The Ruling on One Who Swears an Oath and Does Not Fulfill It
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Question:
The questioner who sent a long message, the summary of which is: The questioner (A. B. D) says: My problem, O honorable Shaykh, is that I am an unmarried young man, and one day I placed my hand on the noble Mushaf and swore, saying: By the Great Allah, I will not commit this evil. But I was weak against my self and did this bad habit, and it happened more than once. Now, by the will of Allah, I have repented from this act, and I want to go to perform Hajj at the House of Allah. What must I do to purify myself and my conscience from that?
Answer:
You must, along with repentance, pay the expiation for an oath, and praise be to Allah, you have repented, so praise be to Allah. Repentance demolishes what came before it and wipes out what came before it, and praise be to Allah. And along with this, you must pay the expiation for the oath: feeding ten poor people, or clothing them, or freeing a slave. If you are unable to do so, you must fast for three days. But praise be to Allah, the expiation is easy: feeding ten poor people, where each poor person receives half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), which is one and a half kilograms of the local staple food, such as dates, rice, or wheat, or clothing, such as a shirt that is sufficient for prayer, or a lower garment and an upper garment that are sufficient for prayer. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you, O Shaykh.
The questioner who sent a long message, the summary of which is: The questioner (A. B. D) says: My problem, O honorable Shaykh, is that I am an unmarried young man, and one day I placed my hand on the noble Mushaf and swore, saying: By the Great Allah, I will not commit this evil. But I was weak against my self and did this bad habit, and it happened more than once. Now, by the will of Allah, I have repented from this act, and I want to go to perform Hajj at the House of Allah. What must I do to purify myself and my conscience from that?
Answer:
You must, along with repentance, pay the expiation for an oath, and praise be to Allah, you have repented, so praise be to Allah. Repentance demolishes what came before it and wipes out what came before it, and praise be to Allah. And along with this, you must pay the expiation for the oath: feeding ten poor people, or clothing them, or freeing a slave. If you are unable to do so, you must fast for three days. But praise be to Allah, the expiation is easy: feeding ten poor people, where each poor person receives half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), which is one and a half kilograms of the local staple food, such as dates, rice, or wheat, or clothing, such as a shirt that is sufficient for prayer, or a lower garment and an upper garment that are sufficient for prayer. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you, O Shaykh.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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