1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,399 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 2 00:00:03,399 --> 00:00:11,560 Within the embrace of Allah, happiness pours into the hearts. 3 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,660 Seek ever-greater closeness to the Most Merciful. 4 00:00:15,660 --> 00:00:18,660 The Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Musa Mosque. 5 00:00:18,660 --> 00:00:21,660 Proudly presents: 6 00:00:21,660 --> 00:00:24,660 The Musk of Discourse. 7 00:00:24,660 --> 00:00:26,660 By Sheikh Usama Bahr. 8 00:00:26,660 --> 00:00:28,660 May Allah preserve him. 9 00:00:28,660 --> 00:00:35,659 Whoever obeys the Lord dissolves into the sweetest of feelings. 10 00:00:35,659 --> 00:00:40,250 Where is the answer? 11 00:00:40,250 --> 00:00:44,250 How many moments pass for a person while they are heedless? 12 00:00:44,250 --> 00:00:46,340 Ask yourself: 13 00:00:46,340 --> 00:00:49,340 Are you prepared for the reckoning? 14 00:00:49,340 --> 00:00:53,469 Have you tried to account for yourself before you are called to account? 15 00:00:53,469 --> 00:00:58,700 Have you pictured yourself living your final moments? 16 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:01,700 Have you imagined the Angel of Death at your head? 17 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:04,700 Have you tallied your good deeds and your sins? 18 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:08,859 Have you turned to Allah in repentance and contrition? 19 00:01:08,859 --> 00:01:10,859 These are many questions, 20 00:01:10,859 --> 00:01:15,859 That require you to provide an answer in this world before the Hereafter. 21 00:01:15,859 --> 00:01:19,890 For in this world, you can still change your answer. 22 00:01:19,890 --> 00:01:22,890 The opportunity is favorable and available. 23 00:01:22,890 --> 00:01:27,079 But in the Hereafter, the opportunity is non-existent. 24 00:01:28,079 --> 00:01:32,079 The answer there is final; you cannot change it. 25 00:01:32,079 --> 00:01:34,209 You might say: 26 00:01:34,209 --> 00:01:39,239 "I want to be fully prepared for the examination." 27 00:01:39,239 --> 00:01:41,239 And you might say: 28 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:44,239 "I seek happiness and success for myself." 29 00:01:44,239 --> 00:01:48,239 "I desire success and I hope for forgiveness." 30 00:01:48,239 --> 00:01:51,239 "But I am ignorant of the path to it." 31 00:01:51,239 --> 00:01:54,340 "And I do not know how to begin." 32 00:01:54,340 --> 00:01:56,340 You are like a drowning man, 33 00:01:56,340 --> 00:01:58,340 Wanting someone to take his hand. 34 00:01:58,340 --> 00:02:01,340 Like a wanderer feeling for the way, 35 00:02:01,340 --> 00:02:03,340 Wanting a glimmer of hope, 36 00:02:03,340 --> 00:02:05,340 And a ray of light. 37 00:02:05,340 --> 00:02:08,340 But where is the path? 38 00:02:08,340 --> 00:02:11,460 The path, my dear brother, 39 00:02:11,460 --> 00:02:13,460 Is as clear as the sun. 40 00:02:13,460 --> 00:02:15,460 As manifest as the moon. 41 00:02:15,460 --> 00:02:17,460 It is one, with no second to it. 42 00:02:17,460 --> 00:02:20,460 It is the path of repentance. 43 00:02:20,460 --> 00:02:22,530 The path of success. 44 00:02:22,530 --> 00:02:24,659 The path of prosperity. 45 00:02:24,659 --> 00:02:27,659 It is an easy, facilitated path. 46 00:02:27,659 --> 00:02:30,659 Open before you at every moment. 47 00:02:30,659 --> 00:02:33,659 You need only knock on the door, 48 00:02:33,659 --> 00:02:36,659 And you will find the answer. 49 00:02:46,659 --> 00:02:48,659 This is the answer. 50 00:02:48,659 --> 00:02:50,719 Indeed, Allah the Exalted, 51 00:02:50,719 --> 00:02:52,719 Has called all His servants, 52 00:02:52,719 --> 00:02:55,719 Both the believer and the disbeliever, to repentance. 53 00:02:55,719 --> 00:02:58,719 And He, Glory be to Him and Exalted be He, has informed us, 54 00:02:58,719 --> 00:03:00,719 That He forgives all sins, 55 00:03:00,719 --> 00:03:02,719 For whoever repents from them, 56 00:03:02,719 --> 00:03:04,719 And turns back from them, 57 00:03:04,719 --> 00:03:05,719 No matter how numerous they are, 58 00:03:05,719 --> 00:03:07,719 And no matter how great they are, 59 00:03:07,719 --> 00:03:10,719 Even if they were like the foam of the sea. 60 00:03:10,719 --> 00:03:13,719 Say: "O My servants who have transgressed 61 00:03:13,719 --> 00:03:16,719 Against their own souls, 62 00:03:16,719 --> 00:03:18,719 Do not despair 63 00:03:18,719 --> 00:03:22,719 Of the mercy of Allah." 64 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:27,719 “Say: O My slaves who have been prodigal to their own hurt! Despair not of the mercy of Allah, Who forgiveth all sins. Lo! He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.” (39:53) 65 00:03:27,719 --> 00:03:33,719 Indeed, He is the Forgiving, the Merciful. 66 00:03:33,719 --> 00:03:36,719 And Allah the Exalted answered His servant, 67 00:03:36,719 --> 00:03:38,719 Saying in the hadith qudsi: 68 00:03:38,719 --> 00:03:40,719 "O son of Adam, 69 00:03:40,719 --> 00:03:43,719 As long as you call upon Me and hope in Me, 70 00:03:43,719 --> 00:03:45,719 I will forgive you for what you have done, 71 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:47,719 And I do not mind." 72 00:03:47,719 --> 00:03:49,719 "O son of Adam, 73 00:03:49,719 --> 00:03:52,719 If your sins were to reach the clouds of the sky, 74 00:03:52,719 --> 00:03:54,719 Then you sought My forgiveness, 75 00:03:54,719 --> 00:03:56,719 I would forgive you and I do not mind." 76 00:03:56,719 --> 00:03:58,719 "O son of Adam, 77 00:03:58,719 --> 00:04:02,719 If you were to come to Me with sins nearly filling the earth, 78 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:05,719 Then you met Me, not associating anything with Me, 79 00:04:05,719 --> 00:04:09,879 I would come to you with nearly as much forgiveness." 80 00:04:09,879 --> 00:04:11,879 This, then, is the answer. 81 00:04:49,189 --> 00:04:53,189 And revelation follows it. 82 00:04:53,189 --> 00:04:57,189 If Allah wills a thing, 83 00:04:57,189 --> 00:05:02,189 He says to it "Be," and it is.