There was a youth in Bani Israel, very disobedient to Allah, like those of today, so the people of his city boycotted him and expelled him out. He retreated to the forest. It is not the way to call someone one to the right path that he is boycotted but he should be explained slowly. He retreated to the forest and became more firm on disobedience. When he went out of resources and the condition became worse, he became sick, he didn’t have anything to eat, to drink, for medicine. The signs of death started coming and he didn’t repent till the last time and was firm. When death came, he said O Allah! the whole life is wasted in your disobedience, now I see death in front of me, but tell me if you punish me then will there be any increase in your treasure and if you forgive then will there be any decrease in your treasure? لو علمت أن عذابي يزيد في ملكك وعفوك عني ينقص من ملكك لما سألتك المغفرة O my Lord! If I knew that if you punish me, there will be increase in your kingdom and if you forgive me, there will be decrease in your kingdom then I would not have asked you for forgiveness. I know that if you punish me there will be no increase in your kingdom and if you forgive there will be no decrease in your kingdom. See this that I am your disobedient but I am dying in complete humiliation, I have no supporter, no one with me, everyone has left me, all my supports are broken, now you don’t leave me, and forgive me. Forgive me. And his soul came out. Then Allah revealed on Musa (AS) that O Musa, one of my friends have died in the ruins there, go and bathe him and make arrangement for his burial and announce among the disobedients of the city that whoever wants forgiveness today should go and pray his farewell prayer (Janaza), they all will be forgiven with him. When Prophet Musa (AS) announced, people went running, and when they reached they saw the same gambler, drinker, adulterer… they asked Musa (AS), what are you saying? This is the same person whom we had expelled and your Lord is saying that whoever wants forgiveness should go and pray his Janaza! Musa (AS) asked Allah so He said, they are also right and I am also right. He was as they are saying. But when he was dying, I saw him dying in humiliation, poor, and alone, without any friend, without any relative, very helpless. When he called Me, that O Allah, everyone has left me, you don’t leave me, so My Mercy, My Forgiveness became exited that when everyone has left, I will not leave My Servant. O Musa, by My Honour, he was selfish, he asked only for his own forgiveness, by My Honour, if he had asked for the forgiveness of all the people of the earth, I would have forgiven them all!
