Do not despair that Allah will not forgive you your sins — nor take His forgiveness for granted. A lecture on striking the balance between the two through tawbah, with heart-softening ahadith. By Shaykh Yasir Qadhi.
| Author | Yasir Qadhi |
| Format | Audio CD |
| Length (min) | 60 |
| Weight (lbs) | 0.12 |
Two errors, in opposite directions, and most people fall into one of them.
Do not despair that Allah will not forgive you for your sins, nor should you take Allah's forgiveness for granted. One must strive to strike a balance between the two by asking for tawbah from Allah for one's sins.
As Shaykh Yasir puts it in the lecture: "...you must strive to be the best of the sinners, because the best of the sinners ask for tawbah."
That reframing does something useful. It removes the impossible standard — you are not going to stop sinning entirely — and replaces it with one a person can actually meet.
We continue to commit acts of disobedience against our very purpose of existence, and often we do not notice. Shaykh Yasir warns against taking a lax attitude toward asking for forgiveness, and reminds us — using heart-softening ahadith — not to fall into despair or to neglect the importance of tawbah.
The narrations he draws on are the ones that describe how Allah receives the one who turns back, and they are among the most affecting texts in the whole tradition.
Anyone who has felt that a particular sin has put them beyond forgiveness — and equally anyone who has stopped noticing what they do. Both are addressed here.
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