What is your advice for one who frequently returns to sin after repenting?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh! The questioner says: May Allah forgive you and all the Muslims. I am one of those who attend your sessions, praise be to Allah, but there is a sin I have committed, and every time I repent from it and make a covenant with Allah, I return to it. So say something forceful to me in my heart, perhaps Allah will benefit me and my brothers present here with what you say, and make a supplication for me, perhaps Allah will benefit me with it. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Do not despair of the mercy of Allah and do not lose hope. Every time you sin, seek forgiveness and repent to Allah the Exalted. Every time you sin or return to the sin from which you repented, do not abandon repentance. Repent, repent to Allah. And you must have sincere resolve. Also, stay away from bad company and stay away from looking at corrupt channels that have corrupted many Muslims. Stay away from the causes of falling into disobedience. Stay away from them, for this is what helps you in your repentance.
And do not despair of the mercy of Allah, no matter how many your sins are and no matter how often you repeat the sin.[Az-Zumar 39:53] Repent to Allah the Exalted. Yes, we ask Allah to grant us and you sincere repentance, and to accept it from us and from you, and to help us and you to control our own selves. And to protect us from Satan the accursed and from the self that commands evil. Yes. May Allah reward you.
Honorable Shaykh! The questioner says: May Allah forgive you and all the Muslims. I am one of those who attend your sessions, praise be to Allah, but there is a sin I have committed, and every time I repent from it and make a covenant with Allah, I return to it. So say something forceful to me in my heart, perhaps Allah will benefit me and my brothers present here with what you say, and make a supplication for me, perhaps Allah will benefit me with it. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Do not despair of the mercy of Allah and do not lose hope. Every time you sin, seek forgiveness and repent to Allah the Exalted. Every time you sin or return to the sin from which you repented, do not abandon repentance. Repent, repent to Allah. And you must have sincere resolve. Also, stay away from bad company and stay away from looking at corrupt channels that have corrupted many Muslims. Stay away from the causes of falling into disobedience. Stay away from them, for this is what helps you in your repentance.
And do not despair of the mercy of Allah, no matter how many your sins are and no matter how often you repeat the sin.
do not despair of the mercy of Allah
لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَّحْمَةِ اللَّهِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما نصيحتكم لمن يكثر من العودة للذنب بعد التوبة؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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