Ali Ataie – We Need Tawbah (Repentance), Desperately

Actually says in the Nef Fox,

He says that there's actually, see that. There's

a difference of opinion as to which man

or woman is better. The one who sinned

and made Toba or the one who never

sinned at all.

There's actually a difference of opinion as to

which one is better.

Right? Ultimately,

he said,

the one who never sinned is better because

he's closer to the prophets. We're maximum. They're

they're free of Megerson. But it's just interesting

that you have this,

you have this difference of opinion regarding this

issue.

Even though I talked about this as one

of his aphorisms.

He says, an act of sin that leads

to shame and impoverishment

and brokenness before Allah is better than a

good action

that leads to arrogance.

There's a beautiful story in book for you

of the Iqya.

It's called

by

Abuhamad al Hazari.

And he, you know, opens it.

He used to spend his days in the

in the tavern at the bar, and

he died. And the people of the town

refused to wash his body. They're gonna wash

his body faster. Right? You can't bury him

on our cemetery either.

So his 4 wives had to wash his

body, and then she made some sled and

took him all the way out into the

desert with the intention of burying her husband

and crying over his body. While this was

happening,

she's digging this dish, a gnostic, an

a gnostic, walks

by. He sees the scene,

and he rushes down,

and he says, I want to help you

bury your husband.

And she says, fine. So he buries the

body and he prays the whole for it.

And then she says, why did you want

to help me? Do you know who my

husband is? I said, yes. I know where

you're all your husband is, and I wanted

to help you. And she says, what do

you mean? And he says, last night I

had a dream and I heard a voice

that said,

tomorrow you'll be traveling in the desert.

You'll see a woman trying to bury her

husband.

Help her because her husband was a man

of genuine.

He's a he's a man of paradise.

Right?

So,

he prays over the body and then he

leaves. Now, the townspeople come out and they

see what had happened. So they approach his

wife,

and they say, why did he do that?

And she says, I don't know. And they

said, do you think of a reason why

he's on that agenda? And And she said,

there's only three reasons I can think of.

He was never the boy of 1 or

2 orphans that he would love and care

for more than his own children. And every

morning when he would wake up from his

wine, he would change his clothes,

make take a shower, make

and go and pray

would pray in congregation in the mosque the

morning prayer. And when he would come home

from his wine, he would go into a

secluded corner of the room, He'd fall down

to his knees. He'd raise his hands to

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and say, oh, Allah,

which corner of * are you going to

fill with this precious man? Referring to himself.

And to be in that state of sub

supplication and repentance until he fell asleep.

This is why we need to be in

a state of. The word is that means

to turn. Right?

To turn. Literally,

turn

a law. Yeah. So what? Oh, the most

forgiving. Turn towards us.