Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

How to Do Self-Correction After Self-Hammering

“You said today to do self-hammering. My question is: how can we do self-correction?”Asked by Zaka Khan, Ahmedabad

He answers at 1:08:59 in Dars-e-Quran, Ch. 2 Verse 54 · 4 min 43 sec

His answer, in his own words
1:08:59
Maulana, agla sawal Ahmedabad se Zaka Khan sahib ne bheja hai. انہوں نے لکھا ہے: "مولانا، you said today to do self-hammering۔ my question is how can we do self correction as most of the time? A person is not able to do it as they think they are in the right path. So how to identify our shortcomings? Please advice on this." Dekhiye, yeh tauba ka jo hai, tauba ek baat nahi. Tauba, tauba ka naam hai. Tauba ek process ka naam hai. Life
1:09:42
long process. Tauba life long process ka naam hai. Main dekhiye, Allah ke fazl se har din mein apni ghalti dhoondhta hoon. Har din, har din. Kal main ne ek ghalti dhoondi. Aap pooch sakte hain, aap se bataya to main ne to tauba koi koi koi joke hai. To tauba ek bar to keh diya, tauba, tauba. Bas ho gaya. Tauba yeh ek life long process hai. aap ko dhoondna padta hai ke mera kahan kahan kahan kahan mein ne koi ghalti ki thi jis ko ab abhi ne door nahi kiya.
1:10:27
tauba life long process of rethinking ka naam hai. woh aap kijiye. aap yeh kaun karta hai? Yeh koi karta hi nahi. Allah ke fazl se main ne tauba pe bahut socha hai. To main taqreeban daily mein dhoondhta hoon apne andar ghaltiyan. Taqreeban daily. To yeh kijiye, aap khali astaghfirullah keh den
1:11:13
e toh ise kahein, is ka naam tauba nahi hai. tauba naam hai apni galtiyon ko dhoondne ka, dhoond dhoond ke nikalne ka. mein jab gaon mein tha toh ek martaba maine dekha khet mein.
1:11:37
khet jab katta hai toh jo pehle zamane mein aisa hota tha, shayad ab kya, mujhe pata nahi. To aurten aati theen, dalit family ki aurten, aur woh jo jhad ke girte the daane, us ko chunti theen. To main ek martaba dekha ke do aurten dalit family ki baithi hui hain. Ek un ke sar ko main dhoondh rahi hoon, doosra un ke sar ko dhoondh rahi hoon. Aur woh juw ein, dono ek doosre ke joen ko dhoond dhoond nikal rahi theen. toh maine kaha ke yahi tauba hai ke dhoond kar nikalo apni galtiyon ko, apne gunahon ko.
1:12:23
dhoond dhoond kar, dhoond dhoond kar, dhoond dhoond kar. aur yeh life long process hai. isi liye tauba ki shart lagai hai Allah taala ne. tauba nasooh, tubo tubat al nasooha.
1:12:43
Tauba karo, lekin tauba nasuh karo. Okay, so we will end the session now. Thank you.
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