Khatira from Masjid Salahadeen

Someone who will cause mischief and shed blood.

Did they did they know us or did

they not know us?

Did were were they right about us?

How long was it before they were proven

right?

The very son of this kharifa would prove

them right. Correct?

But And they said we celebrate your praises,

they now If you just want to be

worshipped, just create more of us, you know,

create more of us. Why create this khalifa?

They're gonna cause so much problems.

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in his infinite wisdom,

he did not give them his explanation. What

did he say?

I know something you don't know. I know

something you don't know. So he created Adam

alaihis salaam and his wife Hawa.

He put them where? In jannah.

Letting us Signifying to us this is where

Allah intends for us to be. Place them

in jannah.

And He told them in jannah you can

enjoy everything you want.

Except what? How many rules did they have?

One. They had one rule.

This is showing us the nature of man.

How many rules do we have now in

the sharia? This is the mini. You could

study this for forever. They had one rule.

I put a tree in this garden, don't

touch it. Stay away from it. What did

they do?

They broke the very first rule. They broke

the only rule they had, Right? Shaytan tricked

both of them and they broke the rule.

So Allah told them you have to get

down from here. You have to go in

the earth. You have to live. You're gonna

get old. You have to work. You have

to hunt. You just and then you're gonna

die.

Imam Ibn Kathir

records a conversation. If you look in his

tafsir of these ayat, he records a conversation

between Adam and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as

he is exiting the garden. And this gives

us some insight into our nature.

And what do we do about sin?

How many of us don't commit sin? Raise

your hand. You've never committed a sin in

your life.

I wanna wanna make sure we have no

angels in here with us tonight. Okay? Khayran.

All of us.

The prophet

said

Every son of Adam sins, every single one

of them.

As Adam was leaving the garden, he asked

Allah a few questions and these questions are

beautiful.

He said, My Lord did you not create

me with your own hands? And Allah said,

Yes. You see this is Adam's wisdom. This

is the wisdom that Allah

gave our father Adam. He said, Did you

not breathe into me the breath of life

and cause me to live? He said, Yes.

He said This is Adam starting to use

his his logic that Allah gave him. He

said, when I became alive

and I sneezed because we know the first

thing Adam did when he became alive, he

sneezed.

He said, Did you not say? You're hamukullah.

This is why we say it to each

other. Did you not say, 'May Allah have

mercy on you?' He said, Yes. He said,

Okay.

He said Then he asked the most important

question.

Didn't you know when you put me and

my wife in the garden and told us

not to eat from this tree, didn't you

know we were gonna do it anyway?

Didn't you already know we were gonna do

it? Allah said, yes. I knew. I knew

you were going to do it. Allah is

Al-'aleem. He knows everything. He knew before creating

the heavens and the earth that they were

going to do it. He knew before creating

Jannah, they were gonna do it. He knew

when he put the tree there, they were

gonna do it. He know when he he

knew when he was telling them not to

do it, they were gonna do it. Sounds

like a lot of our children, right?

Exactly like our children. He knew it.

Allah said, Yes. I knew you were gonna

do it. So then Adam said, can you

not forgive me for that which you knew

I was going to do? Can you not

have mercy on me for something you already

knew I was gonna do before telling me

not to do it? Allah said yes. And

that's when he taught them the very famous

words, my lords, I have wronged my own

soul. My lord, I have wronged my own

soul. If you don't have mercy on me,

then surely I will be amongst the losers.

This gives us insight to the relationship

between Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and His creation.

It is a relationship of

The Prophet

said,

Every son of Adam sins, but the best

of those who sin, which is all of

us, are the repentant ones. So know this

brothers and sisters, you will sin. You will

make mistakes. We all have them. We all

have sins. We all have mistakes. We all

have skeletons in the closet. We all have

parts of us that we pray that Allah

never puts in front of mankind.

But those who are repentant,

they will be the inhabitants of Jannah.

The people of paradise, everyone of Jannah, everybody,

every single person after the prophets in Jannah

will be a forgiven

sinner. Will be a forgiven sinner.

That is the reality of who we are.

It is a struggle that we commit sin

and we go back to Allah. We commit

sin and we go back to Allah. It

is the status of our nature.

And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,

Your actions will be judged according to the

last one. So if you commit a mistake,

if we make sin, if we commit sin,

return to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala immediately.

Never think you've done too much. Never think

you've gone too far. Never think that I

have been a stray for so long. I

don't deserve to come back to Allah. This

is one of shaitan's

most deceitful and devious tricks to mankind

is to make them think that Allah won't

forgive you because Allah forgives

everything. He forgives all sin except we know

for open shirk. I am going to address

this insha'Allah hootal and rakutbah in a very

long methodology,

but I wanted to share with you tonight

that there is hope. We have to have

hope. We have to have hope in Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Because I'll say this lastly.

Because the Prophet

he said that Allah is as you perceive

him to be.

How does that even make sense?

Allah is as you perceive him to be.

That means that how you perceive Allah sets

the framework of the reality of how you

are going to have a relationship with Allah.

If you see Allah as someone who cannot

forgive you, who is so angry and so

vengeful that He has no mercy for me,

then this is the behavior of the relationship

you have with Allah and you will not

receive His mercy because you won't go after

it. But if you have hope and know

that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is

All of the beautiful names of Allah, they

speak about His compassion, His mercy, His patience,

His forgiveness.

Then that is how you will have an

interacting relationship with Allah. And when you commit

sin, you will know that you can return

to him and that door of repentance will

always be open for you

So may us all in this month of

Ramadan achieve his forgiveness, but after it, let

us continuously, every time we make a mistake,

return to the door of repentance, and Allah

open.

open.