Chapter II: Patience and Gratefulness
Hadis:- The Prophet said: My people are the recipients of mercy. There is no punishment for them in the Hereafter. God sends down earth quakes and battles in the world as punishment. He said: Fever is a touch of Hell fire. It i* '-a punishment from the fire of Hell for a believer. God says: God will not put the Prophet and his companions to shame on that day. In explaining this, it has been said that God revealed to His Prophet: I will entrust you to take account of your followers. He will say: O Lord, You are more kind to them than myself. God said: I will not put you to shame amongst them. Hazrat Anas reported that the Prophet prayed to God regarding the sins of his followers. He said: O Lord, entrust me with the judgement of my followers, so that their sins my not be expressed before others.
Then God revealed to him: They are your peoples but My servants. I am more merciful to them than you. I will not entrust their account on others. You or any other man can not have proper look on them. The Prophet said: My life is good for you my death is also good for you. As long as I live, I will teach you the lessons of religion and establish for you laws and regulations.
When I die your actions will be presented before me. I will thank God for the virtuous acts I will sue and I will seek forgiveness to God for the sins I will see.
The Prophet once heard a person praying: O God, I seek from Thee full perfect gift. He asked him: Do you know what is perfect gift? He replied: I don't know. The Prophet said: It is to enter paradise. There is in Hadis: When a servant commits a sin and seeks forgiveness to God, God says to His angels: Look to My servant. He has committed a sin and he knows that he has got his Lord who forgives all sins and gives punishment for sins. I testify to you that I have forgiven him. There is in another Hadis that if the sins of man reach so high as the clouds of the sky, I forgive him so long as he seeks My forgiveness and hopes for My forgiveness. There is in another Hadis: If My servant meets Me with earthful of sins, I meet him with earthful of forgiveness.
There is in another Hadis: If a man commits a sin, the angel keeps his pen lifted up for six hours. If he repents and seeks forgiveness, he does not record it. If he does not do it, he records a sin. In another narration, when he commits a sin as well as a virtue, the right hand angel says to the left hand angel: Throw away this sin, rather I give up one tenth of this virtue for the sin and record nine-tenths of virtue. Then he throws away the sin.
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