3. ABOUNDING MERCY OF GOD (to be continued)

God says

Say: “[Thus speaks God] ‘O you servants of mine who have transgressed against your own selves! Despair not of God’s mercy: behold, God forgives all sins* -- for, verily, He alone is much-forgiving, most gracious!’ ”
Hence, turn towards your Sustainer [alone] and surrender yourself unto Him before the suffering [of death and resurrection] comes upon you, for then you will not be helped -- Q.39:53,54
*Sc., “whenever a sinner repents and turns to Him”: cf., for instance, 6:54 – “Your Sustainer has willed upon Himself the law of grace and mercy – so that if any of you does a bad deed out of ignorance, and thereafter repents and lives righteously, He shall be found much forgiving, a dispenser of grace”; or 4:110 – “he who does evil or [otherwise] sins against himself and thereafter prays God to forgive him, shall find God much forgiving, a dispenser of grace”

Q.33:56 -- God and His Angles bless the Prophet: [hence,] O you who believe, send your blessings on him, and salute him with all respect.
Now, let us bless the Prophet:
ALLAHUMMA SUALLE ‘ALA MUHAMMADIUN WA ‘ALA AALE MUHAMMAD WA BARIK WASSALIM .


Prophet said

‘O God! Purify my heart from hypocrisy, my actions from show, my tongue from lies and my eyes from breach of trust. Surely, Thou knoweth the treacherous eyes and what breasts conceal’. – H. Tirmizi. N: Umme Ma’had.

‘…O my Sustainer! Make me, to remember Thee, to be thankful to Thee, to be devoted to Thee, obedient to Thee, humble to Thee, hopeful in Thee, repentant, off-returning (Alla-hum-maj-‘a-inni, laka zakkaran, laka shakkaran, laka rah-ha-ban, laka mitwa‘an, laka mukhbitan ilaika awwaham muneeba) - H:Tirmizi, Abu Daud, Ibn Majah. N: Ibn’Abbas.