The Prostitute and her Good Deed

… another example that shows how Allah will forgive everything from a person’s past life because of a small deed is the story of the prostitute from Mūsā’s people. She was travelling from one country to another and had reached a water well. She saw a dog there that was licking the sand in extreme thirst. She took pity on it, went down into the well, drank from it, then filled her shoe with water and tied it up with her scarf. Then she gave the dog water to drink. Later, when she reached the town of one of the Prophets of the Israelites, Allah revealed to that Prophet, “Give glad tidings to so and so that I have forgiven her all her sins because of the mercy she showed to that dog.”²

Translated from the Arabic by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad ﵀