True Repentance

[NaSra]

In The Name Of Allaah...


Thalaba Ibn AbdulRahman was a young man at the age of 16. He always ran


errands for the prophet pbuh. One day while walking though the city of


Medina, he passed by a house with an open door. Out of curiosity he took a


glance inside. In this glance, he saw a light curtain being blown away from


a bathroom entrance were a woman was bathing. He immediately lowered his


gaze. With an extreme feeling of guilt and hypocrisy his mind ran.


Thinking to himself, “How could I be of the companions, one that is close to


the prophet pbuh, one who runs his errands and be so horrible as to


disrespect peoples privacy?”..


He feared that Allah would reveal to the prophet pbuh evidence of his


hypocrisy. His guilt denied him to ever show his face to the prophet pbuh.


So he ran away.


Days went by and the prophet kept asking the other companions if they had


seen Thalaba. No one had seen him. With the prophet’s worry about Thalaba he


sent a few of the companions to look for him everywhere, among them were


Umar Ibn Al Khattab and Salman Al Farsi. They looked everywhere in Medina,


and on the out skirts of Madina, until they came about a set of mountains


between Mecca and Medina where some nomads where herding sheep.


The companions asked the nomads if they had seen a young man with Thalaba’s


characteristics. They told the companions about a weeping boy. He had been


here for 40 days. He came down from the mountains once a day weeping and


drank the milk they would offer him. Then he went back up the mountains


weeping, crying, always asking for Allah for forgiveness, and saying words


of repentance.


So the companions waited until he came down and watched him. He had lost weight. His countenance reflected sorrow as he drank the milk that was mixed with his tears. The companions insisted that they take him back to the


prophet pbuh but he refused and asked them if Allah had revealed verses


saying he was a hypocrite. They told him that they had no knowledge of any


such verses. He was taken back to Medina where the prophet pbuh went to see


him. He asked again if Allah had put him among the hypocrites or revealed


that he was. The prophet pbuh assured him that there were no such verses.


He laid out Thalaba’s tired, weak body and placed Thalaba’s head on his lap.


The prophet pbuh comforted him until he told the prophet pbuh I feel as


though ants are walking between my flesh and bones. The prophet told him it


was death and his time had come.


He witnessed while Thalaba’s head was on his lap, Thalaba proclaim “There is


no god worthy of worship other than Allah, and that Mohamed pbuh is the


messenger of Allah.” The prophet pbuh washed Thalaba and carried him to the


grave. It is narrated that on their way to bury Thalaba, the prophet pbuh


walked on his tippy toes as though he were in a crowd. When Umar asked about


this, the prophet pbuh explained that he was being crowded with the angels.

[Peaceful~Gyal]

SUBHANALLAH


The sahaabahs had so much fear of Allah unlike these days no one cares they'll be punished for their bad deeds


May Allah give us Taqwa

[Anyabwile]

SUBHANALLAH
The sahaabahs had so much fear of Allah unlike these days no one cares they'll be punished for their bad deeds


May Allah give us Taqwa

I agree peaceful_gyal, when it's the disbelivers who don't seem to care then i'd expect nothing less. But there are people who have been Muslim much longer than me who don't give a second thought to things such as this. Reading music magazines with women etc. I think lack of prayer is a problem amongst some of the Muslims i speak to on my quest to learn. They only pray through Ramadan it seems to me and no other time. Thus they don't really fear Allah because they are not as near to Allah as those who perform Salaat the correct times. Allah is not on their minds so there's no fear or humbleness...that's a real bad move I wish i knew how to tell them this without coming across condescending as a new Muslim.

[ronniv93]

Thus they don't really fear Allah because they are not as near to Allah as those who perform Salaat the correct times.

Hey Anyabwile,


Quick question. What does praying at "the correct times" have to do with how close you are to God? I mean, time is relevant to us as human beings, but God is beyond our concepts of time. So, what do you mean by a "correct time" to pray?


And if a time is "correct" for me in this time zone, it may be "incorrect" for someone on the opposite side of the world.


Help me understand what you all believe about this, please.

[Anyabwile]

I'm really tired right now so forgive my response if it is unclear, i will try and write a more detailed one tommorow. What i was trying to stress as opposed to <b>digital watch accuracy </b>praying, was if you don't bother praying which is when i personally feel closest to God then you'll loose fear or love and closeness of him. Once that's gone, you won't really care what you're doing or if God is watching or not.


Like some Muslims as i mentioned before and even more Christians. They only pray once a week, or when they want something and the rest of the time drink, smoke sleep with the opposite sex, and only think of God at bed time or every sunday at church. I'm not picking out christians here i said the same about some Muslims in my other post. But yeah i see what you're saying don't focus on the correct times to the second so much, just the constant remembering of God. That's how the times of prayer help, as Humans the existance God has given us is beautiful, vivid solid and we sometimes think it is all. But no, <b>God</b> is all, always is has been or will be. We get wrapped up in living, regular prayer brings us closer to God, where lack of regular prayer brings us closer to the material things and world/people around us.


I know that suits a lot of religions but not one i'd be interested in, i want to be closest to God. That's why i'm Muslim. And i agree with you on the time thing, time only exists because we have the ability to remember, time is a series of events marked in order of their occourance, outside of that there's no such thing as time. That's why God see's all that's been, is now and will be...but man it's late and i'm tired. Hope i made sense...i'll check back in a sec for a respose if not speak tommorow.

[umm Zachariah]

Assalamu aleikum,


Closeness to Allah, SWT is at all times. A Muslim remembers Him constantly, during everything we do, BEFORE we do something. Not only when we are about to eat or go to sleep, but ALL the time. He is 'on our mind' during all the time we are awake. And that assures closeness to Him.


And restrains from straying away from Him.


But prayer time is an excellent time to FULLY have ONLY Him in mind. Everything else has to wait, to stand back.


The time zones mentioned here in a post are interesting. Because this way there are Muslims that constantly worship Allah, SWT. All hours no matter what hour one might have. Masha'Allah!


''Then do ye remember Me; I will remember you. Be grateful to Me, and reject not Faith.'' The Qur'an 2:154


Wasalam

[Anyabwile]

It's so true, God is always there, never felt this constant closeness before i became Muslim. It's the warmest most complete feeling i've ever felt. What i was saying to ronnie was Regular prayer helps us become even closer to God, it's a personal time that cannot be explained fully to no one but those who pray at these times. Many people in religions say they are with God or feel God but do they really? or only after they've watched TV or after a drink of wine etc or on a Sunday. I don't really have respect for that.

[umm Zachariah]

Assalamu aleikum


From Bukhari, Characteristics of Prayer no 747


The Prophet said, "Say Amin" when the Imam says it and if the Amin of any one of you coincides with that of the angels then all his past sins will be forgiven." Ibn Shihab said, "Allah's Apostle used to Say "Amin."


Masha'Allah


Wasalam

[ronniv93]

Anyabwile, your post made perfect sense. Thanks for clearing that up. Couldn't tell that you were sleepy at all.


And to answer one of your questions, yes, non-Muslims can and do feel close to God - such as myself. <i>Plus I don't drink or smoke or pray only right before bed.</i>





Take care of yourself!

[umm Zachariah]

Hi Ronniv,


Sorry to bump in to your reply to my brother, but your actions just made me since the things you mention that you DON'T do are very fine qualities for 'don't's' when being a Muslim


Feel close to Allah, don't drink, don't smoke and don't ONLY pray before bedtime.


That is great Ronniv, you got the potentials here...


Take care of your thoughts,


Regards