Summary: أَعُوذُ بِاللهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطانِ الرَّجِيمِ ... وَإِذْ قِيلَ لَهُمُ اسْكُنُواْ هَذِهِ الْقَرْيَةَ وَكُلُواْ مِنْهَا حَيْثُ شِئْتُمْ وَقُولُواْ حِطَّةٌ وَادْخُلُواْ الْبَابَ سُجَّدًا نَّغْفِرْ لَكُمْ خَطِيئَاتِكُمْ سَنَزِيدُ الْمُحْسِنِينَ فَبَدَّلَ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُواْ مِنْهُمْ قَوْلاً غَيْرَ الَّذِي قِيلَ لَهُمْ فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِجْزًا مِّنَ السَّمَاء بِمَا كَانُواْ يَظْلِمُونَ وَاسْأَلْهُمْ عَنِ الْقَرْيَةِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ حَاضِرَةَ الْبَحْرِ إِذْ يَعْدُونَ فِي السَّبْتِ إِذْ تَأْتِيهِمْ حِيتَانُهُمْ يَوْمَ سَبْتِهِمْ شُرَّعاً وَيَوْمَ لاَ يَسْبِتُونَ لاَ تَأْتِيهِمْ كَذَلِكَ نَبْلُوهُم بِمَا كَانُوا يَفْسُقُونَ وَإِذْ قَالَتْ أُمَّةٌ مِّنْهُمْ لِمَ تَعِظُونَ قَوْمًا اللَّهُ مُهْلِكُهُمْ أَوْ مُعَذِّبُهُمْ عَذَابًا شَدِيدًا قَالُواْ مَعْذِرَةً إِلَى رَبِّكُمْ وَلَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَّقُونَ (سورة الأعراف - سورة 7 آية 61-64)<br> ربي اشرح لي صدري ويسر لي امري واحلل عقدة من لساني يفقهوا قولي<br> الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آلـه وصحبه ومن ولاه<br> Just a brief reminder, I’d like to add a couple of things, very little things added to what was already said and much of what I am planning to say has already been brought by Abdul Nasir Jangda, so, I gonna keep this speech short and hope every speech I say. “I gonna make it short and not gonna be extra-long but I think I actually needed this time, I think. Only time will tell, have hope.<br> So the first thing I wanna share with you guys is just some recommendation after this topic is done. When you get time on your own, there’s something I want you guys to watch on YouTube. The professor’s name is Professor HESHAM AL-AWADI, he has an hour long lecture on NOT LOSING HOPE and I think it’s one of the best presentations of the topic I ever heard personally. I’ll show you some of the things from that video and I’ve changed some things from his talk … but I think while watching this video, it’s wise taking notes also. It’s just personally very beneficial for Muslims, I think. It’s just … even for your family to hear… but I advise you guys to hear it yourself seriously especially the Arabic ……in sha Allahu Wa Ta’ala and try to discuss some of those things on your own with your kids instead of sneaking them in front of the TV screen or computer screen and let them hear the video that they want.<br> So one is here a couple of things in terms of … something that students of the Prophet , the best students of the Prophet , the companions . Something they just understood about sins, something that they are very clear about and we nowadays are not getting clear about and I wanna just wanna literate them so we can refresh ourselves and our attitudes in terms of sin.<br> The first thing is when you and I sin, we’re disappointed with ourselves. That’s a matter of fact. I mean if you have any ounce of decency left in you, when you do something wrong at the end of the day, you go back and you say, “How could I do that?” Now you lost hope in yourself in some respect and that’s what disappointment by definition is. You lost hope in yourself and you ask yourself: “How could have I done such a thing?” That’s natural, it’s normal. It’s not something bad to be disappointed in yourself. It’s not something bad to be sad about your sin ….. It’s actually a gift from Allah , because you still have a conscience. But…that disappointment will never confuse…you never confuse it and allow that disappointment that they lost hope in themselves. They are not confident in themselves anymore. They did not let that become … by itself, Allah has hope over you. Just because I don’t have hope in myself doesn’t mean Allah doesn’t have hope in me; or Allah does not expect more from me; or Allah Himself is disappointed in me. He didn’t ….. for that. Because if you’ve given up on yourself, a Muslim knew, he understood certain qualities of Allah that are permanent. You know our feelings and our temperaments; they go up and down. We have good deeds and we have bad deeds,
