Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Worth Reading Twice.....

Muslim :: Book 37 : Hadith 6662

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) 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 penitant 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.

3 comments:

Dayfa said...

subhanAllah. Allah is the Most Merciful. We cant even comprehend.

That was also one of the stories in this book my brother brought back from Hajj, I think its called Stories of Repentance. Its really nice masha Allah. Darussalam has awesomely wicked books masha Allah

Anonymous said...

can you post something saying that its part of life to continually embarrass oneself over and over and over again and that "one" is not a coookoo dodo head that really needs to talk to a shrink instead of talking to "oneself".

lol ya3ni, its not for me, for a friend. yes I can be my own friend. sigh, ok but forreals, I need the Islamic stance on this reebokkkkk pwease :)

Anonymous said...

subhanAllah... It's never too late. Not until we see that angel of death. The struggle end up on top is intense. Insha'Allah we come victorious