repentance

as-salaamu alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa BarakatuhDear brotherI would really appreciate if you can answer my following question:I have sent a question by the number as follows: 2eCr44 Sorry to trouble you again but I just want to make one thing clear. As I have mentioned that I have asked Allah for the hint and I did got sick. Now if I don?t go for the punishment wouldn?t I be committing shirk which has no forgiveness. Or my asking for such a hint was incorrect. Its not according to the Islamic principles. Was this the Satan whispering which I act upon by asking Allah for such a hint? Please advice me on this and help me to get the mercy and forgiveness from Allah.Jazak Allah Khair.

Since two years, my husband and I, we have stopped all interest transactions of every kind, whether bank or mutual fund or whatever and deal only with Sharia-based institutions. We have, of course, made tauba for our previous sins in this regard. Is there anything-else required of us to do to make full amends for our sins so that Allah forgives us completely and the Day of Judgment we are free from this major sin. Thank you for your reply

about masturbation. i want to ask u that what is the kufra for this bad habit if it is done by the girl . and done it lonely . b/c there is a diferrence between zina and masturbation . and the girl is single . and she really dont know about this bad habit is really very big sin so whats the kufara . plz tell me . i m very upset about it i was done it several time . and also ask about this  "Those who guard their sexual organs except with their spouses or those whom their right hands possess, for (with regard to them) they are without blame. But those who crave something beyond that are transgressors"

As-salamu `alaykum. What is the time and the conditions when repentance is not accepted? Why is it closed at this point? Can you explain this by providing reasons?

Assalamu Aliekum.A person had a sexual relationship with a woman. But he had married her daughter.Nonetheless,they (mother & son in law) had sex several times after marriage. Now both of them are repentant and had promised to refrain from it. The couple has a son.Is the marriage still legal or should they divorce?

Allah says in the Qur’an: “Say: ‘O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah: for Allah forgives all sins: for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.'” (Az-Zumar: 53) “Allah accepts the repentance of those who do evil in ignorance and repent soon afterwards; to them will Allah turn

Dear scholars, As-salamu `alaykum. I want to ask about one who has done anal sex with his wife without knowing that it is haram but after knowledge he feared Allah and promised to not do it again. What should he do? Does he have to fast for a period or anything else? Please answer in detail.

As' salamu Al Aikum, Dear Scholar i have committed a sin many times and i have made tawbah many times but i have kept breaking the tawbah and i do not know if Allah will forgive me anymore, even to me by the number of times i have broken my tawbah i am disgusted of my self. How can i stick to the tawbah that i am making and will Allah take me seriously anymore? I feel guilty but not only that, i feel as if Allah has given me so much but i return so little with the selfish acts i have committed.....

Assalam o Alaikum!I have committed some grave and bad sins in the past and have told about them to some members of my family. I have committed homosexual acts to the extreme about 5 years ago with 4 different males for which I am very shameful and remorseful. I have also committed SODOMY. Alhamdullilah I am not the same person anymore and look to my past mistakes and feel like crying over them. I am now 22 years old and at the time when I committed those sins I wasn?t aware of the punishment for them in this world and the Hereafter. I was ignorant at that time and committed Homosexual acts and SODOMY because of bad influence and company. Thanks to Allah I haven?t got the same company. I now want to repent for those sins nearly 5 years after committing them and want to know the way and procedure for this repentance. I am very worried that I will be punished very badly and harshly for them in this world and in the Hereafter. Nowadays I feel very guilty and regretful for committing those sins. I also feel very sad and depressed and couldn?t sleep at nights. I want to be sure that whether those sins will be erased completely and whether I will have a clean sheet (i.e. whether I will be like the person who has never committed these Homosexual acts and SODOMY in his entire life) after my true and sincere repentance? Also I have heard somewhere that Allah has promised that He will give a gift of 1,25000 Hoors in the Jannah to the person who has never committed Zina in this life. I want to know whether I can qualify for this gift and whether I can be like a person who has never committed Zina after my sincere repentance? Please help me and answer my whole question.Jazzak Allah!

As-salamu `alaykum. My wife has admitted to committing adultery. However, she says she has repented, and vows never to do it again. What should I do in this case? Am I to divorce her? I do not know what my Islamic duty is in this case.

Sheikh, As-Salamu `Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Baraktuh. While I was on a business trip abroad, I had an uncontrollable erotic urge, and regrettably, I committed Zina (adultery). I am a married man, and my wife is three month pregnant. Now, I am filled with remorse and I don’t know what to do and what is my legal status towards my wife?

Won't people will sin round the year,do all the prohibited things like drink alcohol,have drugs,commit others sins and at the end just go for Hajj. How does it work....are those people forgiven their sins,coz then it doesnt make sense to me. I know of so many muslim brothers and sisters who are not very religious round the year and drink and take drugs but during ramadan they clear up their act and fast,hoping that they will be forgiven for all the wrong things they did during the year.And then the day Ramadan is over they start again. If that is so cant everybody do that.is this a loophole ? or am i wrong and have missed something.Please can u clear my confusion on this one.

Dear Muslim scholar, As-Salamu `Alaykum wa Rahmatu Allah wa Baraktuh. A person is praying, but he is committing all sorts of sins such as theft, lying, etc. One day when we were discussing this issue, some of us were inclined to say it is better for this person to start praying only after he has left such sins. Is this a sound opinion?

Dear scholars, As-Salaam `Alayk um. I have a friend who came to me for help about an issue she's been struggling with. She is a good person but went astray in her life out of ignorance and temptations. She didn't do many wrong things but she feels guilty and wants to get closer to God and Islam. Al-Hamdulillah she always prays, fasts during Ramadan and reads the Qur'an but she's afraid of getting weak and having the devil play with her mind. She wants to know first, what can she do for God to forgive her and wipe her sins away? And how she can get closer to God and keep evil and the devil away? I know that when the wrong happens we have to repent and stay away from such evil doings. But I don't know what else I can say to her, if there are other things she should do or say please provide me with that information. Thank you and may Allah bless you all. Jazakum Allah khayran.

Dear scholars, as-Salamu `alaykum. I have not been the best person lately and I feel a lot of shame for the sins I have committed. I was wondering if by going to Hajj with the deep desire and intention to repent, I will be forgiven by Allah? Jazakum Allah khayran.

As-Salamu `alaykum. I am a Muslim woman who recently married in the mosque, but I was involved in a premarital sexual relationship with the man I am now married to. I know that I have committed a sin, but I want to know if Allah will forgive me, or what I have to do to obtain Allah’s forgiveness? Please help me.

Dear scholars, As-Salamu `alaykum. I am a Muslimah who has committed many sins, due to sheer weakness. I have even been tricked in one instance which led to a sin so bad, I realized I had to change my ways. Do you think Allah will forgive me. Truly speaking I am feeling ashamed of myself, but I don’t know what to do. I don’t feel that asking for forgiveness is enough. So please respond to me telling me how to repent and what to do to be forgiven. Jazakum Allah khayran.

Scholars of Islam, As-Salaam `Alaykum wa Rahmatu Allah wa Barakatuh. I deliberately had abortion though the pregnancy didn’t cause danger to my life. Now, I regret what I have done and earnestly implore Allah to forgive my sin. What should I do? Please, help me.

A person has committed zina (fornication) outside of marriage and does not intend to marry the woman. The person considers the action a grave mistake and has repented by asking Allah for forgiveness, resolving never to perform the act again, and feeling remorse for the action. The sin is still concealed and only known to the two involved. Does the person need to be given 100 lashes in order to complete the repentance and gain forgiveness from Allah?

Dear scholars, As-Salamu `alaykum. If a woman had children out of wedlock and later she met a Muslim man and wished to marry him, could they do so? Does Allah forgive her sins? Can she become Muslim? Jazakum Allah khayran.

Dear scholars, As-Salamu `alaykum. I understand that all the sins fall under two categories, minor and major. Is the method of repentance the same for both types of sins? Also, what if you happened to commit a sin but you did not know that the sin is considered major in Islam? For example, hugging a member of opposite sex falls under zina but the person did not know that before; is it considered just as severe? I would appreciate if you would provide me with the answers to these questions. Jazakum Allah khayran.

Dear Sheikh! Our young people (may Allah grant them guidance) sometimes abuse the Internet by browsing the porn websites wasting time and effort and even disobeying Allah. What is your advice to those teenagers and others?

Dear scholars! Could you please explain to me the concept of Tawbah in Islam? Jazakum Allahu Khairan 

Once I heard a Sheikh saying, “It could happen that a sin causes one to enter Paradise.” How could this happen?

Salaam, I sent you a question regarding repentance from zina. But i need a clarification. I understood from the response that for committing fornication, lashes as a  punishment is Not a must to get forgiveness from Allah.But i need to know, if one repented from zina and then repeated sins of similar nature, is the door open for forgiveness?? And if i confided in some people about this sin in the past, or others may have an idea, if people know about it in my past, will Allah still forgive me? I understand now that i should bury my sin and not tell anyone, but what about what i have shared before? Does Allah's forgiveness depend on whether people know??Also i got married a while ago and in our country, we had a proper Nikah administered by a Maulvi and Mahr was exchanged. On the form, there were 3 options listed whether bride is virgin, divorced or widowed and virgin was marked for me. I was obviously in no position to reveal to anyone/ family/ or my future husband otherwise for that would ruin my future or any chance of redemption. Im scared to ask this but i need to know, if my Nikah was carried out properly as per the norm but 'virgin' was marked on the form for me, is my marriage valid? Im terrified to have this thought even occur to me, but for my peace of mind i need to know that i have closed this dark chapter and can move ahead.Also, on repeating similar acts after repenting from fornication, if i repent now, will Allah forgive me and wipe my sins? I am ashamed of my sins and i wish i could undo my past but i cant. Im 31 yrs old, is there hope for me?I read somewhere that if a non Muslim converts to Islam his previous sins are wiped out. If being a Muslim i repent from my past mistakes even if they are as ho rrible as fornication, will Allah accept my repentance and wipe away my sins?Pls keep my questions confidential and put them through to a reliable Islamic scholar and guide me pls.Rgrdsa

aslama alekum  i have a question about abortion .i had an abortion 3 days ago which was more than 120  days of fetus infact i was 17- 18 weeks pregnant, even though before i went to the clinic i was not in favour of doing it and didnt feel it was right even at the time when i was having it done i was crying the whole time only, i still did it, since ive done it feel like i have lost a lot i cant stop crying let alone ask for forgiveness, i cant look myself in the eye and i horribly ashamed of what i've done,i dont think my child will forgive me for what his own mother has done to him, i feel i've sinned so much that i can never be forgiven and what i've done no matter what i what i've done cannnot be undone, i feel like i have done absolute in justice to my baby, i cant think of it as a fetus now i'm in great pain to me i feel like it was my child that i killed with my own hands and i've got blood on my hands i m in so much pain i cant come to terms with it please help im in the deepest despair at the moment, when i look at my other children all i can think of is the one whom i did unjustice to whom i have not thought of i dont know how i did it what came over me at the time, that agree to this sin i feel no purpose to my life i've done so wrong there are no words that are helping me pls put some refrences from quran which can make me come to terms with this tragadey, also i would like to know  also what kaffarah(if blood money is to be paid to whome and how by inheritance law and do i have to fast, can his father pay the blood money he did participate as he agreed to it) or  do i have to do it, also  can you please tell me quran says that a life comes in this world by him and and ends by him , was this how much his life was written for or i eneded and his life could've been alot more to how it ended now and did god willed this as no leaf can move without him allowing it, is he in jannat?

I had an abortion, i am so upset with what i did as my husband wanted me to. I am in dispair and regret what i have done. the pregnancy was 113 days old, i did not take the fetus from the hospital i did not know, but i know now that i should have buried it, I cannot bury it now.  How can i expiate all this? is this between me and Allah only or do I owe anything to the fetus? please help me i am in total distress of my own wrong doing.thanks you.

As-Salamu `alaykum. I would like to know if performing wudu' (ablution) is necessary before offering tawbah (repentance). Also, is ghusl (bathing) necessary before repenting, in the case that a person is unclean?

The last couple of months, I have been thinking about small things I used to steal from family and friends. In addition to asking Allah for forgiveness, what should I do about such things?

Dear scholar, As-Salamu `alaykum. My friend was sexually abused in his childhood and now he only likes sex with males. Is there any treatment within Islam? Thanks in advance.

Dear scholar,I am a 31 year old male doctor residing in Pakistan and a Sunni Muslim. I have done well all my life except in the past two to three years when my problems began. I am a feminine guy and by nature, I am sexually attracted to males. This has been going on since childhood and I think this is genetically determined. When I was 12 years old, my driver had anal sex with me. At that time, I was very young and presumably this was not my fault. But three years back, my trouble began when I left my clinical career for research in Pakistan as I was finding difficult to manage a clinical career. The research work was very boring and my colleagues kept on telling me to marry to find some success in life. Since I was attracted to guys only, one day I met a guy in my hospital. He was very nice to me and also touched me and I offered to have oral sex only with him and he agreed. He took me to a place and there he had anal intercourse with me which was with my consent due to my nature after my initial reluctance but also his insistence. Since then, I have been in deep trouble. I am having problems at work and fear that Allah's wrath will fall on me. I think I have committed a sin and will be punished for that. After having intercourse, I bled anally at home as well next morning which was seen by my parents. So I had to admit this to my parents as well and eventually my whole family got to know about it. Later on, I found out that the person with whom I had sex was an Aga Khani.I have a few questions:I have become an object of joke and fun among boys and girls in my hospital which I don't like. What should I do to get my sin forgiven?If I have to get married to a girl, my parents would be reluctant to find a girl. How should I find a girl who would stick to me and whom I would be able to satisfy?What should I do to have my sins forgiven and get Jannah on the Day of Judgement?