Surah at Tahrim, 66...........5th Discourse & Repentance

O ye who believe! Ward off from yourselves and your families a Fire whereof the fuel is men and stones, over which are set angels strong, severe, who resist not Allah in that which He commandeth them, but do that which they are commanded. (6) (Then it will be said): O ye who disbelieve! Make no excuses for yourselves this Day. Ye are only being paid for what ye used to do. (7) O ye who believe! Turn unto Allah in sincere repentance! It may be that your Lord will remit from you your evil deeds and bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, on the day when Allah will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him. Their light will run before them and on their right hands; they will say: Our Lord! Perfect our light for us, and forgive us! Lo! Thou art Able to do all things. (8) 

translation by pickthal







shaykh dr haitham al haddad's 5th discourse, starting from ayat 7

[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZUauEVjPQ4   ]



16:22           dato sri, just imagine a permanent 'toothache'..
                    you have the iq and eq, you know allah; but you rejected him...you deserved to
                    be punished!


22:30          this is the stuff that keep me awake at night: ' am i doing enough for my children,
                   mr lim , my neighbour, karupaya the newspaper man , dr albert my colleague
                   etc etc and etc?


29:10         ibnu jauzi'a awakening and rationalization...


31:00          taubatan nasuha.
                   the more closer to allah you get , the more you need to repent bru!


37:00         the most effective taubah...when you feel embarassed to allah for the shortcoming!


41:30        if you are pm and you have stolen billions of rm from your people, make sure
                 you return back the money to them...then go to your bamboo river resort or 
                 whatever.....return back the money to the raayat you must, please!


49:10       dont despair, allah accept all taubah....


1:0003     question time: we dont need to apolozise for islam. we have something the rest of the 
world don't...........






the 'heart surgeon' : repentance
tj winter on imam ghazali's 'book of at taubah'

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlUYzGarFac   ]


5:00     'we are travelling from what we barely remember, thru a world we barely understand; to a future which has been outlined through revelation but which in our hearts we know we cannot even begin to comprehend.....we are weak, full of hope but full of forgetfulness.....'

13:00    the fall of iblis

15:10    the fall of adam

18:20    the dual polarity in man

20:20    taubah requires specificity: knowledge, state, action

27:25    allah loves the penitent

30:12    taubah, with a proviso that all its preconditions are  fulfilled, is always accepted

32:20    we are all between two gardens! in between these two gardens, we can create a garden
for ourselves in this finite, transient world........before we go to the ultimate final garden.

40:00    in zikrillah, hearts are made calm. in difficult time we have sabr which produce redza.
in good times we have shukr. that is what a life of contiunos zikr results in.
a heart calm at tumultous difficult times and humbled in good times.


" we were the companions of the sphere
   we were friends of the angels
   let us go  back there again friends
   let us get back to that country
   that is our city
   that is where we belong
   our abode is the divine glory....."

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