Name: Episode 2: Hold Your Pens
Uploaded: 2020-04-25T08:30:00.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: We have two angels that record our deeds, but did you know that Allah sometimes tells the angel to not write down what you’ve done?

<p>We have two angels that record our deeds, but did you know that Allah sometimes tells the angel to not write down what you&#x2019;ve done?</p>

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Spiritual beings created from light who carry out God's commandments without hesitation. They play various roles in the cosmos, including recording deeds and delivering revelations.

Angels

Episode 1: They've Got Your Back

Episode 2: Hold Your Pens

Episode 3: Fasting While Others Eat

Episode 4: Sleep Well

Episode 5: Switching Shifts

Episode 6: As You Step Out

Episode 7: The Banner Above You

Episode 8: Responding to Your Haters

Episode 9: Your Brother's Honor

Episode 10: The Honor of Your Prophet

Episode 11: Ameen and For You As Well

Episode 12: The Best Supplication

Episode 13: Be Fair When You Judge

Episode 14: The Seeker of Knowledge

Episode 15: No Strings Attached

Episode 16: The Ultimate Healer

Episode 17: An Entourage of 70,000

Episode 18: When Your Loved Ones Are Dying

Episode 19: Have You Ever Seen an Angel in Human Form?

Episode 20: A Caller from Heaven's Gates

Episode 21: The First Rows

Episode 22: The Friday Roll Book

Episode 23: From Prayer to Prayer

Episode 24: Struggling to Recite

Episode 25: From Your Mouth to an Angel's Heart

Episode 26: When Jibreel Descends Upon You

Episode 27: The Heavens are Creaking

Episode 28: In Your Room Praying Behind You

Episode 29: Gatherings of Remembrance

Episode 30: When Allah Loves You

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Throughout your existence, there are angels in your presence. But it’s your actions that cause those angels to either praise you or disgrace you. Through this series, we will explore the actions that invite these blessed unseen beings to pray upon you, and carry your name and mention to the One who created us all. Join Sh. Omar Suleiman this Ramadan.

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This section covers the core articles of faith (Īmān), namely faith in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and the divine decree (qadr). Other related topics, often found in classical theological works, are also found in this section.

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Angels in Your Presence

 In that moment where you're just about to commit that sin,  where you've been tempted, where you have made up your mind that you're going to do it,  and you've been struck by the whisper of shaitan, and just as you're about to commit that sin,  you wake up. Okay, so those are the people that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,  that after they've been touched by the whisper of the devil, they wake up and then suddenly they can  see. They're completely tuned out of that sin and they're turning back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala  and repentance. That's the best case scenario that you were about to commit the sin and then you  stopped. Where the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,  that when you're about to commit a sin, if you're reminded of Allah, don't ignore your conscience,  don't ignore your taqwa, don't ignore those thoughts about God. Stop right then and there.  Don't say, all right, well I'm already halfway through the sin, or I'm already at the point of  committing it, I might as well commit it and then worry about repentance later. Stop yourself then.  But what about when a person just commits the sin, and you commit that sin, especially the  first time you commit that sin, before you become desensitized to it, you feel so dirty,  you feel impure, you feel a great sense of remorse and regret. And what you do in those moments  is going to decide whether that sin becomes a means of bringing you back to Allah subhanahu  wa ta'ala or that sin becomes a habit that takes you down the path of shaitan perpetually.  That's where the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam talks about a very unique way that we  interact with these angels that are on our right and our left.  You have these noble angels that are recording on your right and on your left everything that you  do, anything that you say, anything that you do, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has commanded them to  write. And there is not a single word, not a single word that you utter, not a single expression that  you utter, except that those angels write it down readily. Now as those angels write down,  they have a sense when you're about to commit a good deed or you're about to commit a sin,  because as Sufyan Rahimahullah said that when a person is about to commit a good deed,  they emit, the soul emits the scent of musk, this beautiful scent. And when you're about to  commit a sin, the soul emits a nasty stench. And so there's a sense that a sin is coming.  But then after you commit that good deed or that sin, and those angels write down everything,  there's one exception. And that is what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that  when a person first commits a sin, Allah commands the angel on the left to hold his pen for six  hours. Now six hours here, an hour not being 60 minutes, but six periods of time. There's a time  where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says hold off. And if that person repents within those six hours,  then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not have that angel write down that sin, but instead Allah  subhanahu wa ta'ala has a good deed written for you instead. If a person goes forth and commits  that sin, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said one sin is written down. Now to speak to  that for a moment, you know, if you're thinking about that angel that's on your left side,  that's being told to withhold their pen and not to write it down, we know that the Prophet  Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said even if the sin was written down, the one who repents from a sin  is like one who never committed sin in the first place. That good deeds wipe out sins, that Allah  subhanahu wa ta'ala has always left the door of repentance open to you. But in this unique  situation where the angel is told not even to document the sin, what is the effect of that?  The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that a sin is written down as one sin if a person  actually commits it. But a good deed at the minimum is written at 10 good deeds up to 700,  up to whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala decrees it. So from the mercy of your Lord, if you turn  back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala immediately after committing a sin, this isn't a person that  intended to commit a sin and say I'm going to repent within six hours so I'll be okay so it's  not going to get there. It's someone who, you know, fell into it and woke up right away and said  I can't believe I did that, astaghfirullah, I turned back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.  On your records, not only will you not have the sin ever recorded, but you'll have the good deed  of istighfar, the good deed of seeking forgiveness from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala recorded, which is  at minimum 10 times up to 700 times up to whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala decrees. So that's the  mercy of your Lord that even as these two are recording on your right and your left at all  times, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala shows leniency through the one on the left and says hold your pen,  see if my servant will turn back to me, see if he'll wak…

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