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And Allh would not punish them while you (Muhammad (peace be
upon him)) are amongst them, nor will He punish them while they seek
(Allh's) Forgiveness.
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So Allh will not punish a people while they ask for His forgiveness and
while they ask for His protection from the punishment that your sin would
incur. So, once you fall into a sin, your Tawheed and your turning to Allh
can actually turn that sin into a good deed. Allh says:
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And those who invoke not any other ilh (god) along with Allh, nor
kill such person as Allh has forbidden, except for just cause, nor
commit illegal sexual intercourse - and whoever does this shall receive
the punishment. The torment will be doubled to him on the Day of
Resurrection, and he will abide therein in disgrace; Except those who
repent and believe (in Islmic Monotheism), and do righteous deeds; for
those, Allh will change their sins into Hasanh (good deeds).
xviii
So, Tawheed (of worship) doesn t just protect you from punishment but if
you re sincere in your repentance it might even turn the sin that you made
into a good deed because of your sincerity and turning to Allh and asking
for forgiveness and not returning to the sin that you made, it might make
you closer to Allh and actually achieve Hasanh (good deeds).
The third type of way that we may have fear as a result of sinning is when a
person falls into a sin and is punished because of the sin and then he is
fearful that Allh will never remove this punishment. But Allh can remove
the punishment that He inflicts on people if they turn to Him and single Him
out Alone in worship. And one example of this is the Prophet Yunus u.
Allh says:
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And mention the man of the fish. When he went off in anger and
thought that we would not decree anything upon him.
xix
So what happened was, Prophet Yunus u, called his people to the
Tawheed (Oneness) of Allh but they rejected him. So Prophet Yunus u
left the village without the permission of Allh. He gave up on his people
and he left them. And he rode a boat with some people and he was punished
for leaving the village without asking Allh for permission by being thrown
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into the sea and by being swallowed by a whale. So, it comes in a regular
persons mind that if somebody is swallowed by an animal like this is can he
ever escape from this whale? No, he will never escape. But we see in the
Qur an that it can be reversed and how is it reversed for the Prophet Yunus
u? It was reversed because of his Tawheed.
Allh says:
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But he cried through the darkness (saying): L Ilh illa Anta (none has
the right to be worshipped but You (O, Allh)) Glorified (and Exalted)
are You (above all that (evil) they associate with You). Truly, I have
been of the wrong-doers.
xx
So, Allh answered his Duaa (supplication). So when Prophet Yunus u,
turned to Allh with Tawheed and he said L Ilh illa Anta Subhaanak!
(None has the right to be worshipped but You (O, Allh)) Glorified (and
Exalted) are You (above all that (evil) they associate with You) and he
repented, Allh says that if he was not of those who made repentance, then
he would have stayed in the stomach of the whale until the Day of
Judgment. But his Tawheed and his repentance and his turning to Allh
caused him to be saved. So these are three ways as it relates to fear of sins,
that we can be saved from them because of Tawheed.
The third type of fear that Tawheed can protect us from is the fear of
poverty and the fear of our death overcoming us. So having debt and being
poor means having more expenses than you have income. And this is
something hard on the family, it s hard on the Wali (guardian), it s hard on
those who don t have a lot of money and those who have debt, this is
something very stressful. And the Tawheed (Oneness) of Allh can protect
us from this. The Shaikh -may Allh reward him- mentioned the story of
Musa u, when he left Egypt because he killed someone, he left in a hurry
and he didn t take anything with him to help in his travel because he was in
a rush to escape Fir aun and his army, and not get caught. So he left by
himself without anything and he got to the city of Madi an. Allh says:
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And when he arrived at the water (a well) of Madyan (Midian) he found
there a group of men watering (their flocks), and besides them he found
two women who were keeping back (their flocks). He said: "What is the
matter with you?" They said: "We cannot water (our flocks) until the
shepherds take (their flocks). And our father is a very old man." So he
watered (their flocks) for them, then he turned back to shade, and said:
"My Lord! Truly, I am in need of whatever good that You bestow on
me!
xxi
So Musa u he had no wife, he had no house, he had no work, he had no
money, and he had no kids. He had none of these things. When he returned
to the shade, he said O Allh! I am in need of whatever good you send
down to me. So he was poor. He didn t have a single thing. Any type of
good that Allh would give him, he was in need of it. So what happened?
As soon as he made this Duaa (supplication), one of the two women came
to him
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Then there came to him one of the two women, walking shyly. She
said: Verily, my father calls you that he may reward you for having
watered (our flocks) for us." So when he came to him and narrated the
story, he said: "Fear you not. You have escaped from the people who
are Zlimn (polytheists, disbelievers, and wrong-doers). And said one
of them (the two women): "O my father! Hire him! Verily, the best of
men for you to hire is the strong, the trustworthy.
xxii
So, Musa u, made this Duaa to Allh. He turned to Allh in his time of
need. And, Subhana Allh! (Glory be to Allh!), he was brought to the
father, this old man and not only did this old man present him with the
opportunity to get married, but he also presented him with a salary, a reward
for the work that he did and a job for eight years. And of course he gave
him a wife and a job he was going to give him a home.
And once you have a wife, a job, a home and money you will have kids. So,
the five things that Musa u, left, he had nothing of them and he was in
need of any type of good, his Duaa (supplication) caused him to suddenly
now he possess all of them. So this one Duaa (supplication) resulted in all
of this because it was a sincere Duaa (supplication) to Allh Alone. In the
Sahih the Shaikh -may Allh reward him- mentioned the Hadith from
Abdullah Ibn Az-Zubayr y, that he said
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My father Az-Zubayr began to order me concerning his debt. And he said
Oh my son, if you are unable to settle any of it then ask my master for help
in doing it. So Abdullah Ibn Az-Zubayr said By Allh, I did not know what
he meant. So I said Oh my father! Who is your master? And he said
Allh. So Abdullah Ibn Az-Zubayr said whenever I ran into a difficulty
regarding his debt (meaning his fathers debt), I would say Oh master of
Az-Zubayr! Pay his debt for him! And Allh would settle it.
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So, Subhana Allh! (Glory be to Allh!), Az-Zubayr s son used to call out
to Allh and ask Allh to settle the debt of his father and Allh would
always settle it for him. And this was a result of his turning to Allh with a
sincere heart. So, this is another way that fear can be relieved by the
Tawheed of Allh.
And the last example that the Shaikh-may Allh reward him- gave is the fear
that we may have of the evil of our children and the actions that our children
might do and the fear that our children might not be righteous or fall into
sin. So how can we be protected from this? It is again with our Tawheed.
Allh says about Prophet Ibrahim, that when he worried for himself and for
his children that they would fall into Shirk (associating partners with Allh
in worship), he said:
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O my Lord! Make this city (Makkah) one of peace and security, and
keep me and my sons away from worshipping idols.
xxiii
He made Duaa (supplication) to Allh and this Duaa (supplication)
protected his sons and not only did it protect them but as a result of it his
sons became Anbiyyaa, his son Ism il became a Prophet, his son Ishaac
u, became a Prophet, Ishaac s son Yaqub u, became a Prophet, Yaqub s
son Yusuf u, became a Prophet and so on and so forth.
So this one Duaa (supplication) had so much Barak and so much blessing
and so much khayr, it not only protected him and his sons from Shirk
(associating partners with Allh in worship), but it caused them to be raised
in level in the Dunya (worldly life) and in the Akhirah (hereafter).
Another example is Prophet Zakariy. He desired a child and he desired a
righteous child. So Allh says:
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At that time Zakariy (Zachariya) invoked his Lord, saying: "O my
Lord! Grant me from You, a good offspring. You are indeed the All-
Hearer of invocation.
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So he asks Allh for good offspring, meaning children that were righteous.
So right then (at that moment), Allh says:
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Then the angels called him, while he was standing in prayer in Al-
Mihrb (a praying place or a private room), (saying): "Allh gives you
glad tidings of Yahy (John), confirming (believing in) the Word from
Allh (i.e. the creation of 'Is (Jesus) (peace be upon him), the Word
from Allh ("Be!" - and he was!)) noble, keeping away from sexual
relations with women, a Prophet, from among the righteous.
xxv
So Allh gave him the tiding of the righteousness of his son before his son
was even born. So anything that we fear, the answer is to try to achieve
protection from it through the Tawheed of Allh.
And the Shaikh -may Allh reward him- made Duaa (supplication) that we
are all from among the Muwhideen (those who single out Allh in
worship) and he gave his salaam to the sisters!
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End Notes:
i
Al-Dhariyat: 56-57
ii
Al-An'am: 82
iii
Luqman:13
iv
An-Nas: 1-6
v
Al-i-'Imran:173
vi
Al-i-'Imran:174
vii
Al-Baqarah:249
viii
Al-Baqarah:249
ix
Al-Baqarah:250
x
Al-Baqarah:251
xi
Al-A'raf:200
xii
Yusuf: 23
xiii
Yusuf :23
xiv
Yusuf :25
xv
Yusuf :31-32
xvi
Yusuf:33-34
xvii
Al-Anfal:33
xviii
Al-Furqan:68-70
xix
Al-Anbiyaa:87
xx
Al-Anbiyaa:87
xxi
Al-Qasas:23-24
xxii
Al-Qasas:25-26
xxiii
Ibrahim:35
xxiv
Al-i-'Imran:38
xxv
Al-i-'Imran:39