 الله الرحمن الرحيم رب شرح لي صدري ويسر لي أمر وحل العقدة من لساني يفقه قولي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالم وصل الله على سيدنا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفين عنفو سناء أبل قاس محمد وعلى البيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين لاسي ما بقية الله روحي وأرواح العالمين لتراب مقدمه الفداء وما بعد رسبكتت سكولرز، ألدز، براثز وستز، السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته شاء الله لتنا hazards from the topic of the previous nights of sal'ts of theinars of Ali Ibn Abi Attala We want to look into the perspective of repentance the perspective of changing ourselves as war becomes closer and closer We want to realize why is that we do celebrate why is that at the end of the month of mercy ثم عامة الهاتف ولمعاة العديد من which we gain closeness to Allah through our worship through our Salat, through our Siam, through our Zakat , through our long nights of worship why is it that at the end of this month we celebrate why is there aid إن شاء الله once we realize why aid takes place we want to remember and how is it that we can look into this particular month أ وتعالى منا這個 آسرaca that we developed during this month all the way everything to The next month or the next holy month of Ramadan inshaallah By looking at first and foremost The concept which we touched on yesterday, which was تواكل And tawa'kel Then looking at how is it that we can prepare هل أك allocation be重要How is it that we can manage or what ما are the small things we can look at or apply to ourselves and which will help our worship, help us in developing our character, help us in being a better Muslim. And then we would like to look at the deeds, our good deeds versus Allah's mercy because someone may come forth and say that in the day of judgment it may come down to my لقد أردت هذا العامل ، وقد قمت بعمل الصلاة ، وزكات ، وصيام و الله سبحانه وتعالى سيء ذاتي ولكن هناك آخر بشكل أسيء من أنه ليس فقط فقط your عامل ليست سيئة أي عامل بحيث أنك تقلت ولكنه يمكن أن يكون ذلك بمتعامل الله يجب أن تنتهي إلى الهواته فذلك هو الأسفل المهم الذي أريد لك أسوأ من الغرائيه لكي نتكلم عنه ومن ثم سوف ننظر لك في نهاية الأسلحة لأسلحة هل أنت بسبب جيداتنا أن ندخل في الارض أو بسبب الله الآن سوف نتكلم في نهاية الأسلحة لأسلحة لذا أساعدني في أسلحة أسلحة في نهاية الأسلحة برسائل الله وصلاواته على محمد وآل محمد تواكول versus تواكول as I was asked to repeat the analogy from yesterday to gain a more in depth perspective want a more in depth idea and concept of the idea of تواكول versus تواكول because some people might not have heard it because of the downpour of rain and the blessings of Allah سبحانه و تعالى yesterday night now تواكول versus تواكول is very easy but it happens on a daily perspective and we're not able to actually realize it's happening to us now the idea is one aspect someone may believe in Allah سبحانه و تعالى completely someone might think of it as an arrogant level someone may think of it as not in the perspective of intelligence what's the example given تواكول and تواكول تواكول is we gave the example yesterday of someone owning a farm in which he says I want Allah and I let Allah سبحانه و تعالى cater for everything الله سبحانه و تعالى will allow my crops to grow will allow everything to happen perfectly if I believe in him if I believe in Allah everything will happen now that's looked at as being تواكول تواكول is when you do everything in your power to ensure everything else is left to Allah so if you own a farm what did we say yesterday if the person takes into account that they get the fertilizer ready they plant the seeds they water the garden they ensure as a human they do everything necessary to allow the crops to grow to allow this farm to produce the product that it has for its needs he's done everything then he says the blessing is from Allah then he says whatever Allah provides I am sufficed that's تواكول when you do everything that you can you can't say and we can keep saying to ourselves that you know what we're going to be better Muslims Allah will provide that we become better Muslims tomorrow Insha'Allah Allah will guide me we've never but we don't do anything we don't do look into our mistakes we don't look at our faults we don't want to change ourselves now Quran what does it say Allah does not change a tribe or village or a qum except that they change what's in themselves first and foremost we have to change ourselves you know the saying in which we have to change the environment and we have to change this society for our children there's this perspective that says you know what we have to make sure that we build and we produce and we ensure that the society our children will live in will be very prosperous and there's a reverse angle saying you know what why don't we bring up our children to create that society why don't we imply it in ourselves first and foremost before implying it on others and that's the perspective I want to look at tonight we can't just say to ourselves that Insha'Allah Allah will do this Insha'Allah will be guided I hope Insha'Allah tomorrow I'll pray on time there's obviously stuff that we have to do to ensure that tomorrow does happen because how many times and I talked about myself first and foremost I say to myself tomorrow I'll do such and such but I never actually for example if I want to wake up on time I say Insha'Allah tomorrow Allah blesses me to wake up on time I don't prepare an alarm clock I don't even check what time Salah is I don't know you know if I will be prepared tomorrow what I'll have to do after before it what time I'll wake up make with all I don't know anything but I say to myself that Insha'Allah Allah will wake me up at that time but I don't prepare if you see on the flip side if someone wants to in essence go towards Allah once in essence to something as small as pray on time it's begin Allah's eyes we might see it as something very small Insha'Allah Allah will guide us it's massive in the minds of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala praying on time and we said yesterday and the coincidence with that boy that till today he prays on time to that perspective if we want to make sure that we want to better ourselves we have to prepare the preparation process that's the example I want to give if we want to go and pray let's say and because we've talked about pray that's why we're giving the example of pray tonight yesterday we said if we want to pray on time if we want to have the concentration in praise وعليكم السلام if we want to have the concentration let's make the environment in which we're praying spiritual let's make people go as far as to make what make a dim corner in the house in which they light candles they have a beautiful scent they have aطر on their سجاد on their prayer mat they have the tasbih they have all the ayat of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and then around them they're in the environment they're living what they want to achieve but they prepare it when you want to move into a house just move into a house or do you furnish it do you ensure that you're comfortable in there you ensure that you are happy in there and this is just a broadly desire imagine the connection with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala if we want to ensure this we have to pre-prepare for this particular incident let's just praise but it can be applied into any part of our life because if we want to go towards Allah we want to make sure our fourth Imam narrates to us is if you actually want to go towards Allah don't have to just make the niyah the niyah is very important but you have to act upon it he says if you want to make Toba and go towards Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala you have to prepare yourself how? he says fast he says fast in the idea that you want to go towards Allah that you want to repent to Allah have a shower cleanse yourself physically and mentally have a shower pray to Ruk'at for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to say I want to gain niyahs to you I want to get closer to you to prepare yourself Imam saying it's not just the idea you have to act upon it you have to act upon it otherwise you won't see any results if you don't go towards Allah and we have many examples in which people has the niyah but doesn't act upon it how many times did we say to ourselves we want to pray on time how many times did we say to ourselves we want to do this particular act of worship we want to how many times did we ask ourselves that yes we're going to fast every Monday and Thursday because it's mustahab many times we tell ourselves and I say to myself first and foremost many times I say to myself I'm going to fast Monday and Thursday Monday comes I say to myself I didn't wake up for Suhoor I'm kind of hungry I didn't prepare myself other days yes you prepare yourself you say yes I'm going to fast that day because it's mustahab I'm going to fast it when you prepare yourself you're already in the mindset and Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala you have the tawfiq once you're in that mindset and you act upon it Allah provides Allah gives you the opportunity He wakes you up in the middle of the night to have the Suhoor to go towards Allah to fast the next day and this will be implied day in day out if you keep this particular process if you initiate this process into your everyday life we'll begin to choose that which is right from wrong because one day you think to yourselves that yes I'm going to prepare for something that's good but if you don't prepare and you never do that thing which is good that's in the bottom of your head on the back of your mind you will be tempted by shaitan because if you're not doing that which is good that time you can spend towards to do that which is good you're going to spend in other places له لعب and maybe even sin والأياذ بالله because عليب نبي طالب has a beautiful statement he says if a person wants to know what he is inside he's in a self he's essence what he's in a self leans towards he says look at what you do when no one is looking when no one's in the house when no one's watching he says عليب نبي طالب says look at yourself what you do do you go towards Allah do you go towards sin he says make sure in those moments when you think that no one else is looking if you have in the back of your mind that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is watching you because you've prepared yourself mentally that you know Allah is always watching because you know what would Imam Mehdi do if I'm in a situation what would my Imam صاحب العصر was زمان and wants me to do in a particular situation preparing not just physically mentally because if we always have Allah in the back of our minds if we always have that the concept of death is in the back of our minds do you think anyone will actually sin anyone would go towards that which is bad knowing that we could die at any second we won't even be tempted by shaitan if we had Allah if we were God fearing there was an analogy given and this story is actually attributed to many people in history but the most famous is attributed to Einstein in which he was in a classroom and the teacher is teaching and he says this is a very interesting aspect he says that God created good and he created evil now let's look at this analogy God created good and he created evil one of the students stood up he says this doesn't make sense to me he says why he says God can't have great if God is all you know he's all good he's a pure he's perfection he can't create that which is good that which is evil he says prove me wrong the teacher is saying to the student and he says well God created the sun God created light he says yes he says can you say that God created darkness he says yes he says that's your wrong he says excuse me I'm the teacher here he says how is your shadow which is darkness produced it's a very interesting concept he says how is this shadow produced is it because of darkness or the lack of light because the shadow is everything that the light doesn't hit isn't it it doesn't allow the sun to go towards that place that's why you have that shadow he says likewise I believe that God didn't create evil he created that which is light which is good people chose to take the wrong path he has given you everything what's a better example that we can give is the concept we have in the school of thought the concept if you go to any particular school and when she tells you are you asking a school are you telling them is Allah going to take us towards heaven and hell based on our deeds or based on Allah's mercy and unanimously they come forth and say you could do the best deeds you could be the biggest postrator the best person but if Allah doesn't will you to go towards hell or doesn't want you to go towards heaven you won't go it's Allah's mercy why because you would not be able to perform any sorts of worship without Allah's blessing how let's say a particular act of worship let's say a صدقة first and foremost الله سبحانه وتعالى has to give you the right mindset a brain a full functioning body organs in which you can work once you work you produce money once you produce money you know that it's right وعيكم السلام رحمة الله then you know it's right to give charity therefore you've used what Allah has given you to do that which is good which is holy on the flip side why does Allah سبحانه وتعالى punish you because He has given you all the abilities to do good yet you choose to disobey Him that's the beauty of this analogy so it's because of Allah's mercy that you enter paradise and not because of your good deeds you can you can and produce and produce and produce your mindset and how you believe in Allah سبحانه وتعالى and what you think Allah سبحانه وتعالى will give towards you when you worship Allah He says do this you do it if He says don't do this don't do it not because it will benefit Allah in any manner whatever we do praying fast it won't benefit Allah who is it benefiting it's benefiting ourselves He says this is Halal this is haram it's because the Halal will help you become prosperous will build communities will elevate your rank will gain you closeness when He says a particular thing is haram because it will have a negative effect whether you see it or not on your physical being on your lineage on the society around you it has many negative aspects that we can look at that's why it becomes haram it's not because Allah will when Iyadubillah become affected in any manner it's for our prosperity Insha'Allah in the upcoming nights we'll talk about what is Islam because we looked at it in a perspective of how to come towards Allah tonight how to prepare ourselves for Iyad because when we celebrate Iyad we're celebrating what that we've gained a whole month of worship in every aspect both our physical and mental needs we've starved we remembered the people that are less fortunate that are the poor we've remembered them as well as purifying our bodies we made sure that our tongue is held back our eyesight our gaze is lowered our achlaq is elevated in this month and we're celebrating that we can achieve this we are celebrating that we are capable to be this then why is it we can't continue it for the next year until the next month of Ramadan that's the thing we have to ask ourselves tonight and we have to prepare ourselves when this month finishes to keep it ongoing so may Allah SWT may have His mercy may show us mercy in the hereafter we pray to Allah on that tonight brothers and sisters إن شاء الله I give the opportunity to the sheikh from now to give us some wise words on the pulpits but we pray to Allah that we can prepare and have the tawfiq tonight to prepare ourselves for death to prepare ourselves to be better Muslims to be better in the willaya of عليب نبي طالب to be better and more knowledgeable and go towards that which pleases Allah and stay away from that which displeases Allah SWT in the أهل البيت so that Imam صاحب العصر و الزمان can barely look at us and say to himself maybe he can be part of my army إن شاء الله and we pray with الصورة المباركة الفاتحة but before the three of your loudest صلوات على محمد وقال محمد