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Who Is Worse In The Eyes Of God
1. Intelligent maliciousness with periodic fits of repentence. Repentence here means doing something albeit very small to suppress the consequences of ones own maliciousness.
2. Innocent but extreme foolishness, embarrassing behaviour and forgetfulness.
Who is worse in the eyes of Allah
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Karamat Chaudary.
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Who Is Worse In The Eyes Of God
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Is the real distinction you are drawing between someone who knowingly does wrong and then manages the consequences, versus someone whose harmful behaviour comes mainly from foolishness or immaturity?
If so, I would think deliberate maliciousness is the more serious moral problem. Foolishness can certainly cause great harm, but knowingly exploiting or hurting someone is a different thing altogether. And if the “repentance” is only meant to contain the consequences, I am not sure I would call that repentance in the first place.
Hence, I suspect your question is rhetorical rather than a request for a simple ranking.
The Quran seems to make an important distinction between wrongdoing committed in jahālah foolishness/recklessness followed by genuine repentance (4:17), and a person who knowingly persists in what he is doing:
وَلَمْ يُصِرُّوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلُوا وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ
“…and they do not persist in what they have done while knowing.” (3:135)So if one person is genuinely foolish and immature, while the other knowingly acts with malice and then merely does enough to contain the consequences, I would find the latter morally more troubling from a Quranic perspective.
In fact, I am not sure that damage-control after deliberate malice is what the Quran means by tawbah at all. Tawbah implies turning away from the wrong, not simply neutralizing its consequences.
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