 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahir rahmanir raheem wa as-salatu wa as-salamu ala Sayyidina wa Habibina wa Shafi'ina wa Qa'idina wa Qurrat-i Aayunina Sayyidina wa Nabiyina Muhammadin sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Ya Rabbana laka alhamdu kama yambagi Lijalari wa jihika wa awzimi sultanika Allahumma ftah alayna ftuh al-arifin Allahumma alimna mayanfa'una wa fana bim'a al-amtaniya ar-Rahmanir raheemin Today is the last of our sessions for this series, the 40 Hadiths of Imam Nauwi. In fact, the booklet of these Hadiths include 42 Hadiths and not 49. In today's Insha'Allah, we will talk about Hadiths 40, 41 and 42. I was talking about Abdullah ibn Omar, may Allah be pleased with him, he said, he took the Messenger of Allah, may Salat and Salam be upon him, with a big mouth, and he said, I was in this world as if you were strange or through a way. And Ibn Omar used to say, if you forget, do not wait in the morning. And if you wake up, do not wait in the evening. Wa huzmin sihatika li maradik, wa min hayatika li motik. So Abdullah ibn Omar, may Allah be pleased with him, he said, the Messenger of Allah, may Salat and Salam be upon him, took me by the shoulders and said, be in the world as though you were a stranger or one who is passing through a trouble. And Ibn Omar used to say, in the evening, do not expect to live till the morning. And in the morning, do not expect to live till the evening. Take something when you are in health to serve you in time of illness and something in your life to serve you in your death. So this hadith encourages the lack of contact, the lack of acquisition, and it also encourages a citizen in the world. So the stranger, when there is a stranger in any place, he does not get in contact with people. He feels that he's a stranger and he doesn't know how they think, what they think, what they do, so he does not get in contact with them. So this is the first image that be in this world as a stranger. A second image is be in this world as someone who is travelling or who is passing by. So the one who is passing by does not have a lot to carry. So he doesn't have heavy loads, he doesn't have a lot of things that he has to worry about moving from one place to another. And this is the other image that Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is encouraging people to have. So be in this dunya either as a stranger or as someone who is passing by. So these two states of the stranger and the one who is passing by, these are recommended things for the mu'min, for the believer to have in dunya. Because what does this mean? We all know that this dunya is not the final abode. So this dunya is just a place that we entered into and we are leaving. So when you want to travel from place to place, you don't take your furniture with you, you don't take the heavy stuff with you, you take something light with you. But these light things that you carry with you, these are the most useful for you. So in this dunya do not worry about gaining from the dunya, from everything that's all the adornment of dunya because you need to carry your good deeds with you. So when you build this dunya, build it with the idea that you are leaving it one day. And what you want to take with you is just what you can, the light deeds, the good deeds that you have to carry them with you to the day after. In Surah Al-Ghafir, Ayah 39, Allah says, So all my people, this worldly life is only temporary enjoyment. And indeed the hereafter is the home, it's the permanent settlement. And this is what Sayyidina Muhammad, when he was slept on a straw mat, and when he woke up, there were some marks left on his body because of this straw mat. So Ibn Masood, said to Sayyidina Muhammad, O messenger of Allah, what that you make us spread out a soft bedding for you? So what was the answer of Sayyidina Muhammad, ma li walid dunya, So he, Sayyidina Muhammad, replied, what have I to do with the world? What have I to do with this dunya? I am like a traveler who just sat under a tree to get some shade, and then went away and left it. So this is how we should be in this dunya. We should not care about all the things that we see in this dunya. So the only thing that we have to care about is the good deeds that we are doing in this dunya. This is what we have. This is what we care about. Someone came to Sayyidina Muhammad, and a man came to the Prophet, and he said to him, O messenger of Allah, teach me something quickly. So Sayyidina Muhammad, So when you stand to pray, pray like a man bidding farewell. Do not say anything for which you will have to apologize. So when you pray all the time, just think that I might not be able to say anything. When you pray, all the time, just think that I might not pray the next prayer. I might be dead. So try to perfect your Salah. Try to have Khushu'ah in your Salah. So do not say anything for which you will have to apologize. So be careful what words you are uttering. Be careful how you are talking to people. Be careful not to hurt anybody. And be careful because saying the word is easy, but apologizing is not as easy. So say the words that will not break any heart. Just have your good words to say and that will be considered as sadaka. So every day a person lives is a kind of a gain for the believer because the believer would do his best to gain as much as he can and he will know that he might not live another day. And this is what Bakr al-Muzani said, So Bakr said, each and every day that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gets to this dunya, the day will say, O Ibn Adam, O son of Adam, take advantage of me. Do as much good deeds as you can because it might be your last day. You might not have another day after me. So gain as much as you can during this day. Then Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam says, This is again another focus that be prepared for death. And the way you get prepared for death is by having good deeds because this is the only thing that someone will take, will take with him to the day after. So if you, if you walk up, then you might not be alive by the end of the day. And if you are at the end of the day, you might not walk up for the next day. So many cases we hear that he slept, he did not wake up, she slept, she did not wake up. They went to wake them up, they are dead. If you walk up, don't wait for the morning. And if you wake up, don't wait for the evening. Then Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam says, Take advantage of your health for your illness and your life for your death. Take something when in health to serve you in time of illness. So do your best, do your best while you are healthy and do something in your life to serve you in a better view after death. What does this mean? Abu Huraira sallallahu alayhi wasallam says, Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam says, If a person dies and his work is cut off except from three, a friend or a scholar who understands it, the first righteous person to pray for him. So Abu Huraira sallallahu alayhi wasallam reported that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said that when a man dies, his deeds come to an end except for three. So three things happen that the reward of them will go on after someone dies. What are these things? Sadaqatunjariya, a continuous charity. When you pay to help anyone, any person who is in need for your help, this is called a continuous charity. If you help in building a mosque, even if you pay just a few bucks here and there, then whoever prays in this mosque, you will get a reward for that, and this is a continuous charity. A'ilman yuntafa'u bih knowledge by which people derive benefit. So someone builds a school, someone builds a center for teaching Quran. This is all, this is all as sadaqatariya, continuous charity. A waladun salihun yad'u lah. A waladun salihun yad'u lah is the highest son, a good son. So who will pray for the person after he dies? So what happens when you raise your children, raise them to be good to you after your death? And this is very important. Sometimes someone would say, okay, I don't have any children. It doesn't mean to be your own son. Anyone whom you helped one day, anyone whom you cared for one day, who made to have for you one day. So that would be a son who will pray for you after you die. So any prayer that you receive after your death, that will be a continuous charity for you. And we remember Sayyidna Omar, radiallahu anhu sayin, So today in this dunya, there will be everyone is doing something. There will be lots of deeds, good deeds or bad deeds. So everything is recorded. There is no reckoning in this dunya. But in the day after, no actions to take place. No worship to be done. It's just the reward or the punishment. Today they are doing nothing, and tomorrow they are doing nothing. So Sayyidna Omar, radiallahu anhu sayin, Sayyidna Muhammad SAW says, So Aburayra narrated that Sayyidna Muhammad SAW said, there is no one who dies, but he shall regret. And they asked, what shall he regret over or messenger of Allah? He said, what shall he regret over or messenger of Allah? He said, what shall he regret over or messenger of Allah? He said, what shall he regret over or messenger of Allah? And Sayyidna Muhammad SAW says, if he was a good doer, someone who has a lot of good deeds, then he would regret that he did not do more. And if he was a person who has a lot of evil bad deeds, so he would regret that he did not stop and he did not repent. So the whole Hadith is an urge for us to get prepared to the life after, to get prepared to death and to meeting Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Moving to the next Hadith about Abdullah Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Ibn Amr Ibn Al-Aas, radiallahu anhu says, wa ala Rasulullah SAW la yu'minu a'hadwukum hatta yakuna hawahu taba'alin lima jiktu biha. So Abdullah Ibn Amr Ibn Al-Aas reported that Sayyidna Muhammad SAW said, none of you is a believer or has a complete faith until his desire allows what I have brought. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sent his rules the rules of Islam through his beloved Sayyidna Muhammad SAW. And we have to follow these rules so we have to obey Sayyidna Muhammad SAW. Ibn Al-Aas said, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, ul'in kuntum tuhipbuna waha fattabi'unin yuhbibkum allahu wa yawfir latum zunubakum. Sayyidna Muhammad, if you should love Allah then follow me. So Allah will love you and he will forgive your sins. So we have to accept all that Sayyidna Muhammad SAW says, all he judges everything that he guides us to. Sayyidna Muhammad SAW says, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, wa rabbika layu'minuna hatta yuhakkimu tafina shajra baynahum thumma layajidu fi anfusihim harajam mimma qadaita wa yusallimu taslima. But now by your Lord, they will not truly believe until they make you Muhammad. Over which they dispute among themselves. And then when you do, when you make this judgment, then find within themselves no discomfort from what you have judged. And they should submit in full. They should be in full submission to what you said and to what you judged. The same thing is also mentioned in Surah al-Ahzab when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, wa ma kanali mu'minu wala mu'minatin iza qadallahu wa rasuluhu amran ayyakuna lahumu l-khiyaratu bin amrihim wa mayy'asillahi wa rasulahum fa qad-dalla dalalam mubina. So it's not for a believing man or a believing woman that when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in the letter that they should have a choice about that affair, about their affair. And whoever disobeys Allah and disobeys His messenger, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, has certainly strayed into clear error. In fact, this hadith la yubinu wa hadukum hatta yakuna hawahu taba'an limaji itubih Reminds us also of another hadith which was narrated by Anas radiallahu anh when Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, la yubinu wa hadukum hatta yakuna awhabba ilayhi me waladihi min walidihi wa waladihi wal nasi ajma'in. So Anas radiallahu anh narrated that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, none of you will have faith, will have complete faith, until he loves me more than he loves his father, his children, and all mankind. So how could we love Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? The first thing is to send sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. When we wake up and before we go to bed, we should have a word, we should send the word to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. At least 100 in the morning, 100 in the evening. So this will be a protection for us during the day. You start with your day and you end your day with sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So inshallah Allah will guide you in whatever comes between these two sallahu alaihi wa sallam to these two sets of sallahu alaihi wa sallam that you sent to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And always remember that all the sins initiate from the inclination, the soul inclination. So how one lifts is the reason for the sins. So when someone favors his soul or his nifs to the love of Allah and to the love of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to the orders of Allah and to the orders of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he falls into sins. So we have to be close to Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and close to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to be away from sinning. And the way we get to be close to Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is by holding a tie to the Quran. So every day we should have a word of Quran. If you are not fluent then read at least when I listen to a reciter and try to repeat after him. If you are a fluent reader then every day you should have a few minutes. You should have some time between you and Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam reading his book, reading his words. So when you do that then you are working on your heart. So the heart is always filled with dunya with love of money, wealth and trivial things in this dunya. We should empty our hearts and then we should clean our heart and we clean it by salawat and then it will be ready to receive the light of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam the light of the Quran, the light of the love of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and when it's ready to receive that light then it will be ready to have the Nur of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and normally the face reflects what's in the heart. You see so many people with radiant faces so that is a reflection of what's in their heart a good relationship with Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with the Quran. Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says in Surah An-Nazi'at wa amma man khaafa maqamah rabbihi wa lahannafsa anil hawa fa innal jannatahi al-maqwa but as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from unlawful inclamation then indeed Paradise will be his refuge. And he will be rewarded in the day after. So each and every one of us should be working on getting the heart to love Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to love Sayyidina Muhammad and to love whoever Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam loves and to love his beloved Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Moving on to the last Hadith, Hadith 42 An-Nasin, Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says Allah says Yabna Adam Inna ka mad-awtani wa rajawtani ghafartu laka ala maa kana minta wala ubali Yabna Adam laubalagat zunubu ka anana ssamayi thumma staghfartani ghafartu laka Yabna Adam Inna ka lawa teitani beqorabi al-aradi khataya thumma laqitani laatushriku bi-cheyaa laa teituka beqorabiha na ghfirah Amazing Hadith that shows the vastness of Allah's forgiveness An-Nasudi Allah reported that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, Allah the Exalted has said O son of Adam, I forgive you as long as you pray to me and hope for my forgiveness whatever sins you have committed O son of Adam, I don't care if your sins reach the height of the heaven then you ask for my forgiveness I'll forgive you O son of Adam, if you come to me with an earth load of sins and meet me associating nothing with no one to me I would match it with an earth load of forgiveness SubhanAllah So the first part starts with yabda Adam We are asked to make du'a We are ordered to make du'a and our du'a will be answered Allah swt says your Lord says call upon me I will respond to you And Sayyidin Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam tells us how to make du'a He says So the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says supplicate God and be assured of being answered know that God does not answer a supplication which comes from a careless and inattentive heart Also Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says So Abu Sa'id al-Khudry reports that Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says One of three things He will give him as a speedy answer He will answer his call immediately Or Allah will store it up for him in the next world Or Allah swt will turn away from him an equivalent amount of evil So those who heard Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam saying these three things they said then we will make many supplications So the messenger of Allah swt says So God is more ready to answer than they were ready to ask And in the Quran Allah swt gives us mentions the ayahs of forgiveness and there are ayahs in the Quran that urge to ask for forgiveness In Surat al-Baqarah Allah swt says Ask forgiveness of Allah And Allah indeed is forgiving and merciful So just ask Allah swt Do not say that oh I have a lot of sins How can these sins be forgiven Because it is just one word for Allah swt So if he wants to forgive you we will just say Very easy for Allah swt And whoever does a wrong or wrongs himself but then seeks forgiveness Allah swt Allah is You will find Allah forgiving and merciful And Allah keeps accepting the Tuhaa Keep answering the Tuhaa of those who made Tuhaa What type? What type of Tuhaa? What type? What type should we make Tuhaa for? In Surat al-Alamran ayah 17 Allah swt tells us the answer And those who seek forgiveness before dawn So remember the time before dawn is a blessed time Allah swt said that the message of Allah says Allah is merciful and merciful Even if the first night goes down to the heavens He says Allah is merciful So Allah waits till one third of the first part of the night He descends to the lowest heaven And he says Is there any supplicatory for forgiveness so that I forgive him So before dawn it's a time of answering the supplication It's a time when everyone is sleeping with Allah swt Talk to Allah Tell him how you feel Tell him that you feel sorry for sinning and promise that you will not do the sin again And ask for forgiveness Show your repentance, tell Allah that you repent And ask Allah swt Ask Allah swt to keep you away from sinning This is very important You need the help of Allah swt during this life There are so many obstacles that we have to overcome in this dunya The love of dunya, the love of wealth The love of money, the love of so and so and so and so and so These are all arrows that are thrown at our heart But we want our heart to be saved So we want Allah's help We want divine help to help us along this difficult path This path is not easy But it will be easy with the help of Allah swt So we have to make lots of supplications to Allah swt We have to make lots of du'a to help us And we want to ask Allah swt for the best of endings In another Hadith Abu Musa Al-Ashari says Allah swt spends the night to sleep And spends the night to sleep until the sun rises So Abu Musa Al-Ashari says Sayyidina Muhammad says Allah is the exalted will continue to stretch out his hand in the night so that the sinners of the day may repent And continue to stretch his hand in the daytime so that the sinners of the night may repent until the sun rises from the west What does this mean? Allah will always accept the repentance except asking him for forgiveness until the person dies Here the Hadith says until the sun rises from the west Well, what about if someone dies before he witnesses this? Death is considered the first step of the day of judgment If someone dies, this means that his day of judgment has started So if they do not repent and do not ask for forgiveness then they will be as those whom Allah swt says about Even if someone dies Allah says Allah has done good deeds in what you have left No It is a word he said and from them they will be given to the day of judgment For such is the state of his believers What is this state? Until when death comes to one of them he says, my lord, send me back and you start to beg So he died He looked into his grave and he found that this grave is just a hole of fire Hellfire So he would beg My lord, send me back that I might do righteous things So I will make it up Allah says, no It is only a word he is saying No And behind them is a barrier until the day of judgment until the day they are resurrected Even Sayyid bin Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to do forgiveness So What type of forgiveness? The forgiveness of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is forgiveness of lights and not forgiveness of others Change of lights and not change of others What does this mean? Sayyid bin Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He says He says He says My heart feels heavy So I do seek Allah's forgiveness a hundred times every day This is Sayyid bin Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He does this a hundred times We should not leave this We should stick to this 100 istighfar in the morning and 100 sallahu alayhi wa sallam in the morning and another one another set in the evening before we go to bed So why would Sayyid bin Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam do istighfar He has no sins Change of lights His sins are light What does this mean? Every day Sayyid bin Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is elevated to a higher place So the nur that he has will be increased will be bigger, will be higher So he will make istighfar that he wasn't at this state the day before That's the reason for his istighfar Subhanallah Abbas sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says من لزم الاستغفار جعل الله لهم من كل ضيق ما خرجا ومن كلهم من فرجا ورزقه من حيث لا يحتسب So this is Abbas reporting The message of Allah SWT says If anyone constantly seeks istighfar, seeks forgiveness from Allah SWT then Allah will appoint for him a way out of every distress and a relief from every anxiety and will provide sustenance for him from where he expects not He wouldn't think that this height will be for him but sustenance will be provided for him and sustenance means sustenance in health, sustenance in knowledge sustenance in results sustenance in everything not only in money in everything and those who are old they would believe that the sustenance of health is the most important those who are young would say the sustenance of wealth is the most important they want to start their life so they need money so each and every one would think of sustenance in their as per their own needs and Allah SWT says Sayyidina Muhammad SAW says Barely, Allah is more delighted with the repentance of his slave than a person who lost his camel in a desert and then finds it unexpectedly imagine how happy that person would be to find his camel which has his food his tent, everything so now you might ask okay now what is the highest form of istighfar, what is the best supplication of istighfar and Sayyidina Muhammad SAW has taught us this we taught us this supplication and that was narrated by Shadad ibn Ups that the prophet SAW said Sayyidina Muhammad SAW says so he adds that he says so the best supplication for seeking forgiveness which is called Sayyid al istighfar is to say Allahumma anta rabbi O Allah, you are my Lord La ilaha illa anta the result true God accept you khalaqtani wa anaa abduk you have created me and I am your slave wa anaa alaa ahdika wa wahdika mas tataat and I I hold to you your covenant as far as I can I seek refuge in you from the evil of what I have done abu ulaka bina ahmatika alai I acknowledge the favors that you have been stored upon me wa abu ulaka bina ahmatika alai I acknowledge the favors that you have been stored upon me wa abu ulaka bina ahmatika alai forgive me forgive me Allah ka innahu la yaghfir izni mube'illah and for none but you has the power to forgive so who supplicates this in this term during the day with firm belief in it and dies on the same day before the evening you will be one of the dwellers of Jannah and if anyone supplicates in these terms during the night with firm belief in it and dies before the morning you will be one of the dwellers of Jannah too Subhana Allah so our last hadith is about tawba, repentance and istighfar asking Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala for forgiveness and Ya Allah you see us here we have just come to a conclusion of our series of this 40 hadith of al-Imam al-Nuwi and at the end we ask you Ya Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive us to guide us to help us, to protect us to protect our children to raise them the way you will be content with them Ya Allah Ya Allah make us content of everything that you have you have chosen for us make us of those who strive to be one of your servants home about you said Allah is pleased with them they are pleased with Allah and at the end I send my best salawat in my best salam along with your salawat and salam to our beloved Prophet Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa salam wa salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh