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Conceptual Analysis of Spiritual Life … A.Q Sabbah and H. Bergbauer / (103

                  So    once     you    become       there is no way to hell, but God
               suspicious of others, remember        says you can control your mind
               that  Allah  doesn’t  punish  a       because whatever your sin was,
               believer  after  his  repentance      It  has  passed  and  if  the  sin  or

               and     seeking     forgiveness,      guilt  leaves  you  in  regret,
               except for his bad faith in God,      beware  of  despair  of  God’s
               for  his  shortcomings  and  his      mercy,  so  may  this  guilt  be
               bad  manners  and  backbiting         your means of getting close and
               the believers.                        your  guide  to  the  way  and
                  There  are  some  signs  that      remember  that  Allah  loves

               God does not forgive quickly in       those    who      repent,    and
               return,  and  perhaps  I  mean  by    whomever He loves, he guides
               them  mental  sins;  that  is,  God   and saves.
               forgives them with difficulty or         I will also talk about  God’s
               does  not  forgive  them,  as  it     hand  in  everything  and  how
               came  in  the  novels  that  God      God  manages  the  arrangement
               forgives  all  sins  except  for  a   of our events, which embodies

               specific  sin  that  forms  in  the   a great moral space. How many
               mind, so what is this sin? Is it      times  have  we  said,  O  hidden
               adultery, theft, murder? No, of       kindness, deliver us from what
               course, these are sins that God       we fear. (Ford, 2008)
               forgives;  but  the  sin  that  God       •  How  many  times  have
               does  not  forgive  is  the  sin  of         we  felt  divine  kindness

               distrusting him.                             intervene and save us in
                  A person who cannot control               the most difficult moments?
               his  mind  and  what  directly
               comes  to  his  mind.  God  will         If  the  duty  requires  you  to
               not  forgive  his  sin  and  that     throw  what  you  have  into  the
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