Aspects for Sincere Repentance

What are the special elements

which go together to make a sincere

repentance?

There are 4 things required.

Number 1,

a person should realize

the power of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'la,

His power and His greatness. That if he

wants to punish you, he can punish you

immediately. So this will make

a person repent

and

we should not look at the minuteness of

our sin.

We should look at the greatness and forgiveness

of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. As Allah says

in the Quran, in Surah An Nu, chapter

number 71,

verse number 13 and 14, Allah says, what

has happened to you? Don't you have hope

in the kindness and forgiveness of Allah Subhana

Wa Ta'la that He created you in different

stages?

So if you know the mightness of Allah

Subhana Wa Ta'la, He is going to forgive

you InshaAllah, you will repent

Number 2,

everyone should realize that one day we are

going to die

and we are going to go to the

grave

Allah says in the Quran in Surah Al

Imran, chapter number 3, verse number 185.

Every soul shall have a taste of death

and on the day of judgement shall be

the full recompense.

That means everyone has to die and the

final

hifaqitaq,

the final recompense will be on the day

of judgement

and Allah says in the Quran in Surah

Alukhman, chapter number 31, verse 34, Allah says

that no one knows what he will earn

tomorrow

and no one knows in which land he

will die. So we have to realize that

everyone has to die

and we don't know when will that time

come. So that will help us in demanding

as soon as possible. We don't know when

is

our last hour.

The third point is that all the rewards

for this war and the Ahira is based

on your deeds for your Ahira.

What you're going to do for your Akhirah,

the deeds for your Akhirah will actually reward

you in this world and Akhirah.

That's very important

and Allah says in the Quran in Suri

Fathir, chapter 35, verse 5 that the promise

of Allah is true

and let not this present world deceive you

and let not the chief deceiver deceive you

against Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'la.

That means we have to be careful that

all our acts and deeds should basically target

about the akhirah, about the hereafter

and there is a hadith mentioned in Tiramidi,

Hadith number 2320,

where the beloved Prophet Nusallahu alaihi wa sallam

said that this world for Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala

is equivalent

to the wing of life

and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would not allow

a disbeliever

even to have a handful of water from

it. This world, in comparison to the hereafter,

is like a wing of a fly and

it would not allow a disbeliever even to

have a handful of water. A similar message

is given

in

Say Muslim, born number 4, in the book

of Paradise,

hadith number 6,483,

where the beloved Prophet said that the sight

of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'la, this world,

as compared to the hereafter,

is like

a person

putting his finger,

that's the forefinger,

into the ocean

and when he gets it out, whatever is

stuck to the forefinger is like the present

world. The present world,

just hardly

some little

water

that gets stuck to the forefinger,

that's equivalent

as compared to the mighty ocean that is

the hereafter. So, so little

is the significance

of this world as compared to the hereafter.

So therefore, we should realize that this life

is the test for the Hereafter. As Allah

says in the Quran, in Surah Mulk, chapter

number 16, verse number 2.

Allah It is Allah who has created death

and life to test which of his good

deeds.

The 4th point is that, the human beings

should realize

that the punishment can be expedient in this

world

and whatever

punishment they get, it is because of their

sin. Whatever

calamity takes place

in this,

it is

basically for their sin. As Allah says in

Suraj Zukurov, chapter number 43,

verse number 76,

that no wise shall we be unjust to

them, but it is they who have been

unjust to themselves.

be remembered.

be remembered.