Taubah-2 (A means for elevation of status!)
Sometimes the true repentence (taubah), from even a major sin, becomes an eternal blessing, and a means for elevation of ‘darajaat’ ! Sayyidi Shaykh Muhammad Taqi Usmani Db relates an incident in one of his bayans, recently:
Once a pregnant woman from a nearby tribe came to Prophet SAW to offer herself for punishment (hadd) for zina (stoning). She was asked to appear only at a time, when her unborn child has been delivered and grown up to extent that he wont need her for feeding. She reappeared after some months, with her child in her lap, holding a piece of bread in his tiny little hand. (The childs love did not stop the woman from seeking punishment of ‘Rajm’, yet after doing sincere Taubah). She dies in this way eventually with the Rajm punishment meant for this gunah.
At the time of janaza, Umar ibn Al Khattab asks the Prophet SAW about leading the Janaza prayer of the woman dieing with such a gunah. RasulAllah SAW replied,
“No doubt she commited this gunah, but the ‘Taubah’ she did was such, that if the people of medina get blessed with only 10% of it, all of them will get maghfirah !”
Allahu Akbar, sometimes a sincere taubah is so magnanimous in the eyes of Allah SWT !!!
(source: Bayan on 15 nov, 2009, posted on deeneislam.com.)
Note:: Hadith words are not exact, but meanings; Errors, if any, in Shaikh Taqi Usmani Sahibs wordings are on me solely; Please consult the original bayan, in that case)
