 وَأَقُولُوا فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِهِ أَيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنْزَالُوَ وَأَقُولُوا قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُوهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُوَ الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أمت الله ورسوله نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته في هذه الرمضان ورمضان سوف نتحدث عن رمضان ورمضان as a time for fear and hope الله عز وجل يخبرنا في القرآن أولئك الذين يدعون يبتاغون إلى ربهم الوسيلة أيهم أقرب ويرجون رحمته ويخافون عذابه صورة الإسراء آية No. 57 الله عز وجل يخبرنا about those among his awliah from the prophets and the righteous and how they seek a means of nearness to Allah they are the ones who call upon Allah seeking a means of nearness to him which of them is closer and they hope in the mercy of Allah and they fear his punishment هنا ألمان ببن القيم رحمه الله تعالى he mentioned that this ayah contains the three essential elements that are always present within the life of a Muslim it contains fear and hope that the righteous people the people who are righteous and near to Allah from the prophets and those with them عليهم الصلاة والسلام they used to fear and they used to hope يرجون رحمته they hoped for the mercy of Allah ويخافون عذابه and they feared the punishment of Allah and they had يبتاغون إلى ربهم ويبن القيم رحمه الله تعالى he said this indicates المحبة the love that they had for Allah سبحانه وتعالى so they joined between hope and fear and they joined between hope and fear and love and Allah سبحانه وتعالى told us in صورة الأنبياء after mentioning a youb and younos and zakaria الله سبحانه وتعالى told us فاستجبنا له ووهبنا له يحيا واصلحنا له زوجه إنهم كانوا يسارعون في الخيرات ويدعوننا رغبا ورهبا وكانوا لنا خاشعين in ayah number 90 from صورة الأنبياء after Allah سبحانه وتعالى told us about zakaria and how Allah سبحانه وتعالى gave him يحيا الله سبحانه وتعالى said those prophets they used to race to do good deeds and they used to call upon us in hope and fear and they were submissive towards us humble and submissive ويدعوننا رغبا ورهبا they called upon us in hope and in fear that's how the prophets عليهم الصلاة والسلام used to be الإمامة بالقيم رحمه الله تعالى he said he said the heart on its journey to Allah is like a bird he said that loving Allah is the head of the bird and fear and hope are the two wings whenever the head and the two wings are healthy and sound then the bird is able to fly well and when the head is cut off the bird will die and whenever one of the two wings is lost then the bird becomes prey for every hunter every beast of prey that wishes to snatch it and kill it it can't escape them because its wings are not in good condition and this is the example of love and fear and hope so a Muslim has to balance between fear and hope in the different things that come into them in the different situations they experience in their life when they find themselves to be relaxed and too hopeful and a person says this person is lacking fear they need to increase their fear when a person finds themselves to be despairing they say it doesn't matter what I'm going to do I feel like I will just be from the people of the fire and this person is lacking hope rather some of the scholars they said and this is Nourita from Sheik Mubaz and many others as well before him that he said that when a person is healthy and well they should slightly incline more towards fear and when they are sick and weak they should incline more towards hope but here just like the bird when it's flying and the wind blows in different directions and different things happen so the bird adjusts its wings one wing moves up one wing moves down and it moves its wings in order to balance itself so this is how a person should be and this is the excellent example that you have to adjust them throughout the different situations in your life you never ever feel despair and you never ever feel too hopeful to the point that you become lazy and you say that whatever happens I'm sure that I will be successful and that's why Sheik Mubaz said الواجب على المسلم أن لا يقنط ولا يأمن ويكون بين الرجاء والخوف he said that obligatory thing upon the Muslim is not to feel despair nor to feel safe that nothing will happen to them rather they should be between hope and fear لأن الله هذم الأمين وذم القانيطين لأن الله عز وجل ربكت those who feel safe and rebuked those who feel despair feeling safe meaning they feel that no matter what they do or they feel that even though they have sins they will not be harmed nothing bad will happen to them فقال سبحانه أثى أمنوا مكر الله فلا يأمنوا مكر الله إلا القوم الخاسرون وقال سبحانه لا تقنطوا من رحمة الله الله عز وجل فقال هل they feel safe from the plan of Allah أعيد they feel safe that despite their sins and despite the things they have done that nothing will happen to them they will never no punishment, nothing bad they will just be able to do whatever they want or it doesn't matter what the sins they have done and nothing will happen to them nobody feels safe of the plot of Allah except for the losing people and Allah عز وجل فقال لا تقنطوا من رحمة الله do not despair of the mercy of Allah so when you bring these two things together is that the person doesn't feel despair and doesn't so that they stop doing deeds and doesn't feel so much confidence that they feel that nothing will happen to them no matter what they do rather they are between hope and between fear they fear Allah they're scared of the consequences of their sins and they rush to make Tauba and they ask Allah عز وجل for His forgiveness and الحسن البصري رحم الله تعالى he said المؤمن يعمل بالطاعت وهو مشفق وجل خائف he said a believer does acts of obedience while they are in a state of fear while they are trembling and they're scared والفاجر يعمل بالمعاصي وهو آمن and the wicked person does evil deeds believing that there's nothing going to happen to them at all سبحان الله look at the difference the believer does acts of worship in a state of being scared in a state of trembling in a state of fear and the disbeliever or the فاجر the wicked person does every kind of sin and doesn't care the believer is scared didn't Allah عز وجل say والذين يؤتون ماءاتا وقلوبهم وجلة أنهم إلى ربهم راجعون those people who give what they give and their hearts are trembling out of fear will not be accepted from them and Aisha رضي الله عنها she asked the prophet about this ayah and she thought it was about the people of الفجور the people who steal and the people who commit adultery and the people who do all kinds of evil deeds she thought that they were the ones whose hearts were trembling and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said to her لا يبنة الصديق no or daughter of a صديق this is the one who prays this is the one who fasts this is the one who gives charity but they're scared that it will not be accepted from them so the believer joins between these two things and in the month of Ramadan we have many reasons to be incredibly hopeful and we have many reasons to be scared from the reasons that we have to be scared and to be hopeful is the hadith of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said may the persons nose be rubbed in the dust the one who Ramadan comes and goes and that person wasn't forgiven before that person was forgiven and this has both fear and hope it makes us scared we become scared and we become fearful that we might be from those people who Ramadan comes and we don't get forgiven but at the same time it also makes us hopeful for all the opportunities there are for forgiveness in the month of Ramadan is the hadith of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا كان أول ليلة من شهر رمضان صفدة الشياطين ومرضة الجن وغلقت أبواب النار فلم يفتح منها باب وفتحت أبواب الجنة فلم يغلق منها باب ويناد مناد يا باغي الخير أقبل ويا باغي الشر أقصر ولله أتقاء من النار وذلك كل ليلة that when the month of Ramadan comes الشياطين and this obstinate jinn are tied up and the doors of jahannam are closed and not a single door is open and the doors of jannah are open and not a single one is closed and a caller cries out يا باغي الخير أقبل or doer of good come forward ويا باغي الشر أقصر and or doer of evil desist and Allah has people that He frees from the fire every single night in the month of Ramadan every night including the very last night or the very last day so let nobody say that I haven't done enough or that there hasn't what about the days there's not enough remaining there remain nights of Ramadan and you have the chance now to be from one of those those people who have been freed from the fire does that not give you hope even if you didn't do anything this month of Ramadan it still remains that there's still time left for you to be from those those people that are freed from the fire so there are great reasons for hope but there are also great reasons for fear إنما يتقبلوا الله من المتقين Allah only accepts from the righteous there are reasons to have great hope and there are also reasons to have great fear so ultimately Ramadan like every time of the Muslim is a time between hope and fear and the love of Allah and that hope and fear remain like those two wings of the bird when you feel that despair or you feel that you haven't got anything accepted from you or you feel that there is nothing left for you to do because of how you know how down you feel and despairing you feel then at that time you need to increase the hope rather you need to increase the hope before it gets to that point and when you feel that things are too easy and everything is going to be accepted from you doesn't matter about the sins you do or you see those sins to be insignificant so you need to increase more fear rather before you reach that stage you need to increase in fear so the two balance each other out and like some of the scholars said in the times when you're healthy and you find ease those are the times you should have more fear and in the times when you're sick and maybe you're struggling those are the times you should have more hope and a person balances between the two like that and that's part of what we can take from this month of Ramadan that's what Allah made easy for me to mention and Allah knows best والصلاة والسلام على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين السلام عليكم if you're enjoying these videos and you'd like to keep up to date with all of the courses we're going to be running make sure you head over to amauathome.com