“If you find yourself in a habitual pattern of sin and are not experiencing any consequences, fall on your knees immediately and repent. Cry out to the Lord for mercy. Let your heart default to running to God. Why? Because you are being set up for a fall. Satan doesn’t just want your hand slapped. He wants to destroy you. He plays for keeps. Sin is not a game, a diversion to occupy your free time. It is a deadly enemy that must be dealt with by taking decisive action. … Keep short accounts with God. Invite his discipline as evidence of his gracious love for you.”
—Wayne Cordeiro
“Don’t ever leave off making du’aa nor allow what [bad deeds] you commit to prevent you from it, for indeed Allaah answered the du’aa of Iblees (the Devil) and he is the most evil of creation [when he said to Allaah] “Grant me respite until the Day in which they will be resurrected.’ He (Allaah) said, ‘Indeed you are from those who are granted respite.' [7:14-15] ”
—Ibn `Uyaynah (Rahimahullaah), Ash-Shu’aab 2/1147
سَابِقُوا إِلَى مَغْفِرَةٍ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَجَنَّةٍ عَرْضُهَا كَعَرْضِ السَّمَاء وَالأَرْضِ أُعِدَّتْ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرُسُلِهِ
“Race toward forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden whose width is like the width of the heavens and earth, prepared for those who believed in Allah and His messengers..”
[Surat al-Hadeed; 21]
