Chapter: The Vastaess Of Allahs Mercy, Which Prevails Over His Wrath

When Allah created the creation as He was upon the Throne, He put down in His Book: Verily, My mercy predominates My wrath.

Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: My mercy excels My wrath.

When Allah created the creation, He ordained for Himself and this document is with Him: Verily, My mercy predominates Mv wrath.

I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Allah created mercy in one hundred parts and He retained with Him ninety-nine parts, and He has sent down upon the earth one part, and it is because of this one part that there is mutual love among the creation so much so that the animal lifts up its hoof from its young one, fearing that it might harm it.

Allah created one hundred (parts of mercy) and He distributed one amongst His creation and kept this one hundred excepting one with Himself (for the Day of Resurrection).

There are one hundred (parts of) mercy for Allah and He has sent down out of these one part of mercy upon the jinn and human beings and animals and the insects, and it is because of this (one part) that they love one another, show kindness to one another and even the beast treats its young one with affection, and Allah has reserved ninety nine parts of mercy with which He would treat His servants on the Day of Resurrection.

Verily, there are one hundred (parts of) mercy for Allah, and it is one part of this mercy by virtue of which there is mutual love between the people and ninety-nine reserved for the Day of Resurrection.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Mu'tamir, reported on the authority of his father.

Verily, Allah created, on the same very day when He created the heavens and the earth, one hundred parts of mercy. Every part of mercy is coextensive with the space between the heavens. and the earth and He out of this mercy endowed one part to the earth and it is because of this that the mother shows affection to her child and even the beasts and birds show kindness to one another and when there would be the Day of Resurrection, Allah would make full (use of Mercy).

Do you think this woman would ever afford to throw her child in the Fire? We said: By Allah, so far as it lies in her power, she would never throw the child in Fire. ' Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Allah is more kind to His servants than this woman is to her child.

If a believer were to know the punishment (in Hell) none would have the audacity to aspire for Paradise (but he would earnestly desire to be rescued from Hell), and if a non-believer were to know what is there with Allah as a mercy. none would have been disappointed in regard to Paradise.

My Lord, it is out of Thine fear that I have done it and Thou art well aware of it, and Allah granted him pardon:.

(When I die) , bum my dead body and then cast them (the ashes) to the wind and in the ocean. By Allah , if my Lord takes hold of me , He would torment me as He has not tormented anyone else. They did as he had asked them to do. He (the Lord) said to the earth : Return what you have taken. And he was thus restored to his (original form). He (Allah) said to him : What prompted you to do this ? He said : My Lord , it was Thine fear or Thine awe , and Allah pardoned him because of this.

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying that a woman was thrown into Hell-Fire because of a cat whom she had tied and did not provide it with food. nor did she set it free to cat insects of the euth until it died inch by inch. Zuhri said : (These two ahidith) show that a person rhould neither feel confident (of getting into Paradise) because of his deeds , nor should he lose (all hopes) of getting into Paradise.

" Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said to everything which had taken a part of lies ashes to return what it had taken."

'You must do as I command you to do, otherwise I will make others besides you as my inheritors. As I die, burn my body and blow my ashes in the wind as I do not find any merit of mine which would please Allah, and if Allah were to take hold of me, He would punish me. He took a pledge from them and they did as he commanded thein to do. Allah said: What prompted you to do this? He said: My Lord. Thine fear, and Allah did not punish him at all.

" I find no good in store for rxie in the eye of Allah."