The statement of the repentant person: "When we were in the age of ignorance"
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, some people, when they repent to Allah the Exalted from a sin, begin to talk about their past, saying, "When we were in the age of ignorance." They mean that they have become more sensible than they were before, and that what they were doing previously was an age of ignorance for them.
Answer:
An age of ignorance for them—what is this age of ignorance? Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:[An-Nisa 4:17] Here, ignorance is the opposite of forbearance, not the opposite of knowledge, because the ignorant person who has no knowledge does not accompany [others], but the meaning of ignorance here is the opposite of forbearance. This is a partial ignorance for the individual.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, some people, when they repent to Allah the Exalted from a sin, begin to talk about their past, saying, "When we were in the age of ignorance." They mean that they have become more sensible than they were before, and that what they were doing previously was an age of ignorance for them.
Answer:
An age of ignorance for them—what is this age of ignorance? Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:
The repentance accepted by Allah is only for those who do wrong in ignorance
إِنَّمَا التَّوْبَةُ عَلَى اللَّهِ لِلَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ السُّوءَ بِجَهَالَةٍ
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين [15] — alfawzan.live (1:06:03)
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