Mohammad Elshinawy – How Do I Know Allah Wants To Forgive Me

			Some people wonder like, can I be forgiven?
		

			You know how I know you can be
		

			forgiven?
		

			The fact that you're interested means Allah wants
		

			to forgive you because some people are never
		

			interested.
		

			They're just past that guilt.
		

			They just keep it moving.
		

			They're no longer seeking to reform, right?
		

			The one that turned your attention, that stirred
		

			your interest in forgiveness is the one who
		

			wants to forgive you, right?
		

			And that is Allah's name, by the way,
		

			At-Tawwab.
		

			One of Allah's names is At-Tawwab.
		

			Tawbah is repentance, when you come to Allah
		

			and repent.
		

			But actually, it's his name, At-Tawwab, because
		

			he comes to you to invite you first
		

			to come to him.
		

			So he comes first.
		

			That's why even it sounds a little bit
		

			weird in English.
		

			But some of the scholars say you never
		

			make tawbah.
		

			Tawbah literally, like in the language, it means
		

			to u-turn.
		

			You never come back to Allah.
		

			You never make tawbah.
		

			You never repent, except that your tawbah is
		

			sandwiched between two tawbahs from Allah.
		

			They don't mean Allah is seeking your forgiveness.
		

			It means Allah comes to you so that
		

			he invites you, so that you come to
		

			him.
		

			And if you do, if you take him
		

			up on the offer and you respond quickly,
		

			right?
		

			He comes back to you again with the
		

			acceptance of that repentance, the acceptance of that
		

			plea of yours.
		

			So he came to you twice and he
		

			came to you first, even though you're the
		

			one that needs the forgiveness.
		

			So that's his name, At-Tawwab.
		

			So if ever you want to be forgiven,
		

			if ever you want to change, you need
		

			to know Allah will because he's the one
		

			that opened your heart to it to begin
		

			with.