Using the hadith on seeking forgiveness as an excuse to continue sins
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: What is the response to the one who, when advised to abandon sins, says that the hadith states:
Answer:
Yes, the hadith was not completed: As for the one who sins and commits many sins, does not seek forgiveness, and does not repent, this is, may Allah protect us from it, a wretched person. This is one whom Allah does not love. The one who does not repent is not loved by Allah. [Al-Baqarah 2:222].
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: What is the response to the one who, when advised to abandon sins, says that the hadith states:
If you did not disobey Allah, He would bring a people who would disobey Him and then seek His forgiveness, and He would accept their repentance.
لو أنكم لا تعصون الله لجاء بقوم يعصونه ثم يستغفرونه فيتوب عليهم.Answer:
Yes, the hadith was not completed:
and then seek His forgiveness, and He would accept their repentance,
ثم يستغفرونه ويتوب عليه،Indeed, Allah loves those who are constantly repentant and loves those who purify themselves."
إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ التَّوَّابِينَ وَيُحِبُّ الْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ
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شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل في أن لذة النظر إلى وجه الله يوم القيامة تابعة للتلذذ بمعرفته ومحبته في الدنيا — islamhouse.com (49:45)
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