 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, my beloved brothers and sisters This beautiful final episode of the supplications from Revelation series I begin by praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, thumma alhamdulillah All praise is indeed due to Allah And after we all praise to Allah and we declare praise to Allah, we still praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala We always send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam, his companions, his household And every one of us may Allah bless us Remember when you send blessings and salutations upon the best of creation, the most noble of all prophets Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala becomes so pleased that he blesses you tenfold So man sallah alayya wahidatan, sallallahu alayhi biha ashra Whoever is going to send blessings upon me once, Allah will bless him ten times in return So my brothers and sisters never ever become tired of sending blessings And salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam, Allahumma salli ala sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala ala sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim My brothers and sisters, this is the final of the episodes of this beautiful series as I have just said And I have chosen for this series something amazing Every one of us ultimately would love to achieve the forgiveness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala The hadith, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam speaks about how much Allah loves to forgive The Quran speaks about how much Allah loves to forgive We can go through a few of those evidences from the Quran and the Sunnah The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam tells us every night when a third of the night remains That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala descends to the lowest heavens and he says out, he calls out Is there anyone seeking forgiveness that I can forgive him or her? Is there anyone repenting that I can accept the repentance for him or her? Is there anyone who wants to ask me anything so that I can give them? Wow, that is when the third of the night remains Allah is calling out every night My brothers and sisters for your needs, for seeking forgiveness, for repenting to Allah Get up at that time and repeat and reiterate the repentance that you have been engaging in And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will definitely give it to you, my beloved brothers and sisters When you say, oh Allah forgive me, it is recorded by the angels It is heard by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala It will come to help you on the day of judgment It will come to help you in your grave It will come to help you in the hereafter completely And it will even help you in this world Seeking the forgiveness of Allah is one of the best ways of earning the pleasure of Allah Once you have the pleasure of Allah, all the doors are open one after the other Your unhappiness is gone Meaning your sadness is gone Your suffering is gone Your hurt is cured Your sickness is cured Whatever you were looking for has come to you How did it come to you? You wanted children, they came You wanted sustenance, it came It came because you earned the pleasure of Allah You sought the forgiveness of Allah So we don't say astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah In order for us to achieve something But that is in order for us to achieve the forgiveness of Allah Which will then get us the something that we are looking for This is just a slight technical explanation of it Because sometimes people think We say astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah When we want money, when we want sustenance No, we say astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah When we want the pleasure of Allah That will give us the sustenance So there is one step between what we are looking for And what we should be trying to achieve May Allah SWT grant us goodness That is also evidence from the Quran And the Hadith of the Prophet SAW Another point of evidence Allah SWT continues to accept The repentance of a slave For as long as they have not gone to the last point Or gotten to the last point Before the soul separated from the body It's known as ghargharah When the soul comes right up to your neck And it's now leaving the body At that stage you can no longer say Oh Allah forgive me Because now you have seen the reality of what death is You're tasting it You've seen the angels of death And it's too late So that is something very very important to know We have hope for as long as we are breathing For as long as we are alive The minute your breath starts stopping Meaning the minute your breath begins to stop You start finding that Allah SWT Is taking that soul away at a certain point When you see the angels and so on too late May Allah SWT forgive us He makes mention of the Pharaoh And how he did that When he saw the angels it was too late He got to the ghargharah And then he says Oh I believe in the one whom Banu Israel, Moses and Aaron And Musa A.S. Haroon may peace be upon them They believe in Allah says too late Now you want to say That you turn to Allah When we ask you to turn to Allah Throughout your entire life And you didn't So therefore my brothers and sisters Turning to Allah Requires us to repent immediately Don't wait for some time Do it now Do it today Make sure that you turn to Allah We're at the end of a beautiful season Turn to Allah You will earn the pleasure of Allah Usually the end of Ramadan There is something known as Laylatul Ja'iza The price-giving night The night of Eid Don't displease Allah Make sure that your clothing What you've cut And what you're going to wear Is going to be decent, reasonable Within the pleasure of Allah I pause for a moment When we have our weddings My brothers and sisters It's not a day to displease Allah Through what you've chosen to wear Whether you're the bride Or the groom Or the bride's maid Or whatever you are And whoever you are You are still under Allah You still desperately need The mercy of Allah How can you choose a day Where Allah has given you To be happy To displease Allah You made the one who gave you The day of happiness To displease him Subhanallah So therefore the day of Eid The day of your weddings The happy days The days when You know you have an occasion Make sure that you are Dressed appropriately I have seen people from Poor countries whom When they dress They dress so beautifully Everything is covered In the proper way It's a lovely dress Yes, I do know It's in the presence of other females etc But it is such a beautiful dress And it's such beautiful clothing Even the males They dress in such a beautiful way Everything they're supposed to cover Is covered in the proper way With the material That is not tight fitting And you know not revealing And so on And they earn the pleasure of Allah Why can we not do that sometimes The more Allah has blessed you with In this world in terms of wealth Sometimes the more we displease Allah On occasions of this nature So I think we can make a difference In this regard And we can definitely please Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala It's not difficult It's very, very easy You can search You can check You can see what others have done And you will find a role models To follow May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Grant that to us I diverted a little bit Because the day of Eid That comes up We always tend to displease Allah On that day And this is why We're moving backwards As an Ummah Because the days that we're supposed To be given by Allah To please Him Come on, come on I think we can do a little bit more You find an extra act of worship Usually I'm sure we can do more To please Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Myself included I need to improve a lot as well May Allah make it easy For every one of us To identify our faults and mistakes And to be able to please Him Ameen So The hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam He speaks about how The Tawba is acceptable Right up to the last moment I mentioned the Pharaoh And I told you how It was too late for him There is another narration also There are verses of the Quran also Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Speaks about how His mercy is broader Than all the sins That can be committed No matter what you've done You know the verse that has in it Hope is a verse of Surah Al-Zumar Where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says Tell them Oh Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Oh my worshippers Who have transgressed Against Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Who have wronged themselves In transgression against Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Never lose hope in the mercy of Allah For indeed Allah will forgive All your sins He is most forgiving Most beneficent Subhan Allah He is most merciful Most forgiving That is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala He is the most forgiving Most forgiving Most merciful So my brothers and sisters Never lose hope In the mercy of Allah As we end a season of obedience We go into greater obedience Of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala I want to dedicate this day To the words that we were taught By the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Supplications from Revelation The ultimate supplication Seeking forgiveness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Using the highest of words To seek forgiveness Something the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Brought us word for word He says it is called Sayyid ul istighfar Sayyid ul istighfar The master of all words Of seeking the forgiveness of Allah The best of words to seek forgiveness of Allah Are the following words So he used to say Sayyid ul istighfari an yaqool al-Abdu You know the best of terms To seek forgiveness of Allah Is for a worshipper to say The following Then he would say Allahumma anta rabbi Oh Allah, you are my Rab La ilaha illa anta khalaqtani There is none worthy of worship Besides you, you have created me Wa ana abduka And I am your slave Subhanallah Wa ana ala ahdika wa wadika masta ta'atu And I am upon your covenant And your promise According to my ability As best as I can Subhanallah So we are saying Allahumma anta rabbi La ilaha illa anta khalaqtani Oh Allah, you are my Rab There is none worthy of worship Besides you, you created me Khalaqtani means you created me Wa ana abduka And I am your slave I am at your disposal At your mercy Wa ana ala ahdika Wa wadika masta ta'atu And as best as I can I am upon the covenant What was the covenant To worship you alone I am upon the covenant To worship you alone As best as I can And I am upon the promise What was the promise Not to sin against you The promise primarily was To worship you alone Allahumma anta rabbi La ilaha illa anta khalaqtani Wa ana abduka Wa ana ala ahdika Wa wadika masta ta'atu A'udu bika Min kulli sharri ma sanatu I seek refuge in you From all the evil That I have done Subhanallah I seek protection in you From the evil that I have done Now when we do evil The evil has evil That will come back to us In the form of an effect Some bad effect When you do bad Don't think it's not going to come to you It's going to be worse When you do bad Bad will come back to you You know When you do good Good comes back to you When you do bad Bad comes back to you But if you seek the forgiveness of Allah You wipe it out So now the bad does not come back to you So we are saying A'udu bika min kulli sharri ma sanatu I seek protection in you From the evil of everything bad That I have done Abu ulaka bini amatika aleya I admit completely I confess I admit I acknowledge All the gifts that you have bestowed upon me Now you see When we commit a sin We actually don't deserve the gifts of Allah When we commit sin And we go against Allah We don't deserve But Allah gives it to us You know Allah is not like you and I SubhanAllah Where someone does bad to you And you block You stop There are sanctions against them And that's it SubhanAllah Allah is not petty Allah is great He created you He loves you He's waiting for you to return to Him That's all He's waiting for you to repent to Him He gets so, so happy When you and I seek forgiveness That happiness is described in a hadith Of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam You know of a man who was lost in a desert Hungry And he had all his provision On his camel He put the camel Aside He tied it And he went to rest When he got up He cleared And he was lost completely In the middle of the desert Nothing No hope No mercy No nothing And you know what He started calling out to Allah And some time later He spotted his camel He was so excited Out of his excitement He blended in the way He said He says O Allah I am your Lord And you are my slave See that was a mistake That mistake was made out of excitement The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Describing the happiness of Allah Says Allah becomes more happier Than that man The happiness of that man Was through a mistake The happiness of Allah Is never through a mistake Subhanallah Allah becomes very very happy When we repent So let's repent My brothers and sisters Make Allah happy We say Allahummardi ni Allahummardi ni warza anni O Allah Make me happy And be happy with me We learnt that supplication In one of the episodes Didn't we I hope we still remember That supplication What a beautiful supplication Allahummardi Allahummardi ni warza anni So The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Here is telling us to use these Beautiful words known as Sayyid ul istighfar Allahumma anta rabbi La ilaha illa anta Khalaqtani Wa ana abduka Wa ana ala ahdika Wa waadika masta ta'atu A'oudu bika Min kulli sharrima san'atu Abu ulaka bini'matika alayya I confess I acknowledge I actually the word is acknowledged I acknowledge all the gifts That you have bestowed upon me Even though I don't deserve them And I acknowledge Here we can use the term Confess all my sins Whatever sins I have done I acknowledge Ya Allah I have sinned I have done wrong I might have done whatever Everyone does different things So we are acknowledging That we were sinful We did something that displeased Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Wa abu ubi dhanbi Fa ghfir li Fa innahu la yagfiru So forgive me O Allah For indeed there is none Who will forgive these sins besides you You are the one who will forgive me So forgive me And Allah becomes so pleased With those words Imagine you are asking Allah Saying O Allah I acknowledge that you've Done so much good for me And I am confessing I've done a lot of bad But I want you to forgive me Because no one is going To forgive me besides you It's only you who can forgive Whom am I going to turn to? Who am I going to turn to? I cannot turn to anyone besides you O Allah So here I have turned to you O Allah I am acknowledging You are my Lord I am your slave You've done so much for me Allahumma anta rabbi La ilaha illa anta khalaqtani Wa ana abduk Wa ana ala ahdika Wa wa adika masta ta'at O Allah You are my Lord You created me I am your slave I am trying my best To fulfill the promise That I made to you To fulfill the covenant I am trying my best I seek your protection From the evil of whatever I've done I acknowledge that you've done me So much in terms of favor And I acknowledge that I've perpetrated so many sins So O Allah forgive me For indeed there is no one To forgive me besides you What beautiful words these are Subhanallah If someone were to ask you For something using words Similar to that I mean obviously I don't mean seeking forgiveness This is Allah There is no shariq There is no partner unto Allah We are not allowed to use these words For anyone besides Allah But if someone was to be So sweet to you So kind to you So calm So acknowledging of their wrongdoings And asking you Please forgive me Please forgive me You need to learn to forgive So my brothers and sisters This is known as sayyidul istighfar The dua that I've just said And I'm going to repeat it One more time for us to repeat In this blessed moment Subhanallah This is known as sayyidul istighfar You know sayyid is the leader This is the leader When it comes to the du'as of the istighfar You want to know Astaghfirullah Subhanallah May Allah All these are du'as All these are du'as All these are du'as Supplications But the one that I said today Is known as the leader of all these du'as We must memorize it We must memorize this du'a We must call out to Allah Every day using this I promise you It will make a difference in your life Listen to it In fact, repeat it after me I seek refuge with you From all the evil that I have done I seek refuge with you With your blessing on me And I seek refuge with you With my blood So forgive me For it will not forgive the sins Except you Amen, amen, amen Subhanallah Amazing And I want to end by making mention of The fact that if we want the forgiveness of Allah We also have to be forgiving We have to learn to forgive It's not easy But you have to learn to release When Allah sees you have a quality of forgiveness His quality of forgiveness Is way beyond yours and mine He will definitely make sure he forgives you Forgive and embrace Would you not like Allah to forgive you? Indeed Allah is most forgiving, most merciful These verses are in Surah Al-Nur Where Allah speaks about The incident of Abu Bakr As-Siddiq, radiallahu anhu When his daughter And the mother of the believers Aisha As-Siddiqa, radiallahu anhu Was accused of immorality By the hypocrites of Madinah And there was a man known as Miss T'ahibnu Athatha Who was related to Abu Bakr He was a poor person from Makkah Who did hijra Abu Bakr As-Siddiq, radiallahu anhu Used to spend money on him Used to help him And this man started spreading rumour About the daughter of Abu Bakr As-Siddiq, radiallahu anhu And the wife of the Prophet As-Siddiqa, radiallahu anhu And the man spread the rumour And the degree that it got to the ears Of Abu Bakr As-Siddiq, radiallahu anhu And Abu Bakr As-Siddiq, radiallahu anhu Says very clearly I'm no longer going to spend money On this person, wallahi I swear by Allah Never going to spend money Imagine my relative A poor person I'm spending money on them so often They've made hijra And come all the way from Makkah And they don't even Protect their mouths from rumour About my daughter And she was innocent So when he took that oath Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Addressed the matter Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in Surat al-Nur Those with virtue Whom we have bestowed our favour upon They should never swear an oath Not to spend on others who are their relatives Who are poor, who have made hijra Who are trying hard To please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala In other ways Rather, they should embrace and forgive Do they not want to achieve the forgiveness of Allah Do you not want to achieve the forgiveness of Allah For indeed Allah is most forgiving, most merciful So from this narration We see very clearly That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Is encouraging all of us From that lesson To say try to forgive Try to forgive Try to forgive Your family members Your spouse Your children Your parents Your uncles Your aunts Your brothers Your sisters Whoever they may be Sometimes you may want to just forgive It's actually a release Release of the stress and the mountain The burden that's upon you When you hold things It weighs in on your shoulders You can actually feel it You feel very stressed You move your neck and you're feeling all these You know Like a huge burden It is true that That burden affects your health as well Release it You may not want to have much To do with that person thereafter It does not mean that when you forgive someone And you've embraced them That you need to now You know return to them And spend time with them And laugh and joke with them And meet with them And eat with them And drink with them No It may take time to achieve that And you may not achieve that But At least there's no grudge At least you've forgiven You're leading your life They're leading their life When we greet We meet salam Aleykum Aleykum wa salam How are you? I'm fine and so May Allah bless you And you walk away You don't need to have So much to do with the person After you've forgiven them It's a mistake That some people think Some people think that you have to go back And pretend like nothing ever happened No We will forgive But we will not necessarily forget Because forgetting Allah's given me a brain Allah's given me a mind I don't want to be bitten From the same direction twice I've forgiven you But Subhanallah Let me stay away You know I'm not a prophet of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala I'm not so strong May Allah strengthen every one of us Grant us goodness and ease I may decide to have slightly less To do with you Because I know I've been bitten Sometimes you want to have nothing to do With a person who's extremely toxic But you've forgiven them There's no harm You need to protect yourself Your offspring from the harm of someone else They keep on harming you Another thing that's very interesting Just before we end is When a person's harm against you Has not stopped And you've forgiven them once You know You don't have to keep forgiving them All the time There is a limit beyond which Maybe your spirituality might make you say I forgive you no matter what you do And what you've done You might not want to tell them that But you also have rights Remember there is a point Beyond which you can say Listen that's it Now I need this justice In this thing here And so on When you have forgiven someone For wealth that they owe you It doesn't mean That they no longer owe it to you Subhanallah That's a very interesting point May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala help us So that we can forgive people in the true way May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala forgive us May we end this beautiful series With the acceptance from Allah The forgiveness from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala May Allah be pleased with every one of us And grant us Jannatul Firdaus I've really enjoyed myself Speaking with you for this entire episode Of this entire series And I ask Allah to accept it And to gather us in Jannatul Firdaus I say this And peace and blessings be upon our prophet Muhammad Subhanallah And praise be to him And praise be to Allah And praise be to you We bear witness that there is no god but you We ask forgiveness and repent