When you truly and sincerely turn towards Almighty Allah after repenting on all your past sins and wrong actions, Allah truly pardons the sins of the repentant sinner. This, Allah assures ‘Momineens’ and ‘Muslemeens’ in the Holy Quran again and again. The ‘Kalima’, ‘Laillaha illah’ – “there is no god but Allah”, when recited, should be with single minded devotion and certainty of faith; that you have turned away truly and sincerely from all that is other than Allah, from the idol worship of every kind and nature, false deities both in the mind, heart and spirit. It is the turning away not only from the myths and mythologies but also from the sins of the heart like worshipping the pleasures of the world, of aggrandisement of wealth, covetousness, lust, greed, jealousy, hatred, suspicion and all other negative feelings and that you have adopted the true worship of Allah with deep devotion by total surrender and submission to His commands and laws. The love of the Lord Almighty for achieving ‘As Sakina’ of the heart and ‘Qalb-e-Saleem’, pure heart, should be with certainty of faith. You should feel that the Lord’s mercy, clemency and compassion has surrounded you and that you have truly become humble, simple and sublime, that you have reached the truth and shunned falsehood. Only then, Holy Quran assures the faithful that Islam has entered your heart and soul. A true Musalmaan is a gifted person with enormous large heartedness, always kind, compassionate, loving and forgiving. A true Musalmaan is truly peaceful in all his behaviour, actions and deeds. He does not indulge in bickering, backstabbing, slander, mudslinging, jealousy, hatred and suspicion instead adopts a posture of patience, fortitude and total surrender to the almighty Allah. He believes that he is guided by Allah, by His commands and therefore acquires the knowledge of ‘Sunna’ and perfects himself in terms of the precepts of Holy Prophet (PBUH), his companions and saints. He follows the footsteps of the ‘Saliheens, ‘Sadiqueens’ and ‘Shuheda’, those who are doing good deeds, the truthful and those who bear witness to the unity of God hood. The life of a true follower is indeed a blessed one, as he joins the ranks of ‘Mutaqueens’ , the awe inspired ones, ‘Shakireens’ and ‘Sabireens’, the contented and the patient.
A True Worshipper