The Cure for Returning to Sin After Repentance
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I commit sins and have strayed from the path of truth. When I commit a sin, I tell myself I will not do it again, but I do it. What kind of heart is mine? And what is the solution to this matter?
The Shaykh:
The solution is easy. The solution is that if you repent to Allah, your repentance must be sincere and meet its conditions. But if you repent with your tongue and then return to the sin, thinking that you will not abandon the sin and saying, "It is enough that I seek forgiveness with my tongue," that does not benefit. Seeking forgiveness with the tongue and repenting with the tongue never benefit. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
This is often said:[At-Tin 95:6] [Al-Furqan 25:70] The one who repents with his tongue but does not act has not repented.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I commit sins and have strayed from the path of truth. When I commit a sin, I tell myself I will not do it again, but I do it. What kind of heart is mine? And what is the solution to this matter?
The Shaykh:
The solution is easy. The solution is that if you repent to Allah, your repentance must be sincere and meet its conditions. But if you repent with your tongue and then return to the sin, thinking that you will not abandon the sin and saying, "It is enough that I seek forgiveness with my tongue," that does not benefit. Seeking forgiveness with the tongue and repenting with the tongue never benefit. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
This is often said:
Except for those who believe and do righteous deeds
إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِExcept for those who repent, believe and do righteous work
إِلَّا مَن تَابَ وَآمَنَ وَعَمِلَ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، بداية من قول المُصَنِّف : ومن علامات صحة القلب — islamhouse.com (58:35)
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