download our app one Islam TV the top rated Muslim streaming platform in the world available on these [Music] platforms of the effects of sin and the evils of sin the first that mentions he says is that a person be prevented from knowledge that a person be prevented from knowledge because he says knowledge is a light that Allah casts into a person's heart many times we think knowledge is just memorizing a lot if I read a lot of books and I memorize a lot of information then that's what knowledge is but knowledge is really a light that Allah casts Into the Heart of his believing slaves that illuminates for them that which confuses other people it is something that gives them Insight at a time when people have no sight Imam Malik to this effect when im shaf came and approached IM Malik and IM shaf was much younger than IM Malik IM Malik passed away in 179 and IM sha passed away in 204 but nonetheless IM IM Malik notices The Uncanny intelligence and the Brilliance of this young man and so he says to him he says I see that Allah has cast in your heart a light so do not darken that light do not darken it with the darkness of sin and so protecting the light that we have that Insight that inner light that illuminates us we have to guard our sins we have to guard our sins and hence also IM shaf he quoif IED in famous poetry IM shaf was known as being someone who had photographic memory and he would memorize Pages even as he would look at them and so the story goes that he had been walking in the street and he happened to see a woman's ankle un covered by the wind just happened to see and glance at an ankle and then he noticed that his memory had gotten weak and so now you understand why we can't memorize anything we go outside and we forget a jiz of the Quran as soon as we step outside IM shaf sees an ankle and he his his but also it shows you the sensitivity of the IM that he recognizes just the slightest difference in his capacity and so IM sh complains to his teacher and he says he quo ified this in verse he says he said I complain to about how bad my memory was and he guided me to the leaving of sins and he told me that this is and the light of Allah is not given to a sinner and so the first effect of sin is the loss of knowledge that's number one number two he says and of it is that a person miss out on the risk miss out of the their provision there's a beautiful Hadith in which the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he says the prophet sallallah Al says that the Holy Spirit cast into my Essence that no soul shall pass until it has completed its risk and its a no none of us will check out of this Earth until we've completed two things we've gotten all the risk that's due to us and risk is a more expansive term than simply money it's not just how much money you're going to make it's everything that Allah will provide you and your a your lifespan you are going to get what was written for you you're not going to miss out on any of it so then what are you required to do what is the prophetic instruction the prophet sallallahu alai wasallam says he says then have TA of Allah and seek all of that out beautifully and do not let the delay of your risk make you seek it out in what Allah has prohibited because what is with Allah cannot be acquired ex through his obedience and so the second effect of sin is that a person be prevented from the risk the third is a person has a distance that they then feel a strangeness that they feel with Allah they no longer are comforted by being in the presence of Allah they don't feel that Sweetness in their prayer anymore they're committing sins and every time they commit sins they feel more distant they feel that they are uncomfortable they're they're listening to the Quran and they can listen to music for hours and hours and hours on end and it is pleasure after pleasure and then you turn on the Quran in the car and they're like can we just talk for a second can we just have a conversation they can't find the ability it's like it's like when a person's dragging their nails on a chalkboard some people cannot listen to the Quran well what has distanced you from Allah so much there's a beautiful question that if you ever find yourself dist from Allah then ask yourself the question which one of you moved because we go distance from Allah if you take a step towards Allah he takes multiple towards you if you hasten to Allah Allah races towards you and so a person of the effects of sin is that a person feels distance from Allah and the fourth is that a person feels distance not from Allah only but from the righteous sometimes I feel like the righteous are too righteous for my heart so I avoid them like I avoid the devils in the dark but those that sit all day without even a spark of TAA are equally painful to an aching heart so who can I befriend in the end it's a lonely Paradox at times it's better to be alone hearing the ticking of the clock but the sheep that travels alone is in danger of the fox so we pray for safe passage knowing of the danger in which we walk that a person feels distant from the people and also that they notice that the people are distant from them he says beware that the hearts of the Believers curse you hate you while you are aware the people said well how could that be he said he says you commit that which Allah has prohibited in seclusion and so Allah casts aversion towards you in the hearts of the Believers there are some people that you meet and everybody just loves them you just love that person you have no idea right Allah has just written this for that person in your heart and that in is an indication of that person's being loved by Allah loved by J and loved by the angels and there are some people who you just you just don't like them and even though they talk beautifully and even though they they do all of these things all of those check marks are there you find that the people just aren't responding to you then one of the things not necessarily the case but one of the things that a person has to do is make sure that their relationship with Allah is strong that your number one audience is always Allah you're number one the the one who you make sure that you are always pleasing is Allah and also of the effects of sins and this is number five is that Things become difficult for you because Allah says that whoever fears him that Allah will make their Affairs easy and so if a person does not fear Allah what is understood is that that person will not have their Affairs facilitated that that person will not have everything made easy for them and so of the effects of sin is that you find doors closed where they should have been opened or or you would have hoped that theyd be opened you know the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam tells us the story of the man in the Hadith of Abu where the Prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam tells us of a man who had been traveling and he was this man was Dusty and disheveled and broken and he was extending his hands towards the sky and he was saying y y now this is a person whose Dua should have been accepted they are a traveler and their their heart is broken they are completely connected to Allah they have no hope in anything else in that moment they are dusty and they're disheveled and they are calling upon Allah by his attributes of being the facilitator and the maintainer and the Lord but the prophet sallallahu alaih wasallam says his food wasam his drink wasam his clothes were Haram nourished by how can this person's Dua be accepted isn't that all of the effects of sins and so the effects of sins is that Affairs become difficult for you also number six is that that sins weaken a person's ability their heart and their bodies their physical bodies you know a beautiful story is with and was telling Fatima that you know they were both Fatima had been grinding barley until her her hands had become callous and had been carrying water until his his back hurt him and so he told them they're having a conversation amongst themselves and who says to Fatima he says that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had been given some servants go and asked the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam for a servant and we all know who fa is to wasallam she's daddy's little girl and he goes to she goes to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would sit stand up and he would sit her where he was seated sallallahu alaihi wasallam and yet fatim is asking the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam for a servant and he says to her no I'm not going to give you a servant and leave that's not going to happen I'm not going to give you a resource even though you are my daughter that I cannot provide to every citizen of the Muslim State and she goes back home and continues and he says that the they came the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam entreated entrance sought permission and he stood in between them as they were laying down and he felt the coldness of his feet and then he said to them shall I not tell you what is better for you than a servant that every night before you go to sleep that you say Subhan Allah 33 times alhamdulillah 33 times allahar 34 times that is better for you than a servant what's the relationship between this and that their request and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam prescription the they extend they extracted from that that the of Allah strengthens the body that the of Allah actually strengthens the body and we have a brother in uh in New York this brother's called Giants and he for started a group called the bartenders bartenders pull-up bars not the bars but if you look them up on YouTube you'll find that these guys mallah are monsters they do things that I thought I was the only one who could do Subhan Allah but this brother is a literally a giant masallah and you know he's an older brother but he's just he looks like he was carved out of a mountain mahab and he was we took him out to the playground and he was showing all of the kids of the Masjid all of these different pull-ups that he does and he said to them young Brothers you know how I can do all of these things and they're all amazed at what he can do he said every time I go up I say Allah I say Subhan Allah I say alhamdulillah that's how I'm able to do all of these things the remembrance of Allah strengthens the body sins weaken the body and so the comments and he says you know when the Muslim um expanded all of this expansion that they did why did they expand like that when you look at what they were able to do to Persia and Rome it was because not because of the strength of their ability or their resources it was the strength of their hearts they had heart and their hearts were not weakened by their sins and there's so much to be said about that who wrote letters to his generals and he said that you are given support by Allah because of the fact that you don't sin and your the army that you are opposing sins if you become equal in your sins then whoever has the better material is going to win and so sin sins stop a person's uh strength and they weaken the person's body and they weaken the person's heart also of the harm of sins is that of the weaknesses of sins is that it shortens a person's lifespan it shortens a person's lifespan well how does it shorten a person's lifespan mentions a number of different ways he said some of the scholars they said that it shortens a person's lifespan meaning that it extracts the blessing from a person's life and so you find that a person lives 70 or 80 years and they haven't accomplished anything they haven't done anything nothing that they does has anything any Baraka that will make it extend or grow Beyond it none of their projects grow into fruition nothing that they do Outlast them and you look at someone like IM who lived decades shorter than many people he died in his late 30s or maybe early 40s nonetheless this man was able in that short time to fill the world with knowledge and aab was written for his work that and by the way I'll give you a secret of IM and knowing something that I noticed I don't know if it's public knowledge or anything but I'll share with you something that I noticed about IMI because we're talking about sins you'll find that at the end of all of his books the last chapter and the last Hadith will always be about just beautiful the last Hadith in the 40 Hadith is thei of where he says you'll find that the last chapter in is you'll find that in his book the last chapter is as if he is offering what he is offering to Allah and he is seeking Allah's forgiveness for for whatever shortcomings are going to be in this effort that he provides and so seeking forgiveness and removing the ill effects of sins that takes the the Bara out of a person's life but also it could actually shorten a person's life from the extent or to the uh extent that a person is considered to be alive in their moments with Allah that is the moment where you are alive and your moments of he heedlessness are not truly life you are not really living and so the more a person is he list the shorter that person's life is and the more they are remembering Allah that is what is true life also of the effects of sins is that sins lead to one another sins lead to one another they say that sins have sisters okay that doesn't work uh sins follow one another so sins have sisters and you'll find that one of the sins that is most commonly paired with every other sin with every other sin is the sin of what lying lying why is lying the sin that comes with everything because it's the cloak of every other sin and so the prophet sallallahu wasallam when he wants to rectify a person he says to them he says be aware of lying because lying leads to Fu and Fu leads to the Hellfire uh so if you want to correct anybody's actions then tell them to follow truthfulness and truthfulness will lead to righteousness and righteousness will leads to paradise and tell them to avoid lying a lying leads to transgression trans transgression leads to all evil and it leads to the Hellfire and so when he committed one sin which is he stayed away from the campaign of tabuk that's a sin he stayed away from it Malik because of the pressure that came with that sin entertained another sin that I do not believe he ever entertained in his entire life not only did he never entertain that sin you and I would have never entertained that sin we do not imagine that any one of us if we are practicing Muslims we live their entire lives loving wasallam you can not imagine yourself ever entertaining the notion of walking up to the prophet Sall and lying to his face but Malik began to entertain that idea when did he begin to entertain that idea when he realized that he had missed the entire campaign and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was now turning back returning to Medina and he was going to have to stand in front of him and answer to why he did not go out and he said I began to think about what I was going to say and I was thinking about what excuse I could to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and right before the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam arrived all of those ideas vanished from my mind because Allah gave him because Allah recognized or knew his truthfulness from before he was not one of thef he was someone who is Sincere and so Allah gave him stead fastness in his moments of self-doubt or in his moments of Crisis but the point here is that sins lead to one another do never never think that you will just commit one sin and you will be okay after that it doesn't work like that and I guess I'll conclude in and I'll conclude with the last one and that is that sins are a source of insignificance in the sight of Allah Abu D when the Muslims conquered Cyprus and it was a day of great Victory the Muslim saw Abu D crying and so they asked him they said why are you crying on a day when Allah has given Victory to the Muslims and ab that said how insignificant is the creation in the sight of Allah if they disobey his command he's looking at this community this country this land this these people how powerful they were and he here they were being conquered by the Muslims because of their Disobedience to Allah alas would weep and weep and weep and they would ask him and they would say why are you weeping and he would say I am weeping because I fear that Allah will cast me into the Hellfire and he will not mind a person who commits sins when you commit sins be fearful that these sins may lead you to be someone who Allah casts into the Hellfire and you do not mind or that Allah will not mind and of the most beautiful things and I promise I close with this that I have heard with regards to getting over and and and stopping sins and I'm just going to give you one takeaway because one of the mean and real problems that we have is we just love the sin when you're talking to a kid in high school and you're telling them to to stop dating girls or you're telling a girl to stop dating boys and they just love it it's the problem you love going out to party or a person loves the lifestyle that they live or and so even though they may repent from other things they won't repent from that particular sin because they love it and one of my teachers he said that once he was going to ha and one of the people in his Mah he said to him make Dua for me that Allah rectify all my sins and said inshallah and then as he was leaving he said except for one and he said the she said he was joking but I felt that he was serious and he said he was commenting to me about this he said do you know something that you should say if you feel that you have a sin that you love say make that your daily devotional that you say all of the time oh Allah make IM beloved to us and beautify in our hearts and make hated for me K disbelief and transgression and Disobedience have you checked out the one Islam TV app yet well if 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