Signs of Sincere Repentance Before Reconciliation
📥Question📥
🔸A sister asks:🔹
"A woman is married to a husband who does not pray, denies some of the rulings concerning fasting, zakāh, and dutifulness to parents, argues about the punishment of the grave, and on other issues takes his views from the internet.
She remained patient with him, and now she has been staying at her family's home for a year and has requested a divorce.
He then asked her to return to him and said that he would repent.
If she refuses to return to him, will she be sinful if he continues upon his actions, assuming that he truly will repent? And if her returning to him would be a cause for his sincere repentance not merely so that she returns to him?"
📤Answered by:📤
🎙Ash-Shaykh Abee
Abdirahman-Rashaad
Ibn Ahmad Ad-Dhalee'e ((حفظه الله))
If being reunited with him would truly be a reason for his sincere repentance, and not merely for the purpose of getting her to return, then among the signs of sincere repentance is that she sees him repent before she returns to him.
So, if he genuinely repents, regrets what has come from him, and she sees from him a sincere repentance before returning to him not that he merely pretends to repent until she returns and then abandons it then we advise her to return to him and help him upon repentance, and to be a means for his guidance.
If, after that, she sees him playing games, then she should leave him.
Likewise, if he is merely playing with this matter of repentance, and it is only a claim made to deceive her into returning to him, while there are no signs of genuine repentance, then it is not permissible for her to return to a man who does not pray, denies the punishment of the grave, and denies some of the issues and rulings related to fasting and zakāh.
These matters are disbelief (kufr).
The one who denies the rulings of the prayer, fasting, or zakāh, denies the punishment of the grave, and abandons the prayer this is disbelief, and it is not permissible for her to remain with him.
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