Those who committed misdeeds and then repented after them and believed - indeed, your Lord thereafter is Forgiving and Merciful.
“Those who committed misdeeds and then repented after them and believed - indeed, your Lord thereafter is Forgiving and Merciful.”
Those who do wrong by associating others with Allah and committing sins, and then repent out of sincere faith, repenting from polytheism to having faith in Him alone, and repenting from disobedience to doing good actions, giving up all kinds of sins whilst seeking His forgiveness-Allah will be forgiving and merciful to them, erasing and overlooking what they have done.
The plain meaning, from Al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir
وَٱلَّذِينَ عَمِلُوا۟ ٱلسَّيِّـَٔاتِ ثُمَّ تَابُوا۟ مِنۢ بَعْدِهَا وَءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهَا لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
But those who committed misdeeds and then repented after them and believed - indeed your Lord, thereafter, is Forgiving and Merciful.
What does Quran 7:153 mean?
The verse before this describes what came upon those who took the calf for worship — anger from their Lord and humiliation in this life. Then, immediately, this. The commentators read the placement as the point: the door is shown right after the worst example, and “thereafter” in the verse means after all of that.
Written from Al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir