The Ruling on Repentance with Evidence.

The Shaykh : It is obligatory, as Allah the Exalted said: And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: He is the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to whom Allah forgave what had come before of his sin and what had come after. He repents to Allah a hundred times a day. If we were to count our repentance to Allah in a day, how much would it be? Perhaps five times, perhaps ten, perhaps it amounts to nothing at all. So it is obligatory for a person to repent to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) by the indication of the Book and the indication of the Sunnah. How numerous are the sins upon the hearts, yet we are heedless of that. We do not return to ourselves to look at what we have done today of acts of obedience, and what we have done of evil deeds. If we have done acts of obedience, then we praise Allah, as Allah the Exalted said in the Holy Hadith: If we have done evil deeds, then we must abandon these evil deeds so that we do not blame ourselves afterwards.