Zakir Naik – Aspects for Sincere Repentance
AI: Summary ©
The speaker discusses the four elements required for a sincere Darede ticket, including a person realizing their power and greatness, forgiveness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'la, and a desire to die and receive reward. They stress the importance of not being caught in the people's misperceptions and the need to be careful in their actions. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of not being punished for their actions and the need to be mindful of their actions.
AI: Summary ©
What are the special elements
which go together to make a sincere
repentance?
There are 4 things required.
Number 1,
a person should realize
the power of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'la,
His power and His greatness. That if he
wants to punish you, he can punish you
immediately. So this will make
a person repent
and
we should not look at the minuteness of
our sin.
We should look at the greatness and forgiveness
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. As Allah says
in the Quran, in Surah An Nu, chapter
number 71,
verse number 13 and 14, Allah says, what
has happened to you? Don't you have hope
in the kindness and forgiveness of Allah Subhana
Wa Ta'la that He created you in different
stages?
So if you know the mightness of Allah
Subhana Wa Ta'la, He is going to forgive
you InshaAllah, you will repent
Number 2,
everyone should realize that one day we are
going to die
and we are going to go to the
grave
Allah says in the Quran in Surah Al
Imran, chapter number 3, verse number 185.
Every soul shall have a taste of death
and on the day of judgement shall be
the full recompense.
That means everyone has to die and the
final
hifaqitaq,
the final recompense will be on the day
of judgement
and Allah says in the Quran in Surah
Alukhman, chapter number 31, verse 34, Allah says
that no one knows what he will earn
tomorrow
and no one knows in which land he
will die. So we have to realize that
everyone has to die
and we don't know when will that time
come. So that will help us in demanding
as soon as possible. We don't know when
is
our last hour.
The third point is that all the rewards
for this war and the Ahira is based
on your deeds for your Ahira.
What you're going to do for your Akhirah,
the deeds for your Akhirah will actually reward
you in this world and Akhirah.
That's very important
and Allah says in the Quran in Suri
Fathir, chapter 35, verse 5 that the promise
of Allah is true
and let not this present world deceive you
and let not the chief deceiver deceive you
against Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'la.
That means we have to be careful that
all our acts and deeds should basically target
about the akhirah, about the hereafter
and there is a hadith mentioned in Tiramidi,
Hadith number 2320,
where the beloved Prophet Nusallahu alaihi wa sallam
said that this world for Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
is equivalent
to the wing of life
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would not allow
a disbeliever
even to have a handful of water from
it. This world, in comparison to the hereafter,
is like a wing of a fly and
it would not allow a disbeliever even to
have a handful of water. A similar message
is given
in
Say Muslim, born number 4, in the book
of Paradise,
hadith number 6,483,
where the beloved Prophet said that the sight
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'la, this world,
as compared to the hereafter,
is like
a person
putting his finger,
that's the forefinger,
into the ocean
and when he gets it out, whatever is
stuck to the forefinger is like the present
world. The present world,
just hardly
some little
water
that gets stuck to the forefinger,
that's equivalent
as compared to the mighty ocean that is
the hereafter. So, so little
is the significance
of this world as compared to the hereafter.
So therefore, we should realize that this life
is the test for the Hereafter. As Allah
says in the Quran, in Surah Mulk, chapter
number 16, verse number 2.
Allah It is Allah who has created death
and life to test which of his good
deeds.
The 4th point is that, the human beings
should realize
that the punishment can be expedient in this
world
and whatever
punishment they get, it is because of their
sin. Whatever
calamity takes place
in this,
it is
basically for their sin. As Allah says in
Suraj Zukurov, chapter number 43,
verse number 76,
that no wise shall we be unjust to
them, but it is they who have been
unjust to themselves.
So these four points are very important to
be remembered.