In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Within the embrace of Allah, happiness pours into the hearts.
Seek ever-greater closeness to the Most Merciful.
The Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Musa Mosque.
Proudly presents:
The Musk of Discourse.
By Sheikh Usama Bahr.
May Allah preserve him.
Whoever obeys the Lord dissolves into the sweetest of feelings.
Where is the answer?
How many moments pass for a person while they are heedless?
Ask yourself:
Are you prepared for the reckoning?
Have you tried to account for yourself before you are called to account?
Have you pictured yourself living your final moments?
Have you imagined the Angel of Death at your head?
Have you tallied your good deeds and your sins?
Have you turned to Allah in repentance and contrition?
These are many questions,
That require you to provide an answer in this world before the Hereafter.
For in this world, you can still change your answer.
The opportunity is favorable and available.
But in the Hereafter, the opportunity is non-existent.
The answer there is final; you cannot change it.
You might say:
"I want to be fully prepared for the examination."
And you might say:
"I seek happiness and success for myself."
"I desire success and I hope for forgiveness."
"But I am ignorant of the path to it."
"And I do not know how to begin."
You are like a drowning man,
Wanting someone to take his hand.
Like a wanderer feeling for the way,
Wanting a glimmer of hope,
And a ray of light.
But where is the path?
The path, my dear brother,
Is as clear as the sun.
As manifest as the moon.
It is one, with no second to it.
It is the path of repentance.
The path of success.
The path of prosperity.
It is an easy, facilitated path.
Open before you at every moment.
You need only knock on the door,
And you will find the answer.
This is the answer.
Indeed, Allah the Exalted,
Has called all His servants,
Both the believer and the disbeliever, to repentance.
And He, Glory be to Him and Exalted be He, has informed us,
That He forgives all sins,
For whoever repents from them,
And turns back from them,
No matter how numerous they are,
And no matter how great they are,
Even if they were like the foam of the sea.
Say: "O My servants who have transgressed
Against their own souls,
Do not despair
Of the mercy of Allah."
“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)
Indeed, He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.
And Allah the Exalted answered His servant,
Saying in the hadith qudsi:
"O son of Adam,
As long as you call upon Me and hope in Me,
I will forgive you for what you have done,
And I do not mind."
"O son of Adam,
If your sins were to reach the clouds of the sky,
Then you sought My forgiveness,
I would forgive you and I do not mind."
"O son of Adam,
If you were to come to Me with sins nearly filling the earth,
Then you met Me, not associating anything with Me,
I would come to you with nearly as much forgiveness."
This, then, is the answer.
And revelation follows it.
If Allah wills a thing,
He says to it "Be," and it is.