 Say, O my servant, who have transgressed against themselves, do not despair from the mercy of Allah. For indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Say that again. For indeed, Allah forgives all sins. And as we know, this month has been called the month of Rahmah. This month, the month of Rahmah. And he is the forgiving, the most merciful. But sometimes, we are harsher on ourselves than Allah wants us to be. We punish ourselves by telling us that we don't deserve the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that we are not worthy. We punish ourselves by telling us that we don't deserve Allah's forgiveness. But that only works to make us give up, both on ourselves and Allah and the mercy and the forgiveness of Allah. But you know what? Allah's mercy is not deserved. Rather, it is given to all. And especially to those who are struggling and those who are trying, in spite of everything, as Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, ورحمة واسعة كل شيء. And that my mercy is vast, encompassing, given to all things. And then that mercy has a special place in the month of Ramadan as the first part of the month. And that the first part of the month is mercy. The middle part forgiveness and the end liberation from the Hellfire. اللهم اجيرا من النار. Whoever observes fasting during the month of Ramadan out of sincere faith and hoping to attain Allah's reward, then all of his past sins are forgiven. What kind of gift is that? What kind of gift? What more could we want? What more could we want? What more could we be in need of knowing that the one who fasted this month with full Iman and Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala that Allah, you will carry all of my faults. Ya Allah, you will take all of my wrongs. Ya Allah, you will accept from me my supplications from you to ask and even though you know. Alhamdulillah. So for us, my message is that we let things go. We let go of that anger that we feel towards ourselves. We let go of the feelings of unworthiness, the trick of the nuffs of the lower self, the trick of shaytan to pull us away from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala when he is closest to us. I read a hadith where Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says that I am with those whose hearts are broken for my sake. I am with those whose hearts are broken for my sake. What causes a broken heart with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala? Because we've done good actions, we've done good deeds, now I have a broken heart? No. When I disobey Allah, when I'm in the disobedience of Allah, then my heart is broken, I feel sad for what I have done and your Lord, my Lord, the Lord of all creation says to us, I am with those whose hearts are broken for my sake. But guess who comes to divide us at that time? Guess who comes to tell us that we're unworthy at that time? Guess who comes to tell us that Allah will not forgive us at that time? The one who is locked up right now, but will be coming soon to remind you of all of those things. But what will we say? Khadab, you're a liar and my Lord has promised me this and I will live and I will walk with the assurance of the promise of my Lord. So as we said, the more that we antagonize ourselves, the less that we will do, the more that we hate ourselves, the more that we will give in to our base desires that pull us away from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. But Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has created us and that in and of itself makes us worthy as he Subhanahu wa ta'ala has said, And that we have ennobled and honored the children of Adam. So Alhamdulillah, some advice. As we say here that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, what does he say about people such as that? He says, a person committed a sin, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has said in a hadith, a person committed a sin and said, my Lord, I have sinned, forgive me. And his Lord says, is my slave acknowledging that he has a Lord who forgives his sins and punishes for them? I have forgiven for my sake. I have forgiven my servant. And then the hadith continues and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has mentioned that Allah Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam says this three times. And the Quran is telling us, O Allah, you read on YouTube, that Allah wants to accept our repentance, wants to forgive us, to be there with us. And my opinion and my thought is that Allah Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam talks to us about mercy in this way and the forgiveness in this way because he's telling us that our renewal is in our hands. Our renewal is in our hands. He has already told us that he will forgive us, right? He has already told us that he will forgive us if we turn towards him. But we need to take that first step towards him Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam and trying to stop these bad habits and persist in doing good deeds. I was with one of my teachers in Damascus one time and he said, Dawood, do you want me to tell you what is a miracle from Allah? I said, of course. He said a miracle from Allah is to leave the disobedience of Allah, replace it with an act of obedience to Allah and stay on that until you die. That is a miracle from Allah Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam. He said, I give you the example of leaving lying, replacing it with truthfulness and remaining on that till you die and you will find that with your Lord. That was a miracle. So, Alhamdulillah, that renewal is available to us at every moment of every day and should be at the center of our consciousness during the month of Ramadan. As we said, Allah Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam told us that these first 10 days in and of themselves are Rahmah because in a hadith Qudsi, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala promises us and he says that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says that he will continue to stretch out his hand in the night so that the sinners of the day may repent and continue to stretch his hand in the daytime so that the sinners in the night may repent until the sun rises from the west and we know that this means yom ul qiyamah. The past does not matter as long as we are making a choice in the present to return back to him, capital H, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. No matter how many times we fall returning to Allah over and over, it is counted in our favor and one might say, but I am tired of myself and to this Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala responds to us, O son of Adam, as long as you call on me, I shall forgive you of what you have done and think nothing of it. La'ubali. I will think nothing of it. O son of Adam, even if your sins were to reach up to the clouds in the sky and then you were to ask for my forgiveness, I would forgive you. Wa la'ubali and I will think nothing of it. O son of Adam, even if you were to come to me with sins nearly as great as the earth and then you were to meet me after death, not worshiping anything besides me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great as the earth. Wa la'ubali in is of no concern to me. This is a hadith in Tirmidhi. So Ramadan is for us. Tomorrow is a new day. This life is a struggle and no one gets the top of the mountain without sacrifice and doubt telling themselves that perhaps they should turn back and without thinking and with thinking that they will make it. But when we get to that top, it is always worth it because that top that we're talking about is Janatul Firdos. That's what we're talking about. May Allah SWT gather us there in a gathering of what no eye has ever seen, no ear has ever heard and has not even come on the consciousness of any of Allah's creation. This is a hadith from Muslim. May Allah SWT bless us and the remaining days and nights of Ramadan. We bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone and has no partner. We bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger. May Allah send him a message and a warning in between the days of the hour. Inna khair al hadith, kitabullah wa khair al hadih, hadiyu Muhammadin sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa al khairu umuru wa azimu haa wa shar'u umuru muhtathatu haa wa kullu muhtathatin bid'ah wa kullu bid'atin dolalah wa kullu dolalahin finnaar amma baad fa'udhu billahi mina shaitanir rajimi bismillahi rahmanir raheem qaal Allah ta'ala fil quran al kareem ya ayyuhal ladheena aamun adkhuluf il silmi kafa wa la tattabu'u khutwaatil shaitan innahu lakum adu'um mubeen astaghfirullah walikum walisairul mu'minineen wal mu'minat wa astaghfiruh innahu hu wa gafooru raheem alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen wa as-salatu wa as-salamu ala rasulil aameen amma ba'al fa ya ma'shur al muslimin a'udhu billahi mina shaitanir rajimi bismillahi ar-rahmanir raheem innahu lakum alaikatuhu yusalluna ala nabi ya ayyuhal ladheena aamun usallu alayhi wa sallimu taslima Allahumma salli ala sayidina wa maulana muhammadin adriman salli wa saama Allahumma salli ala sayidina wa maulana muhammadin adriman qaada wa qama Allahumma salli ala jini'u al anbiya'i wa mursaleen wa as-sahabati wa tabi'een wa ala ibadika salliheen Allahumma ayyidil islami wal muslimin Allahumma wansur man nasura dinah muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa ja'lna minhum wa khzulman khadala dinah muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa la ta ja'lna minhum Allahumma arina haqqa wa arzuqina tiba'ah wa arina batila batilan wa arzuqina ijtinaabah a a ijtinaabah Allahumma thabbit Allahumma thabbitna ala l-islami wa l-imani Allahumma nawir qulubna bil nur il-iman Allahumma awafil il-mu'minina wa l-mu'minat wa l-muslimina wa l-muslimat al-ah'ay minhum wa l-amwat ibadullah raheemakum Allah al-fahshaa'i wal-munki wal-baghih Ya'idakum la'alakum tathakkarun Uthkuru Allah Yadkurakum Wada'uhu Yastajiblakum Wadadhikrullahi Ta'ala A'la wa awla wa azzu wa ajallu wa atammu wa ahammu wa akba wa aqeem al-salat Yorhamini Yorhamakum Allah