One who persists in sin even after his Islam
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If a disbeliever embraces Islam and is informed of the outward practices of the religion upon his conversion, and if he was addicted to intoxicants before his Islam,So he said when he embraced Islam: he embraced Islam in all respects, but regarding drinking intoxicants, I believe it is forbidden by the Islamic Shari'ah, yet I will continue to drink it. Will his sin ofMeaning: drinking it before Islam be counted together with his sin of drinking intoxicants after Islam?
If a disbeliever embraces Islam and his Islam is good, he is forgiven for everything that came before. But if he embraces Islam and his Islam is bad, he is held accountable for what came before and what he does. If he embraces Islam, Allah erases the evil of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and kufr (disbelief). However, if he remains in his Islam with the same sin he committed during his kufr, he is not forgiven for that previous sin committed during his kufr; because he did not repent from it.
The questioner: And what is reported about Islam wiping out what came before?The Shaykh: It wipes out what came before, provided one does not persist in the sin. This is established in Sahih al-Bukhari that (whoever does evil in Islam is held accountable for what he did evil and what came before); because he did not truly repent from it. He repented from kufr, so his kufr was forgiven, but he remained with the sin of drinking intoxicants, so he is sinful for it.
Therefore, if a Muslim persists in several sins and then repents from nine out of ten, the tenth remains.
If a disbeliever embraces Islam and his Islam is good, he is forgiven for everything that came before. But if he embraces Islam and his Islam is bad, he is held accountable for what came before and what he does. If he embraces Islam, Allah erases the evil of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and kufr (disbelief). However, if he remains in his Islam with the same sin he committed during his kufr, he is not forgiven for that previous sin committed during his kufr; because he did not repent from it.
The questioner: And what is reported about Islam wiping out what came before?The Shaykh: It wipes out what came before, provided one does not persist in the sin. This is established in Sahih al-Bukhari that (whoever does evil in Islam is held accountable for what he did evil and what came before); because he did not truly repent from it. He repented from kufr, so his kufr was forgiven, but he remained with the sin of drinking intoxicants, so he is sinful for it.
Therefore, if a Muslim persists in several sins and then repents from nine out of ten, the tenth remains.