Taubah in the Prophet’s Way

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 hell 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,

Allah forgive them.

Allah forgive them.