What is your guidance for those who say, “We are young and we will repent when we grow up”?
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you and grant you good. The sender from Makkah says: Some young people, when you advise them about their error, say, “We are young and we will repent when we become adults.” What is your guidance? And how do we respond to this statement?
The Shaykh:
This statement is from Shaytan. It is not permissible for a person to delay repentance and say, “I will repent in the future.” And what makes you know that you will reach the future? You may die immediately. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:[An-Nisa 4:17]. It is obligatory to hasten with repentance, not to delay, and not to procrastinate, because delay is accompanied by persisting in sins.
The presenter:
Okay.
The Shaykh:
Also, delay may mean you do not reach the time to which you postponed your repentance, and you die while not having repented. Yes.
May Allah reward you and grant you good. The sender from Makkah says: Some young people, when you advise them about their error, say, “We are young and we will repent when we become adults.” What is your guidance? And how do we respond to this statement?
The Shaykh:
This statement is from Shaytan. It is not permissible for a person to delay repentance and say, “I will repent in the future.” And what makes you know that you will reach the future? You may die immediately. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:
The repentance accepted by Allah is only for those who do wrong in ignorance [or carelessness] and then repent soon after. It is those to whom Allah will turn in forgiveness
إِنَّمَا التَّوْبَةُ عَلَى اللَّهِ لِلَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ السُّوءَ بِجَهَالَةٍ ثُمَّ يَتُوبُونَ مِن قَرِيبٍ فَأُولَٰئِكَ يَتُوبُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْThe presenter:
Okay.
The Shaykh:
Also, delay may mean you do not reach the time to which you postponed your repentance, and you die while not having repented. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 5793- ما توجيهكم لمن يقول نحن شباب وسنتوب عندما نكبر؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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