 The one who necessarily exists, Ar-Rahman, the university merciful, Ar-Rahim, the particularly merciful and amongst his particular mercies that he has given us is that he has made us believers and not only has he made us believers, he has particularly made us believers from the Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That he has given faith to those that might have come before and he has not taken anything from their right, that when they did a deed Allah Azza wa Jalla gave them the reward of a deed and that when they committed a sin they would have the recompense of a sin. But for the Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ Allah Azza wa Jalla has multiplied the deeds of each act by at least ten and for the deeds that one does wrong, those deeds that we should not be committing, Allah Azza wa Jalla only takes us into account for that one deed and does not multiply it whatsoever. The he Azza wa Jalla has made attaining his proximity and his Jannah and his pleasure easier on this Ummah. This is from the khasais from the particularities of the beloved Prophet Muhammad ﷺ that Allah has given him that honor, that he has made this Ummah the best of Ummah, the best nations that have come out to mankind merely as a way of giving Sharaf, of giving honor to his Habib ﷺ and that comes with the responsibility. This responsibility is that we are the flag bearers of deen in the times when there is no deen. We are the flag bearers of religiosity and of godliness. When others have forgotten what godliness is. When others have left the ways of the prophets, the Ummah of Isa ﷺ has left the message that he came with, the Ummah of Musa ﷺ has left the message that he came with, the Ummah of Ibrahim ﷺ has left the message that he came with. And we have come as revivers of that message, that there is a burden on the believer, that they are flag bearers of the word La ilaha illallah, that there is no deity except Allah, that there is no one who has hukum, who has rule other than Allah ﷺ, that there is no other who has worth other than Allah ﷺ. If anything has worth in this world, it is because Allah ﷺ gave it worth. Had it not been for him, it would have not had any worth attached to it. And Allah has attached worth to us because of our relation to him ﷺ. كنتم خير أمة أخرجت للناس, that you are the best of people who have ever come out to mankind. تأمرون بالمعروف وتنهونا عن المنكر, you enjoying that which is good of course with wisdom. And you forbid that which is evil of course with wisdom. But if we allow ourselves to become distant from what is good and allow ourselves to engage in things that we should not be engaging, we have lost the reason that we are خير أمة, that we are the best nations. And in a manner we are, in some manner we are being ungrateful for the blessing of being of this ummah, of the ummah of our Prophet ﷺ, that Allah has made it easy for this ummah to attain jannah. Previous ummah, if the previous nations would do a deed, Allah would give them the reward of the deed to its fullest extent. He wouldn't take away from their right. Out of his love for the Prophet ﷺ, he gives this ummah at least ten. And it's our responsibility to act on that love, right? To do something about it. To become people who are worth, to become people who are, it is appropriate to call us flag bearers of La ilaha illallah Muhammad ﷺ. To be people who become more prophetic. To be people who have mercy in our hearts for the people that have justice in our hearts, people that have Allah Azza wa Jalla in our hearts. That we have mercy in our hearts because we recognize that this world came out as a mercy. This world came into being as a mercy. Allah could have put some in jannah and some in jahannam and he would not have to answer to anyone for that. It would have been his choice. But as a mercy unto us, he has allowed ourselves to test, he has given us the opportunity to show us ourselves whether we deserve one destination or the other, whether we deserve the fire, whether we deserve his paradise. And sometimes it seems as if paradise is an insurmountable mountain, it is difficult to get. Sometimes it may seem like that. And that we should know that Allah Azza wa Jalla has, he has given us Jumu'ah for expiation of deeds between one Jumu'ah to the other. He has given us Ramadan as expiation between the misdeeds that we have between one Ramadan to the other. He has given us Hajj, the pilgrimage to the house of Allah. He has given us Hajj and he has allowed us to know where to make pilgrimage. He hasn't left it for us to figure out. And he's given us the rights of pilgrimage. What do you do when you make that pilgrimage? He did not have to give that to us. He Azza wa Jalla had mercy to give that to us. And when you make that Hajj, that is an expiation of all the misdeeds you may have done in your life. And then between the prayers, the expiation of the misdeeds we may do in between prayers, the adhqa that we recite in the morning is expiation for the misdeeds we may have had from the previous night. And the adhqa that we recite at night is expiation for the misdeeds we may have had in the day. There is no reason that a believer should feel as if Jannah is difficult. Allah Azza wa Jalla says in a hadith Qudsi, so this is the wording of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in which he expresses the meaning Allah Azza wa Jalla is conveying. I am according to the opinion of my servant. If we see Allah Azza wa Jalla as an entity that wants to punish us and wants to make our lives difficult and wants us to bring us out of the comfort of our beds every fujr, if we see him as an entity that wants us to hunger, I want us to hunger ourselves through the fast and to deprive ourselves of wealth because of zakat. Deprive ourselves of our base desires by having preference for the other. If that's how we see him Azza wa Jalla as someone who wants to give us difficulty then that is how we will find him Azza wa Jalla. And if we believe him to be a merciful God, that it is true that Allah punishes. Allah has attributes of rigor but he has allowed his mercy to overwhelm those attributes of rigor that my mercy overwhelms all things, encompasses all things. If that's how we see him and we see these acts of obedience as an opportunity to gain the mercy of Allah, the mercy of Allah. If we see Tawba as an opportunity for us to turn back to Allah to the one that is the greatest beloved Azza wa Jalla as a way to orient ourselves to the one who has given us the most beloved things to ourselves, our faith. If we see it as that opportunity then there is no reason that one should despair. Every moment is an opportunity of receiving his mercy Azza wa Jalla. Every moment, if we see the opportunity of preferring the other when there's not enough to share but still preferring the other over the desires of ourselves and when we prefer somebody else Allah Azza wa Jalla prefers us. If we see that as an opportunity there's no reason for us to despair. So we're in the balance between Khuf and Rajat, reverent fear of Allah Azza wa Jalla that yes we do know that he is the all-powerful creator who can punish us but that we did not allow that to allow us to despair because we also have hope in him Azza wa Jalla that he will not disappoint us if we if we expect him to be a merciful Lord that he will not disappoint us in spite of the of the deficient actions we bring he will not disappoint us he will accept that he will accept that deed so long as we believe that he will and we do it with sincerity because he Azza wa Jalla asked that we see he has made it easy to attain his Jannah and that we have he has sent the Prophet SAW his most beloved to us and he has made us part of that ummah that ummah which the at the end of times the Prophet SAW said that his ikhwan that his brothers he called us our brothers and sisters by extension that their actions are worth fifty of the actions of Sahaba there are there is no better creation after the Prophet's other than the Sahaba are the best creation after the Prophet's best of creation after the Prophet's but Allah Azza wa Jalla has given us the reward of fifty of the Sahaba in the in the end of times and the end of time starts with that with the coming with the advent of the Prophet SAW he SAW said that him in the hour were sent like this and he put his two fingers up and it was a closed space in between his two fingers we understand that we are in those times and that when we are people who hold on to iman when everyone else is leaving iman we hold on to godly principles when everyone else is leaving godly principles because it's not the norm because it's not attractive because nobody else is doing it when we hold on to it because it is from Allah and His Messenger SAW that we have the reward of fifty of the Sahaba and what is their reward radiallahu anhum Allah has not made it difficult for us to attain Jannah and if we believe that He Azza wa Jalla will reward us with fifty of our reward to be multiplied fifty on top of the ten five hundred times on top of however much the reward of the Sahaba is multiplied we don't we don't even know how to enumerate that these are the people who threw themselves in the Prophet SAW with to defend him from arrows to defend him from what is their reward we don't know so how much reward is Allah Azza wa Jalla give us and if we feel that is not sufficient that Allah Azza wa Jalla has given us the Salat on the on the Prophet SAW Allah says Inna Allah wa Malaikatahu yusalluna ala nabi ya yuhalladheena amura sallu alayhi wa sallim wa tassneema oh Allah and His angels send their prayers and salutations upon the Prophet SAW Allah lets you know that He does that and this is the only Prophet that Allah commands to send Salat on that Prophet and then when you do it Abu Hurayr radiallahu anhum came to the Prophet SAW and he said if I made this much of my dua Salat upon you would it be good would it be good for me and he said it would be good for you if you're placed in did more that'd be better and he said how about if I made it this much and then this much and then so on and so forth how about if I made this much of my my dua as this much of my if this much of my dua was prayer upon you sallallahu as-salam would that would that be good for me he said it'd be good for you and if he did more it's better until he said if I made my entire dua salawat upon you salallahu as-salam would that be good for me he said it'd be good for you and all your worries would be taken care of whatever intention you have between behind the salawat it's taken care of and when you make the salawat as is narrated in the most in by al-haqim and his mustadrak he says two narrations that one he says that that part that salawat is is shown to me and the one who did the salawat is shown to me and then the father of the one the parents of the one is shown to me and then I send salawat back upon him and his family how much mercy do we receive in that how much mercy do we receive in that so Allah has not made it hard if jannah is our aspiration and that is our concern if Allah Azawaj is our concern then the salawat sallallahu as-salam will suffice you for that concern this obviously does not relieve us of fulfilling our obligations it is not relieve us of him saying of staying away from his prohibitions as a wajan but it's just to show the mercy of Allah that he's given us so many avenues so you think Allah Azawaj for those avenues we ask that Allah make his people of gratitude of those avenues that he has given us to achieve his proximity achieve his jannah I couldn't call you have a was that's it Allah Ali well I come when he's sari al-muslim in ya come he's taku firu inna huhu al-ghafoor al-raheem Bismillah walhamdulillah was salatu was salam ala Rasulillah wa ala Ali he was Sahbihi man wala Allah Azawaj has given us Juma as expiation for the misdeeds between one to another and on that day of Juma he has given us a moment that when you ask Allah so long as it's not something Allah has prohibited Allah will give it to you Allah will give it to you whether you see it in this dunya or if it comes in in the form of warning off some harm that is coming to you whether Allah Azawaj are storing something better for you in the Akhirah in that hour Allah says Allah the Prophet has promised that Allah will give you something give you what you ask for and usually that's in between the two khutbahs that most of the alama say that's between the two khutbahs in the Juma when when we sit down we say that I've said what I've said was to feel Allah so let's seek the forgiveness of Allah what he said he must they mean right and for all the believers that moment if we ask for istikhfar if we ask Allah that ya Allah I want you to cover the sins that I have will I could you but then Allah Husayat in Hassanat that those who make Toba to Allah and do good deeds then those are the people who Allah not only erases their misdeeds Allah replaces their misdeeds with good deeds so that you're not embarrassed in front of him on the day of judgment when he doesn't say why did you do such and such action that actually you may that you have done is covered and it's replaced with a good deed so may Allah make us the people of Malfira Allah makes the people who have Rahman our hearts Allah makes the people of Aethar for others so that Allah has Aethar for us Allah Azza make us the people salawat upon his beloved Salam Allah makes the people whose worries and anxieties are are are are are removed by his rights Allah Allah Azza make us the people who are consistent on enacting his enacting his command commandments and avoiding his prohibitions Allah Azza allow us to be people who take those opportunities to to to find his forgiveness and his Rahmat and his and his his mercies may Allah Azza make us the people who are recipients of his mercy both in the dunya and in the Akhirah may Allah make us the people make us vessels of mercy the others find the mercy of Allah through us Allah makes the people where where others find the mercy of Allah to us may Allah Azza allow us to allow us to have our deeds multiplied many fold but beyond numbers that we can imagine may Allah Azza cover our sins may Allah Azza forgive us for our misdeeds may Allah Azza give us solace and him he make me he be our only source of Salam we say Allahumma antah salam ومنك السلام تبارة ياذا جلالي وليك رام حينا ودفلنا دار السلام ربنا آتينا في الدنيا حسنة وفي الآخرة حسنة وقنا عضاء بالنار ربنا هبدنا من أظواجنا وظرنياتنا قرر وتعيني ورجعنا لمتقين إيمامة may Allah Azza have mercy on our parents our teachers, particularly our first teachers are parents so he say رب يرحم هما كما رب يعني صغير رب يرحم هما كما رب يعني صغير رب يرحم هما Allah has recognized that Allah and His angels send the prayers and peace upon the Prophet We ask you to do the same