Be with those that are Good - Portal Gems #43

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Edition Number: 43
Adapted from: The Iron: Tafsir of Surah Al-Hadid
Instructor: Mufti Abdul Rahman Waheed

Assalamu Alaykum,

Today’s gem is from Mufti Abdul Rahman’s course on the Tafsir of Surah Hadid. In this gem, Mufti saab dives into the the tafsir of Surah Hadid Ayah 13 and explains what happens when we start sinning and the formula for becoming good.

Hope you enjoy!

We begin in the Name of Allah ﷻ, the Most Merciful and Compassionate,
We ask that He ﷻ sends Peace and Blessings upon our noble and beloved
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

So what's the second problem that they had? Wa tarabbastum - They procrastinated.

They kept procrastinating.

“Oh, we'll do it later…”

“We'll change after Ramadan…”

“We'll change next year…”

“We'll change after med school…”

“We'll change after I become a parent…”

And the third thing, what happens is, so what happens after a while is you start doubting. 

Because as you start procrastinating and as you continue doing sins, you become immune to those sins. At first you recognize that it's a bad thing. But then you keep doing it, and now you don't even realize it's a bad thing. And then a time comes where you start doubting - why is it a bad thing?

Take secondhand smoke for example, you start by just seeing and being around people who are always vaping. And then slowly it just happens, you start vaping if you keep yourself in those environments where everyone is vaping. 

Allah did not tell us to be good. Allah told us to be among those who are good. Just by being with those who are good, we will become good. So, just be among those people, just be in good environments, that's it, and you see how you will change. 

We understand the effect of bad environments, t's so evident. We understand the effect of walking into a perfume shop versus walking into a tire shop versus walking into a desi house where there's masala being cooked up. You see the people who are inside the house don't even realize the smell of it, but the one who's walking in from outside right away gets it. That's how it is with good deeds and bad deeds as well. There's a barakah to these things, being in itikaf, being in the masjid, doing good deeds. 

May Allah grant us tawfiq to spend time in good environments.

أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله لي ولكم، فاستغفروه إنه هو الغفور الرحيم

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