Saturday, May 23, 2020

Islam critiqued still has hope; can anyone repent and be forgiven?

In answer to the video "Allah is NOT Forgiving, Merciful or Loving"

God not only accepts but also loves the sincerely repenting and reforming sinner 11:90. All those reforming themselves are eligible to forgiveness. Those who sin out of ignorance
16:119,17:25"Your Lord knows best what is in your minds; if you are good, then He is surely Forgiving to those who turn (to Him) frequently".
Or even the unjust, the traitor or hypocrite striving for the corruption of Islam from within 9:74,33:24 the mocker of God's revelation who does not really know the portent of his words 9:66, the misleaders concealers of the truth 2:159-160 the criminals even the opressors striving to destroy Islam but are in fact destroying their own souls. All of them are encompassed by God's merciful forgiveness once they turn to Him with resolve, and reform their ways
4:110,5:33-38,8:38-39,27:11,11:61"therefore ask forgiveness of Him, then turn to Him; surely my Lord is Nigh, Answering".
With the correct attitude, forgiveness comes without delay as demonstrated with the first ever human to have turned to God with a sincere heart and thus was immidiately shown the way to forgiveness and effectively forgiven (as denoted with "fa" 2:37). The attitude of seeking sincere repentence is of itself proof of moral awareness because people who do not have moral courage do not confess or condemn themselves even after their sins are revealed. They fear that if they confess once, they will lose their credibility forever. This weakness of theirs ties them up with sins and while speaking of such people the Quran says it is their pride, resilience in sin despite their awareness of it, that has taken them and driven them away from the right path 2:206,63:5.

All prophets, as reflected in the HB or the Quran, called their people to repentence, assuring them that God's loving mercy is within anyone's reach. After warning the Midianites of the consequences of their sins, the prophet Shuayb would urge them to
11:90"ask forgiveness of your Lord, then turn to Him; surely my Lord is Merciful, Loving-kind".
The prophet Muhammad is similarily told to
15:49"Inform My servants that I am the Forgiving, the Merciful".
The prophet in this Quran is in addition told to explain that God not only forgives the sins but also provides a covering of protection from future sins
40:55"and ask protection/ghafr for your fault and sing the praise of your Lord in the evening and the morning".
God is depicted as One who
14:10"invites you to forgive you your faults".
This is because He is
40:3"The Forgiver of the faults and the Acceptor of repentance".


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