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beleiver
Why did the Prophet pray every night for Allah to forgive his sins, the ones he committed in the past, his future sins, the sins that were public and the sins that were concealed?
All humans commit sin...
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sins of the prophets sounds like an oxymoron. The prophets might have made some mistakes in their life, but sins? No way.. I'm not sure they've ever had sins, otherwise Allah swt would have never chosen them and would never allow them to spread monotheism
In my opinion, the difference between a mistake and a sin is that both of them include doing, saying or acting wrong...but a sin is doing that deliberately (actively chosen to do so) and a mistake is doing that non deliberately, because you did not know, realize at that moment or somehow forgot that it was wrong.
Yes, even prophets are just humans and in an unguarded second, even the prophets can be tricked by shaytaan.
That is why they can make mistakes (in our eyes just small unsignificant mistakes, but in their eyes big mistakes because they strive to be the best...to give the best possible example). In no way they would deliberately choose to do wrong which would be sinning.