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On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (PBUH), from among the things he reports from his Lord (mighty and sublime be He), is that he said:
A servant [of Allah's] committed a sin and said: O Allah, forgive me my sin. And He (glorified and exalted be He) said: My servant has committed a sin and has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins and punishes for them. Then he sinned again and said: O Lord, forgive me my sin. And He (glorified and exalted be He) said: My servant has committed a sin and has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins and punishes for them. Then he sinned again and said: O Lord, forgive me my sin. And He (glorified and exalted be He) said: My servant has committed a sin and has known that he has a Lord who forgives sins and punishes for sins. Do what you wish, for I have forgiven you.
It was related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari).
On the authority of Abu Harayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Prophet (PBUH) said:
Allah the Almighty said:
I am as My servant thinks I am (1). I am with him when he makes mention of Me. If he makes mention of Me to himself, I make mention of him to Myself; and if he makes mention of Me in an assembly, I make mention of him in an assemble better than it. And if he draws near to Me an arm's length, I draw near to him a fathom's length. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed.
(1) Another possible rendering of the Arabic is: "I am as My servant expects Me to be". The meaning is that forgiveness and acceptance of repentance by the Almighty is subject to His servant truly believing that He is forgiving and merciful. However, not to accompany such belief with right action would be to mock the Almighty.
It was related by al-Buhkari (also by Muslim, at-Tirmidhi and Ibn-Majah).
A Muslim has 3 feelings towards Allah;
love, hope, and fear. The servant of Allah's fear should be used to avoid doing evil, his hope should be for Allah's Mercy so he doesn't despair, his love should be continuous which keeps the servant going forward.
Regret is one of the keys to an acceptable repentance, so ask Allah to forgive you, and to hide you your sins, and insha Allah He will be Merciful to you and hide your sins.
The believer fears his sins like a mountain on his head, but the hypocrite sees them as something little. So the believer repents to Allah, while the hypocrite, or if the person is weak in emaan thinks to himself that he will repent later on.
also read;
happiness in islam;
http://www.islamicboard.com/new-musl...ess-islam.html
it explains that Allah gives the believer a good life, the disbeliever has a narrow and constricted life. Understand it correctly, and apply it in your life.
...Never give up hope of Allah's Soothing Mercy: truly no one despairs of Allah's Soothing Mercy, except those who have no faith." [Qur'an 12:87]