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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Repentance as Demolition and Reconstruction The Psychological and Social Impacts of Repentance Repentance with all its external consequences like giving up sin, performing what he had missed in the past, and not returning to it again, all these indicate an eternal psychological behaviour which starts to grow in man's self and which extends out in the form of behavioural correctness and upright human manners.

The repentant also finds, in Islamic Shari'ah, the encouragement towards repentance such as is found in the saying of the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.): “Indeed a man who commits sins enters Paradise, when he repents.” People asked him: O Messenger of Allah, how that could be?

He (s.a.w.) replied: “The sin will be before his eyes, and repenting from it, he will run away till he enters Paradise.” As the Almighty, Allah says: “Surely Allah loves those who turn to Him, and loves those who keep themselves pure.” (Holy Qur’an, 2:222) The Messenger of Allah, Muhammad (s.a.w.), says: “Whoever repents is Allah's beloved friend and the repentant from sin, has no sin.”[^1] And, also, says: “The expiation of a sin is regret.” [^2] Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) also says: “If a man sincerely repents, Allah will love him and then protect him.”[^3] These collections of Islamic texts; which are great in their content, open the doors of hope and return, before the deviated, criminal man, who inclines towards vices and deviations then commits crimes and sins, and who becomes accustomed to such kind of life, the life of deviation and crimes in order not to lose hope in himself or become despaired.

A criminal or a deviated one should realize, even for a while through conscience, that man who dissents against the tradition of this existence; a disobedient and mischievous, harmful being, understands that the society around him dislikes him and looks at him as rubbish of the society and a secretion of a dangerous sickness which poisons the life of mankind and which forms a danger against their security and peace. This concept leaves the sense of deficiency to grow.

Therefore, to open the door of repentance is more helpful for such a man and more beneficial, which returns confidence to him and which saves him against feeling that a society has pressure on him and dislikes him. Certainty, the society has an enormous psychological impact on the nerves of a criminal and a deviated one.