Mercy 10

Salaam All

 

On God's Throne He has written "My Mercy overpowers My Anger!!!"

 

It is a beautiful and reassuring concept that manifests itself in the merciful relationship between God

and His servants.

 

The Prophet (peace) said: "When God created the heavens and the earth, he created one hundred mercies, each one can cover what is between the earth and the heaven. He allocated to the earth only one, with which the mother is compassionate with her child; the beasts and the birds are compassionate with their babies. When the Day of Judgment comes, God will complete His mercy (showing us the other 99)."

 

From the springboard of such knowledge we ask ourselves, Why, then, do we see on every side those instances where people decline to forgive one another and show forth the cleansing act of mercy and forgiveness? What blocks the way for such healing balm to cleanse human wounds? Is it stubbornness? Could it be pride? Maybe hatred has yet to melt and disappear.

 

There's the story of an elderly man who disclosed at the funeral of his brother, with whom he had shared, from early manhood, a small, one-room cabin near Canisteo, New York, that following a quarrel, they had divided the room in half with a chalk line and neither had crossed the line nor spoken a word to the other since that day—sixty-two years before! What a human tragedy—all for the want of mercy and forgiveness.

 

 

Shamal...