Repentance
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The narrator wrote to Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s.) to let him know those deeds, which will keep him along with Imam (a.s.) in this world and the hereafter. Imam (a.s.) replied, "Recite Innaa anzalnaa (Surah Qadr) extensively and your tongue should not stop from repenting."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 215 link
Imam Muhammad (a.s.) narrates that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said, "One who has Astaghfirullaah written under each of his sin on the Day of Judgment is indeed fortunate."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 215 link
"One who seeks forgiveness of Allah seventy times after the Morning Prayer Allah forgives him even if he has committed seventy thousand sins in the previous day and one who has committed more than seventy thousand sins there is no good for him."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 215/216 link
[It is] when the inner self becomes identical to the outer behavior, and even better than it.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 6, p. 22, no. 20; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 788 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
If you commit a misdeed, hasten to erase it with repentance.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 208, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 788 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
The one who procrastinates in repenting for himself faces the greatest danger from the [sudden] attack of death.
Mustadrak al-Wasa`il, v. 12, p. 130, no. 13707; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 788 link
Postponing repentance is an illusion, and long procrastination is perplexity
Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 456; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 789 link
The man who has no debt to people is more comfortable than the one indebted, even if he repayed his debt; and similarly the man who has not committed any sins is more comfortable than he who has committed sins, even if he has sincerely repented and returned [to the right path].
Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 392; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 789 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Abandoning sin is easier than asking for forgiveness
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 73, p. 364, no. 96; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 789 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Allah turns mercifully to the one who repents, and his limbs are ordered to keep his secret, and all the places on earth to conceal for him [his sin], and the record-keeping angels to forget whatever they wrote about him.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 6, p. 28, no. 32; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 789 link
Allah, the Exalted, revealed to Prophet David [Prophet David (AS) is known in the Arabic tradition as Dawud (ed.)] peace be upon him and on our Prophet, 'O David! When My believing servant commits a sin and then returns [to Me] and repents for that sin and is ashamed in My presence every time he remembers it, I will forgive him and cause the recording angels to forget it and change it to count as a good deed, and I will not care about it further, for I am the most Merciful
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 6, p. 28, no. 30; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 790 link
A man said one day, 'I swear by Allah that He will not forgive so and so.' Allah, the Exalted, said, 'Who is he to foretell about what I will do that I will not forgive this man? I indeed have forgiven him and annulled the work of the foretelling man because of his saying, 'Allah will not forgive him.
Wasael al-Shi`aah, v. 11, p. 267, no. 13; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 790 link
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