Every sinner has a future

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Auto-generated transcript:Arabic My brothers and sisters, this issue of Tawbah and Istifar is so important. You know the Hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam in Musnad ibn Ahmad where Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that when a person makes Tawbah and Istifar continuously, when a person does a lot of it, then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala extracts him, solves his problems for him, extracts him from his difficulties. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala solves that person's problems for him and provides him from sources that the person cannot imagine. Now just think about this that our whole life is spent in this world and may Allah have mercy on us, we get worried about this and that and we have this problem and that problem. Alhamdulillah, most of us have problems which later on when you think about them after that time has passed, you know you want to laugh at the things that you used to worry about. Of course I'm not saying that everybody is in the same place, there are people today in the world who are facing difficulties which are literally unprecedented, not in living memory, Mala'a alam. In history of course human beings and human history is full of misery and suffering so there is no shortage of incidents in history but at least in living memory. For example what's happening in Palestine now is something which is absolutely unprecedented. We never saw this before, we never thought we would see it and may Allah have mercy on the people and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive us. But the cure for that, the solution for difficulties, the solution to get out of difficulties is istighfaratowa. It is to seek repentance, it is to ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive us. And that's the hadith in Musnad ibn Mahfati, the person who frequently seeks forgiveness. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala extracts him from his difficulties, removes his difficulties, solves his problems and provides him from sources that he could not imagine. And this hadith is the literally the tafsir of the ayat of surah talaq where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that a person who was taqwa, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will remove his difficulties, will solve his problems and he will provide him from sources that he could not imagine. Now who is a Muttakhi? A Muttakhi is a person who considers Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala jallaatilalahu and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's position and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's pleasure as the sole object of his deeds, the sole criterion for all his decision making. Surely when we think about this, see how simple life becomes because if we have just one criterion for all decisions, will Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased or not? That's all. Now if we have this criterion for all decisions then we cannot possibly go wrong because if you are doing something which pleases Allah then automatically it means that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will make things easy and the world also will be pleased with us. Uhura al-Abdullahi anhu in the hadith in Muslim Sharif narrated from Rasulullah who said he who repents before the sun rises from the west Allah will forgive him. Now this means that when a person commits a sin he goes away from Allah, tauba means to return to Allah, to return to Allah from the sins. When he repents he returns to Allah and desires to be pardoned by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and to get close to Allah. This returning is tauba and when it is said that Allah turns towards him it means that Allah accepts his repentance. When our Prophet says before the sun rises from the west he means before the person dies because that is the as far as we are concerned this is the uh you know we will die before the sun actually comes out from the west. Another hadith in Thirmidhi, Abdullah Umar ibn Al-Khattab he reported that Rasulullah said Allah accepts a slave's repentance as long as the slave is not on his deathbed that is before the soul of the dying person reaches his throat. The word gargala is is used in the hadith which me...