Seek forgiveness

Auto-generated transcript:We will take from what our Sheikh said just now with regard to what not to do. And therefore in those terms what we should do is to make istighfar on tawa. And the reason I say that is because talking about Lailatul Qadr as we heard on the first day, our mother Sayyidina Ayesha Siddiqa asked Rasulullah A.S.W. She said, Ya Rasulullah, if I find Lailatul Qadr, what should I ask Allah SWT for? What dua should I make? And we all know the dua which Rasulullah A.S.W. taught her. Beautiful dua, very small dua. Allahumma innaka afuun, tohibbul afu, fa'fani. O Allah, You are the one who forgives and You love to forgive, so forgive me. See the beauty of this dua, see the level of humility that the Prophet A.S.W. is teaching us. She is not saying, forgive me because I should be forgiven, forgive me because I am making dua, forgive me because I have repented. No, she says forgive me to please yourself. You are the forgiver, you like to forgive, so do what you like to do. In that process I get forgiven. So let us seek forgiveness. The very first thing that happened when Allah SWT created Adam A.S.W. was the whole conversation which happened. Allah SWT commanded the angels to prostrate to Adam A.S.W. to make sajda to Adam A.S.W. And Iblis was not an angel, he was from the jinn, he was there with them. And he was there with the angels because of the level of his worship of Allah SWT and so on, which raised him in status to the state where even though he was not an angel, he was in the company of angels. But when it came to this haqam, he refused. And the reason he gave, Allah SWT said, why did you refuse to do sajda to the one I created with my hands? And what is the reason he gave? He said, ana khairu minu, khalaqtani min naar, wa khalaqtau min teen. He said, I am superior to him, I am better than him. You made me with fire and you made him with clay. Racial superiority, racial discrimination is the original sin. My race is superior to that race. I am better than him, not because of virtue, not because of accomplishment, not even because of my ibadah. No, racially I am superior. I am created with something which is superior to that one. Innaar illayi wa innaar awadil. And then sometime later, Adam alaihi salam and our mother Hawa alaihi salam also made a mistake. They also committed a sin. And it is the beauty of Islam that Islam does not say that Hawa alaihi salam committed the sin and then she tempted Adam to do it. No, they both committed the sin. They are both equally responsible. She is not responsible for him and he is not responsible for her. The equality between men and women starts from there. And that is the reason why when they make the tawbah istighfar, what do they say? Rabbana zalamna anfusana. Together. Fa illam takhfir lana. Wa tarhamna lanakoonanam ila al-khasireen. Adam alaihi salam does not say, Allah forgive me and my wife. No, he says both of us have committed the mistake. We are both equally guilty. Forgive us both. And if you don't forgive us and if you don't have mercy on us, both of us will be losers. So two entities, our mother and father Adam alaihi salam and Hawa alaihi salam and Iblis, both of them, they committed a sin each. The difference was their attitude towards that after that committing of the sin. In the case of Iblis, even though he did whatever he could have said at that time, Yallah, I am very sorry. I did not know. I was, I am sorry. I made a mistake. I should have obeyed you. I did not obey. Please forgive me. He did not say that. He first justified his action. He said, I am right. You are wrong. You are wrong. Your, your hookah is wrong. Your order is wrong. How can you tell me even though I am superior to make sajdah to him who is inferior? So first he justifies himself and by, by inference he is saying Allah is wrong. And on top of that, he says, an tilni ila yam yubatun. Give me time until the last day. And then the rest of it, I will misguide them. I will do this.