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22 Before You Regret

because after such deep regret, if one turns to Allah, Allah
grants him eternal salvation in response to his sincerity.
Conversely, if one heedlessly ignores these warnings and
opportunities, then his punishment will be regret and
grief that he will not be able to be saved unless Allah so

wills it.
In the Qur'an, Allah illustrates various examples of
people who regretted their mistakes. These feelings of
regret urged a group of people to turn to Allah and saved
them from repeating their mistake for the rest of their
lives. Yet another group totally forgot about this regret in

time, and out of recurring ignorance, returned to their
former rebellious selves.
Allah informs us in the Qur'an of the regret experi-
enced by the three people who did not take part in a bat-
tle during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad (saas)
as an apposite example of repentance stemming from
regret:

Allah has turned towards the Prophet, and those who
fled (their homes) and the helpers who followed him at
the "time of difficulty," after the hearts of a group of
them had almost deviated. Then He turned towards
them -- He is All-Gentle, Most Merciful to them -- and
also towards the three who were left behind, so that
when the earth became narrow for them, for all its great
breadth, and their own selves became constricted for