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In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon His messengers and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions. He is the one who has received a lot of peace. And what is next? My brothers and sisters, one of the most important things, if not the most important thing, is, especially in Ramadan, is to clean our hearts. Is to clean our hearts and to free our hearts from all hatred, from all enmity, from all greed, from all envy, jealousy, all negative emotions. To free our hearts from this. To clean our hearts and to make them pure for the sake of Allah alone. Part of that is to forgive each other. No matter who it is, no matter what they did, forgive them for the sake of Allah. Let me give you evidence from the Seerah, from the Quran and from the Sunnah. From the Quran first. When Misthah bin Uthatha indulged in gossip during the slander incident of Al-Ifq against our mother, Aisha Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu, Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala then sent down revelation confirming the innocence of Aisha Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu. Abu Waqar Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu, who had been spending on Misthah because he was his relative and he was poor, so Abu Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu used to give him some financial aid, he said, by Allah, I will never spend anything on Misthah again. After what he said about Aisha, Qadil anhu. So here was a man who slandered the daughter of somebody from whom he was receiving aid. Now can you think of anything more serious than that? And not just any daughter, this was the daughter of Abu Waqar Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu. She was his mother according to the relationship with Rasulullah, she was the wife of Rasulullah, yet this man instead of being grateful, he slandered her. So if Abu Waqar Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu at that point said, look I was helping this man, I was giving him financial aid, this was a poor guy, I was helping him in his poverty and he backstabbed me by slandering my daughter, so I am going to stop my financial aid, this would be completely just and fair and completely understandable and something which nobody can find any fault with. Yet Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, see what Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala did. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala revealed Quran and this is from the fazail and the marks of praise of Abu Waqar Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu, that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala revealed Quran to advise Abu Waqar Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu not to do what he had decided to do. So Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala revealed in Surat an-Nur, ayah number 22 Allah said, Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said, Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said, So here is the first dalil, the first evidence that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala wants us to forgive others and that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala is pleased with that and Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala does not want us to hold grudges against each other. Rasulullah s.a.w. mentioned in one hadith where he said that in an argument if you are right yet you give up your position for the sake of your brother, Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala will give you a palace in Jannah. When you are right, you give up the place, he will give you a palace in Jannah. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said, if you do good to those who do you evil, Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala will give you a palace in Jannah. See the case of Rasulullah s.a.w. himself, he was mercilessly persecuted for 13 years in Makkah. His closest friends, some of them were killed, some of them were tortured, including his daughter, she was killed. The people of Makkah who were his own relatives, who were his close relatives, including Abu Lahab who was his own blood uncle, he was his closest relative, he was like his father. They rejected him, they abused him, they did all kinds of evil against him. Anyone who thinks that they have been wronged by somebody, I challenge you, look at the seerah of Rasulullah s.a.w. and tell me that what has happened to you is more than what happened to Rasulullah s.a.w. It is a challenge for you, go read the seerah. So these people did all this and on top of that when Rasulullah s.a.w. left Makkah, he was forced to leave Makkah. When he left Makkah and he went off to Wadina, these people they confiscated his property, they confiscated the property of all the muhajirun, all the people who left Makkah and went away to Wadina. They took over their lands, they took over their houses, they took over their property, their money, their wealth, everything. They just crammed it, that’s it. Now, when Rasulullah s.a.w. returned after 8 years as the conqueror of Makkah at the head of an army of 10,000, not only did Rasulullah s.a.w. forgive everyone, but listen carefully, not only did he forgive everyone, he forgave them without them asking for forgiveness. Truly sometimes we get stuck and say, no, I that so and so should apologize to me. The Nabi Ali s.a.w. never said anybody should apologize to him. Nobody apologized to him. Khalid bin Walid did not apologize to him. Abu Sufiyah did not apologize to him. All of these people, they became Muslim later, but those people they did not apologize to Rasulullah s.a.w. They did not return his property, they did not return the property of the people of the muhajirun who they had confiscated and stolen. They did not give them compensation, not one cent, and Rasulullah s.a.w. never asked for it. He had a right to ask for it, he didn’t ask for it. He had a right to ask for himself, he had a right to ask for his sahaba. He did not ask anything, they did not give anything, they did not apologize, yet Rasulullah s.a.w. forgave all of them and most of them, if not all of them became Muslim and Allah s.w.t counted them among the sahaba and they are in Jannah. This is the biggest example of forgiveness, one sided forgiveness, only for the sake of Allah. Open heartedness to the extent that this is a standard and a benchmark for us to aim towards. So anyone who feels aggrieved, so and so did this, so and so did that, please forget all that. Just look at the seerah of Rasulullah s.a.w. and say, tell yourself, if you can tell me that you are a Muslim, and you have been harmed or hurt more than Rasulullah s.a.w., I will say you are a liar. Because there is no way that could have happened. All the stuff that happened to him did not happen to any of us. May Allah keep us all safe inshallah. So be open your hearts and forgive each other. Don’t wait for apologies, do it for the sake of Allah s.w.t. Alhamdulillah, whether the other person apologizes or not makes no difference to me. I forgive them because I love Allah and I want Allah to love me. I forgive them because I need Allah s.w.t. forgiveness and I want Allah to forgive me. And I want to use this as a vasila before Allah s.w.t. when I really need something and I make dua and say Allah, give me this because you know I forgive so and so for your sake only. That person did not even seek forgiveness yet I forgive them. So please forgive them and forgive me. Please do this straight away. Then some more evidence from the Sunnah. Hadith in Bukhari and Muslim, Mutafaqun alaih, it is agreed upon hadith. Abu Hayyu wal Ansari, the host of Rasulullah s.a.w. in Madinah, reported that Rasulullah s.a.w. said it is not lawful, meaning it is haram for a Muslim to abandon his Muslim brother. He is talking about general Muslims, he is not talking about blood relations. For blood relations this is a thousand times more important. It is not lawful, it is haram for a Muslim to abandon his Muslim brother beyond three nights. They meet so each turns away from the other and the better of the two is the one who greets the other one first. It is haram to abandon your brother meaning you don’t speak to them for more than three nights. In a way where when you meet you don’t say salaam to each other. And the Prophet said the better one is the one who says salaam first. And this is a hadith in Bukhari and Muslim. And final evidence beyond this, may Allah have mercy, I have no other evidence, is the Sahih hadith from Abu Dawud where Abu Hurairah s.a.w. said, Rasulullah s.a.w. said it is haram, it is haram, it is haram, it is not lawful for a Muslim to forsake, to leave his Muslim brother beyond three days. Meaning he does not speak to him, he doesn’t take care of him. It is haram for a Muslim to forsake his Muslim brother again. Muslim brother is any Muslim. We are not talking here about blood relations. For blood relations it is even more between brother and brother, brother and sister, father and son, father and mother and son, mother and sister, father and daughter, father and daughter. All of these relationships are far more important and there is far more evidence and far more emphasis on this, husband and wife. All of these are far more, the law is far more strict on that. And so I repeat Abu Hurairah s.a.w. said that Rasulullah s.a.w. said it is not lawful, it is haram for a Muslim to forsake his Muslim brother beyond three days and whoever does so for more than three days and then dies will certainly enter Jahannam. Whoever leaves their Muslim brother for three days without talking, without speaking to them and if they die in that state they will certainly enter Jahannam. I ask Allah s.w.t to save us from this calamity, from entering Jahannam because we had some grudge against somebody and because we were offended, because we said so and so said this to me or said that to me and we could not find it in our hearts to forgive each other because our hearts have hardened to an extent where Rasulullah s.a.w. said in the Quran their hearts are hard like stones and Allah said they are even worse than stones because some of the stones, when you strike them water comes out. So this is a very very serious matter. So I advise all of you let not one more day pass without forgiving each other. Let not one single more day pass. We don’t know whether we will live or not. If you are not on speaking terms with another brother and you die you will go to Jahannam. I am not saying that Rasulullah s.a.w. said it, I gave you the reference of the hadiths, go look it up. It is in the Agud A’ud, there it is Abu Huraira Radheel Anu. So seriously, forgive each other no matter what anybody did for the sake of Allah forgive them and don’t wait for them to seek forgiveness, you forgive them because you love Allah and I ask Allah s.a.w. to anyone who does this to love them, to forgive them and to forgive me and to forgive all of us. Let us open our hearts, let us clean our hearts and let us meet Allah s.a.w. in a state where we have done something for the sake of Allah alone. Wasallallahu ala nabil kareem wa ala alihi wasaabi al main birahmatik arhub wa rahim.
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