Khatira from Ustadh at Masjid Salahadeen

Killed 99 people. He went to who was

was someone who was known to be an

abid, a worshiper. And he asked, can Allah

forgive me? And the man said, No. Allah

can't forgive you. So since he said, Well,

if Allah can't forgive me, I'll kill you

too. So he killed that man, right? Then

he eventually his

fitra pushed him towards, I wanna know, can

Allah really forgive me? So he said, Where

is the most learned amongst you? Who is

the alum from amongst you? So he went

to him, and he said, I've killed 100

people including a worship of Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala. Can Allah forgive me? He said, who

told you Allah cannot forgive you? Allah

forgive all sins, but you need to leave

this place. Right? You need to go somewhere

else. You need to leave and go to

a town. There are some people over here

who will help you be a better person.

So he left, and he was on his

way there. And what happened to him?

What happened to him? He died on the

way. And when he died on the way,

the angels of mercy and wrath

both came and started arguing about who should

take him. I want you to see what

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is willing to do

for this man who killed 100 people. So

they started arguing, who should take him? The

angel of wrath said, I should take him

because he didn't make it where he was

going.

The angel of mercy said, No, no, no.

He was on his way. So they debated.

Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Okay. This

is what you do. You measure the distance

between where he's coming from and where he's

going, and whichever place you find him closer

to. If you find him closer to the

place where he was coming from, the angel

of wrath will take him and I will

punish him. If you find him closer to

the place where he was going to repent,

then the angel of mercy will take him.

Which place was he actually closer to physically

at that moment?

He was closer to the place where he

had come from, so the Angel of Raf

should have taken him. But then Allah

ordered the earth,

ordered the earth between those two places to

shrink. This is for a man who killed

100 people.

Allah is now ordering the earth to shrink

its circumference

between those two places so that he was

found to be measured closer to the place

to where he was going,

and he was received with Allah's mercy. Now

could not have Allah just have made the

man die closer?

Could he could he have just made it

easy and made the man die closer? Yes.

He could have. But the whole point was

so that this type of story would reach

you and me. So that we could understand

how merciful Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

truly is for those who seek it. As

Allah said before creating anything, he made an

oath with himself that my mercy will always

overcome my anger. So brothers and sisters,

know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said that Allah is

more merciful than a mother is to her

child. Once the companions were sitting around a

fire, and there was a child who was

playing around it, and every time it would

crackle and sparkle and the fire would shoot

up, the mother would reach out and grab

her child and pull it back and the

prophet

started crying. And the companion said, yeah, what

makes you cry, You Rasulullah?

He said, look how much this mother loves

her child. Know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

loves every single soul that he created

more than this mother loves her own child,

yet they are so persistent about jumping into

the fire. So no, brothers and sisters, Allah

is

He is the most compassionate. He is the

most merciful.

The only thing that is required from us

is to make the intention. It does not

matter if you get to where you were

trying to go. The results of our efforts

are not in our hands. The result of

your effort, whether you wanna start a business

or you wanna get a degree, no matter

what it is you want to do with

your life, the results of that are in

the hands of Allah The

effort lies with us. So our job is

to make effort towards Allah

Make effort towards him. Seek his forgiveness. Seek

his bounty. And he will take care of

the results and the rest of it

So it is about what you intended to

do, not what you do in your life.

So if you intend to do right, you

intend to make a change, you intend to

be right with Allah, you intend to make

better with your life, then then Allah

will not only facilitate that, but he will

reward you even if you die on that

the destination.

the destination.