ISTIGHFAR (SEEKING PARDON)

Hadrat Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet said “1 swear by ALLAAH that I seek ALLAAH’s pardon and turn to Him in repentance more than seventy times a day.” [Bukhari]

Hadrat Abdullah Ibn Umar (Radi Allaahu Ta’ala Anhu) narrated: We counted that ALLAAH’s messenger would say (the following) a hundred times during a meeting.

My Lord, forgive me and pardon me, Thou art the Pardoning and Forgiving one. [Tirmizi Ahmad...]

Hadrat Anas (Radi Allaahu Ta’ala Anhu) narrated that the messenger of ALLAAH said, “All the sons of Hadrat Adam  are sinners, but the best of sinners are those who are given to repentance. [Tirmizi, Ibn -e- Majah]

Hadrat Abu Bakar as-Siddiq (Radi Allaahu Ta’ala Anhu) narrated ALLAAH’s messenger as saying, “He who asks pardon is not a confirmed sinner, even if he returns to his sin seventy times a day.”[Tirmizi, Abu Dawud]

Hadrat Bilal bin Yasar bin Zaid (Radi Allaahu Ta’ala Anhu) narrated that the Prophet said: Any servant of ALLAAH who reports and seeks ALLAAH’s pardon in the following words will be surely pardoned even if he has committed such a grave sin as to desert the battle field (Jihad).

‘I ask ALLAAH for pardon beside whom there is no God, the living, the Eternal and Lasting, I turn to him in repentance.’