Does the حرمة (prohibition) of an action (such as listening to music or buying cigarettes) transfer to subsequent permissible actions or acts of worship (like studying, praying, or the rest of one's money) if the permissible action or money resulted from going to a forbidden place or purchasing a forbidden item, taking into account the Hadith "Actions are but by intentions" and the verse "Whoever comes with a good deed will have ten times its like, and whoever comes with a bad deed will not be recompensed except with its like"?
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The intention or action of a person does not prohibit them from performing a good deed afterwards. So, whoever intended and committed a haram act, then prayed, their prayer is valid. They must desist from the sin, and performing a good deed after a bad one expiates it. And whoever bought something haram and paid more than its price, it is not forbidden for them to take back the remaining money, because it did not leave their possession and they did not earn it through an illicit means. This is closer to obsessive thoughts (waswasah).
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