Never feel it is too late to repent to Allah.

 The story to reflect. 

Never feel it is too late to repent to Allah. 

There once lived a bandit and a robber who was well known in baghdad and used to block travellers and take their wealth. 

Every traveller who use to path the route to baghdad is told of this bandit and robber. 

He took a lot of resources from people at night with his gangs. 

This continues all night and this man was a muslim but never had time to pray and change 

One-day he decided to enter into a house of a man to steal and as he climbed the wall, he entered and saw the man reciting night prayers. 

He observed as the man recited an ayah of Quran that touched his heart. 

The ayah was, 

Al-Hadid 57:16

Has the time not come for those who have believed that their hearts should become humbly submissive at the remembrance of Allāh and what has come down of the truth? And let them not be like those who were given the Scripture before, and a long period passed over them, so their hearts hardened; and many of them are defiantly disobedient.

So immediately this entered his heart, he came down from the wall and was thinking of this ayah

He went with tears and his heart full of regret and sat down as he heard some men talking at night that to hide their wealth because when this man sees it will loot and take everything. 

This man even felt regretful and wept. 

He went to his gang and told them he is no more going to be with them and as changed. 

He took everyone's resource and gave to him. 

It was left with a jew whom he could not get wealth to pay so he decided to work as a slave of the man. 

One-day, he said to him he want to go and seek knowledge of his religion. 

The jew rejected and  said unless you pay me all my expenses.

He then prayed to Allah to help him and then he opened the stone and saw it was a gold. 

He paid his expenses and went to seek knowledge 

After many years, he returned to baghdad and became a renowned scholar called fudayl ibn Iyad. 

He is one of the great scholars in baghdad but once had a worst past but his future became bright and praised. 

It is not late to make taubah and be better muslims than before. 

May Allah be our aid in this life of dunya and hereafter. Aamin