Library Ethics Greater Sins Chapter 54 Tawba (Part One) Selecting Morning Hours for Repentance
Selecting Morning Hours for Repentance
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Selecting Morning Hours for Repentance
It is highly beneficial if man repents over his past misdeeds at any time or any place. But if he does so waking up in the last part of the night before daybreak, the effect is miraculous. All sins of the reciter will be pardoned, Insha’Allah.
The Holy Qur’an has ordered at several places for such prayers. Allah (S.w.T.) considers such worshippers as His hallowers and worthy of Paradise. It is mentioned in verse 17-18 of Surah Zariyat,
“They used to sleep but little in the night. And in the morning they asked forgiveness.”
The 17th Ayat of Surah Ä€li- ‘Imran says,
“And those who ask forgiveness in the morning times.”
Amir ul-Mu’minÄ«n (a.s.) said that Allah (S.w.T.) says,
“Had there not been those who loved My Might and who filled My Mosques and those who worshipped Me for forgiveness in the early hours of the dawn, I would certainly have chastised them.”
(Wasa’il ul-Shia)
Hazrat LuqmÄn tells his son, “My dear son! Is not the cock wiser than you? It wakes up before dawn and asks forgiveness but you remain asleep!”
(Mustadrak ul-Wasa’il)
There are many traditions regarding the merits of waking up in the early hours of the morning.
It is preferable (Mustahab) to recite ‘Astahghfirullah’ 70 times and Al A’fwa 300 times in the Qunut of Vatr prayer. Allah Almighty has granted a Praised Position (Maqame MahmÅ«d) to His dear Prophet and He fulfils every aspiration of a believer through this early awakening. It is said that those who reach a high position reach it only through such early awakening.
