Is grieving over not committing a sin, or not engaging in adultery, or not acquiring unlawful money considered a type of grief for which sins are forgiven?

Sorrow over missing out on a sin is blameworthy, and its perpetrator receives no reward for it, unlike sorrow over a shortcoming in an act of obedience or falling into a sin, for this indicates the soundness of faith and the vitality of the heart.

Ibn Al-Qayyim mentioned that sorrow is a disease that prevents the heart from progressing, and the reward for it is like the reward for calamities that befall a servant without his choice.

Praised sorrow is that which is for a servant's negligence and shortcoming in obeying his Lord, or for falling into sin, or for wasting his days and times. This indicates the vitality of the heart. However, sorrow is of no benefit; rather, it weakens. What benefits it is to resume the journey and strive.

There is also sorrow over the heart's separation from Allah and its diminished state, and sorrow over the heart's emptiness of the love of Allah and the body's turning away from what Allah loves. This is the sorrow of the elite.

The sagacious person is one who does not let sorrow possess him; rather, he thinks about what dispels it. If he knows there is no escape, he contemplates Allah's servitude in it, for sorrow is of no use whatsoever.