The Path of Repentance from Religious Innovation
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Question:
This questioner, 'Amir, says: Shaykh, if a man falls into bid'ah (religious innovation), or if he is an innovator, and this bid'ah has spread to a group of people, and he wants to repent, what is the way to do that?
Answer:
He repents to Allah from the bid'ah and abandons it. He clarifies to the people who were deceived by him and practiced it, or who followed his example, that it is a bid'ah and that he has repented from it. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
This questioner, 'Amir, says: Shaykh, if a man falls into bid'ah (religious innovation), or if he is an innovator, and this bid'ah has spread to a group of people, and he wants to repent, what is the way to do that?
Answer:
He repents to Allah from the bid'ah and abandons it. He clarifies to the people who were deceived by him and practiced it, or who followed his example, that it is a bid'ah and that he has repented from it. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/091 — archive.org (13:36)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.