How can one atone for the non-material rights of others, such as backbiting, negligence at work, and transgressions? Are these actions considered out of ignorance, and does repentance erase them, or do they require expiation?
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Among the conditions for repentance is to absolve oneself from the rights of others (عباد). These rights are of two types: financial rights, such as negligence at work, which must be absolved by paying compensation or seeking forgiveness. And non-financial rights, such as backbiting (gheebah) and slandering (nameemah), regarding the method of absolving which there is disagreement.
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