Precious Remembrance [11232012] - AlHuda Sisters

Chapter 3Repentance & SeekingForgiveness | .“And declare the freedom of your Rabb from imperfection beginning with His praise, and ask His forgiveness. Verily, He is the One Who accepts the repentance and Who forgives.” (An-Nasr, 110:3) Allah's Messenger said: “Allah, the Most High, said, ‘O son of Aadam! As long as you supplicate to Me, and hope in Me, I will forgive you what you have done and I do not care. O son of Aadam! If your sins were to reach the lofty regions of the sky, then you asked Me for forgiveness, I would forgive you. O son of Aadam! If you were to come to Me with enough sins to fill the earth, but you met Me not associating anything with Me -­‐ I would bring you the like of it of forgiveness.” (At-Tirmidhi) “By the One in whose Hand is my soul, I certainly ask forgiveness of Allah and repent to him more than seventy times each day.” (Al-Bukhari) The Prophetwas such that Allah had forgiven his earlier and later sins,yet he still used to ask Allah's forgiveness more than a hundredtimes each day. Al-IstighfaarIndeed, as Ibn 'Umar said, "We used to count that in a single gathering he would say, ‘I ask Allah's forgiveness and I repent to Him, more than seventy times." (As-Saheehah, 556) Thus he would continuously ask for forgiveness and give it great importance. . Prophet Muhammad said: “I swear by Him in whose hand is my soul, if you were a people who did not commit sin, Allah would take you away and replace you with a people who would sin and then seek Allah’s forgiveness so He could forgive them.” (Sahih Muslim, 2687) Note: This Hadith does not mean that Allah likes disobedience. But by this way of description, the aim is to emphasize the importance of seeking forgiveness from Allah. We know that every man commits sins. But Allah likes those people who, after committing a sin, do not stick to it, but right away seek forgiveness for their sins from Allah. They weep and express sorrow before Allah. 12 12 Riyad-us-Saliheen- 28 -