to
save their money,
have to save a lifetime's worth of savings
to before they die
to go and perform Hajj.
And then in their mind
that a person who performs hajj
doesn't get involved in arguing and swearing and
cursing,
abstains from his relationship with his spouse, if
that's applicable.
That he or she will return like the
day that they were born from their own
mothers,
even though that they had years
of sins.
The sins that you and I, we repeat
time after time after time. The same sin.
You keep committing it.
But it's delaying your salah, delaying your Zakah,
or bad language, or particular habit that you
have. You keep doing it.
But yet, SubhanAllah,
if a person turns back to Allah sincerely,
That they will find that Allah
is the off receiving of one's repentance, the
most merciful.
How great Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is that
every night,
in the last 3rd of the night,
the one that you are transgressing
against, the one that you are or have
shortcomings against,
you're Nadiq. That he is calling you, he
is calling I.
Is there anyone seeking my forgiveness that I
can forgive him, forgive her
every single night.
But yet sleep sleep sleep sleep past Fajr
sleep past Fajr.
What excuses do we have?
And this may go on for years.
The person being neglectful of their prayers for
example.
But yet when the time comes, when the
crunch comes, when they know that they need
to turn back to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
they have no other choice but they turn
back in humility.
Lowering their heads
Sincerely to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allahummaqfidli.
Oh Allah forgive me.
I am one who has many shortcomings.
Even after all of that transgression,
Allah
still forgives them.
Allah will still forgive you if you turn
back to him in repentance sincerely.
We ask Allah
to make us
The topic of alistikhar,
of course, that special type
of remembrance
is and will never be sufficient for us
to talk in just a few minutes on
this member.
But if it serves as a reminder for
all of us
to engage in alistighfar
just as our beloved Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, he taught us to do. Abdullah ibn
Umar radhiallahu anhu
In a sitting in one sitting throughout the
day,
would see the prophet
engaging
70 times, a 100 times, that they would
go away, and he would come back and
they would see him. They would go away,
and they would come back and see him.
They would go away in their business each
time that they would see him between the
salah. At the time of salah,
they would find him seeking
Allah
forgiveness.
And when Aisha
saw the prophet
standing in prayer, swollen feet,
should not the beast, alaihis salami, he said,
should I not be a thankful servant?
Educating us
to be grateful,
to be humble, to be sincere to Allah,
to barakatahu ta'ala. It's very easy for us
to be busy with our lives in this
dunya.
I can assure
you, not because it's me, anyone can assure
you your time here in this dunya is
very short. You have an ajal. You have
a time.
It will not be delayed. It will not
be brought forward. There's a particular time will
come to us, take our souls,
and we will have to face Allah
what we've done in this dunya.
Don't waste your time
in this dunya with things
which will take you away from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
And from the best things which can bring
you close to Allah, jaluwala,
is seeking Allah's
forgiveness.
After your salah,
during your salah,
between salah,
you ask Allah to
forgive you.
And if I refer you to have time
to mention it, to the or when Al
Hasan al Basri, rahamaha, was asked about
things that people were missing in their lives,
he mentioned the ayat from Surat An Nuh.
When Nuhari Salam told his people simply to
seek forgiveness
from Allah and
that Allah
would grant you the bounties
that they were looking for.
That Allah
will protect you from punishment
as long as you are seeking forgiveness
from Allah
That whoever adheres to istighfar
that
Allah will open a way for you.
Any stress and anxiety you have, there'll be
a way out for that.
But Allah
will provide from you from where you never
thought just because of your
Straighten the lines.
I I believe there's a janaza. So if
you could remind, remain behind to pray the
funeral prayer.
Is
a
funeral
prayer?
Is
a
funeral
prayer, Janaza, for our sister.
Be sincere in your dua for her.
First of all, we ask Allah
to bless the deceased and to send
his peace and blessings upon them and pour
patience and perseverance upon the family.
Just a quick announcement from the masjid
that tomorrow after Maghreb, Sheikh Kareem Abu Zaid
will be continuing the new series on timeless
stories.
This lecture will be covering the story of
3 men and an angel, which we invite
all of you to attend.