Mu' meneen Brothers and Sisters,

As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.  (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)

One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:

Asalam-o-alikum,

i have done something very bad. i feel very nervous that AzabAllah will get me.

i was talking with someone and while talking about music. I was trying to explain that its haram to listen, promot, sing, distribute music, according to Surah Luqman. (31,6)

But while talking i said this

"well if u don`t belive Quran. Fxxx Quran but look at what science says even the science has proved that it affects human brain with depression"

i did not use Fxxx to be meant but after the discussion was over i m realy in bad situatino. i swaer to God i didn`t mean to dis respect Holy Quran i said it out of anger.

may be i was very reluctant in talking and makeing the point and out of carelessness it just slipped my tongue.

please tel me how i can repent my intention was to conveinve a fellow who wants to promot music and also sing and produce his own albums. we are muslims but i m really feeling bad for what i said. i my self i don`t listen to music.i don`t have a single cassatte.

i have started feeling that i m not a good muslim.

do you understand y i said that right?

please help me

JazakAllah alkhair

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Answer:

Seeking forgiveness

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 1.1 Narrated by Umar bin Al Khattab

I heard Allah's Messenger (saws) saying, "The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions, and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended.”

Your Question: please tel me how i can repent

Beloved Brother, it is evident from your message that you did not intend to dishonor the Glorious Book of The Supreme and Majestic Lord; but in your lapse, the accursed enemy of man, The Shaytaan inspired you to say something that you had no intention of saying. Your this feeling of your heart at the utterance of the evil term is evidence that you are sincerely repentant at what happened, and that precise feeling is the state of repentance that is so loved by our Lord Most Merciful for His believing slaves.

The conditions or ways to seek sincere Taubah or Repentance from the Merciful Lord are:

One is aware that he has sinned, and feels sorry and ashamed at his sin.

Makes a solemn covenant and promise with Allah that he will not repeat his sin again.

Turns to Allah and seeks forgiveness, before he has met with his appointment of death.

Is a believer and does righteous good deeds thereafter.

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah Zumur verses 53-54: (O Prophet) say: “O My servants who have wronged their own souls….Do not despair of Allah’s Mercy! Surely, Allah forgives all sins. He indeed is the All Forgiving, All Merciful. Return to your Lord and submit to Him before the scourge overtakes you; for then you may get no help from anywhere.”

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 3 Surah Ale Imraan verse 135-136: Allah likes such good people very much, who, if ever they commit a base deed or wrong their own soul by the commission of a sin, remember Allah instantly, and ask for forgiveness from Him for their shortcomings. For who, but Allah, can forgive sins? (And Allah loves those) who do not knowingly persist in the wrongs they did. These will be rewarded with forgiveness from Allah, and with Gardens beneath which canals flow, and they will reside therein forever! How excellent is the reward of those who do good deeds!

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah Anaam verse 54: When those come to you who believe in Our Signs, say: "Peace be on you! Your Lord had inscribed for Himself (the rule of) Mercy. Verily if any of you did evil in ignorance, and thereafter repented and amended (his conduct), Lo! He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."

Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 8.799 Narrated by Sahl bin Sad

The Prophet (saws) said, "Whoever guarantees me (the chastity of) what is between his legs (i.e. his private parts), and what is between his jaws (i.e., his tongue), I guarantee him Paradise."

May Allah Subhanah forgive you and us for the errors we commit in our ignorance, have Mercy upon you and us, help you and us, guide you and us, and save you, us, and all the believers from the torment of the Hell Fire. Ameen.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your Brother in Islam,

Burhan