Q1413: What is your definition for repentance?

A: Repentance refers to regretting one's sins, performing the obligations one has not performed, repaying one's debts and doing good acts.

Q1414: will one's repentance be accepted if they commit a sin which deserves punishment, but they are not punished because no one has noticed them commit the sin?

A: In the case of those sins which are accounted as divine rights, it will not be necessary to refer to the judge if one commits them and no one notices them, and it is even unfavorable, and it will suffice if they repent and regret their sin; It is worth mentioning that revealing one's sins is in fact, propagation of evil and corrupt things and is a sin itself.

Q1415: Because of my being nervous and touchy, I sometimes quarreled with my father, and with regard to the emphasis put on children's respecting parents in Islam, are my sins forgivable?

A: God the Almighty would accept any repentance, and just as you regret and repent your sins and ask His forgiveness, there is hope that you are forgiven.

Q1416: What will happen to one's other-worldly punishment if they undergo the punishment of their sins and immoralities deservedly in this world as specified and determined by law?

A: If they repent the sins, they will not undergo any other-worldly punishment, and Allah the Almighty is more perfect and merciful than to punish a sinner twice for a sin.

Q1417: What is the criterion for distinguishing cardinal sins from lesser ones?

A: There are four ways to identify a cardinal sin:

1- Having been explicitly specified in traditions

2- Existence of explicit or implicit threat of punishment for those sins in the Holy Quran and traditions

3- Having been accounted even more mortal than a cardinal sin in traditions

4- Having been identified as a cardinal sin by Muslims and through their inferences made from Islam.