Page 93 - The Solution To Secret Sorrows

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Our Lord explains the kind of repentance which will gain ac-
ceptance in His sight in the verse, "Allah only accepts the repen-
tance of those who do evil in ignorance and then quickly repent
after doing it. Allah turns towards such people..." (Surat an-Nisa':
17). In another verse, Allah describes sincere believers as "those
who, when they act indecently or wrong themselves, remember
Allah and ask forgiveness for their bad actions (and who can for-
give bad actions except Allah?) and do not knowingly persist in
what they were doing" (Surah Al 'Imran: 135).
Allah tells us that He will forgive mistakes made through igno-
rance or lack of knowledge, provided that people immediately give
them up when they notice them and do not persist in the same er-
rors. Thus a believer who wants to achieve true sincerity towards
Allah should think in line with these verses and ask Allah's forgive-
ness for all the insincerities he hides inside himself.
However, the behavior for which Allah will call people to ac-
count on the Day of Judgment does not consist only of the insinceri-
ties they display openly. Allah also takes into account insincerities
that people are consciously aware of, but try to hide from others. As
we are reminded in the verse, "... Allah knows what you divulge
and what you conceal" (Surat an-Nur: 29), Allah knows what is
going on inside a person even though others cannot prove any in-
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