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SUPPLICATION OF REPENTANCE
(TAUBA) IN SAHIFA KAMILA
Tauba means to return or come
back. It means a man feels sorry
for his sins and sincerely prays
to Allah to abstain from
committing the same sin again.
If the sin can be addressed to
like discharge any unfulfilled
obligation, then he should
discharge that liability and if
it cannot be done then he should
perform such deeds for the
aggrieved person that on the Day
of Judgment he may be pleased
with the sinner. The basic cause
of repentance is the knowledge
and conviction of reward and
punishment. No man is exempt
from repentance because every
one makes mistake or intention
or thought of committing a sin.
As soon as a man commits a sin,
he should repent right away
because no one knows when he
will die. If he postpones
repentance he may not repent at
all. Moreover, this repentance
is a clear evidence that his
mind is still intact on natural
integrity.
The Holy Prophet (s) said “If a
man repents one year before his
death, Allah will accept his
repentance. He further said that
even if he repents one month
before or one day before or even
one hour before his death, Allah
will accept his repentance and
forgive his sins”
Duaa-e-Tauba is as follows:
O Allah, O He whom the depiction
of describers, fails to
describe,
O He beyond whom passes not the
hope of the hopers,
O He with whom is not lost the
wage of the good-doers,
O He who is the ultimate object
of the fear of the worshippers,
O He, who is the utmost limit of
the dread of the God-fearing,
This is the station of Him whom
sins have passed from hand to
hand.
Offenses’ reins have led him on,
And Satan has gained mastery
over him.
He fell short of what you have
commanded through negligence,
and he pursued what you have
prohibited in delusion,
like one ignorant of your power
over him,
or one who denies the bounties
of your beneficence toward him,
until, when the eye of guidance
was open for him,
and the clouds of blindness were
dispelled, he reckoned that
through which he had
wronged himself,
and reflected upon that in which
he had opposed his Lord.
He saw his vast disobedience as
vast and his great opposition as
great.
So turned to you, hoping in you
ashamed before you,
and he directed his beseeching
toward you, having trust in you.
He repaired to you in his
longing with certitude and he
went straight to you in fear
with sincerity.
His longing was devoid of every
object of longing but you,
and his fright departed from
every object of fear but you.
So he stood before you pleading,
his eyes turned toward the
ground in humbleness,
his head bowed before your might
in lowliness;
he revealed to you in meekness
those secrets of his which you
know better than he;
he numbered for you in humility
those sins of which you count
better than he;
he sought help from you before
the dreadful into which he has
fallen in your knowledge;
and the ugly which has disgraced
him in your judgment:
the sins whose pleasures have
turned their backs and gone,
and whose evil consequences have
stayed and stuck fast.
He will not deny your justice,
my God, if you punish him
nor will he consider your pardon
great if you pardon him and have
mercy upon him,
for you are the Generous Lord
for whom the forgiveness of
great sins is nothing great
O god so here I am: I have come
to you obeying your command
for you have commanded
supplication
and asking the fulfillment of
your promise
for you have promised to respond
you have said “Supplicate Me and
I will respond to you”(40:60).
O God, so Bless Muhammad and his
Household,
meet me with your forgiveness
just as I have met you with my
confession,
lift me up from the fatal
infirmities of sins just as I
have let myself before you,
and cover me with your covering
just as you have shown no haste
to take vengeance on me
O God, make firm my intention to
obey you,
strengthen my insight in
worshipping you,
give me the success of works
which will wash away the
defilement of offenses,
and take me when you take me in
the creed of your Prophet,
Muhammad (peace be upon him).
O God, I repent to you in this
my station from
my sins, great or small,
my evil deeds, inward or outward
my lapses, past and recent,
with the repentance of one who
does not tell himself that he
might disobey
or secretly think that he might
return to an offense.
You have said, my God, in the
firm text of your Book,
that you ‘accept repentance from
your servants,
pardons evil deeds (42:25) and
loves the repeaters (2:222),
so accept my repentance as you
have promised, pardon my evil
deeds as you have guaranteed,
and make obligatory toward me
your love as you have
stipulated’
to you my Lord, belongs my
stipulation that I will not
return to what is disliked by
you
my guaranty that I will not go
back to what you blame
and my covenant that I will stay
away from acts of disobedience
to you.
O God, you know better what I
have done, so forgive me what
you know
and turn me through your power
to what you love.
O God, counted against me are
claims that stay in my memory,
and claims that I have
forgotten,
while all of them remain in your
eye that does not sleep,
and your knowledge that does not
forget.
So compensate their owners,
lighten their load upon me,
lift up their weight from me,
and preserve me from approaching
their like. |
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