{"id":14994,"date":"2017-02-09T19:18:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T19:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=14994"},"modified":"2017-02-09T19:18:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T19:18:36","slug":"importance-of-istighfaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=14994","title":{"rendered":"Importance of Istighfaar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ibnu \u2018Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhuma) has reported that Nabi (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) would recite istighfaar seventy times in each majlis (sitting).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Through this we understand the importance of istighfaar and how necessary it is for us to make istighfaar. Despite Allah Ta\u2018ala stating in the Quraan Majeed with regards to Nabi (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam):<\/p>\n<p dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u0644\u0650\u0651\u064a\u064e\u063a\u0652\u0641\u0650\u0631\u064e \u0644\u064e\u0643\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0640\u0647\u064f \u0645\u064e\u0627 \u062a\u064e\u0642\u064e\u062f\u0651\u064e\u0645\u064e \u0645\u0650\u0646 \u0630\u064e\u0646\u0628\u0650\u0643\u064e \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u062a\u064e\u0623\u064e\u062e\u0651\u064e\u0631\u064e<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Allah Ta\u2018ala has forgiven all your past and future shortcomings. (Surah Fath, v2)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">and him being sinless, yet Nabi (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) would still make so much of istighfaar in each sitting. Hence, how much more should we endeavour in making istighfaar due to our countless shortcomings.) <em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/faqihul-ummah\/malfuzat\/119-malfuzat-miscellaneous\/2081-malfoozaat-statements-and-anecdotes-of-faqeeh-ul-ummat-mufti-mahmood-hasan-gangohi-ra-vol-1.html\">Malfoozaat of Faqeehul Ummat, vol. 1, pg. 410<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malfoozaat-statements-and-anecdotes-selected-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14996,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994\/revisions\/14996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}