Presenting the expiation before the sin or after it
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: If a person swears an oath and then sees something better than it and wants to expiate the oath, the question is: does he perform the expiation and break the oath, or is it not required? The question is: does he do what is best and break the oath, or is it not required that he think first and then act later?
Answer:
Both are mentioned in narrations: that one performs the expiation first, then performs the best action, and then performs the expiation. All of this is permissible. The believer performs the expiation. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: If a person swears an oath and then sees something better than it and wants to expiate the oath, the question is: does he perform the expiation and break the oath, or is it not required? The question is: does he do what is best and break the oath, or is it not required that he think first and then act later?
Answer:
Both are mentioned in narrations: that one performs the expiation first, then performs the best action, and then performs the expiation. All of this is permissible. The believer performs the expiation. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 22 — archive.org (13:01)
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