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it alhamdulillah
all praise is due to Allah and may
Allah's peace and blessings be on his
last prophet Muhammad Sall alaihi
wasallam and on all those who follow the
path of righteousness until the last
day we'd like to welcome you back dear
viewers to our program in the names of
Allah in which we have been looking at
various names of Allah as recorded
or revealed in the Quran and in the
Sunnah of the last prophet Muhammad Sall
alai wasam we've been looking at these
names from the perspective
of applying them on one hand to our
knowledge of Allah so that we better
know him to worship him in a more
complete and better guided way
and on the other
hand we study these names in order to
better
understand how they are relevant to us
in our lives what aspects of them have
particular re relevance to our
day-to-day lives how we can reflect
those names in our actions we're
relevant not to say each and every name
has has such IR relevance but most of
the names do call us either to act in a
way
similar from a human perspective Allah
is merciful we strive to be
merciful or it is to go in the opposite
Allah is proud Too Proud to oppress his
creatures we cannot be proud
it's not acceptable for us to be proud
because as the prophet s wasallam said
one who has an atom's weight of pride in
his or her heart will not enter Paradise
so it is it is for us a characteristic
which we don't emulate but one we
avoid and then there are some names of
Allah tala where we just praise him with
it we don't try to avoid or we don't try
to do we just praise him with it like
his name
ah his name Allah is the greatest name
and it en encompasses with within it all
of the other names so it is just that we
pray to Allah with that name We Begin
our Deeds with bah you know in Daily
Deeds that we're doing based on what the
prophet Sall wasallam has taught us and
we call on Allah Allah we use it in our
prayers that's what we can extract from
that great name in the last segment we
began to look at the uh names Al Al GA
and Al gaur they are names number 19 20
and 21 in our
series we said that they all came from a
root which means to cover and that
relative to Allah it means it's the one
he's the one who covers sins blots out
sins whether it's due to our repentance
or whether it's due to other factors
like righteous Deeds that we might do
and then we went on to look at issues of
the concept of repentance and how it is
pleasing to Allah when a slave turns
back to Allah in
Repentance and that uh this is what
differentiated between Satan and Adam
both of them sinned
Satan sinned when he refused to bow
to Adam Adam sinned when he ate from the
tree both of them sinned what made the
difference between them Adam became
blessed in a prophet Satan became cursed
till the last day the difference was
Adam turned back to God in
Repentance Satan became more
arrogant and proud and
refused so he became
cursed so we said that Allah loves to uh
forgive his
slaves more so even as the example given
by the prophet wasallam than a
person who finds his camel after losing
it on the desert desert he finds it
after giving up all hope finds it Laden
with
Goods he would be so happy Allah is even
more happy with one who turns back to
him in Repentance so we said repentance
is a powerful form of worship of Allah
which Allah wants from us it's our means
of purifying ourselves from
sin no one can do this but us
we have to turn to Allah but we said
that for that repentance to work it must
be real it must fulfill certain
conditions first among them is that the
person repenting should feel a sense of
sadness remorse they should feel bad
about what they did if they don't feel
bad then repentance will not be accepted
because Prophet Muhammad wasallam had
said
remorse is
repentance remorse is the essence of
repentance without remorse there is no
repentance
also we have to give up what we're doing
that's wrong if we're committing a sin
then we have to give it up we can't
continue continue to commit that sin
while asking Allah's
repentance not being willing to let it
go so if a person for example is
smoking and we know that smoking is
Haram not makru as some people say but
Haram because Allah said very
clearly don't kill yourselves
don't throw yourselves in with your own
hands into destru destruction so it's
clear it's
Haram so if one realizes that accepts it
and they want to turn back to Allah in
Repentance then you you don't be you
don't turn to Allah and say Allah
forgive
me and you're still smoking that doesn't
make
sense you have to give it up you have to
do something on your side to show your
sincerity so this principle of
cessation giving up stop doing whatever
sin that one is doing has to be there
for repentance to be accepted also one
has to have the intention for the future
not to repeat it because if one is still
planning ahead well next year next
summer or whatever they're planning to
do it again then what kind of repentance
are we doing what kind of repentance is
this it's
useless also among the things
which are important for repentance to be
acceptable is that one should leave
one's
environment if one is in a bad
environment which has been the main
reason why one is involved in that
particular sin then one has to go to
another environment you can't remain in
that environment because you're going to
be drawn back into that same sin again
and that's why Prophet Muhammad s
wasallam related a story about an
individual a mass
murderer who had killed 99
people and it caught him that he should
seek repentance from
God so he went to an
individual who was supposed to be a
religious individual
but his knowledge of Islam the teachings
was weak so when he asked this
Pious uh
individual is there any repentance for
me the man said you've killed 99 people
you a mass murderer you expect to find
repentance with God no so the man upset
no repentance so he just killed this man
also then after doing it he still felt
maybe I should seek repentance from God
elsewhere so he went to somebody who was
knowledgeable a scholar and he asked him
is there any repentance for me and the
man said why not why not why shouldn't
there
be he affirmed for him that there would
be repentance even though he had killed
a 100 people as a mass
murderer but he said to him you must
leave the town that you're
in you're in a corrupt Town an evil town
you must leave it and go to another
town
so that was a condition for him
to get his repentance accepted
and that his character would be changed
following that act of seeking repentance
from
God also we have to keep in mind with
repentance that we can't leave
it until
whenever Prophet Muhammad wasallam had
said Allah most gracious and glorious
will accept his servant's repentance
until his death rattle begins
when a person is on his
deathbed and he feels his soul in his
throat he can't speak he's stumbling
stuttering if he seeks repentance at
that point it will not be accepted it's
too
late too late so there is a time limit
the other time limit which the prophet
wasam had
said was that Allah will accept the
repentance of anyone who seeks it before
the sun rises in the west one of the
signs of the last day the end of the
world if a person seeks repentance
before that not on his deathbed then
sincere repentance will still be
accepted
also the prophet s wasallam told us that
with regards to this quality of Allah
being the off forgiving we should also
reflect that quality in our dealings
with
others we're going to be looking at that
in some detail after this break I will
see you on the my
return are we and the road seems long
remember just remember SE strength from
the
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strong the Deeds are bound by its
intentions the Deeds that we do we have
to have a sincere intentions that we're
doing it only for the sake of Allah
subhah wa
tala we have the best definitions of
things the right Vision the criteria in
which we would get to know what is right
and what is wrong through the Quran and
the Sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam
the of the Quran is to
explain is to interpret the best words
the words of Allah subhah wa
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tala when you are weak and the road
seems long remember just remember seek
strength from the strong alhamdulillah
I'd like to welcome you back dear
viewers to our Series in the names of
Allah and in this segment we're looking
at the names
Al all of them dealing with Allah's
quality of being the oft
forgiving the one who forgives sin and
he is the only one who forgive sin
ultimately before the break we were
looking at the impact of
this uh attribute on the believer One of
the impacts that should be there is that
it should cause the
believer to strive to reflect this
quality to radiate this quality to the
environment in which he or she lives or
exists
that they should show forgiveness to
those around them as they seek
forgiveness from Allah they want Allah
to be forgiving of
forgiving then they also have to strive
to do
likewise so Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alhi wasallam had said in a Hadith
narrated by Abdullah
Omar the Muslim is the brother of every
other
Muslim he does not oppress him or
deceive
him whoever serves his brother's
need Allah looks after his
needs and whoever removes a trial from a
Muslim Allah will remove one of the
trials on the day of Resurrection from
him and whoever covers a muslim's faults
Allah will cover his on the day of
judgment
covering a muslim's
faults this is a part of being
forgiving that we should not
expose people's faults to bring them
down in the eyes of others the eyes of
the society or the family or whatever we
should cover them as we would like our
faults to be covered by Allah subhana wa
ta'ala
however there are circumstance an es
when one has to be open one has to tell
it like it is in the case of marriage
for example somebody comes and wants to
marry your
friend you know man says to you well my
daughter this man is propose to my
daughter what do you know of him is he a
good person would you recommend him now
you can't work within the principle of
covering your brother's faults not
allowed here no you can't say he
alhamdulillah he's a good Muslim so no
you know things about him
which because of which you would marry
your own daughter to him so for you not
to inform that person was sought that
information from you is wrong you will
have deceived your brother though you
have covered the faults of this man you
have deceived your brother and harmed
your sister so there's greater Evil
coming from your covering is false at
that point also if it's in a court of
law for
example you're are called for evidence
to give
evidence you have to give the evidence
even if it means your good friend or
whatever will have to go to jail you
can't cover his faults under these
circumstances which has to do with
people's rights such circumstances you
must tell what you know but other than
that if your telling is only just to
bring that person down in people's eyes
just to
backbite to slander you know the person
then of course that's evil you shouldn't
do it cover your brother's faults and
yours will be covered on the day of
judgment there are a number of prayers
which prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam gave for seeking
repentance at the end of his prayers he
used to
say and repeat it a number of times in
other narrations it mentioned that you
used to seek forgiveness from Allah more
than a hundred times per day so it's
something that we should do on a regular
basis but when we do it we must reflect
on the sins that we are seeking
forgiveness from it's not just at the
end of the prayer to say and we carry on
we've just said it but we haven't
thought about what it means what sins
are we seeking forgiveness from whether
do we even feel sad about these sins as
we said before without any sadness any
remorse then this is just a blind
ritual and the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam before going to bed at night he
used to say
I seek forgiveness from Allah besides
whom there is no God the Eternal the
self-subsisting and I turn to him in
Repentance he used to say that three
times and he said that whoever says this
his sins will be forgiven even even if
he has fled a military
advance I should mention here that there
was one other point of importance which
I failed to mention with regards to um
the conditions for the acceptance of
repentance and that was in the case
where a person has the property of
others you have stolen some property
taken something which wasn't really
yours and you feel bad about it and you
promise yourself you'll never do it
again and everything else but you still
have the
property your repentance will not be
acceptable to Allah until you return
that property after you return it then
you seek Allah's
forgiveness but to keep it because you
feel for example shy if the person's
going to find out etc etc no you find
some way to get it back to them don't
use your shyness as an excuse to keep
what is
yours so you must get rid of it in order
to get Allah's uh
forgiveness now there are at the same
time a number of
Acts which Allah has promised will serve
as acts of penance where a person will
be forgiven their sins if Allah chooses
to do so and obviously if these acts are
done
sincerely and actually there are most of
our acts of worship for example the
prophet s wasallam had said the
obligatory prayers of the one who prop
properly performs
woodo as Allah exalted and joined on him
will be experation for sins committed
between them from Salah to Salah if a
person does woodoo
properly then those prayers will serve
as experation for the sins done between
them but again this is not with the plan
ahead I'm going to do this sin and I
have Asser to make so inshallah Asser is
going to forgive me of my sin no this is
where a person does a sin and sincerely
regrets doing the sin then from prayer
to
prayer sins are
forgiven also Prophet Muhammad wasallam
had said when the time for a prescri
prescribed prayer arrives and a Muslim
performs woo well and humbly offers
prayers with proper bowing it will be
experation for his past sins as long as
they're not major sins and that is for
all times so the sins that are forgiven
by the prayers are not any sin that you
do but the minor sins major sins require
repentance
also the prophet sallam had said that
from Friday prayer to Friday prayer Juma
to Juma it is forgiveness for sins he
said if anyone performs wo well then
comes to Friday prayer listens and keeps
silent his sins between them and the
next Juma plus those of three extra days
will be forgiven but he who plays with
pebbles has caused an interruption
likewise praying on the night of power
during Ramadan Prophet wasallam said all
the previous sins of anyone who gets up
for prayer during the night of
power out of faith and seeking his
reward from his Lord will be
forgiven furthermore he
said all the previous sins of anyone who
fast the month of Ramadan out of faith
and seeking his reward from his Lord
will be
forgiven again all righteous Deeds have
this quality of removing sin as Allah
said in the
Quran Good Deeds erase evil Deeds so
these details which the prophet sallam
is giving us these are further details
about how these good deeds will erase
the sins he also said whoever makes
pilgrimage to this house the Caba and
does not have sexual relations with his
wife while in the state ofam nor commit
sins during the Hajj will return sinless
the way that his mother gave birth to
him that is the power of
Hajj but that again should not be looked
at as something you plan
for unfortunately this is a become a
common Concept in the Muslim world today
so a young person wants to make Hajj
they're able to do it they have the
money and the means but the parents say
to him no you're still young still
committing
sins wait until you get old you know
when you can't commit any more sins you
you're now an old man now is the time to
go make Hajj and clean everything up no
Hajj is required as soon as you are able
so each and every one of us should go
and make Hajj once the ability is there
and also the prophet s wasallam had said
that if the if the Islamic legal
punishments like the had is applied it
becomes to a person and the person's
patient with it it becomes a means also
of experation from sin so looking at all
of these
practices that can erase sin we say that
basically all of our righteous Deeds can
erase sins how many sins and to what
extent Etc the prophet Sall wasallam has
given us the details but the bottom line
is sincere worship of God as a sincere
and Good Deed will erase our sins it's a
means for earning Allah's forgiveness so
this is one of the impacts that we
should take from this quality of Allah
being the off
forgiving that we have to seek out
Allah's forgiveness by doing the Deeds
that he has commanded us to do righteous
Deeds erase evil Deeds with that dear
viewers we'd like to thank you for being
with us in this series in the names of
Allah and we hope to see you in further
episodes of the
series when are we the road seems long
remember just remember SE