 وأقول في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكاريم المنزاله وأقول قال الله جل جلاله والمصطف الهدي ولا أتأوّاله الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على عبد الله ورسوله نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته مرحباً لكم في مجموعة من رمضان ديلي دروبلتين where we give you a particular point of benefit relating to the month of Ramadan every single night ونحن نتحدث about the benefit that we're going to be talking about this evening إن شاء الله is that Ramadan is the month of At-Tawbah والاستغفار it is the month of repentance and it's the month of asking Allah's forgiveness and to begin we have to establish that الاستغفار seeking the forgiveness of Allah and asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى to conceal our sins to cover our sins to stop the negative consequences of them and to forgive us for them this استغفار is from the sunan of the prophets from the sunan of the prophets the ways of the prophets عليهم الصلاة والسلام صور النوح آية number 28 الله عز وجل tells us that نوح said رب اغفر لي ولي والديا ولي من دخل بيت يا مؤمنة ولي مؤمنين والمؤمنات ولا تزدف ظالمين إلا تبارا استغفار asking Allah to for his forgiveness asking Allah to forgive him رب اغفر لي my Lord forgive me and my parents and whether enters my house as a believer and forgive the believing men and the believing women so this is from the sunan of the prophets and likewise from إبراهيم عليه السلام that Allah عز وجل told us that he said والذي أطمعوا أن يغفر لي خاطئاتي يوم الدين the one that I wish that he will forgive my sins on the day of resurrection so here إبراهيم speaks of his hope and his wish that Allah سبحانه وتعالى will forgive him and this is in short الشعراء آية number 82 this is the Khalil of Allah عز وجل the special and close one of Allah سبحانه وتعالى إبراهيم a prophet from أول العزم من الرسل the five most dedicated and most important prophets عليهم الصلاة والسلام and he wishes and hopes that Allah سبحانه وتعالى would forgive him and Dawood عليه السلام as Allah عز وجل told us وظن داود أنما فتنه فاستغفر ربه وخر راقع وأنب in surah sad ayah number 24 and Dawood came to know he knew he realized that we were testing him so he sought the forgiveness of his Lord and he bowed he fell down bowing prostrating to Allah and he turned back to him and the last words of our messenger محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم from the hadith of Awamadah Aisha رضي الله عنها she said سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول قبل أن يموت وهو مسند إلى الصدرها وأصغت إليه وهو يقول اللهم اغفر لي ورحمني والحقني بالرفيق in some of the narrations والحقني بالرفيق الأعلى Aisha رضي الله عنها she said I heard the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم just before he passed away and he was resting on her chest he had put his head on her chest رضي الله عنها she heard him say the words Oh Allah forgive me and have mercy on me and cause me to join الرفيق والرفيق الأعلى and they are the ones that Allah عز وجل said about them ومن يطع الله والرسول فأولئك مع الذين أنعموا الله عليهم من النبيين وصديقين والشهداء والصالحين وحسن أولئك رفقا that whoever obeys Allah in his messenger then they will be along with those that Allah has bestowed his blessings upon from the prophets and the truthful and the martyrs and the righteous and what an excellent رفق what an excellent group of companions they are so the Prophet ﷺ he asked Allah for his forgiveness and he asked Allah for his mercy and he asked Allah عز وجل to join him with those great companions and those great individuals that Allah عز وجل told us about from those that Allah had bestowed his blessings upon and Abu Huraira رضي الله عن نريت سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول والله إني لأستغفر الله وأتوب إليه في اليوم أكثر من أكثر من 70 مرة he said that by Allah I ask Allah's forgiveness and I repent to him in a day more than 70 times in the hadiths in صحيح البخاري سبحان الله our messenger ﷺ and you know the the status of the messenger ﷺ and how far he was away from disobeying Allah عز وجل and yet he would ask Allah to forgive him and he would repent to Allah more than 70 times in every single day صلى الله عليه وسلم and how now we want to bring this into the month of Ramadan specific to the month of Ramadan so how can we tie this into the month of Ramadan there is a hadith narrated from the Prophet ﷺ صاعد النبي ﷺ the Prophet ﷺ he climbed onto the member فقال أمين آمين he said آمين آمين and some of the narrations is mentioned every step that he went up he said آمين then on the next step he said آمين then on the next step he said آمين قيل يا رسول الله فقلت آمين آمين you climbed onto the member and you said آمين آمين قال أتاني جبريل ﷺ فقال من أدرك شهر رمضان فلم يغفر له فدخل النار فأبعده الله قل آمين فقلتوا آمين قال جبريل came to me and he said to me whoever reaches the month of Ramadan and that person is not forgiven in some of the narrations whoever reaches the month of Ramadan and the month ends and they are not forgiven and they enter the fire may Allah cast them far away say آمين the Prophet ﷺ said آمين the one who the month of Ramadan comes and that person is not forgiven the month of Ramadan comes all these opportunities for forgiveness in the month of Ramadan these opportunities for دعا they accepted to have the person during the day when they are fasting the time when they pray at night the extra prayers that the person performs the extra Quran the person reads the extra good deeds being multiplied in the month of Ramadan and this person reaches somebody goes into Ramadan and Ramadan starts and Ramadan ends and they were not forgiven and this is a person who is far away from Allah عز وجل and جبريل made دعا for Allah عز وجل to make this person far away and the Prophet ﷺ he said آمين he said آمين as for the rest of the Hadith the one that has two parents and isn't righteous towards them they aren't righteous towards them and they die and they enter the fire may Allah make them far away and the Prophet ﷺ he said آمين and the last one whoever the Prophet ﷺ's name is mentioned and they don't give us Salat upon the Prophet ﷺ they don't say صلى الله عليه وسلم and they die and they enter the fire then may Allah make them far away and جبريل said to the Prophet ﷺ كل آمين سي آمين I said آمين This month of Ramadan has so many opportunities for forgiveness and that's why the Prophet ﷺ put the emphasis on that month of Ramadan on this month of Ramadan and the fact that a person how wretched must a person be for this month to start and all the opportunities for forgiveness and they reach the end of the month and they have not been forgiven that is the person who is really truly who is truly wretched and the reality of توبة as الإمام بن قيّم رحمه الله و تعالى he said فحقيقة توبة هي الندم على ما سلف منه في الماضي والإقلاع عنه في الحال و الأزم على أن لا يعاوده في المستقبل he said the reality of توبة is to feel sorry and fulfilled to feel regretful over what happened in the past and to completely stop and distance himself from doing it and to be determined and have a resolve that he will not go back to it in the future that's the reality of توبة the reality of توبة is as it relates to the past you feel sorry as it relates to the present you stop doing it and as it relates to the future you have that dedication and that resolve that you will not go back to it does that mean you'll never go back to it no you might go back to it because there are a حديث regarding the person who commits a sin and goes back to it but ultimately you try every time to make that resolve that you're not going to go back to what you did before and توبة in reality that way it's more complicated and harder than الإستغفار it has more elements to it and in reality it's something that is necessary it's a necessary part of your إيمان and that's why Allah He told us in the Quran أن حسنة إلى أجل مسمى ويؤتي كلذي فضل فضلة وإن تولو فإني أخاف عليكم عذاب يوم كبير that Allah عز وجل told us in the Quran that you seek the forgiveness of your Lord and then you turn to Him in repentance He will give you متاع حسنة a temporary enjoyment and provision in this world until a time that has been appointed and He will give every person of virtue the virtue that He has chosen to give them or the grace that He has chosen to give them and if you turn away then I fear for you the punishment of a great day and الإستغفار is a means to repair the damage that you have done to your fast and this is a very important point and that is why it is said from some of the pious predecessors الغيبة تخرق السيام والإستغفار يرقع فمن استطاع منكم أن لا يأتي بصوم مخرق في اليفع غيبة it rips apart and it tears apart your fast backbiting to say about your brother or your sister something which is true something which is not like it tears apart it breaks apart it pulls apart at the seams it rips apart your fast and seeking forgiveness patches it back up it patches it up يرقعه means to patch it or to like to sew up the break or the tear that was there before to patch it back up so whoever from among you is able not to bring a fast that has been ripped up into pieces let him do so ripped up into pieces or caused to be ruined also that's what the word مخرق it can also mean it can mean خرقة أتلاثة he ruined it whoever of you is not is able to bring a fast that hasn't been ruined let him do so there are many many ways that we could certainly ruin our fast or damage our fast and one of the most prominent of them is غيبة is backbiting so it's very very important that we avoid these things that tear apart our fast and ruin our fast and what patches it up is a listغفار is asking Allah's forgiveness but on the topic of غيبة it's important to note that when we talk about غيبة and you backbite somebody this is a right of the other person as well as the right of Allah that you have infringed so not only do you have to seek the forgiveness of Allah but you also have to make up for the غيبة that you did like asking the person to forgive you or mentioning them or and mentioning them in good where you mentioned them in a negative way and making du'a for them giving sadaq on their behalf and so on for the غيبة that you did and محمد بن المنكدر the great تابعي رحمه الله تعالى he said أصائم إذا غتاب خرق وإذا استغفار رقع he said the fasting person when they come at غيبة their fast becomes ruined or it becomes torn it becomes broken and when they seek forgiveness and I'm going to conclude with a really beautiful hadith narrated by Al-Bayhaqi in شعب الإيمان from our mother Aisha رضي الله عنها that the messenger of Allah said إيمان وجد في صحيفته استغفار كثيرا توبة a tree in paradise or a place in paradise for the person who finds in their scrolls a great deal of استغفار may Allah make us all from the people who make استغفار may Allah forgive us all for our sins accept our repentance that's what Allah made easy for me to mention and Allah knows best والصلاة والسلام على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين