What are the conditions and requirements for the acceptance of repentance, and is seeking forgiveness a prerequisite for it? What is the meaning of sincere repentance (tawbah nasuh) and the differences between it and ordinary repentance? Does it have different conditions? When are bad deeds replaced by good ones, and is this exclusive to disbelievers or does it include Muslims?
Istighfar (seeking forgiveness) is the request for forgiveness and the erasure of sin. Its meaning is the protection from the evil of sin, so that one is not punished for it.
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