Gems Of Ramadan ✔

DAY 9 - MAKE ALLAH HAPPY _PART 2

Wallahil-'Adheem you are dealing with One more merciful than your mother. In Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Sahaabah were sitting after a battle and they saw a woman from those who were captured. She was running after every child looking for her son. She would take every child, hug him, nourish him and then pass on and go to the next child. A very moving scene that moved the Sahaabah and the Prophet sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam. The Prophet sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam decided to make a lesson out of it for the Sahaabah. He asked them, do you think that mother would ever throw her son in Hell? They said no, never. He said Allah is more merciful with His servants than that mother is with her child.

Several days ago I was reading Surat an-Nisaa' and a meaning popped up in my mind that I had never thought of before. In the Qur'an, Allah commands the parents to take care of their children when He talks about inheritance.

Allah instructs you concerning your children.
(Surat an-Nisaa': 11)

Many people think the most merciful to them is their parent, yet in this verse Allah is telling who you think is most merciful (your mum and your dad) to take care of their children. Allah is telling the ones you think are the most merciful to take care of you. You see that mercy? It was the Du'aa of some of the righteous, O Allah my mother is the most merciful to me and she would never ever let me be in torment and she would take me out of it, O Allah You are more merciful to me than my mother so protect me from the torment Yaa Arham Ar-Raahimeen (يا الرحم الراحمين).

With me (a human), you make a mistake or even before you make a mistake, before one shot and two shots or three strikes, I abandon you. But dealing with the Ghafoor, Ar-Raheem and Al-'Afuw, you are dealing with different measures.

And for Allah is the highest description.
(Surat an-Nahl: 60)

Never despair. In the authentic Hadith in Sahih Muslim on the authority of Abu Sa'eed al-Khudri, the man who killed ninety nine people (one of the biggest sins after Shirk). He went to an ignorant worshipper and he asked him can he repent. The worshipper said ninety nine? No way. So he finished them off, and that in itself is actually a lesson. If the doors of repentance were closed, it would cause chaos on this earth because what have you got to lose? Just go ahead and be full blown evil, you have nothing to lose. Then he asked an 'Aalim (a knowledgeable person). He told him I have killed a hundred people, can I repent? He said nothing can stop you from repenting, get out of this evil land. Allah not only forgave him, but changed the universe for him. On his way to the new town, He shortened the universe for him, in honour for him (when the angels who take the good soul quarreled with the angels who take the evil soul). Allah changed the universe for a killer who killed one hundred innocent souls and repented. Imagine what He will do for me and you.

When you feel despair and you are going to despair in Allah, remember the story everyone knew as a kid, of the People of the Trench (Ashaab al-Ukhdood (أصحاب ألأخدود)). It was a massacre and a genocide, they annihilated people of Laa Ilaaha Illallah. They killed the righteous young boy who stood up to them. Massacre and genocide. What does Allah say?

Verily, those who put into trial the believing men and believing women (by torturing them and burning them), and then do not turn in repentance, (to Allah), will have the torment of Hell, and they will have the punishment of the burning Fire.
(Surat al-Burooj: 10)

Those who put the believing men and women into trial and did not turn in repentance. Look at that, and did not turn in repentance. Do you know what it means? Had they repented from their crimes, Allah would have forgiven them because He said:
ثُمَّ لَمْ يَتُوبُوا
And they did not repent.

There is no sin too big and there is no sin too small. Repent and Allah forgives all. Ramadhaan is the season for it, start right now. Number one, regret the past. Promise not to do it again and say Astaghfirullah. If it deals with the rights of other people, try to give it back to them directly, if not indirectly. If it will stir up Fitnah then make Du'aa for them, give charity in their name or mention them in good. Simple, you do that sincerely and Wallahi the Ghafoor, Ar-Raheem is going to accept.