“If Allah were to punish people for their wrong actions, not a single creature would be left on Earth.” (Qur’an, 16: 61)

“Does not humanity recall that We created it when it was nothing?” (Qur’an, 19: 67)

“O humanity. You are the poor in need of Allah, whereas Allah is the Rich Beyond Need, the Praiseworthy.” (Quran, 35:15)

“O humanity. What has deluded you in respect of your Noble Lord—He Who created you, formed you, proportioned you, and assembled you in whatever way He willed?” (Quran, 82:6-8)

“There is no way out for you in Earth or heaven. You have no protector or helper besides Allah.” (Quran, 29:22)

“Do you think that this woman would ever throw her child into the fire?”

“No! She would never do that!”

“Allah is more merciful to His servants than this woman to her child!”²

“And of His signs is that He created for you, from yourselves, mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy.

Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.” (Qur’an 30:21)

“If you tried to number Allah’s blessings, you could never count them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful” (Surat an-Nahl, 18).

“Including the children of the non-Muslims?”

“Three [types] of people don’t have their deeds recorded; a child until he reaches puberty, an insane man until he comes to his senses, and one who is asleep until he wakes up.”¹⁶

“And We (i.e., Allah) never punish [people] until We have sent [to them] a Messenger [to give warning].” (Quran 17:15)

“Then Adam received Words [of forgiveness] from his Lord, and He accepted his repentance.

Verily, He is the One Who repeatedly accepts repentance, the Most Merciful.” (Quran 2:37)

“…No person earns any [sin] except against himself [only], and no bearer of burdens shall bear the burden of another…” (Quran 6:164)

“…No person earns any [sin] except against himself [only], and no bearer of burdens shall bear the burden of another…” (Quran 6:164)

“Whoever comes [on the Day of Judgement] with a good deed will have ten times the like thereof [to his credit], and whoever comes with an evil deed will not be recompensed except the like thereof; and they will not be wronged.” (Qur’an, 6: 160)

“Verily, Allah has ordered [His Angels] that the good and the bad deeds [of human beings] be written down [to be as evidence for or against him on the Day of Judgment].

Then He explained: He who intends to do a good deed but does not do it, then Allah will record it for him as a full good deed; but if  he carries out his intention, then Allah, the Exalted, will write it down for him as from ten to seven hundred folds, and even more.

But if he intends to do an evil act but does not do it, then Allah will write it down with Him as a full good deed, but if he intends it and then does it, then Allah will write it down as one bad deed.”¹⁸

“Except for those who repent, believe and do righteous work.

For them Allah will replace their evil deeds with good.

And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” (Qur’an, 25: 70)

“Say, ‘O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah.

Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.’” (Qur’an, 39 :35)

“Allah loves those who frequently turn to Him in repentance and those who purify themselves.” (Qur’an, 2 :222)

“If you did not commit sins and turn to Allah seeking His forgiveness, He would have replaced you with another people who would sin, ask Allah’s forgiveness and He would forgive them.”¹⁹

“Allah is more delighted with the repentance of His servant than one of you who suddenly finds his camel laden with supplies after losing it in a barren land.”²⁰

“O son of Adam, I forgive you so long as you pray to Me and ask for My forgiveness, whatever sins you have committed.

O son of Adam, If your sins were to reach the height of the heaven, then you ask for my forgiveness, I would forgive you.

O son of  Adam, if you were to come to Me with an earth load of sins, and meet Me, ascribing no partner to Me,²² I would match it with an earthload of forgiveness.”²³

“Allah, the Exalted, stretches His Hand during the night so that those who committed sins during the day may repent, and He stretches His Hand during the day so that those who committed sins during the night may repent. He keeps doing so until the sun rises from the West (i.e., until the end of time).”²⁴

“…He who comes closer to Me one span, I come closer to him a cubit; and he who comes closer to Me a cubit, I come closer to him a fathom; and if he comes to Me walking, I come to him running.”²⁵

“While a man was walking on his way he became extremely thirsty.

He found a well, he went down into it to drink water.

Upon leaving it, he saw a dog which was panting out of thirst.

His tongue was lolling out and he was eating moist earth out of extreme thirst.

The man thought to himself: ‘This dog must be extremely thirsty as I was.’

So he descended into the well, filled up his leather sock with water, and holding it in his teeth, climbed up and quenched the thirst of the dog.

Allah appreciated his action and forgave his sins.”

The Companions [of the Prophet] asked:

“Are we rewarded [by Allah] for showing kindness to animals too?”

He said, “A reward will be given when kindness is shown to any living creature.”²⁶

“When a servant [of Allah] washes his face, every sin he contemplated with his eyes will be washed away along with the last drop of water; when he washes his hands, every sin they committed will be washed off from his hands with the last drop of water; and when he washes his feet, every sin towards which his feet have walked will be washed away with the last drop of water. So that he comes out pure from all sins.”²⁷

“Say, if there were a river at the door of one of you in which he takes a bath five times a day, would any soiling remain on him?”

The Prophet’s Companions replied, “No soiling would be left on him.”

The Prophet said, ”That is the five (obligatory) Salats (prayers).

Allah obliterates all sins as a result of performing them.”²⁸

“If anyone performs Wudu’ properly, then comes to the Friday prayer, listens to the Khutbah (i.e., Imam’s lecture) attentively and keeps silent, his [minor] sins between that Friday and the following one will be forgiven, with the addition of three more days…”²⁹

“Every slave of Allah that fasts one day for Allah’s sake, Allah will put him the distance that can be covered by 70 years from Hell.”³⁰

“He who fasts the month of Ramadan out of faith and seeking its reward from Allah, will have his past sins forgiven.”³¹

“Whoever makes pilgrimage to this House (Ka’ba) and does not have sexual relations with his wife nor commit sins (during Hajj) will return (sinless) the way his mother bore him.”³²

“The sins done between two Omrahs (Umrahs) are expiated by them.”³³

“Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, but He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills.

And he who associates others with Allah has certainly fabricated a tremendous sin.” (Qur’an, 4:48)

“Those who denied (i.e., disbelieved in) Our Signs (i.e., Allah’s Revelations, Verses, Miracles in creation, etc.) and the meeting of the Hereafter – their deeds have become worthless.

Are they recompensed except for what they used to do?” (Qur’an, 7:147)

“But repentance is not [accepted] of those who [continue to] do evil deeds up until, when death comes to one of them, he says,

‘Indeed, I have repented now,’ or of those who die while they are disbelievers.

For them We have prepared a painful punishment.” (Qur’an, 4:18)

“Allah, most Great and Glorious, will accept His sevant’s repentance until his death rattle begins.”³⁴