The Conditions of Repentance

Question:
He asks: And are there conditions for repentance?

Answer:
Yes, repentance has conditions; it is not valid except with the conditions mentioned by the scholars. The first condition is abandoning the sin. As for you repenting with your tongue while you have not abandoned the sin, that is of no benefit. This is the first condition: abandoning the sin. The second is that you resolve not to return to it. If you abandoned the sin temporarily and intend to return to it later, then your repentance will not be accepted, because it is a temporary repentance that does not benefit its owner.
The third condition is regret for what has passed. Whenever you remember your sin, you feel ashamed before Allah, you seek forgiveness from your Lord, and you fear Allah, Mighty and Majestic, whenever you remember it. Then you regret what happened to you. With these conditions, repentance is accepted by the permission of Allah. This is if the sin is between you and Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
As for a sin that is between you and people, such as if you wronged them, took their money, or backbit about them, then the fourth condition, along with the three previous conditions, is that you return the injustices to their owners, or ask them for forgiveness. You return what you took of their money to them, and you ask them to forgive you for what happened, because this is the right of a creation. The right of a creation is not waived except by its owner waiving it and forgiving it. Yes.