Golden, Yet Concise 3

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

The Best of Praises belong to Allah, the Most Worthy of the best of Praises. We ask Him to send His Salutations upon His Noble Messenger, Muhammad SAW, his household, his companions and the entire Ummah till the day when there shall be no shade except the shade of Allah.

We give Thanks to Allah for granting us the opportunity to teach and learn about His religion and also to gain His Favours and Bounties. The Messenger SAW is reported to have said, “…he who follows a path to seek knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Jannah. May Allah make easy for us the path to Jannah. Aameen.

In this post, with the Help of Allah, we shall look at the conditions that must be present in order the Tawbah of a servant to be accepted. As Humans we are meant to err and that is why Allah has made for us a means by which our sins will be forgiven for us to attain His Paradise. It is very common among Muslims today especially the youth, the complains of not knowing what to do in order for Allah to forgive them. Some of these people even go to the extent stopping the act of seeking forgiveness because they feel they have asked Allah to forgive them too many times that Allah should be tired of forgiving them Subhana-Llah. Allah SWA never gets tired. Allah will not give up on you until you yourself gives up. We should never lose hope in the Mercy of Allah for He forgives all sins.

The first condition of Tawbah is Sincerity. The reason why the servant should want to stay away from the sin should be as a result of his fear of Allah SWA. For a person to repent from a particular sin, it is either he repents with the fear of Allah, or he repents fearing a slave of Allah (a creature of Allah). When a servant repents because he fears Allah, this becomes a beneficial Tawbah for him. A repentance which cleanses the present sin and also past sins. But when the servant repents because of someone else, let us say his father or friend, this only removes the present sin which he is repenting from but does not have any effect on his previous sins. This means that all his previous sins which he had not made sincere Tawbah for would not be erased. We shall take an example in shaa Allah.

The first example is of a person who frequently commits Zina(fornication). This person’s heart then becomes overwhelmed with the fear of Allah and thus repents from this grievous sin, may Allah protect us from it Aameen. In this situation, all his previous shall be forgiven and it will be as though he had never committed Zina in his life.

The second example is of the person who keeps committing Zina. He doesn’t shy away from this evil act. Then he begins to become afraid of a disease that might afflict him, or he fears for his status or rank in the society and thus stops committing Zina. This saves him from the deed in his current situation but does not save him from the effects of his previous sins.

Therefore, my dear readers, may Allah guide you and me, let us pay great attention to sincerity whenever we are repenting to Allah SWA.

The second condition of repentance is for the servant to stay away from the sin. The one who remains upon a sin and then claims that he is repenting from the sin is only deceiving himself. Remaining upon the sin nullifies a person’s repentance. Many times, do we hear about people who when they are in the act of fornication, cry and feel remorse saying astaghfiru-Llah. They say astaghfiru-Llah whiles they are having illegal sexual intercourse. Such people will not have their repentance accepted until they stop the act of evil and stay away from it. There are even people who on their way to commit this evil immerse themselves in seeking forgiveness and adhkaar. May Allah protect us from such evil actions.

The third condition of repentance is to feel remorseful and have absolute regret over the sin one has committed. Among the signs of regret is that one will hate to return to the sin one committed. Whenever one remembers the sin committed, one becomes remorseful and hates that one will ever go back to that sin after Allah has saved one from it. The one who has repented isn’t the person who when he remembers the sin he says, “these were interesting days or times,” for such a person is not regretful over the sins that he used to commit but rather has some enthusiasm about those actions harboured in his heart.

Alhamdu-liLlah, we shall bring to an end our reminder for today. May Allah make it beneficial to us in this world and in the hereafter and may He forgive us our sins. May He have mercy on our rightly guided scholars who have passed away and may He safeguard those who are still with us. May He join us with them in the hereafter. Aameen.

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

As-salamu alaykum wa Rahmatu-Llah wa Barakatuhu

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