The hour afterStep 1 of 8

Before you read on

If you are reading this an hour after it happened, you are the person it was written for and you are not in the wrong place. There is nothing to count here and no streak to lose. Two things go outside a course, and quickly. If you are having thoughts that the world would be better without you, or that you are beyond forgiving, tell somebody today, because shame and secrecy together are what make that dangerous. And if any of this has involved a child, there is specialist help, it exists to be used, and there will not be one word of shaming from us. Lesson six has the routes for both.

Lesson 3 of 6

What you have probably been told

That if you had been truly repentant, you would have stopped. That going back proves the last tawbah was not real. That there is a number of times after which it stops being accepted.

None of that is in the sound material, and one of those claims is directly contradicted by a report in Bukhari. But before any of the correcting, there is a verse to put down first, because the order matters and the Qur'an itself puts it in this order.

What tawbah asks for, and what it does not · Inshirah