Engaged people informing each other about their past sins
Fatwa No: 121113

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Alsalamu Alikom.About 4 moths ago I got engaged.Few days after we got engaged, we wanted to meet up to discuss things about our past and confess to each other our mistakes. We exchanged words of regrets and anger at our own past. I used 2 be weak and experienced kisses, hugs and touches but nothing more has happened and I repented&stopped that from happening. I cut any contact with the person that led me to do so. I'm still a virgin Alhamdulilah. He, from his side had said that he is not a virgin. He had been practicing this sin for several months with one of his work colleagues. He said he also had stopped having sex a long time before he had met me and asked Allah for forgiveness. He had stopped any contact with that womn too. I was in a shock and felt very disappointed as I never expected to marry a non virgin. I really liked the guy and my family found him very respectable and he is from a good family too.After some time I decided that if he had genuinely repented & that Allah’s is most merciful & inshlah that He forgives him ,I still accepted him & thanked him for his honesty. This way maybe I will be forgiven too if I forgive him! 4months later, he confessed to me that he was still continuing to have sex with that girl weeks before he had met me & not months as he had told me. I felt very hurt for 2 things: that he lied& that he had sex with another woman& only few weeks before meeting me! I felt that this was a short period for him to be forgiven & for him to forget. He wanted to come clean & tell me everything about his past , although I wish he hadn’t told me! I don’t know if he will lie to me 1day,if I should forgive him & still accept him as a husb&! Now I feel like Allah has still not forgiven him & that he doesn’t deserve to be with me, although I cant imagine my life without him.Ihave been ignoring his phone calls&texts.My family is happy about the wedding, but do I marry him still? I want to do the right thing and please Allah! Help me please!

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