Asking of Forgiveness of Allah – Repentance
Son! If shaitan puts ‘waswasa’ in your heart and instigates you to oppose Allah, don’t forget to ask for Allah’s forgiveness. Immediately ask for Allah’s forgiveness.
Repentance destroys sins.
(Usul-e-Kafi-2, p. 422)
Always ask for Allah’s forgiveness. God knows, when you may sin without being aware of it.
Son! Remember, ‘Tauba’ does not mean asking for Allah’s forgiveness and then continue sinning. This is not ‘Tauba’. It is like making fun of Allah. ‘Tauba consists of 6 things:
(1) To repent for previous sins.
(2) To make firm resolution that in future he will desist from committing such sins.
(3) To give people their rights, dues and if he has done ‘ghibat’ then to ask for forgiveness.
(4) If he has failed in performing his duties, then to do ‘qaza’.
(5) To reduce, by crying, the flesh which has developed in the body by ‘Haram’ money, so much so that only skeleton remains and then flesh develops anew.
(6) To bear as much hardship in the obedience of Allah as he had derived from committing a sin.