Not Delaying Repentance: A Way to Overcome Devil’s Deception

[Abu Hafs]

[FONT=&quot]بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]الحمد الله[/FONT]
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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 [FONT=&quot]سبحانه و تعالى[/FONT] gives us the answer for this question by describing the people of Taqwa for whom Paradise is the reward,

[FONT=&quot]وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً أَوْ ظَلَمُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ ذَكَرُوا اللَّهَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُوا لِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَمَن يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَلَمْ يُصِرُّوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلُوا وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ[/FONT]
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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]
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Anas bin Mālik [FONT=&quot]رضي الله عنه[/FONT] said, “I was told that when this Ayah, was revealed, Iblīs cried.”[2]

Mujāhid [FONT=&quot]رحمه الله[/FONT] 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)