THIRD REMINDER. Thursday. HAVE YOU LOST HOPE IN ALLAH?. Don't miss reading this please. Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem. Let's conclude on our topic today. If you missed any of the two reminders today please request for a copy. The action points are in two folds: 1- Immune yourself against sin and against being an easy prey to Shaytan. How? Maintain all obligatory prayers on time. Make sure to recite adhkar regularly every day. They keep a lot of harm away and protect the person inwardly and outwardly. Engage with the Qur’an. Must read and/or listen to the words of Allah everyday. They keep one in check. Listen to or attend lectures of tafseer of Qur’an (exegesis and commentary). Try to also study and memorize Qur’an to the best of your ability. Have righteous friends. Have righteous friends. Have righteous friends and keep their company as much as possible. They remind you of Allah, encourage you for goodness and take your mind off sins. Recite Surat Al Baqarah whenever you feel weak. It shields and protects you against the Shaytan. Get busy. Occupy yourself with useful activities because if you’re not engaged in useful activities, shaytan will engage you in harmful ones. If you commit a sin, just come back again! How? Stop the sin. Acknowledge and regret the sin wholeheartedly. Make sincere and heartfelt repentance to Allah. Sincerely decide to not go back to it again. Follow the bad deed with a good deed so it wipes it out. “And establish prayer at the two ends of the day and at the approach of the night. Indeed, good deeds do away with misdeeds. That is a reminder for those who remember.” (Qur’an 11: 114). Remember, if you are sincerely trying and you are doing your best to remain on the right course and you do not wish to keep doing or to insist on the sin, then you’re on the right track. But…. if you take Allah’s Mercy and Forgiveness as a means to carry on doing sins and neglect or delay repentance, then you should be worried. Remember the continuation of the verse mentioned earlier… “Say, “O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.” And return [in repentance] to your Lord and submit to Him before the punishment comes upon you; then you will not be helped.” (Qur’an 39: 53-54). Allahu Akbar. May Allah keep guiding us all and protect us from any satanic influences. Aameen.