بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته
الحمد الله
How many times do we tell ourselves that we will repent later and not now? How many times we hear people saying, “I am young, let me enjoy. I will repent when I will be old!” Are we waiting for death to strike us unawares when we have not repented? Till how long will we allow
Shayṭān to deceive us? Allāh سبحانه و تعالى gives us the answer for this question by describing the people of
Taqwa for whom Paradise is the reward,
وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً أَوْ ظَلَمُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ ذَكَرُوا اللَّهَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُوا لِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَمَن يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَلَمْ يُصِرُّوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلُوا وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ
And those who, when they have committed Fahishah or wronged themselves with evil, remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their sins; - and none can forgive sins but Allah - And do not persist in what (wrong) they have done, while they know.[1]
Anas bin Mālik رضي الله عنه said, “I was told that when this Ayah, was revealed,
Iblīs cried.”
[2]
Mujāhid رحمه الله said, “These are two sins;
Fāḥishah is one sin and their
Dhulm upon themselves is another sin.”
[3]
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[1]Surat `Al ‘Imrān, 3:135
[2] Tafsīr Al Qur’ān Al Karīm (Ibn Kathīr)
[3] Jāmi‘ Al Bayān Fī Tafsīr Al Qur’ān (Aṭ-Ṭabarī)