[Q]: Will Allāh accept the repentance of the public sinner?
[A]: Allāh will undoubtedly accept repentance from all sins, regardless of whether that sin is public or private. Moreover, even the repentance of the disbeliever is accepted by Him:
قُل لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ إِن يَنتَهُوا۟ يُغْفَرْ لَهُم مَّا قَدْ سَلَفَ وَإِن يَعُودُوا۟ فَقَدْ مَضَتْ سُنَّتُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
“Say to those who have disbelieved, if they cease (from disbelief) their past will be forgiven. But if they return (thereto), then the examples of those (punished) before them have already preceded (as a warning).”
[Al-Anfāl…
Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al Fawzān—member of the Council of Major Scholars—refuted the contents of an article by Shaykh Muḥammad al-ʿArīfī disseminated by the ʿUkādh magazine, specifically regarding the first section entitled: “Salafī, Tablīghī, Ikhwānī: names that are not from Islām”. After praising Allāh, Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Fawzān said:
This title is vile. Its inception stems from a meeting that was held with several scholars of Islām in which they concluded that the names ‘Salafī’ and ‘Tablīghī’ are not from Islām. I found this claim to be quite astonishing, for the term ‘Salafī’ means to…
Shaykh1 Muḥammad Ilyās [leader of Jamāʿah al-Tablīgh] said:
“The methodology of the Tablīgh was given to me by inspiration, and the true interpretation of the [following verse] was instilled into my mind:
كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ
“You [true believers in Islamic Monotheism, and real followers of Prophet Muḥammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) and his Sunnah (legal ways, etc.)] are the best of people ever raised up for mankind; you enjoin al-Maʿrūf (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam has ordained)…
Allāh—the Most High— said:
فَأَمَّا مَنْ أَعْطَىٰ وَاتَّقَىٰ ﴿٥﴾ وَصَدَّقَ بِالْحُسْنَىٰ ﴿٦﴾ فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ
“As for him who gives and keeps his duty to Allāh and fears Him, and believes in Al-Ḥusná, we will make smooth for him the path of ease (goodness).”
(Al-Layl, 92:5-7)
These āyāt have completely encompassed happiness itself, and are inclusive of all the means towards its attainment. There are three matters mentioned here:
Enacting Allāh’s commands
Abstaining from His prohibitions
Attesting to the truth as related by Allāh and His Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم)…
There are several āyāt in the Qurʾān that mention everlasting punishment in the Fire as a recompense for the perpetration of misdeeds and major sins which are not themselves disbelief. For example, the statements of the Most High:
وَمَن يَقْتُلْ مُؤْمِنًا مُّتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَاؤُهُ جَهَنَّمُ خَالِدًا فِيهَا وَغَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَعَنَهُ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُ عَذَابًا عَظِيمًا
“And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell to abide therein, and the wrath and the curse of Allāh are upon him, and a great punishment is prepared for him.”
(Al-Nisāʾ, 4:93)
وَمَن يَعْصِ اللَّهَ و…
Imām Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī said:
The second matter I wished to discuss is that of greeting with the salām upon meeting one another. This is, unfortunately, an abandoned Sunnah. This is a practice still widely observed in Muslim countries—all praise is for Allāh—although in some places they have begun to show carelessness with regards to it such that a person meets his brother in Islām and wishes him a ‘good morning’ or ‘good afternoon’ but does not immediately greet him with the ṣalām. Then, in some of these places, if you extend the greeting of ṣalām to others they do not respond…
إِنَّمَا يَعْمُرُ مَسَاجِدَ اللَّهِ مَنْ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَأَقَامَ الصَّلَاةَ وَآتَى الزَّكَاةَ وَلَمْ يَخْشَ إِلَّا اللَّهَ ۖ فَعَسَىٰ أُولَٰئِكَ أَن يَكُونُوا مِنَ الْمُهْتَدِينَ
“The mosques of Allāh shall be maintained only by those who believe in Allāh and the Last Day; perform al-Ṣalāh, and give Zakāh and fear none but Allāh. It is they who are expected to be on true guidance.”
(Al-Tawbah, 9:18)
Imām Muḥammad Amīn al-Shanqīṭī explains:
‘Maintained’:
In the spiritual sense by engaging in Allāh’s worship, remembering Him therein.
In the physical sense by building an…
