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Does Allah accept the repentance of a woman who previously had a sexual relationship with a man whom she later married, knowing that she regrets it, and how can she ward off the harm from his [first] wife?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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God's mercy is vast, and whoever repents sincerely, God will accept their repentance. Among the signs of accepted repentance is an improved state thereafter. You must continue to preserve the obligatory prayers, engage in (remembrance of God), and seek forgiveness. supplicate to God to conceal your affairs and to repel the schemes of those who wish you ill. If your matter is exposed, you can use tawriya (equivocation) in your speech, by denying that something from that relationship occurred, intending what happened after repentance from it. Indeed, in ma'areedh (indirect speech) there is a way out from lying. Suicide is a grave sin and a cause for losing both this world and the Hereafter.

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