WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:03.399 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:11.589 Within the embrace of Allah, happiness pours into the hearts. 00:00:11.589 --> 00:00:15.689 Increase your closeness to the Most Merciful. 00:00:15.689 --> 00:00:18.690 The Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Musa Mosque, 00:00:18.690 --> 00:00:21.690 through the Badi' [organization], presents 00:00:21.690 --> 00:00:24.690 "The Musk of Discourse," 00:00:24.690 --> 00:00:27.690 by Sheikh Usama Bahr, may Allah preserve him. 00:00:27.690 --> 00:00:34.689 Everyone who obeys the Lord dissolves into the sweetest feeling. 00:00:34.689 --> 00:00:37.689 Act quickly before you are overtaken. 00:00:37.689 --> 00:00:43.380 Take the initiative yourself and do not wait for your fate, 00:00:43.380 --> 00:00:46.380 for you do not know when it will come. 00:00:46.380 --> 00:00:49.380 Do not look at the smallness of the sin, 00:00:49.380 --> 00:00:52.380 but look at the greatness of the One you have disobeyed. 00:00:52.380 --> 00:00:55.539 He is Allah, the Creator, the First, 00:00:55.539 --> 00:00:58.539 the Originator of all beginnings, 00:00:58.539 --> 00:01:01.539 and the Last, who remains after all endings. 00:01:01.539 --> 00:01:04.790 Whoever contemplates the greatness and majesty of Allah 00:01:04.790 --> 00:01:08.790 will honor His sacred boundaries and esteem Him as He deserves to be esteemed. 00:01:08.790 --> 00:01:11.790 He will revere His commands and prohibitions, 00:01:11.790 --> 00:01:14.790 and will consider his own sin grave, even if it is small, 00:01:14.790 --> 00:01:17.790 for it is like a mountain 00:01:17.790 --> 00:01:20.790 that he fears will fall upon him and destroy him. 00:01:20.790 --> 00:01:23.790 His heart is as if it were between the wings of a bird [trembling with awe]. 00:01:23.790 --> 00:01:26.790 You find him broken-hearted, 00:01:26.790 --> 00:01:29.790 with flowing tears, 00:01:29.790 --> 00:01:32.819 finding a lesson in every event. 00:01:32.819 --> 00:01:35.819 So act quickly, and beware of the minor sins, 00:01:35.819 --> 00:01:38.819 for they have one who will demand them from Allah. 00:01:38.819 --> 00:01:41.950 Act quickly to return grievances 00:01:41.950 --> 00:01:44.950 to their rightful owners or seek their absolution, 00:01:44.950 --> 00:01:47.950 and ask for their forgiveness, 00:01:47.950 --> 00:01:51.299 for repentance is not complete without that. 00:01:51.299 --> 00:01:54.299 It has been authentically reported that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:01:54.299 --> 00:01:57.299 said: "Rights will surely be restored 00:01:57.299 --> 00:02:00.299 to their owners on the Day of Resurrection, 00:02:00.299 --> 00:02:03.299 until the hornless sheep is satisfied 00:02:03.299 --> 00:02:06.370 by the horned sheep." 00:02:06.370 --> 00:02:09.370 He, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, also said: 00:02:09.370 --> 00:02:12.370 "Whoever has committed an injustice against his brother, 00:02:12.370 --> 00:02:15.370 let him seek his absolution today, 00:02:15.370 --> 00:02:18.370 before there is neither dirham nor dinar." 00:02:18.370 --> 00:02:21.370 If he has good deeds, [they will be taken], 00:02:22.370 --> 00:02:25.370 and if he has no good deeds, 00:02:25.370 --> 00:02:28.370 the sins of his counterpart will be taken 00:02:28.370 --> 00:02:31.530 and cast upon him. 00:02:31.530 --> 00:02:34.530 In the Hadith Qudsi, 00:02:34.530 --> 00:02:37.530 Allah says on the Day of Resurrection: 00:02:37.530 --> 00:02:40.530 "I am the King, I am the Judge." 00:02:40.530 --> 00:02:43.530 It is not fitting for anyone among the people of Paradise 00:02:43.530 --> 00:02:46.719 to enter Paradise 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.780 while someone else has a grievance against him, even a slap, 00:02:49.780 --> 00:02:52.780 because on the Day of Resurrection, 00:02:52.780 --> 00:02:56.069 you will dispute before your Lord. 00:02:56.069 --> 00:02:59.069 When death approached 'Ubada Ibn al-Samit, 00:02:59.069 --> 00:03:02.069 may Allah be pleased with him, he said: "Bring out 00:03:02.069 --> 00:03:05.069 my bed to the courtyard of the house." 00:03:05.069 --> 00:03:08.069 They brought it out, and he said: 00:03:08.069 --> 00:03:11.069 "Gather for me my dependents, my servants, 00:03:11.069 --> 00:03:14.069 my neighbors, and those who used to visit me." 00:03:14.069 --> 00:03:17.069 They gathered them for him, 00:03:17.069 --> 00:03:20.069 and he said: "My time in this world is coming to an end, 00:03:20.069 --> 00:03:23.069 and this night is the first night of the Hereafter. 00:03:23.069 --> 00:03:26.069 I do not know 00:03:26.069 --> 00:03:29.069 if I have committed any wrong against any of you 00:03:29.069 --> 00:03:32.069 with my hand or my tongue. 00:03:32.069 --> 00:03:35.069 By Him in whose hand is the soul of 'Ubada, 00:03:35.069 --> 00:03:38.169 there is retribution on the Day of Resurrection. 00:03:38.169 --> 00:03:41.169 I adjure anyone among you who feels 00:03:41.169 --> 00:03:44.169 that I have wronged him in any way to come forward." 00:03:45.169 --> 00:03:48.169 They all wept and cried out, saying: 00:03:48.169 --> 00:03:51.169 "Rather, you were a father, 00:03:51.169 --> 00:03:54.169 a teacher, and a guide to us." 00:03:54.169 --> 00:03:57.169 He said: "You offer me tears, 00:03:57.169 --> 00:04:00.169 but what good are tears? Have you forgiven me?" 00:04:00.169 --> 00:04:03.169 They cried out and said: "Yes." 00:04:03.169 --> 00:04:06.169 He said: "O Allah, bear witness. 00:04:06.169 --> 00:04:09.169 O Allah, bear witness. 00:04:09.169 --> 00:04:12.169 O Allah, bear witness. 00:04:12.169 --> 00:04:15.169 I bear witness that there is no god but Allah." 00:04:15.169 --> 00:04:18.459 Then he met Allah. 00:04:18.459 --> 00:04:21.459 If only people today, 00:04:21.459 --> 00:04:24.459 whose records are full of grievances, 00:04:24.459 --> 00:04:27.519 would look as 'Ubada Ibn al-Samit looked. 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.519 So, it is about taking the initiative before 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:33.620 the end comes. Act quickly with repentance 00:04:33.620 --> 00:04:36.620 and return grievances to their owners 00:04:36.620 --> 00:04:40.420 before you are overtaken. 00:04:43.579 --> 00:04:46.579 Happiness is in the hearts. 00:04:46.579 --> 00:04:49.579 Increase your closeness 00:04:49.579 --> 00:04:52.579 to the Most Merciful, so that 00:04:52.579 --> 00:04:55.579 joy may embrace you. 00:04:55.579 --> 00:04:58.579 Attach your soul 00:04:58.579 --> 00:05:01.579 to your Lord and fill 00:05:01.579 --> 00:05:04.800 the horizons with light. 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.800 For whoever obeys the Lord 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:10.800 dissolves into the sweetest feeling. 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:14.019 There is darkness, then light, 00:05:14.019 --> 00:05:17.019 and revelation follows it. 00:05:17.019 --> 00:05:20.019 If Allah wills 00:05:20.019 --> 00:05:23.019 a thing, He says to it, 00:05:23.019 --> 00:05:26.019 "Be," and it is.