QUESTION: I have a question regarding my past sins. When I was 13 or 14, after puberty, I became distant from my deen and often swore oaths, mentioning Allah’s name while lying. Two years ago, I repented, alhamdulillah, and have returned to my deen. I’m now 17. Do I still need to expiate for these actions, or is sincere repentance enough?
QUESTION: I have a question regarding my past sins. When I was 13 or 14, after puberty, I became distant from my deen and often swore oaths, mentioning Allah’s name while lying. Two years ago, I repented, alhamdulillah, and have returned to my deen. I’m now 17. Do I still need to expiate for these actions, or is sincere repentance enough?
03Feb
ANSWER:
If you had reached the age of puberty then you must give expiation for broken oaths that you remember, providing that these oaths were about doing something in the future or not doing them. Oaths that were about the past can’t be expiated as in you made an oath that you did not take this or that while you were lying!
QUESTION: I have a question regarding my past sins. When I was 13 or 14, after puberty, I became distant from my deen and often swore oaths, mentioning Allah’s name while lying. Two years ago, I repented, alhamdulillah, and have returned to my deen. I’m now 17. Do I still need to expiate for these actions, or is sincere repentance enough?