 وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِهِ آيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ المُنزَالُهُ وَأَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُهُ وَلَقَدْ هَمَّةِ بِهِ وَهَمَّةِ بِهَا لَوْلَا أَرَّاءَ بُرْهَانَ رَبِّهِ كَذَالِكَ لِنَصْرِفَ عَنْهُ السُّوءَ وَالْفَحْشَاءِ إِنَّهُ مِنْ أِبَادِنَ المُخْلاصِينَ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَ وَيْتَعَالَا تَوْزَسْ إِنَّ أَفَاسِ دَأْنَي بِيُو اللَّهِ يُوْسُسُ وَأَبَادِنَ مُخْلاصِينَ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانِ وَيْتَعَالَا تَوْزَスْ إِنَّ أَفَاسِ دَأْنَي بِيُو اللَّهِ يُوْسُسْ وَأَبَادِنَ مُخْلاصِينَ him a promise to Allah Subhanahu و تعالى and he made the oath that he's going to misguide us He said الله gonna misguide them all gonna make sure they all come to landscape. And then he gave an exception he said the ones I will not be able to misguide I will not be able to get to are the ones who were sincere هذا يظهر أن أجل إبريسي يدفع أن سنسيرتي هو فكرة التي ستعمل معهم لذا يجب أن نأتي معها أحبت أخي بأخي سنسيرتي يساعد with the repentance سنسيرتي أيضا يساعد with staying away from sins شيخ الإسلامي بنو تيميا في كتاب العبوديه سهد وإذا كان العبد ومخلص لله إذا كان فرصة سنسية has sincerity in his heart إيجتباه ربه فأحياق البه الله تباركه تعالى will choose that person and الله تباركه تعالى will give life to that person's heart واجتدبه به إله and Allah will bring you close to him فينصرف عنه ما يضادي with that and Allah will prevent you from anything that may harm you anything that goes against servitude anything that goes against what please Allah سبحانه وتعالى will prevent you from it will protect you from it من السوء والفحشاء ويخاف من ذي ذارك and anything you are scared of will prevent you from it إذا كان العبد ومخلص لله if you are sincere for Allah's sake and you have sincerity and sincerity in your heart الله تباركه تعالى will choose you and he will give life to your heart and he will bring you close to him and he will divert from you and protect from you every single thing that may harm you من السوء والفحشاء زينا حرام كدي بفترة all of that Allah will protect you from it and Allah تباركه وتعالى he will prevent you and protect you from what anything that you are fearful of as well sincerity helps because of very far far distance it will take you somewhere very far so we need to adorn ourselves with sincerity the second is امتلاق القلب من محبة الله عز وجل we have to fill our hearts with the love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى we love him سبحانه وتعالى we fill our hearts with his love and the way to attain the love of Allah is in two ways العلوم النافعة trying to attain beneficial knowledge والأعمال الصالحة and coming with righteous actions it fills in your heart the love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the more you adorn yourself with knowledge and you learn more about who Allah is you study his names and his attributes the love of Allah will increase in your heart and then the more you implement what you know and you act in accordance to what you know the more your love of Allah will increase the more the love of Allah increases in your heart و لذلك the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he told us that the person plays the obligatory prayers he comes with the wajibat and then he adds on to the voluntary acts عمال الصالحة righteous actions the person Allah will love you and once Allah loves you what will he do كنتوا سمعه الذي يسمع به Allah will be your hearing and he won't hear except that which is good و بصره الذي يبصيره به أن يوجد عيسائت و يده الذي يبتشر به أن يهان that you grab with الله will protect you from anything that's not right و يجله الذي يمشي به and your legs الله سبحانه وتعالى will take it to the right places the good places then the Prophet says if he asks me for something and if he seeks refuge in something from me I'll protect him from it that person has reached درجة المحبة he has attained love love protects you it brings about repentance people will love Allah سبحانه وتعالى they do not want to anger him so they stay away from doing sins and if they do sins they hasten to ask him for forgiveness والذين إذا فعلوا فاحشة أو ظلموا أنفسهم ذكروا الله فاستغفروا لذنوبهم وما يغفروا لذنوبه إلا الله ولم يسروا على ما فعلوا وهم يعلمون pay attention here when they do the sin and they go against والله طبعا كوطعا prohibited or they do or they stay away from that which they were told sorry if they stay away from that which they were told to do and they leave off which they were told to do they remember that they have done a crime and sin and as soon as they remember that they've done a sin they remember how evil their action was and they remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى I'll ask you all a question how could someone remember Allah at a time when he's committing sin it can only come from if there was a relationship with Allah prior to this action of yours if you had a bond with him before if you loved your Lord يعني you're a human being you can do a mistake and it may occur from you but your heart was connected to Allah the minute you slipped you remember your Creator you remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى and you start thinking over your actions why did I say this why did I do this why did I act in this particular way you start accounting yourself that is a person who's got love in his heart the third thing that helps with the repentance my beloved brothers and sisters is المجاعدة you have to struggle we are in a consistent continuous battle with Shaytan and our nafs we have to fight every single day we can't give in to our desires we can't become slaves for our desires Allah سبحانه وتعالى He said والذين جاهدوا فينا لنهدينا أمصولنا the ones who fight and strive and exert effort those are the ones who are going to guide them to the right path repentance comes from struggling put in effort in hard work the people who are like that will attain it if you surrender and you just give in this nafs will take you to destruction and it will destroy you and it will bring you all sorts of harm there is عبدالله المبارك he said in the lines of poetry ومن البلاء للبلاء علامة اللي يرى لك عن هواك نزع العبد العبد النفس في شهواتها والحر يشبع طارة ويجوع the person you will see them dwelling in evil and they become slaves for their nafs have we not seen a people سبحان الله who are drug addicts they are in sins deeply into sins and then what happens is those people when you look at them they are crying for help they are dying they are thinking and committing suicide they are emotional and they feel loneliness they are always crying that no one cares for them and no one wants them all of this is because this nafs is an enemy of Allah وليه دارك عايق what I say to you all if you do not become a slave of Allah you are going to definitely be a slave to your desires of shaitan يبنو القيم he said حربوا من الريق الذي خولقوا له فبولوا بريق نفسي والشيطان they ran away from being slaves to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and surrendering to Allah تبارك وتعالى they ended up becoming slaves to who to their nafs in shaitan ألم عهد إليكم يا بني آدمة أن لا تعبود الشيطان إنه لكم عدو مبين وعني عبودوني هذا صراط مستقيل he diverted you worship shaitan is he going to take you to a good place is he going to give you what you want or is he going to take you to a path where you're going to be consistently struggling and you're going to be consistently in in stress and pain and agony سليماني بن عبد مريك said that he never ever loved reciting poetry and there was only one line of poetry he ever ever read he said إذا أنت لم تقص الهواء قادك الهواء إلى بعض ما فيه عليك المقال he said if you do not disobey your your desires you don't disobey it قادك الهواء your desires will lead you to what إلى بعض ما فيه عليك المقال it will take you to places where you're going to be slundered people are going to accuse you of things it's going to take you to a destructive path you're going to be the story of the town you're going to be the discussion of the city people are going to be dwelling over your your honor all because of what because you went towards a path فيه مقال you followed your desires and that's always the case we all know that when we do something wrong it always ends up becoming accusations so the best way to do is do not obey your desires إذا أنت لم تقص الهواء قادك الهواء إلى بعض ما فيه مقال إلى بعض ما فيه عليك المقال the fourth thing that aids and supports you in repentance is looking at this world as though it's short remembering that this life is very short and always reminding yourself يوم القيامة آخرة the other stage in our life the real and ultimate life consistently reminding yourself that the poet he said الأمالة في الدنيا تفز فدلول العقلي تقصير الأمن شورتن your thoughts and your desires in this world and I see it to be very look at this dunya as though it's short something very small تفز you're going to find success if you do that فدلول العقلي to show a person's really smart clever person and the evidence to show that so and so is clever تقصير الأمن when you see him seeing this dunya to be very short that is a person who is truly smart and he's clever وردارك عبدالله عمر ابن الخطاب ربي الله تعالى عنهما he narrated that the apostle عليه السلام يسأل to him كن في الدنيا كأنك غريب أو عابر سبيل be in this dunya as a stranger or a person crossing a road like a traveler be in this world stranger and a traveler and that's all you should see yourself in this dunya you're a stranger how is a stranger when he goes to a village he's a stranger you are a stranger in this dunya and you're like a traveler وردارك عبدالله عباس when the morning would come he would never wait for the evening and he would only know he used to say إذا أصبحت فلا تنتظر المساء وإذا أمسيت فلا تنتظر السباح وخذ من سحاتك علي مرضك ومن حياتك علي موتك إذا أصبحت فلا تنتظر المساء إذا أصبحت فلا تنتظر المساء تأخبك حياتك وخذ منها now تستخدمك حياتك now وخذ منها before that comes to you وردارك عقير رحمه الله إنه كتاب الفنون he said something very powerful extremely powerful a very very deep statement he said الأحوال إلا بتقصير الأمال فإن كل من عدة ساعته التي يهو فيها كمرض الموت حسنت أعمال فصارع عمره كله صاحيان الله وكبر he said no one's actions become pure and his situation becomes rectified unless he comes with قصر الأمل he sees this dunya to be very short and if you want your actions to be good and if you want your life and everything about your life to be rectified then be a person who sees this dunya to be very short and then he went on to say فإن كل من عدة ساعته anyone who counts his time and his lifespan ألتك هو فيها كمرض الموت and he looks like it like a deathbed حسنت أعماله your whole entire actions will become perfect فصارع عمره كله صافية and you'll purify all of your actions if you just look at this entire world as a stepping stone if you look at it a moment you wake up and then you go to sleep if you look at it that short you'll make sure you work hard a lot of the people who are doing sins if you ask them أخي ربن no no I'll do it when I'm 40 they don't believe in قصر الأمل they think they can live for too long that same person if an angel or someone came to them or even a doctor came to them and said to them you are not going to live more than 7 days does the person remain the same or does he change he changes he rectifies his situation he starts to work hard he goes to the mischief spends his life in the mischief and many people we've seen who've been told you have cancer you're not going to live for more than a month that person was found to be in the front line every in the mischief so when you live your life قصر أمل like that you'll do good you'll repent every time you do a little mistake you repent the fifth thing that helps a person that helps an individual repent and rectify their situation it is الاشتغالة بما ينفع to preoccupy yourself with that which will benefit you you'll need to preoccupy yourself my beloved brothers and sisters in that which is going to benefit you وتجنب and avoid الوحدة والفرق stay away from being alone and stay away from free time where you're not doing anything sins creep they creep in when a person is not doing that which is beneficial he's laughing, he's joking he's using his gadgets these things bring about sins they creep in like that also being alone if you know you're a person who is your nefs is not really pure yet you know your nefs is going to call you to things which are haram don't be alone and don't be by yourself stay away from that also don't make yourself free always do things whether it be reading whether it be exercise do things which are beneficial for you either for your hear after or your world dear friends pre-occupy yourself with something busy yourself with something do not sit around and just do nothing this is detrimental for you and it pushes you to sins when you're there you can look at the wolf the wolf when he wants to hunt and he wants to catch the the herd of sheep or even the goats or the deer or the buffaloes it tries to take one outside the jama'a it tries to take it out once that buffalo that baby cub leaves the rest it destroys it it destroys it whilst it's with his family and it's with his mother and father and it's with the herds it won't even dare to go inside because they're going to all kill him the prophet told us something similar to that he said to us با يأكلوا الغانم وغاسي that the wolf eats the sheep that's alone and the prophet was trying to say that the shaitan does the same shaitan takes you away from the jama'a he takes you away from the misjid he takes you away from your family and your good people righteous people you get away from them and the minute you start to become alone he has you by yourself he whispers to you he tells you things he brings thoughts to your mind it's not good try to be around good people noble people number six stay away from things that bring the urge bring about the desire stay away from things that are going to remind you of evil doings or things that are going to remind you stay away from those things some people they have problems with gadgets maybe that's where their problem comes from stay away from it some people their problem is particular people they're hanging around with they're the ones that are making them do this stay away from them the poet he said if you look at a lot of people it is that one look that they give to something that just brings about so much problems they're watching TV series there and then shower comes from there they see things and they become addicted to watching in decent things stay away from all of this or they are with a group of people and he knows that he hasn't got a job hasn't got a job he's looking for a job and his friends are making good money they're sending drugs and so what does he do they keep telling him oh yeah you know what I've got 50,000 this last week I just made 50,000 and these persons walked away from all of this stay away from those people what they're going to do is they're going to try to bring about thoughts into your mind look at you now you can't even buy new trainers come here you know what I'll take care of you I'll buy you new clothes and he takes them out buys you new clothes and then says you know what I'm here for you if you want money I'll give it to you I can see you're broke this person who sees that he's been brought stuff and things that have been given to him and it reminds him of the days when he was rich because he used to have money from drug money or etc stay away from people like that what they want to do is bring you back to those darknesses and those evil doings stay away from things that bring those thoughts into your mind go to people was simple easy and humble he'll only remind you of that which is good the seventh thing that helps you and supports you in repentance is مصاحبة الأخيار ومجانبة الأشلار befriending righteous people and being with good people and staying away from the evil doers which is kind of connected to our previous one righteous people and noble people are always going to push you to that which is good they are of a lot of value and a lot of khair for you if you hang around with bad people you're going to regret it in this world and you're going to regret it in the Day of Judgment ويوم عظوا ظالم على يديه يقولوا يا ليتن اتخذتم عال رسول سبيلا يا ويلة ليتن لم اتخذ فلانا خليلا لقد اضلني عن الذكر بعد اتجاءني وكان الشيطان ولي الانسان خذولا يعني the evil friend you'll regret it the Day of Judgment اتتبراء الذين اتبعوا من الذين اتبعوا وراءوا لعداب وتقطعوا طبيب الأسباب وقال الذين اتبعوا لو ان لانا كرة فنتبراء منهم كما تبراءوا مننا كذلك يريهم الله عمالهم حسارات عالين وماهم بخارجنا منها and you're going to regret it يوم القيامة for being with these people looking up to these evil doers they will have a bad effect on you the good people on the other hand that you'll benefit from their presence you benefit from everything regarding them إذا سكتوا رأيتوا لهم جمالا وإنطقوا سمعتوا لهم عقولا if they are silent you see the beauty in their silence they have been silent at the time when it's appropriate وإنطقوا and when they speak سمعتوا لهم عقولا I hear the wisdom in their words as the poet said that's the good people that their silence is just beauty and their speech and their utterance is wisdom and shows you how smart and clever they are the eighth thing that helps and aids you in repentance is أنظروا في العاقل looking at the ending of everything this thing I'm doing where is it going to lead me to the way I'm acting where is it going to lead me to ألمام مبنو الجوزي he said in his book صيد القاتل a very powerful statement he said ألمام مبنو جوزي he said if it's the smart person he distinguished between fulfilling his desires and the minute that he's fulfilling his desires and also he compared that like the how long an hour you're going to do Zina okay one hour you do Zina and guess what that one hour of Zina that you're going to do you're going to regret it for a very long time I remember a brother who committed Zina with a woman then she got pregnant from it he told her do an abortion she said do an abortion and his life went down he was only 15 at the age of 15 he was a father you see and now he has to raise that child and be part of that child's life يعني all of it happened in what he said to me it happened in hour يعني one hour I said to him one hour of joy that you were looking for has now become what it has become in قضاء باقي العمري بالحصرات you're spending the rest of your life in regret يعني you're going to you're not going to regret having a child but you've got a child from a wedlock this is not your child in Islam شرعا so look what you've done to your child and etc one قضاء باقي العمري بالحصرات على قضاء ذلك الوطر so compare the joy that you're looking for and the evil outcome that it's going to have ابن القيم said this ابن الجوزي sorry he said this is what a wise person should do but to be honest he said the wise person he would have if he's wise and he's smart and he compared the truth and he realizes you know what the the truth is the regret I'm going to be in for a very long time it's going to hurt I'm going to stay away from it if anyone gives me anything in this world I don't want it because I know the regret that's going to come from it but ابن الجوزي said that what's going to push you away from all of that is غير أن سكرت الهوة تحول بين الفكرة و ذلك thinking like that what gets what bled it takes you away from thinking correctly is the desires so the person says but I never saw it like that I never saw it like that it was only at an hour what did the person see as the person saw it as something else because the desires was pushing him to it the ninth the ninth point that's going to help and aid you in repentance is looking and pondering on the benefits of leaving of sins and I advise you to go to the كتاب ابن القيم wrote in there he mentioned the benefits of leaving sins from them is he gives that pass the benefits of leaving sins is he increases your iman also Allah gives you beauty and more Allah gives you حيبة respect amongst the people Allah also gives you shyness Allah also gives that person iman increasing Allah also gives them a high station Allah so many things so you need to go and look at the benefits of leaving sins and what it has number 10 is thinking and pondering over and صبر عن الشهوة أي سر من الصبر على ما تجيبه الشهوة to be patient on to be patient from fulfilling your desires is easier than being patient on fulfilling your desires I need to be patient from not fulfilling your desires and not doing what your nefs is calling you to is actually easier than going out and fulfilling your desires the patients that's required from you after what it does to you and I kind of mentioned that in the statement of جوزي رحم الله where it leads you to so much things that you have to be patient again, patient why? why do you have to be patient for 10 years for something you've done for 1 hour or 20 years for something you've done for an hour was it not easier to be patient for fulfilling that desire is that main minute than the 10-year patients or 20-year patients that you have to be in think about that number 11 look at the harm that sins have and the evil outcome that it has والله many of us already know that humiliation disrespect how the person is so weak and vulnerable because of the sins that they do you'll see it I mean you go and you see go to London go to the underground you see poor people begging to alcoholics you know begging for food يعني the humiliation that sins have put them through والذلك as some of the self they saw a man walking on the streets and he was begging and he was asking and he was begging and then they said ضيع الله في صغاري this person forsaked Allah when he was young ضيع الله في كيباري and now Allah has forsaken this person the age that he or she is in that's the harms of sins you humiliated you have no honor anymore number 12 الدعا the supplication the دعا يعني the supplication helps with repentance تسay ربنا وجعنا مسلمين لك ومن دوريتنا أمة مسلمة لك وارنا مناسكنا واتوب علينا إنك أنت التواب الرحيم أما تسay that وشفرافصل عالي سلام you used to say رب غفلي واتوب عليك إنك أنت التواب الرحيم يعني begging Allah سبحانه وتعالى supplicating to him سبحانه وتعالى supplication it helps and he aids you in repenting it also helps you to stay away from the sins وقال ربكم دعوني أستجيب لكم your lord الله سبحانه وتعالى he said supplicate to me beg me I will accept your dua وليذلك poet said regarding begging Allah سبحانه وتعالى supplicating to him he said ما ضاق بالمرء أمر فاستعد لها عبادة الله إلا جاءه الفرج ولا أناخ بباب الله دو ألم إلا تزحزح عنه ما ضاق بالمرء أمر فاستعد لها there is not a person who has been put through hardship and he is suffering and he prepares himself for worship يعني عبادة فالله إلا جاءه الفرج except Allah opens all doors for them ولا أناخ بباب الله دو ألم and there is not a person who knocks on the door of Allah سبحانه وتعالى who is suffering and is going through pain إلا تزحز عنه الحم والحرج والدعاة والحرج والأجنية والذي يفعل أو تشعر the 13th thing that will help you in repentance is another of your حالة للرصات look at the situation of the criminals look at the people who are sinning look at the situation are they in any good or are they actually in harm شيخ وليسام تيمين said something very powerful he said anyone who wants an eternal happiness let them remain at the door of servitude حسن البصري رحم الله said حسن البصري رحم الله says something very powerful that these people even however much they have the dunya and they've been given the glamours and the glitter of this dunya and they feel like they're enjoying themselves they've got airplanes they've got cars they've got everything فإن دول المعسيط لا يفارقوا قلوبهم the humiliation of sins doesn't leave their hearts they humiliate those people when you sit with them you feel like how weak they are other Allah Allah refused إلا أن يدل من عصا Allah refused to accept to humiliate the people who are sins الله is going to always humiliate the sinners number 14 الصبر والمصابرة الصبر والمصابرة تخصوصا في بداية العمر patience and endurance specifically before it all starts it's harder to be patient halfway into the sim it's easier to be patient at the beginning that's why it's important to have الصبر والمصابرة في بداية العمر at the beginning be patient don't look don't buy the gadget don't stay by yourself don't talk to this person the beginning is easier last but not least the fifth is عرضو الحالي present your situation على من يوعين or someone who will help you go to someone who can help you who can advise you who you can consult who you can sharing is caring and also a problem shared a pain that's shared is a problem that's halved if you go to someone who is righteous noble a person who keep your secret presenting your situation to that type of person will definitely help you and support you in repentance those 15 points that I mentioned are the 15 points that I believe if we all come with all of us it will help us to repent and turn back from our mistakes and even avoid the sins before it even starts I ask Allah SWT رب العرش العظيم the Lord of the Thrones that He forgives us for our sins and our shortcomings and I also ask Allah SWT to forgive me for any mistakes or shortcomings I might have come with whilst delivering this series سبحانك اللهم أحمدك أشدو الله إله إلا الله أستغفروا كاوة و إليك السلام عليكم if you are enjoying these videos and you like to keep up to date with all of the courses we are going to be running make sure you head over to amauathome.com