Golden, Yet Concise 2

In the Name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful and the Especially Merciful.

The Best of Praises belong to Allah and we ask Him to send His Salutations upon the Noble Prophet.

Alhamdu-liLlah we have been blessed with another opportunity to drink from the cup of Shaykh al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah’s knowledge. Knowledge which was bestowed upon to make him one of the beacons that we look at in times of darkness. May Allah have mercy on him. In our previous post we talked about the hadith in which the Prophet SAW advised Muadh bin Jabal and all of us that we should fear Allah wherever we are by doing what He has commanded us and stay away from what He has forbidden. But as humans, just like Allah created us, we are bound to err and thus the Messenger SAW continued by saying that we should immediately follow up our evil with good for they will wipe them off and in our relations with others, we should treat them with the best of character.

Servants of Allah, as we try to obey Allah and stay away from His Prohibitions, there are times in which we shall fall into temptation and commit sins. For the devil, may Allah’s curses be upon him and with him, had promised even before our births to barrage us with temptations and cajoling from all angles and dimensions. These sins would definitely have impacts on us in this world and the hereafter. Allah out of His Profound Mercy, mercy that has no bounds, then established for us affairs, deeds and activities that will clean away our sins to the extent that Allah SWA changes the sins of a believer to good deeds. Allahu Akbar.

The scholars have enumerated that which removes and clears the aftermath of sins into ten different categories. Four out of these ten shall be extensively discussed in our series of posts. In shaa Allah, whoever follows them with keenness and participation shall reap their benefits in this world and in the hereafter and your life shall be filled with a new breath and your contentment shall take on a new stride. May Allah guide us, Aameen. 

These four affairs are: Tawbah (Repentance), Istighfaar (seeking forgiveness) without repentance, Good deeds and Trials or Tribulations that afflict the Servant.

In shaa Allah we shall begin with Tawbah. Before we delve into the nooks and crannies of this topic, I would like to remind myself and my readers, may Allah have mercy on us, about Allah SWA’s statement in Surah az-Zumar verse 53 in which He said, “Say, ‘O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the Mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.’”

Servants of Allah, irrespective of the sin you have committed, you should never lose hope or lose faith in the Mercy of Allah. Allah forgives all sins. Allah is Greater than that sin you have committed. If you turn to Allah, Allah will also turn to you and better and more befitting manner.

For ones Tawbah to be complete and accepted, certain conditions must be fulfilled. If anyone of these conditions are omitted then the Tawbah of a person is not complete. 

The conditions are:

• ·        Sincerity
• ·         Cutting off or staying away from the sin
• ·         Having regret upon the sin committed
• ·         Having a firm conviction of not returning to the sin again
• ·         Making the repentance in its stipulated time.

Alhamdu-liLlah we shall end here. May Allah forgive us for our short comings and accept our good deeds. May He make our deeds solely for His sake. May He help us to abstain from disobeying Him. May He grant the unmarried ones righteous spouses and the married ones blissful marriages.

May the Salutations and Peace of Allah be upon our Noble Prophet SAW.

As-Salamu Alaykum WA Rahmatu-Llah Wa Barakatuhu

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