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EPISODE 1️⃣4️⃣ – SIXTH CHARACTERISTIC: THEY DO NOT COMMIT SHIRK, MURDER, AND ZINA (Adultery) (Continuation) – THE REPENTANCE
إِلَّا مَنْ تَابَ وَآمَنَ وَعَمِلَ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا فَأُولَٰئِكَ يُبَدِّلُ اللَّهُ سَيِّئَاتِهِمْ حَسَنَاتٍ ۗ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ غَفُورًا رَحِيمًا
Except for those who repent, believe and do righteous work. For them Allaah will replace their evil deeds with good. And ever is Allaah Forgiving and Merciful.
[Surah Al-Furqan 25:70]
Allaah says that those who did shirk, or murdered someone, or did zina – or all three of them – but after that, they do the three conditions, Allaah will forgive all of their sins. Those three conditions mentioned in this ayah are: Repent, Believe, and Do Righteous Deeds:
We had discussed about the first condition (Repent) in the previous episode. Now we shall look into the other two conditions In Shaa Allaah
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Condition #2: Strengthen our Imaan.
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Fix our Imaan, become a good believer again.
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Condition #3: Do Righteous Deeds that conform with the Qur’an and Sunnah.
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Notice that Allaah did not say [‘amila solihan] in this ayah, but He says [‘amila ‘amalan solihan] This is a grammar to emphasize the verb. What it means in simple English is that: Do not be wishy-washy, you need to be very serious and be very keen on doing righteous deeds from now on.
These are the three conditions that one must fulfill in order to attain Allaah’s Forgiveness.
The ayah continues:
فَأُولَٰئِكَ يُبَدِّلُ اللَّهُ سَيِّئَاتِهِمْ حَسَنَاتٍ ۗ
For them Allaah will replace their evil deeds with good.
[Surah Al-Furqan 25:70]
Subhan’Allaah, what an amazing promise of Allaah! Not only will Allaah accept the repentance of those who have sincerely repented, but He will change their sins into good deeds!
Ibn al-Jawzi rahimahullah said that scholars have differences of opinions in regard to the meaning of this ayah:
The first opinion: “Allaah will change their sins into good deeds” means that Allaah will replace their previous acts of shirk with Imaan, their previous acts of murder with refraining oneself from doing it, and their previous acts of fornication with being chaste. All of these show that the replacement of good deeds happen in the dunya. Scholars who hold this opinion are Ibn Abbas, Sa’id bin Jubair, Mujahid, Qatadah, Adh Dhohak, and Ibnu Zaid. (may Allaah be pleased with them.)
The second opinion is that the conversion of sins into good deeds will happen in the akhirah. Scholars who hold this opinion are Salman, Sa’id bin Al-Musayyib, and ‘Ali bin Al-Husain. (may Allaah be pleased with them)
Regardless of the differences of opinions, both show how truly remarkable the virtue of believers who sincerely repent to Allaah.
Hence, if we did any of these three sins, we must make sincere repentance to Allaah, and we must fix our faith and become good believers again, and we must take our actions very, very seriously – really keen on doing good deeds from now onwards. If we do these, Allaah will not just accept our repentance, but Allaah will convert those mountains of sins into mountains of good deeds, Subhan’Allaah!
To be continued… إن شاء الله
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