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A Poem of Repentance
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Listen to this beautiful poem:
إلهي لا تعذبني
Oh my Lord! Don’t punish me,
فإني مقر بالذي قد كان مني
For Indeed I am confessing to that which I have done,
فما لي حيلة إلا رجائي
And there is no other way out except my hope (in you)
وعفوك إن عفوت وحسن ظني
And your forgiveness if you choose to forgive me and in my thinking well of you
فكم من زلة لي في البرايا
Oh! How much mistakes I have in my book of deeds,
وأنت عليّ ذو فضل ومنّ
Whilst you are one who sends blessings and bounties upon me
إذا فكرت في قدمي عليها
When I think about how I went forward in them,
عضضت أناملي وقرعت سني
I bite on my nails and chatter my teeth,
يظن الناس بي خيرا وإني
The people think of me as good whilst I am
لشر الناس إن لم تعف عني
The most evil of people if you don’t forgive me
أجن بزهرة الدنيا جنونا
I lost my mind completely over the beauty of the Dunya
وأفني العمر فيها بالتمني
And I live out life in it with vain hopes
ولو أني صدقت الزهد فيها
And if only I had done Zuhd properly in it
قلبت لأهلها ظهر المجنّ
I would have shown it’s people the back of the shield (I would have been averse to them)
_ سبحان الله
What a beautiful poem!
Seek forgiveness and turn to your Lord.
فَفِرُّوا إِلَى اللَّهِ ۖ
Flee to Allah
[51:50]
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Flee to the one who would accept you, even after filling the heavens and earth with sins.
Flee to the only one able to forgive you.
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Imam Bukhari رحمه الله brings an Athar in his Adab Al Mufrad from Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه that when he was praised he would say,
اللهم اجعلني خيراً مما يظنون واغفرلي ما لا يعلمون ولا تؤاخذني بما يقولون فإنك تعلم وهم لايعلمون
Oh Allah make me better than what they think of me and forgive me for what they don’t know about me, and don’t take me to account for what they say about me, for indeed you know all and they don’t know!
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May Allah ﷻ forgive all of us and grant us Jannatul Firdaus.
آمِيْن يَارَبَّ الْعَالَمِينْ
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