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Dear brothers and sisters

Over the last couple of weeks we've spoken about

the idea of questioning sincerity

Two weeks ago we spoke about questioning one's own sincerity and then last week we spoke about the

Danger of questioning the sincerity of someone else and I ended off that hotpot with a

A quick note about the words of Imam Safiyana Thauri rahimahullah ta'ala where he said that I was forbidden from praying

Tiyamu Lail for six months

Because of a sin that I committed and the sin that he committed was that he saw a man crying

Wa kultu fi nafsi anna hula yabki illa and I said to myself

He's not crying for Allah. He's crying for something else

And so I felt that I was forbidden from

Kiyamu Lail for six months as a result of that sin and I briefly spoke about this idea of

The sin of thought right or what a person would think about and how in Allah's mercy the Prophet

Sohlu Allah who was said him said that in Allah ta'ala ta'ala was a'an umati Allah has overlooked for my umma that which

crosses their minds

So long as they don't utter it with their tongue nor act upon it with their limbs that Allah has overlooked those things

And that Safiyana Thauri rahimahullah perhaps was holding himself to a higher standard because you should hold yourself

To a higher standard, but the idea of it actually being sinful is

debatable here and I wanted to actually

Pick up on that note

With the difference that the rahimah spoke about in that regard between passing thoughts and settled thoughts

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