151 / 194
151
.
‘I seek Alla>h’s forgiveness, besides whom, none has
the right to be worshipped except He, The Ever
Living, The Self-Subsisting and Supporter of all,
and I turn to Him in repentance.’
...Alla>h would forgive him even if he was one who
fled during the advance of an army.’
(251)
He
said: ‘The nearest the Lord comes to His
servant is in the middle of the night, so if you are
able to be of those who remember Alla>h at that
time, then be so.’
(252)
He
also said: ‘The nearest a servant is to his Lord
is when he is prostrate, so supplicate much therein.’
(253)
He
also said: ‘Verily my heart becomes
preoccupied
112
, and verily I seek Alla>h’s forgiveness
_________________
112 i.e. in a state of ‘forgetfulness’. The Prophet
always used to increase in
his remembrance of his Lord, in attaining a nearness to Alla>h and having
consciousness of Alla>h to the extent that if this intensity lessened in
anyway, he would regard it as a sin and would then race to seek
forgiveness from Alla>h. See Ja>mi‘ Al-UJNl 4/386.