O Allah, distance me from my sins as You have distanced the East from the West. Does this not indicate that the East and the West are the farthest things possible?

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The questioner : May Allah reward you. In the hadith

O Allah, purify me from sins as a white garment is purified from filth

اللهمّ باعد بيني وبين خطاياي كما باعدت بين المشرق والمغرب

, is it taken from this that the East and the West are the farthest things possible?

The Shaykh : Yes, after what we witness, without a doubt,

Until, when he comes to Us [at Judgement], he says [to his companion], "Oh, I wish there was between me and you the distance between the east and west

حتّى إذا جاءنا قال يا ليت بيني وبينك بعد المشرقين

[Az-Zukhruf 43:38]

. Yes.

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