Golden, Yet Concise - Good deeds wipe off Sins

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In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

The best Praises and Thanks deservedly belong to Allah SWA, the Lord of the entire Universe. He is the Most High and Praised shall He remain in all situations. He is the Possessor of great bounties and the Owner of unfathomable wisdom. We testify that there is no deity who deserves to be worshipped except Him and that Muhammad SAW is His Prophet and Messenger. May the Blessings, Peace and Salutations of Allah be upon the Noble Prophet SAW, his household, his companions, and his nation till the day when there shall be no shade except the shade of the Most Merciful. May Allah put us under His shade on the Day of Judgment. Aameen.

Alhamdu-liLlah, Allah has brought us this far, in our previous post we talked a lot about the admonishing of the Prophet SAW to Muadh RA in which he SAW begun with, “Fear Allah wherever you are…” we said a lot about it based on the explanations of Duktuur Shaykh Sulayman ar-Ruhayliyy may Allah’s Protection be upon him. In shaa Allah, in today’s post and subsequent discussions, we shall base our discussions on the second part of the admonishment, “and follow your bad deeds with good ones so they may wipe them off…” This brings us to our topic, ‘Good Deeds wipe off Sins’

The good deeds that are used to wipe away our sins are known as Kaffaara (Kaffaaraats plural)/expiations. Thus, whenever you come across the word kaffaara or kaffaraats, the one uttering it is referring to actions or good deeds that wipe away our sins. There are two types of good deeds that wipe away our sins. The first of them is known as Restricted Good deeds and the other is known, obviously, as Unrestricted Good deeds. In shaa Allah, the explanation for both types shall be made known as we progress in our discussions. May Allah Forgive us and Guide us.

When we mention restricted expiation, these are expiations that occur due to a reason. They are only performed or undertaken due to a certain action. Thus, whenever the reason for the expiation is found, the expiation itself must follow in order to remove that reason, which is the sin. Some of the scholars have viewed that these restricted expiations do not wipe of the sins of a person except that it is combined with Tawbah/repentance. Sincere Repentance.

From amongst the accurate statements of the scholars is that, expiations or actions that are performed as expiations for sins serve as protections before the sin occurs and they also remove the sins after they have occurred.

Examples of these expiations, as Shaykh al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah RA put it, is the expiations for the one who has sexual intercourse during the day in the month of Ramadan and then it becomes compulsory upon him to offer expiation for his sins in the form of freeing a slave and if he is unable to do so then he should fast for two months continuously and if he is unable to do so then he should feed sixty poor people. If he does this then it wipes away the sin which he has committed and it will be left with him making up for the day he committed the act. And the correct view of the scholars is that he has to pay or make up for the day he committed the sin.

Alhamdu-liLlah we shall end our discussion here and in shaa Allah in our next session we shall begin by looking at the aftermath of kaffaarah.

May Allah Forgive us our sins and Have mercy on us and our parents and the Muslims who are in their graves. May Allah bless our scholars and protect them for us and grant all of us Jannah. Let us all say a supplication for our brother Muhammad Amin who has contributed tremendously in this striving of ours. May Allah bless him abundantly. Aameen.

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