Between Prayers / PART THREE — THE WAY BACK
Tawbah: The Door That Doesn't Close
Allah does not merely accept your return. He rejoices at it — more than a man in a desert who thought he was going to die.
What this chapter turns on
- "Say: O My servants who have transgressed against themselves, do not despair of the mercy of Allah."Sūrah az-Zumar 39:53
- "Allah is more joyful at the repentance of His servant than one of you who comes upon his camel, having lost it in a barren land."Narrated from Anas ibn Mālik. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6309 (Kitāb ad-Daʿawāt). This is the whole of the narration at this reference. Longer tellings of the same event — the man sleeping, waking to find the mount gone, then finding it again — are reported elsewhere, including Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6308 and Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, in different words.
