![]() Playing Quran or nasheeds in the background while we go about our routines is also useful.įinally, we should take a lesson from the chapter 66, verse 8 quoted. Even simple things like changing our phone or computer’s wallpaper can have an impact. As much as we can, we should create positive environments for ourselves in terms of our occupations, acquaintances, and habits, though our change need not always be so great. We should take from this hadith the importance of recognising if one’s environment has a negative effect on their character and, if it does, one should be proactive in making a change. He was told by a learned man of his time that nothing stood between him and repenting, and that he should move from the land he lived in, as it was a place of evil, to a land of pious people busy with worship. A hadith narrated by Imam al-Bukhari and Imam Muslim tells that tale of a man who sought repentance from murdering 100 people. It is enough that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said in a Hadith narrated by Imam al-Bukhari that in Heaven God has prepared for his pious slaves “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, as what has not occurred to the heart of any person”.Īnother important step in repenting is changing our habits. And there will be circulated among them vessels of silver and cups having been clear ”. And near above them are its shades, and its to be picked will be lowered in compliance. ![]() They will not see therein any sun or cold. In Sura al-Insan, for example, God says of the people of Heaven, “And will reward them for what they patiently endured a garden and silk. Hell is described in hadith as being so large it takes a stone 70 thousand years to traverse it from one end to the other.Īs for Heaven, God describes it in detail in various parts of the Quran. God describes Hell as “a Fire whose fuel is people and stones, over which are angels, harsh and severe they do not disobey God in what He commands them but do what they are commanded”. We should ponder over the descriptions of Hell in the Quran and hadith. We do this so that we run from God’s wrath and towards his mercy, for it is said that “there is no place of salvation or refuge from God except with God”. We do this by instilling in our hearts fear from God’s punishment and longing for His rewards. Once we repent, we need to strive to never return to the sin we committed. Indeed, You are over all things competent”. Their light will proceed before them and on their right they will say, “Our Lord, perfect for us our light and forgive us. Perhaps your Lord will remove from you your misdeeds and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow the Day when Allah will not disgrace the Prophet and those who believed with him. He also says, “O you who believe, repent to Allah with sincere repentance. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful”. God Himself says in the Quran, “O My slaves who have transgressed against themselves, do not despair of the mercy of God. As the Prophet explained, “Verily God is more delighted with the repentance of His slave than a person who lost his camel in a land and then finds it”. When we repent we should remember God’s pleasure in us for doing so, as this drives us to make our repentance more sincere. ![]() We should take the Prophet’s advice and turn to Allah frequently, as he said “O people! Repent to God and ask forgiveness of Him, for indeed I repent a hundred times a day”. The first step for the sinner, then, is sincere repentance. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said in a hadith, “All children of Adam are wrongdoers, and the best of the wrongdoers are those who repent”. Overcoming the habit of sin is very difficult, as sin is something all humans fall into, and the only ones who are protected from it are the prophets and messengers. I really want to stop a specific sin but I always get back to it.Īlhamdulillah, as they say, the first step in overcoming a problem is recognising that it exists. Answered by Shaykh Salim Ahmad Mauladdawila
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