10. HOW WAS THE REPENTANCE OF SAYYIDUNA ADAM ACCEPTED?
After being sent down to the earth from the Heavens, Sayyiduna Aadam did not lift his head towards the sky for three hundred years being remorseful and he kept on weeping. It has been reported that if the tears of the whole mankind are collected, they will amount to less than the tears of Sayyiduna Dawood that he shed out of the fear of Allah. And if the tears of the whole mankind and Sayyiduna Dawood are collected, the tears of Sayyiduna Adam would exceed them. According to some narrations, he asked the following supplication:
O Allah Along with Your glorification, I mention Your purity. Your name brings blessings and Your magnificence is too high and no one is worthy of worship except You. I mistreated my own self and You pardon me as there is no one except You who can forgive sins.
In another narration, it is mentioned that he invoked the following supplication:
O our Lord! We have wronged ourselves and if You will not forgive an show mercy on us then certainly we will be among the losers.
However, Haakim, Tabarani, Abu Nu’aym and Bayhaqi have reported from Sayyiduna ‘Ali ۡ that when Sayyiduna Aadam encountered the displeasure of Allah, he became too anxious for repentance. All of a sudden, in that state of anxiety, he recalled that he had seen inscribed in the Heaven at the time of his birth and thence realised that no one had been granted such exalted status as Prophet Muhammad in the court of Allah. Allah has written the name of His Beloved Prophet in the Heaven adjoining His own blessed name. Therefore, whilst supplicating he also invoked Ibn Munzar has reported that the following supplication was also invoked by Sayyiduna Aadam in addition to above one:
O Allah By virtue of the grandeur and the dignity of Your Most Distinguished Prophet Muhammad and by virtue of the high rank that he holds in Your court, I supplicate You for the forgiveness of my sin.
As soon as this supplication was made, Allah forgave him and accepted his repentance.Allah has mentioned in the Holy Quran:
Then Aadam learnt from his Lord certain words (of repentance), therefore Allah accepted his repentance; indeed He only is the Most Acceptor of Repentance, the Most Merciful.
Moral:
From this incident, the following lessons are evident:
1. We come to know that whilst supplicating, it is permissible to use the reference of the people who are elevated in the court of Allah. Also, this manner of supplicating is a Sunnah of Sayyiduna Aadam
2. The repentance of Sayyiduna Aadam was accepted on the 10th of Muharram. At the time when he was asked to leave the Paradise, along with cessation of other bounties, he was also made to forget the Arabic language. Instead of this, he was made acquainted with the Suryani language. However, after the acceptance of his repentance, he was blessed with the Arabic language again.
3. As Sayyiduna Aadam committed a mistake because of his incorrect inference which cannot be considered sin, whoever would consider Sayyiduna Aadam a sinner or a tyrant; he would become an unbeliever (Kafir) because of insulting a Prophet of Allah. Allah is the Owner and the Most Powerful. He may say whatever He likes to His chosen Prophet, Sayyiduna Aadam. In this, lies his (Aadam’s) respect and reverence. Nobody else holds the right to utter insulting words making use of the Quranic verse. Allah has ordered us to observe respect and reverence for Prophets and to submit ourselves before them. Hence, it is compulsory upon us to show utmost respect and reverence to Sayyiduna Aadam and all other Prophets. We can never at all utter such words which even hold a chance of affecting the respect and reverence of Prophets
Source: (QURANIC WONDERS) by ‘ABDUL MUSTAFA A’ZAMI.
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