I feel like I’m trapped in a cycle making the same mistakes again and again and afterward the guilt eats up me alive but it’s too late to undo the wrongs. I made a decision to move away from all the bad stuff in my life but my mistakes involve others too and I can’t help but be afraid of their opinions and respect of me. But then I think it’s between me and Allah and if I make enough effort, He will forgive me and it’s His opinion of me that matters and no one elses. If others want to walk away from me, that’s okay as long as I’m not damned. It would be so easy to not care about anyone else but Allah but there are important people in my life and I can’t forget their opinions. But people never forget your mistakes, especially if you make the same ones again and again. Oh god, this is eating away at me.
sarah u have to learn to stop repeating mistakes....
and yes Allah is Most Forgiving and He says it in The Quran that "His Mercy encompasses all things"....
i do not wish to divert ur attention to the verse which talks about people repeating the mistakes and then repenting and after a swinging period end up on the mistakes side....
but try to learn not to repeat ur mistakes....
and if men cant forgive, surely The Lord does forgive all that a person repents with a sincere heart....
Sarah, find out as to what makes you commit the same mistake over and over...People are people, they will NEVER forget what you have done once and when it is more than once even if the mistake was never yours than forget it altogether; when you say you are guilty of repeating it...it becomes their right to let you down. :)
One of the hardest lessons i learned is that you can't please everyone at the same time. i know some peoples' opinions matter a great deal to us. You know what, though, at the end of the day, think about it - what stands between you and Allah? No one. You are answerable to Him Alone for your deeds/niyat etc. Never let other peoples' opinions of you, stand in the way of doing what you know is right.
i wish to God someone had drummed that lesson into me at an early age. People will always, always, always find something to criticize about you (me, and everyone else). That's life. If it's not X, then it will be Y - they will do their darnedest to find some flaw somewhere. Before you go to sleep at night, ask yourself - who is there that stands between you and Allah ? No one. What matters is Allah's opinion of you, not any other human being's. Sounds harsh, but i think that's true. Never try to please everyone - setting yourself up to fall that way.
well it doesnt look like u want to make the same mistakes over again..so isnt it kinda good that people that are important to u remind u of that so that u wont make em again? like i said before u have strong will power so commit to urself to not makin em again n i am sure u can do it
hehe n i am sure people replying to this thread n bringin it up agian isnt helping but oh welll
