Don't Expose Me
Musa (may the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) supplicated for rain and for Allah's mercy. However nothing happened, except that the sky seemed to be even drier and the sun seemed even more oppressive with its heat. Musa (may the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) was surprised and asked his Lord for the reason behind that. Allah inspired to him, "Indeed, among you is a slave who has been challenging Me with sins for the past forty years. Call out to the people until he comes out from among them, for because of him you were prevented (from rain)." Musa (may the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said, "My Lord, I am a weak slave and my voice is weak. How can my voice convey (to them) when they are 70,000 or more in number?" Allah inspired to him, "From you is the call and from Us is its conveyance."
Musa (may the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) stood as a caller and said, "O sinning slave who has challenged Allah with sins for the last forty years, come out from among us, for because of you we have been deprived from rain."
The sinner turned to the left and to the right. Seeing no one coming out from among them, made him realise that he was the one who was wanted. He (the sinner) said to himself, "If I go forward from among this group of creation, then I will expose myself. But if I sit with them, then they will be deprived because of me." The man put his head in his garment, regretting his evil deeds. He said "My Lord, I have disobeyed you for forty years and You (Allah) have given me respite. I have come to You (Allah) in obedience, so accept it from me."
He no sooner finished his speech when a white cloud appeared and the rain came down in abundance.
Musa (may the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said, "My Lord, why did You give us drink when none from among us came out?" Allah inspired to him and said, "O Musa, I have given you rain because of the same man who was the reason why I (Allah) prevented you from rain (the man who repented).
Musa (may the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said, "My Lord, let me see this obedient slave." Allah inspired to him and said, "O Musa, I did not expose him when he was disobeying Me, then do you expect Me to expose him while he is obedient to Me?"
Moral
From this story we learn multiple benefits, one being that sins can prevent you from receiving your sustenance from Allah, just as the sinners had prevented the entire people from receiving rain. We also learn that when we do something for Allah's sake, then Allah will help us, just like how He helped Prophet Musa (May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) speak to all seventy thousand followers. Another important point is regarding the exposing of sins, unfortunately in recent times we see Muslims mass exposing their sins through the internet via pictures and videos on social media sites, we need to remind ourselves of the narration of the Prophet Muhammad (May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) in which he said: "All of my nation may be forgiven except those who commit sin openly. It is a kind of committing sin openly if a man does something at night, then morning comes and Allah has concealed his sin, but he says, ‘O So and so, I did such and such last night,’ when his Lord has concealed him (his action) all night but in the morning he reveals that which Allah had concealed for him.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5721; Muslim, 2990- Couldn't Stop Him Self
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