Who is Allah? When we know who He is, we are comforted to come vulnerably and wholeheartedly trusting that He will accept us for who we are. Essentially, knowing who Allah is helps us come as we are. Look at the description of Himself in this one verse. This is who Allah is. He is the One who will take you in after you have slipped, who will accept you with your flaws, and will not judge you because of your past. Unlike many relationships of our time, our relationship with Allah is perpetually forgiving, loving, and embracing. In this verse, as He attributes us to Him saying we are His servants, He then affirms that He will accept our repentance. What does that allude to? That we WILL sin. We WILL make mistakes. But the key is that He will still love us and accept us regardless. Imagine yourself running in a race but then find yourself veering off the path, then suddenly someone takes the torch from you and tells you 'I got it from here.' That is God in our life. All we have to do is seek Him, connect with Him, beg Him, and run to Him in repentance. Next, Allah says He will completely erase our sins as if they never existed; a spiritual cleansing. A scholar was once asked what particular sins were included in this verse, and as the questioner kept listing sin after sin, the scholar kept repeating this part of the verse, 'And He forgives all sins.' When we come to Him with sincerity, Allah meets us with unmatched acceptance. The final words in this verse are what strike me the most. Allah is saying 'And He knows what you do.' Wow. Allah knows how messed up we are and He is STILL wanting to forgive us. A actually, BECAUSE of who you are, He WANTS to forgive you. He knows every single time we’ve slipped up and is still time after time, meeting us with the same care and mercy. His knowledge of our actions does not change His immense characteristic of love and forgiveness for us. It is always unequivocally there.

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I'm gonna come back to this verse and reflection. So profound. So much to contemplate over. SubhanAllah!

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