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Day 14 🌙

tawbah: turning back when things go wrong

you made a mistake. you knew it was wrong, but you didn’t control your nafs. something inside you whispered it was wrong but you ignored that little voice. you’ve committed a sin. what now?

قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَّحْمَةِ اللَّهِ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا ۚ إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ

say, "o My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah. indeed, Allah forgives all sins. indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful." {sura zumar: aya 53}

our Lord ﷻ is most Forgiving, so fret not! all one has to do in order to seek Allah’s ﷻ mercy and forgiveness is tawbah.

what is tawbah?

tawbah literally means to return back, because by repenting we are essentially turning back to Allah ﷻ after turning away from Him ﷻ whilst choosing to sin.

how does one perform tawbah?

it has been reported that abu bakr ‏رضي الله تعالى عنه narrated that the Prophet ﷺ: “there is no one who commits a sin, then purifies himself and stands in salah and offers two raka’at and seeks forgiveness, except that Allah ﷻ will forgive him.”

tawbah consists of the salah and dua. 2 rak’ah nafl with the intention of tawbah followed by a sincere dua asking Allah ﷻ to forgive you and keep you in His ﷻ mercy is all you really need

there are three main requirements:

stopping the sin- you can’t ask for forgiveness for something that you are still involved in. cut the sin off from its core so you make be more firm in your repentance

sincere repentance-that guilty feeling you feel that won’t let you go? that’s a blessing. feeling remorse means Allah ﷻ wants to forgive you, all you have to do is reach out

a firm intention to never, ever commit that sin again- even if you’ve promised yourself this a hundred times, DO IT AGAIN! believe in yourself and ask Allah for His help in keeping your promise. deep down, we should believe that we won’t ever do anything to displease Allah ﷻ ever again

also, if the sin you want to repent from involved someone else’s rights, you must seek their forgiveness first. for example, if you stole from someone, you need to return the item before you can ask Allah ﷻ for forgiveness, otherwise you’re still oppressing your brother, and how can Allah ﷻ forgive the one that oppressed His ﷻ servants? however, if the sin was such that revealing it to the person now would cause them harm, conceal the sin and make abundant dua for your brother. for example, if two brothers backbite a third in complete privacy, it may be best not to reveal this to the third brother, especially if it will hurt him. rather, we can make sincere dua that Allah ﷻ places forgiveness in his heart for us and that Allah ﷻ also forgives our brother just as we want him to forgive us.

this is the most complete manner of tawbah that i know of. this is required when committing a major sin, like leaving salah on purpose or listening to music.

i pray this suffices the interested party.

‏والله ﷻ اعلم وأتمم وأجل وأكبر

things i learned this ramadan

every ramadan has many important lessons to teach us individually, but this year we’ve all learnt some collective lessons. here are the three that i feel deserve to be the most preserved and internalized:

Allah ﷻ does not reside in the masjid nor in the haram, but He ﷻ is with the believer

a major reason why we feel absolute euphoria when visiting the kaba is because it’s the first time in a long time that our sole focus is our relationship with Allah ﷻ. we pray, read His ﷻ quran, and make every dua that finds its way to our heart.

but Allah ﷻ isn’t only in the haram, nor is He ﷻ confines to the masjid. the reason we feel closer to Him ﷻ in these places is because entering them is the only time we attempt to put aside all of our worldly worries to focus on building a connection to Allah ﷻ. this ramadan, we learnt that Allah ﷻ is as much in our homes as He ﷻ is the masjid. in fact, He ﷻ is wherever we may be when we call upon Him ﷻ.

life becomes blissful when we adopt a mentality of, “Allah ﷻ has planned it out best for me”

much of our day to day stress comes from planning out the future and get rattled when things don’t go according to plan. some of us had travel plans. others were supposed to be getting married. some even lost their jobs or a loved one.

so much has happened in these last few months, but ramadan was our opportunity to reconcile all of our worldly plans with Allah ﷻ perfect predestination. internalizing the thought that, “had it happens the way i had wanted, i would have suffered or lost out on something better” or even better, “i got this because it’s the absolute best for me” is the key to unlocking a more content life. suddenly, stress melts away and tawakul in Allah’s ﷻ perfect plan replaces it.

the best deeds are those that are performed in difficulty

regardless of how much of an impact the worlds current state has had on your individual life, we can all agree that a great burden has taken hold of humanity. the healthy are now sick, the financially self-sufficient are now struggling, and the most social of men and women are trapped in their homes without any gatherings to attend.

this calls for gratitude for whatever state we may be in, and seizing every opportunity because well never know when our condition might change. however, it also teaches us the value of deeds that are performed in spite of adversity. the charity you give when you don’t know where your next meal is coming from. the salah you pray when your feeling sleepy. fasting at a time when everyone else is emphasizing the need to stay hydrated. we might overlook these obstacles, but Allah ﷻ doesn’t. He ﷻ sees and values and appreciates and records.

‏ربنا ‏زدنا علما

‏والله أعلم بالصواب

bidding farewell to ramadan

thirty days have come and gone, and now it’s time to move on...

‏قال الحبيب ﷺ" وَإِنَّمَا الأَعْمَالُ بِالْخَوَاتِيمِ ‏"‏‏

our Beloved Prophet ﷺ has said, “verily, (the rewards of) the deeds are decided by the last actions (deeds)"

on this final day of ramadan let us strive to end of ramadan on the best possible note. let’s use this extra time to accomplish those ‏أعمال we wished to do but didn’t.

if you’re feeling down about not having had the best ramadan this year, remember that the success of any ramadan is judged by the change that remains in the servant even after it has gone. so if you were able to eradicate even one bad habit, or you established one good habit, then know that you’ve reaped the fruit of ramadan

i pray that Allah ﷻ accepts all of our fasting, our prayers, our duas, our zakaat, our sadaqah, and all our good deeds, despite how incomplete and lacking in sincerity they were

may this ramadan be the one we look back to and say, “that was the year it all changed, that was the year i fell in love with Allah ﷻ”

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