Allah Loves
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. As-salamu alaykum, welcome back to Allah Loves. So last time we talked about taqwa, piety being the goal and you have to avoid those thorny bushes that are on the road to Allah and you are meant to go back to Allah but then these things keep getting in the way. Now here is the thing, you are inevitably going to be struck by a thorn and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it because the Prophet peace be upon him said every single one of the children of Adam is a sinner. Every single one of us is going to commit sins, are going to get pricked, are going to fall behind and the best of us are those who come back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The best of those who make mistakes are those who repent to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so this is very important that just after we talk about these concepts of taqwa and don't commit sins, the next mention that Allah has within surah al-Baqarah is inna allaha yuhibbu al-tawwabin. Allah loves those who repent. Again framed within the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. I am not going to talk about repentance here and the conditions of repentance and what repentance means but I do want you to understand it within the same framework of how we mentioned the first thing. Allah did not create you to not sin. Allah created you to know how to properly deal with sin and there is a major difference between those two. The word tawba means that you turn back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, not necessarily that you have removed all of the effects of that sin. Realize that even the word repentance comes back to your relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So how does this all work? The sinfulness is part of your humanity. The forgiveness
is part of Allah's attributes. And if you pair those two things together and you acknowledge your sinfulness, though you don't intentionally commit sins, but you acknowledge your sinfulness, even if you did intentionally commit a sin, you acknowledge your sinfulness and you try to get back on that path to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you actually rise up in the degrees of favor because Allah loves at tawwabin. Allah loves those who turn back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The Prophet peace be upon him said that if you were not to sin, then Allah would have replaced you with the people who would sin and then they would seek their forgiveness and then they would be forgiven by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because Allah loves to forgive and Allah loves repentance and Allah loves those who repent. And the beauty of how we pair these two things together is that there is no such thing as failure in Islam unless you don't do anything about that failure. There is no such thing as an action that can permanently disqualify you from the love of Allah if you repent afterwards and if you use that to propel you towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And what the Prophet peace be upon him is telling us here is that when a person commits a sin and then a person seeks forgiveness from Allah for that sin, what happens? The effect of it on the heart, the Prophet peace be upon him said that the dark spot that is placed on the heart is polished. So it is not just removed, not only is the dark spot removed but the spot is polished. As for the effect on the deeds, the Prophet peace be upon him said that the sin is turned into a good deed on your scrolls. So it is actually a hasana, it is actually a good deed. Allah removes the sin and gives you a good deed for the repentance. The effect of it on us in regards to our position with the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah loves those that are always turned back towards him. And so the effect of it with our position is that we actually
get closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala than we were before we committed the sin. Hence we become more beloved to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala than before we committed the sin. This is why it is not unjust that Allah created us and asked us not to sin but we still commit sin. Because the degree that Allah guarantees us after committing the sin is greater than even his sinless creatures in the angels. Because when a human being learns to deal with those sins in a way that they seek Allah's forgiveness and they turn back to him, then they ascend even beyond the angels in rank. Ibn Al Qayyim rahim Allah puts this together and he gives us the context of two prophets. He says, Shaytan, the devil delighted when he saw that he caused Adam alayhis salam to fall. But what he didn't realize is that when a diver goes into the ocean, he collects the gems and the pearls at the bottom of the ocean and then he rises up once again. So Adam was better after his tawbah, even though he had to come to this earth, he was better after his repentance than he was before it in paradise in regards to his rank. Yunus alayhis salam, Jonah was better after he was swallowed by the whale than he was before he went into it. That's why Allah says, Fajitabahu rabbuhu waja'alahu min assalihin. Allah chose him and made him from the righteous after he was swallowed by the whale, after he said, La ilaha illa anta subhanaka inni kuntu minaz zalimeen. There is no god but you. How perfect are you and I was from the wrongdoers. So again, our hearts are polished, our sins are turned into good deeds and our ranks ascend in the sight of Allah. So do not, I don't care what you came to this Ramadan with, I don't care what you've done in the past, it doesn't matter what you've done in the past because you have a Lord that created your past, present and future and guaranteed you a better future if you learn how to deal with that past in a way that propels you towards Him. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us from those that are beloved to Him in our repentance, in our sin and in our good deeds. Allahuma Ameen. See you all next time inshaAllah.
Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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