Al-Furqan 71: Those who repent and commit good deeds will certainly return to Allah, having their repentance accepted.

We have come to verse 71 of Surah Al-Furqan. "Whoever repents and does good, surely he, his repentance accepted, returns to Allah." Yes.

Shall I read this part again? Some things are coming to my mind now. Let me say that too. "Whoever repents and does good, surely he, his repentance accepted, returns to Allah." Well, I am going to ask you a question now. Is there a repentance Allah Almighty does not accept, that He says this?

Doesn't He say, as At-Tawwab, in verse after verse, "I accept repentance abundantly"? Isn't that so? What does it say here? Who is that? "Whoever repents and does good, surely he, his repentance accepted, returns to Allah."

O people!

According to the verse "Who is more true to his word than Allah?", if you repent but then abandon your repentance, take Satan as your guide, and then plunge into that swamp with worldly desires, if you long for the zaqqum flower blooming in that swamp and chase after it, if you get stuck in that swamp, then when you go to the hereafter without faith, your repentance no longer helps you. It's understood, I suppose. Look how beautifully it says it here. That is the beauty of life. "Whoever repents and does good, surely he, his repentance accepted, returns to Allah." That is, when he says, "I was a sinner, forgive my sin, I will no longer turn to anything but Your essence, I have believed in You and have faith," his repentance is accepted. He returns to Allah with his repentance accepted.

He repented, but then went back on it, plunged into kufr, departed without faith — of course Allah Almighty, "We will not keep account for them," He says, "We will not keep (?)," He says. Now, a person realizes that the path he is on is a swamp and a dead end. He turns to Allah with faith and repents. And if from then on he vows never again to do evil and becomes a good person, surely this person returns to Allah, his repentance accepted. "In this verse there is great good news for those who remain repentant," we wrote. There is great good news for those who remain repentant. He returns to Allah with his repentance accepted.

The meaning here is: if Allah has accepted people's repentance, He has cleansed them of sins, that is what it means. And if a person returns to Allah Almighty with his repentance accepted, then from his sins he has returned to Allah Almighty cleansed. Since Allah Almighty has promised people that a sinless person will enter paradise, this person becomes one of the people of paradise. Isn't that so? Yes. If he returns to Allah, it is with his repentance accepted. Allah Almighty gives good news like this: "Keep to repentance. We accept repentance abundantly. Do not incline to any god other than Me.

Be grateful for what Allah has given. Do not be ungrateful. Know by whom the blessings I have given you were given." A person eats and drinks these, and "My Allah, thanks be to You for the blessings You have given. Whatever comes from You (?). You do not load on a person a burden one cannot bear" — when he says this, how beautifully he has taken refuge in Allah. Yes.

That is Allah's abundant and vast mercy toward people; would people flee from this abundant and vast mercy and say, "I will by all means remain (?) in my wrongdoing"? What more should Allah do for a person? Allah opens so many doors of opportunity to man and, with the partial will He placed in man's own hands, leaves him alone with his destiny without interfering; as a result, man wronging his own self so much — does it not show that man is very unjust and treacherous toward his own self? But why does man commit such injustice and treachery against his own self? Why?

In the (?) realm, Allah made a covenant with our souls; because He created people almost exactly like His essence, man took his Creator lightly and did not believe. Just as in this world those who did not believe in the Prophet (peace be upon him), who came as the Seal of the Prophets, took him lightly, just as the ancient peoples, too, did not believe their prophets and took them lightly. Just as man, in doubt, does not expect to be resurrected, so his being aware of Allah's existence as well, his waiting for the Allah of his imagination, and no such being appearing, cause unrest in the deniers, and so their hearts are in a scattered state. Therefore they think that by denying Allah's verses they will find peace. And thus they become very unjust and treacherous toward their own selves.

Yes. Now, every intellect knows that it was created. So what does this mean? There is a Lord who created me, there is an Allah. But because Allah Almighty gave man a part of His spirit, He creates man with the forms of the essence. Our Lord, too, has forms of the essence. That (?) Lord, who in (?) appears to people in that form of the essence, Allah Almighty, that He created, Allah Almighty, (?) in our souls — those deniers, because they waited for the spirit of their own imagination, for the Lord, because they waited — rather, because they waited for the Lord of their imagination, because they likened ourselves — that is, our Lord who created us — to ourselves, they could not believe.

Well, the same things are happening here too. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "I am Allah's messenger," and despite his showing miracles, they call him a sorcerer. Well, today I go somewhere. I talk with some people. I talk with professors. I show the professors the truth, the verses. "No such thing," he says. Still, within (?), sir, they try to defend their own knowledge. He doesn't call it wrong with his reason; (?) right (?) the book I wrote. "It's right," he says. "Both are right," he says. Can two right answers stand together? I mean, this professor says both are right. That is, although in one of them the explanation ascribes attributes to Allah, "it is this person's," he says, "in that form," he says, "understanding," he says.

But can a person's understanding bind Allah? Allah is the one who shows man the truth.

Well, I mean, despite seeing the truth, despite knowing what is right, the person cannot go beyond the commitment he has made. Of the wrong together with the right, he says both are right. A professor says this. Allah has proven His existence with complete clarity. Whoever says "Allah", whoever recites the testimony of faith, has attained salvation. People will find Allah forgiving. Allah will admit them into His paradise.