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Can’t cry hard enough.

وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا فَعَلُواْ فَاحِشَةً أَوْ ظَلَمُواْ أَنْفُسَهُمْ ذَكَرُواْ اللّهَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُواْ لِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَمَن يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلاَّ اللّهُ وَلَمْ يُصِرُّواْ عَلَى مَا فَعَلُواْ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَAnd those who, when they commit an immorality or wrong themselves [by transgression], remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins - and who can forgive sins except Allah ? - and [who] do not persist in what they have done while they know.
(Surah ali Imran: 135)

`Abdur-Razzaq recorded that Anas bin Malik said, “I was told that when the Ayah,

[وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا فَعَلُواْ فَـحِشَةً أَوْ ظَلَمُواْ أَنْفُسَهُمْ ذَكَرُواْ اللَّهَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُواْ لِذُنُوبِهِمْ]

(And those who, when they have committed Fahishah or wronged themselves with evil, remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their sins,) was revealed, Iblis (Shayatan) cried.”
[in Tafsir ibn Kathir]

The second most saddest day for the Shaytan is Yaum al-’Arafah.

Talhah (radhiallahu ‘anh) reports that Rasulullah (sallallaahu ‘alayhi wasallam) said, “ Apart from the day of the Battle of Badr there is no day on which the Shaytan is seen to be more humiliated, more rejected, more depressed and more infuriated, than on the day of Arafah, and indeed all this is only because of beholding the abundance of descending mercy (on the day) and Allah’s forgiveness of the great sins of the servants.”
[Mishkat]

All of Shaytan’s work would have gone to waste. The hujjaj emerge with a pristine, clean slate, like newborns. Those who fasted on the day would be cleansed of sins.

This is the sort of regret we should feel - the realisation of the futility of our desires and following them. On the other hand, if we work hard, with our good deeds… Allah does not cause them to be lost. It is us who forsake our own efforts.

You know how when you start to slack, you either wish to hide and fade away into nothing… or you want to tell the whole world. That hey, “my shaytan is better than yours”. The competition of who’s weaker… rather than the race to Allah’s mercy? The delusion of humility and the fake cover-up… If only we truly knew the extent of our weaknesses.

If the epitome of evil, the devil himself, can cry at the reality of Allah’s mercy… What of us who are in desperate need of His mercy?

On the authority of Anas (ra) who related that he heard the Messenger of Allah sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam said:
“O people weep, for you cannot weep then make yourself weep. Indeed the inhabitants of the hellfire will weep until their tears pour down their cheeks as if they were streams until the tears are used up and then blood will pour down, and the eyes will be covered with ulcers”

Weep while you can. And let Shaytan cry too, but to a different tune.

Ours is the portal of hope. - Rumi

Indeed, Allah is the Most Merciful.

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