Subject: [Masjid Tucson] Submission weekly reminder In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful Peace be upon you, As 2012 comes to a close, let us take this opportunity to examine our souls, our true selves (59:18), and ask what changes we want to work on for tomorrow. God gives us the blessing in Submission that each day can be a new opportunity. We can repent to God a firm repentance (66:8), seek His forgiveness (57:21) for our past mistakes, and start work afresh on our souls. Attributes of the Righteous [Quran 3:133] You should eagerly race towards forgiveness from your Lord and a Paradise whose width encompasses the heavens and the earth; it awaits the righteous, [3:134] who give to charity during the good times, as well as the bad times. They are suppressors of anger, and pardoners of the people. GOD loves the charitable. [3:135] If they fall in sin or wrong their souls, they remember GOD and ask forgiveness for their sins—and who forgives the sins except GOD—and they do not persist in sins, knowingly. [3:136] Their recompense is forgiveness from their Lord, and gardens with flowing streams; they abide therein forever. What a blessed reward for the workers! May Our Lord forgive us our transgressions, remit our sins, and let us die as righteous believers (Quran 3:193). Peace. References Seeking Forgiveness: http://www.masjidtucson.org/publications/books/SP/2005/mar/page1.html