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Does the Possibility of Accidentally Falling Into Disbelief Need to be Considered?

Answered as per Hanafi Fiqh by Seekersguidance.org

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani 

Question:

If a person intended that if he had ever fallen into Kufr, he intends to repent from that, then after this, if he recalls something specific that he didn’t have in mind or he realized at a later stage that he was mistaken in understanding a certain matter. He didn’t have that in mind when repenting.

Answer:

Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah

I hope you’re doing well, insha’Allah.

This is mere misgivings. No technicality makes a Muslim a kafir.

Be grateful to your Merciful and Loving Lord, and don’t go into these things.

Your very concern is proof that you’re a believer. Never doubt that.

Learn your basics, act on them, without doing anything extra–and ignore doubts.

Rather: Strive to follow the Prophetic sunna to “Keep your tongue moist with the remembrance of Allah.” [Tirmidhi] In your walking, work, and rest. Engage your tongue, heart, and mind with the remembrance of Allah.

One way is to repeat the “lasting good deeds” the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) recommended: Subhana’l Llah; Alhamdu li’l Llah; la ilaha illa’l Llah; and Allahu Akbar.

These can be recited in order or individually. Stay constant on them, and you’ll find peace of heart and increasing presence with Allah.

And Allah alone gives success.

[Shaykh] Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Faraz Rabbani spent ten years studying with some of the leading scholars of recent times, first in Damascus and then in Amman, Jordan. His teachers include the foremost theologian of recent times in Damascus, the late Shaykh Adib al-Kallas (may Allah have mercy on him), as well as his student Shaykh Hassan al-Hindi, one of the leading Hanafi fuqaha of the present age. He returned to Canada in 2007, where he founded SeekersGuidance in order to meet the urgent need to spread Islamic knowledge–both online and on the ground–in a reliable, relevant, inspiring, and accessible manner. He is the author of Absolute Essentials of Islam: Faith, Prayer, and the Path of Salvation According to the Hanafi School (White Thread Press, 2004.) Since 2011, Shaykh Faraz has been named one of the 500 most influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center

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