Penitence

 

The Repentance (L-522) 

إِنَّمَا ٱلتَّوْبَةُ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ لِلَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ ٱلسُّوٓءَ بِجَهَٰلَةٍ ثُمَّ يَتُوبُونَ مِن قَرِيبٍ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ يَتُوبُ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ عَلِيمًا حَكِيمًا 17.

17.  ‘Innamat-tawbatu  ‘alAllaahi  lillaziina ya’-maluunas-suuu-‘a  bi-jahaalatin  summa  yatuubuuna  min-  qariibin-  fa-‘ulaaa-‘ika  yatuu-bUllaahu  ‘alayhim.  Wa  kaanAllaahu  ‘Aliiman  Hakiimaa.

17.  Repentance is available from God for those who commit evil out of ignorance, and then repent soon after. These—God will relent towards them. God is Knowing and Wise.

Tawbah – literal meanings of this word are, “to come back, to return, coming back again towards that place, which was left”. Whenever any person offends, he falls back from the attendance of God. He should return towards God. In this condition, he should accept his mistake and promise honestly that he would not repeat such mistake in future, and he should stand firm upon it. It is called tawbah. Only using the word tawbah by tongue repeatedly, does not have any weight. Repentance will be acceptable at that time, when someone feels sorrow upon his/her bad acts and accepts with heart that he/she will never do such evil act again.

God commanded about some big evils and sins, like fornication/adultery, sodomy and their punishments. Then He described that He forgives also such crimes, provided that, the sinners turn quickly in repentance to God, correct their deeds and refrain from committing this sin again in future; these are the persons, toward whom God relents. But remember that God has taken responsibility to forgive and He relents only towards such people, who committed any sin due to ignorance or with stupidity and felt shame immediately, when they knew about the sin and badness, and they promised to escape from such wicked deeds in future. God forgives the errors of such people urgently. He knows everything. His Knowledge is most spacious. He knows that who has committed evil intentionally or unintentionally, and who repented with purity. His all works are full of wisdom.

Two conditions have been applied upon acceptance of the repentance:

·       The persons, who commit evil in ignorance.

·       They turn quickly in repentance to God.

It has been revealed that the person, who commits evil due to ignorance and as soon as he gets warning, turns quickly toward the repentance, according to the Law of God, certainly his repentance will be accepted. And the person, who presumes to disobey the order of God, does not turn immediately toward repentance after knowing himself sinful. Moreover, he used to delay in feeling the sorrow for his sins and remained in rather state, then according to the principle of justice his sin is not forgivable. However, God may forgive being Merciful and Kind enough.

After knowing the glad tiding about acceptance of the repentance, turning quickly towards God is compulsory for us, whenever any sin is committed by us knowingly or unknowingly. We must also promise that we shall not repeat it again in future. We should pray from God to pardon our sins and be entitled of forgiveness. God revealed the good news that whenever any person walks one step towards Him, His Mercy runs ten steps towards that person. https://youtu.be/IyNbxrW1mts