Is repentance valid if the motivation for it is feeling pain and the negative consequences of sin, knowing that repentance must be purely for the sake of Allah the Almighty?
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There is no harm in a person's feeling of the negative consequences of sins being a reason for repentance, because Allah Almighty tests His servants with calamities so that they may remember and return to Him, and this does not prevent the validity of repentance.
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