Name: Ep. 9: An Enemy Within | Road to Return
Uploaded: 2021-06-22T16:21:03.000Z
Channel: Yahya Ibrahim
Description: Did Shaytan make you commit that sin or was it just you? Sh. Yahya Ibrahim teaches us how to tell the difference between the devil and the enemy within us.

<p>Did Shaytan make you commit that sin or was it just you? Sh. Yahya Ibrahim teaches us how to tell the difference between the devil and the enemy within us.</p>

DH 2026 General Donation

Cookie Consent Banner

Rituals and deeds performed to demonstrate submission and devotion to God, such as prayer and fasting. These acts purify the soul and strengthen the believer's connection with their Creator.

Acts of Worship

Trailer: Road to Return

Ep. 1: Submitting to God | Road to Return

Ep. 2: Finding Peace | Road to Return

Ep. 3: Content with God | Road to Return

Ep. 4: What Are Sins? | Road to Return

Ep. 5: Are All Sins Equal? | Road to Return

Ep. 6: Different Types of Sin | Road to Return

Ep. 7: Four Dangers: Causes of Sin | Road to Return

Ep. 8: Your Inner Voice | Road to Return

Ep. 9: An Enemy Within | Road to Return

Ep. 10: The World And Its Splendor | Road to Return

Ep. 11: Mastering Self-Control | Road to Return

Ep. 12: No Good Without Evil | Road to Return

Ep. 13: Shaytan's 6-Step Plan  | Road to Return

Ep. 14: Resistance & Resilience | Road to Return

Ep. 15: Deprioritizing God | Road to Return

Ep. 16: Resisting the Teachings of Muhammad ﷺ | Road to Return

Ep. 17:  Letting The Qur'an Slip | Road to Return

Ep. 18: Good Actions With The Wrong Intention | Road to Return

Ep. 19: Good Intentions With Wrong Actions | Road to Return

Ep. 20: Hoping For The Best Without Doing Your Best | Road to Return

Ep. 21: Going Against The Flow | Road to Return

Ep. 22: Why Do They Have It So Easy? | Road to Return

Ep. 23: Parents Just Don't Understand | Road to Return

Ep. 24: Just say Bismillah | Road to Return

Ep. 25: Does God Really Care? | Road to Return

Ep. 26: Did You Hear? | Road to Return

Ep. 27: I Do Pray...Just Not Often | Road to Return

Ep. 28: God Knows my Intention | Road to Return

Ep 29: Marijuana is Not a Drug | Road To Return

Ep: 30 Always Put Yourself First | Road to Return

Ep. 31: It’s Just a Video | Road to Return

Ep. 32: Everyone is Doing It | Road to Return

Ep. 33: The Most Important Thing is Love | Road to Return

Ep. 34: Isn't Zakat Like Sadaqah? | Road to Return

Ep. 35: I Will Never Forgive Them | Road to Return

Ep. 36: I'm Not A Racist, But... | Road To Return

Ep. 37: What Happens Online Stays Online | Road to Return

Ep. 38: Friday Prayer Is Not Practical | Road to Return

Ep. 39: It's Just a Joke | Road to Return

Ep. 40: Fake News | Road to Return

All Members

Fellows

Senior Fellow

Yahya Ibrahim

How do you come back from committing a sin?

Set upon a journey with Sh. Yahya Ibrahim to uncover common transgressions and learn how to pick yourself up and return to Allah after you have fallen prey to them.

Get this series directly to your inbox by signing up <a href="https://yqn.io/return">here</a>!

Series

Video

Sharia, or Islamic law, is the divinely ordained path governing ritual devotion and aspects of daily life. This section covers research on Islamic jurisprudence, including worship, commerce, family law, and penal codes.

Sharia

Road to Return | How to Come Back from Sin

 Inna ash-shaytaana lakum adoo.  The shaytaan is an enemy.  Fattakhidhoohu adoo.  He is an enemy, so treat him as an enemy.  Adooun mubeen.  Allah says in another verse, he is a clear enemy.  There is no hiding that fact.  Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says,  yuwaswisu fee sudoorin naas.  Shaytaan at times will try to influence your mind  and your inner dialogue to invite yourself to haram.  And I want you to know that there's a difference  between you choosing haram and the shaytaan inspiring you  and whispering to you to do haram.  How do we know the difference?  Because not all mistakes is because shaytaan influenced you.  Most of, if not the vast majority of mistakes we do  is because of our own bad habits.  So the first type of mistake that's from your own self  are the mistakes that you do regularly.  So if every morning you miss fajr,  shaytaan has nothing to do with it.  That's just you.  It's just yourself not waking up.  It's just you making a decision to not get up  when you should.  And that becomes important for you to correct.  Stop blaming shaytaan.  Shaytaan's like, hey, why do you blame me for everything?  It's important for us to be careful with that.  But the mistakes that are from the shaytaan  are the ones that are opportunistic.  So there you are, you weren't intending to do anything wrong  and all of a sudden your parents say,  hey, we're gonna leave you for a half an hour  so I'm just gonna go to the store.  So it's an opportunity and the shaytaan comes and says,  hey, why don't you do this?  Why don't you watch this?  Why don't you read this?  Why don't you go there?  Why don't you hear that?  And it's something you didn't plan on doing earlier,  but the shaytaan kind of sparked it  and then your soul convinced itself.  Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna do it.  I can't wait until I get this done or do this or do that.  So be careful with the shaytaan's opportunities to haram  that he opens a door for you, gives you an invitation,  and you're the one who walks through it.  Shaytaan is going to give a lecture  when he's in hellfire with those who are in it.  And shaytaan will say on that day,  falatalumuni walumu anfusakum.  Allah quotes what will be said in the future.  Shaytaan will say to his people,  don't blame me, but blame yourself.  ma'ana bimusrikhikum.  I didn't make you do anything.  wa ma'antum bimusrikhi.  You can't help me today and I can't help you today.  This is your fault for what you did.  illa andawtukum fastajabtum li.  All I did was give you an invitation.  You're the one that walked through the door.  You're the one that came and did the haram  and chose it yourselves.  May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la  protect us from a sinful inner dialogue  and from the second danger from the shaytaan  being an influence in our life.  Know of course that the shaytaan is not just a whisper  inside and shaytaan does not just simply mean  the one who is an unseen evil presence,  but Allah tells us in the Quran,  shayateen al-ins wal-jin  that there are shaytaan from human beings.  It could be your friend.  Could be that person who calls you and says,  hey, do you wanna go out tonight?  Let's get in the car, we can go visit there or do this.  It could be someone who's in your class  who keeps crossing the boundaries  because what does the word shaytaan mean?  The word shataa means to go past the place  you know you shouldn't, to go into transgression,  to go to a place, everybody said, don't cross that line.  The shaytaan says, I'm gonna go there.  No one can stop me, I do what I want.  So if you have a friend in your life,  if you have someone who lives their life that way,  where they feel that there's no rules, no boundaries,  nobody can say to me what I wanna do,  or I'm gonna do what I wanna do when nobody's looking,  that person is a shaytaan  and you want to limit their influence on you.  So you wanna limit their texts and their messages  and your going out with them to be careful  that the shaytaan is not an influence to you  in a physical form, as a friend or as a human being,  or as a whisper into the hearts.  May Allah protect us from shayateen al-ins wal-jinn.  Allahumma ameen.

Road to Return | How to Come Back from Sin

Yahya Ibrahim

Other series

40 Hadiths on Social Justice

Confident Muslim

Sayedaty

The Faith Revival

Proofs of Prophethood

To Know Him is to Love Him: Finding Answers Through Allah's Attributes

Khutbahs

Virtues of Dhul Hijjah

Firm Roots

The Firsts (Sahaba Stories) | The Forerunners of Islam

Connect with us

Yaqeen app

Ameen app