Terms And Conditions For Penitence

 

 

Terms and conditions for forgiveness of sins (L-186) 

إِلَّا الَّذينَ تابوا وَأَصلَحوا وَبَيَّنوا فَأُولٰئِكَ أَتوبُ عَلَيهِم ۚ وَأَنَا التَّوّابُ الرَّحيمُ160.

160.  ‘Illal-laziina  taabuu  wa  ‘as-lahuu  wa  bayyanuu  fa-‘ulaaa-‘ika  ‘Atuubu  ‘alayhim.    Wa  ‘A-nat-Tawwaabur-Rahiim.

160.  Except those who repent, and reform, and proclaim. Those—I will accept their repentance. I am the Acceptor of Repentance, the Merciful.

God has declared three terms and conditions for forgiveness of sins in this verse:

1.   Penitence, it means decision to leave the sin with its perception and admission.

2.   Correction – to rectify the created badness due to sins and mischief.

3.   Compensate the oppressed; to disclose the matters which were hidden to commit the evil and their compensation.

It was expressed in the previous verses that the children of Israel and the Christians used to change the Commandments and Instructions, revealed by God, due to worldly greed and avarice or afraid of enmity due to speaking the Truth, and used to hide the real Commandments. So, due to their hiding the Just, many people used to go astray, the Believers used to lie down in doubts and the followers of the truth used to suffer the troubles of various sorts. Therefore, God appointed them as “the Accursed”.

The news regarding Messenger-hood of the last Messenger of God, Muhammad (ﷺ) was revealed in the previous Heavenly Books (Scriptures) of the Children of Israel and the Christians, but when they observed that they would get worldly loss due to having belief in the Prophet-hood of the last Messenger (ﷺ), their monopoly would finish, they began to hide this Glad-tidings.

God proclaimed concerning such evildoers: They will be thrown away from the Mercy of God as punishment and they will become target of cursing and taunting of God’s other creature.

In this verse, God has commanded: These accursed people should not become hopeless entirely. Moreover, if they refrain from bad habits and hiding the Truth, and “repent and amend make manifest (the truth). These are; it is toward whom; I relent. And I am the Relenting, the Merciful”. Moreover they will come under the shadow of His Mercy. They will be entitled for His blessings and favors also. https://youtu.be/CKkb4k-sSkM