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Make the most of your second chance
Sometimes, having faltered once, you are given an opportunity to make amends, and put things back on track. Never miss that second chance, for it is usually the last one you get. Consider how Yunus (AS) corrected his earlier mistake of forsaking his people in anger: he returned and persisted with them until they believed in Allah. He thus saved one of the great cities of the time from divine punishment ' unlike so many other estimable cities that had perished in the past. Allah says, 'Then why has there not been a city that believed, so its faith benefited it, except the people of Yunus? When they believed, We removed from them the punishment of disgrace in worldly life and gave them enjoyment for a time.' (10:98)