Yusha Evans – Sunday Khatira – Masjid Salahadeen
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The importance of forgiveness in Islam is discussed, with emphasis on the need for a habit of forgiveness and the importance of actively praying. The process of forgiveness can be pursued through various actions, including praying tur offline and formally asking Allah to forgive them. It is also emphasized the importance of seeking forgiveness and avoiding regret. The speaker emphasizes the need to increase one's insha'abou and use it to open doors for one's life, while also not going to bed and seeking forgiveness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
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Or not Allah forgives you on the day
of judgement.
That's that's all that you will be concerned
about. On the day when you die,
every worry that you've had in this world
will die with it.
Every stress you've had in this world will
die with that death.
The only concern you will have after that
is whether or not
Allah is going to forgive me because only
the people who we go to paradise are
the people whom Allah has forgiven. This is
what the scholars have coined as the
price of paradise. The price of paradise is
the forgiveness of Allah
And there are some conditions. There are many.
We're just gonna be very short and brief.
I'm gonna give you some some ways inshallah
because the beautiful thing is that Allah has
made it
very easy
for the believer to enter into the doors
of forgiveness. He's made it very easy. He's
given us so many ways. I think if,
we were to sit here and go over
the ways or,
Sheikh Jabali will go over all the ways
in Islam that are known to cause forgiveness,
we would be here for in for the
rest of the day. But Allah has made
it very easy. But the conditions of forgiveness
are a few.
And as long as we meet these conditions,
then we are hopeful that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala will forgive us, insha'Allah.
Number 1 is that we must actually have
remorse.
We must have a feeling of remorse and
regret
for the sin we have committed. This is
the this is the beginning of tawba. Is
that we have remorse and regret for the
sins that we have committed. For indeed if
you're not remorseful or regretful for it, then
the rest of them don't matter at all.
Number 2 is to actually make tawba, to
actually ask Allah
to forgive you. Whether that's informally
making istighfar
or whether it's by formally praying turakat of
nawafil salah and then asking Allah to forgive
you. This is the formal tawbah. This is
for, like, major sins as well that you
need to actually formally make tawbah to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then number 3 is
that you have the intention not to return
to that sin. You have the intention to
not go back to it again.
But okay, what happens if you do do
it again? You repeat the process.
If you do it again, you just repeat
the process. You have remorse, you make tawba,
and you make an intention. What happens if
you do it again?
You repeat the process again. What happens if
you do it again?
You repeat the process again. Till when?
How many times can we repeat that process
Until shaitan gives up on you.
Until shaitan despairs of you. Never stop repenting
until shaitan has given up on you And
if he doesn't, then you don't. This is
reality. It is a race to who's gonna
give up first. Are you gonna give up
first returning to Allah or shaitan gonna give
up on you? That is the reality. And
we fight that fight until
the day that we die. But the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam has given us so
many ways, so many ways that we can
receive the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We just passed one of them which we
know is an accepted Ramadan. An accepted Ramadan
is the forgiveness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
An accepted Hajj is the forgiveness of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Umrah is forgiveness from Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. Coming up soon, you'll have
another chance in a couple of months on
9th of Dhul Hijjah. Those who fast on
9th of Dhul Hijjah sincerely seeking reward from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They receive forgiveness from
the previous year's sins and the next year's
sins You know the 6 days of Shawwal
that just
if you fast Ramadan,
add the 6 days of Shawwal and you
forget there's so many paths to the forgiveness
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Saying subhanAllah
a
100 times. Forgiveness from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
There are so many paths to do this.
And these are things that the Muslims should
be looking for. We should be looking for
these things. What are ways that I can
earn the forgiveness of
Allah So go through the different modes. There
are so so so many of them. Some
of them are very simple and very easy
and some of them are much more difficult
if you wanna get larger sins or gravity
of sins forgiven
But when it comes to
seeking the forgiveness of Allah, this is something
we should never ever ever give up on
and never think we've done too much, never
think it's impossible.
It's not impossible. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
more forgiving than you have the capacity to
understand.
There's also another very beautiful dua that you
can make. You make this in the morning
insha'Allah.
It will open up the doors and pathways
to you. 10 times you say
Say this in the morning insha'Allah. See things
open up in your life. But the the
door of istighfar is not just for the
forgiveness of sins.
When those who are increased in their istighfar,
the scholars have said it opens up the
pathways to many things in their life. Those
who are frequent in istighfar,
Allah opens up the doors of his bounty
to them. Allah opens up the doors of
his healing to them. You're having sickness, make
istighfar.
Give sadaqah. Do other things that will help
this insha'Allah.
Open up these pathways for yourself because that
door to tawbah never closes until two things
happen. That's how we'll close insha'amal. The door
to tawba closes in 2 2 times.
For your own personal life, the door of
tawba, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
closes when the soul reaches the throat. Meaning
that the angel of death has presented himself
to you and the soul is about to
come out, that is it. It's too late
at that point. You now oh I see
the reality now. It's too late. And then
the second one, which is for the global
repentance,
is when the sun rises from the west.
When the sun rises from the west, which
is one of the last signs of the
day of judgment, then that after that the
dura of Tawba will close. The sun rises
from the west, the dabb that will come
out from there, the beast that will come
out and speak to people. This is when
the door of repentance closes. But other than
that, it is always open to you insha'allah.
And please, just as a as a as
a small
reminder,
do not go to bed at night without
having
seek the forgiveness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Sleep every night with a clean slate. Make
istighfar. If you wake up in the middle
of the night, get up and pray. Our
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
used to stand up at night and pray
until his feet cracked and bled. We know
this famously. Right? And Aisha radiAllahu anha wa
raha asked him, why do you do this?
We know that you have been forgiven. Allah
has forgiven your past and future sins. All
everything that you could do has been forgiven.
Why do you stand up all night and
do this? He said then should I not
be
a,
what is the word I'm looking for?
A grateful should I not be a grateful
slave? Should not not be a thankful slave
to subhanahu wa ta'ala for this that he
has given me? That is for he whose
sins had already been forgiven. What about us?
What about us who don't know? What about
us who have no idea whether we're going
to be forgiven or not? Our prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam said I make istafar between how
many?
70 to 100 times every single day. This
is someone whom Allah has already forgiven. What
about us? We have to look at our
condition and realize how much more we are
in need and increase in our istafar insha'allah,
and it will open bounteous doors into your
life. Insha'allah, it will open doors that you
you cannot imagine. The scholars have I remember
sitting in a in a in a lecture,
one summer in Madinah
with Sheikh Mohammed Muhtar, Asham Kheti, where he
was going through the benefits of istighfar and
what it does to your life. I wish
that lecture was online. It might be online
somewhere in Arabic. But the amount of things
that come through
seeking the forgiveness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So always remember that anytime during the day
you get a moment just say, Astaghfirullah.
Astaghfirullah.
Whatever it is, ask Allah to forgive you
and watch how things open up for you
and your life changes insha'Allah.
Let's have some nice breakfast.
Yes.
You can't get up to pray.
Yes.
Yes. There's so there are there are a
number of different,
du'at that you can say that bring about
Allah's forgiveness.
Look for all of them. And most of
them are very short and most of them
are very light on the tongue as well.
Most of them are very light on the
tongue. They're made very easy. That's one beautiful
thing he was talking about Sheikh Mohammed Makhtar
is that if you look at most of
the duas for forgiveness, Allah has made them
very easy and light on the tongue. They're
not very complicated to say so that people
who are not native Arab speakers cannot say
them. They've been made very light on the
tongue and very easy. Even the even the
one where he said,
SubhanAllah, he will be hamdulhee, SubhanAllah, hil adhim.
He said it's something that is very light
on the tongue but heavy on the scales.
Very light on the tongue, very easy to
say but heavy on the scales. So this
is why Allah has made it another point
that Allah has made it so easy for
us.
Alright.
Let's have some breakfast, inshallah. Assalamu
alaykum