وَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ٱبْيَضَّتْ وُجُوهُهُمْ فَفِى رَحْمَةِ ٱللَّهِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَٰلِدُونَ
Wa ammal lazeenabyadd at wujoohuhum fafee rahmatil laahi hum feehaa khaalidoon
But as for those whose faces will turn white, [they will be] within the mercy of Allah. They will abide therein eternally.
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20 ayahs in Aal-i-Imraan are strongly about mercy and forgiveness. This is one of them.
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But as for those whose faces are whitened and these are the believers they shall be in God’s mercy that is to say in Paradise abiding therein.
Related Hadiths
(May Allah have mercy upon) those who got their hair clipped."
“The best of that in which you visit Allah in your graves and
your
mosque is white (garments).”*
The Messenger of Allah said: "Wear the white among your garments, for indeed they are among the best of your garments, and shroud your dead in them."
"The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) forbade plucking out white hairs and said: 'It is the light of the believer.'"
That the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Whoever develops some gray hair in the cause of Allah, it shall be a light for him in the Day of Judgement.
This Hadith is Hasan Sahih Gharib. As for Haiwah bin Shuraih, (the remainder of his name is) Ibn Yazid Al-Himsi.
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