 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Mu'assalad wa-salaam wa-alaa Sayyidina wa-nabiyina Muhammadin. Sultana Allah wa-Alaikum wa-salaam. Ya Rabbana, lakal hamdu kama yambagi l-jalal wa-wajhika wa-a'zini sultanik. Allahumma ftahalayna ftuhal a'rifin. Allahumma a'limna ma'yumfauna wa-mfa'na bimaa'alamtanaya. Ar-Rahmanir Raheemin. Today, insha'Allah, we will be giving some headlights about Hadith number 37. 37, 38 and 39. So, let's start. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, said, Allah has written all good deeds and bad deeds, and then He has made them clear. So, who cares about good deeds, he has not done them. Allah has written all good deeds for him. And if he cares about them, he has done them. Allah has written ten good deeds for him, up to seventy-one, many, many times. And if he cares about bad deeds, he has not done them. Allah has written all good deeds for him, and if he cares about bad deeds, he has done them. So, this Habith is about the generosity of Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, reported, Sayyidina Muhammad, may Allah be pleased with him, said, God rewards the good deeds and the evil deeds. He punishes the evil deeds. If anyone intends to do a good deed, but does not do it, God enters it for him in his record as a complete good deed. And if he intends to do a good deed and does it, then God enters it for him in his record as ten to seven hundred and many more times as much. If you intend, or if anyone intends to do an evil deed, and does not do it, then God enters it for him in his record as a complete good deed. But if he intends to do it and he does it, God records it for him as one evil deed. Subhanallah, this Habith reminds us here of the first Habith about intentions. So we mentioned earlier that all our deeds are linked to our intentions and are rewarded according to our intentions. So this is actually an amazing Hadith that shows Allah's blessings and mercy to His creation. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has multiplied the rewards, but he did not multiply the punishment. This is the mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. And this proves that he, that we say, so this way that he treats us is a proof that he is the most generous. Subhanallah. And in fact, people are in this dunya of four types. So when it comes to good deeds and when it comes to sins, people are categorized into four types. The first type is someone who thought about doing a good deed, but for some reason he did not do it. So he thought of doing good deed, but he did not do it. The second group is someone who thought about doing a good deed and he did it. Now, the third type is someone who thought about doing a sin, but again for some reason he did not do it. And the last type is someone who thought about doing a sin and he did it. So let's talk about these four categories now. In the first case, we said that someone thought about doing a good deed. So the first case has the verb همه in Arabic. And this verb means to intend to do the action and take initial steps in doing so. Though it might be with some hesitation. And about this group, Prophet Muhammad says, فَمَنْهَمَّ بِحَسَنَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا كَتَبَهَا اللَّهُ عِندَهُ حَسَنَةً كَامِلَا So if anyone intends to do a good deed but does not do it, then Allah will record it as a complete good deed. Now, فَإِنْهَمَّ بِهَا فَعَمِلَهَا كَتَبَهَا اللَّهُ عِندَهُ عَشْرَحَسَنَاتٍ إِلَهَا سَبْعِمِئَة يضعفٍ إِلَا أضعاقٍ كَتِيرًا So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will record it if he plans it and then he does it. Allah will record it for him as 10 to 700 and many more times as much. Any deed we do is automatically multiplied by 10. This is the generosity of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And it depends on factors for further multiplications. For example, during Arafa, during Ramadan, these are blessed nights, these are the nights, these are nights in time when the rewards are highly multiplied. And this is why Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said There are blessed times in your lifetime. So try to get as much good deeds in these blessed times as you can. So this shows this multiplication of Hassanat, of good deeds, shows Allah's immense ability to do what he wants. No one can question Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He's the most generous, he can do whatever he wants. So he multiplies the reward as much as he wants. In another hadith, Abu Huraira says, the Muslim of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says So Allah says, and we said at the beginning, we said earlier that this type of hadith, when it starts with Allah says it's called Hadith Qudzi and we do not consider it Quran. We cannot pray with it in our prayer. We cannot say it in the prayer. But it's not the actions of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam or the words of him or anything that defines the hadith itself. It is Hadith Qudzi that the idea is from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala but the words are of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So in the other hadith that I just mentioned that Allah says if my slave intends to do a bad deed, then all angels do not write it until he does it. Look at the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And if he does it, then write it as it is. But if he refrains from doing it for my sake, then write it as a good deed. So if I want my slave to do a bad deed, then don't write it until he does it. So if he does the bad deed, write it as one bad deed. And if he leaves it only for my sake, he refrains from doing it only for my sake, then write it as a good deed. So it will not be considered a bad deed, but it will be considered a good deed because he did not do it for Allah's sake. On the other hand, if he intends to do a good deed but does not do it, then write it as a good deed. Write it in his record as a good deed. And if he does it, then write it for him in his record as 10 good deeds up to 700 times. Ultimate generosity. Okay, we go back to our Hadith. If anyone intends to do an evil deed and does not do it, then Allah enters for him in his record as a complete good deed. So he did not do it just for the sake of Allah, just for the sake of Allah, nothing else. So he intended to do the action, but then he remembered that Allah was recorded for him as a sin. So he stopped, he refrained from doing it. And he stopped only for the sake of Allah. So this person will be rewarded by Allah for complying to his orders. But the one who is forced not to do it, not to do the sin, if someone forced someone else who intended to do the bad sin, so he is forced by someone not to do it, and abstained from doing it for the sake of people, he will not be rewarded with good deeds, but also will not have any sins recorded for him. Ibn Rajab, R.A., who said, if he intends to do a sin, and he did not do it out of fear of the people or out of showing off in front of them, then he is punished for leaving it for this intention. This is because prioritizing the fear of the creation over the fear of Allah is haram. And similarly, intending to show off in front of people is haram. And when it is connected to leaving a sin for their sake, then he is punished also for leaving that sin. Subhanallah. Everything is related to intentions. So we have to know that going back to the first hadith, So all our actions are connected with the intention. So what is our intention with me too, when we do something? This is how Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala would look at our actions. So if he intends to do it and he does it, then Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala will record it for him as one evil deed. Always remember not to say, oh, this is a small sin. It's okay to do it. Then I will do istaghfar and I will pray, I will pay sadaka. No, don't do that. Don't say this is a small sin or this is a big sin or this is a major sin. Do not belittle any sin. You know why? Do not belittle the sin, but look at whom you disobeyed and look at whom you obeyed. You disobeyed Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and you obeyed Shaytan who whispered to you and you followed him. You followed his words. So always remember that Shaytan has promised Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to keep deviating his creation, the creation of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala until the day of judgment. That was his promise when he was kicked out of Jannah. So do not be his prey. Do not listen to him. Do not obey him and disobey Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Remember always that Shaytan will not whisper to the doomed and to the bad people because he already knows that they are in hellfire. He wants to whisper to the good ones to make them go astray. So the important lesson of this hadith is that we have to be observant of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. He's watching over us. All of our deeds, our words, our looks, our way that we go through, everything is recorded and we will be held accountable on the day of judgment. So we have to train ourselves to always think about our deeds and we have to intend to do good all the time. We always have to remember that Allah is with us that we want to worship Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. We want to obey Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala because we want to be of those whom Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said about him on the day after. He is pleased with them and they are pleased with him. So those are the group of winners. And those are the people of Allah who are the winners on the day of judgment. Now moving to the next hadith. Arabic Arabic So Abuh Ray, he reported that the Messenger of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, and this is a game, hadith, Qudsi, because the Messenger of Allah said, Allah has exalted, has said, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has said, I will declare war against him who shows hostility to a pious worshipper of mine, to a friend of mine. And the most beloved thing with which my slave comes near to me is what I have enjoyed upon him. And my slave keeps on coming close to me performing Nawafil. And Nawafil means prayer, praying or doing extra deeds besides what is obligatory. So he would do that until I love him. And when I love him, I become his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes, and his leg with which he walks. And if he asks something from me, I give him. And if he asks my protection, I protect him. A very interesting, very, very generous hadith, Subhanallah. The friends of Allah, who are they? Are the ones who follow the orders of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala? They are the ones whom Allah loves. And this hadith describes the protection that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has given to the friends of Allah, to his friends. Allah says in Surat Yunus, in ayahs 62 to 64, Allah has no fear of them, nor do they grieve. Those who believe and fear Allah, they will be blessed in this life, and in the hereafter. Do not change the words of Allah. That is the great achievement. Unquestionably for the friends of Allah, there will be no fear concerning them, nor will they grieve. Those are the ones who believed and feared Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. For them are good tidings. There is the good news in the worldly life, and in the hereafter. No change. There is no change. Is there to the words of Allah? That is what's the great accomplishment. So these are the friends of Allah that he mentioned in the Qur'an. They fear Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. They believe in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So all their deeds are connected to there being fearful of Allah, and to their love to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, to their faith in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So Allah is saying be beware of harming my slaves. Beware of harming my friends. Now in fact, we have to be aware of harming Allah's slaves in general, because we don't know who his friends are. While some of them are no, but most of Allah's friends are hidden. So you don't want to fall into the category of those against whom Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has declared war. Because anyone who harms Allah's friends, Allah declares war against him. So for this, we have to increase in purifying our hearts. We have to increase incurring out many righteous actions so that we may be of the friends of Allah. So we will be away from those who harm the friends of Allah, and inshaAllah we will be of the friends of Allah. In fact, the hadith gives us the methodology of how to become one of the friends of Allah. And it also gives us the consequences of being from the friends of Allah. So the rest of the hadith gives us this methodology and talks about these consequences. So Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions two levels of his friends in this hadith. So the first one, وَمَا تَقَرَّبَ إِلَيَّ عَبْدِيْ بِشَيْنْ إِنْ أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ مَفْطَرَطُ وَالَيْ. And the most beloved thing with which my slave comes nearer to me is what I have enjoyed upon him. So someone comes closer to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala by following the obligations. So those who draw closer to him by fulfilling the obligatory actions, this is who this group is. So by performing the prayers, by fasting, giving zakat, giving sadaqa, going to hajj. So this is the first group fulfilling the obligatory actions. Now the second group is وَمَا يَزَالُ عَبْدِيَّ تَقْرَّبُ إِلَيَّ بِالْنَوَافِ لِحْتَا وَحِبْبُهُ. So the second level, the second group includes those who draw closer to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala by carrying out recommended actions, extra actions. By doing extra good deeds besides the obligatory ones. This group includes the ones who are foremost in doing good deeds. So to be all the friends of Allah, we have to strive to attain the love of Allah by fulfilling the obligations and by increasing in the recommended actions. So if we ask ourselves, what are the benefits of doing the recommended actions? So why don't we just stop at the obligations? Why do we do sunnahs? Why do we do the extras? In fact, the recommended actions are but means of safeguarding the obligations. For example, fasting the six days of shawwal, so six days after Ramadan when we fast them. This is an example of doing recommended actions. Also doing the recommended actions before the obligatory ones help us prepare ourselves for the obligatory actions. How is this happening? So for example, when we pray the sunnah before we pray forad, then we are preparing ourselves to be present while we are preparing, where we are praying the forad. So the first one was to do the, to safeguard the obligation to safeguard the forad. The second one is to prepare ourselves for the forad. Now, one more thing, doing recommended actions after the obligatory ones help in making up for the shortcomings in the obligatory action. For example, when we pray, when we pay sadaqat al-fitr after fasting, why do we do all this? Why do we pay sadaqa before A'id after the month of Ramadan? This amends any small mistakes that happened during fasting that we didn't pay attention to or that we did not know of. Now the, if we want to go to the last section of this hadith, so the end section here is the consequence, talks about the consequence of drawing closer with both the obligations and the recommended actions. Now, if we want to look at the interpretation of these words, of the words that Allah SWT says, I become, he is hearing And if he asked me, I will give And if he asked refuge in me, then I will protect him. What does this mean? This means that Allah SWT would guide us in everything we do, everything we hear, everything we look at. So we hear, we do only the righteous things, we hear only the halal things, we look at the halal, we don't look at anything that Allah doesn't want us to look at. We don't go to any places that Allah doesn't want us to go to. So if we ask Allah SWT, he will give us and if we make Dua, then he will answer our Dua. And if we seek refuge in him, he will protect us. There is one point here that we have to pay attention to. It's the unanswered Dua. Sometimes we make Dua, a lot of Dua, and our Dua might not be answered. So this does not mean that Allah SWT does not love us. No. Unanswered Dua has several meanings. The first one is that Allah SWT has prevented a bad thing from happening to us because of the Dua that we make. And then the unanswered Dua that we think it is unanswered, it was saved for us to the day after. And the reward will be immense on the day after. So another thing is that, which is very interesting that Allah SWT, when someone calls Allah SWT, if Allah loves that person, then he will say to the angels, don't give him what he is asking for. I love to keep hearing the voice of this person. But if someone who is not loved by Allah SWT and he asks for anything, then Allah would say, give it to him. I don't want to hear his voice. And this happens actually, especially for the non-believers, that we see that most of the non-believers live in, live a very happy life to their thinking. So everything they want, they have, whatever they want, they have. But this is their dunya. So this is their reward in the dunya, but they will be punished in the day after. So we have to understand what Allah SWT is saying. We have to understand what Allah SWT is keeping for us. So Allah will be the protector of our hearing. He will be the protector of our singing, of our path, of everything that we do. So everything we hear, we see, et cetera, will be connected to Allah SWT. So our heart will be rejecting anything bad, because it's already connected to Allah SWT. And when you are connected to Allah SWT, you will be able to differentiate between what is right and what is wrong. You will be able to know which path to follow. You will love the path of goodness, and you will hate the path of bad things. So with this, doing this, when Allah SWT will protect our hearing, our singing, our path, our everything, then we will reach the state of ihsan. We know that Allah is with us. Even if we don't see him, but Allah is with us. He is the one who is protecting us. Now moving to the last Hadith of today, Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah be pleased with him and peace be upon him, said, Allah is the protector of my nation, the wrong and the wrong, and Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him and peace be upon him. So this Hadith talks about overlooked matters. On the authority of Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Messenger of Allah SWT said, Verily, Allah has pardoned or Allah has been lenient with my ummah for me. So he's been lenient with their mistakes, their forgetfulness, and anything which they have been forced to do under pressure or under force. Again, this is the mercy of Allah SWT. So this Hadith establishes the principle that the religion came to remove harm and establishes the special virtues given to this nation. Because the previous nations were held accountable for everything that they do. Allah SWT is capable of treating us like he treated the previous nations. But because of his love for his beloved Messenger, Sayyidina Muhammad SAW, because of his love for him, he shows mercy for us. We, the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW, that on the day of judgment, everyone wishes even the prophets wish that they are of the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. So mistakes, which are the first things that they are overlooked, mistakes are divided into several categories. Those towards Allah SWT, and those towards others, and those towards ourselves. So there is a Hadith that, there is a dua actually that Sayyidina Muhammad SAW told us that ya Allah, we want you to forgive us for everything that we did towards you, for all the mistakes that we did towards you. And we want you to take over the mistakes that we did towards others, that which we did not know about, and which we did not pay back, which we did not ask for forgiveness from people. So these are the overlooked mistakes that we want Allah SWT to cover for us. Now what is forgetfulness and misyan? Forgetfulness is when you know the ruling, but you forget at the time of carrying out the action. Again when it comes to the rights of the community and individuals, even if you forget, you are still held accountable by them, if they do not forgive you. And that's why we ask Allah SWT always on and on and on that ya Allah, ya Allah forgive us for the things that we know and things that we don't know that we have done, or the things that we forgot that we have done. And the last thing that Allah SWT, that Sayyidina Muhammad SAW mentions in this Hadith is وَمَسْتُكْرِهُ عَلَيْهِ The person is being forced to do the action. So this is وَمَسْتُكْرِهُ عَلَيْهِ So the person did not do it intentionally, but he was forced to do this action. And for the person who is being forced to do an action, must not be content with the action. And he was lacked the capability of repelling the person forcing him. So he is oppressed. And the first example from the first examples in Islam was the story of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW when Quraysh started to torture the Muslims. Sayyidina Muhammad SAW was tortured to the point that he said the word of kufr, that he mentioned the idols in a good way. And he was very sorry for that. And he couldn't face Sayyidina Muhammad SAW for that. But Sayyidina Muhammad SAW comforted him that Ya'amar did not do that while you are content with this. You couldn't do anything. They kept torturing you until they said it. So Allah will forgive you. So we have to praise Allah SWT for overlooking mistakes, forgetfulness, and things that are actions that are carried out be out by force which we are not content with. This is done to the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. So imagine how much Sayyidina Muhammad SAW loves us. So always seek forgiveness from individuals when you wrong them. Even if it is unintentional because they might not forgive you and they might go after you on the day of judgment. So be careful. And remember, if you are forced to do something ensure always you are discontent with that action. Your heart does not accept it. So this is the way that Allah shows mercy for the ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. We saw in previous hadith how Allah SWT shows his mercy by protecting us. And if we get closer to him then he will be the protector. Then he will protect us with whatever we look at, whatever we see, whatever we do, wherever we go he will protect us. And in the hadith before we show the mercy of Allah SWT by his rewarding of the good deeds to 10 folds up to 700 folds and more. Ya Rabbana ala kal hamlu wa shukru wa ni'mata wa ridah. Ya Allah, make us content with the way that you are handling our affairs. Always. Make us understand how this life goes. Make us understand that whatever you decree is the best. We thank you for your mercy, Ya Allah. And until we meet again next week, insha'Allah which will be the final week of this series I would leave you now by sending your salam and my salam our salawat to Sayyidina Muhammad SAW wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.