Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A Should One Methodically Check Off the Conditions Repentance

There's a question, does one go through the

conditions of Tawba to check them off?

Like a list, there's only 3 conditions and

they're interrelated.

One has remorse,

remorse entails

we leave the sin. You someone can't say

I repent to Allah and they're drinking wine.

They leave the sin

there and then if they're and they resolve

not to return to it. There's there's 3

and they're interrelated. That's all there is to

Tawba. And of course, to the extent that

one

stirs one's resolve

to rectify

that is true repentance. Said said

repentance

is that you

leave the sin and never return to it.

But we also know

that repentance,

the key to repentance is to make good

ones repentance. Imam Junaid Al Bardadi said

Repentance is for you not to remember your

sin.

Right? You you move on.

And he was asked how why would you

not remember your sin?

He

said,

Because

remembering the bad times

when times are good is

a bad time.

And what we seek is safa,

is to have

purity and limpinity in one's relationship with Allah.

As

Ibn al Farid put it,

right? To have that limpinity of presence with

Allah.

Purity without water,

and subtlety without wind,

light without fire,

and spirit

without body.

A reality eternal

before beyond creation,

without

ever without form,

and without body.