The reason repentance is difficult for the innovator
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Question:
Allah knows best. The questioner asks: Why is it difficult for the apostate to repent, as most scholars say?
Answer:
Because he thinks he is right. The innovator rarely repents because he thinks he is right, and Satan also encourages him and makes the religious innovations (bid'ah) attractive to him. This is unlike the sinner, who knows that he is wrong. The sinner knows that he is wrong, so he repents to Allah. As for the innovator, he thinks he is correct, so he does not repent to Allah. Yes.
Allah knows best. The questioner asks: Why is it difficult for the apostate to repent, as most scholars say?
Answer:
Because he thinks he is right. The innovator rarely repents because he thinks he is right, and Satan also encourages him and makes the religious innovations (bid'ah) attractive to him. This is unlike the sinner, who knows that he is wrong. The sinner knows that he is wrong, so he repents to Allah. As for the innovator, he thinks he is correct, so he does not repent to Allah. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-03-التوبة آداب وأحكام|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (57:54)
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