Abu Sa'id al Khudri (radiyallahu 3anh) reported Allah's Messenger (salla Allaho 3alaihi wasallam) as saying:
"There was a person before you who had killed ninety-nine persons and then made an inquiry about the learned persons of the world (who could show him the way to salvation). He was directed to a monk. He came to him and told him that he had killed ninety-nine persons and asked him whether there was any scope for his repentance to be accepted. He said: No. He killed him also and thus completed one hundred. He then asked about the learned persons of the earth and he was directed to a scholar, and he told him that he had killed one hundred persons and asked him whether there was any scope for his repentance to be accepted. He said: Yes; what stands between you and the repentance? You better go to such and such land; there are people devoted to prayer and worship and you also worship along with them and do not come to the land of yours since it was an evil land (for you). So he went away and he had hardly covered half the distance when death came to him and there was a dispute between the angels of mercy and the angels of punishment. The angels of mercy said: This man has come as a penitent and remorseful to Allah and the angels of punishment said: He has done no good at all. Then there came another angel in the form of a human being in order to decide between them. He said: You measure the land to which he has drawn near. They measured it and found him nearer to the land where he intended to go (the land of piety), and so the angels of mercy took possession of it. Qatada said that Hasan told him that it was said to them that as death approached him, he crawled upon his chest (and managed) to slip in the land of mercy."
[Sahih Muslim : Book 37, Book Name Kitab Al-Tauba Number 6664]
"There was a person before you who had killed ninety-nine persons and then made an inquiry about the learned persons of the world (who could show him the way to salvation). He was directed to a monk. He came to him and told him that he had killed ninety-nine persons and asked him whether there was any scope for his repentance to be accepted. He said: No. He killed him also and thus completed one hundred. He then asked about the learned persons of the earth and he was directed to a scholar, and he told him that he had killed one hundred persons and asked him whether there was any scope for his repentance to be accepted. He said: Yes; what stands between you and the repentance? You better go to such and such land; there are people devoted to prayer and worship and you also worship along with them and do not come to the land of yours since it was an evil land (for you). So he went away and he had hardly covered half the distance when death came to him and there was a dispute between the angels of mercy and the angels of punishment. The angels of mercy said: This man has come as a penitent and remorseful to Allah and the angels of punishment said: He has done no good at all. Then there came another angel in the form of a human being in order to decide between them. He said: You measure the land to which he has drawn near. They measured it and found him nearer to the land where he intended to go (the land of piety), and so the angels of mercy took possession of it. Qatada said that Hasan told him that it was said to them that as death approached him, he crawled upon his chest (and managed) to slip in the land of mercy."
[Sahih Muslim : Book 37, Book Name Kitab Al-Tauba Number 6664]
I wanted to share this beautiful (I think quite known wallaho a3lam) hadith, because wallahi this hadith subhana Allah truly amazes me about Allahs mercy. There are so many ways where Allah shows His Mercy to us. If you only think (which reminds me of the conversation I had with one of my dearest sisters this morning a7abbaki Allah) about the regular things u do during the day. The ad3iyah u can say where Allah forgives us our sins subhana Allah. Think of, du3a u say after eating, drinking, clothing. Making wodo2, sujood (jazaaki Allahu alfa khaira dti!) Ya3ni subhana Allah, Allahs mercy and forgiveness are there, why are we not taking advantage of this? Why are we ungrateful to Him, the One who created us from nothing but gave us everything?
وَإِن تَعُدُّواْ نِعْمَةَ اللّهِ لاَ تُحْصُوهَا إِنَّ اللّهَ لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
18:سورة النحل
"And if you would count the graces of Allah, never could you be able to count them. Truly! Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
Ya Allah maghfiratak!! :'(
May Allah have mercy with us on the Day that we are in need of His Mercy. May Allah forgive us our sins. May Allah accept us in His Paradise with annabiyyeena wassiddiqeena washuhadaa2i wa saali7een. Allahomma ameen.
Last but not least!
Nasee7ah for myself first and foremost and others:
Doors to atawbah are wide open. Hasten and repent sincerly and come back to Allah. Never give up hope of Allahs mercy. Allah is Ara7maan, Ara7eem!!
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