Without Tawbah, Punishment Can Come Any Second - 30 Verses For 30 Days 9/30

Salamun alaykum, dear brothers and sisters, InshaAllah today we will continue with our Tafsir clips and in this clip we are going to discuss a verse of the Qur'an that is situated in the 9th Juz of the Qur'an, and that is verse 97 through 99 of Surat ul-A'raf. 'A'udhu bil-Lah, min al-Shaytan, al-rajim. "Afa amina Ahl ul-Qura' an ya'tiyahum ba'suna bayatan wa hum na'imoon" (7:97). Do the people who disobey Us, do they feel comfortable going to sleep at night, and assuming that Our punishment will not be sent down upon them during the night time?. "Aw amina Ahl ul-Qura' an ya'tiyahum ba'suna duhan wa hum yal'aboon" (7:98). Do they feel comfortable disobeying Us? And then assuming that Our punishment will not be sent down upon them, during the day when they are going about their affairs? "Afa aminu makra Allah" (7:99). Do they feel comfortable from the plotting and planning of Allah? "Fa la ya'manu makra Allahi, illa al-qawm ul-khaasiroon" (7:99).

What these verses are saying is that when a human being commits a mistake, when he does a sin, either he fundamentally rejects the message of God, or he commits a sin where he disobeys God. It is very surprising for Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala how someone does this, and then goes about his business as if Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala's punishment may not come at any given second. Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala, in my words, of course, is showing him how surprised He is at the ignorance of the human being, that the human being will disobey Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala, and then he will go to sleep at night without doing Tawbah, and he will assume that nothing will happen to him.

The reality is, if that I committed a sin, God knows what might happen to me while I am asleep. When I commit a sin, the punishment of Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala might come at any given point. Maybe during the night while I am asleep, maybe during the day when I go about my affairs, maybe I am at home, I have terrible Akhalq with family. I leave the house. God knows, maybe while I am in this car, the punishment of Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala thought I might come when I am just going about my affairs. Maybe I may not have a chance to wait until night-time, to now come and make amends and apologize and things of that nature.

And the third verse says: "Afa aminu makra Allah" (7:99). Do they feel comfortable when it comes to the plotting of Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala? When they disobey Him, they assume that God is not going to punish him. The punishment of Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala is not going to come their way. In other words, what the Qur'an is saying is that when we disobey Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala, we shouldn't just walk around feeling very comfortable, and assuming nothing is going to happen.

No, we are now worthy of punishment. God's punishment may come at any given point. So you might say, well, this is very dim and grim Shaykh. So what are we supposed to do? It's very simple. As long as you haven't done Tawbah, you should be extremely worried. But then when you do do Tawbah, when you do perform Tawbah, then at that point you have nothing to worry about. At that point, the Mercy of Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala InshaAllah will encompass us.

So this is for that individual who commits the sin and then he acts as if nothing happened. Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala says: don't feel so comfortable. So what should I do? When you commit the sin immediately perform Tawbah. Because the punishment of Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala might come at any point. But once you perform the Tawbah, then that's all that you can do at that point. And there is nothing else that you would have to do from that point, moving onwards.

So before Tawbah, you have to be very worried. After Tawbah, then you can rest assured that Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala is going to turn back towards you.