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The brothers and sisters we've all heard the hadith

about the man who killed 99 people and then he goes and he asks for

repentance for forgiveness and he sees that the person that he's asking forgiveness or he's asking if he has a chance at the

forgiveness and mercy of Allah tells him that how do you expect to meet your Lord having

killed 99 people?

And because he answers him that way, he kills this man too,

kills 100 people, those to a scholar.

The scholar tells him who can stand between you and the mercy of

Allah, but you need to change your life. You need to go to this land, resettle, and

start over with your Lord. And of course as we know he dies along the way and the angels are perplexed with

whether this man is to be punished or to be shown mercy.

And Allah Subhana says,

measure the distance between his body and the land

that he left and the land that he was going to

and treat him in accordance with the land that he is closest to and Allah in one narration

even causes the land to shift him closer to the land that he was going to so that he could

show him his mercy.

It is a wonderful narration about the powerful mercy

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