What if a Muslim Makes Promises and Oaths to Allah but Fails to Keep them?
if someone promises to Allah, that he will not commit such and such a sin, he did that, and he makes an unreal promise to Allah which he cannot keep, what should he do?
and if a student observes three fast in the name of Allah as an expiration for breaking an oath and if he hears from many that 10 poor people should be fed or clothed. If he also promises Allah that he will clothe or food give clothes or food to 10 poor people for all the promises he has made to Allah in his life which he could not keep, and he breaks his oath. now he has to give clothes of food to 10 poor people as expiration for breaking the same oath again.
if someone promises to Allah and does not keep that promise, what should he do?
here you have to make a differentiation between a promise to Allah and oath to Allah. there’s two difference, when you promise something it is you’re telling Allah okay I will do this I will do that that’s different, than taking an oath. if you take an oath it should have certain claws, like how Allah takes an oath of fig, Allah takes an oath of Asur, fajar, then of the mountains.
So when you take an oath you take oath of something, and take it oath is of different types. what Scholars say, that so promises something is that okay I promise that I will do something that I promise I’ll be good, I’ll promise I’ll be truthful that’s different I’m making a commitment to Allah but taking oath is different, and oath normally the prophet صَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ said, shaba always said there are many say said that the prophet discouraged us from taking Oaths.
Oath means you said that if I pass the examination, I will go for omrah, or if I pass the examination I’ll give charity of $1,000 to the poor people.
So this type of oath the prophet discouraged, it says that taking oath does not change taqdir, it only makes a miser person give in charity.
So when you’re taking an oath there are different types of, some Oaths which are good to take, some oath which are not good, to take some,
the oath that if you ask and you take an oath of Allah that if so and so thing happens I will do this sort of worship, it’s not encouraged, it’s not Haram, because you are putting a stipulation to Allah. that okay if I pass the examination I will pray 2 raqat nafl, I’ll go for omrah, that and if you do that act if you pass the examination it is as though you forced to do it, you’re not doing it out of your own free
