🌙 Ramadan Reminders: Day 2⃣2⃣ 🌙
“ Fragrance of Tawbah”
If we all emanated smells 👃🏼from the sins we committed, our odors 😕would be unbearable. So much so, that a great scholar once said that even He would fear 🙈that others would not want to sit by him.
Our human nature is inclined to certain desires💑, needs or wants🎮…. whether they are halal or haram. The difference is between a person who does not care they are basking in filth and tainting their 🎭profile with the sins they accumulate and one who recognizes that sin, and cleanses🛀🏼 it by seeking 🙏🏻forgiveness then perfuming themselves with tawbah.
But what is ❇Tawbah? توبة is derived from the work “Taaba” تابة which means 🔄”returned back”. Thus, tawbah means turning 🔰back in repentance. It means that one feels regret 🚫and filled with remorse for their sins, turns to Allah with the intention to obey Him. They may pray 2 rakah’s to Allah, bearing their 💓heart and genuine regret to Him, making dua during or after salah.
Allah commands us to turn back to him: يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا تُوبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ تَوْبَةً نَّصُوحًا عَسَىٰ رَبُّكُمْ أَن يُكَفِّرَ عَنكُمْ سَيِّئَاتِكُمْ وَيُدْخِلَكُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ يَوْمَ لَا يُخْزِي اللَّهُ النَّبِيَّ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ ۖ نُورُهُمْ يَسْعَىٰ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَبِأَيْمَانِهِمْ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا أَتْمِمْ لَنَا نُورَنَا وَاغْفِرْ لَنَا ۖ إِنَّكَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
O you who believe! Turn to Allah with sincere repentance! It may be that your Lord will remit from you your sins, and admit you into Gardens 🌲🌳under which rivers flow 🌊(Paradise) the Day that Allah will not disgrace the Prophet (Muhammad SAW) and those who believe with him, their Light 💫will run forward before them and with (their Records Books of deeds) in their right hands they will say: “Our Lord! Keep perfect our Light ✨for us [and do not put it off till we cross over the Sirat (a slippery bridge 🌉over the Hell) safely] and grant us forgiveness. Verily, You are Able to do all things .” (66:8)
Sometimes it is not an easy path!
It was said to Al-Hassan (رضي الله عنه), the Prophet’s grandson, “Isn’t the servant [of Allah] ashamed of sinning and then repenting, and then sinning again and then again repenting?”
Al-Hassan said: “This is what Satan exactly 👹wants! Never stop making repentance.”
For us who have fallen into 👿sins, no matter how deep 🍻or 📈great, do not despair from the mercy of your Lord. Remember the Mercy 🌿of Allah is much greater 🌍and more 🌊vast than any 📛sin!.
[Credit: Safa A, Corpus.quran. com, Sunnahonline, AboutIslam. net]
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