"Say: Oh My servants who believe! Fear your Lord. Good is the reward for those who do good deeds in this world. Spacious is Allah's earth! Those who patiently persevere will truly receive a reward without measure!"
In ayah 53 He says:
"Say: Oh My servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not the Mercy of Allah: for Allah forgives all sins: for He is oft-forgiving, Most Merciful."
Allah is addressing His slave in both of these ayaat, but He is addressing two different types of slaves. In this first example, He says "Oh My servants who believe!"
يَا عِبَادِ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
He is speaking to those who are believers, those who already have taqwa and have already surrendered themselves to Allah.
In the second example, Allah says "Oh My servants who have transgressed their souls!"
يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَى أَنفُسِهِمْ
Allah is speaking to His servant who have wronged themselves and are falling into sin, and have not yet fully submitted themselves to Him.
Notice the difference in the word servant in these two ayaat. When talking to the believers, He uses عِبَادِ and when He is speaking to the transgressors He uses عِبَادِيَ . Both words in Arabic still mean "my slaves", but they are in different statuses. The kasra on the last letter in عِبَادِ still denotes the posessive "my", but it is lacking the يَ and is less possessive. The believers already know that they are the slaves of Allah. For the servants who sin, عِبَادِيَ shows that Allah is subtly saying, no matter how much you have sinned, you are still MY slave, so don't lose hope from the Mercy of Allah. Allah is assuring them that repentance is still possible.
There are two extremes when it comes to the Mercy of Allah. There are the defeatists who think they are too evil to earn any forgiveness from Allah and they think there is no point in repentance. And are those who use Allah's Mercy as a crutch and think they can do whatever they want and that Allah will forgive all their sins. Your sins cannot be bigger than Allah's Mercy. At the same time, you have to make sincere effort to stop sinning and do everything you can to remove yourself from what would make you to continue sinning.
How do we know as Muslims where we fall in earning His Mercy? How do we know that we're doing "ok"? The answer is that we don't know. We have to keep trying our best and never be comfortable with where we are at.
But how we spend our time is a good indication of where we are at with Allah.
May Allah make us among the Mu'mineen.
There are two extremes when it comes to the Mercy of Allah. There are the defeatists who think they are too evil to earn any forgiveness from Allah and they think there is no point in repentance. And are those who use Allah's Mercy as a crutch and think they can do whatever they want and that Allah will forgive all their sins. Your sins cannot be bigger than Allah's Mercy. At the same time, you have to make sincere effort to stop sinning and do everything you can to remove yourself from what would make you to continue sinning.
How do we know as Muslims where we fall in earning His Mercy? How do we know that we're doing "ok"? The answer is that we don't know. We have to keep trying our best and never be comfortable with where we are at.
But how we spend our time is a good indication of where we are at with Allah.
May Allah make us among the Mu'mineen.
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