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.