Abu Bakr Zoud – 6 Matters For A Sincere Tawbah – Repentance
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How do we make a sincere, honest tawbah
to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala?
Allah azza wa jal, he said, يَا أَيُّهَا
الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا تُوبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ تَوْبَةً نَصُوحًا O
you who believe, make a sincere and an
honest tawbah to Allah azza wa jal, repentance.
So that involves six things.
Number one, that you repent from all your
sins, the minor, the major, the ones that
you know, the ones that you don't know,
the ones that you committed publicly, the ones
that you committed privately, the ones that you
committed jokingly, the ones that you did intentionally,
unintentionally, all of them you include them in
your tawbah and with that type of intention.
Number two, you must repent out of fear
of Allah azza wa jal.
So you're not repenting from the sins because
they've just become boring and you've grown out
of them.
No, you must make the repentance because you
fear Allah azza wa jal and you fear
the hellfire and you fear the displeasure of
Allah azza wa jal.
So that should be the intention when you're
making your repentance to Allah azza wa jal.
Number three, it must be in the correct
time.
So long as you're living, so long as
the sun hasn't reached or come out from
the West and your soul hasn't reached the
throat, then every time would be a correct
time for a tawbah.
If the sun rises from the West or
the soul has reached the throat.
It's not a time for tawbah.
Tawbah will not be accepted.
Repentance will not be accepted at that time.
Number four is that you regret what you
did.
You regret disobeying Allah azza wa jal.
You regret that you used the blessings of
Allah to disobey him because every disobedience we
do is with a blessing Allah gave us.
If we disobeyed Allah with our hands, that's
a blessing Allah gave us.
If you disobeyed Allah with our eyes, that's
a blessing He gave us.
If we disobey Allah with our tongue, that's
a blessing He gave us.
Without E, that's a blessing He gave us.
So we regret that we disobeyed Allah with
blessings He gave us.
number five you stop the sin that's in
the present you'll stop it right now and
number six you intend never to return the
sin afterwards that would be an honest sincere
toward number six is that you do not
intend to go back to that sin and
the thing is you might end up falling
into that sin but that doesn't matter that
will not invalidate your towa because from the
condition of a toba is to not intend
to fall into the sin but it's not
from the conditions that you never fall into
the sin afterwards you might fall into the
sin afterwards but never intend to go back
into it these are six matters if you
were to make sure of when you make
a toba then that means your toba is
the highest and the strongest toba a human
being could possibly make we ask Allah to
grant us a sincere and an honest toba
in our life and to grant us a
sincere and an honest toba before our death