Our valuable lives are passing in committing sins, making mistakes, and doing what is wrong. Therefore, it will be pleasant for us to converse on tawba, on hanging the head in shame towards Allâhu ta’âlâ, and to talk about wara’ and taqwâ. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in the thirty-first âyat of Sûrat-un-Nûr: “O Believers! Make tawba and ask Allah’s pardon, you all! You can be saved only if you make tawba.” He declares in the eighth âyat of Sûrat-ut-Tahrîm, which is at the end of the twenty-eighth juz’ (section) of the Qur’ân: “O, you, chosen people who have îmân! Return to Allâhu ta’âlâ! Repent sincerely! That is, do not break your repentance! If you repent in this manner, maybe your Allah will forgive you and will put you into Paradise, where there are trees and villas beneath which water flows.” He declares in the hundred and twentieth âyat of Sûrat-ul-An’âm: “Avoid sins, whether they are evident or secret.” It is fard-i ’ayn[1] for everybody to repent for their sins. Nobody can escape tawba. How can anyone ever escape it, despite the fact that all Prophets ‘’alaihimussalawâtu watteslîmât’ used to make tawba? Muhammad ‘’alaihi wa ’alaihimussalawât’, who was the final and the greatest of all, stated: “A curtain [that prevents divine lights from coming] gets drawn across my heart. Therefore, I say istighfâr [2] seventy times each day.”
