Is it permissible to break a pledge if doing so is a sin?
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Fulfilling covenants is one of the characteristics of believers that Allah has commanded, unless the covenant involves an act of disobedience, in which case it is not permissible to fulfill it, because "there is no obedience in sin; obedience is only in what is right."
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