Asr Khatirah – Pleading With Faith For Mercy

Surat Al muminun, we have 2 verses, aya

number 109

and 118.

In this ayah, Allah subhanahu wa'ala says, indeed,

there was a group of my servants who

used to pray, our Lord,

we have believed,

so forgive us and have mercy on us

for you are the best of those who

have who show mercy.

And the end and the last ayah in

Surat Al Mu'minoon,

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala repeats

that. Repeats that by saying

say, oh, prophet,

my lord, forgive, forgive and have mercy

for you are the best of those who

show mercy.

So, to put the ayat in perspective here,

so the first ayah

came in the

context of Allah

speaking about the people of Jahannam. If you

read the context in Surat Al Aminun,

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is informing us about

a dialogue that will happen between him and

the people of Jahannam.

Those who've been destined to Jahannam,

they will start dialoguing

with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Ask Allah

We wronged ourselves.

We ask you that you give us another

opportunity. Just let us out of jahannam.

If we go back again to the same

old way,

If we go back again to our old

ways, You Allah, then we're completely

lost. We're completely astray which means we deserve

that punishment.

Give us one

last chance.

Then Allah

answered them saying,

No, no, no. You're not gonna get that

opportunity anymore.

Like you know what?

You'll be ashamed of yourself,

you're gonna be humiliated here

and don't do their talk to me.

Some of the adab that Allah

mentioned in the Quran

is when Allah

does not

speak to the people of Jahannam

or some of the people who punish it.

And you know that when you are when

silent treatment is used as punishment, right?

Your spouse sometimes does that to you, your

kids when you don't tell them something,

so they give you silent treatment and it's

very painful

especially if it's used as a punishment,

right? And Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala has the best

example.

Sometimes he punishes by not speaking to them

As Allah says many ayaat that

those are the people that he

He doesn't speak to them, he doesn't even

look at them.

And here, he is now

says, you are doomed, you're ruined, you're going

to be humiliated there, don't you dare talk

to me.

And then he says, now he's now

punishing them even by reminding them of the

opportunity they lost when they had the chance.

It

says,

look, I had other servants,

I had others

just like you,

who had the opportunity just like you,

but they chose

what you didn't choose. They chose to say

Those people they used to

say

You Allah we believe.

So, when they say

again we go back again to when you

make your dua use because the one who

gives his subhanahu wa ta'ala He provides his

sustainer and so on. So, they say

our Lord

we believe.

So, what's the significance of saying

or we believe before you make any dua?

That's what the Ulamati call

that you intercede to Allah Subhanahu when you

make dua, you intercede to Allah

by presenting something good that you've done for

his sake,

and that's permissible.

Let's say,

I ask, for example, when you finish recitation

of the Quran and you come to full

and you say, my Lord, I ask you

by the good deeds of submitting this to

help me with this, to help me with

that. There's nothing wrong with this.

Remember the hadith of the 3 people who

were locked in a cave and the boulder

came and closed the opening of that cave

and they got stuck there,

how did they leave?

They used the intercession, they called upon the

Lord Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

interceding to Allah

with a good deed they've done and they

felt it was sincere.

So, they say, my Lord, I ask you

that if I've done this only for you

and only to you, You Allah, I ask

you to get us out of this misery,

and Allah moved the rocks slowly and gradually

until they were able to walk out.

And here part of the etiquette of a

believer you present your good deed by saying,

my Lord, I believe in you.

You're the one and only and I believe

in you

and I submit myself to you. So those

are now intercessions, you start to make your

du'a with that.

Then,

now they bring their plea and their demand.

You Allah forgive us because we believed

forgive us

and have mercy on us.

And because you are the one who is

the best of those who show mercy.

So, first of all, when you say,

isn't that what these people

that

were asking for?

They were asking for what?

For forgiveness

and for asking for what? For mercy.

Did Allah show it to them?

No. They didn't earn it.

Now, he's bringing this in this context, why?

Because they brought to us

why they earned that forgiveness and mercy.

Because of what?

We believe.

We believe. We didn't deny like this, but

we believe.

So forgive us.

Show mercy

because you're the best of those who show

mercy.

Now, when Allah says the best of those

who show mercy, what does that even mean?

Is there any comparison even?

Absolutely not. There's no comparison.

But just like the prophet mentioned the hadith,

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

how many when you divide the mercy of

Allah azza wa Jal, how many mercies we're

talking about over here?

A 100,

a 100.

Now, how many mercies Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala sent

down on earth?

Only 1. By which everything you see,

the compassion, the mercy you see is part

of that one,

including

the mother when she holds her baby,

the animal when

not stepping over its own baby as well,

to an every that you see among the

people when it comes to compassion and mercy,

all of this is part of one mercy,

and he kept none in our mercy for

the day of judgment.

So, when it comes to that, this is

Yes, there are people some might show mercy,

but your mercy,

I mean, there's no comparison.

Again,

these people

that Allah spoke about earlier and he told

them,

you're not gonna talk to me,

you don't deserve it because they did not

bring the prerequisite,

the prerequisite for

their forgiveness

and for taking that mercy. And what that

prerequisite was? Faith and to believe in Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So, afterwards Allah Azzawajal presented

that case of the believers

and again taunting the non believers for missing

the opportunity,

then the final ayah in Surat Al Mu'minoon

was a reminder to all of us.

A reminder to all of us when Allah

says

and say

my lord or our lord,

forgive and have mercy for you are the

best of those who show mercy.

He's reminding us that if you need that,

what do you need to bring with it?

Iman.

Iman,

you mean your faith with that. So, he's

reminding us while you're making that dua,

make sure to bring faith and belief in

Allah

with this. So, from these two verses,

we

made this dua or put together this dua

as Allah is asking us to and commanding

us to say which is

So, we can repeat this dua inshallah

Ta'ala.

Warudubika.

Rabii.

Ayahdurun.

Rabii.

Anzilni.

Munzalan,

Mubarakan,

Waanta,

Hayrul Munzilin.

Kuntumina dalamin.

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ini

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