Repentance
[9:113]
IT DOES NOT behove the Prophet and those who have attained to faith to pray that they who ascribed divinity to aught beside God be forgiven [by Him] – even though they happened to be [their] near of kin – after it has been made clear unto them that those [dead sinners] are destined for the blazing fire.

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* v.113 : As is obvious from the sequence, this prohibition relates to the dead among such sinners – i.e., those who have died without repentance (Zamakhsharī, Rāzī) – and not to those who are still living: for “a prayer for forgiveness in respect of a living [sinner]...amounts to asking God that He grace him with His guidance...and this is permissible” (Manār XI, 60).