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Question No. 3631 10 September 2026 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified Content level: Intermediate

توبه از کسب حرام و تاثیر آن بر نسل‌ها چگونه جبران می‌شود؟

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Dear questioner, Master Ali Saei
Tracking code: #Q-3631

Dear teacher, we have hadiths that say, “One who repents from sin is like one who has never sinned.”

If someone has raised children for many years on unlawful earnings and later repents, are they still like someone who has never sinned? Those unlawful earnings may have had an unconscious, negative effect that passes from generation to generation—and that effect may continue to circulate through the generations. How can this be made right? (Isn’t this like taking medicine after the patient has died?)
َّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ

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Sincere repentance and making amends for unlawful earnings purify a person. Any impurity in their children is their own responsibility; the parent has merely provided the means by which it may have been passed on. If someone has raised children for years on unlawful earnings and then repents, sincere repentance and making amends will purify them.

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural Center

If such a person sincerely repents and makes amends for what he earned unlawfully, he is purified. This is because, in the birth of human beings, he served only as a path and a gateway; their impurity belongs to their own nature. He merely enabled impure souls to pass through by making the gateway impure.

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