{"id":709,"date":"2013-03-19T18:09:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/puthisali.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2013-03-19T18:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:09:43","slug":"repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/2013\/03\/19\/repentance\/","title":{"rendered":"Repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">A righteous man was once asked to tell the story of the pivotal moment of his life, the moment in which he first began to apply the teachings of Islam, and the following was his answer:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8221; When I was a young man, I would not hesitate to perpetrate any sin that was made available to me. Then, one day, I saw a young woman who was perhaps the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Much tempted by her, I indicated to her that I wanted her to approach me. She seemed nervous, but I thought that she would probably agree to satisfy my sexual desires for money. She approached me with what seemed to be a great deal of trepidation, and when she actually stood before me, she looked extremely terrified.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Feeling sorry for her, I said, \u2018Do not fear, for I will not harm you.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">But my words did not lessen her terrible fright in the least; in fact, her situation worsened. She began to tremble like a palm tree leaf trembles with the wind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">I said, \u2018Tell me your story.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">She said, \u2018By Allah, o my brother, never before this day have I offered my body in this way. Dire need is what has driven me to this, for I have three daughters who have not eaten a single morsel of food for three days now. It was pity for them that brought me to this low point in my life.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">For the first time in my life, I felt pity; her story moved me, and I no longer entertained the intention of taking advantage of her. After she told me where she lived, I took a great deal of money, clothing and food to her house. When I returned to my house, I told my mother what had happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">My mother knew that I had a book in which I would record all of my evil deeds, and so she said to me, \u2018My son, you are a man who has never performed a good deed except for the good deed that you performed today. I know that you have a book in which you record your evil exploits, go now and write in it your good deed.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">I stood up, went to my book, opened it, and found that all of its pages were blank- except for the first page on which was written a single line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u0625\u0650\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0652\u062d\u064e\u0633\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0627\u062a\u0650 \u064a\u064f\u0630\u0652\u0647\u0650\u0628\u0652\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0651\u064e\u064a\u0651\u0650\u0626\u064e\u0627\u062a\u0650<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Verily, the good deeds remove the evil deeds (i.e. small sins)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>[Hud : 114]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">At that very moment, I raised my hands to the sky and said, \u2018By your Might and Majesty, never again will I disobey You.\u2019 &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The above is taken from<\/span> <strong><\/strong><strong>Stories of Repentance <\/strong>published by <a href=\"http:\/\/dar-us-salam.com\">dar-us-salam.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A righteous man was once asked to tell the story of the pivotal moment of his life, the moment in which he first began to apply the teachings of Islam, and the following was his answer: &#8221; When I was a young man, I would not hesitate to perpetrate any sin that was made available <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/2013\/03\/19\/repentance\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,16],"tags":[9,17,20,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}