The Degrees of Religious Innovations and the Repentance of the Innovator
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Question:
The questioner says: Shaykh, do religious innovations (bid'ah) have levels and degrees? What is the obligation upon the one who innovates a bid'ah regarding repentance?
Answer:
Bid'ah (religious innovations) have levels and degrees. There are bid'ah involving shirk (associating partners with Allah), there are bid'ah that are major sins among the major sins, and there are bid'ah lesser than that. So they vary. And the innovator, if he repents, Allah accepts his repentance, provided he abandons the bid'ah and turns away from it. Yes.
The questioner says: Shaykh, do religious innovations (bid'ah) have levels and degrees? What is the obligation upon the one who innovates a bid'ah regarding repentance?
Answer:
Bid'ah (religious innovations) have levels and degrees. There are bid'ah involving shirk (associating partners with Allah), there are bid'ah that are major sins among the major sins, and there are bid'ah lesser than that. So they vary. And the innovator, if he repents, Allah accepts his repentance, provided he abandons the bid'ah and turns away from it. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/095 — archive.org (6:23)
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