 a sinner cannot pretend that he is unable to repent from sins because he who is able to commit the sins is undoubtedly able to repent from those sins as well. Yes, if we humans are able to eat, drink, walk, talk, get married, work, play sports, associate with others, we'll be able to curb our appetites and activities in order to avoid a disease as recommended by the doctor. Then we should be able to avoid sins and falling into the abyss of corruption and disobedience. Tonight's episode is an attempt to discuss the significance of repentance, exploring into the essence of true sincere repentance and how it can be achieved in light of the Holy Qur'an. Respected viewers, brothers and sisters in Islam, As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Welcome to the eleventh episode of Life from Karbala Ramadan series with me, host Ahmad Ali. Tonight's episode is very sensitive. This is why my esteemed guest has joined me once again in tonight's episode. Sayyid Hussain, I'm Qazmini. As-salamu alaykum Sayyidina. Sayyidina, repentance as I mentioned is a very sensitive topic because some you know get offended when you talk about this topic because if they say that if we sin we can't repent because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is is harsh in this manner because he says if someone sins or offenses Allah we talked about oppressing Allah and oppressing oneself. It's very hard some people view it hard for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive them for a specific act. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala states in chapter 20 verse 82 and most surely I am most forgiving to him who repents and believes and does good then continues to follow in the right direction. What is the meaning of Tawbah and what is its significance? I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Satan. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Merciful. The word Tawbah, Mantabah, Tawabah, Tawabah and its forms has been mentioned many times in the Qur'an. Many times. I wasn't able to count how many exact times that repentance and its forms have been mentioned in the Qur'an. But I do know that the Qur'an has mentioned it enough to show how important it is. How important Tawbah is. We always see the emphasis. There's a major emphasis on Tawbah. What is Tawbah? Tawbah as we know it is repentance. To repent to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. To seek forgiveness from him after committing a sin. Simply this is what Tawbah is. To seek forgiveness after committing a sin. Why is it important? Because none of us are sinless. None of us are infallible. Except the prophets and the imams and those who have reached very high stages. Otherwise for the majority of us we're sinful and we commit sins. Those sins vary from size. Some are arhaenious sins. Some are small sins. There are some people that are addicted to some sort of sins but would not perform other types while you have the opposite. But a sin is a sin at the end of the day. Whether it's drinking or gambling or adultery or gossiping and backbiting. These are all sins. Allah knows that. Allah knows that humans are not sinless. They are not infallible. They are prone to committing sins. Allah has given us desires. He has put in inside of us a nafs al-ammar al-bassu. We have a nafs that continuously orders us to sin. A nafs that tells us to do whatever you want. Even if it means you have to break some of Allah's laws and orders. So at the same time Allah has opened the door. Allah says that you left the door of obedience but I have kept another door for you. You disobeyed me and I know that at some point you will disobey me. But it doesn't mean it's the end of the world. If you commit a sin against Allah it doesn't mean that's it. It's over. There's no going back. But why embed this in the nature of man if Allah is opening various doors? I mean couldn't He just create humans sinless? I want to have to open various doors of obedience or doors of repentance. This is the test. The test is here that I've given you al-nafs al-ammar al-bassu. But at the same time I've given you free will and I've given you a strong will and I've given you the ability to be determined and not commit sins. But for those of you that were weak, for those of you that could not control themselves, for those of you that have weak spots and weak points and you did commit sins it's not the end of the world. Don't go and commit suicide. Yes. Don't go and abandon Islam altogether and become irreligious. No. There's a door called the door of tawba. As Imam Zayn al-Aabdin al-Salam says in his munajat, I believe munajat ta'ibin. Allah has opened the door, special door for those that they realize that they've committed a sin. They've committed sins. They've committed mistakes. But they want to come back to Allah. Yes. That's the beauty about Allah. That He's always accepting. That no matter what you do there's always room to come back. Humans are not like that. Some humans you hurt them once. That's it. They don't give you second chances. There's no second chances. But with Allah there's a second chance. There's a third, fourth, fifth, tenth, hundredth. Allah keeps on giving us chances. And that chance is called tawba. Allah says as long as you come clean, tawba will talk about the conditions of tawba. As long as you come clean, you don't take Allah as a fool that you try to trick Him by thinking that you've repented. Allah will not be tricked. You come clean and you actually repent and you say sorry and you seek forgiveness. Allah will forgive. In the first episode we talked about Ramadan is the type of month where Allah gives, I mean the whole year people commit sins and various acts. But you mentioned the first night that Allah placed Ramadan as the sacred month where to return back to Allah and refrain oneself and reform oneself. But some people believe that after they have committed the sin whether minor or major, Allah will never forgive them. And they keep on committing sins, thinking, keeping that idea in mind. We believe that Allah is surely all accepting of repentance no matter what the sin is. But we see I mean some sins, how can Allah forgive them? I mean rape, murder, backbiting, those sins are major. I mean one-time prophet, someone, I don't know the authenticity of this narration but a lot of people, I heard it from many scholars, they said that someone came to the prophet, he asked them would a believer commit adultery? He said maybe. And he asked another question, he said would a believer lie? He said no. So there's a chance of committing adultery but not lying. So we see various types of sins. How can Allah forgive the major sins like murder or rape? We believe from what we understand from the Qur'an, from what Allah is all forgiving. He forgives all sins. As long as we come clean, as long as we seek forgiveness, if you don't seek forgiveness, even if you've committed the smallest sin, Allah won't forgive because you haven't come clean. You haven't sought forgiveness. And if you've committed the biggest sin but you come clean and you come and seek forgiveness from Allah, Allah won't forgive. There is one sin Allah will not forgive and that is to take partners with Allah knowingly, to be polytheistic, to say that God is not the only one. He has partners. Knowing that Allah's Pantheism is one. Even though knowing that He is one but you take partners with Him, shirk, otherwise shirk out of ignorance. That's another story. That's another story. But out of voluntary polytheism, that will not be forgiven. Otherwise, if it's not shirk, then He will forgive all sins. As long as a person repents sincere, even murder, even rape. All of these sins, if someone comes clean, a gang member who spent his life stealing, killing, but now wants to come clean, wants to come back to Allah, this person can repent as well. However, there are some conditions. There are some conditions. We'll talk about that later. So just come and say, I'm sorry, Allah? No. There are rules and conditions. Allah says, do they not know that Allah, He Himself, this is emphasis? That Allah Himself, this is emphasis in the verse. Otherwise, the verse could have said, do they not know that Allah, He accepts repentance from His servants? Do they not know that? Let people know that Allah is all forgiving. He is the one that accepts repentance from His servants and He forgives the small sins, or the minor sins. Allah is a person who consistently, constantly accepts forgiveness. Accepts repentance. Not once, not twice. Tawab means repeatedly. Every time you go back to Him, again you'll accept your apology and you'll accept your repentance. Again and again. Al-Raheem. So my message to the youth, no matter what you've done, keep it to yourself first of all. Don't share your sins with others. You don't have to tell anyone. There's no confession in Islam. There's no confession to a priest, or to a Sayyid, or to a Alem, or to parents, or to friends. There's only confession to Allah as a wajar. Yes. Come and confess to Allah. Come clean. This is the month of Ramadan. Make use of this spiritual month. The doors of heaven are open. There's a hadith that says in the month of Ramadan, Allah forgives. There's a certain number. I don't know what the number is. The hadith says so and so number every night in Ramadan. Allah forgives. If it's Lailat Al-Qadr, that number is multiplied. If it's Lailat Al-A'id, that number is multiplied by, I don't know how many numbers. If Rasulullah says that you have to be very evil, very wicked for Allah not to forgive you during the month of Ramadan. Otherwise, Allah forgives everyone. Take this opportunity. Yes. Allah is all forgiving no matter what you've done. What you've done in your past relationships. You've stolen. You've done drugs. You've listened to me. Whatever it is, there's nothing that should stop you from seeking forgiveness. For this, Allah, if a person really comes clean, Allah will erase that background. There's a hadith that says Allah enjoys listening to the crying and to the whispers and to the chanting of a person who's repenting to Allah. Allah enjoys that. Allah enjoys seeing a young man come and repent to him and seek forgiveness. So the door is always there. No one should ever think that the door of Toba is closed. He's done something evil and there's no point of return. No, there's no such thing as as there's a point of no return. No, there's always a return to Allah. You talked about confessing a confession story and there's no need for confession within Islam. But Imam Ali Mitalib and Adil Bey, especially Prophet Muhammad Ali, they have a narration. It's a long narration. But basically they just say that if you hurt someone, you have to go and seek forgiveness from that person. That's another story. That's another story. Yes. But the thing is, Allah says, whoever kills one person or spreads evil upon the earth, it's as if he has killed the whole of humanity. So isn't that? That's right. That's for a person. That's the ugliness of the act. His act is that ugly. If you kill one person, it's as if you've killed everyone. But it doesn't say that if you come and seek forgiveness sincerely, Allah will not forgive. Yes, Allah will not forgive. There were people in Islam, prior to their conversion to Islam, they killed Khalid ibn al-Walid. Khalid ibn al-Walid killed many Muslims, lots of Muslims in the battle of Uhud, that he came and he became a Muslim. And Allah forgave him. Did Khalid ibn al-Walid actually seek forgiveness or not? I don't know about that. But did Rasulullah accept his apology? Yes. Did he accept Islam? He accepted Islam. Because apparently he had repented. He said inwardly, what was in his heart? That's another story. But apparently he had repented. Allah accepted his repentance and he allowed him to come into Islam. Yes. It's an ugly act. But no matter how ugly the act is, if you come and repent, if you're sincere, Allah forgives. One time, someone, Imam Ali ibn al-Talib overheard someone saying, astaghfirullah. And Imam Ali ibn al-Talib says, may your mother mourn over you. Do you know what astaghfar is? Is a very astaghfarist degree of the people of high, high people, high, high-ranking people. And he says, the word astaghfar has three things, sorry, six things. Remorse over the past, resolution, not to return to, not to return to the act ever. Seeking the forgiveness of others who've wronged. Fulfilling every duty that you have neglected. Removing the flesh that was unlawfully nursed. Make your body taste the pain of obedience the same way you made it taste the act of committing sins. Number five, it says removing the flesh that was unlawfully nursed. Now this raises the question is that, what does this mean and who does Allah forgive? And are there conditions for Allah's forgiveness? We see in a couple of conditions right here. But isn't this too harsh? This is actually what we're, you know, what we're, what we're planning on talking about. This is this is a part of it is sincere, a sincere repentance. Sincere repentance meaning that you don't say it out of fear or, you know, when you secretly plan on going back to that sin, you listen to music, but every time you get out of the car, you say Astaghfirullah. But knowing that in a couple of minutes, you're going to get into the car again and listen to music. This is not it's sincere. It's sincere. It's remorseful, showing remorse. You really, you know, regret doing what you did. Imam Zayn al-Abdina, peace be upon him, says in his monadjah that if regret is considered repentance, then I am, I am among those that regret. I'm remorseful. I regret what I've done. Taubat al-Nuswaha is determination to not go back. You decide, this is it. This is just like a person that quits smoking cigarettes. This is it. That's it. I'm done. Okay. You're done with cigarettes. Now come to sins. Say I'm done with gheba. Yes. Say I'm done with listening to music. Say I'm done with this, with that, with that. This is Taubat al-Nuswaha. Imam Ali peace be upon him, he explains what Taubat al-Nuswaha is. Number one, to be remorseful for what you've done. Second, are these conditions or is he explaining what sincere repentance is? No, no. These are not conditions. It's not conditions. No. We'll get to the conditions. Oh, inshallah. Yes. We'll get to. This is what Taubat al-Nuswaha is. Taubat al-Nuswaha as explained by Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he was asked, what is Taubat al-Nuswaha? He said, an yatubat ta'ibu, thumma la yarja'u fi dhambin, kama la yaudu l-labanu ilal dharq. When a person repents from a sin and decides never to go back, the same way that milk does not go back into the breast, can the milk go back into the breast? Definitely. This person will never go back to the sin. This is Taubat al-Nuswaha. Wow. Imam Ali goes further, goes further. Three, and to addi ilal mahlukina haqquqahu. Yes. Part of repentance is that if you've hurt someone, you've stolen, you've stolen money, you've raped, you've killed, you go to that person and you seek forgiveness. Especially backbiting. Backbiting. Anything that you've heard others, Allah will say, I'll forgive you. They have to forgive you first. I forgive as long as they forgive. If they forgive you, I don't have a problem. Haqququnnas. What if you're sincere to your forgiveness to those people? Yet, they don't accept your apology. Would Allah SWT not accept your apology? When they don't accept your apology, is it logical or is it not logical? Are they being stubborn or have you heard them a lot that your apology is not enough? Sometimes apology is not enough. You take gifts, you take money, you take people with you, show your remorse. What if you've done all of that? If you've done all of that and they're being stubborn, that's another story. Allah will forgive you. Then they are encouraged, they are encouraged to forgive as well. In Islam, we are encouraged to forgive those who do bad to us. Don't you want Allah to forgive you? So why don't you be forgiving to others? Number four, any religious obligation that you haven't done, you have to do. So taking forgiveness is not enough while you didn't fast for the past 10 years and now you want to seek forgiveness. But go back and do the missed fasting, the missed prayers and the hajj and the khums that you haven't done. Five, this flesh that was built upon Haram food and Haram means of living. Your means of living, where did it come from? What's your business? How are you making your wealth? Is it from Haram and the food that you ate was from Haram and the flesh that you built is all built upon Haram means of sustenance? Make it disappear. This flesh of yours, the weight that you gained from Haram food and Haram sustenance and Haram means of living, you take riba, you take interest, you own a liquor store, you own a restaurant that sells alcohol and liquor. This is all unlawful business. You work for the government and you take money, you take unlawful money, you take bribes. This is all unlawful means and you lived on these means. Go and lose that weight. This is Astaghfar. This is Astaghfar. I can understand that. But the thing is that some people might not have, you know, all of the food that they've eaten as Haram. True. But they've eaten some. Imam Ali is not saying this is Wajib. He's not saying this is Wajib, but this is Tawbaat al-Nasuhah. Tawbaat al-Nasuhah. One more. One more. The same way you let your body enjoy listening to music and eating Haram food and going dancing and mixing and going to clubs and eating whatever you want and watching whatever you want and saying what do you want. Now let it taste the pain of worship, of fasting, of prayer in the middle of the night, of being tired, of going for Ziyarah, of going to Hajj. Let your body, the same body that enjoyed Haram, now let it feel the pain of what is Haram and what is Wajib. He says after all of these six steps and then say Astaghfar Allah. Don't jump and say Astaghfar Allah. This is Tawbaat al-Nasuhah. Okay. If we can, inshallah, I would like to elaborate more on this. But after this short break, so respected viewers, do stay tuned with us after the break. You are now going to be presented with live footage from inside the Holy Shrine of Imam Hussain, alaihi salam. So, to that break, stay tuned. Allahumma salli ala Muhammad Allahumma salli ala Muhammad Allahumma salli ala Muhammad Allahumma salli ala Muhammad Allahumma salli ala Muhammad Allahumma salli ala Muhammad Allahumma salli ala Muhammad I pray upon Muhammad and his family, Muhammad, Allah, Muhammad, Allah Before the break we talked about the aspect of repentance to Allah SWT And we got into the narration of Imam Ali Muqtadeb regarding sincere repentance to Allah Sayyidina Before the break you were mentioning the narration by Imam Ali Muqtadeb And you stated some, you know, very extreme types of repentance or ways that a person should repent to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, such as removing the flesh, you know, is going to the gym enough or does it have to be spiritual as well? No, this is a way of saying, let him fast, because fasting is one way of repenting to Allah, not eating, not drinking, abstaining from eating and drinking, especially from that which is haram, especially of a person who would eat haram food or not necessarily eat pork, but his means of living was haram. He was working for the government, he had a specific position and he was taking bribes. So his means of living was all haram. That means, you know, all the groceries that he was buying, that was all haram. His whole means of living was built on haram sustenance. He's encouraged to fast, abstain from eating and drinking. This is one way of seeking forgiveness. There's various levels. Imam Ali A.S. said that the extreme level, so if you want to get high level, let's not call it extreme, but high level, high level of seeking forgiveness. Because, you know, there's one sin and there's another sin. There's one sin that doesn't require all of this. But if a person wants to transform his life, Imam Ali A.S. is speaking about those that want a complete transformation. A person who was a gang member who would eat haram, his means of living, he would steal, he would backbite, he would listen to music, he would do this, haram relationships, do this, do that. Now this person wants to transform himself. These steps are for a person that wants to transform himself. So now that we have, you know, came to the conclusion that Allah SWT is all merciful or forgiving, we said that Allah SWT, whenever sin that you have committed in your life, Allah SWT will definitely, definitely forgive it. However, in chapter 66 verse 8, Allah SWT says, O you who believe, turn in repentance to Allah with sincere repentance. You just mentioned that. But the second part, it says, perhaps your Lord will remove your evil from you and forgive you. The word perhaps, so it's not 100%. No, perhaps. Does that depend on the sincereness? It depends on the seriousness. It depends on the conditions of the toba. Has this person fulfilled the conditions of toba or not? It depends on that person. But if the person has fulfilled the conditions of toba and comes out sincere and clean, and the other person forgives him as well, his victims have forgiven him, Allah SWT. And Allah SWT was a merciful toba. Didn't they know that Allah would accept repentance from His servants? Allah is all forgiving. Speaking of conditions in terms, what are the conditions of someone seeking repentance in the name of Allah SWT? Allah SWT says in the Qur'an that those who sin out of ignorance, forgetfulness, clumsiness, and then they repent, Allah will forgive them. But if a person knows what he's doing, out of knowledge, no one's forcing him, he hasn't forgotten, he isn't in extreme conditions, and he commits a sin, Allah will not forgive him. Never? See? Those who commit a sin out of ignorance, out of forgetfulness, out of clumsiness, there's a difference between a person that knows something is haram and someone who, at the spur of the moment, out of forgetfulness, he's being clumsy, you know, a minute of forgetfulness. He forgot Allah, and so, there's these word of percussion. The verse says Don't be like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves. You forget, all of a sudden you commit a sin. But we do have verses within the Holy Qur'an, I mean, we talked about intercession, and aspects of intercession. That's another story. That's another story, but Allah SWT says, even if you have committed the biggest sins, you know, but it doesn't say knowingly or unknowingly. Here it does. What about the other verses? The ignorant doesn't mean knowingly or unknowingly. Jahala means those who commit a sin clumsily. So they know, but they forgot? They forgot. They got taken in the spur of the moment, by desire. The desire overcame. But there's a different who sees everything, who knows everything. He didn't forget, he hasn't forgotten, but at the same time he's sinning. There's a big difference. Both are, I mean, they're the same. You see someone is sitting in a session, and they're backbiting. This person says something, that person says something. He gets carried away. Haven't you seen people get carried away? But he knows it's bad. He knows, but he forgot. It's a moment of forgetfulness. It's like someone drinking, he knows that drinking is bad. But he got carried away. This is what Jahala means. Jahala doesn't mean knowingly. He means clumsily. Out of forgetfulness. Out of ignorance. Being carried away. Okay? Bejahalatin. That's another condition. Two, is that they repent, right away. They don't wait 70 years. They don't wait till a moment of death. Thamayatubuna min qareeb. You do something bad, come home and seek forgiveness. If he says something wrong, you listen to music, seek forgiveness right away. There's a hadith that says when a person commits a sin, for the first seven hours, Allah will tell angels don't record it. Why? Because perhaps... For the first time? Anytime. When a person commits a sin, Allah tells angels do not record it for the first seven hours. Why? Because perhaps they'll seek forgiveness. After seven hours, Allah will say, Record it. Now record it. Really? Yes. Thamayatubuna min qareeb. Fa ulaka yutubu Allahu alayhim. Wakana Allahu alayhim min hakeem. These people, those who commit a sin out of ignorance, forgetfulness, clumsiness, and they repent quickly, Allah forgives. And then the verse tells us who will not be forgiven. A person who lives his life in vain, in committing sins, in committing adultery, in drinking, and he hurts this person, that person kills. His whole life, he lives a sinful life, and then at the moment that he sees the angel of death, like Pharaoh. When did he seek forgiveness? The moment that he saw that the water is about to collapse on him, he said, I believe in the God that Ben Israel accepted. Allah told him, no, it's too late. It's too late. Now that you're about to die, and they're disbelievers, meaning they never sought forgiveness. It's proven that Allah will not forgive them. They never came and repented to Allah. So this tells us that don't wait till the last minute. Yes. The message of this verse is don't wait till the last minute. You say, I have time. What's the point of seeking forgiveness now? You know, there's people that say young people should not go to Hajj. Let them wait until they matured enough. No, until they're old. Because in Hajj, Allah washes away your sins and you repent. So why repent when you're young? Repent when you're old, when you're about to die. This is not genuine repentance. This is not true repentance. Not when you're about to die. You live a whole life of sinfulness. And when you're about to die, you seek forgiveness. Allah wants to see young people to seek forgiveness. Those who are sincere, when you wait till the end of your days, that's not sincere repentance. Some people state that, you know, we see very pious people, especially Mura'j or, you know, just regular people in society who are pious, who are righteous, who have good manners with others. But yet, at the end of their life, say for like the last year or two, they get hit with a disease. And they spend the rest of their life in this disease. Personally, I heard this, that Allah swt placed them in this situation so he can wash away their sins. Is this true? No, no, no. Illnesses and sickness doesn't necessarily mean to wash away people's sins. It has various answers. This will require a whole program of its own. Illness could be a test from Allah. It could be, you know, part of human nature. Part of human nature is to become ill. Allah swt has created people and humans weak. He gives us this physical body, and this physical body becomes ill. So it doesn't necessarily mean, yes, sometimes an illness could wash away sins. But it doesn't mean that that's always the case. A lot of righteous people became ill. What sins do they have to be washed away? Well, yes. You have something else? Yes. There's one thing that I'd like to mention. The conditions for Toba. For the Toba to be accepted. Allah swt and some verses has mentioned a condition for the repentance to be accepted. If this condition is not met, Allah will not accept the repentance. That condition is to fix oneself. You don't just say, astaghfirullah rabiyah. That's it. Fix yourself. It doesn't stay the way it is. What a beautiful verse. Very beautiful. Allah made it binding upon himself to be merciful. So beautiful. So beautiful. That he's made it mandatory upon himself to be all merciful. To be all forgiving. Again, those who commit a sin out of ignorance, out of forgetfulness, out of clumsiness. Then he repents and he reforms and he fixes himself and he improves himself. He works on himself. He doesn't remain being the way he does. He says my life has to be changed. I can't continue doing what I'm doing. My routine, my pattern in life has to be changed. Allah says that's fine. It's like an abusive husband. He beats his wife and then comes and says to his wife, I'm sorry. He grabs her hand and he kisses her. She says fine, fine. But are you going to change? Are you going to keep on being abusive? You're still going to be abusive. Whether physically abusive or verbally abusive? If you change, yes. But if you don't change, I will not accept your apology. Allah says the same. Then he repents and he fixes himself. Then he repents and he fixes himself. He seeks forgiveness and repents. Yet, he reforms himself and fixes himself. Allah will accept his repentance. That's actually very nice to hear. Because some people might think that just saying Astaghfirullah is enough. Yet, their actions stay the same. But Allah says otherwise you have to be sincere in your forgiveness. But now I would like to talk about the reward or the results of forgiveness and tawba. Some people say we have an agreement with Imam Ali in Nihj Al-Balaghah, I believe. Where he says that prepare yourself for a day that there will not be any repentance. So the meaning, it means repent in this life before you go into the next life. It will be too late. It will be too late. He mentions some of the results of tawba and the reward of tawba. If you can mention it, it will be great. The Qur'an tells us beautiful results of tawba. How many, sorry? Several results. Several? Yes, I said beautiful results. Beautiful results. For example, Prophet Hud tells his tribe Thamud, I believe. Either Ad or Thamud. He says, He tells his tribe, my people seek forgiveness and repent to Allah. Allah will bring down rain. Meaning he will change your atmosphere. There's a lot of people sins sometimes have individual repercussions. Sometimes they have social repercussions. A person commits a sin or keeps on sinning. Allah punishes him directly. He takes away a family member. You don't get a job. You get in a car accident. Illness. Sometimes when a group of people or a community or a tribe sin, there is a communal punishment. There's a drought. Drought. No rain. Allah says seek forgiveness and repent. There'll be rain. If there's rain, that's why rain is mercy. If there's rain, there's vegetables, there's fruits. It's nourishment for trees, for animals. It's sustenance. It's a way of life. Your animals will benefit. You will benefit. You will send the sky upon you and increase your strength. And he will add power to your power. He will make you powerful. Seeking repentance will make people powerful. How? By making a tie with the all-powerful. When you connect to the all-powerful, can you become weak? Because your source of power is coming from the all-powerful. Nuh, peace be upon him, he tells us people. This is again, this is another verse. There's a connection between seeking forgiveness and repenting and rain. That means that when our sins increase, there's droughts. People that seek forgiveness, they'll have rain. And rain, you know, rain by itself is not something, you know, it's not a big deal. Sometimes rain can create floods. No, rain is a symbol of Allah's mercy and a symbol of rizq. It's a symbol of sustenance. Meaning repent, Allah will send you your rizq, your sustenance. You're out of job, Allah will improve. Allah will improve your economy. I would say today that maybe in some countries they don't need rain, but they need their economy to be improved. Allah will improve their economy. He will give you wealth and he will give you children. This is one of the benefits and rewards of seeking forgiveness. Wealth, you're not doing so well, seek forgiveness. Economically, financially, you're not doing well, seek forgiveness. You don't have children. Some people, Allah will punish them by not giving children. Seek forgiveness. Or maybe it's not a punishment, it's a test. Yes, sometimes a test. You want Allah to give you children? Repent to Allah. Say, Astaghfirullah. Say, Astaghfirullah. Seek forgiveness from Allah. He will give you wealth and he will give you paradise. And gardens. And he will grant you rivers and paradise. These are some of the rewards and results of repentance. That's actually very beautiful because I would like this. I think we have one or two minutes left. But this relates to the story during the life of Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, where the whole nation repented to Allah. But yet there was one person who didn't repent. Allah SWT. For just that one person didn't release the sustenance over them. Nammam. Troublemaker. Troublemaker. But then he saw forgiveness. And then he saw forgiveness, yes. Because he was the one that, you know what I mean? But isn't that all merciful? Why did he punish the whole nation just because of one person? Because some crimes are very heinous. Some crimes, some sins, it's done by an individual. But everyone is remaining silent about it. So they are equally guilty. When you see a crime taking place, speak. Speak out. Stop him. It's like seeing you're on a ship and someone takes an axe or a hammer and wants to break the ship. Is everyone going to remain silent? No. No. Because everyone is going to go, if people remain silent, the whole ship is going to go down. And how many people are going to drown? The whole ship? Just the person that... No. They're all going to drown. It's the same thing with sins. Some sins are like that axe. Like the hammer that take down the ship that makes the entire ship drunk. People have to speak. That's why we have the role of You see evil? Say something. Do not remain silent. Speak out. Otherwise you will be equally guilty. That's a beautiful example you've provided with the ship. I would like to thank you for joining us tonight. May Allah SWT accept your forgiveness. If you have any sins. I have many sins. May Allah SWT bless you and bestow his sustenance over you. Respect the viewers. Thank you very much for tuning in tonight. May Allah SWT accept our repentance and may Allah SWT forgive everyone, especially as I mentioned every episode. It's an opportunity to take the advantage of sending your salutations to our Master, our Huzain, alaihi salam, during the live coverage. So stay tuned for the upcoming episodes. Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.