Tawbah (Repentance)

Imagine being in a dark, deep hole. All alone. You lay there, almost comatose and cry out for someone to help. But no one responds. Then imagine this, if you had remembered through all this, Allah (SWT) was there. Listening to your cries and waiting for you to call onto Him. In the Quran, Allah mentions,

"And when My servants ask you, [O Muhammad], concerning Me - indeed I am near. I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me. So let them respond to Me [by obedience] and believe in Me that they may be [rightly] guided."
[Al-Baqarah, verse 186]

Look closely at the verse above. Allah (SWT) directly ensures us in His magnificent book that when we CALL onto Him, HE RESPONDS! There is never a chance in which he doesn't respond to His Servants. SubhanAllah! Throughout our daily lives, we blindly carry about ...not knowing what is to happen next. School, work, family, and friends become a distraction and at the time, everything seems to be just GOOD! But when the pages turn and distress hits, this is when we as humans should turn to Allah(SWT) and plead for mercy. We have simply forgotten  about Allah (SWT) and convinced ourselves that with the sins we've accumulated, there isn't a chance to be forgiven. But know that Allah forgives all sins and will forgive you. Just ask. The best among you are the ones who commit sins but turn to Him, seeking Tawbah (Repentance). 

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."

[Az-Zumar, verse 53]

4 conditions of making Tawabah:

1. First, leave the sin.

2. Regret ever committing that sin and remorse deeply about that which you've done.

3. Promise to never go back to it ever again.

4. Make amends with those you've wronged and ask for forgiveness.