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« (iʿtidhār) and seek repentance (tawba). He said: Any servant who sins and does not repent, [will find] that sin leading him on to another sin, which will cause him to forget the former sin. On the other hand, any servant who does a good 6 Tirmidhī, Nawādir al-uṣūl, vol. 4, p. 25–6; Ibn al-Jawzī, Ṣifat al-ṣafwa, p. 220; Iṣfahānī, Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ, vol. 8, p. 147. 7 Being miserly in relation to God may mean being reluctant to give of one’s time, energy, wealth, etc. to other than God and His remembrance, and this is the only acceptable form of miserliness. 8 That is, they are asking what good or bad deeds he has put in store for himself in the Hereafter. »