a seed bestowed
The Prophet Yunus (as) repents after thinking nothing bad can happen to him.
وَذَا ٱلنُّونِ إِذ ذَّهَبَ مُغَضِبًۭا فَظَنَّ أَن لَّن نَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ فَنَادَىٰ فِى ٱلظُّلُمَتِ
أَن لَّآ إِلَهَ إِلَّآ أَنتَ سُبْحَنَكَ إِنِّى كُنتُ مِنَ ٱلظَّلِمِينَ
فَٱسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُۥ وَنَجَّيْنَهُ مِنَ ٱلْغَمِّ ۚ
وَكَذَلِكَ نُۨجِى ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
And Hazrat Dhul Nun (as) when he went (while) angry and thought that never We would decree upon him.
Then he called in the darkness that, “There is no god except You, Glory be to You!
Indeed, I, I am of the wrongdoers.”
So We responded to him, and We saved him from the distress.
And thus We save the believers.
Surah Al Anbiya, Verse 87-88
Tafseer e Jilani
Fa danna: So he thought, as soon as he left his nation…
Al-lan naqdira: that We, Allah, will not put stress and distress…
Alaihi: upon him and it is not possible for Us to slow him down and make him suffer nor make him hide in another place so he escaped and arrived at the ocean and boarded a ship and suddenly the wind stopped and the sailors said, “In this ship is a servant who has come without permission from his master.”
They balloted and in the ballot came out his name (of Prophet Yunus (as)) and they tossed him in the ocean and just then a whale swallowed him.
Fa nada: Then he invoked his Lord and prayed silently and humbly, scared, covered…
Fi dulumaat: in darkness which concealed him in layers because he was in the belly of the whale and the night was dark.
An: Indeed, He…
La ilaha: There is no God worthy of worship but Allah and deserving of worship which is the Right of His Essence and His Attribute…
Illa anta: except You, O who in front of Whom necks bend and bow before the veils of Your Majesty, the necks of the ones who are of intellect and reason…
Subhanaka: Glory is to You, O my Lord, I think of You as free of all flaws which are not mentionable with Your Essence and (all flaws) which are not worthy of mention with Your Grace.
Inni: Indeed, I am, due to my departure from my people without Your Permission and Revelation, while you had sent me to them and raised me among them in appearance as a Prophet, as a preacher and as a guide…
Kuntu min ad-daalimeen: I am of the transgressors of boundaries, the ones who departed from Your Orders and Your Commands so that’s why You made the matter one of distress for me and You imprisoned me and there is no one who can rescue me from this suffering except Your Forgiveness and Your Mercy.
And after he repented before Us and he focused towards Us with sincerity, with humility and he became pure towards Us, upset, distressed…
Fastajabna lahu: We accepted his prayer and responded to his prayer and took him out from the belly of the whale…
Wa najjaynahu min al ghamm: and We delivered him from such a great suffering and huge difficulty.
Wa kadalika nunji: And thus We deliver the ordinary
Mo’mineen, those who brought faith, Al Mukhliseen, the sincere, who are sincere in their repentance and returning towards Us from their pain and their trials.
Then I read that Ghaus Pak (ra) says: Repentance is his seed in the soil of our hearts.
For starters: Subhan Allah!
توبوا من ذنوبكم و سوء أدبكم هذه التوبة غرسي في أرض قلوبكم بناء أبنيه عندكم،
أنقض بناء الشيطان و أبن بناء الرحمن
و ألحقكم بمولاكم و ربكم عزوجل
“Repent for your misdeeds and your inappropriate regard!
This repentance is my seed in the soil of your hearts
so that I will make the foundation of a building for you.
I will demolish the building of Shaitaan
and make a building of Allah Ar Rahman
and I will make you rejoin with your Maula and Rabb, your Master and your Lord,
Exalted is His Majesty.”
Translated from Al Fath Ar Rabbani
By Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (ra)
The first hadith of Bukhari Shareef in the first of his 42 books begins with the line:
عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ عَلَی الْمِنْبَرِ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ إِنَّمَا الْأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّةِ وَلِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مَا نَوَى،
Hazrat Umar bin al-Khattab (ratu) narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Deeds are [a result] only of the intentions [of the actor], and an individual is [rewarded] only according to that which he intends.
Me: Hence the seed of repentance, tauba, just needs to be an intention. If it is sincere, which it can't help but be for anyone who wants Ghaus Pak (ra) to be that seed in their heart, then the rest follows or begins to take some form. As the intention is repeated, it gains presence more and more in the unconscious, the sub-conscious and where we hope to one day live, the conscious.
The fortune lies in the fact that all promises are kept by the keepers of promises! And thus comes the dusk of Rajab as the month of Sha'ban, watering, appears on the horizon.
a seed bestowed
The Prophet Yunus (as) repents after thinking nothing bad can happen to him.
وَذَا ٱلنُّونِ إِذ ذَّهَبَ مُغَضِبًۭا فَظَنَّ أَن لَّن نَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ فَنَادَىٰ فِى ٱلظُّلُمَتِ
أَن لَّآ إِلَهَ إِلَّآ أَنتَ سُبْحَنَكَ إِنِّى كُنتُ مِنَ ٱلظَّلِمِينَ
فَٱسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُۥ وَنَجَّيْنَهُ مِنَ ٱلْغَمِّ ۚ
وَكَذَلِكَ نُۨجِى ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
And Hazrat Dhul Nun (as) when he went (while) angry and thought that never We would decree upon him.
Then he called in the darkness that, “There is no god except You, Glory be to You!
Indeed, I, I am of the wrongdoers.”
So We responded to him, and We saved him from the distress.
And thus We save the believers.
Surah Al Anbiya, Verse 87-88
Tafseer e Jilani
Fa danna: So he thought, as soon as he left his nation…
Al-lan naqdira: that We, Allah, will not put stress and distress…
Alaihi: upon him and it is not possible for Us to slow him down and make him suffer nor make him hide in another place so he escaped and arrived at the ocean and boarded a ship and suddenly the wind stopped and the sailors said, “In this ship is a servant who has come without permission from his master.”
They balloted and in the ballot came out his name (of Prophet Yunus (as)) and they tossed him in the ocean and just then a whale swallowed him.
Fa nada: Then he invoked his Lord and prayed silently and humbly, scared, covered…
Fi dulumaat: in darkness which concealed him in layers because he was in the belly of the whale and the night was dark.
An: Indeed, He…
La ilaha: There is no God worthy of worship but Allah and deserving of worship which is the Right of His Essence and His Attribute…
Illa anta: except You, O who in front of Whom necks bend and bow before the veils of Your Majesty, the necks of the ones who are of intellect and reason…
Subhanaka: Glory is to You, O my Lord, I think of You as free of all flaws which are not mentionable with Your Essence and (all flaws) which are not worthy of mention with Your Grace.
Inni: Indeed, I am, due to my departure from my people without Your Permission and Revelation, while you had sent me to them and raised me among them in appearance as a Prophet, as a preacher and as a guide…
Kuntu min ad-daalimeen: I am of the transgressors of boundaries, the ones who departed from Your Orders and Your Commands so that’s why You made the matter one of distress for me and You imprisoned me and there is no one who can rescue me from this suffering except Your Forgiveness and Your Mercy.
And after he repented before Us and he focused towards Us with sincerity, with humility and he became pure towards Us, upset, distressed…
Fastajabna lahu: We accepted his prayer and responded to his prayer and took him out from the belly of the whale…
Wa najjaynahu min al ghamm: and We delivered him from such a great suffering and huge difficulty.
Wa kadalika nunji: And thus We deliver the ordinary
Mo’mineen, those who brought faith, Al Mukhliseen, the sincere, who are sincere in their repentance and returning towards Us from their pain and their trials.
Then I read that Ghaus Pak (ra) says: Repentance is his seed in the soil of our hearts.
For starters: Subhan Allah!
توبوا من ذنوبكم و سوء أدبكم هذه التوبة غرسي في أرض قلوبكم بناء أبنيه عندكم،
أنقض بناء الشيطان و أبن بناء الرحمن
و ألحقكم بمولاكم و ربكم عزوجل
“Repent for your misdeeds and your inappropriate regard!
This repentance is my seed in the soil of your hearts
so that I will make the foundation of a building for you.
I will demolish the building of Shaitaan
and make a building of Allah Ar Rahman
and I will make you rejoin with your Maula and Rabb, your Master and your Lord,
Exalted is His Majesty.”
Translated from Al Fath Ar Rabbani
By Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (ra)
The first hadith of Bukhari Shareef in the first of his 42 books begins with the line:
عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ عَلَی الْمِنْبَرِ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ إِنَّمَا الْأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّةِ وَلِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مَا نَوَى،
Hazrat Umar bin al-Khattab (ratu) narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Deeds are [a result] only of the intentions [of the actor], and an individual is [rewarded] only according to that which he intends.
Me: Hence the seed of repentance, tauba, just needs to be an intention. If it is sincere, which it can't help but be for anyone who wants Ghaus Pak (ra) to be that seed in their heart, then the rest follows or begins to take some form. As the intention is repeated, it gains presence more and more in the unconscious, the sub-conscious and where we hope to one day live, the conscious.
The fortune lies in the fact that all promises are kept by the keepers of promises! And thus comes the dusk of Rajab as the month of Sha'ban, watering, appears on the horizon.