What is the real concept of repentance from Imam’s viewpoint?

What is the real concept of repentance from Imam’s viewpoint?

According to Imam, one is unable to repent, for repentance is not merely the verbal expression, “I repent before Allah,” rather, contrition and the resolve to abandon one’s sin are also necessary. 

 

Such contrition and resolve are not to be obtained by one who has engaged in backbiting and lying for fifty or seventy years, whose beard has become white with sin and transgression.

 

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