MANY PEOPLE TALK to me about their struggles; about mistakes they’ve made, sins they’ve committed, addictions they yearn to overcome, relationships they regret. But regardless of the issue, there is one emotion that I’ve noticed threads through almost every struggle with the other: Incessant GUILT.
The guilt of these individuals is rooted in another belief: their inability to forgive themselves for what they did or are still struggling with doing. This is heightened by the fact that many of their families have conditioned them to feel guilty for possibly bringing shame and dishonor to themselves and their families, and by some communities that do not provide support for the development of individuals—and instead cast shame, judgment and isolation onto those who’ve made mistakes.
Thus, even when they’ve committed a sin years and years ago, they cannot forgive themselves and they do not feel they can find that forgiveness sometimes even from those they love, they feel that God, too, has not or will not forgive them.
Almighty doesn’t expect perfection from you. He knows you are a struggling, frustrated believer who is trying despite the falls. He knows you better than you know yourself. But that doesn’t diminish His love for you or His ability to forgive you. Don’t let anyone come between your relationship with your Creator and His forgiveness of you.
Don’t let your guilt, your inability to forgive yourself–or the way other people treat you–be what makes you think God doesn’t love you or want to forgive you. Turn to Him. He wants to accept you. Allow His love to enter your life.
"Almighty wants that He turns to you in forgiveness." [Q', 4:27]
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said,
"When Almighty completed the creation, he wrote in His book with him upon the throne: Verily, my mercy prevails over my wrath." Almighty's objective is not to punish people. Some people have the gross misconception, “Why did He create Man, if He was to punish him?” Almighty says that, “This is not My objective. However, those people become recipients of my punishment, who exceed all bounds of sinfull deeds. Moreover, My punishment is temporary and it serves to reform and to develop a sense of realisation. Out of His supreme generosity, Almighty has opened for His believing servants the doorways of His mercy and He engulfed all His creation with it. "Amongst my friends there shall be no sadness, mourning or grief." (Q' 10:62)
