Tafsir for verse: 17:25
رَّبُّكُمۡ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَا فِي نُفُوسِكُمۡۚ إِن تَكُونُواْ صَٰلِحِينَ فَإِنَّهُۥ كَانَ لِلۡأَوَّٰبِينَ غَفُورٗا ٢٥ ﴿25
25Your Lord knows best what is in your hearts. If you are righteous, then He is Most-Forgiving for those who turn to Him in repentance.
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Commentary

By what is in your souls, by what is in your hearts of the intention of goodness towards the parents and the belief in what is due to them of respect, if you are righteous, intending righteousness and goodness. Then if you fall short in a moment of anger, and in a state of tightness of the chest, which is not free from humans, or due to the zeal of Islam, a slip occurs that leads to harming them. Then you turn to Allah and seek forgiveness from it, for indeed Allah is Forgiving to those who repent. And from Sa'id ibn Jubair: it is in the slip that occurs from a man towards his father, intending by it nothing but good. And from Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib: the one who repents is the man who, whenever he sins, hastens to repent. It may be that this is general for anyone who has committed a wrongdoing and then repented from it, and it includes the wrongdoer towards his parents who repents from his wrongdoing, as it is mentioned in its context.

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