Is a person considered to have made a covenant with God to abandon sin unknowingly, if they intended that, then stopped praying, and thoughts occurred to them leading to a feeling that the covenant is still valid?
Thoughts that are not acted upon do not require expiation. What is incumbent upon the Muslim is to repent from all sins and return to Allah, for the one who repents from a sin is like one who has no sin.
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