{"id":5839,"date":"2024-07-10T07:41:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/can-we-expect-god-to-forgive-a-believer-delinquent-in-his-religious-duties\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:19:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:19:01","slug":"can-we-expect-god-to-forgive-a-believer-delinquent-in-his-religious-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/can-we-expect-god-to-forgive-a-believer-delinquent-in-his-religious-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Expect God To Forgive A Believer Delinquent In His Religious Duties?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>My  name is Saeed Jabar and I study in Bradford College in UK. I just want  to know I cannot follow most of the Islamic rules because of my  laziness. Because of this sometime I think God will never leave me. I  have to burn in fire. This feeling keeps me from doing anything. I feel  embarrassed all the time. As you know we are not angels we are human  beings. Do you think seeing to all these things there is chance that God  can forgive me.<\/p>\n<p>  Regards,<\/p>\n<p>  Saeed Jabar<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>My dear brother, <\/p>\n<div><em>assalaam-o-alaykum<\/em><\/div>\n<div>No words can give you an answer better than what the Almighty has told us in the Qur\u2019\u0101n:<\/div>\n<div>Say:  O My servants! who have acted extravagantly against their own souls, do  not despair of the mercy of All\u0101h Surely All\u0101h forgives the faults  altogether Surely He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.<\/div>\n<div>And return to your Lord and submit to Him before there comes to you the punishment, then you shall not be helped.<\/div>\n<div>And  follow the best that has been revealed to you from your Lord before  there comes to you the punishment all of a sudden while you do not even  perceive (Qur\u2019\u0101n: 39:53 &#8211; 55)<\/div>\n<div>I can only add a tip from experience:<\/div>\n<div>If  you bound yourself to offer your daily prayers on time and to read a  specific number of verses of the Quran while understanding their  meanings as a routine (like 20 or 30 verses, not many), Insha&#8217;All\u0101h you  will always have a divine intensive to keep you in track.<\/div>\n<div>Regards,<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Farhad Shafti<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-04-02<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"5839\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My  name is Saeed Jabar and I study in Bradford College in UK. I just want  to know I cannot follow most of the Islamic rules because of my  laziness. Because of this sometime I think God will never leave me. I  have to burn in fire. This feeling keeps me from doing anything. I feel  embarrassed all the time. As you know we are not angels we are human  beings. Do you think seeing to all these things there is chance that God  can forgive me.<\/p>\n<p>  Regards,<\/p>\n<p>  Saeed Jabar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1243],"tags":[1247,1244,1248,1245,1246],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belief-in-the-hereafter","tag-believer","tag-delinquent","tag-duties","tag-forgive","tag-religious-duties"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can We Expect God To Forgive A Believer Delinquent In His Religious Duties? - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/can-we-expect-god-to-forgive-a-believer-delinquent-in-his-religious-duties\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can We Expect God To Forgive A Believer Delinquent In His Religious Duties? - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My name is Saeed Jabar and I study in Bradford College in UK. 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