Repent to Allah

All praise is due to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. May his blessings and benedictions be upon the
Messenger, his household and companions.

My beloved sisters, fear Allah!

Fear Allah and repent to Him, as Allah ordered us to do:

(‫)يا أيها الذين آمنوا توبوا إلى ا‬

O you who believe! Turn to Allah with sincere repentance. When the Sahabah would hear Allah say in
the Qur’an O you who believe, they would give more attention and listen more carefully because they
know that Allah (‫)عز و جل‬is talking to them.

‫سىى يريبنكوم يأنَ ينيكففير يعننكوم ي‬

Oh you who believe! Turn to Allah with sincere repentance! It may be that your Lord will expiate from
you your sins

You're a sinner, I am a sinner and we are all sinners as our beloved pr ophet ‫ ﷺ‬said

‫ٌ يويخوينر ايوليخ ل‬,‫طاءء‬

“All the sons of Adam are sinners, but the best of sinners are those who repent often.”

And this hadith shows us what is the difference between what is acceptable in Islam and what is not.

If a Muslim commits a sin (Ma’seyah) and repents to Allah (and performs Tawbah) then this is acceptable
in Islam. However, if a muslim commits a sin and insists on that sin, then he is in danger and this is not
acceptable in Islam. And actually this conception of Sins in Islam is highly confused by many many
muslims.

Because all of Muslims know that Sins are forbidden, and not muslims alone, and it is in the nature of
human beings as created by Allah that certain actions are appreciate and other actions are repulsive and
abominable.

Because we're a sinners how can we repent? What are the conditions that must be fulfilled so that Allah
can accept our repentance?

There are three conditions for us to do a correct Tawbah.

First, we must truly regret what we have done deep inside from our hearts. And if you want to know
really if your regret or not, then you must feel sadness in your heart. If you committed a sin and do not
feel this sadness in your heart then definitely you did not regret doing that sin.
The second condition is that we must intend never to do this sin ever ever again. If you decided to stop
committing any sin then you must take all the steps that keep you away from it.

The third condition is a one regarding people’s rights. If your sin was regarding people’s rights then you
should return these rights first before repenting to Allah.

If you stole money from a person you know and you regretted this act and intended to never do it again
you must also return this stolen money.

To summarize the 3 conditions for repentance is to: Regret from the heart, the intention of stopping this
sin forever and returning people's rights.

This is how you do Tawbah!! Thus repentance is not sitting on the couch and saying with our mouths “I
repent to Allah” or “Astaghfer Allah Al’Azim” 100 times, then after finishing he goes to commit a sin and
insist on doing it and go against Allah’s commandments.

Tawbah is not an act of the tongue, it is an act of the heart.

If you want to do a Tawbah, then use your heart not your tongue.

If you want to do Tawbah, don’t let Satan (Shaitan) deceive you in misunderstanding Allah’s sayings.

If you want to do Tawbah, remember that you can go to hell. It’s not just because you’re a Muslim that
you have a green card to enter Heaven.

Even if you have tons of good deeds, without a faithful heart you can commit small sins that can make
you go to hell.

Dear sisters, listen carefully to this frightening hadeeth.

It was narrated that Thawban said that prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬said:

َ‫‏ يقايل ثيوويبانن‬. " ‫ان يعلز يويجلل يهيباةء يموننثوةرا‬ ‫ضا فيييوجيعلنيها ل‬ ‫ت أيوميثاذل ذجيباذل تذيهايمةي ذبي ة‬
‫سينا ت‬‫" ليوعلييملن أيوقيواةما ذمون أنلمذتيِ ييأونتوينَ ييوويم اولقذييايمذة بذيح ي‬
‫ " أييما إذنلنهوم إذوخيوانننكوم يوذمون ذجوليدتذنكوم يوييأونخنذوينَ ذمين الللويذل‬: ‫‏ يقايل‬. ‫صوفنهوم ليينا يجلفذهوم ليينا أيونَ لي نينكوينَ ذموننهوم يونيوحنن لي نيوعلينم‬
‫اذ ذ‬ ‫سويل ل‬ ‫ ييا ير ن‬:
‫‏‬. " ‫اذ اونتييهنكويها‬ ‫ي‬ ‫ن‬ ‫و‬
‫يكيما تيأنخذوينَ يوليذكنلنهوم أوقيواءم إذيذا يخليووا بذيميحاذرذم ل‬

“I certainly know people of my nation who will come on the Day of Resurrection with good deeds like
the mountains of Tihamah, but Allah will make them like scattered dust.” Thawban said: “O
Messenger of Allah, describe them to us and tell us more, so that we will not become of them
unknowingly.” He said: “They are your brothers and from your race, worshipping at night as you do,
but they will be people who, when they are alone, transgress the sacred limits of Allah.”

They are the muslims that when they are alone, they start committing all kinds of sins.

They are the muslims that when they are alone, they don’t care that Allah is watching the from above
Seven Heavens.
They are the muslims that have delayed repentance from their sins and never considered that some of
their good deeds can be turned to dust because of the sins that they did not repent to Allah from.

Dear sisters in islam, I say this and ask Allah for forgiveness for me, you and all Muslims for every sin.
Invoke Him for forgiveness, Invoke him for forgiveness from your heart not from your tongue, for He is
the Most Forgiving and the Most Merciful.

So repent to Allah, Perform Tawbah as soon as possible. Perform Tawbah before you find yourself infront
of Allah. Perform Tawbah before we stand the presence of our Lord. Perform Tawbah before he
confronts us with all of our sins.

Perform Tawbah before your heart hardens and you find it too late.