Wrongdoing, testing, forgiveness

[Aedina]

O God! You love to forgive, so forgive me.
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The Quran says that a believer will not be left with saying I believe and then be left alone, but he/she will be tested.

That’s one of the reasons why God created mankind, to test them and see who is best in deed (Quran).

And God said in the Quran that if a people did no wrong and asked God for forgiveness, God would replace that people with a people who would.

Doing wrong is natural, but not repenting and praying to God for forgiveness, is something unnatural only a disbeliever would do.

The disbelievers who die disbelieving in God etc, their deeds does not matter (Quran). They will enter the Hellfire.

But don’t think you will not enter Hell just because you say you are a Muslim. You can. Eternally, I don’t know, possibly not, possibly yes.

The believers who do wrong and evil, who do not repent and pray to God for forgiveness (sincerely), will get punished, unless he/she repents and pray to God for Forgiveness, then if it’s accepted or not is decided by God, and God is the Decider.

This entire life is only a means for the eternal Hereafter.

Thus, repent to God and pray and ask God for forgiveness for your sins, and if you can’t sincerely repent, ask God for help, for sometimes help is needed, for true repentance can be sometimes difficult.

I have done wrong in my life, and had I not been a believer, I would have been among the lost and destroyed.

But I have always believed in God, and after I failed the test with the devils ordained by God, I turned to the Lord of all worlds in repentance crying and begging for forgiveness, and I was forgiven, and had i not, I wouldn’t have been here now.

Just to bring forth one example of a wrong I did.

One can do wrong, but repent to God, like Adam (as) and his wife did, and then the decision belongs to God.

The highest goal is to enter Paradise, and not Hell. That’s the ultimate attainment (Quran). As I said, this life is only a means for the eternal Hereafter, so the highest goal is to succeed there.

May God pardon us and forgive us and have mercy upon us, and may God grant us Paradise, and may God protect us and save us from the Hellfire.

On God we rely, to Him, we shall certainly return.

 

[ahmadmuslim]

A heartfelt reminder
May Quran guide us all to sincere repentance and may God forgive us and grant us mercy.

 

[Aedina]

God is the Greatest, there is no god but God, all praise is due to God, God has Power over all things, and He is Capable of everything.
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Jonah (pbuh) is one example of a believer who got saved.

The Quran says that if he was not among those who glorified God much, he would have stayed in the whale’s stomach until the day of Resurrection.

And because he turned to God and repented and acknowledged he did wrong.

It doesn’t matter what the disbelievers do, if they do a lot of ‘good’ things or add up to their evil, they have disbelieved.

Only a psychopath or a disbeliever or both wouldn’t turn to God for forgiveness after having done a wrong or evil.

And they have made the greatest sin, but they don’t know nor perceive it.

I get petrified and terrified and disgusted just thinking about the disbeliever’s state of consciousness and existence in which he is in.

I am a believer and a Muslim until my death.

And never ever will I be a disbeliever.

That’s an actual impossibility.

Disgusting infidels, keep yourselves a long distance from me.

On God we rely, to Him we shall certainly return.

 

[Eric H]

Peace be with you and welcome to the forum,

Thanks for sharing, forgiveness is a profound subject. We ask Allah to forgive us, but can we forgive those who have harmed us? The more we can forgive those who have transgressed against us, the more we can try and understand how we can also be forgiven.

Civil wars can go on for decades, the injustice is passed forwards to children and grandchildren. They too will pass the injustice forwards to their children and grandchildren. At some point, there is the need to turn to God and search for ways to forgive and let go.

Sadly, Trump and America seem to have abandoned the love and forgiveness of Jesus, and replaced it with fear and hate.

My experience with forgiveness and peace.

I had worked for a care company for about ten years, and without a day off sick. I brought some troubling issues to the attention of the directors. Shortly after, I believe I was unfairly sacked. I still needed to earn a living at the age of 62.

When they said you are sacked, I asked if I could come back as a volunteer, they said No. Since being sacked, I have done about two thousand hours of voluntary work; for the company that sacked me. I wanted to keep in touch with the people I had been supporting.

I can truthfully say, it is easier to do two thousand hours of voluntary work, than to carry resentment and anger for ten years. Accepting the things you cannot change, gives you the power and motivation to do the things that are in your power to do.

I have felt totally at peace going back and seeing the people I hold responsible for my sacking. Forgiving helps us to be the kind and caring person we want to be.