Conditioning Repentance on a Future Hajj or 'Umrah
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Question:
This is a listener to the program who says: Some people, O Shaykh, tie their guidance or repentance to if they perform Hajj next year, or if they perform 'Umrah, they will repent and start a new life full of righteous deeds. Is there a basis for this?
Answer:
This is from the delusion and deception of Shaytan for the servant. So the Muslim should repent to Allah and hasten with repentance, and not condition it on a future Hajj. Rather, he should hasten.[An-Nisa 4:17]. [Ali 'Imran 3:135].
So hastening with repentance is obligatory, and it is not conditioned on a future Hajj. Have you seen if you died before that, and remained in your sin, you would not reach the promise you promised yourself, even though you are commanded to hasten with repentance and not delay it.
This is a listener to the program who says: Some people, O Shaykh, tie their guidance or repentance to if they perform Hajj next year, or if they perform 'Umrah, they will repent and start a new life full of righteous deeds. Is there a basis for this?
Answer:
This is from the delusion and deception of Shaytan for the servant. So the Muslim should repent to Allah and hasten with repentance, and not condition it on a future Hajj. Rather, he should hasten.
The repentance accepted by Allah is only for those who do wrong in ignorance [or carelessness] and then repent soon after. It is those to whom Allah will turn in forgiveness
إِنَّمَا التَّوْبَةُ عَلَى اللَّهِ لِلَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ السُّوءَ بِجَهَالَةٍ ثُمَّ يَتُوبُونَ مِن قَرِيبٍ فَأُولَٰئِكَ يَتُوبُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْAnd those who, when they commit an immorality or wrong themselves [by transgression], remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins - and who can forgive sins except Allah? - and [who] do not persist in what they have done while they know.
وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً أَوْ ظَلَمُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ ذَكَرُوا اللَّهَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُوا لِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَمَن يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَلَمْ يُصِرُّوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلُوا وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَSo hastening with repentance is obligatory, and it is not conditioned on a future Hajj. Have you seen if you died before that, and remained in your sin, you would not reach the promise you promised yourself, even though you are commanded to hasten with repentance and not delay it.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/154 — archive.org (21:20)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.