Al-Anfal 29: Oh you believers! If you fear Allah, Allah will give you a reasoning that will enable you to distinguish between the right and wrong, Allah will cover your bad deeds and Allah will forgive you. Allah is the possessor of great mercy.
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Oh you believers! If you fear Allah, Allah will give you a reasoning that will enable you to distinguish between the right and wrong, Allah will cover your bad deeds and Allah will forgive you. Allah is the possessor of great mercy.
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O you who believe! If you fear Allah and seek refuge in Allah and obey Allah's commands and submit to Allah, Allah will put His light in the hearts of people, and with this light you will be able to distinguish between truth and falsehood. People's understanding will also increase. You will understand the verses of Allah (swt) better and perceive the subtleties in them. In this case, one gets closer to Allah (swt) and is careful not to make mistakes. When a person makes mistakes in his human capacity, he immediately repents and asks for forgiveness because he fears Allah. Allah (swt) accepts the repentance of such servants. He also covers their sins and makes them attain great heights in His sight.
Allah is the owner of great grace. What He wants from people is knowledge of Him. Obedience to Allah and His Messenger. Whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger in these ways, Allah will bestow great favors on such servants. They will prosper in this world and the Hereafter. Allah is the Glorified. Allah (swt) does not need anything. He has created His creation for His servants. He has sent Prophets and Books to guide them and bestow favors upon them. Whoever believes and has faith in these Books and Prophets, Allah will bestow upon such servants what they desire.
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(?) a little. O you who believe! If you fear Allah, He will give you an understanding to distinguish good from evil, He gives it. I'm not waiting, mind you! Allah loves this. Allah. What does it say? O you who believe! If you fear Allah, He will give you an understanding to distinguish good from evil.
What does Allah Almighty say in His verse? If this were a human fabrication, you would find in it many contradictions that do not agree with each other. And in another verse He says most people do not know inspiration. This verse supports that.
They do not know inspiration. What does it say? An understanding to tell good, bad, good apart, through inspiration to the soul, He teaches you. He opens your spiritual insight. He covers your misdeeds and forgives you. Because now you have turned to Him. You have known your helplessness. In that understanding you realized that you are your Lord's servant. So you have repented in the finest way. Yes. Because Allah is the possessor of great bounty, it says. You turned to Him, after all. And He said to you, "Labbayk, My servant." He embraced you, took you in. So He forgave your sins. Yes.
O you who believe! If you fear Allah, take refuge in Allah and Allah's commands observe, if you submit to Allah Almighty, Allah puts His light into people's hearts. With this light one reaches a state of distinguishing truth from falsehood. People's understanding increases. You understand the verses of Allah Almighty better and sense the subtleties in them. That is what He means by "Allah puts His light into the heart": He opens those realms of meaning to you. Through that inspiration He develops your mind, explains to you. It says most people do not know inspiration, after all. Your Lord speaking to your heart.
But let small minds not take it like this: Look, look, he has declared himself a prophet. He says revelation comes to him. Because a small mind takes it that way. That is how it understands. Or else those who crave to be leaders twist the words and speak this way. Revelation comes to a prophet. After this, neither will a prophet come nor will revelation come. Why? Because "With Us there is a Book preserved in the Preserved Tablet; nothing will later be added to it nor will a (?) be made" — with this verse the Holy Quran has been completed and sent to the worlds. So if one says to me, "Then what story are you telling?", I say: the clarifications of the words behind those verses (?) before us, which our minds do not grasp, and verses we cannot understand, He explains to us through inspiration, shows us realms of meaning and opens our insight.
Our insight. He raises our mind according to our degree. Of course. This is what speaking through inspiration is.
In this state a person draws closer to Allah Almighty and takes care not to err. For the mistakes he made as a human being, because he fears Allah, he immediately repents and asks forgiveness. And Allah Almighty accepts the repentance of such servants. Moreover, covering their sins, He grants them high ranks in His presence.
They are constantly afraid of committing sins. Meaning, because they constantly commit sins? No. They fear that they will commit them. And they refrain. (?) They always glorify Allah. They glorify Him, they remember Him. In every conversation, every trade, every purchase, every thought, with Allah. As He says in the verse, "I have such servants that neither buying nor trade keeps them from My remembrance," He says. Yes, in this state such people are constantly in remembrance of Allah Almighty.
Allah is the possessor of great bounty. What He wants from people is that His Being be known; that is, Allah is the possessor of great bounty. What He wants from people is that His Being be known, that Allah and His Messenger be obeyed. Whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger in these states, Allah grants such servants great favors.
He makes their life in this world and the hereafter flourish. Allah is self-sufficient. Allah Almighty needs nothing. He created what He created for His servants. To guide them and bestow favors on them, prophets and books He sent. Whoever believes in these books and prophets that were sent, has faith, Allah grants such servants their wishes.