فقلت: بأبي أنت و امي، و إن كان مذنبا؟ So I said, ‘May my...

فقلت: بأبي أنت و امي، و إن كان مذنبا؟ So I said, ‘May my father and my mother be sacrificed for you -asws , what if he was a sinner?’ فقال: «نعم، و إن كان مذنبا، أما تقرأ القرآن: فَأُوْلئِكَ يُبَدِّلُ اللَّهُ سَيِّئاتِهِمْ حَسَناتٍ وَ كانَ اللَّهُ غَفُوراً رَحِيماً يا أصبغ، إن ولينا لو لقي الله و عليه من الذنوب مثل زبد البحر، و مثل عدد الرمل، لغفرها الله له، إن شاء الله تعالى So he -asws said: ‘Yes, and even if he was a sinner.

Have you not read the Quran: so those ones, Allah would Replace their evil deeds with good deeds, and Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful [25:70] ? O Asbagh! Our -asws friend, even if he were to meet Allah -azwj , and he had for him sins the like of the foam of the sea, and like the number of grains of sand, Allah -azwj would Forgive these for him, if Allah -azwj so Desires to’.

[27] شرف الدين النجفي، قال: روى مسلم في (الصحيح) عن أبي ذر (رضي الله عنه)، قال: قال رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله): «يؤتى بالرجل يوم القيامة، فيقال: اعرضوا عليه صغار ذنوبه، و تخبأ كبارها، فيقال له: عملت يوم كذا و كذا، كذا و كذا، و هو مقر لا ينكر، و هو مشفق من الكبائر، فيقال: أعطوه مكان كل سيئة عملها حسنة. فيقول الرجل حينئذ: لي ذنوب ما أراها هاهنا!».

قال: و لقد رأيت رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله) ضحك حتى بدت نواجذه Sharaf Al-Deen Al-Najafy said, ‘It has been reported by Muslim in Al-Saheeh, (It has been narrated) from Abu Dharr ar who said, ‘Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘They will come with the man on the Day of Judgement, so it shall be said: ‘Present his small sins to him, and hide the big ones of it’. So they shall say to him: ‘You did such and such on such and such a day’.

And he would be accepting and not denying any of it, and he would be afraid of his major sins. So it shall be said: ‘Give him a good deed in place of every evil one’. The man would then be saying, ‘There are sins for me which I do not see them here!’ He (the narrator) said, ‘And Rasool-Allah -saww was seen to smile to the extent that his -saww teeth were seen’.

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