He says in his letter, first: If a person does an act that does not please the Face of Allah, then repents, then returns to this act repeatedly and over and over, does he have a repentance or not?
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The questioner : He says in his letter, first: If a person does an act that does not please the Face of Allah, then repents, then returns to this act repeatedly and over and over, does he have a repentance or not?
The Shaykh : Yes, he has a repentance due to the generality of the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Az-Zumar 39:53] So if this man repents from this sin with a sincere repentance, Allah will accept his repentance. Then, if his soul later urges him to commit this sin and he does so, and then repents from it with a sincere and pure repentance, Allah will accept his repentance. And so it is every time he commits a sin and then repents from it with a sincere and truthful repentance, and then his soul overcomes him afterward to commit it again, and he returns to repentance; he will be in the state of his last condition. If his last condition is sincere repentance, he is like one who has no sin. And if his last condition is that he is persisting in this sin, then he has the ruling of those who persist in it.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, he has a repentance due to the generality of the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Say, "O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful."
قل يا عبادي الذين أسرفوا على أنفسهم لا تقنطوا من رحمة الله إن الله يغفر الذنوب جميعاً إنه هو الغفور الرحيمThe questioner : Yes.