Quote from Hearts Turn

Hearts Turn: Sinners, Seekers, Saints & the Road to Redemption

by Michael Sugich

Telltale Texts, Columbia, South Carolina, 2019          356 pages

Most young people have lost touch with traditional teaching. They pick up where their parents left off, for better or worse, or they are stuck with very, and sometimes grotesquely, imperfect teaching. They feel weak and unworthy, as if they’ve stepped beyond the pale. Somehow in the process they’ve lost sight of, or never completely understood, the fact that purification of the heart is a continuous turning.  (p. xiii)

According to the master ‘Abu ‘Ali al-Daqqaq, may God be well pleased with him, 'Repentance consists of three parts. Its beginning is Tawba (repentance), its middle part is Inaba (turning to God), and its end is awba (returning to God).' And Imam Al-Qushayri, may God be well pleased with him, comments on this saying, 'Whoever repents out of fear of [divine] punishment acquires a repentance (tawba). Whoever repents out of desire of [Divine] reward acquires turning to God (inaba). And whoever repents out of compliance with [divine] command, not out of desire for reward, nor out of fear of punishment (awba), acquires return to God.’   (p. xiv)

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