Is it permissible to retract the first oath definitively sworn not to commit a specific sin, in order to commit another sin greater than it?
We ask Allah to make faith beloved to you and adorn it in your heart, and to make disbelief, wickedness, and disobedience hateful to you. Then, "Allah will not impose blame upon you for what is unintentional in your oaths, but He will impose blame upon you for what you intended in your oaths. So its expiation is the feeding of ten needy people from the average of that which you feed your [own] families or clothing them or freeing a slave. But whoever cannot find [or afford it] - then a fast of three days [is required]. That is the expiation for oaths when you have sworn. And guard your oaths. Thus does Allah make clear to you His verses that you may be grateful."
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