* The Vast Mercy of Allah 2

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Concealing sins and forgiving them in the Hereafter:
Ibn `Umarreported,
“I heard the Messenger of Allahsaying:'Allah The Almighty will bring a believer close to him on the Day of Resurrection, enveloping him in His Mercy and shielding him from the people. Allah will make him confess his sins by saying: `Do you remember )doing( this sin and this sin on such and such a day?' He will reply: `My Lord, I remember.` The slave will think that he is destroyed, but then Allah will say: `I covered it up for you in the worldly life, and I forgive it for you today.` Then the record of his good deeds will be handed to him.”']Al-Bukhari and Muslim[
Overlooking mistakes or actions done out of forgetfulness:
The Messenger of Allahsaid:“My nation will not be held accountable for that which they do erroneously, forgetfully or forcefully”.
Trials and disasters are a form of the mercy of Allah The Almighty:
Allah The Almighty sends down His support according to the need of the slave. He sends down patience to coincide with the affliction of the slave, as the Prophetsaid. One wonders when he sees some people who are greatly afflicted, yet they live their lives normally. This is because Allah The Almighty supports them to the extent they need.
Anasreported that the Messenger of Allahsaid:“Any Muslim who loses three children before they reach the age of maturity, will be granted Paradise by Allah, The Exalted, out of His Mercy for them.”]Al-Bukhari and Muslim[
`Aa’ishahreported, “I asked the Messenger of Allahabout pestilence and he said:'It is a punishment which Allah sends upon whomsoever He wills, but Allah has made it as a mercy to the believers. Anyone who remains in a town which is plagued with pestilence maintaining patience expecting the reward from Allah, and knowing that nothing will befall him other than what Allah has foreordained for him, he would receive a reward of a martyr.'"]Al-Bukhari[
The mercy of Allah The Almighty in the form of accepting the repentance of His slave:
On the Day of Resurrection, Allah The Almighty will overlook and forgive some sins which He alone is aware of. Many stories inform us that Allah The Almighty will forgive people and individuals despite them committing great sins as in the following narration. Abu Sa`eed Al-Khudrireported that the Messenger of Allahsaid,
“There was a man from among a nation before you who killed ninety-nine people and then made an inquiry about the most learned person on the earth. He was directed to a monk. He came to him and told him that he had killed ninety-nine people and asked him if there was any chance for his repentance to be accepted. He replied in the negative and the man killed him also completing one hundred.
"He then asked about the most learned man in the earth. He was directed to a scholar. He told him that he had killed one hundred people and asked him if there was any chance for his repentance to be accepted. He replied in the affirmative and asked, 'Who stands between you and repentance? Go to such and such land; there )you will find( people devoted to prayer and worship of Allah, join them in worship, and do not come back to your land because it is an evil place.' So he went away and hardly had he covered half the distance when death overtook him; and there was a dispute between the angels of mercy and the angels of torment. The angels of mercy pleaded, 'This man has come with a repenting heart to Allah,' and the angels of punishment argued, 'He never did a virtuous deed in his life.'
"Then there appeared another angel in the form of a human being and the contending angels agreed to make him arbiter between them. He said, `Measure the distance between the two lands. He will be considered belonging to the land to which he is nearer.` They measured and found him closer to the land )of piety( where he intended to go, and so the angels of mercy collected his soul.”]Al-Bukhari and Muslim[
Note that this man did not perform any good deed after having killed one hundred souls, yet Allah The Almighty forgave him, how can we despair of His Mercy?

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* The Vast Mercy of Allah 1

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Mercy is one of the attributes of Allah The Almighty. It is from the mercy of Allah The Almighty that calamities and trials expiate one's sins, and a believer is rewarded for showing patience through these calamities. Another aspect that manifests the mercy of Allah The Almighty is that He conceals our sins and faults in this life and forgives them in the Hereafter.
The vastness of the mercy of Allah The Almighty:
One of the Names of Allah is, the Most Merciful and the ever Merciful. Allah The Almighty created mercy in one hundred parts, but only sent down one part amongst mankind and kept the rest for the pious slaves in the Hereafter. Abu Hurayrahreported that the Messenger of Allahsaid:“Allah has divided mercy into one hundred parts; and He retained with Him ninety-nine parts, and sent down to earth one part. Through this one part creatures deal with one another with compassion, so much so that an animal lifts its hoof over its young lest it should hurt it”.]Al-Bukhaari and Muslim[ In another narration, the Messenger of Allahsaid:“Allah created one hundred units of mercy on the Day He created the heavens and the earth. Each one of them can contain all that is between the heaven and the earth. Of them, he put one on earth, through which a mother has compassion for her children and animals and birds have compassion for one another. On the Day of Resurrection, He will perfect and complete His mercy". )That is He will use all the hundred units of mercy for his slaves on that Day(.”
Moreover, Abu Hurayrahreported that the Messenger of Allahsaid:“Were an infidel to know the mercy Allah has, none would despair of His Paradise.”]Muslim[
The mercy of Allah The Almighty far exceeds that of the mother for her child. `Umar ibn Al-Khattaabreported, “Some prisoners were brought to the Messenger of Allahamongst whom there was a woman who was running )searching for her child(. When she saw a child among the captives, she took hold of it, pressed it against her belly and breastfed it. The Messenger of Allahsaid:'Do you think this woman would ever throw her child into fire?'We said, 'By Allah, she would never throw the child into fire.' Thereupon the Messenger of Allahsaid:'Allah is more kind to his slave than this woman is to her child'.]Al-Bukhaari and Muslim[
Abu Hurayrahreported, “I heard the Messenger of Allahsaying:'When Allah created the creatures, He wrote in the Book, which is with Him over His Throne: `Verily, My Mercy prevailed over My Wrath.']Al-Bukhaari and Muslim[ This is the mercy that the believer’s soul resorts to after death, as the Messenger of Allahindicated to the Companions.
Allah The Almighty extends His mercy to his disobedient slaves whenever they repent and turn to Him for forgiveness. Allah The Almighty bestows on him His mercy and forgives their sins and conceals them for him. Ibn ‘Abbaasreported,
“Once a group of the disbelievers came to Messenger of Allahwho had killed many people and committed adultery excessively. They came to himand said, 'What you are saying and calling people to is a good thing, but is there a way to expiate for what we have committed in the past?' Then the following verse was revealed )which means(:}And those who do not invoke with Allah another deity or kill the soul which Allah has forbidden ]to be killed[, except by right, and do not commit unlawful sexual intercourse. And whoever should do that will meet a penalty. Multiplied for him is the punishment on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein humiliated. Except for those who repent, believe and do righteous work. For them Allah will replace their evil deeds with good. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful{]Quran, 25: 68-70[.”
No one can limit this vast mercy of Allah The Almighty nor prevent it from reaching the people. With His mercy, Allah The Almighty guides people, forgives their sins, accepts their good deeds and overlooks their wrongdoings.

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