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Translation
of persian quatrain):
Return
back: return back: whichever you are: return back: You may be a disbliever or
an idolater, please return back. Our this Abode is not an Abode of
disappointment or despondency: If you have violated your repentance hundred
times, please return back.
TAUBAH
or Repentance literally means to return, come back, reunite after separation,
and to incline towards Allah with a sense of penitence, Allah who has conferred
on us the life and brought up us so benevolently, is considered in the highest
joy and ecstasy when He finds His sinful bondsmen clinging to His feet with all
the possible expressions of humility, contraption and regard.
It
is narrated that once some military captives were brought to the Prophet
(P.B.U.H). Among them was a woman who had lost her infant. She was so shocked
by this unfortunate incident that whenever she came across any child, she stuck
him with her breast to milk. When Prophet (P.B.U.H) caught a glance of this
woman and her psychological upheaval, he asked his companions: Do you expect
that such a woman may throw her baby by her own hands in the precipices of the
fire? The companions commented: It is highly impossible. But, on the contrary,
if her baby is thrown in the fire, she shall sacrifice her life to rescue her
baby.
Then
the prophet told : "Allah is more
benevolent to His bondsmen than this mother to her child".
Don't
make inordinate delay in repentance if you have happened to commit certain
sins. Cling to the feet of Allah and repeatedly seek His pardon with all
humility and total surrender, because this repentance acts as purifier to the
soul and detergent to the heart. To repent with the high standard of sincerity,
veracity and rectitude, maneuvers the life-track of the pennant. It is an
ordained duty of a bondsman to redeem the primitive pledge which he concluded
with Allah. There is no go for us but to fulfill. Please be vigilant about your
physical and spiritual purity and self-rectification. In spite of all your
efforts, if you cause infringement to this pledge and commit certain sins,
please don't lose your heart in Allah, the most merciful, the most benevolent,
but resort once again to the asylum of His mercy and bliss as Allah is not far
away from you. He, indeed, is nearer to you than the jugular vein. Where you
are one, you are seconded by Allah, and where you are two, the third one is
Allah. As such, what you go to commit, it remains no secret to Allah and Allah
is fully aware of what you abortively try to conceal. The terminus of all your
acts and deeds is to Allah. He is omnipresent, omniscient and absolute
authority. Call your Lord obsequiously: O Lord: In-deed, I am too weak and
undoubtedly I have tyrannized myself but, I am sure, your mercy can absorb all
my sins. O my Lord O the more benevolent to His bondsmen than seventy mothers:
commiserate to me and allow me to come under the shelter of your pardon.
Don't
link your penitence to the time of perpetration of sin, as the man is
continuously in a need to penitence in view of the lapses that show no sign of
abating on his part. Though our prophet (P.B.U.H) was innocent since the very
day of his birth, and though he was the most beloved bondsman of Allah, and
though he was the intercessor on the judgment Day, and though he was a bliss
for all the world, he used to repeat the penitence for more than seventy or
hundred times daily. The following prayer of penitence has been rated by our
Prophet as the finest one:
"O Allah: verily you are my
Lord: There is no God but you: You created me and therefore I am your bondsman,
and I am bound to redeem my promise and pledge to the possible extent. I seek
your pardon from my misdeeds. I acknowledge, all the bounties, you conferred on
me and I also acknowledge my sins. So please pardon my sins. Verily you are the
only who can pardon the sins".
Allah
prescribes a recipe to eschew the nightmares:
"Those who are pious, when they
face some hazards from the Satan, they remember (Allah) and turn
perspicacious".
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MERCIFUL, THE BENEVOLENT
Dedicated to those scientists, who are inching towards the cognizance of the facts, spotlighted by Allah Almighty, in the wake of their intelligent observation for the top vertex of scientific achievement, which is not other than the "Disastrous end of the Universe". And this is probably during 15th century of Lunar calendar.
