Learning From Your Mistakes | Abū Yahyā Sakaria

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## **Full Lecture Timestamps / Chapters** 0:00 Opening praise and salawat 0:15 Purpose of creation: worshipping Allah 0:32 Messengers sent to every nation 0:52 Glad tidings and warnings 1:12 Duty of the Prophets: clarifying good and evil 1:22 Hadith: every Prophet guided to good and warned from evil 1:53 Our duty: obedience and following the Messenger 2:01 No compulsion – conveyance is the Messenger’s role 2:29 Reminder, not control 2:47 Human choice, free will, and accountability 3:23 Majority follow desires and sin 3:38 Hellfire surrounded by desires, Jannah by hardships 4:23 Majority choose the easier path 4:49 Human nature: oppression and ignorance 4:54 The Trust (Al-Amanah) offered to creation 6:12 Human weakness, haste, and impatience 7:22 Hadith Qudsi: Allah forgives all sins 7:56 Sins are not a justification to persist 8:28 Hypocrisy and deceiving oneself 9:01 Wisdom behind sin and repentance 9:17 Hadith: If you did not sin, Allah would replace you 10:04 Two reactions to sin 10:25 Adam vs Iblis: humility vs arrogance 11:12 Prostration of the angels and refusal of Iblis 12:19 Iblis doubling down in misguidance 12:38 Adam’s repentance and Allah’s acceptance 13:39 Lessons in reacting to mistakes 13:50 Mushrikun blaming Allah for sins 14:37 Believers repent and do not persist 15:18 Abu Bakr and Umar raising voices 17:48 Revelation: lowering voices before the Prophet ﷺ 18:27 Umar’s humility after correction 19:15 Sorcerers of Firʿawn accept the truth 20:40 Miracle of Musa and defeat of magic 21:14 Immediate repentance of the magicians 21:32 Firʿawn’s arrogance and threats 22:20 Steadfastness of the believing magicians 23:01 Qur’anic stories as real lessons 23:12 Firʿawn knew the truth but rejected it 24:08 Drowning of Firʿawn and rejected repentance 25:43 Living determines dying and resurrection 26:06 You die upon how you live 26:54 Self-accountability and personal struggles 27:52 First step: recognising mistakes 28:16 Innovation prevents repentance 29:28 Accepting mistakes as the path to change 30:06 Argumentation and lack of humility 30:29 Salaf loved to be corrected 30:41 Accepting advice and criticism 30:48 Arrogance blocks repentance 30:55 Sincere self-accountability 31:10 Recognising fault as a mercy 31:26 Sincere tawbah and returning to Allah 31:42 Not persisting upon sin 31:50 Hope in Allah’s mercy 31:58 Fear of dying upon sin 32:06 Balance between hope and fear 32:14 Lessons from Qur’anic narratives 32:30 Preparing for the Hereafter 32:38 Righteous companionship 32:46 Duʿāʾ for firmness upon the truth 32:54 Closing reminders 33:02 Final call to repentance 33:10 Supplication and conclusion