Crown
of pearls
It is stated in the book Al-Qaul-ul-Badi':
After the demise of Sayyiduna Abul ‘Abbas Ahmad Bin Mansoor (رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ), someone from Shiraz
saw him in a dream dressed in heavenly clothing with a crown of pearls on his
head, standing in the Mihrab (arch) of the main Masjid of Shiraz. The dreaming
person asked, ‘مَا فَعَلَ اللهُ بِكَ؟
How did Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ) treat you? He (رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ) replied, ‘!اَلْحَمْدُلِلّٰهِ عَزَّوَجَلَّ I used to recite
Salat upon the Rasool of Rahmah, Intercessor of Ummah (صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم) abundantly and this
act of mine brought about my success.
* This speech of
Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat (دَامَتْ بَرَكَاتُهُمُ
الْعَالِيَهْ) was relayed via telephone from Sharjah to Multan on 17 Jumadal
Aakhir 1418 AH, 20-09-1997. It is now being published in the form of a booklet
with amendments and additions.
[Majlis Maktaba-tul-Madinah]
Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ)
not only forgave me and bestowed upon me (this) crown but also made me enter
Heaven.’
(Al-Qaul-ul-Badi', pp. 254)
صَلُّوا عَلَى الْحَبِيْب! صَلَّى اللهُ
تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
Dear Islamic brothers! Sayyiduna
Ka’b-ul-Ahbaar (رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ)
was a great Taabi’i saint. Before embracing Islam, he was a very brilliant
Jewish scholar. He stated: An Israelite (who had repented) committed adultery
with a prostitute again and then went to a stream in order to have a bath. All
of a sudden, calls from the stream came, ‘Don’t you have any shame? Had you not
repented and promised that you would never do that again?’ Listening to it, he
got into an emotional state and ran away, crying, screaming and saying, ‘I
would never ever disobey my Beloved Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ).’
Running, he reached a mountain where he found 12 men who were worshipping Allah
(عَزَّوَجَلَّ). He also joined
them.
After some period of time, a drought
occurred there, so the caravan of those pious bondmen departed for the city in
search of food. By chance, they passed the same stream. That person trembled
with fear and said, ‘I would not go to the stream because someone aware of my
sins is present there and I feel shy with him.’ Therefore, he stopped while the
rest 12 men reached the stream. Once again, calls from the stream came, ‘O
pious bondmen! Where is your companion?’ They replied, ‘He says that someone
aware of his sins is present here and he feels shy with him.’ The voice came
from the stream, ‘!سُبْحٰنَ الله If a relative of
yours bothers you but then apologizes to you, feeling ashamed, and gives up his
bad habit, so don’t you get reconciled with him? Your companion has also
repented and has started performing good deeds. Now he has got reconciled with
his Lord. Bring him here and all of you perform worship at the edge of the
stream.’
They gave the good news to him and
all of them engaged themselves in the acts of worship until that person passed
away there. Upon this, calls from the stream echoed, ‘O pious bondmen! Bathe
him with my water and bury him at the edge of me so that he will be resurrected
on the Day of Judgement from here.’ They did so. At night, beside the tomb of
that person, they continued to worship Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ)
until they went to sleep. They had intended to depart from there in the
morning. When they woke up, they saw that there were 12 straight and
carrot-shaped trees around his tomb. They understood that Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ) has created those trees for them so that
they stay under their shade instead of moving to anywhere else. Therefore, they
engaged themselves in worship there instead of going elsewhere. When any of
them passed away, the deceased would be buried beside the grave of the same
person. At last, all of them passed away. The Israelites used to visit these
tombs.
(Kitab-ut-Tawwabeen, pp. 90)
May Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ)
have mercy on them and forgive us without accountability for their sake!
اٰمِيْن
بِجَاهِ النَّبِيِّ الْاَمِيْن صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
صَلُّوا عَلَى الْحَبِيْب! صَلَّى اللهُ
تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
Allah
عَزَّوَجَلَّ is watching
Dear Islamic brothers! Did you see?
How Merciful and Benevolent Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ)
is! When a bondman repents sincerely, Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ)
gets pleased with him. This parable also shows that Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ) watches the sinner no matter he commits
the sin at a highly secret place. Furthermore, it also became obvious that the
practice of visiting the tombs of pious predecessors existed even among the
previous Ummahs.
Keep
repenting
Dear Islamic brothers! If anyone
commits a sin, he should repent of it. As a human, if he indulges in the sin
again, he should repent of it again. If he commits the misdeed once again, he
should repent of it once again. One should never ever be disappointed with the
mercy of Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ). His mercy is
infinite. Indeed forgiving sins cannot cause any harm to His mercy. All we need
is to keep repenting and seeking forgiveness.
The Holy Nabi (صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم) said,
‘اَلتَّائِبُ مِنَ
الذَّنْبِ كَمَنْ لَّا ذَنْبَ لَه’
i.e.
One who repents of sins is like the one who has not committed the sin at
all.
(Sunan Ibn Majah, vol. 4, pp. 491,
Hadees 4250)
So we became aware that the sins of
the repenting person are erased. Therefore, we should always show humbleness in
the Divine court and should not get disappointed with His mercy.
Will
only the pious enter Heaven
We are mentioning Divine mercy. Let
me also tell you there are some unwise people who say, ‘One can enter Heaven
only by the means of good deeds. The sinner will certainly enter Hell. How can
one be forgiven merely by mercy?’ These types of thoughts are certainly satanic
whispers. I am not talking about mercy on the basis of my personal opinion.
Listen! In Ayah 53 of Surah Az-Zumar, Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ)
said in part 24 of the Holy Quran:
قُلْ يٰعِبَادِيَ الَّذِیْنَ اَسْرَفُوْا
عَلٰۤى اَنْفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوْا مِنْ رَّحْمَةِ اللهِ ؕ اِنَّ اللهَ يَغْفِرُ
الذُّنُوْبَ جَمِیْعًا ؕ اِنَّهٗ هُوَ الْغَفُوْرُ الرَّحِیْمُ
Say
you (O beloved), ‘O my slaves¹, those who have committed excess against their
own souls (by committing sins), do not lose hope in Allah’s mercy; indeed Allah
forgives all sins; indeed He only is the Oft Forgiving, the Most Merciful.’
¹ (All Muslims are truly the slaves
of Nabi Muhammad صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ
وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم.)
[Kanz-ul-Iman (Translation of Quran)]
A Qudsi Hadees mentions a saying of
Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ):
سَبَقَتْ رَحْمَتِیْ غَضَبِیْ
My
mercy dominates My wrath.
(Sahih Muslim, pp. 1471, Hadees
2751)
Great poet and brother of A’la
Hadrat, Maulana Hasan Raza Khan (رَحْمَةُ اللهِ
تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ) begs for Divine mercy in his following
two couplets given in his Na’at collection Zauq-e-Na’at:
سَبَقَتْ رَحْمَتِیْ عَلٰى غَضَبِیْ
Tu
nay jab say suna diya Ya Rab Aasira ham gunahgaraun ka Aur mazboot ho gaya Ya
Rab
Meaning:
O Lord! We sinners have had even bigger hope ever since we have heard that Your
mercy dominates Your wrath.
(Zauq-e-Na’at)
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