okay we have the pleasure of introducing
you sheam Al aadii um he had been in
England for 20 years prior to moving
away from our country he was at one time
teaching at the University of exitor I
had known him for a very long time not
closely but kind of like always meeting
and so he has seen me in for 20 years
ago I suppose um but uh 2020 from 1986
until about 2005 he was in the UK he
graduated he did his degree then he went
did a PhD in history and Islamic Studies
and so forth then he taught at
University of exiter and currently now
he at the at the American University of
Kuwait um teaching since 2005 again in
Middle East and Islamic history but
that's the kind of like if you like the
secular technical kind of qualifications
which are which is more than needed and
more than handy but also he has a
diploma in Islamic Studies from the
univers not University um the Islamic
Institute of
Cairo and more relevant to most of us I
think the benefit we can gain from such
a personality inshallah tala are the
products that are in the market because
of a series of talks he has recorded
with various uh outfits um like uh The
Message of Islam
Meme and The Awakening and there are
things like the children around the
prophet you might have seen is very
popular um the four Great imams uh
something on the life of
Imam Imam Al bukari woman inspired by
the Believers and finally the last one
about Prophet YF Alam a t or an
explanation on the prophet YF alisam
which I haven't seen and heard yet but
they're all in CD sets and so forth well
worth buying so I think perhaps the
younger people may have heard of them or
listened to them already so that's hisam
aadi and his talk today the titles I
chose alhamdulillah I hope there I said
alhamdulillah to myself but I hope the
titles are good some people are saying
because it's you that's why you had the
word battle in there because I kind of
like always give analogies of battles
and guns and stuff like that but you
know just just me I'm very nonviolent
person by the way uh it's called the
battle the battle of the heart the
assault of sins
this is uh either getting too short or
I'm getting too uh
tall need a
brothers and
sisters well thank you very much
brother for uh such an introduction and
the uh organization of this uh
conference I want to uh I want to show
off hands for this simple question that
I
have
who who had breakfast
today okay including
myself who slept who who who has not
slept well
today so we cancel the cancel the
lecture third final simple
question show of hands of who never
sinned
who never committed a
sin I think brothers and sisters if I
ask the same question to the
companions they will respond totally in
the same
manner because after all the companions
are human
beings but let me ask you a question
that's up to you if you want to
volunteer the answer when you when when
someone commits a sin
how do how does he then respond to that
sin what does he do after
that any volunteers I I didn't want to
make it personal by asking and when do
you sin what do you do afterwards
student some might be offended if you
want to volunteer to answer this or any
person what is the expected response
when you commit a sin when when someone
commits a sin tell
me you
repent very um sometimes it's a it's a
general word needs further explanation
repent meaning what what do you
do so you make Dua and ask forgiveness
for Allah okay another yes REM sorry
remorseful you are remorseful yes you
regret what you did you show some
remorse you cry you you know you do
something yeah okay good
yes sorry de you do a good deed
excellent to erase the bad deed very
good yes conce H to conceal try to
conceal it yes of course try to that's
for the people but what about for Allah
what do you do with Allah you what do
you we are talking about the respon yes
Ahmed of course yes and brother Ahmed
here is an old brother of mine and we
live together and I'm glad to see him
here okay brothers and sisters today's
talk is simply about what the sahabah
used to do when they committed
sins what did the sahab used to do when
they commit
sins and I want to argue that there are
five things that they used to do if you
have a paper and a pen please write them
down because this is what the entire
talk is about
the first thing that the companions used
to do when they commit a sin is to be
remorseful yes and to regret what they
did
yes but never despair or lose hope that
when they ask Allah for forgiveness
Allah will forgive them and this is very
important now I don't mean when they
commit one sin or two sins even if they
Comm committed 2,000 sins even if they
committed kab soon after that their hope
never declines like shares in an
economic crisis The Hope never decreases
or
declines despite the big sin that they
committed so committing the sin says a
lot that is bad about them but says
nothing about the mercy of Allah and
this is a distinction that you need to
make a companion came to the prophet and
that that companion is not famous to a
lot of us Abu his name is
Abu t a w we e l came to the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam and said Yool
Allah put it very uh
plainly says yah Allah there is not a
single sin
that I have not
committed there is not a single sin that
I have not
committed wasam responds to him by
saying are you a Muslim he said for me
yes I am indeed a
Muslim says
then then you do good
deeds and you leave the bad deeds and
all what you
committed Allah will then if you do that
look at the equation you do good deeds
you leave the bad deeds and all the bad
Deeds that you dramatized to have done
Allah will convert them to Good
Deeds they will take them from this
balance this balance that made them so
heavy and actually add them to the other
side of the balance which will make them
even more
heavier the sahabi is shocked and cannot
believe it and the companions are
listening and you need to understand
always when there is a story it's
happening with an audience of companions
that then take the Hadith internalize it
and be get becomes part of the habit and
understanding so the companion is
shocked Abu is shocked and he
says in Arabic all the big crimes that I
did andat the the bad things that I did
I understand the simple looking at
someone doing this but all the bad
sins says nothing
but indeed
yes the companions tell us tell us that
AB
makes and goes making until he
disappears it's like e for him it's it's
like for allahar allahar
allahar and the companions are watching
and are
listening how on Earth after this Hadith
does a companion feel that he is
frustrated with whatever sin that he
committed after watching this episode
that has happened between Abu who never
spoke about what he did left it for us
to imagine and contemporize
certainly he might not have taken drugs
but again left leaving it
undecided for us in the 21st century to
imagine and imagine and imagine our own
and our
ownat didn't just say uh I am God
may maybe if he said that and kept quiet
that was fine but you know what he did
he murdered thousands of
newborn
babies you see we don't tend to think
about this we think just Allah how how
Allah subhana tala saved MSA right but m
is the end of the episode we haven't we
haven't seen it's like a soap opera
sorry to use the Expression we haven't
seen episode one
when someone called bamin was killed
when someone called dud was killed when
a baby called Sal was killed we just saw
the saving of M now imagine if you want
to dramatize each murder that far
committed a newborn baby that committed
no sin except that he's a male baby
because of a dream that he saw he made
the entire baby Humanity suffer as a
result of this you see each episode and
you hate his guts not just because he
said I am God but because from a
humanitarian point of view what he did
did is intolerable and unacceptable
yet yet Allah subhana tala says to Ms go
and speak to him for he might be
reminded he might be reminded or fear
and if he did that I will forgive him
for D and and Bam and all those babies
Allah yes I will forgive him if he
remembered or feared or repented how on
Earth when verses are coming to the
heart of the prophet and the sahaba
witness that how on Earth then do they
feel frustrated after committing a sin
bearing in mind that for sure 99% of the
sahaba never murdered a single newborn
baby incidentally this has not just to
do with the individuals but it is also
to do with a community even a community
should not despair even a group even
gangsters that's that will be marvelous
if a gang if a leader of a gang gangster
and his followers decide wholeheartedly
and collectively to
repent yes but one member of the G
gangster committed murder and the other
adultery and the other drug trafficking
the other did this Allah will forgive
all of them
in the
uh those of the trench who dug the
trench who put fire on the in in the in
the trench who took the babies and the
girls and the men and the women and the
slaves and the poor and the rich and
push them into that fire who did this
those gangsters yet Allah subhah wa
ta'ala what does he
say he says verily those who put into
trial the believing men and the
believing women by torturing them and
then do not turn in Repentance then they
will have the torment of hell that means
that if they turn to repentance they
will not have the torment of
Hell let's come back to the sahabah as a
group and as a community a group of
mushriks a group of kuf muss came to the
prophet s
wasallam now those group of mushrik were
known as gangsters were known as blood
shedders Raiders you see them you fear
them you you keep miles away from them
they came as a group a group not as Abu
individual they came as a group and said
Yol
Allah murders we
murdered fornication we did it and we
did a lot of it murder we did it and we
did a lot of it now what you tell us is
good what you what you say what you call
to is
good only if Allah accepts our
repentance so what what are they saying
we are saying convert the theory now to
the practice what what what do you what
is it that you say that is beautiful
relates to me to my individual or group
concerns and then Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala reveals immediately verse on the
hearts of the prophet and the prophet
communicate them to the gangsters and
the companions are
listening oh my servants who have
transgressed against themselves despair
not of the mercy of Allah verily Allah
forgives all sins
so that's number
one I've put a comment
here comment that
says sometimes when we commit sins we
hate
ourselves but sometimes also we hate
ourselves so much that we believe that
Allah also hates us so much and he will
never forgive us but that's not true now
you hate yourself as as much as you
want but do not accuse Allah of not
being kind enough to forgive what you
did whatever you did okay number
one number
two sahaba when they committed sins they
used to
spontaneously leave it immediately
without procrastination or delay
there is a companion who's called abuaba
Abu lubaba l u b a
ba I'm not going to go much into s now
but put simply the battle of the
trench wasallam entrusted benu a group
of Jewish Community to protect the
backside of the Medina and the front
will be cover will be dug with the
trench so that when the mushrik come
they encounter the trench and from the
back they are covered BYU now benu
portrayed that and allowed some mushriks
to leak in and about to attack the women
from the back children from the back in
order to penetrate into the Muslims in
the front that is
blatant portray right okay the prophet s
of course Ben knew that they portrayed
the prophets so they hidden themselves
in the
Fortress and for 25 days they were
besieged by the prophet no food no drink
nothing comes no when the when the food
finished they want to
negotiate they went to they want to
enter into peace uh
negotiations so they said to the prophet
s wasallam send us one of your
companions to negotiate with us send
abuaba abuaba is one of our former
allies in the
past send him we want to negotiate with
himam sent AB said go and negotiate with
them and try to persuade them to get out
of the Fortress it's not going to work
abuaba entered the moment abuaba entered
into the
for he encountered all the children all
the women crying ABA ABA we are go what
do you what do you suggest look at the
children they haven't eaten they haven't
drunk what do we do tell us what do you
do we
do he said I advise that you need to get
out of the fort
immediately otherwise it's going to be
like
this and that's all what he did
otherwise and for those who are
recording or he simply moved his hand
across his neck symbolizing that it's
going to be death it's going to be
Slaughter now this is something that
abuaba should not have said or done
because this is considered among the
secrets of the state and he was not
given the permission to go and tell
those what will happen to them he was
going there to negotiate and to persuade
and abuaba immediately realized what he
did so what did he do
immediately went outside of the Fortress
didn't speak to no one and incidentally
for your information there was no muslim
with him and no one actually could if
they had the Sony recorders record
anything because he used hand gestures
only and thirdly it could have been also
misinterpreted for for whatever reason
it could have mean anything other than
murder killing yet that did not all play
into his Consciousness he went out and
he decided I made a mistake he went to
the mosque and tied himself to one of
the pillars of the
mosque actually this pillar is known
today in
Medina
asba the pillar of
Toba I'm not saying when you commit s
buy a ticket to go to Medina T no I'm
just saying it this
is and he tied
himself he said by Allah I will not
untie
myself until Allah reveals a verse look
at this
ambition Allah reveals a verse to tell
me that he accepted my repentance
he tied himself brothers and sisters as
if it were for six continuous
days of course he would go and inside
the mosque and pray and he would see
abuaba tying himself of course he would
untie himself to go and pray sometimes
he would untie himself through his wife
would come and untie him to go to the
bathroom or to go and eat and
incidentally during the morning he's
always fasting doing trying to to do his
utmost to
repent so first procedure I'm going to
tie myself second procedure I'm going to
fast third procedure I'm going to do
enforced imposed self-imposed solidary
confinement call it if you want since
it's in but this is all until Allah
reveals the verse that he has accepted
my
repentance wasam when he heard the news
he said if abuaba came to me and asked
that I asked Allah for forgiveness I
would have done it for him no problems
although this is a security preach he
have disclosed important State security
information but since he has decided not
to do so and not to approach me then I
can't do anything it's now a matter to
Allah subhana wa
tala and one day um Sal the wife of the
prophet in the household of the Prophet
close to the mosque here's here's
laughing look at how used to relate with
the Quran to the Quran and respond to
the Quran so why Allah you are laughing
he said just now a verse was revealed on
me Allah
has Allah has accepted ababa's
repentance and the verse by the way we
know it
all and there are others who have
acknowledged their
sins they they have mixed a deed that
was righteous with another that was evil
Allah will turn to them for
forgiveness was so happy she said Allah
shall I tell
AB tell tells her go and tell him and
she tells him
abuaba verses just were revealed and the
prophet was laughing now we can untie
you he said no until the prophet himself
with his pure hand unti me he had to
wait unfortunately until F time when the
prophet came to the mosque to untie him
but he was
untied but what's the point the point is
brothers and sisters when he left
benu he decided never ever to go back to
Abu Ben never ever number one number two
when he went from The Fortress he didn't
even go to his household kiss his
children say goodbye I might not see you
for the foreseeable
future number three he never cared about
his image
do you know what he was doing do you
know what he was doing he was
scandalizing himself in the community he
was in the front page of the tapids
putting himself in
Anana that is until today 21st century
known
as for a sin that Abu committed he could
have quietly went to the prophet you me
anyone anyone would have gone today
today people say oh peer this is the
peer he's dead this is no but he listens
to he he hears me you go and make Dua
for him to give you a child to uh make
your wife or your husband love you more
this is a live prophet and his Dua is
must yet
abua tries to establish a direct link
between him and Allah irrespective of
His Image in front of the community and
despite the fact that the prophet
wasallam was there and if he approached
him as the prophet said the prophet
would forgive him but you see different
calculations because we are talking
about sahaba and different levels of
response to the
companions I tell you brothers and
sisters do not delay
Toba do not delay Toba and I'm not
saying do not delay Toba just talking
about uh sexual activities or smoking or
drugs or even human relations if you are
in bad terms with your brothers do not
speak to them go and speak to them now
we have now mobiles and blackberries
send them a text
message um mothers fathers husbands
wives so you don't have to do like
abuaba tie yourself in a mosque but the
idea was
spontaneity immediacy
urgency irrespective of how would you
look in front of the
community and that's very
important number
three number one was what number one was
what we forgot
especially those who didn't have
breakfast and didn't sleep
well number
One never despair never despair Abu huh
who did everything no okay number two
uh number
two
H sin immediately to leave the sin
spontaneously immediately okay number
three
sahaba never Justified their
sins never defended them never argued
for it sahabah immediately
confessed sahaba never said we live in a
non-muslim country those bunch of muss
and kufs because they lived in Mecca
never Justified their
sins sahab so sorry to use the
Expression naked people go around the
Caba but they lowered their gaze not
saying oh I'm sorry we just live in a
very corrupt Society you are bound to
look and watch they never Justified
there is a difference brothers and
sisters very important no joke here
there is a difference in you saying that
at that context at that moment I was
defeated by Shan I was defeated by my
desire and int
intellectualizing and
arguing and
institutionalizing and legitimizing the
action itself there is a difference
difference and to me saying I committed
a mistake I am sorry is far more
healable than if someone begins to
intellectualize because that is as if he
is normalizing what he did and he
himself accepts it so smoking is bad for
you yes I know but uh it makes me cool
drugs is uh yeah but you don't you have
you have not seen I was abused in
childhood I grow in poverty I am
addicted to it I have uh all these
problems that if I didn't take the
whatever one two three things will
happen to me it makes me be live in a
wonderful cucko Land World justifying
justifying justifying sahab never
Justified okay
let's there is a companion called Abu
Mas Al Ansari Ansari because he's from
ansar and his name is Abu
Mas once he was beating up
his boy slave boy beating and beating
and beating and suddenly he heard the
voice behind him
saying Allah is more
powerful on you than your power on this
boy so whatever it's and this is very
good for husbands that beat up
their wives okay you beat her because
she's weak let's bring this alas
muscular and let's see what he will do
with you okay okay let's bring let's see
what Allah will do with
you Abu immediately looks turns and it's
the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam and he straight away says y
Allah he's free he's free to leave okay
now let's stop here and capture this
moment if if it was me I don't want to
say if it was you
there is certainly a good reason for why
he is beating up the
boy we can't see an angry companion who
prays day and night with the prophet and
suddenly creating Injustice so certainly
let's at least establish that the boy
did something wrong that justifies this
heartbeating he might have stolen he
might have harassed a girl he might have
done something that is extremely bad to
justify
and that at least should have been
explained to the prophet so that the
prophet does not take a bad image or a
negative image on you that labels you as
a terrorist or as a temp temperamental
or as aggressive or as violent after all
he's the prophet for God's sake if he
was a Sheikh watching you in the city
center doing something that you have to
at least
say I am with my family by the way they
just went to this shop to do shopping at
at least to to to do something so that
that does not for a minute a fraction of
a second yet he
didn't
didn't and something else very
interesting what did he say he didn't
say anything did he he didn't say wow
how dare you beat him up he just say he
just said Allah is more powerful on you
which is true whether you beat the boy
up or you don't beat him right thirdly
thirdly
he never asked you to liberate the boy
he never asked you to leave him set him
free if anything if anything he just
asked you or insinuated that you back
off and do not continue beating but that
is the extent of the response of Abu Mas
that number one you don't argue you
don't justify number two you immediately
do something about
it okay I give you another example very
famous One but again you need to pose
stop and think about
it we know the famous story of
Osama Osama IB Zade Zade of course is
the father of Osama that adopted and
took care of Etc Osama is his
son Osama in one of the battlefields was
fighting and immediately in the Army he
could realize or distinguish that single
person you you s you see these people by
the way in movies in armies or in
footballs or you can distinguish a or in
bands or you always could distinguish
this very enthusiastic player singer
fighter how how do you distinguish him
uh in in that context in this in this
battle this person what was he doing
when they when the army says let's fight
attack Muslims he would be the first
one that person when they say Retreat he
would do like this he he would literally
do like this cover the backside of the
mush so when they attack he is the first
when they Retreat he is the last that's
number
one number two he will Target distinct
Fighters among the Muslim companions the
Companions and would Target them
individually and go and kill them so
what is he doing like some countries
when they do a targeted assassination of
one here in imarat and one in Lebanon
and one in what are they doing targeting
individuals right okay that mush was
doing exactly the same at his time in
this battlefield targeting Fighters so
if he sees Hamza he will go after he he
goes he goes after him right you
understand who's watching all
this he he's watching and he says if I
just can get my hand onto this
mush I think we can win 50% of the
battle so he takes one with him says
come with me where are we going we're
going after this boy this man here just
let's get rid of him so they run after
him he realizes he notices what does he
do he runs and like an Indian movie you
end up having a Chase between them the
mush is going on the town on the
mountain Usama after him any roundabout
after him after him after him if they
had cars they would chase you know like
you see in the some of the movies you
chase and Chase and
Chase and the mush all his body is blood
blood of who blood of the Muslim comp of
the companions right so the more blood
Usama sees in the hands of this person
the more Angry he becomes and the more
adrenaline pumps into his blood and the
more he chases him and then he succeeds
in holding him and about to kill him
mush says
what now there is no there is no jimas
conference there there is a
dagger so don't tell me that you are
persuaded and converted and suddenly
said wow what a wonderful religion I
think I want to take shahada now mate no
it's obvious in this context now the the
the the companion that was with Usama
backed off but Usama
couldn't so he put the Daga in his chest
and killed
him when they went back a companion told
the prophet about what has happened said
Yol this crazy guy in the battle he was
killing doing this doing this he called
Usama he said Usama what did you
do he said Yool
Allah this mush killed this and this and
this he said he said ill he said yeah
yes he
did he said you killed him he said yes
and then the prophet Sall wasallam his
face was very red I want to tell you
brothers and sisters and time does not
allow Osama is the most beloved
companions to the prophet s wasallam do
you know when entered into
Mecca who was who was on the camel
behind him Usama do you know when the
prophet when when Usama gets ill ill
with with the flu and sorry to use
muscus and stuff comes out of his his
his uh I don't want to disgust you but
but I have to tell you this out of his
noseam and you might you know just
accepts this he licks his face to clean
his face with his tongue that's how
mucha and Usama was a little black boy
very black because he was a slave Anda
says once he did this i f I fell in love
with Osama AMA the baby of course if the
prophet puts his tongue on the face of
someone that means he's in great love
with that
person there are children here but you
know you might want to censor this the
prophet Sall wasallam when he kisses his
wife he puts his tongue in her mouth he
can only do that and that's why AA
understands what putting the tongue on
the face of someone means and if he does
it with Usama that means he loves Usama
okay but that's a different story right
Usama Let Me Take You Now Usama did you
put the dagger on his chest when the man
said he said
yes and he waited until immediately said
I love you so much may Allah forgive you
right
no he said
he
said what would you do with if it came
on the day of
judgment first thing I came here in 86
when I went with the first thing
fascinated six points what is the first
one the K right I have initially as an
Arab I didn't understand what the k
meant but it's
the because there is this idea that if
it comes on a balance balance day Misan
day of judgment and whatever sins you
committed will so that's the perception
you see Usama is looking at it from the
action point of view killing and
murdering and blood and going and
covering the is seeing it from the other
point of view which is the prophetic The
Godly that if he says you should back
off then
says and
waits and assist three
times what do you do
with and he didn't
say he didn't say okay may Allah forgive
you at the end actually repeated and
Usama repeated and the conversation was
going cyclic it is as if the prophet was
putting a point that I will not at that
moment in Anger for what you did ask for
forgiveness
now if I was Usama I would dramatize and
put an Indian movie
y Allah you haven't seen what he did he
killed X and Y and Zed y Allah it was
obvious that he said it because of fear
Allah I chased him for two hours and he
would not stop and he would continue to
assault and attack and persist in
running away how on Earth at that moment
even if he said it could I believe that
it had any impact on his heart and the
least he could say which will shock you
now is Allah I'm only 16
do you know that he was 16 when he did
it I was only 16 Allah you
know that's what today's modern he's
only a kid he's only a child he's only
18 he's only
16 so number
three do we have have time okay number
four I've got just four on five to
finish this is very
simple you take sahab sahaba took that's
number four sahaba took the sin
seriously even if it was
minor sahaba took took the sin seriously
even if it was a minor
sin one time the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam said uh what what one
time the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam saw someone one of the
companions we don't know his name and
that's deliberate to conceal what he did
particularly that he repented so one of
the companions wearing a golden
ring we know this encounter a lot of us
so
said why do some and he didn't speak to
him specifically individually just in
general but he could understand because
sahaba were
intelligent why do some persist on
actually putting a a a a stone that is
what is a jam in English a
CO a coal that has fire in it not just a
c cold coal jamra why does someone
insist on actually holding a coal in his
hand a companion straight away takes the
ring and what does he do with it he
throws it
away now we don't know how how what what
are the rings here what do you call 24
what
ounces
huh carrot we don't know it's 24 you
know it's had a diamond in it don't know
really how expensive it is really we we
don't know this I tell you
but we know that he took it and throw
it now let me tell you something first
of
all this is not a kab this this wearing
of the Ring it's a it's a big sin but
it's not a kab it's not as committing
adultery number two it's for sure that
the companion didn't know the H of
wearing a golden
ring number three and if he did that
that would be lawful he could have taken
the ring gave it a gift to his wife or
sold it and took the money and did sodak
with it but to actually go to the
extreme of taking that ring and throwing
it away that is to me something I do not
understand unless we are talking about a
sahabi unless we are talking about a a
companion and there are many sayings
uh by the sahaba about how serious you
should take sins
I have just two comments to make on this
and there are many comments but because
of time I have two comments when I was
young in London and I came here uh to to
this
country sins were committed easily you
go to the tube you commit sins you go to
the city center you commit sins you you
go to the I don't know what you uh at
that at our time when we 86 there were
no internet there was no Blackberry
there was no Facebook there was no
Myspace there was no this variety of
channels so we were very traditional and
primitive in the ways that we committed
sins but we committed sins at that time
during that that
uh I brothers and sisters have never
seen a quot that I came across during my
time reading many quotes about sins such
as this
quote that have
really had a tremendous impact on me and
I contined to remember it whenever I
committed a sin
or whenever I was up to commit a sin I
would remember this quote and straight
away something happens magical that
keeps me away it might work for me might
not work for you but you need to look at
set yourself a paradigm that you take
sin seriously I don't know what quote
what story but to me the quote was the
following do not
look at the smallness or the size the
small size of the
sin but look at the
greatness of that that you committed the
sin
against do not look at the smallness of
the sin this is just watching this girl
or doing this or but look at the
greatness
aam on the in the sky in
heaven so it's not anymore my this
internet it's not not anymore the
cigarette it's not anymore the the it's
not anymore this small like a fly sin
anymore but it is who I am doing it
against that is the issue and to me that
was
enough sometimes I say to you something
and this is number one number two final
comment on this
issue sometimes it's not about
sins sometimes it's about
does it really suit you does it really
is it really appropriate to be done by
you this thing even if it was not a sin
even if it was
a im
says IM shaf says if I
know that drinking cold water is not
appropriate from auru point you what is
AA
huha something that is not Haram but you
shouldn't be doing it it's not
appropriate from from a a customary
point of view from a traditional from a
societal from I don't know but it's not
appropriate for you like for example I'm
you know I give you an if you go to a a
party or not a party a dinner a formal
meeting without wearing like let's say a
tie for example if if the protocol
dictates that you wear a tie at that
meeting it's not Haram not to wear but
it's not appropriate do you understand
so sometimes I'm talk I'm talking now
about two levels sometimes the the sin
is small but if your relationship with
Allah is so sensitive that even if the
action was not sinful but it defied the
appropriateness of how should a
gentleman or a decent woman or an
upright brother or sister the image then
don't do it okay so that's number four
number five and final I conclude with
this sahaba when they committed sins
they used to follow it immediately with
a good deed sahaba when they committed a
sin they used to follow it immediately
with a good
deed
abuaba the one that tied
himself even though verses were revealed
to say that Allah accepted his
repentance decided to give all his
moneyam never accepted that because that
means leaving his and his family and
himself poor he only accepted the third
so so even though even though Allah
accepted his repentance he wanted to
follow it with a good
deed
abui the one who was beating the boy it
was sufficed him to back off and not to
continue to beat up the boy but he freed
the boy so he followed the sin with a
good
deed I want to leave you with this story
of a companion again he did something
naughty and that's why we don't know who
he is but again the qu the the incident
is so
significant a companion came to the
prophet sallam said y Allah I kissed a
girl Purify Me I want to tell you
something when it comes to kissing now
it's very
important you you don't and if I'm being
vulgar excuse me about this you don't go
kissing people on the streets do you you
don't do that so usually a kiss comes
after a
relationship so one would assume that
this companion entered into a
relationship saw this this girl once
twice and in the third fourth he kissed
her something else very interesting is
that I think anyone any one of us has a
turning
point um throughout the the sinful
experience that he goes through so
sometimes you do do a sin but it doesn't
shock you as sinful it doesn't excite
you it doesn't turn you on that no I am
bad I need to change until something
happens so for
example a death a death of a member in
the family for example might persuade a
sister to to wear hijab has nothing to
do right so it seems that this companion
was engaging in in a in in a long
process of of sinful acts to him the
kiss was the turning point that said
enough is enough you need to now go to
speak to the to the prophet you have
reached a serious level now that you
need medication you need consultation
you need to speak to
someone ignored him so he went after him
if ifam ignored me I would sayam
heard it seems that he doesn't want to
do anything about it so I'll leave it I
won't do it again but that's it I leave
no he is persistent he goes after him
and speaks to him again and again like
Osama and again and again andam
then actually calls him
back after persistent he leaves and then
calls him back and at that time a verse
was just
revealed the verse is very famous
and perform
a at the two ends of the day and in some
hours of the night verily The Good Deeds
remove the evil
Deeds that verse whenever you read it
remember that it was because of a
kiss among the companions once
said is it just because is is this verse
just for him just for those who
kiss no it's for everyone it's for all
irrespective of what they
did okay I am done I just want to leave
you with three or four conclusions the
first be a companion when you commit
sins be a companion when you commit sins
and the companions used to sin because
they were human beings and as we
realized some of you as we realize some
of them committed more
sins than all of you or most of you or
99% of
you but the difference is that
they never were
despair with Allah and having this hope
that Allah will
forgive that they left the sin
spontaneously and immediately without
procrastination without
thinking of what the community will
think about
them number three they never Justified
their sins they never argued about it
number four they never
undermined the sins that they committed
even if they were minor ones number five
they made sure that when they committed
a sin they followed it up with a good
deed believing that this good deed not
only will erase the bad Sin but will
take the bad Sin converted and added to
the balance of the Good Deed
thank you very much