There are times in life when the world feels like it is closing in on you, the sins you carry on your back weigh you down. You feel as though you were the worst person alive, entrapped in a soul inclined sin. You’ve committed so many sins that your repentance feels hollow, hypocritical even, and so you refrain from repenting anymore; thinking you’ve done too much. You’ve crossed the limits. There is no more hope. It’s a dead end.
Repentance, HS
“Hold yourself accountable before you are held accountable, and weigh your deeds, before they are weighed for you.” -Umar Ibn Al-Khattab
The only way we can follow through with Umar’s statement is for us to tally up our deeds. Sometimes, it is difficult to see with clarity the reality of our actions. Shaytan deceives us into thinking our sins are little, and there is little for us to improve on. We avoid the major sins, and we pray five times a day. We fast Ramadaan and give in charity too. But is that all there is?
‘You’ve made a mess, you better clean it up!’ How many times have you heard that phrase? Whether from your mother, your aunt, your uncle, your spouse, your sibling…it’s just the same with repentance…but on a grander, more serious scale. Well you made a mistake….might as well fix it up!
It’s not for no reason that we begin every prayer with the phrase, ‘Allah is the greatest!’ It serves as a constant reminder to us, that He truly is grander and more magnificent than anything we can ever conjure up. We as humans have a bad habit…well, we have lots of bad habits, but there is one in particular that I am referring to, and that is our tendency to sin.
It’s not for no reason that we begin every prayer with the phrase, ‘Allah is the greatest!’ It serves as a constant reminder to us, that He truly is grander and more magnificent than anything we can ever conjure up. We as humans have a bad habit…well, we have lots of bad habits, but there is one in particular that I am referring to, and that is our tendency to sin. Attached to that, is a problem.
We should repent soon after committing a sin. The greater the sin, the greater our repentance should be. Know that as time passes by you’ll begin to lose the essence of asking for forgiveness from Allah.
