The Effect of Associating with a Sinner on the One Who Repents
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Question:
He says: I am a young man who used to disobey Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He). I got to know a righteous young man, and he began to take some of my bad behavior from me. I have repented, praise be to Allah, but he is still as he was with his bad behavior and has not repented to this day. Does that sin attach to me because of that?
Answer:
You must repent and give him advice. Repentance covers what you did, and you should advise him to the best of your ability. It does no harm. Repentance wipes out what came before it.
He says: I am a young man who used to disobey Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He). I got to know a righteous young man, and he began to take some of my bad behavior from me. I have repented, praise be to Allah, but he is still as he was with his bad behavior and has not repented to this day. Does that sin attach to me because of that?
Answer:
You must repent and give him advice. Repentance covers what you did, and you should advise him to the best of your ability. It does no harm. Repentance wipes out what came before it.
Source
لقاءات لابن باز - لقاء ابن باز - ٩ — archive.org (31:48)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.