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movado19:
Very good question!
From the little I have experienced and spoken to sound religious people with very high Iman and Ihsan on, there are four stages of forgiveness between ourselves as humans and between us and Allah.

It graduates from the lowest level to the highest level and each stage that we are in physically with ourselves is also a mirror reflection of the stage we are in the spiritual plane with Allah!
Each graduating stage corresponds to a higher level of Iman and Ihsan.

stage1 Ghaffar - this is the very first stage of forgiveness. Think about an act of sin someone has committed and due to human weakness, is often repeated. We call on Ya Ghaffar (istigfar) to forgive us of our human weakness every time the sin is committed but we feel deeply somewhere in our hearts that this may almost never happen?! this is a very low level of faith, as we are eaten up by so much fear and guilt and shame in this stage. Such is the case when we get offended by people in such a way that we habour the revenge, hurts and pain and bitterness within our hearts and soul, even after saying we forgive!

stage 2 Ghaffur - this is the second stage of forgiveness. We feel in our hearts sometimes that Allah may forgive us or He may not! A 50-50 possibility. A step in faith above the first stage.
People offend us and we feel that we have truly forgiven them, but an event might trigger the revenge, bitterness and unforgiveness to come back.
There is an ebb and flow in this stage..back and forth motion.
This stage can and usually happens simultaneously with stage1.

stage3 Tawwab - this is the third stage of forgiveness. We turn confidently to face Allah because we now believe that He will truly forgive us of our sins but also we pledge to Him that we will never return to the sin again. The faith here is stronger than the first two stages.
You tell someone who has offended you badly that you have truly forgiven them and you mean it so. No spirit of revenge! The echo of the hurt feelings may appear in your heart once in a blue moon, but you are able to reject it and keep it away. You may even form a stronger and better relationship or friendship with the one who offended you.

stage4 Afuw - This is the fourth and highest stage of forgiveness. Here, we ask Allah to blot out, erase and cause to disappear all our sins as though they never existed. This has the highest state of Iman.
We totally and completely forgive the one who has offended us such that there is never the occurrence of the hurt feelings, not even in a mild form!. We feel nothing bad towards the person and we accept the situation as the will of Allah with absolute faith.

This stage is very hard to achieve, except with the divine help of Allah. So, if we are praying to Allah to pardon us of our sins and erase them completely, then we should remember that such level of pardon is a mirror image of the one we give to others here on earth.
Let's always ask ourselves truthfully if we are giving to others what we are earnestly asking Allah to give to us?

That is why when we make istigfar dua, we say:
Astagfirullah Wa Atubu Illayhi - embody stage 1, 2 and 3.
You will only get to stage 4 when you have perfected stage 3!

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Dreydoe:
*What’s the difference between Maghfirah (مغفرة ) and 'Afuw (عفو )?*

*Maghfirah*: is for Allah to forgive you for the sin but the sin will still be registered on your book of deeds. Maghfirah is Allah’s forgiveness for your sin but on the Judgment Day it will be written on your record, Allah will ask you about it but HE won’t punish you because of it

*'Afuw*: is for Allah to forgive you for the sin and delete it from your book of deeds as if it did not happen. ‘Afuw is Allah’s pardon for your sin, it will be completely erased from your record and Allah won’t ask you about it on Judgement day

*This is why our Prophet (salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said that, this is the best Duaa to make on Laylatul Qadr:*

*"Allahumma innaka 'afuwwun tuhibbul 'afwa fa'fu 'annee"*
(Ahmad, Ibn Majah, and Tirmidhi)

*O Allah, You are The One Who pardons greatly, and You love to pardon, so pardon me.)"*

So make sure you read this dua all the time and as much as you can. Make it one of your daily athkaar.
Imagine that you are standing on the day of Judgment being held accountable for your deeds, and you're not guaranteed your entry to Jannah.

*Suddenly you find that you have mountains of Hasanat (rewards) in your record*

Do you know from where these mountains of rewards come from?

Because in the Dunya you kept saying : *”SubhanAllah wa bihamdihi SubhanAllah al ‘Adhim”*

_Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said:_ *"Two words are light on the tongue, weigh heavily in the balance, they are loved by Al Rahman, (The Most Merciful. One):*
سُبْحَانَ اللّهِ وَ بِحَمْدِهِ ، سُبْحَانَ اللّهِ الْعَظِيمِ - *SubhanAllahi wa biHamdihi, Subhan-Allahi 'l-`adheem (Glory be to Allah, and Praise, Glory be to Allah, the Supreme)"*
(�Bukhari , Muslim)

Can you imagine how much your reward will be multiplied if you share this information about the virtue of this remembrance with your friends and they keep saying it *(SubhanAllah wa bihamdihi SubhanAllah Al Adheem)* because you guided them to do good?

*Be the One Who Guides Others to Good Deeds.*

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