Does repentance prevent the consequences of sins and transgressions, and if it does not, then how are Ibn al-Qayyim's statements about the punishment for sin, even after a long time, to be understood, such as the story of the young man who forgot the Quran after forty years due to an illicit glance? And do these punishments occur even after repentance, or did the aforementioned young man not repent, or was his repentance not sincere?

Ibn al-Qayyim's words are about the effects of sins, not about repentance. He believes that the impact of a sin may be delayed and then destroy its perpetrator after some time, like poison or a wound that heals deceptively and corruptly. Imam Ahmad reported from Abu al-Darda that "sin is not forgotten." However, if repentance is sincere, then "the one who repents from sin is like the one who has no sin." If repentance is incomplete, then what has been mentioned from these stories of trials might be a test from Allah for the servant.