Question:
Salaam
i have this feeling that i just not passed the judgement that i have to hell.
Is there any zikra, amal for forgiveness. can you provide all different kind of forgiveness. if the thread is too long please mail it to email adress..
Jazkallah Al khair
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
Insha-Allah Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani is ipraying for you.
Our mashaykh teach us to treasure such a feeling, because that is what makes us truly humble, to realize our own faults and failure to live up to our oath on the Day of Promises and to our obligations to all around us. Only in that state can we achieve true contrition and humility.
Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani relates from Grandshaykh `Abdullah al-Fa’iz ad-Daghestani (q) that he said each person on Judgment Day will be taken to his place destined in the Fire. That is the meaning [extracted by grandshaykh] from the verse:
وَإِن مِّنكُمْ إِلَّا وَارِدُهَا كَانَ عَلَى رَبِّكَ حَتْمًا مَّقْضِيًّا
Wa in minkum illa wariduha kana `ala rabbika hatman maqdiyyan
{Not one of you but will pass over it: this is, with thy Lord, a Decree which must be accomplished} (Surah Maryam, 19:71)
At that time, the believers will be saved from that punishment, but not before feeling its terror.
It is narrated in one hadith that the Prophet (s) said that Allah created a man on an island where he was the only person there. Allah gave the man rizq by providing fruits on which he survived. For seventy years the man lived and worshipped only Allah, as there were no challenges there. When the time came for the man to die, Allah commanded the angel to bring his soul to Him. Allah asked the man, “O My servant, to Paradise or to Hellfire?” The man replied, “O Allah, Almighty, to Paradise.” Allah said, “O My servant, is it because of My Mercy or is it because of your `amal (good deeds)?” The man replied, “O Allah, it is because of my `amal. For 70 years I worshipped you. I have done nothing bad, only good deeds worshipping you.” Then Allah commanded his angel to take the bounty of sight and put it on one scale. He then commanded the angel to put the man’s 70 years’ worth of good deeds on the other scale. The bounty of sight weighed heavier than the deeds of 70 years.
For the state you are undergoing, it is good to observe the Adab of Rajab, or at least to recite the du`a of the Saint of Rajab.
and Allah knows best.
Taher Siddiqui
