Allah wants to forgive you

00:31:18
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TLDRThe talk emphasizes the importance of returning to Allah and focusing on personal growth rather than comparing oneself to others. It highlights Allah's mercy towards sinners and encourages individuals to stop harming themselves through excess and neglect. The speaker urges listeners to take advantage of the remaining days of Ramadan, reminding them that it's never too late to seek forgiveness and improve their relationship with Allah. The message is one of hope, urging individuals to develop a sense of urgency in their worship and to avoid falling into regret by taking their spiritual journey seriously.

Takeaways

  • 🕌 Focus on your own journey, not others.
  • ❤️ Allah speaks to sinners with love.
  • ⏳ It's never too late to return to Allah.
  • 📖 Make the most of the remaining days of Ramadan.
  • ⚖️ Excess in anything can harm you.
  • 💔 Avoid the mindset of hopelessness.
  • 🌟 Develop a sense of urgency in worship.
  • 📚 Seek organized resources for Quran study.
  • 🙏 Don't let regret consume you.
  • 💪 Take your spiritual journey seriously.

Garis waktu

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker emphasizes the importance of focusing on one's own relationship with Allah rather than comparing oneself to others. It's not a competition; the key is to turn back to Allah with sincerity and humility.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The speaker discusses a beautiful passage from the Quran that addresses sinners, highlighting Allah's command to the Prophet to remind those who have wronged themselves that they can still return to Him. This message is meant to instill hope in those who feel lost in their sins.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The speaker explains that the Prophet's role is to remind people of Allah's mercy and to encourage them to stop harming themselves through sin. Allah's address to sinners is a reminder that even in their wrongdoing, they are only hurting themselves, not Allah.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The concept of 'isra' is introduced, referring to excess in actions, whether good or bad. The speaker illustrates how humans often go beyond limits in various aspects of life, leading to self-harm, and emphasizes the need for balance in all things.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    The speaker urges listeners not to lose hope in Allah's mercy, even if they feel they have wasted time during Ramadan. The message is that it's never too late to turn back to Allah, and one should approach Him with sincerity and urgency, especially in the last days of Ramadan.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:31:18

    The speaker concludes by encouraging a mindset of urgency and seriousness in worship, warning against the dangers of regret and the importance of taking one's relationship with Allah seriously. He invites listeners to embrace the remaining days of Ramadan as an opportunity for transformation.

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Video Tanya Jawab

  • What is the main message of the talk?

    The main message is to return to Allah, focus on personal growth, and not compare oneself to others.

  • How does Allah view sinners according to the talk?

    Allah speaks to sinners with love and care, encouraging them to return to Him.

  • What should one do if they feel they have wasted Ramadan?

    One should not lose hope and can still make the most of the remaining days of Ramadan.

  • What does the speaker say about excess?

    Excess in any form, even in good things, can harm oneself.

  • How can one develop a sense of urgency in their worship?

    By recognizing that time is limited and making the most of the remaining days of Ramadan.

  • What is the significance of the last 10 nights of Ramadan?

    They are a crucial time for seeking forgiveness and making a sincere effort to improve one's relationship with Allah.

  • What does the speaker say about regret?

    Regret can consume a person if they do not take their relationship with Allah seriously.

  • How can one avoid becoming a person of regret?

    By taking their worship seriously and not dismissing the importance of their actions.

  • What resources does the speaker recommend for learning about the Quran?

    The speaker recommends joining bayatv.com for organized Quran study resources.

  • What attitude should one have towards Ramadan as it comes to an end?

    One should view the end of Ramadan as a new beginning and strive to make the most of the remaining days.

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    Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah.
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    Adam.
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    Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah.
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    Muhammad.
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    Wasallam. forch.
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    One of the most beautiful passages in
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    the Quran speaking to sinners is inah.
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    And I think some of you may have been
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    shocked when you heard me say that. Not
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    I didn't say speaking to believers. I
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    said see speaking to sinners, people who
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    do wrong things, people who messed up,
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    people who crossed the line. The way
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    Allah describes these sinners in this
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    passage. First first thing that happens
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    is Allah
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    says he tells his
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    prophet he commands him
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    say my servants who have done wrong
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    themselves there's a interesting thing
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    the use of the word here Allah could
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    just speak directly and
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    say my servants who have crossed lines
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    wrong to even hurt themselves. They've
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    even they've only done harm to
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    themselves. He could have talked to them
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    that way. But he began this ayah with an
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    a command to the prophet sallallahu
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    alaihi
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    wasallam. Why? Because the messenger of
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    Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam's
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    responsibility is to remind the sinner
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    the sinner that even the sinner Allah
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    speaks to them
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    directly that Allah speaks to them
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    directly. So there's two things
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    happening here. You know the messenger's
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    job is to remind people of Allah and his
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    religion and how to come back to Allah
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    and what Allah wants from me and what
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    Allah wants from you. And there's
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    different ways of doing that. And one of
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    the easiest ways of doing that is make
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    you feel
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    bad. You've done this. You've done this.
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    You've done this. You know the
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    punishment for this sin is jannam. You
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    know the punishment for this sin is
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    this. You know what Allah is going to do
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    to you. You know what's going to happen
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    on judgment day. You know what the And
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    there's lots of ways you could do that.
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    And I could give you uh over the next 20
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    minutes and give you lots and lots of
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    reminders about how you probably have no
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    chance of getting into Jenna. I could do
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    that. But in this ayah, I'm learning
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    something else from my prophet and from
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    allahel himself. Allah commands his
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    prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to
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    talk to people who feel bad about
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    themselves because they are drowning in
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    sin and they think I am so bad Allah
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    won't even talk to me. I'm so bad why
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    would Allah even address me? Allah talks
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    to people that he loves. Allah talks to
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    people that obey him. Allah talks to
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    people that fulfill his commands. Allah
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    talks to people that stay in theal and
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    they don't go towards the haram. He
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    talks to those people. But in this ayah,
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    Makkah. So this is not after the it's
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    wasallam moves to Medadina and now we
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    have the the you know the the the
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    of Allah whether they realize it or not
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    whether they recognize it or not you're
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    still a slave of Allah. You could be a
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    rebellious slave of Allah as is the
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    said my slaves automatically you assume
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    So you would think this is talking about
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    themselves. Even a more beautiful thing
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    here is Allah did not
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    say they did wrong against or they
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    Right? He didn't say that. He said even
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    when you disobey Allah, you're actually
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    only hurting yourself. You didn't hurt
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    Allah in any way. You didn't take
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    anything away from Allah's kingdom. You
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    were just harming
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    yourselves. And so the profound thing
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    here is that instead of beating down on
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    the sinner, first of all, the messenger
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    himself sallallahu alaihi wasallam has
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    been commanded to address the sinner and
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    to remind the sinner. I am just trying
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    to tell you to stop hurting yourself.
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    That's what I'm trying to
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    do. And so what we're going to learn in
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    this se series of ayat are a number of
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    instructions. And the purpose of each of
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    those instructions is to get us to stop
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    hurting ourselves. Is to get us to stop
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    doing is against our own selves, going
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    too far against our own selves. Let's
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    talk about the word is before we go on.
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    I keep using the word sinner but
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    actually it's not accurate in light of
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    these ayat the word is
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    or what does it
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    mean in Arabic is when you go
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    above what is normal. So you have earar
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    not hungry anymore. But just because
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    you're not hungry anymore doesn't mean
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    you don't want revenge more against the
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    plate of chicken. So you keep you take
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    six more drumsticks and you grab grab
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    them half the bottle of ketchup and you
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    get other fries cuz you know your your
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    cousin's looking at the fries too and
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    before he gets them you got to get them.
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    And so you stuff stuff your face. You
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    stop being hungry 10 minutes ago but
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    you're still eating. That's is you're
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    eating more than you need. That's is
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    means excess. Isra means more than what
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    is needed, more than appropriate amount.
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    Right? And Allah created nature in a way
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    and not just in the spiritual sense, in
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    the religious sense, but even in fra in
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    nature, Allah created a system by which
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    is will always harm you. Too much water
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    and you can actually drown. Too much
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    drinking water. You water is a good
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    thing. But you can actually there is
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    such a thing as drinking too much water.
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    Sugar is a good thing. Your body needs
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    sugar. Too much sugar is going to be a
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    problem. Too much of anything is going
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    to be a problem. Right? Too much sleep
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    is going to be a problem. Too much
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    exercise is going to be a problem.
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    Everything has to be within a limit,
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    doesn't it? Everything Allah designed
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    has to be within a limit. And if you go
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    past that limit, who do you hurt? You
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    hurt yourself. You hurt yourself in
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    everything. In every part of life, you
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    and I can engage in isra. But what
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    happens? Human beings, sometimes we're
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    good at some things or sometimes we
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    enjoy some things more than other
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    things. And so when we enjoy something
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    more than other things, we start
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    focusing on it, focusing on it, focusing
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    on it. And when you focus on one thing
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    too much, you're obviously ignoring
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    something else. Right? So you end up
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    doing in one thing and then you do in
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    something else, right? If is something
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    else also you go too much here something
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    else is you love your job you just want
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    I just I love my office so you go there
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    you got to get out at 3:00 you say no
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    I'll stay an extra 30 minutes I want to
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    talk to my friend 4 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00
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    cuz you love your job cuz you love your
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    business that's great except now your
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    family's suffering so you're not giving
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    them any time you don't have time to
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    call your parents you don't have time to
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    pray a salah in a masid you don't have
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    time to recite Quran anymore cuz you got
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    you put all the time in the business,
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    right? Or somebody says, "I just want to
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    take care of my kids." And they're
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    spending all their time with their kids
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    and now because they're spending all
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    their time with their kids, they have no
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    time for their spouse. They have no time
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    for their parents. They have no time for
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    their worship. They have no time. You
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    could get isra even in good things you
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    could do is it's not just in bad things,
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    in good things. And then there are
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    things that Allah has made permissible
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    within a certain way. Like it's
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    permissible if you do it the right way.
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    Men and women can be together if they do
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    it the right way. There's a wrong way
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    for men and women to be together and
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    there's a right way. Now, if you just
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    cross that line, you're also doing is
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    you're crossing a line that you
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    shouldn't be crossing. So, there's
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    different kinds of excess. And sometimes
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    human beings cross a line and they don't
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    realize it. That's the other thing. I I
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    didn't think I was doing anything wrong.
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    It was just one small step which led to
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    one small step which led to one small
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    step and before you know it, man, I
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    crossed the red line a long time ago and
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    I'm way in the danger territory. I'm way
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    in the do not enter zone. Right? You're
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    way out there. And now you say, man, I
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    messed up so much. How can I even go
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    back? I've gone too far. So sometimes
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    people, you know, this was a funny thing
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    that they used in the American economy
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    when the subprime mortgage crisis
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    happened several years ago. uh they were
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    saying the banks are too big to fail if
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    you remember or the car companies are
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    too big to fail. Meaning their failure
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    is so big that we have to just accept
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    the failure. There's no way for us to
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    come back and let's put more money into
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    this leaking bucket. Right? You're like
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    you're you're like I I'm too sinful to
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    make TBA. I can't come back. I can't
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    undo this. I have to just keep going
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    now. It's too late for me. It's too late
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    for me. And this is actually a kind of
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    thought of it's a mindset of
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    hopelessness. So Allah says the first
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    thing to to help me and you from hurting
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    ourselves. Don't lose hope and the
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    loving care that comes from Allah. Allah
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    still loves you. Allah still cares for
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    you. I didn't use the word mercy for I
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    use loving care on purpose. I want to
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    explain that in this. I've done that in
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    other talks. But don't lose hope in the
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    fact that Allah still loves you and
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    Allah still cares for you.
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    No doubt about it. Allah will take all
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    sins and forgive all of them
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    altogether. All of them. He will wipe
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    everything out, cover
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    everything. How can he do that? And
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    Allah says that's because he alone is
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    the one who is exceedingly covering of
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    mistakes and he's exceed he's always
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    loving and caring. That's the first
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    remedy I needed. The second and I'm
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    sharing all of this with you because we
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    think Ramadan is the time to come back
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    to Allah right and twothirds of Ramadan
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    is gone and many of you are thinking man
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    I didn't I didn't do anything in
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    Ramadan as such an opportunity there was
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    all these talks about get ready for
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    Ramadan make the most of Ramadan and 20
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    20 plus days are gone I haven't done
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    anything I've even been missing prayers
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    I've even you know I never stop my bad
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    habits I just keep messing up and now
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    Ramadan's almost over and I have nothing
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    to show for myself. Just like we say, I
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    have nothing to show for myself, for my
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    life. I just messed up. Now, we're
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    saying that for Ramadan, right? Ramadan
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    is a one month summary of our life. And
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    this twothirds of Ramadan being gone is
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    like, oh, so much of my life is gone and
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    what can I do? What's the point even
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    now? Right? And the thing is in the last
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    10 nights, every time you hear you got
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    to do more, you got to do more, you got
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    to do more. I was like, I wasn't even
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    meeting the minimum requirement. Now I
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    got to do more. Forget it. I'm out of
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    here. I'm just I'm already kicked out.
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    It's too late for me. This is this is
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    for good people. These last 10 days and
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    all these encouragements, these are for
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    the good people. I'm I don't even fit in
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    this club. I don't even belong here.
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    First thing, don't lose hope in Allah's
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    mercy. Allah forgive. Don't say, "Oh, I
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    I I did such a bad job in the first 20
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    days of Ramadan. Why will Allah just all
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    of a sudden accept that I was doing
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    trying to do better in the last 10 last
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    10 nights?" Why would he do that?
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    It's as if at the end of our lives, even
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    if we've lived a majority life of sin,
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    Allah is still giving us a chance to
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    turn it around, to come back. He then
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    says the second
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    thing, come back with your
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    heart. When you come back to Allah with
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    your heart, it's called come back to
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    your master in your heart. This is
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    important because that means stop
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    listening to everybody else.
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    Stop listening to someone who's saying
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    you will never be a good person. Allah
  • 00:15:51
    will never forgive you. There's people
  • 00:15:53
    in your life who say that things things
  • 00:15:54
    like that. Allah will never forgive you.
  • 00:15:56
    There are people who've written you off.
  • 00:15:58
    There are people who you hear, you see
  • 00:16:00
    them and you say, "Man, that person is
  • 00:16:02
    so close to Allah and when I compare
  • 00:16:04
    myself to them, I'm a really bad person
  • 00:16:06
    because that's a really good person and
  • 00:16:07
    I don't even compare." Right? So you
  • 00:16:10
    even if they don't put you down, you
  • 00:16:12
    look at them doing all the good things
  • 00:16:13
    and you look at yourself and you say,
  • 00:16:15
    "You know what? What's even the point?
  • 00:16:17
    I'll never get to this this person's
  • 00:16:18
    level. Some brother comes to you,
  • 00:16:21
    mashallah. Alhamdulillah, I just
  • 00:16:22
    finished my second of the Quran. And
  • 00:16:24
    you're like, I didn't even read
  • 00:16:27
    fata. But you don't say that to them.
  • 00:16:29
    You're like, yeah, I'm never going to
  • 00:16:31
    catch up to these people. This is these
  • 00:16:34
    are people that are going to Jenna. I'm
  • 00:16:36
    apparently on the other side of the
  • 00:16:37
    highway going in the other direction,
  • 00:16:39
    right? No. Allah says come back to your
  • 00:16:42
    come back to your don't look at other
  • 00:16:43
    people. Just you. Your heart needs to
  • 00:16:46
    just turn back to your stop being
  • 00:16:48
    focused on everyone else. It's not a
  • 00:16:49
    contest. It's not a contest. How many
  • 00:16:52
    prayed eight? How many prayed 20 how
  • 00:16:54
    many how many did you do? How many did
  • 00:16:57
    you do? How many mornings were you there
  • 00:16:59
    at the It's not a contest. It's not a
  • 00:17:02
    contest. It's not a comparison with
  • 00:17:04
    someone else. right now you just need to
  • 00:17:06
    come yourself
  • 00:17:10
    back and just surrender yourself before
  • 00:17:13
    him before punishment comes before it's
  • 00:17:16
    too late meaning Allah is saying it's
  • 00:17:18
    still not too late too late will be when
  • 00:17:20
    the punishment comes which means when
  • 00:17:22
    your death will come and then you know
  • 00:17:24
    judgment day will come it hasn't come
  • 00:17:26
    yet so it's not too late for you yet
  • 00:17:28
    this is another way of Allah saying you
  • 00:17:29
    have time is Allah another way of saying
  • 00:17:32
    you're not a lost
  • 00:17:37
    does then you will not be helped. Then
  • 00:17:41
    you will not be helped. That's not just
  • 00:17:43
    a threat. It's also encouragement
  • 00:17:46
    because if Allah is saying then you will
  • 00:17:47
    not be helped. It means now you will be
  • 00:17:51
    helped. Now you will be helped. It's
  • 00:17:53
    only then that you will not be helped.
  • 00:17:55
    So right now Allah is offering to help
  • 00:17:57
    you. Allah is offering to help me. And
  • 00:18:01
    is not just help. It's different from
  • 00:18:04
    orusra is used for military aid. You
  • 00:18:06
    know when they drop large packages of
  • 00:18:08
    ship shipments for the military so they
  • 00:18:11
    can replenish their supplies that's
  • 00:18:12
    actually called or when a and a military
  • 00:18:15
    is about to get attacked or they're
  • 00:18:17
    they're fighting the enemy head on and
  • 00:18:19
    reinforcements arrive from above the
  • 00:18:21
    hill right that's nusra. Nusra is
  • 00:18:24
    actually major help. It's not just small
  • 00:18:26
    little bit of help. Allah will help you
  • 00:18:28
    in profound empowering ways victorious
  • 00:18:30
    kinds of ways. Then he
  • 00:18:35
    says follow the most beautiful of what's
  • 00:18:38
    been given to you from what's been sent
  • 00:18:39
    to you from your there's lots of things
  • 00:18:41
    to be said here I won't focus too much
  • 00:18:43
    on it the easiest meaning of that is the
  • 00:18:44
    best of what Allah has revealed is Quran
  • 00:18:54
    itself like among the meanings of this
  • 00:18:56
    ayah is the best of all revelations is
  • 00:18:58
    the word of Allah so follow it just
  • 00:19:00
    follow what Allah I say it has other
  • 00:19:03
    meanings too. But I actually wanted to
  • 00:19:04
    focus on this last piece before I let
  • 00:19:06
    you guys go. He
  • 00:19:09
    says do this. Follow it in the best
  • 00:19:12
    possible way you can. Follow the best
  • 00:19:14
    thing that Allah has revealed. The most
  • 00:19:16
    beautiful thing that Allah has revealed.
  • 00:19:17
    Because Allah is, you know, some people
  • 00:19:18
    say, "Oh, Islam is so hard. There's so
  • 00:19:20
    many rules. There's so many
  • 00:19:21
    complications. I don't know what to do.
  • 00:19:23
    I don't know what there's so many
  • 00:19:25
    technicalities." And Allah is saying,
  • 00:19:26
    "No, it's actually beautiful and
  • 00:19:28
    simple." Imagine somebody who was
  • 00:19:29
    listening to this ayah in Makkah. What
  • 00:19:31
    complications were there for for them in
  • 00:19:32
    the religion? What were the
  • 00:19:34
    complications when they were hearing
  • 00:19:36
    Zum? Where was the difficulty in the
  • 00:19:37
    religion? It was a simple
  • 00:19:39
    straightforward message. It was
  • 00:19:40
    beautiful and direct. That's all. Come
  • 00:19:43
    back to Allah's word and you'll find the
  • 00:19:44
    beauty and directness of this dean.
  • 00:19:46
    That's it. But then Allah says before
  • 00:19:49
    punishment comes to you all of a sudden
  • 00:19:51
    and you won't even realize it. Meaning
  • 00:19:53
    don't act like you have a lot of time.
  • 00:19:56
    Develop a sense of urgency. Have a sense
  • 00:19:59
    of urgency. You don't have a light. You
  • 00:20:01
    can turn things around. You shouldn't be
  • 00:20:03
    hopeless, but don't get lazy. You don't
  • 00:20:06
    have much time. And these last 10, you
  • 00:20:10
    know, or less nights that we have of
  • 00:20:12
    Ramadan, it's kind of a way of us to
  • 00:20:15
    think about we don't have much time. And
  • 00:20:17
    if we can develop a mentality, a mindset
  • 00:20:20
    of a sense of urgency in these 10
  • 00:20:22
    nights, maybe we can carry that over in
  • 00:20:24
    our life to develop that kind of mindset
  • 00:20:26
    that I don't have a lot of time. I need
  • 00:20:28
    to make the most of the time that I
  • 00:20:30
    have. What I really wanted to share with
  • 00:20:32
    you before I leave you is actually
  • 00:20:35
    something about the words that a person
  • 00:20:37
    says that did not take advantage of
  • 00:20:39
    their time. And Allah says, "I don't
  • 00:20:41
    want you to become of these people. But
  • 00:20:43
    if you do become these people, this is
  • 00:20:45
    what they're going to end up saying when
  • 00:20:46
    it's too late."
  • 00:20:52
    when that a person will end up
  • 00:20:56
    saying what a what a thing to
  • 00:21:02
    say you could say I have regret I regret
  • 00:21:05
    whatever I did wherever I fell short I
  • 00:21:09
    didn't do enough by Allah's side that's
  • 00:21:12
    what it that's what we expected it to
  • 00:21:14
    say but Allah
  • 00:21:17
    says this is it's called in the Arabic
  • 00:21:21
    language what that means in simple
  • 00:21:22
    languages he's saying oh my regret it
  • 00:21:26
    doesn't even make sense in English oh my
  • 00:21:28
    regret when you call you you don't call
  • 00:21:32
    a thing a regret is a thing is a feeling
  • 00:21:34
    you call a person you call a person in
  • 00:21:38
    this ayah you're calling a feeling and
  • 00:21:40
    what's that feeling my
  • 00:21:42
    regret my regret as if Allah is saying
  • 00:21:46
    there's a almost like a person inside
  • 00:21:48
    you that lives inside you that you talk
  • 00:21:50
    to all the time And that that that that
  • 00:21:53
    being inside you is almost like another
  • 00:21:56
    part of you that just manifests regret.
  • 00:21:59
    Oh, I messed up. I made so many
  • 00:22:00
    mistakes. Oh, I didn't do this. Oh, I
  • 00:22:02
    didn't do this. The passage began with
  • 00:22:04
    someone who's hopeless. And now on
  • 00:22:06
    judgment day, oh, I messed up. I could
  • 00:22:08
    have done so
  • 00:22:09
    much. There are people who think about
  • 00:22:12
    the past every day. Every day, they're
  • 00:22:16
    depressed. I don't know why this
  • 00:22:18
    happened to me. I don't know why this
  • 00:22:20
    this happened or that happened. And
  • 00:22:21
    they're talking about that today.
  • 00:22:22
    They're talking about that tomorrow.
  • 00:22:23
    They're talking about the day after and
  • 00:22:24
    day after and day after. I don't know
  • 00:22:26
    what's going to happen. I don't know
  • 00:22:26
    what's going to happen. 10 years go by.
  • 00:22:28
    They're talking about the past. And then
  • 00:22:30
    10 years later, they look back and say,
  • 00:22:31
    "I wasted 10
  • 00:22:33
    years." That's what they
  • 00:22:38
    do. They're talking to their regret.
  • 00:22:41
    They're having a conversation with the
  • 00:22:43
    regret inside of them constantly and
  • 00:22:45
    they don't want to talk to any. If
  • 00:22:47
    you're talking to your regret, you're
  • 00:22:48
    not going to be able to talk to Allah.
  • 00:22:50
    You have to choose who you want to have
  • 00:22:52
    a conversation with. Allah is choosing
  • 00:22:53
    to have a conversation with you. You're
  • 00:22:55
    choosing to have a conversation with
  • 00:22:56
    your
  • 00:22:57
    regret.
  • 00:22:59
    Stop. Because a time will come where
  • 00:23:01
    you're going to end up forever having
  • 00:23:03
    that conversation if you don't change
  • 00:23:04
    your mind. May Allah protect you and me
  • 00:23:05
    from it. That we're forever just talking
  • 00:23:07
    to our regret and
  • 00:23:10
    saying on the things I fell short in
  • 00:23:13
    means I could have done more. I just
  • 00:23:15
    didn't meet the minimum. I didn't do
  • 00:23:16
    enough. Meaning Allah is not even saying
  • 00:23:20
    do the very top and the very best and
  • 00:23:22
    excel like no no no just don't do if if
  • 00:23:25
    there's a minimum line like in school
  • 00:23:27
    you have a minimum passing grade right
  • 00:23:30
    minimum passing grade let's say it's a
  • 00:23:31
    65 well if you got to 64 that's
  • 00:23:35
    the right you you cross it you pass it
  • 00:23:38
    you're fine yeah I could have just
  • 00:23:40
    crossed it wasn't hard it wasn't a lot
  • 00:23:43
    not a lot was being asked of me and so
  • 00:23:46
    he said and why didn't I do
  • 00:23:50
    And I did this with Allah by it's also
  • 00:23:54
    amazing phrase. I did this while Allah
  • 00:23:56
    was by my
  • 00:23:57
    side. Like Allah was there to encourage
  • 00:24:00
    me. Allah was there to help me through.
  • 00:24:01
    Allah never let me go. I let Allah go. I
  • 00:24:04
    let He didn't let me go. I let him go.
  • 00:24:07
    He was always by my
  • 00:24:09
    side. Right. Right. in Allah's right
  • 00:24:11
    within Allah's side. Jump is actually
  • 00:24:13
    used for your neighbor
  • 00:24:16
    like right. Allah was right by me and I
  • 00:24:19
    didn't care. I just didn't I didn't take
  • 00:24:21
    the step myself. Everything Allah
  • 00:24:24
    would had to give me for me to be able
  • 00:24:27
    to cross that line and be in the green
  • 00:24:29
    Allah gave me. I just didn't take the
  • 00:24:31
    step. Right? And then he finally he
  • 00:24:34
    says, "And I was just from those who
  • 00:24:37
    diminish, who make fun. I just turned
  • 00:24:40
    everything into a joke. I just didn't
  • 00:24:42
    take anything seriously in the end. So
  • 00:24:43
    there's on the one hand there's
  • 00:24:45
    depression and you're talking to your
  • 00:24:46
    regret and on the other hand is when
  • 00:24:48
    you're not depressed you're making jokes
  • 00:24:50
    about things you shouldn't be making
  • 00:24:51
    jokes
  • 00:24:52
    about. You're just the things you should
  • 00:24:54
    take seriously. You're not taking
  • 00:24:56
    seriously. You just laugh them off. You
  • 00:24:58
    diminish them. So is the same verb in
  • 00:25:02
    Arabic that is used for subduing. When
  • 00:25:04
    you domesticate an animal, you
  • 00:25:08
    do, right? And Allah says, you know, uh
  • 00:25:11
    the mountain, the the the clouds have
  • 00:25:13
    been done of and the the winds have been
  • 00:25:17
    of
  • 00:25:18
    meaning, right? He he sub he surrendered
  • 00:25:22
    the night and the day, the clouds, the
  • 00:25:24
    winds, he surrendered them. He put them
  • 00:25:26
    down like they were rebellious and he
  • 00:25:28
    put them down and they act the way the
  • 00:25:30
    master wants them to act. like a horse
  • 00:25:31
    that's wild and the master subdues it,
  • 00:25:34
    domesticates it, and now the the master
  • 00:25:36
    turns this way and the horse turns this
  • 00:25:38
    way. When the horse is wild, it's going
  • 00:25:40
    to kick you in the face. You go close to
  • 00:25:41
    it, you go behind it, it's going to kick
  • 00:25:43
    you with its hind legs. It's going to
  • 00:25:45
    push you. It's going to rebel against
  • 00:25:47
    you. But once it's domesticated, you if
  • 00:25:49
    you've ever dealt with horses, as you
  • 00:25:52
    move, you don't even have to pull on the
  • 00:25:54
    rope. If you're walking with a horse,
  • 00:25:56
    you don't even have to pull on the rope.
  • 00:25:57
    It senses that you've turned and it
  • 00:25:58
    turns with you.
  • 00:26:00
    It just it just moves with you. That's
  • 00:26:02
    actually called the from it comes the
  • 00:26:04
    idea of you putting yourself down,
  • 00:26:07
    putting others down, taking serious
  • 00:26:09
    things and doing of them, putting them
  • 00:26:12
    down, domesticating them as if things
  • 00:26:14
    that are supposed to be taken very
  • 00:26:15
    seriously and things that are very
  • 00:26:17
    dangerous. You're not. You start talking
  • 00:26:19
    about them and thinking about them in a
  • 00:26:21
    way that you diminish the danger of
  • 00:26:22
    them. You diminish the seriousness of
  • 00:26:24
    them. And this is what a person says in
  • 00:26:26
    the end. I could have done more. I just
  • 00:26:28
    didn't want to take things seriously. I
  • 00:26:29
    just wanted to be one of those people,
  • 00:26:31
    leave me alone, man. I I I wanted to
  • 00:26:33
    share this as the last thing today
  • 00:26:35
    because uh just recently somebody told
  • 00:26:37
    me, you know, how do I how do I get a
  • 00:26:38
    teenager to love Islam? Somebody told me
  • 00:26:41
    give me 30 I you got 30 seconds. Tell me
  • 00:26:43
    how to tell a teenager to love Islam. I
  • 00:26:44
    was like, what are you talking about?
  • 00:26:46
    Get a teenager to love Islam. 30
  • 00:26:50
    seconds. You know why? Because every
  • 00:26:52
    time I tell them about Islam, they just
  • 00:26:54
    roll their eyes. They just there's
  • 00:26:56
    another Islamic thing. When's dad going
  • 00:26:59
    to stop? My mom just
  • 00:27:02
    doesn't seriously. Can I go now? Yeah,
  • 00:27:06
    that was great. Thanks. Yeah, we got it.
  • 00:27:08
    We're all going to hell. Thanks.
  • 00:27:11
    Mhm. You know, and there's just there's
  • 00:27:13
    a there's an aloof. There's a lack of
  • 00:27:16
    serious just I don't want to be
  • 00:27:17
    connected. Why are you bothering me with
  • 00:27:19
    this? Can I just, you know, why are you
  • 00:27:22
    dragging me to this masid? Can I can I
  • 00:27:24
    take my, you know, can I take my phone?
  • 00:27:26
    Can I take my whatever mobile gaming
  • 00:27:29
    device, just sit in the back, you know,
  • 00:27:32
    because I just I don't I don't want to
  • 00:27:33
    think about it. And you know what? That
  • 00:27:36
    becomes a lifestyle. And that just
  • 00:27:38
    doesn't stay as a teenager. It just
  • 00:27:40
    becomes and eventually a person says, I
  • 00:27:42
    just never took anything
  • 00:27:44
    seriously. and and Allah says I don't
  • 00:27:47
    want you to become a person that ends up
  • 00:27:49
    when it's too late comes back and says I
  • 00:27:52
    could have done more I could have met
  • 00:27:54
    the minimum requirements and I just I I
  • 00:27:56
    was always someone who never took things
  • 00:27:58
    seriously I just joined other people who
  • 00:28:00
    don't think seriously because means
  • 00:28:02
    joining a group means there are other
  • 00:28:05
    people who think it's cool to dismiss
  • 00:28:07
    everything you know the whatever group
  • 00:28:09
    yeah
  • 00:28:12
    whatever too cool for
  • 00:28:15
    I'm I'm I'm above this. I'm above. And
  • 00:28:17
    the facial the facial expression carries
  • 00:28:20
    how little you care about what's being
  • 00:28:21
    said or what reminder your parents are
  • 00:28:23
    giving or the imam is giving or the
  • 00:28:25
    Quran is saying. Yeah. Mhm. That that
  • 00:28:29
    look and when that look you see somebody
  • 00:28:31
    else have the look and say, "Man, that
  • 00:28:32
    guy is so cool. Not even afraid of
  • 00:28:35
    Allah. I want to be like that. I want to
  • 00:28:37
    be with the cool guy." Right? So they
  • 00:28:40
    become a group of and he says I was
  • 00:28:42
    among those who are as if to say I
  • 00:28:44
    wasn't even like that myself. I just
  • 00:28:46
    decided to join stupid company that is
  • 00:28:49
    like that and the more time I spent with
  • 00:28:51
    them I became one of them. I just I
  • 00:28:54
    joined them and became one of them. And
  • 00:28:56
    that's the confession he's making on
  • 00:28:58
    judgment day and she's making on
  • 00:28:59
    judgment day. May Allah protect us from
  • 00:29:01
    becoming that. And may Allah protect our
  • 00:29:03
    children from becoming that. And I pray
  • 00:29:05
    that Allah does not make us a people of
  • 00:29:07
    regret because we didn't take make the
  • 00:29:09
    most of the last few days of the the
  • 00:29:11
    last couple of weeks of Ramadan. And
  • 00:29:13
    make absolutely the most of the next few
  • 00:29:15
    days that are coming. You know, be be uh
  • 00:29:18
    you know don't think that Ramadan is
  • 00:29:20
    ending for you. You should think after
  • 00:29:21
    Friday Ramadan just started. That's how
  • 00:29:24
    you should think. Ramadan just started
  • 00:29:26
    and you just got is Ramadan this year is
  • 00:29:28
    not 30 days. It's just this this nine
  • 00:29:30
    days. That's it. That's all it is. and
  • 00:29:32
    take it take it with that attitude and
  • 00:29:34
    may allahel make give you the strength
  • 00:29:36
    the motivation and the ability to just
  • 00:29:38
    absolutely do your very very best and
  • 00:29:41
    transform yourselves for your own
  • 00:29:42
    benefit
  • 00:29:47
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