 إن الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستغفره ونعوذ بالله من شرور أنفسنا ومن سيئات عمالنا من يهديه الله فلا مضللا ومن يضل الفلاها ديلا واشدوا الله إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له واشدوا أن محمد العبده ورسوله أما بعد The topic that I will be speaking about today is a Toba Repentance الله سبحانه وتعالى The way that he created us and the way that he made us Is that we will fall into shortcomings We will do mistakes in our lives We will error However strong that we are and however weak we are It doesn't matter However strong your iman is and however weak your iman is You're going to do shortcomings This is something that's going to happen to every single one of us الله سبحانه وتعالى He says الذين يجتنبون كبائر الإثم والفواحش إلا اللمم إن ربك واسع المغفرة الله says in Nuzbass الذين are the ones يجتنبون they abstain from يجتنبون كبائر الإثم They stay away from the major sins So this ayah shows us That the believers are the ones who stay away from Major sins والفواحش and they stay away from And they stay away from zina And then Allah says Look in the ayah الذين يجتنبون كبائر الإثم والفواحش إلا اللمم اللمم means major, minor sins This is something that believers will fall into And then Allah reminds us at the end of the ayah إن ربك واسع المغفرة Your Lord, he's forgiven his vast However much mistakes that you fall into Allah is always open to accept your what? Repentance But in the schools they say Your sins can never be more than Allah's forgiveness Your sins can never be bigger And greater than the forgiveness of your Lord The Prophet ﷺ he said In a hadith The Imam of Tirmidhi narrated in Sunan And Ibn Majan Darimi And Sheikh Albani رحمه الله Graded his hadith to be Hasan Which is كل بني آدم All of the children of Adam آخطاء خطاء means what? They're wrong doers Shortcomings Then the Prophet ﷺ he said وخير الخطائين The best of those who do mistakes The best of those who error The best of those who do shortcomings Is who are those who repent This is where you underline the hadith The Prophet said وخير الخطائين توابون The best of the sinners So Allah the Prophet ﷺ What? Sinners The best of those sinners is what? The one who what? Who repents Who asks Allah for forgiveness سبحانه وتعالى So every one of us has to Every day renew this concept of repentance From time to time Brother's repentance is the path of success The Prophet ﷺ Who is greater than each and every one of us Who we believe he is معصوم Meaning he is infallible The Prophet ﷺ is free from mistakes and errors After that, what would he say? He said He swore by Allah And the Prophet doesn't have to swear by Allah For us to believe him Right brothers We would believe him without him Having to say We would believe him But imagine if he swore by Allah He becomes greater right Because more serious to us The Prophet ﷺ said By Allah I swear إني لأستغفر الله I ask Allah for forgiveness وأتوب إلي and I repent to him Scholars they said Okay, stop here The Prophet distilwish between استغفار and توبة There are two different things That the Prophet ﷺ he said By Allah I swear إني لأستغفر الله I ask Allah for forgiveness وأتوب إلي and I repent to him There are two different things استغفار and توبة There are two different things وليدانك الشيخ و الإسلام ويبنوطيم What he did was He wrote a book on that He wrote a book To distinguish between the two And explain which each one means We won't go into that now And look what the Prophet then said وأتوب إليه I repent to Allah في اليومي every day أكثر من سبعين مرة More than 70 times And another narration he said مئة مرة 100 times So it's more than 70 So how much is it then? 100 إذا النبي الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم He asked Allah for forgiveness And repents to Allah Turns back to his Lord How many times a day? More than 70 100 times الأغر إبنو ياسر المازيني رضي الله و تعالى عن Who is a companion He said يا أيها الناس The Prophet said this He said that the Prophet ﷺ has said يا أيها الناس Oh people توبوا إلي الله He repents to Allah وستغفروه And asking for forgiveness فإني أتوبوا في اليومي مئة مرة I ask Allah for forgiveness Every single day 100 times So these two narrations What do they do to each other? They explain each other 70 times More than 70 times The Prophet asked for forgiveness The other narration tells us How many times? 100 times Here the question lies brothers Which is Is every repentance Or is a specific type of repentance There is a repentance That Allah mentioned in the Qur'an يا أيها الناس توبوا إلي الله توبة نصوحة What is توبة نصوحة مين What does توبة نصوحة مين Because this ayah says يا أيها الناس Those of you who believe توبوا إلي الله Repent to Allah توبة نصوحة A repentance Which is نصوح What does توبة نصوحة مين We'll explain that later إن شاء الله تعالى At the end of the lecture We will speak about that إن شاء الله In another ayah Allah says توبوا إلي الله جميعا يا أيها المؤمنون لعلكم تفلحون Allah says in this ayah وتوبوا إلي الله People repent to Allah جميعا All of you This ayah It's for everybody If you're a high If you're a scholar If you're a student If you're a person in the streets It doesn't matter تحديث The ayah says وتوبوا إلي الله جميعا أيها المؤمنون or believers Why لعلكم تفلحون You're going to attain from your repentance success and prosperity And a repentance is not specific to what brothers Repentance is not specific to the sinner It's not specific to the one who commits crimes and the one who comes with sins It's not It's for every believer Because look what the ayah says وتوبوا إلي الله جميعا All of you أيها المؤمنون or believers Does it mean that it's only for the sinners? No, it becomes more for the one who knows his sins But even the other believer Why does he have to repent? Because there are some sins that might come from you that you don't know You might do mistakes shortcomings and errors that you're unaware of Allah is happy سبحانه وتعالى when a slave repents And the happiness of Allah is greater as the Prophet told us than if one of you was in the middle of the desert and you had a riding beast And on top of that riding beast you placed your food your nutrition drink everything your life say your life is on top of that riding beast And guess what somehow you lose that riding beast You gave up a life because everything is on there in the middle of the desert if you go this direction it's going to take you weeks The other direction is going to take you weeks The other direction is going to take you weeks It's going to take you weeks The only way you could get to wherever you want to get to is on the riding beast You've lost it now You don't know where it is How would you feel you would get ready for death You would get ready for what? Death Then once you give up guess what You find your riding beast on top of your head standing next to you How happy would you be if you find it The prophet told us that the repentance when you come with it is more joyful to Allah than the feeling that person feels at that particular moment The prophet, peace be upon him, said الله أفرح بتوبة عبده Allah is more happy for the repentance of his slave حين يتوب إلي when he repents to his Lord من أحدكم Then if one of you was كان على راحلة بأرض فلاتن فلاتن if one of you was in a land which was open a desert فنفلت منه then the riding beast ran away from you or escaped from you or you lost it وعليها طعامه وشرابه and your drink and your food and everything is on it فأي أس منها and you gave up you gave up you don't ever believe it's going to come back Then you came under a tree you slept فضجع في ضلها فأت شجرة فضجع في ضلها he went to a tree he slept under it he slept under it giving up on life thinking you know I'm going to die وقد أي أس من راحلة فاي بينما as you like that هو كذلك إذا هو بها قائمة your riding beast is right next to your head standing فأخذ بخطامها اما بخطامها you grab your riding beast from the front ثم قال then the slave says so happy he grabs his riding beast he doesn't want to lose it and then he says the following ثم قال من شدة الفرحة due to your excessive happiness اللهم أنت عبدي وانا ربك أخطأ من شدة الفرحة that that slave becomes so happy he says to Allah you are my slave and I'm your lord he gets it wrong he's so happy that feeling that that slave feels at that particular moment is nothing compared to how Allah feels when you repent to him Allah loves his slave to come back to him you read اللهم أن يتوب عليكم اللهم wants to take your repentance اللهم wants to forgive you سبحانه وتعالى the repentance of the brothers It carries on It's open until the day you're about to die The Prophet ﷺ said under the authority of أبو موسى الأشعري رب الله وتعالى عنه and I'll need this faster this time إن الله التعالى يابسوا تر ياده بالليلي Allah opens His hands سبحانه وتعالى day time لياتوبا موسيئ النهاري At night time Allah opens His hands to forgive those who done the crimes day time ويابسوا تر ياده و يبسوط رياده بالنهاري و يتهم الله و يفتحه ليتوبا موسيئا ليلي و يفتح الواقع الذي فعلت سيمة في الليل الله يفعل هذا حتى تطلع الشمس من مغربها حتى الشمس رياضي من المنطقة من الشمس حتى الشمس يأتي من الشمس و لا يأتي منه الله سبحانه وتعالى هل هو الشمس من المنطقة؟ المنطقة حتى الشمس يأتي من there المنطقة الله سبحانه وتعالى يفعل هذا حتى سبحانه وتعالى سبحانه وتعالى سبحانه وتعالى سبحانه وتعالى منطقة قبل أن تطلع الشمس من مغربها تاب الله علي من who repents before the sun comes out from the west الله يفهم the repentance is open also the person before he dies before the death reaches the person throw it الله يفهم سبحانه وتعالى سبحانه وتعالى سبحانه وتعالى يقبل وتوبة العبدي الله يفهم the repentance of a slave ما لم يغرغر as long as the death doesn't reach what? his jug of veins before he doesn't at this point if you repent he won't be accepted ما لم يغرغر so you have the chance to ask for forgiveness before that brothers it doesn't matter how great your sin is and how big it is الله is always open to accepting from you and the prophet told us the hadith that Abu Sa'id and al-Khudri narrated and the hadith is found by Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim that there was a man كان في من كان قبلكم before you there was a man رجلن قاتل تسعة و تسعين نفسا this man killed 99 people not one not two not three 99 people who took their lives this is called a serial killer right he killed 99 people فسأل he asked عن عالم أهل الأرضي he asked the most knowledgeable person he requested and he said I want the most the most knowledgeable person فدل على راهب he was then pointed towards a monk they showed him a monk he was a worshipper فأتاه he came to him فقال he said to him they told the monk إنه قاتل تسعة و تسعين نفسا this man he killed 99 people this is what they told the monk the monk is a worshipper one who cuts off from everybody else he lives inside a a little he has a little place he stays in and he doesn't come out he doesn't meet people so they told him what is it called in English the place that he stays in a tapestry so he stays there and he remains there he doesn't come out even sometimes they say his food and what he wants to eat is bought to him and the monks at those times what they used to do is they would have a rope that dangled from the roof they wouldn't have a staircase for people to come up to them and the rope would be with them so whenever they wanted to come down they could come down and guess what when they wanted to go up they could go up because the rope is down but then once they go up they take their rope and they put it in so no one can come up no one can meet them it's no way to get to them so they took him to a monk like this when they took him to the monk the monk said they asked the monk they told the monk this man killed 99 people and so he said to him he's a monk he's a worshipper so he saw this to be very great so he said اينا نفسك this man killed 99 people so he saw this to be very great so he killed 99 people this is after they asked him he killed 99 and he wants to repent this and then he said no, Allah doesn't forgive a person like this this is a killer he said Allah doesn't forgive he took his sword out and he made him 100 he killed the monk now he killed 99 and he killed the monk a worshipper this man said it's a serious killer فقت لو فكمل به مئة he completed 100 on him ثم سأل ثم سأل and then he asked عن أعلى مئة للأرض فدول على رجل العالم brother's ponder here this man was shown a monk a monk is not a person of knowledge are we all together and if we combine two hadiths we take a benefit from it that the ignorant person he kills others and he kills himself because this ignorant one he killed himself he was the cause of his own death because he gave a fatwa a verdict that was wrong so he was the cause of his own death and we have another حديث حديث أبي سعيد الخذري the same same companion narrated it of the companions given a verdict that was wrong and that verdict killed what another person they gave a wrong verdict and then the prophet he said they killed him may Allah kill them why didn't they ask if they didn't know and then the prophet said the cure to ignorance is questioning so when you speak with no knowledge you do not only affect yourself but you could also affect another person because your verdict could probably kill a person it could what it could kill a person you could say to a person no you have to because this man he had a wound on his head and it was bleeding and he said I can't shower with water it's too cold and it will kill me I have a big wound and the companions believed if there is water there and the water is what it's present there's no other way out you have to use the water from وضو and for وصول because he had major impurity he had a wet dream that's what the companions believed so what happened they told him no no you have to use the water is there water here yes water is not missing right use the water they didn't know that you can't use the water it's also the same you don't have to use it so they he used the water and it killed him and he died from that so the problem here was that the person who was asked the question was what a monk so he became the reason of his own death so then he asked for a person of knowledge said I don't want a monk I want a person of knowledge فدولة على علم so they went and they showed him a scholar فقال they told him إنه قتل تسعة واتسعين النفس no no إنه قتل مئة تنفسين sorry this man killed a hundred because now he added the extra one he killed a hundred فهلهم يتوبة does this man have repentance فقاله سنع he does the scholar knows the scripts he knows everything don't judge a person based on how they worship Allah if they cry if they weep if they it's not what qualifies a person to be a scholar are you with me brothers because the scholar knows he understands he has he's grounded so he said to him yes he has repentance look how powerful his knowledge was but he said something else to him he said but he realized that this man even though he wants to repent and the repentance is accepted he realized that this man can't repent whilst he's here brothers benefit from this he realized in order for this man to be serious he has to leave the land brothers are we all together he said to him انطلق إلى أرض كذا وكذا go to the land so and so فإن بها because there are people يعبدون الله واشب الله in that land I'm telling you to go to there are worshippers who are worshipping Allah فعبد الله معهم واشب الله with them brothers when you want to repent you can't say I repent and I'm with the wrong people are we all together brothers this man when he when the he at the time said to him yes your repent is accepted but he said leave now he didn't just say leave the people he told him to leave the land he said leave that land that you're in right now and go to the land so and so وأي فإن بها because there are people who are worshipping Allah so what would that benefit the benefit that will benefit is المرء على دين خليله فلينظر أحدكم من يخليله أنت على مدينة من المرء في الوضع المرء في الوضع يوجد أفكتك أخي إذا تأخذ شيء يبدو بخير وكدرسه في مدينة تضع شيء يبدو بخير في مدينة وكدرس شيء فيه هل يبدو بخير من الأخرى؟ يضع شيء في مدينة من الحلوة وكدرسه في مدينة إذا أخذ شيء يبدو بخير في المدينة هل يبدو بخير من المدينة؟ evet تضع شيء يبدو بخير في المدينة وليس لديه فتاة ولكنه في مكان مستقبل يبدو بخير من المدينة الناس والذين يبدو بخير سنرى ذلك أنت ستبدأ تخلقهم وطريقهم ونظر ما قلت لهم ولا ترجع إلى أرضك فإنها أرض سوء و لا تأتي إلى this land for verily this land is an evil land انه قلت لهم هذا لذا يجب أن يجب أن يدع out this point which is the sign of repentance is that you turn away from the people that you're with the people that you're hanging around with من طلق حتى إذا نصف الطريق أتاه الموت the man he straight away because the hadith mentions فنطلقه فنطلقه means brother's war he left the fact here brothers it shows a sura it shows that it was fast and it was quick and he followed the command of the scholar straight away but brothers pay attention to this if he had not followed that command quickly he would not have made it to where he made it to which would later benefit him are we all together brothers he listened to the scholar when the scholar said to him go فنطلقه حتى إذا نصف الطريق أتاه الموت death came to him the man died before he could reach the land that the scholar told him to get to but what did he do? did he follow the command set by the scholar? he followed it straight away but listen he died and he never made it to the place so the angels they fought because remember his repentance was only considered when he fully left the land but he hasn't left he's still in evil land فختصمت فيه ملائقة الرحمة وملائقة العذاب the two angels the angels that are their job is to deal with the mercy of Allah they're here and the ones that are meant to deal with Allah's punishment are also here they're arguing he's ours no he's ours this is where the argument is فقالت ملائقة الرحمة by the way that the judgment was done was the angels who were who was dealing with Allah's mercy they said جاء تائبا مقبلا بقلبه إلى الله this man he turned to Allah he repented he ran to his Lord he wanted to gain Allah's forgiveness وقالت ملائقة العذاب the angels that were their job was to deal with the punishment of Allah they said إنه لم يعمل خيرا مقط this man never done any good he has not put forward any good he has done his repent and he came he hasn't done any actions yet فأتاءهم ملاكن في صورة آدمي then an angel came to them in the form of a human فجعلوه بينهم اي حكم he placed between them اي حكم فقاله he said قيسوا ما بين الأرضين الأرضينة أما الأرضيني قيسوا means مجاء each of those two lands فإلى أييتهما which ever of those two lands كان أدنا فولا whichever of those land in which he is more in then he is of that land so they did it they measured the land they realized that he was what فقاسوا فوجدواه أدنا إلى الأرضين التي أراد قبضته the land in which he wanted to go to the land of mercy he was more closer to that so he got it in time فقابضته ملائكة الرحمة the angels of mercy they took him some of the narrations mentioned no he wasn't but Allah made the land closer to that direction and إبن القيب mentions the reason why Allah made the earth move in his favor was because the part of the Hadith where he says جاء تائبا مقبلا إلى الله بقلبي he came to his Lord الله مقبلا إلى مقبلا من his heart even though his actions let him down the person gets a reward based on their what in the intention he really meant it he really wanted this this Hadith is one of the most powerful Hadith the most powerful Hadith in this regard now I want to speak about إن شاء الله تعالى the conditions that come regarding repentance شروط قبول التوبة the conditions of acceptance of repentance brothers for a person to repent their three conditions this is the shurot and the conditions that a person has to come with the first one is أن يقلع عن المعصية leave the sin the minute you repent you leave the sin brothers leaving the sin it means you leave every single thing that would lead you to it as well so for example if it's brothers and people that you're hanging around that's making you do these wrong things for you to leave the sin doesn't mean you just don't sell drugs but you also stay away from the people who are who are influencing you so the first condition is أن يقلع عن المعصية you stay away from the sin وما يؤدي إليه and that whichever whatever will lead you to it if a person is addicted to watching haram things online then they have to get rid of the things that are making them watch it if it's your phone if it's your laptop if it's your computer whatever is leading you to it you have to get rid of it if you don't you're not coming with the repentance that's leading from you so the first condition is أن يقلع عن المعصية the person has to leave off the sin and anything that's leading to it the second one is أن يندم على فعليها the person has to regret the sin whenever they remember it the Prophet said in the hadith أن ندم هو التوبة تتوقف is what is repentance whenever you remember it you cry you become emotional how would I do that why it will hurt you a lot whenever you remember of what you did and what you said and how you did it it hurts you sometimes some people brothers they will converse about it they will talk about it they will laugh about it they would even make a joke about it the person who really regressed that sin will never talk about it brothers pay attention if you murdered somebody would you ever talk about it if you killed somebody would you ever tell anyone even if you repented even if you didn't repent would you talk about it why because you know it's something serious and you don't want to get caught put behind bars right are we all together brothers so why is it that when you do زينا or you steal or you talk about it and you converse about it you shouldn't the third one is العز a decision you have to make اللي عود إليها that you never go back to this again you have to make a decision in your heart that this sin that you did you're never going to do it again I'm never going to go back for that and I'm never going to do it it has happened once but it won't happen again that's all if it's sins that you do between you and Allah but if it's a right of a person and you did something to somebody you've got their rights you took something from them then what you have to do is what if it's connected to somebody's right then what is needed is there's a fourth thing which is التحلل من المظالم you have to free yourself from the oppression that you did whatever the humans rights you whatever it is if you insulted somebody you name called them you have to take forgiveness from them these are the three conditions if these three conditions are found and they are present this is called طوبة which is نصوحة يَا يَلَّذِينَ عَمَنُوا تُوْبُوا إِنَ اللَّهِ تَوْبَةً نصوحةً this is طوبة نصوحة that's what it means if one of those are missing from you then your repentance is gone I'm going to finally conclude عقساء التائرينة the people who repent how many times are they the people who repent are four times are we all together I will leave off the آثارة الواريدة على itself the statements that have been transmitted from the self we'll leave that insha'Allah we'll take you away after this but the four types of the people who repent the first time is اطبقة الولى this is the first time that the people are the first one is اي يتوبة إلي الله the person repents to Allah ويستقيم على التوبة and the person is steadfast upon the repentance إلى آخر لحظة من حياته till the last moments of his life in this world he's steadfast he did a sin he walks away from it and he will never fall into it again of course as we said الله سبحانه وتعالى he created us in a way to commit minus الذين اجتنبون كبائرة الإثم والفواحشة إلا اللمم استثناء here means اللمم which is minus since will occur from the person we said the Hadith before كل ابن آدم خطاء وخير الخطائين التوابونة that all of the children of Adam are what? the sinners so everyone's gonna fall into some mistake some shortcoming, some errors like in this person has stayed away from the major sins and this person is steadfast this person of course is what? السابق إلى الخيرات he's a person who's gone forward in good and we all together brothers a person who an example today that we saw today that take took place is one brother who recently died from cancer you guys probably heard of brother Ali Balat who died غفر الله لنا وله may Allah forgive him and for us and insha'Allah he's never ending mercy onto him and us but he's an example of this kind of category إن شاء الله and we're basing out what's apparent to us ولانو زكي على الله أحد والله حسيب we don't praise anyone in front of Allah Allah knows everybody what they truly are but what it seemed apparent to us is that brother walked away from everything that he was and he repented to Allah and he became steadfast until his last moments صح that's what it seemed to us the second brothers is a person he repented he took the path of repentance but this person is steadfast upon the ummahatu ta'a he's steadfast upon the comprehensive obligations the ummahatu ta'a means the obligatory things he doesn't foreshort on obligatory things and this individual stays away from الفواحش زنا he also stays away from major sins but he's short in what he's short and also falling into the sins the sins he's got some sins here and there that he cannot let go of that will come to him every now and then but he's not doing it intentionally he's not willing to do it but there's a weakness in him this is what the ayah means اللذين اجتريبون كبائر الإثم والفواحشة إلا لما إن ربك واسع المغفرة this ayah is talking about that person he's falling into the minor sins no, this person is not falling into major sins but in this person he's falling into it consistently but it's not because he wants it he cries every time he remembers والذين إذا فعلوا فاحشة أو ظلموا أنفسهم ذكروا الله فاستغفروا لذنوبه وما يغفروا الذنوب إلا الله ولم يسروا على ما فعلوا هم يعلمون the third person is he repents he's steadfast upon that repentance for a short time and then his desires overcome him his desires they overcome him and then he stands up and he does the sins intentionally because he can't control himself his shahwah has power over him الله says in the Quran وآخرون اعترفوا بذنوبهم these people they've mixed up the good with the evil this is what this ayah is this ayah is talking about this طبقه of people or this type of people وآخرون اعترفوا بذنوبهم they accept that they have sins but look what they do خلطوا عامل صالحا the good that they've done they mixed it up وآخر سيئ and another shortcomings that they do is mixed with it and then Allah says the fourth and the last one is the person repents and then he's consistent upon his repentance for a period of time then he goes back to the sin without ever repenting again and he's consistent upon the sins again he repents it he's good for a period of time then he falls into the deep end with the sins and he doesn't come back brothers the best of people is the one whose life is long and he fills it up with obedience the Prophet ﷺ said to us when he was asked ايون ناسي خير who is the best of people the Prophet ﷺ he said من طال عمره وحاسن عمله the best of people are those who are طال عمره his life is long he lived for a hundred years وحاسن عمله and he perfected his actions and the Prophet ﷺ was then asked ايون ناسي شبرون who is the worst of people the Prophet ﷺ من طال عمره anyone whose life is long and وساء عمله his actions are evil ولي ذلك repentance is something that we need to come with it's from the things that will allow us to come back to Allah سبحانه و تعالى anything which I have said that was wrong is from me and Shaytan and Allah and his messenger are free from it أشهد ولا إله إلا الله أستغفرك وأتوب إلي