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said: All believers are the friends of God. Have you not heard the verse of God: God is the friend of those who believed. He takes them out from darkness into light-2:257 Q. There is in Hadis that a believer is better and more honorable than an angel, There is in another well known Hadis: God recorded mercy on Himself before His creation. The Prophet said: He who recites 'There is no deity but God:' will enter Paradise. He who utters at the time of his death 'There is no deity but God'.
Hell fire will not touch him. Hell has been made unlawful for one who meets with God without setting up partner with God.
There is in Hadis: He in whose heart there is faith to the weight of a mustard seed will not enter Hell. The Prophet said: If a believer knows the extent of mercy of God, he would not have become despaired of Paradise.

The Prophet read this verse of the Quran: The earthquake of the Hour will be most severe. He said: Do you know which is this day? On this day Adam will be asked: Rise up and send to Hell out of your progenitors. He will ask: How many? He will be told:
999 out of every thousand will go Hell and only one to Paradise.
Every one present began to weep and refrained from works. The Prophet came to them and asked: What is the matter with you that you refrained from your works? They said: After hearing what you said, who will do works? He asked: Whe*e is the explanation what will be you number out of so many peoples?
Series, Mensaq, Eajuz and Meajuz are some peoples. Nobody knows their numbers except God. You are like white hairs on the back of a black ox in comparison with other peoples and like a different color in the foot of a quadruped animal.

The People said: If you had not committed sin, I would have feared the worst sin from you. He was asked: What is it? He said:
Self-praise. The Prophet said: By him in whose hand there is my life, God's mercy upon His servants is much more than the affection of a mother for her children. There is in another Hadis:
God has got mercy of one hundred divisions. He has kept for himself 99 divisions of mercy and distributed one division only in the earth on account of which the created beings show kindness to one another, mothers show affection to their children and the lower animals to their young ones. On the Resurrection day. He will unite these one hundred divisions and show mercy on His creations.

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120 FEAR AND HOPE Vol-IV

The Prophet said: Act, give good news and know that only divine service of anybody will not give him salvation. The Prophet said: I have reserved intercession for those who commit great sins out of my followers. Do you hope that those who do divine service and who are God-fearing will get that? Rather my intercession will go for the sinners and the guilty.