Repentance
314 questions
How can a Muslim regularly maintain his prayers when he suffers from laziness concerning ablution, despite his eagerness to perform the rest of the obligatory duties?
Is refraining from seeking forgiveness (Istighfar) due to remembering specific sins considered a whisper from Satan (waswasa), or is repentance from all sins a prerequisite for seeking forgiveness?
Is there repentance for a servant regretful of committing major sins such as bestiality, watching images of boys [engaged in sexual acts] along with shirk (associating partners with Allah), and saying to them: "You are Allah," and what follows from that of great calamity and a feeling of disbelief and misguidance?
Can a young man who has committed the abomination of sodomy and desires to repent and seek knowledge be granted success in acquiring righteous knowledge and forget what happened, or will that remain a stigma that pursues him?
Should one repent of the sin of neglecting prayer now, with the intention of not returning to it, or should one repent at the moment of returning to the sin, or should repentance be delayed?
Is a minor sin forgiven if a servant does not repent from it, even if he knows it is a sin and frequently seeks forgiveness?
Is repentance accepted from one who practiced masturbation and then returned to it? And does the Angel of Death say: "If I had known that my soul would be taken, I would not have taken anyone's soul"?
Is it meant by "his sins have been forgiven" only minor sins, or all sins, including major ones, or only minor sins of that particular day?
Do the sins of harassment, sodomy, and frequent masturbation prevent a person's repentance and lead to worldly punishments and trials, and can these acts be linked to familial trials?
Does repentance count for someone who used to show a little of her hair from under her hijab and has repented from that, but has not repented from wearing pants and the like in front of her mahrams, knowing the ruling on wearing pants?
What is the ruling on repeatedly committing a sin and repenting from it, and does this expel the doer from the mercy of Allah, especially given the covenant with Allah and the angels not to return to sins?
What is the way to atone for registering a fictitious newborn in official records to obtain material and administrative privileges, and then deleting him after repentance?
What is the ruling on one who repented from backbiting, then backbit, unintentionally and forgetfully, so he sought forgiveness—is he required to renew his repentance?
Will God forgive the sin of someone who did everything with a foreign woman except penetration, then repented with sincere repentance?
What is the solution for a person who knows the punishment for sins, especially abandoning prayer, but does not possess the will to stop committing them and fears the devil's control over him?
How can repentance be sincere and not like the repentance of liars? Does having a good opinion [of Allah] have an effect on its acceptance? And how can repentance be sincere if an affliction occurs due to sins?
Will Allah forgive the sins of one who repents with sincere repentance, but still commits some sins and does not pray regularly, and believes that Allah will not forgive him because of his past actions?
Does Allah Almighty forgive a married woman who spoke with a strange man over the phone, and then regretted it and repented?
What should you do if you have taken the right of someone who is too shy to be approached and whom you fear to tell, and you want his forgiveness? And is someone considered a حافظ للقرآن (Hāfiz of the Qur'an) if he reviews a hizb daily but can only correct a few mistakes of readers, and what is the path to mastery?
What is it that prevents me from committing to prayer and abandoning sins, despite my awareness of their حرمة (prohibition/sacred inviolability), and how can I overcome the increasing desires after numerous attempts to commit?
Will Allah forgive the sins of a person who deliberately abandoned prayer and fasting in his youth, then repented and became committed, and is now fearful of Allah's punishment?
What is the way to reassure oneself of the acceptance of repentance from fornication, knowing that the fornicator is a Christian woman and has given birth to a child, and is the child attributed to his father?
Does God forgive the sins of one who was in an illegitimate relationship with a young man that included foreplay?
How can a man atone for his sin after having mentioned the name of an innocent girl to justify his calls with other women, which led to the destruction of her reputation and caused the death of his son and the illness of his wife and daughter as a result of the girl's supplication against him?