Is it permissible for someone who owes fasting days to seek forgiveness, knowing that one of the conditions for the acceptance of seeking forgiveness is to establish Allah's religion?
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Seeking forgiveness (Istighfar) is prescribed for all servants, including those who persist in sin. If one seeks forgiveness with their tongue without their heart truly abandoning the sin, it is a supplication (dua') that is hoped to be answered, while bearing in mind that this is not a complete repentance, as repentance cannot coexist with persistence [in sin]. Therefore, whoever has missed fasts to make up is commanded to seek forgiveness for their sins.
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