Remembrance of Allah — Page 129
Endnotes 129 meet and part in Allah’s cause only; a person who remem- bers Allah in seclusion and his eyes are filled with tears; a man who refuses the call of a charming woman of noble birth and says, ‘I fear Allah’; a person who gives charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given ( Sunan at-Tirmidh ī , Abwābuz-Zuhd, Bāb mā jā’ fil- H ubbi fillāh; Hadith 2391). 25 َ فِرَاشِه ِ أَسْتَغْفِر ُ هللا ی ٰ َأْوِي ْ إِل ی َ هللا ُ عَلَيْه ِ وَسَلَّم َ قَالَ: مَن ْ قَال َ حِيْن ی َّ صَل ِّ ُ عَن ِ النَّبِي ْمَ) الَّذِي ْ ل َ إِلَه َ إِل َّ هُو َ الْحَي ُّ الْقَيُّوْم ُ وَأَتُوْب ُ إِلَيْه ِ ثَلَث َ مَرَّات ٍ غَفَر َ هللا ُ لَہ ٗ ذُنُوْبَه ي ِ (الْعَظ وَإِن ْ كَانَت ْ مِثْل َ زَبَد ِ الْبَحْرِ. It is narrated that the Holy Prophet s as said: One who goes to his bed and recites the following prayer three times, his sins will be forgiven even if they are like the foam of the sea: I seek forgiveness from Allah the Great who is One, the Living and All-Sustaining, and I turn to Him in repentance ( Sunan at-Tirmidhī, Abwābud- Da‘wāt, Bāb mā jā’ fid-Du‘ā’ idhā awā ilā firāshih; Hadith 3397).