Bear hardships with patience, and one’s sins will be forgiven in the next world

Bear hardships with patience, and one’s sins will be forgiven in the next world

1988 5 May 22 Bear hardships with patience, and one’s sins will be forgiven in the next world: (111) Abu Bakr once recited this verse of the Quran before the Prophet: “He that does evil shall be requited with it. There shall be none to protect or help him.” (4:123). “How,” he asked, “can things now turn out well for us, since we shall have to pay for the evil that we do?” “May God forgive you, Abu Bakr,” the Prophet said, “don’t you ever become ill, or feel fatigue or distress? Aren’t you sometimes afflicted with hardship? Don’t you fall into error now and then?” Abu Bakr said that he did indeed. “This then is the requital of your sins in this world,” said the Prophet.

(Kanz al Ummal)

The Quran is for admonition, not just for recital

1988 5 May 22 The Quran is for admonition, not just for recital: (106) Aishah, hearing of certain individuals who read the Quran all night, reading it right through once, or even twice in a night, remarked, “What is there in mere recitation? I used to stay up all night with the Prophet and, in his recitations of the Chapter entitled Cow, the chapter entitled Family of Imran and the Chapter entitled Women, whenever he came to a verse which contained a warning, he would pray to God and seek refuge with Him, and whenever he came to a verse bearing good tidings, he would pray to God and express his longing for what was mentioned in the verse.”

(Ahmad)