WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:03.399 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:11.560 Within the embrace of Allah, happiness pours into the hearts. 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:15.660 Seek ever-greater closeness to the Most Merciful. 00:00:15.660 --> 00:00:18.660 The Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Musa Mosque. 00:00:18.660 --> 00:00:21.660 Proudly presents: 00:00:21.660 --> 00:00:24.660 The Musk of Discourse. 00:00:24.660 --> 00:00:26.660 By Sheikh Usama Bahr. 00:00:26.660 --> 00:00:28.660 May Allah preserve him. 00:00:28.660 --> 00:00:35.659 Whoever obeys the Lord dissolves into the sweetest of feelings. 00:00:35.659 --> 00:00:40.250 Where is the answer? 00:00:40.250 --> 00:00:44.250 How many moments pass for a person while they are heedless? 00:00:44.250 --> 00:00:46.340 Ask yourself: 00:00:46.340 --> 00:00:49.340 Are you prepared for the reckoning? 00:00:49.340 --> 00:00:53.469 Have you tried to account for yourself before you are called to account? 00:00:53.469 --> 00:00:58.700 Have you pictured yourself living your final moments? 00:00:58.700 --> 00:01:01.700 Have you imagined the Angel of Death at your head? 00:01:01.700 --> 00:01:04.700 Have you tallied your good deeds and your sins? 00:01:04.700 --> 00:01:08.859 Have you turned to Allah in repentance and contrition? 00:01:08.859 --> 00:01:10.859 These are many questions, 00:01:10.859 --> 00:01:15.859 That require you to provide an answer in this world before the Hereafter. 00:01:15.859 --> 00:01:19.890 For in this world, you can still change your answer. 00:01:19.890 --> 00:01:22.890 The opportunity is favorable and available. 00:01:22.890 --> 00:01:27.079 But in the Hereafter, the opportunity is non-existent. 00:01:28.079 --> 00:01:32.079 The answer there is final; you cannot change it. 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:34.209 You might say: 00:01:34.209 --> 00:01:39.239 "I want to be fully prepared for the examination." 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:41.239 And you might say: 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:44.239 "I seek happiness and success for myself." 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:48.239 "I desire success and I hope for forgiveness." 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:51.239 "But I am ignorant of the path to it." 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:54.340 "And I do not know how to begin." 00:01:54.340 --> 00:01:56.340 You are like a drowning man, 00:01:56.340 --> 00:01:58.340 Wanting someone to take his hand. 00:01:58.340 --> 00:02:01.340 Like a wanderer feeling for the way, 00:02:01.340 --> 00:02:03.340 Wanting a glimmer of hope, 00:02:03.340 --> 00:02:05.340 And a ray of light. 00:02:05.340 --> 00:02:08.340 But where is the path? 00:02:08.340 --> 00:02:11.460 The path, my dear brother, 00:02:11.460 --> 00:02:13.460 Is as clear as the sun. 00:02:13.460 --> 00:02:15.460 As manifest as the moon. 00:02:15.460 --> 00:02:17.460 It is one, with no second to it. 00:02:17.460 --> 00:02:20.460 It is the path of repentance. 00:02:20.460 --> 00:02:22.530 The path of success. 00:02:22.530 --> 00:02:24.659 The path of prosperity. 00:02:24.659 --> 00:02:27.659 It is an easy, facilitated path. 00:02:27.659 --> 00:02:30.659 Open before you at every moment. 00:02:30.659 --> 00:02:33.659 You need only knock on the door, 00:02:33.659 --> 00:02:36.659 And you will find the answer. 00:02:46.659 --> 00:02:48.659 This is the answer. 00:02:48.659 --> 00:02:50.719 Indeed, Allah the Exalted, 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:52.719 Has called all His servants, 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:55.719 Both the believer and the disbeliever, to repentance. 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:58.719 And He, Glory be to Him and Exalted be He, has informed us, 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:00.719 That He forgives all sins, 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:02.719 For whoever repents from them, 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:04.719 And turns back from them, 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:05.719 No matter how numerous they are, 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:07.719 And no matter how great they are, 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:10.719 Even if they were like the foam of the sea. 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.719 Say: "O My servants who have transgressed 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:16.719 Against their own souls, 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:18.719 Do not despair 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:22.719 Of the mercy of Allah." 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) 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:33.719 Indeed, He is the Forgiving, the Merciful. 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:36.719 And Allah the Exalted answered His servant, 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:38.719 Saying in the hadith qudsi: 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:40.719 "O son of Adam, 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:43.719 As long as you call upon Me and hope in Me, 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:45.719 I will forgive you for what you have done, 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:47.719 And I do not mind." 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:49.719 "O son of Adam, 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:52.719 If your sins were to reach the clouds of the sky, 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:54.719 Then you sought My forgiveness, 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:56.719 I would forgive you and I do not mind." 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:58.719 "O son of Adam, 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:02.719 If you were to come to Me with sins nearly filling the earth, 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.719 Then you met Me, not associating anything with Me, 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:09.879 I would come to you with nearly as much forgiveness." 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:11.879 This, then, is the answer. 00:04:49.189 --> 00:04:53.189 And revelation follows it. 00:04:53.189 --> 00:04:57.189 If Allah wills a thing, 00:04:57.189 --> 00:05:02.189 He says to it "Be," and it is.