The ruling on seeking forgiveness while persisting in the sin
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: If a Muslim is committing a sin and persisting in it, yet he still seeks Allah's forgiveness, is this considered a form of deception?
Answer:
This seeking of forgiveness is not valid. One of the conditions of seeking forgiveness is that one abandons the sin. Repentance has conditions, and seeking forgiveness is repentance, so it has conditions: that one abandons it, that one abandons the sin and leaves it. As for seeking forgiveness while remaining in the sin, this seeking of forgiveness does not benefit him. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: If a Muslim is committing a sin and persisting in it, yet he still seeks Allah's forgiveness, is this considered a form of deception?
Answer:
This seeking of forgiveness is not valid. One of the conditions of seeking forgiveness is that one abandons the sin. Repentance has conditions, and seeking forgiveness is repentance, so it has conditions: that one abandons it, that one abandons the sin and leaves it. As for seeking forgiveness while remaining in the sin, this seeking of forgiveness does not benefit him. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 72 من 86 /شرح كتاب إغاثة اللهفان في مصائد الشيطان/بيع فضل الماء/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:02:34)
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