The Holy Quran 16:119 — Surah An-Nahl

Arabic text

ثُمَّ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لِلَّذِينَ عَمِلُوا۟ ٱلسُّوٓءَ بِجَهَـٰلَةٍ ثُمَّ تَابُوا۟ مِنۢ بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ وَأَصْلَحُوٓا۟ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهَا لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ

Translation

Verily your Rabb is certainly Most Forgiving and Most Merciful towards those who commit evil out of ignorance (ignorant of the true consequences of the sin) and then (sincerely) repent afterwards and make amends (for their wrong).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Disobedience is folly: for example, making the forbidden lawful or the lawful forbidden. “In ignorance” is said because whatever disobedience and sin against Allah a person commits, even if he commits it knowingly, he in reality commits it by becoming ignorant and senseless.

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