I read your questions and answers and this is mine: how an adultery woman can be saved? I read that if she repents sincerly she can be forgiven.At the same time I know that this is a really bad sin in Islam and it is not forgivenable.
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I read your questions and answers and this is mine:
how an adultery woman can be saved?
I read that if she repents sincerly she can be forgiven.At the same time I know
that this is a really bad sin in Islam and it is not forgivenable.
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Answer:
Shirk unforgivable
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His
help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide,
and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear
witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear
witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His
Messengers.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah
Zumur verses 53-54:
(O Prophet) say: “O My servants who have
wronged their own souls….Do not despair of Allah’s Mercy! Surely,
Allah forgives all sins.
He indeed is the All Forgiving,
All Merciful. Return to your
Lord and submit to Him before the scourge overtakes you; for then you may get no help from anywhere.”
As grave a sin or sins as one might have committed in
one’s past in ignorance never never never ever should a believer ever despair
of the unlimited, infinite, and the magnitude of the Mercy and Forgiveness of
their Lord Most Merciful…..for as long as one turns back to their Lord in
‘taubah’ and seek sincere repentance for their past sins, absolutely regardless
of the gravity of the sins, the Lord Most Gracious Most Merciful has Promised
in His Glorious Book of Guidance that not only will He turn in Mercy towards
those who sincerely repent and forgive them ALL their past sins, He will change
their evil deeds into good deeds in their Book of Records with Him!
The conditions or ways to seek sincere ‘Taubah’ or
Repentance from the Merciful Lord are:
- One
is aware that he has sinned, and feels sorry and ashamed at his sin.
- Makes
a solemn covenant and promise with Allah that he will not repeat his sin
again.
- Turns
to Allah and seeks forgiveness, before he has met with his appointment of
death.
- Is
a believer and does righteous good deeds thereafter.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 3 Surah Ale
Imraan verse 135-136:
Allah likes such good people very much,
who, if ever they commit a base deed or
wrong their own soul by the commission of a sin, remember Allah instantly, and ask for forgiveness from Him for their
shortcomings. For who, but Allah,
can forgive sins? (And Allah
loves those) who do not knowingly persist in the wrongs they did. These will be rewarded with forgiveness from
Allah, and with Gardens beneath which
canals flow, and they will reside
therein forever! How excellent is the
reward of those who do good deeds!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 25 Surah
Furqaan verses 63-71:
The (true) servants of the Merciful are those
who walk humbly on the earth. When the
ignorant people behave insolently towards them,
they say, “Peace to you”; (And
those) who pass their nights in prostrating themselves and standing before
their Lord and pray, “O our Lord, save
us from the torment of Hell, for its
torment is killing! It is an evil
abode, and an evil resting place”. (And those) who, when they spend are neither extravagant, nor miserly,
but keep the golden mean between the two extremes. (And those) who do not invoke any god but
Allah Alone, nor kill a soul
unjustly, which Allah has
forbidden, nor commit adultery… He who
does this shall be punished for his sin,
and his torment shall be doubled on the Day of Resurrection, and he shall abide in a state of
ignominy; EXCEPT THE ONE WHO MAY HAVE
REPENTED (AFTER THOSE SINS), AND HAVE
BELIEVED AND DONE RIGHTEOUS DEEDS. For
then, Allah will change his evil deeds
into good deeds, and He is very
Forgiving and Merciful. In fact, one who repents and does righteous deeds, returns to Allah as one rightly should!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah
Anaam verse 54:
When those come to you who believe in Our
Signs, say: "Peace be on you! Your Lord had inscribed for Himself (the rule
of) Mercy. Verily if any of you did evil
in ignorance, and thereafter repented
and amended (his conduct), Lo! He is
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 2357 Narrated
by Abdullah ibn Mas'ud
Allah's Messenger (saws) said, "He who repents of a sin is
like him who has committed no sin."
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 2338 Narrated by Abdullah ibn Umar
Allah's Messenger (saws) said, "Allah
accepts a servant's repentance (taubah) till he gives up his spirit in
death."
Thus in conclusion sister, we absolutely assure you in the
Blessed Name of the Lord Most Merciful Most Gracious, there is absolutely no
sin one commits in the life of this world which the Lord Most Gracious is not
ready to forgive, even the most heinous abomination and a sin as grave as that
of ‘shirk’…..provided that one turns unto their Lord in ‘taubah’ and seeks
sincere forgiveness before they meet with their appointment of death….it is
expected that they will find their Lord Forgiving and Merciful.
The Messenger of Allah (saws) said: ‘All the
children of Adam are sinners, and the best (or most loved to Allah amongst
these sinners) are those who are constant in seeking sincere repentance (for
their sins from Him).’
Related by Muslim.
Your Question:….At the
same time I know that this is a really bad sin in Islam and it is not
forgivenable.
There is absolutely
no sin one commits which is unforgivable, provided one turns back in ‘taubah’
unto their Lord Most Merciful and seek sincere repentance for their sin before
they meet with their appointment of death…..for it is only when one is face to
face with the inevitable reality at death, that the doors of ‘taubah’ and
repentance are shut closed!
The one sin that the Lord Most Majestic Most Supreme has
singled out as absolutely unforgivable in the Hereafter is the abomination and
crime of ‘shirk’ or associating other gods with Allah Subhanah! Although the Lord Most Gracious is more than
willing to forgive one who commits even this most heinous of crimes if the
person seeks sincere repentance for their ‘shirk’ before they are faced with
the reality of death…..if (Allah forbid) one were to die in a state whereby
they did not seek sincere repentance for their ‘shirk’, their this crime is
absolutely and categorically declared as absolutely unforgivable in the life
Hereafter; as the Lord Most Majestic Most Supreme has made it incumbent upon
Himself never to forgive those who die in the state of ‘shirk’.
Allah says in the
Quran: Chapter 4 Surah An-Nisa Verse 48
Shirk (associating other deities with Allah) is the only sin that Allah
does not forgive, and He forgives, whomsoever He pleases, sins
other than this. For whosoever
associates any other partner with Allah, does indeed forge a big lie and
commits the most heinous sin
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah
Maidah verse 72:
Whoever commits ‘shirk’ (invoking anything with
Allah), Allah shall forbid for him
If other than the absolutely unforgivable abomination of ‘shirk’, one dies in a state
where one was not able to seek repentance for their (other) sins, their case
rests entirely with Allah Subhanah, Who Alone Will Decide on the Day of
Judgment whether to forgive the individual their sin/s or take a retribution
from them.
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 2332 Narrated by Anas ibn Malik ; AbuDharr
Allah's Messenger (saws) stated that Allah
High and Exalted Says: "Son of Adam, as long as you supplicate to Me and
hope in Me, I will pardon you in spite of what you have done, and I shall not
mind! O Son of Adam, if your sins were so numerous as to reach the lofty
regions of the sky, then you asked for My forgiveness, I would forgive you, and
I shall not mind! O Son of Adam, if you were to meet me (on the Day of
Judgment) with enough sins to fill the earth, then met Me not associating
(shirk) anything with Me , I would bring you as much pardon as would fill the
earth!"
Sahih Muslim Hadith 6499 Narrated by Abu Dharr Ghaffari
Allah's Messenger (saws) said that Allah, the
Exalted and Glorious, Stated: 'He who comes (on the Day of Judgment) with
goodness, there are in store for him ten like those and even more than those. And
he who comes with evil, it is only for that (evil) that he is called to
account. I even forgive him as I like, and he who meets Me (on the Day of
Judgment) in the state that his sins fill the earth, but not associating
anything with Me, I would meet Him with the same (vastness) of pardon (on My
behalf)."
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 8.96 Narrated by Safwan bin Muhriz
A man asked Ibn 'Umar, "What did you
hear Allah's Messenger (saws) saying regarding the ‘An-Najwa’ (secret talk
between Allah and His believing worshipper on the Day of Judgment)?" He
said, "(The Prophet (saws) said), 'One of you will come close to his Lord
till He will shelter him in His screen and Say: ‘Did you commit such-and-such
sin?’ The slave will say: ‘Yes.’ Then Allah will Say: ‘Did you commit such and
such sin?’ The salve will say: ‘Yes’. So Allah will make him confess (all his
sins, one by one..) and then the Lord will Say: ‘I screened them (did not
expose your sins) for you in the world, and Today I forgive them all for you!'
"
If one trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and
commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of never ever being misled; but if one believes, obeys and follows any
other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be
assured of being led astray.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only
due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me
alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is
the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister