Zakir Naik – Taubah in the Prophet’s Way
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The Prophet Muhammad has instructed individuals to obtain forgiveness by going to specific areas where they can obtain forgiveness, such as a monk who kills 99 people and moves towards a village where people are rep projected. The Prophet requests forgiveness and asks individuals to forgive them. Several cases of drastic behavior, including tutorials, cow degrees, and the removal of a woman from a church, are discussed, with examples given in different pages of the transcript. The Prophet emphasizes the importance of forgiveness and the potential consequences of these actions.
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Regarding another important aspect how Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala accepts Tawba, repentance
what are the prerequisites
for sincere Tawba
and could you possibly
enlighten us with some prophetic traditions
of some of the Prophets making Tawbah to
Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la.
Allah says in the Quran Surah Taheem, chapter
number 66 verse number 8,
that
You Alizinamunu,
oh you believe, turn to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'la with sincere repentance
and there are basically
5 prerequisites
for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to accept Tawba.
Number 1,
the person should accept
that he's doing is wrong.
Number 2, he should immediately stop it.
Number 3, he should seek forgiveness from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Number 4, he should not
commit that act again.
And number 5, if
he has taken something from any other human
being and if he can return it, he'll
return it back. For example, if he has
dropped some money, he should turn the money
back. If he has taken some wealth, he
should give the wealth back. If he can
undo
the harm, he should do it and
according to Ibn Khayim,
he says
that repentance is accepted
when the person
does not
do that evil act again
and
it further helps him to do good deeds
and prevents him from going back to that
act.
According to Imam An Nawawi,
he says, there are 3 prerequisites
for any Toaba to be accepted. Number 1,
he should stop back what he's doing.
Number 2, he should ask for forgiveness. Number
3, he should not do it again
and he says that the 4th requirement,
if he had done some harm to any
other human being, then he should undo it
if he can
and there are various examples
in the Hadith,
which give that how people have asked for
forgiveness.
It's mentioned in the Hadith of
Sayyid Bukhari,
volume number 4,
in the book of the stories of the
prophets, Hadith number
3470,
that there was a person
who had committed 99 murders.
So, he wants to seek repentance.
So, he asked the people, How can he
do it? So, they sent him to a
monk.
So, the monk
says that, we have killed 99 people!
There's no chance of forgiveness!
So, that person, that murderer,
he kills the Hmong too and now, he
has committed 100 murders.
So he goes to another person and says
that, I want to seek repentance. So he
says
that if you want to seek repentance,
go to that land
where people are worshipping Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and Insha'Allah,
you should leave the land
in which you have committed the crime and
go to that land where people are seeking
repentance and Insha'Allah, Allah will
Gandhi forgiveness.
So, he immediately goes towards that land but
on his way,
death takes place and he dies
and he turns his chest towards that village
where people are repenting.
Then, both the angels,
the angels of good and the angels of
bad, both come
and they won't take him. The angels from
the heaven say that we will take him
because he want to repent, but the angels
from the bad deeds, the * they say,
no, he has not committed a single good
deed. We will take him. So Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala intervenes
and He asks the village
where people are repenting that it should come
closer
to the person who has committed murder
and He commands
to the place where he has committed the
crime that he should go further away. So
when they measure the distance, they find out
that the person who committed the murder, he
was once staying closer
to the village where people are repenting.
So then, Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la grants him
Jannah.
So, this is an example, that a person
commits 100 murders
and he wants to repent. Only the Nia
of repenting
and traveling towards that place and a different
version of the same Hadith says that while
dying, he pushes himself towards the he looks
towards the place where he can get forgiveness.
So this shows that only the Niyyah
and the intention to ask for forgiveness, Allah
forgives.
There is another example
in Sayyid Muslim, word number 3 in the
book of Fatud, Hadith number 4207.
There was a lady from the tribe of
Johanna.
She came to the Prophet
and
she had committed adultery
and she was pregnant.
So she came to the Prophet and says
that
I have done so and so sin,
please give me punishment.
So the Prophet
calls her Master and says, take care of
this woman till she delivers
the child
and
after that, get her to Me.
So the Master takes care of her and
after she gives birth to a child, he
gets the woman.
Then the Prophet says, because of the adultery,
she has to be given the death penalty
and the lady, she has to wrap around
herself
with her cloth and the people stone her
to death
And after she died, the Prophet, he prays
for her.
So Omar Melayeeb, please with him, says, Oh
Prophet, you are praying for a woman who
has committed adultery?
Then the Prophet replies
that the Vaishu has repented.
Even if you distribute
this repentance
to 70 people of Madinah, it would be
sufficient for them to go to Jannah!
Who can repent better than the woman who
is willing to give her life
for the sake of Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la.
A similar example is given in Say Muslim,
World number 3, in the book of
Hudud,
hadith
number 4205
that Maya has been Malik, will I have
peace with him? He comes to the Prophet
and he says that,
please purify me.
The Prophet says, woe to you,
go and ask for forgiveness for Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and you repent.
The person, he goes back, again he comes
and says, Oh Messenger,
please pardon me. He says, Woe to you,
Ask for forgiveness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and you repent!
Again, the person goes, again he comes for
the 3rd time, Oh Messenger of Allah, please
purify me! He says, go away from here,
ask for repentance,
ask for Gennesaret Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala!
Again, the 4th time he comes and says
to the Prophet, please pardon me! The Prophet
says, From what?
So Ma'ez, my lawyer, please return. He says,
that he is from adultery.
So he says, are you mad?
Have you gone crazy?
So the person says, no, I'm not mad.
Then the Prophet asked, are you drunk?
Did you have chamr? Did you have wine?
So the other people get up and they
smell his mouth. They said, No Prophet, he
said, No Chamr.
He said did you really commit adultery, he
said yes, I have committed adultery and I
want the punishment for the sin I have
committed. So, Qafin al Salaam asked the people
to stone him and he was stoned to
death.
After stoned to death, there is a controversy
between the Samaf and the 2 groups of
people.
One group of people says
that he has been undone.
That means it's a pity that he will
not get makshalay is undone.
The other group says,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has accepted
Ma'az Mahalai Piyat,
Allah has accepted His Repentance and He shall
go to Jannah.
This happens for 2 or 3 days, then
the Beloved Prophet Nusallahu alaihi wa sallam comes
and then he tears to the Sahabas
that pray
for Mahas Bideem Malik because he has repented
for his sin
and
if you distribute his repentance,
even in a large number of people, in
a group of people, it could be sufficient.
Here it shows
that the people, they committed a major sin
but they repented.
They were even willing
to have themselves killed
because both these people knew very well that
the punishment for idolatry was death, it was
thrown to death. So here, it shows that
the high level of Taqwa they had,
The sincere repentance,
the daft from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
Allah forgive them.