Is the supplication “O Allah, gather us in the abode of Your mercy” valid?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : Some of them say “O Allah, gather us in the abode of Your mercy” .. ?
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : The supplication “O Allah, gather us in the abode of Your mercy” ?
The Shaykh : O Allah, gather us. Yes, it is permissible. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Furqan 25:24] And He, Mighty and Majestic, said of Paradise in the Qudsi Hadith: Sahih Muslim 2846a So when you combine the verse and the hadith, it becomes that Paradise is mercy, and settling in it is a true, stable abode.
The questioner : The necessary implication of a thing ... ?
The Shaykh : And what else?
The questioner : And its concept?
The Shaykh : No, no. The necessary implication is what the wording does not indicate in itself, meaning that the letters of the word do not indicate it. For example, the word “Creator” does not contain power, knowledge, or will in the wording itself, but creation necessitates knowledge, will, and power.
So the necessary implication is not indicated by the wording in itself, neither in the derivation, nor in the explicit statement, nor in the concept.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : The supplication “O Allah, gather us in the abode of Your mercy” ?
The Shaykh : O Allah, gather us. Yes, it is permissible. Allah the Exalted said:
The companions of Paradise, that Day, are [in] a better settlement and better resting place.
أَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَيْرٌ مُسْتَقَرًّا وَأَحْسَنُ مَقِيلًاYou are only My Mercy by means of which 1 shall show mercy to those whom I wish
أنت رحمتي أرحم بك من أشاءThe questioner : The necessary implication of a thing ... ?
The Shaykh : And what else?
The questioner : And its concept?
The Shaykh : No, no. The necessary implication is what the wording does not indicate in itself, meaning that the letters of the word do not indicate it. For example, the word “Creator” does not contain power, knowledge, or will in the wording itself, but creation necessitates knowledge, will, and power.
So the necessary implication is not indicated by the wording in itself, neither in the derivation, nor in the explicit statement, nor in the concept.