Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, Alhamdulillah al-Rabbi l-Alamin wa sallallahu ala salam wa barik ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim Rabi Shah Siddri wa yasalli Amri wa ala qatatim al-Sani wa Qawqawli wa sallallahu ala salam wa barik ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim Alhamdulillah al-Rabbi l-Alamin, Salamu alaikum, rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Alhamdulillah. So we are in these final nights of the blessed month of Ramadan under the final days of the blessed month of Ramadan and we're continuing on this conversation about repentance and we're talking about the signs of and accepted repentance. So today is the final class. We're really going to be covering what are the signs of someone's repentance to get accepted. How do you know if you've been repenting, if you've been turning to Allah in this blessed month and if you've been turning to Allah at any time, how do you know if your repentance has been accepted? What are some signs that you can use to kind of determine that? We're going to be covering that. We're going to start with just a little bit of a brief review and then we will go ahead and dive in, inshallah. And you know, as we've done, if folks have any questions, just feel free to chime in, put them in the chat and we'll get to the questions, inshallah, either as they come depending on the relevance or at the end. So we've talked about the different types of sins that someone can commit, right? So you have major sins and you have minor sins. And you know, we've discussed that major sins require a specific repentance to Allah. That you and I actually have to ask God to forgive us for the major sins that we commit, right? So that's the first thing for us to keep in mind that we need to very specifically know what the major sins are. And then we need to turn to Allah and we need to ask Him to forgive us and pardon us for those major sins that we've committed. Amongst those sins like murder, sins like adultery, sins like stealing, sins like taking out interest, sins like some of the other sexual acts that someone can do and various other sins that somebody can commit. So that's the first thing for us to keep in mind. Then from there, we talked about the practical ways to actually repent, right? So there are various practical ways to repent and repentance essentially has a three-step process. So you have the first step which is to feel bad. It's to feel remorse, right? You actually feel bad for what you've done. The second step in repentance is for you to actively ask Allah to forgive you. So you ask God to forgive you for the sin that you've done, right? So Ya Allah, I'm really sorry for the mistake I made and you can list out the sin but you should feel bad and you're hard for that. And ideally one of the ways and signs of feeling bad is that the tears begin to flow. The tears begin to flow. And then the third step in the process as we mentioned is that you and I actively make a commitment to change our life. That is one of the signs of an accepted repentance and one of the signs of just repentance in and of itself is that we make a commitment to stop doing that sin. So if we were, let's say it was a minor sin, let's say we were lying before or we were cheating before we were stealing something or we were stealing depending on what it is could classify as major sin or we were cursing a lot or we were looking at the haram. You and I make a commitment that, okay, I've had enough, I'm going to change and I'm going to work on myself moving forward. And so what better time than these blessed days, the final days of Ramadan? We have just a few days left before the shayatin are released. Just a few days left while we can still benefit from the doors of the heavens being open and the doors of the hellfire being closed. And so this is really the moment for us to work on ourselves. That is the goal that lets work on ourselves in these moments. Somebody asked a great question. Can Allah forgive you if you have ever been suicidal in your life? Yes, definitely. Look, the suicidal thoughts that somebody can get and may Allah protect all of us from those thoughts, but that can happen. Someone can get into a state of depression where the suicidal thoughts start to come in. And our goal is to fight those thoughts. Many times shaytan will tell us, you know what? What's the point of life?   So we might come across these moments where we contemplate taking our life. And the first thing to note is that as long as we don't act on the thought, we are not held accountable for the thought. So you can have very, very bad thoughts, but as long as you don't act on the thought, you are not held accountable for the thought. Somebody has gone to the point where they've really actively started to plan out ways to take their own life and may Allah protect you and me and all of us from that. Then we should make repentance specifically from that, right? That we really ask Allah to forgive us and to protect us from any of those types of things from happening because we don't want to be in that state where we would be actively, we don't want to be in that state where we would be actively contemplating and actively starting to plan that out. But generally if you have not had thoughts, we should repent from those thoughts. And if we've had thoughts to the extent of trying to take our own life, we should repent from them and we should make a commitment to not go for it, not let those thoughts come back. And if they do, we fight them. We fight them, right? That's the most important thing. Alhamdulillah. So we'll go ahead and keep going and if people have other questions again, just feel free to post them as they come up. So we're going to start with the treatment. They say the treatment for not repenting. Imam Ghazali describes that you and I might actually be like, what's the point of repenting? Why do I need to repent? I'm just fine, right? I don't need to. I don't have anything. I've never done anything bad. Or we're like, we delay it. The human being is the master delayer. We just like to delay things. We like to procrastinate, right? And I'm saying this to myself first and foremost, right? We procrastinate. Even when I was preparing for this class and this conversation, I delayed it. I should have prepared before and I know I should have prepared before, but I procrastinated and kind of waited, right? We end up waiting. We end up delaying. And so many times the human being, we will delay our repentance. We'll delay the asking forgiveness. We'll say, well, I'll just do a little bit more and I'll go and hug later in my life. Inshallah, forgive me. Or I'm in this relationship right now. I really don't want to end it. Things are going well. So it'll be just fine. Or I really like partying and I really like being with these people. So what's the big deal? Why do I repent? I'll repent later, right? Allah is all forgiving. I'll repent later. So that's one of the ways that the human being kind of puts it off. And look, again, these are normal things. One of the things we're trying to do in these conversations, we're just trying to keep it normal. These are normal thoughts that go through everybody's head. And so it's okay if you lie to normal people. We're going to have these thoughts. But our goal is to go from being in what's called the default setting, one of our shew, Allah preserve him, that he mentioned that the human being is in a default setting. You're kind of born into a certain setting where you're going to always incline to your lower potential. You are not really going to try to aspire to your spiritual goals, that type of thing. And so when you and I are in that state, when we're in that state of just our default setting, in that state, we're going to procrastinate. We're not going to want to make Toba. We're not going to want to ask Allah to forgive us. We're not going to want to change our life because we're like, what's the point? Why do I have to do this? Why do I have to work on myself? But you and I have to resist that because what is the goal of this religion? It's to strive and to struggle, right? That this religion is not one that the Prophet said that heaven is surrounded by adversity, surrounded by difficulty, and hellfire is surrounded by pleasures. So it's not difficult to engage in pleasures. Like, oh, you do this. There's so many pleasures in our society that we live in. But know that that is a door to hellfire. Hellfire is surrounded by pleasure. Versus heaven, it's surrounded by what? By patience, by having to give things up, by enduring long days of fasting, by standing up in prayer, by putting in the effort. And that is the sign of the believer that we try, right? So one of the first ways to kind of get over this procrastination for not wanting to repent is for us to recall this to hereafter. That the Prophet's son told us in various hadiths to just reflect on death and remember death often. And it's not a popular topic.   What state would I be meeting Allah? Because it's not out of the question. It is not out of the question. I'll tell you right now that one of the main reasons why I myself decided to like, I need to change my life when I was young and I was in college was because I had a friend and one day that this friend, she was in college and she was with us. The next day she went and she was spending the summer in Pakistan and she was flying in a plane and that plane just all of a sudden some issue happened with the plane and it crashed and everybody on the plane, everybody on the flight died. May Allah give them all those that were, that may Allah give them Shahada inshallah and accept them and forgive them, but those that were on the flight all passed away. And I remember when I first heard, I read about it in the news and I was like, oh, I wonder if anybody I know was on that flight and I never would have thought that somebody who I actually knew was, you know, who I was friends with was on the flight, but I remember the impact that it had. It had a huge impact on me because I was like, dude, I'm like 19 years, I was like 18 or 19 and somebody who was 18 or 19, who I just saw a couple months ago now is gone from this world and what am I doing with my life? Like I got to work on myself, right? Like what if that was me? What kind of state would I be in?  You reflect on your grave. You reflect on the tombstone. You reflect on the fact that it will say your name. If you are local community, like in our local community, they send out emails, you know, so-and-so has passed away. You reflect on your email being sent out and so has passed away. He or she lived up to this point that he or she lived a good life that their parents or so on, their family carries them on. Their funeral prayer will be at this time. You really reflect, that's going to be you. You and me will have that message sent out about us at some point. You and me will have a moment where it's going to be none of this stuff. It doesn't matter how many friends we have on social media. It doesn't matter how many followers somebody has. It doesn't matter who was there and who wasn't there. What's going to matter is your deeds. What's going to matter is if you and I repented. And if you and I repent, the door of repentance is opened up until the death rattle. The death rattle is the rattle where someone, literally their soul is being taken from them, and then they say, I want to repent. At that point, the door of repentance is not open because they literally see death facing them. But the door of repentance is open up until that point. You and I just have to be ready and we can do it weekly. If not daily, the Prophet of the Prophet would do it hourly. He would always be in a state of remembering death. But at least on a monthly or weekly basis we should be thinking about, okay, I'm going to die at some point. So big deal about this. It'll help us, first of all, not get too stressed out and tripped out about all the things that bother us like at work and this and that. But secondly, it'll just help us really try to stay away from sin. That nothing destroys the Prophet of the Prophet because the destroyer of pleasures is death. You will just remember it. It's going to happen at some point. I'm going to pass away. I got to remember that. I have to remember that. The remembering death and the afterlife will propel you and I to repent. It will propel us.  It's not a imagination and it is a place that every single person, Allah protect us but we will have to face it at some point. We will have to face it unless Allah protects us from that. And so the hellfire, we seek Allah's refuge from the hellfire. We always say, right, that we ask Allah to protect us from the hellfire because it's very, very serious.  Like you will have, they will neither be in a state where they're living nor dying. They will be neither living nor dying. They will be in this limbo state. They will be in a state that their limbs and their bones and every part of them will be melting and they will be given burning hot liquid to drink that will melt the insides of their organs. Now we ask Allah for protection. Just thinking about this is so intense. We got to reflect on it though because in this life we're so used to our comforts. Everything being so easy with alhamdulillah. But if we don't change our life, if we don't repent, if we don't get on a path of serious focus on getting closer to Allah, we can't expect these same comforts to be there in the next life. That jannah is the life of comfort and the hellfire is the life of extreme discomfort.  They know how hard it is to be uncomfortable. Now imagine that for a significant period of time. Millions of years. Millions of years long until one is giving refuge. So that's the main thing. If you and I don't want to repent, remember these things. Remember the year after. And the second thing is remember that procrastination is common inside of us and we have to force ourselves to stop procrastinating. At some point you and I got to make a decision how much longer am I going to put this off? Let's say you have certain chores you got to do. My wife is always asking me make sure you do this and make sure you do that. I'm notoriously bad at folding laundry for example. So I put it off. I'll do it later until the next week comes and they're still sitting in the dryer and taking the clothes out of the dryer. That's something I got to work on. But you and I know we have certain things we need to work on and stop procrastinating. But this stuff for the year after it's not worth procrastinating anymore. It doesn't matter for 10, 15, 20, 30, how old we are. It is not worth putting off your year after. So make a commitment to yourself that you know what? I'm going to I'm going to work on myself. There is a statement. I don't know if it's a hadith or not. I believe it might just from the traditions. I believe it's from the idea that much of the reason for people being in hell is procrastination. That they just put things off. They put things off. That we put things off. And so do we want to be those people? Even in this life where no successful CEO or doctor or anybody else in a successful position in life is a procrastinator. They will their path to success and all these books that talk about it was a path where they did not procrastinate. So we should avoid procrastinating on repentance. So that's really the main thing that just wanted to cover before we get into the signs of an accepted repentance is there's this treatment for not repenting. Let's keep that in mind. Inshallah. Now let's get into the signs of an accepted repentance. To know that if your repentance has been inshallah only Allah knows but inshallah has been accepted. The first is that you feel a very, very serious remorse. You feel bad for what you did in the past. And you really feel like you start to, instead of enjoying sin, this is a very, very important sign. Instead of enjoying sin you start to dislike sin.  If you have sincerely repented, one of the signs of that sincere repentance is you won't enjoy that thing. You will actually hate it. It'll feel bitter.  You start feeling like worried or anxious. That is one of the first signs in Subhanallah. What an amazing sign because Allah has given the heart He's given the human spiritual heart a certain perception and that perception allows you and I to know okay, how am I feeling spiritually about this, right? And it's not like something we look to for all of our rules and whatnot but we should, it is a gauge. It helps kind of point us in certain directions. So you and I will start to hate that sin. The second is that you and I will have a certain resolve, a certain resolve in our life. So we're going to talk about this from the how it relates to the present how it relates to the future and how it relates to the past. So in the present you have a resolve to, I'm going to abandon the sin and I'm going to focus I lost a lot of time in my life on doing things I shouldn't have been doing so I'm going to focus on changing my life and focus on doing religious things. I'm going to focus on learning. I'm going to focus on regaining. I'm going to focus on working on myself. I'm going to focus on Ibadah. I'm going to focus on making up prayers, that type of thing. Then you have a resolve for the future that I'm going to just no matter what, I'm going to do my absolute best to avoid getting into the sin again. It's no matter what, I'm going to make it a commitment. You know what, I'm not going to get into the sin again. I'm going to keep trying and I'll have a plan. You have to have a plan. Okay, if I enter in this situation, right, like I remember that I had to come up with a certain plan, right, when I had friends that would hit me up to do certain things and I can't do that anymore, but it was very too difficult for me to just say no. So I'd have to come up with elaborate ways to say no, I'm not really trying to have this to do that busy. You have to come up with plans to say, you know what, if you know you're going to get into a situation, I'm going to commit in the future to leaving that because I'm on the path to change. This is the moment. We don't need to wait anymore. We see all the stuff happening around us. The signs at the end of times are very, very clear whether or not it isn't we have ways to go. The signs at the end of times are very clear. We do not know when, how much time we have left on this earth and we don't even frankly know how much time the earth has left in general, right. So we have to try to make a sincere commitment and resolve to change our life in this moment. Let's not put it off anymore. And then for the past you have a resolve in the past for things in the past that you are going to make up things you messed up on and you're going to rectify the wrongs that you did. You want to focus on rectifying the wrongs. If you messed up a lot of things, if you stole from people, you returned to them. If you lied to people, you would apologize to them. If you heard people's feelings, you apologize to them. If you missed a lot of prayers, you make them up. If you missed a lot of fasts, you make them up. These are the signs of an accepted repentance that somebody is on their way to changing and they make a commitment to change. We ask Allah accept all of our repentance, insha Allah. Somebody asked a good question. If you lost hope in Allah, how do you gain hope in Allah? First is to know that losing hope in Allah is a trick from Shaitan because Allah is all merciful. There's no reason to lose hope in him. Don't worry. Allah is all merciful. Allah forgave the sins of a mass murderer. We talked about that Hadith in the first conversation we did a couple weeks ago. Allah forgave the sin of a mass murderer. There is no reason to lose hope in Allah. His hope is vast. His mercy is vast. He is encompassed all. He saved so much of his mercy. They say that 99, Allah has let's say 100 mercies. If you divided his mercy into 100 parts, he gave one part to this world and he saved 99 for the day of judgment. 99 mercies so that you and I could have mercy on that day. So just know that you pray to a Lord where you say Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the most compassionate. That's the Lord you pray to. So the most merciful, compassionate is the one you hope in. The one you love. The one you trust. So that's try not to lose hope and if you that's the first thing is conceptually understand that. Secondly is to think about what is it that's making you lose hope in God. Why did you lose the hope in God? So is it that something specific happened? Was it after a specific event? Are you potentially angry with his decree or with the way that things are happening in your life? You just have to admit it sometimes. Maybe you're angry and you need to get over that. Right? So that's the second thing. The third thing is have a moment every single to have a moment of your time in a week let's say or in a month or even if you haven't been praying.  I want to return back to you. I want to make a commitment to change. I want to make commitment to do better. So I'm going to I'm asking you to forgive me and to allow me to regain hope. That's the really the main thing that I would advise and inshallah may Allah allow all of us to have significant hope in him and to not lose that hope inshallah. So then we'll keep going. Somebody asked another good question. How to remove negative thoughts that make you feel bad for yourself or make you feel bad about yourself? If you feel negative thoughts, the first thing to do is to know that there are four types of thoughts. You have thoughts that are from shaitan. You have thoughts that are from your own ego or your own nafs. You have thoughts that are from the angels and you have thoughts that are from that are directly from Allah. These are called shaitani, nafsani, malakani, rabbani. These are the types of khawatri or the types of thoughts that exist. So you have to identify who is giving these thoughts. It's certainly not going to be the angels and most likely these thoughts are not going to be coming from God. So they're going to be coming from your nafs and they're going to be coming from your nafs and they're going to be coming from shaitan. So now you have to know, okay, how do I battle shaitan and the nafs?  Because I can change myself. That's in your control, right? So you counter the thoughts by putting things into action. First you ignore them, then you start to work on yourself and then number three, you start to not only stay committed to working on yourself, but you start to add in a lot of dhikr. Add in a lot of dhikr. Dhikr is a cure by saying Alhamdulillah Astaghfirullah. These are ways to improve your thoughts and ways to purify the mind as well, inshallah. And we'll go ahead and just continue. Somebody asks, oh, so you said I'm very paranoid when I make wudu. I take a long time. There's actually a specific mention in the books, a specific devil that actually whispers things in your ear to try to get you to overdo it in wudu. Don't trip about it. Just make wudu, make sure you get water in all the places and then just leave it and try to just do the three in each place in the sunnah and don't do more. More is actually considered sinful if you keep doing more in wudu because you're tripping out, right? That would not be a good idea for us to do. Okay, cool. How can I think positive because everything I do is not going according to my plan? So it's a sign that Allah is in control when everything doesn't go according to your plan. That's like a very, very important lesson. Look, things aren't going to go according to my plan or your plan because we don't run the show. God runs the show. So it's a sign one of the scholars mentioned that he came to know Allah and he came to know his Lord through realizing that when he come up with plans Allah had a different plan for him. So think positive because if Allah is guiding things in different directions for you, it's not a bad sign. It's a sign that Allah is doing what he needs to do. So what you should try to do is think positive by first aligning yourself with what Allah's decree is. Don't expect God to come into your plan. No, no, no, your plan needs to go with God's plan. So you plan and then you trust in Allah and you say, okay, whatever God is going to do.  The believer is the one who sees wisdom in everything and the hypocrite doesn't ever see wisdom. They just blame, blame, blame. So try to recognize the wisdom in God doing things. Inshallah. Okay, so we'll continue just to somebody asked two questions. If Eid is Thursday and I want to fast six days of shawwal, is it true that fasting six days of shawwal equals fasting for 11 months? Do I begin fasting on Friday? So that fasting six days of shawwal, in addition to fasting the fast of Ramadan equals the fasting of a whole year. The way it works is 30 days of Ramadan and multiplied by 10 because of the reward is 300 days. Six days of shawwal multiplied by 10 because of the reward is 60 days. There's 360 days in a lunar year. So that would be the reward for a whole year. You do not have to begin fasting on Friday. You can fast any of the six days of shawwal. It is a good practice if you of course don't fast on Eid. It's haram to do that. But if you fast the six days of shawwal, it's a good practice. If you want to do it all in a row because you're in the rhythm, Alhamdulillah. If you want to do it in other parts of shawwal, Alhamdulillah, Imam Malik has the opinion that you can do it from shawwal anytime up until the next shaban, until the next Ramadan really because of the way that the hadith is structured. So you have different options. You don't have to do it all in a row. No. And I don't know about the second question about shaitan fasting. I'm not sure about that. Okay. So we'll keep going. So the second sign, the third sign of repentance of an accepted repentance is that you make up your religious obligations. Guys, I can't stress this enough. We have made mistakes in the past and we just didn't do certain obligations. I can speak for myself first and foremost. So we have to get on a path to make those obligations up. It is a sign of our accepted repentance. So instead of doing extra Nawafil deeds or too many extra Nawafil prayers, we got to get on a journey to make up our prayers because we owe them to God. Our farth prayers are owed to God. The first thing that we are held to account for on the day of judgment is our prayers. So we don't want to be in a situation where we're lacking on our prayers. So among the signs of an accepted Toba and accepted repentance is that we calculate our missed prayers and we start to get on a path to make things up. Imagine you are not whole. You are not spiritually whole. You are empty spiritually until you make certain things up and among those things you have to make up are your prayers. So let's just kind of keep that in mind, inshallah and try to make sure that we are on a path to making up our prayers. Great. So then moving forward that they say that the next side of an accepted repentance is you think about the different sins you've done. We talked about this already. I'm just reviewing it briefly. You think about the different sins you've done and you think about how you were to repent for each of those sins. So think about it like this. If you used to sin a lot with your eyes by looking at haram, let's say somebody looked at pornography which is a big problem in all communities and it is in the Muslim community as well or somebody did something haram with their hands or whatever it is. The way to also rectify that is that you do good with the eyes and with the hands. So the eye that used to look at haram, now spend time looking at the Qur'an, looking at the words of the Qur'an, the Muslim right? The eye that used to look at haram, go and inshallah visit Allah's house and look at the Ka'bah.  It's actually good deeds mashallah if you're looking at your parents. So those types of things, you rectify what the eye did, right? The hand that would do haram, you use that hand to give charity. You use that hand now to do thicker, right? You use that hand to turn the pages of the Qur'an. You use that hand to greet Muslims and to greet people and to take care of people. So that is a way to also fix your past. So you used to use your body for bad, now you begin to use your body for good. Instead of getting caught up in all the bad that we did, just get on a path to asking a letter to forgive us and then working on yourself making that commitment and then starting to implement inshallah. Somebody asked the question, how do we tackle depression? It makes you bother harder, everyday tasks feel down hopeless. It's a good question. So depression is, there's many aspects of this. There's a mental health aspect and then there's a spiritual aspect. Depression comes many times spiritually according to the scholars because of our sins. So one of the best ways to start to reduce our depression is to get on a path again of repentance and on a path of reducing our sin. When you sin, black spots form on your heart according to the hadith. The more black the heart gets, the more anxious the heart gets, the more depressed the heart gets. These are natural spiritual phenomenon that start to take place. Just like somebody who eats bad all the time will have cholesterol issues and eventually will have diabetic, diabetes issues and obesity issues and other types of things. Somebody who sins you won't notice the effect immediately but you will start to notice the effect a week, two weeks, two months, five months so you could be depressed because of a sin you did a year or two ago that you never repented from and it's actually holding you down. So that's the first thing. The second thing is to know that this life is a life where we're not always going to achieve happiness. We are going to be in difficult situations where we're going to be in a state of sin sometimes in this life. So we turn to Allah and we remember that okay, I might be depressed because happiness, true happiness is in the next life. The next life is the place of happiness. This life is going to have tests. It's going to have struggle. It's going to have difficulty. And then to get over it the third way to get over it in addition to leaving behind the sins is to practically think what exactly is it that I'm depressed about? I would advise all of us if we have depression is to seek mental health guidance to seek a therapist to actually engage in conversations. Why are we depressed? What is it that's making us depressed? So seek that professional help that's part of religion is to go and seek professional guidance because Allah says فَسْأَلُ الْأَحْلِ الْذِكْرِ اَنْ كُنْسُمْ لَا تَعْلِمُونَ Ask the people who know when you don't know. So ask those people who know how to give you guidance in this specific question about depression. And then one of the things that cures depression If you do a lot of salawat he will start to feel happier he will start to feel lifted up So what do you do? Say Allahumma salli ala sayyidina Muhammad or the one we do in the prayer Allahumma salli ala sayyidina Muhammad اِنَّا كَهْمِدُ مَجْيِ Do salawat and it will lift up and it will lighten things up The more worship you do the better it will be also And if you're feeling so down and overwhelmed know that sadness is also part of this life that Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had a whole significant time where he had a period of sadness when many difficulties in his life were happening So it's not, we don't need to beat ourselves up because of it But don't let the hopelessness get to you You sometimes just have to hopelessness get to you You sometimes just have to push through and keep doing whatever good it is that you can do And don't overdo it either because you know you're going to be feeling down and you're going to be feeling in a depressed state That's really not the best answer I would go and seek that advice like a proper professional I by no means have the kind of much full understanding that I need to have with regards to depression and mental health issues And that's just a little bit from what I've learned and what I've read And Imam Ghazali mentions that there are sins that you and I do that the only cure for them or the only way to the only repentance for them or the only way to get them removed from us is depression Allah tests us with depression So it's again not always a bad thing The last point I would say listen to the Quran a lot Play the Quran in your house Play the Quran in your house That would be important Play a lot of Quran in your house if you can Somebody asked When do you think Layla al-Qadir was? I don't know I mean it's still not I have no idea It could be It still could be Monday night It could be the 29th night We don't know It could be any night It doesn't always have to be an odd night It could be any night We should keep seeking Layla al-Qadir Insha'Allah Okay So The last thing Insha'Allah on this topic Or on the topic of getting your repentance accepted That you are on a path to rectify Not only your wrongs between you and Allah But your wrongs between you and people If you hurt a lot of people again You gotta fix that We gotta fix those wounds We gotta heal those wounds We gotta mend that relationship And that feeling Insha'Allah So We're in this period now That we're entering this post-rum We're about to finish up the month of Ramadan We have three or four days left Let's really get as much energy as we can To sincerely turn to God And to repent We need it We need a global repentance Globally We need people to be making Toba Because our sins Are the reason for many difficulties around the world And many of the difficulties that fall upon The fall upon animals And in nature are because of our sins Our dunub Our wrong actions So we should be on a path Where we're really, really sincerely committed Okay, I'm gonna really try and turn to Allah In the few days of Ramadan that I have left And I would advise all of us If we have not done so Have at least half hour To an hour carved out Over the next couple of days Where you just sit with God And you just make a lot of repentance You make a lot of Toba These are the days Of the freedom from the Hellfire We are in the final days of Ramadan Then in all of Ramadan Allah is freeing some insane amount of people From the Hellfire Millions and millions of people And on the last day On the last day Allah frees as many people As he has freed throughout the whole month of Ramadan On the last day of Ramadan From the Hellfire In this moment Somebody In this moment We could be getting freed from the Hellfire Because of some deed that Allah loved of ours In this moment We could be on the path to change our life It just takes a moment It takes a second It doesn't need any other time Allotted to it Because the doors of heaven are open And the doors of Hellfire are closed So that repentance It can get accepted in any moment These are moments that are super charged They are hyper charged They are turbo charged The last few days of Ramadan Are critical moments Imagine Spiritual lights are being poured down Angels are visiting gatherings You have all these other secrets That are being distributed You have heavenly gifts That are being distributed To people who are asking for them To the people who are fasting To the people who are praying To the people who are reciting Quran To the people who are holding up their hands And literally holding up their hands Ready to receive gifts That is the type of Lord you and I have We have a generous Lord We have a merciful Lord We have a Lord who we should hope in We have a Lord who is full of mercy We have a Lord who is full of forgiving us Allah loves to forgive Allah, you hibba towabeen He loves the people who repent And he loves to forgive We make the dua Allahumma inna ka'afoon Kareem to hibba lafooafooafoo You are the one who pardons And you love to pardon So please pardon us That is Allah He loves forgiving you So you just got to ask Why do we make it so difficult? No need to make it difficult We just have to ask I advise myself and all of you Turn to Allah sincerely In the final days of Ramadan Because you and I will need it You and I will first need repentance In these five or six moments Repentance will benefit you First is when you Your soul leaves your body Repentance is going to benefit you Because there's going to be nothing else That can help you on that day Except that you have good deeds And that you don't have that many bad deeds Repentance changes The bad deeds into good inshallah And removes the bad And it gets you on the path to good The second time Repentance will benefit you Is when you are placed in your grave You will be inshallah in a state of comfort in your grave Because you will be on a path Of somebody who has already changed their life You will be comfortable Instead of being constricted Imagine if you lived in a really constricted room Your whole life and somebody was torturing you You would not be able to survive Well the person who lives a life of sin That's their outcome And we ask Allah for protection But the person who lives a life of goodness Their outcome is one of Their outcome is one Of their grave being full Of pleasures It's like a garden from the garden of paradise And there's light in their grave And all these other amazing blessings in their grave So that is the second part Of why repentance will benefit us The third is when you are called to stand before Allah There will be a day where you and me Will have to stand before our Lord And we will be literally naked We will be naked on the day of judgment We will be naked We will be sweating up Many people will be sweating up to their heads We will be on a plane of all of humanity Billions of people will be there But we won't care about anybody else except ourselves We won't even care about our family members There will be a day where you will stand before your Lord You will stand and he will ask you about what you did He will ask you, I gave you this And you did that I gave you eyes and you did it to look at that I gave you a mouth and you said that with it I gave you money and you spent it like that I gave you health and you wasted it like that These types of questions will be asked Or they can be asked in the opposite direction That Allah knows what we did and he is pleased with us Which situation do you want to be in? On that day you will receive a book A book with all of your deeds in it And you will either receive that book in your right hand Or your left hand And the people who will receive it in their left hand Will be cursed And I don't mean this in a cursing way But according to the That they will be in a very very very difficult situation And for the people who receive it in their right hand There will be the Ashab and Yameen The people of the right hand So that is the situation That is why we repent So we can receive that book Guys, this life is 50, 60, 70, 80 years Maximum It's not that much time When you compare that to eternity Take 10 million No, let's say you take the number 10 million And compare it to the number 80 And now think because eternity is hard to conceptualize So you take the number 10 million and you think Okay, if I have 10 million years in the hereafter That means every single moment in this life Is worth like thousands and thousands and thousands And thousands of years for the hereafter And every single day in this life is worth Tens of thousands and tens of thousands And tens of thousands of years in the hereafter Or days in the hereafter That's how important it is It's not worth it Sinning for what? What's the point? What benefit is it going to give you and me to sin? For 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 25 days I feel excited Two years will be in a state of pleasure For what? For an eternity of damnation What are we trading off here? That is the question That repentance will benefit you on the day of judgment And repentance will benefit you There will be a day where there will be angels Who will be dragging people in droves to the hellfire And they will be encouraging people into the heavens That is the day of judgment It is serious that the hellfire is so large Imagine a fire larger than the heavens And a fire larger than the earth being brought out Allah describes in the Quran How many angels will be carrying the hellfire? It is no joke You have parts of the hellfire which are more freezing cold Than the most frozen places on planet earth I can't even survive without a jacket In 20, 30, 40 degree weather How am I going to survive in that place? How I can't even survive on a hot day When I'm fasting and without getting thirsty How am I going to survive on the day of judgment? The day when the sun is one mile close There's no shade except Allah's throne on that day There's no water, there's no food There's no mom to run to There's no dad to run to You run to your mom and dad They're going to be like, I don't... It's nafsi nafsi on that day Myself, myself It's you and Allah That's it It's you and Allah on that day None of us are going to be able to benefit each other on that day Except that we have a relationship with Allah And of course the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Is going to intercede for us And he's going to be there inshallah on that day To help us out inshallah But that is the reality These are real things We need to really reflect in Ramadan On how serious this affair is This is not a joke Life is not a joke The hereafter is not a joke Allah says in the Quran azifatul azifat That the day of judgment is drawing nearer and nearer And yet they're just caught up in their games How much longer are we going to be caught up in our games? How much longer are we going to be caught up in our fun? How much longer are we going to be caught up in our folly? How much longer are we going to be caught up in sin? How much longer are we going to be caught up in wasting time? It's not worth it It's not worth it This is the moment These are the days These are the days to change our life These are the days to change our situation These are the days to get on a path to committing To committing ourselves to be different people It's not worth it Because we don't want to enter the hellfire I don't want a single one of myself My family members My loved ones Or this ummah To enter the hellfire We wouldn't be able to bear it We could not bear it for even a minute So we need to make a We need to make a commitment to ourselves For our sake For helping each other out Many times people like to help each other out In so many ways in the dunya In regards to helping each other with jobs And careers and this Amazing Mashallah But we need to help each other out on the day when it matters We need to help it out on the day when it matters And that is the day of judgment That is the day that nothing will matter Except the one who approaches Allah with a kalb salim With a sound heart So approach Allah on that day with a sound heart InshaAllah And that sound heart comes When it is a heart free of sin And a heart full of good A heart that is not sinning And a heart that is in a state of goodness That is what we want And lastly Really lastly Is that Guys we're going to have to cross a bridge A syrat A bridge that is Somebody just ask what happens when we die What happens when we die The first thing that will happen is We will enter our grave And That we will First thing when we die We see the angel of death coming And to take our soul Everybody else will think Oh it's COVID Or it was this Or it was that Now those are the outward reasons But You will see the angel of death Coming to take your soul And when you die It's either very difficult Extraction of the soul Where it's so much pain That you will be feeling that pain For years and years and years afterwards While you're even in your grave According to the books Or It's like Removing the soul Is like removing A little light hair From like dough As is described in the books That is the way that the angel of death Can remove it The second thing that happens when we die Is we enter our grave And everybody's asking their grave Three questions Who is your lord? What is your deen? And who is your prophet? Salallahu alayhi wa sallam None of us can answer those questions with our tongue The state that you live The life you live Will answer that question for you So if you worship money If you worship women or men If you worship a celebrity You're going to say Who is your lord? You're going to say the name of that celebrity You're not going to say Allah Because you spent your time Worshiping them Thinking about them Following them All that's all we did Or whatever If you Same thing with your religion Same thing with your prophet Right So you Our state Will speak for ourselves The next thing that happens We have a period of life in the grave And we will be in the grave For a period of time And it will be either Very, very heavenly Or it will be from hell That is the first way That we will start to see See where the grave is The next thing that happens Is after the grave The time in the grave is extended The next thing that happens Is you and I are resurrected And there's a trumpet A trumpet is blown That one of the archangels Blows the trumpet And everybody on earth Even if they haven't passed away Dies And then another trumpet is blown And everybody is resurrected Everybody is resurrected And this is like Imagine an angel Bigger than earth And imagine like this is serious These aren't these are like Humongous manifestations And divine realities That are happening Then that is the one Blowing the trumpet And then the trumpet is blown And you and I are resurrected And we are resurrected In a state of either immense anxiety And we're tripping What is happening Oh my God This day was real Oh my God What God said was real Like and we might have believed it But we might have never actually Really deeply understood it And that day You and I will realize The day of judgment then begins And we all march towards a plane And there is a There is a huge plane A white It just extends It's like completely white It's going to extend Farther than you and I can see And then we wait We wait for a long period of time Unless Allah takes it easy on us For the judgment to just begin On that day Everybody is literally naked As I mentioned Everybody is In a state of trepidation and sweating And everybody is The sun is very very close The heavens are erupting The sky has split Allah described That when the heaven When the sky is exploding You will hear the rumbles Of the sky You will hear earthquake Type things happening Like the whole creation Will be in a state of disarray For like they will be tripping out People Except the people Who lived a good life That very very serious events happen And then you have huge angels That start to come in And they're coming in droves They're coming in an entourage They're coming in entourage And then finally Allah manifests And then you have A long period of time Until the Prophet ﷺ Does an extended prayer Everybody in humanity will go And they will want the day to start They will want the judgment to start Because of how difficult it is To just stand there and wait To wait to know whether you are cursed For life or for eternity Or whether you are saved for eternity And so you and I will go to Adam We will say Please Please ask Allah to begin the day And he will say No that's not for me I can't do it He won't do it And I'm paraphrasing this Then we will go to Nuh ﷺ Say Nuh ﷺ The Prophet Noah And he will go and ask And we will ask him And he will say No I can't I'm too caught up on this one thing I did And then we'll go to Ibrahim He'll say No Then we'll go to Moses Peace be upon him He'll say No He'll say No I can't That's not my place I have too much to worry Nufsi Nufsi They actually all say Nufsi Nufsi Myself Myself And then You will go to Issa al-Islam Jesus Peace be upon him And Jesus Peace be upon him Also says No But he says Go to Ahmed Go to the Prophet ﷺ And then You go to the Prophet ﷺ And on that day You go to the Prophet ﷺ And he Says this is my station This is my station And he Turns to He makes a Sajdah He makes a Sajdah And he makes a Dua to Allah And in that Dua He makes a sincere Dua to Allah In words that nobody has ever said before Only he's been inspired with And then Because of his Dua It's called The major intercession He intercedes And with that Shifa He intercedes And the day of judgment begins And now the judgment begins And you and I are called up One by one While all of humanity is watching And all of our deeds are displayed To everybody And one by one We are called up One by one We are called up And we are Asked about what we did And our book is given In our left hand In our right hand And Allah will ask us Why did you do this? Why did you do that? And we can either go through A very difficult account For some people Allah says in the Qur'an The day of judgment Will be 50,000 years long And for other people It will be as light It will be as long as Two short rakat That you pray It depends on how much Good you did in this life So that is a short description And then from there That you and I have to cross A sirat A bridge This bridge is thinner than a hair Sharper than a sword And there will be people Who will go across it Like lightning Those are the people Of immense goodness And there will be people Who will have to crawl on it And below the bridge Will be the hellfire And there will be people Trying to grab you There will be flames Essentially trying to grab you Below that sirat Will be the hellfire And you will hear the hellfire Roaring You will hear the hellfire Breathing and roaring And you and I Will try to cross that bridge And as we're crossing that bridge If we did not live a life On the sirat al mustaqim On the straight path We will not be able To cross the sirat And then the hellfire Will consume us We will fall into Eternal damnation That is at the essence Of what happens at that bridge Until inshallah If we're Muslim And anybody who said la ilaha illallah Eventually after many many many years Or after a short period of time Allah will remove them From the hellfire Anybody who believed in Allah But then those who make it Over the bridge Then eventually inshallah We'll get to enter We'll get to enter heaven And then the gates of heaven open And then there are Segment groups of people Among the foremost Who enter heaven And then others who enter heaven So that is a Very very short description Of the day of judgment But it's no joke And Imam al-Fazali He says that the majority Of humanity The reality of the day Of judgment has not settled In the majority of the hearts Of humanity The majority of us Don't really believe That this is going to happen We think it's going to happen But if we really believed it We would never do the type Of stuff we do And I'm telling myself First and foremost If we really believed In this day So that is What we should keep in mind That let's Not let's not Let this get us in a state Of hopelessness Let's be hopeful Be hopeful in these Final days And really really pray At every step of this journey The step that the moment That you die The moment that you and I Are going to our grave The moment that you and I Are resurrected The moment that we are On the day of judgment The moment that we stand Before our Lord And the moment that we Insha'Allah Have to cross the Surat That we do all of that With ease And make that prayer For yourself Your parents Your siblings Your loved ones And the whole umma That we don't want to see The Prophet ﷺ doesn't Want to see a single One of his umma Just try to keep that in mind Try to live a life now Of goodness And guys We need all of us We need to change And make our lives good So that we can go And start helping others There's so many people To help Until Allah says in the Quran That he will not change The condition of a people Until we change within ourselves And the commentator Say that when you Change within yourself Allah begins to change The condition around you And then he begins To use you to help Change the condition Of other people Whether it's to help people Feed people Guide people Whatever it is That is one of the main reasons We should be inspired I got up There's work to do My Prophet ﷺ spent His whole life devoted to this work I have to carry on Some portion of this work I have to carry on Some portion of helping people So anytime I see somebody Caught up in something wrong Watching something wrong Listening to something wrong Caught up in a sin In an illicit relationship My first response should Of course not be to like Hate on them My first response Should also never be To encourage them It should be to say You know what Are you alright? We gotta get out of this How can we get out of this Sin together? We need to be a community That we are committed To leaving sin as a group We are committed To leaving sin together We are committed To repenting together That Allah says To turn to Allah As a group We need to turn to Allah And that will allow For immense gifts To start coming down upon us And immense gifts To start not just coming Upon us in this life Because this life is short It doesn't really matter It's for the gifts And shall it come upon us In the next life We pray that Allah Make this The last few days of Ramadan Easy for everybody Blessed for everybody Full of care Full of goodness Full of happiness Full of repentance Full of dua Full of forgiveness For all of us And our loved ones And our family members Wa salallahu alayhi wa sallam Wa barakah alayhi Sayyidina Muhammadin Wa alayhi wa sallam Alhamdulillah If anybody has any Last questions Please go ahead And post them Somebody asked Any advice on reducing Whispers during Wudu And overwashing In Wudu We had mentioned that earlier That you should say Again, you're Wudu With Awud i Billah From the Shaitan al-Rajim Then say Sayyidina Muhammadin Sayyidina Muhammadin Surah al-Nas If it's really overburdening And then just do What you've got to do And then don't trip after that It is literally a trick Of your nafs And the shayateen To try to make you Overthink your Wudu Do your three Washing of each part And then just leave Literally just force yourself To leave Because you don't need To overdo it During prayer Whispers With the whispers That I mentioned That you start And you try to Pray your sunnah Before you pray your fard So you can get into the zone A little bit Right So that's something To keep in mind Inshallah For the brother Who asked that question So if there's any more Questions We'll just do questions For the last five minutes Sorry, we went a little Long today But it's the last class And Somebody asked a question Can a person sin During the day of judgment I don't think so I don't know though I don't believe You can sin On the day of judgment And say The Aisha Is someone He told everybody Would be naked And she said Won't people look At each other And she said And he said The affair is far greater Than that Yeah, Aisha On that day It's far greater Than that Oh, kamakal He said something similar To that So It's nobody's Going to be Looking at each other In that type of thing It's going to be Very, very You know I don't know What a type of sin People could do But I don't believe If you started a good thing You invested in something good Or something like that Or you taught Or you gave You built like a well Or you built in school Or something And all the good people Do you benefit But if you started something Evil Or you started spreading Bad information Or you started posting Wrong videos On social media For the long As long as those pictures Or those videos Or whatever is out there Someone will be getting The sin for that Or the good deed for that Yeah, you read somewhere That I read somewhere That our souls accepted The challenge of coming to this World as human beings Is that true? So Allah says in the Quran That he asks us Can you bear this trust? He said he asked the heavens And the earth Can you bear the trust That Allah is giving you And they said no And then he said He asked insan The human being And the insan Said yes And that insan Was a The lumen jahula That the insan Was like a It was kind of fairly Foolish almost You could say So What you're saying essentially Is true We did accept that challenge We took that challenge on To kind of Come into this Into this world And take this on Insha'Allah How to handle Deen And Duniya E.G. work I fall behind Yeah, so So the question there is like Basically Work Right, you know Our school work So the key here Is balance Right, our Deen Hamdulillah Is so awesome That it doesn't require Us to give up work It doesn't require Us to give up anything What our Deen Requires us Is for us to have intentions What we do And for us to take out The time to do ibadah And with the right intentions Our work becomes ibadah So if you're doing If you have a halal job And you are Making the intention To provide for your family And you are making the intention To help people With the money that you get Every minute you're at work You're getting reward So you're actually fulfilling it And if you are The primary provider For your family It's a fard for you It's an obligation You're getting the reward Of an obligation For every minute The main thing is That when you and I are working We have to just take some time Out We take a couple of breaks To pray Really just lower and usher Most of the time come in the work Day And then the rest InshaAllah We do after work So we don't need to think Get overwhelmed by how much We have to balance Deen and dunya during work Living in this dunya Is part of this Deen It's not always this Balance of Deen And dunya is important But being in this dunya If you use the dunya Correctly It's part of your Deen It's part of your spiritual progress Use the money Learn to give out Use the time and the knowledge You learn to help the community You might learn Some really valuable skills At work Go and serve in your masjid Or your local Muslim Organization Whatever it is With those skills So that would be that The third thing is Balancing Deen And dunya I'm just going back To the question Is to remember That if you're getting Too caught up Like for example Somebody said here My boss is testing me By asking me for unnecessary Work We remember the priority We never prioritize Dunya over Deen So I'll give an example Many times People might miss Juma For your man Juma is farad on us We might miss Juma Because of a meeting We have to have the courage To say to people I can't make this meeting I have A religious obligation And if you have that Courage I guarantee you The boss of your boss Who is God Who is the boss of all bosses He will take care of it For you Because Allah says From a yatsakillah Yajalahu mahraja Whoever has taqwa Of Allah Will get out But if you and I Don't really You know Go down that path If we don't even Try to work on ourselves If we don't even Try to ask them For a place to pray Or to go Then we are prioritizing Dunya over Deen So my boss is testing Me during Ramadan Asking me for Necessary work How should I handle this Look first of all See it as a test From Allah Ultimately Allah Is the one Who is behind All tests La ilaha ilaha Means to see Everything is from Allah In your work situation Then Allah Please give me ease And facilitate my work For me The third thing I would start to do Is have a conversation With your boss And just say Look it's a really Really blessed month Can I potentially Do this work A little bit After So it's about Four days around Ramadan left So just say Can I do this work Next week It's really important For me to have A sincere conversation With them If it doesn't Balance out It's okay I would do the work Because that's a commitment It's a contract You've signed It's a commitment You've made To do that work Yeah Alhamdulillah Alright So I think we're Over time here Any other questions If not Then we will go ahead Alhamdulillah Okay Alhamdulillah I don't think I see any other questions My close friend Is a tax collector Which involves Collecting tax Including interest Is that Haram If you're Collecting people's taxes You are not Earning your money Through interest So I do not believe It would be Haram Allah knows best Generally speaking If your primary source Of income is interest Then you're in trouble You know If you're making Your money off of interest Or you're giving A lot of loans Or that type of thing But if you're Collecting money I don't know I should say I believe that's the answer Allah knows best I don't know Because I'm not a I'm not a Jurist I don't know Allah bless you Thank you for your Your positive comment Could you please Go over the fard Of wudu briefly Also in the withered way To read the qanud Duwaz or another duwaz That we be aware of I follow Hanafi The fard of wudu are That you have to wash Your From your chin To the top Of your hairline Right here And from earlobe So your whole face Is the absolute fard Then from there You have to Do at least one fourth Of your head You have to wipe water over I mean it should be Over the whole thing But at least one fourth Is the absolute minimum Then you have to get From your fingertips Including the fingernail Including the fingernail Fingertips up to your elbow So that would be The second part of it And then you have to get Your feet up to your ankles Those would be the absolute Minimum fard Of the wudu Did I miss anything Inshallah So all the other stuff Nose, mouth, etc That's all considered A sunnah It's good to do But if you don't have Enough water Or you don't have enough Time or something That you can just do Withers or any dua To be If you cannot If you don't know Someone said chin Yeah I mean like everything So like from here Right literally Your whole face has To be fully covered in water You don't have to like Get your neck or anything But your whole face Is fully covered in water And this includes Like this area How do I wash my face With the chin I mean you just You take water You splash on your face Go like this And you make sure You get your chin I mean it's Fairly You know I don't want to over complicate it You just kind of want to Make sure you get water In all the spots Dua is for qunud If you don't know The qunud dua You can do rabanat And if it doesn't You can do another dua From the Quran You can do one of those Dua If you don't know The dua for the qunud Yeah It's good to read The qunud dua But if you don't know It then you can do That one Yeah Great Okay I don't know If there's any other questions Is it possible to do Wudu over makeup So I would not You have to make sure Your makeup Allows water to actually Get through Right So I don't know The details of this It would be good to ask Again a real scholar Or a trained Or like a woman Who's who's learned But For makeup You want to make sure The water is getting Through So you can't just Dab your face Like this A little bit You have to actually Make sure the water Is getting through And if you have Any doubt I would Try not to put on That level of Getting through If it's water proof Or something Then that would be That would be a problem Yeah But you do your best Research it Do your best And while you're still Researching Keep doing your prayers And then when you Find out the full right answer You fix the situation Again you don't overdo it Don't go You just kind of Find out I dab my face And wonder if it counts You got to make Sure water gets over So you're allowed to Dab If water is getting Everywhere But it's very Very important To preserve the makeup One is dabbing the face You are in Kind of a little bit of Risky territory Because you want to Make sure that you have Water getting in Every situation And if you're just Dabbing Water might not Actually be getting through So I would just Research that a little bit Yeah Okay Alhamdulillah Okay Don't think There's any other questions Somebody said I feel sad Ramadan is Lone by Yes I agree Alhamdulillah It's been For prayer Insha'Allah When is the next class So this is the last series In this class For the Ramadan For the Ramadan Repentance class And for the Future series I got to figure out Insha'Allah What we'll do next I don't know when the Next class is But stay tuned Insha'Allah We'll know soon Insha'Allah Okay Okay Okay Okay Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Ya Allah Please Ya Allah forgive us Pardon us For all of our sins Ya Lord Allow us to be A state of repentance In these final days That we are in The state of turning to Ya Allah Our sin Please change our lives Please inspire to change our life please allow us to reflect on death and their judgment and in the next life often Ya Rabb Al-Alamin please allow us to leave everything wrong it is that we were doing Ya'a at Hama Rahimin and please allow us Ya Rabb Al-Alamin Ya Allah Ya Allah through your love Ya Allah for us Ya Allah and for you putting us in the umma of the Prophet ﷺ for us to become good people good servants to Ya Allah for us to be grateful servants remember you often and who worship you properly Ya Rabb Al-Alamin please make this easy for us Ya Allah please facilitate our life for us Wassalamu ala wa sallam wa baraka ala Sayyidina Muhammad al-Mahmadan wa al-Aliyya al-Sahbih al-Sallam Alhamdulillahi Rabb Al-Alamin Alhamdulillahi Alhamdulillahi Jazakumalakhir somebody said face needs to be washed till at least two three drops fall off sister so the person who asked the question about the the makeup someone just clarified that you want to make sure that you actually have dripping water from your face so you should actually the gabbing would not be a good idea thank you for clarifying that so we would want to make sure if you're making wudu over makeup or anything that you are getting water everywhere and that you are actually allowing water to flow um and if that is very very difficult for you then then then you know you want to try to find some some ways around it but I would avoid kind of avoid the makeup in that case um in order to prioritize the wudu inshallah Alhamdulillahi Alhamdulillah Allah bless you all Allah bless everybody in these final days of Ramadan just a couple days left that's put in our all Monday night is another odd night at least for where I am depending on where people are um and uh just push push these are the days probably somewhere tighten tighten the loin cloth tighten the belt in these days just push push push put in put in the work inshallah and we'll go from there inshallah and we'll um we'll hope that we all get through this Ramadan that we're all forgiven in Ramadan that we all have a wonderful last few days and we have a great day of Eid Eid is the day the last few days of Ramadan are the days like when you are in the last few days of life and Eid is the metaphor for when you meet your Lord that is the metaphor that the scholars of spiritual insight say um Alhamdulillah somebody asked you go live every day no we do not go live every day try to go a couple a couple times a week but not every day yeah Alhamdulillah