Are the funds acquired from employment based on a university degree considered unlawful earnings, given that the degree was obtained by means of forged medical reports to postpone exams, submitting a fraudulent training report, participating in a graduation project that was not fully completed, in addition to cheating in some courses? Is repentance obligatory, and should one abandon work based on this degree, or continue with academic and career advancement?
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The mistakes, transgressions, and deceits you committed in your academic career are wrong. You should have been upright, for truthfulness is salvation. You must abandon this matter, feel remorse, seek forgiveness, and repent, for Allah forgives all sins. You should avoid what preceded and master your knowledge and specialization. If you do that, it will be an expiation for the preceding cheating and blameworthy deceits.
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