Ghurar Al-Hikam Wa Durar Al-Kalim, Exalted Aphorisms And Pearls Of Speech
Seeking Forgiveness
Seeking forgiveness-الاِسْتِغفار
- Seek forgiveness and you will be provided sustenance.
1ـ اِسْتَغْفِرْ، تُرْزَقْ.
- The best supplication (or means of coming closer to Allah) is seeking forgiveness.
2ـ أفْضَلُ التَّوَسُّلِ (التَّوَصُّلِ) الاِسْتِغْفارُ.
- Seeking forgiveness wipes out [one’s] sins.
3ـ اَلاِسْتِغْفارُ يَمْحُو الأوْزارَ.
- Seeking forgiveness is the remedy of sins.
4ـ اَلاِسْتِغْفارُ دَواءُ الذُّنُوبِ.
- Seeking forgiveness has the greatest recompense and the quickest reward.
5ـ اَلإسْتِغْفارُ أعْظَمُ جَزاءً، وأسْرَعُ مَثُوبَةً.
- Sincere repentance purges one’s sins.
6ـ حُسْنُ الاِسْتِغْفارِ يُمَحِّصُ الذُّنُوبَ.
- If the people were to turn in repentance [to Allah] and seek forgiveness whenever they disobeyed [or sinned], they would neither be punished nor would they be destroyed.
7ـ لَوْ أنَّ النّاسَ حينَ عَصَوْا أنابُوا وَاسْتَغْفَرُوا لَمْ
يُعَذَّبُوا وَلَمْيَهْلِكُوا.
- One who has been granted [the opportunity to seek] repentance shall not be deprived of forgiveness.
8ـ مَنْ أُعْطِيَ الاِسْتِغْفارَ لَمْ يُحْرَمِ المَغْفِرَةَ.
- One who seeks forgiveness from Allah attains absolution.
9ـ مَنِ اسْتَغْفَرَ اللّهَ أصابَ المَغْفِرَةَ.
- What a good means [of gaining the pleasure of Allah] seeking forgiveness is!
10ـ نِعْمَ الوَسيلَةُ اَلاِسْتِغْفارُ.
- There is no intercessor more successful than repentance.
11ـ لاشَفيعَ أنْجَحُ مِنَ الاِسْتِغْفارِ.
- No one gains forgiveness except he who reciprocates evil with good.
12ـ لايَحُوزُ الغُفْرانَ إلاّ مَنْ قابَل الإساءَةَ بِالإحْسانِ.