Golden, Yet Concise - Effects of Kaffarah

In the Name of Allah, the most Gracious and the most Merciful

The best of Praises and Thanks belongs to Allah, the Lord of all that has been created, all that is being created, all that will created and all that was not created were they to be created. He is the Most Merciful and His Mercy encompasses all. I testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad SAW is His servant and Messenger. May the Salutations, Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon the Messenger SAW, his household, his companions and the entire ummah until the day when there shall be no shade except the shade of the Owner of the Throne.

Alhamdu-liLlah, we have been blessed with another opportunity to learn from the scholars that Allah has blessed this ummah with. Righteous scholars who have dedicated their lives to the authentic teachings of the Prophet SAW. Amongst these righteous scholars are Shaykh al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah and Shaykh Sulayman ar-Ruhaylee, may Allah have mercy on and protect them respectively. Indeed, their (all righteous scholars of the sunnah) virtue is a very high one and their influence is very great. The virtue of a scholar as compared to that of a worshipper is like the virtue of the Prophet over the least of his companions, as narrated from the Prophet SAW. Thus, servants of Allah, let us pray for for our scholars. When we do that, we are doing ourselves good. This is because, even without our prayers, the inhabitants of the heavens and the earth will pray for them to the extent of an ant in its hole and the fish in the sea. I will use this opportunity to advise myself and my fellow siblings in Islam, especially those who make it a habit to revile and hit upon the weak points of righteous scholars of the sunnah, “Do not let the animals become better you. If they are praying for the scholars, why then are you reviling them. You who have been granted intellect.”

In shaa Allah, we shall look at the effects of Expiations(kaffarrah) in today’s session. Allah SWA out of His Immense Mercy granted us a way out of His wrath. A way out whenever we committed sins. And that is through good deeds that wipe off these sins we commit. As mentioned in our previous post, there are restricted expiations and unrestricted expiations. We want to, now, look at the some of the effects of these expiations. One of the effects of expiations is that they serve as deterrent before the sin. If a servant knows that when he has sexual intercourse during the day in the month of Ramadhan, he shall follow it up with a great expiation (i.e. fasting for two consecutive months…), he will definitely stay away from that sin.

It is obvious, servants of Allah, that when a person is fasting and is then prohibited from engaging in sexual intercourse, that is the time that he becomes more tempted to engage in such an act until he becomes weak. You will come across a man who will be with his wife the entire night in the month of Ramadhan and he will not go close to her but when he is fasting during the day, Shaytan will tempt him into such an act and he will fall into it. There was a seventy-year-old man who said to Shaykh Sulayman, “O Shaykh, by Allah, it has been 10 years and I have not had any sexual relation with my wife. In this year’s Ramadhan, whiles I was fasting, I fell into the act. Thus, Iblis is very eager to make man fall into this act and that is why there is a very stringent expiation for it to prevent us from falling into this kind of weakness. May Allah protect us.

In shaa Allah we shall look at the second effect of expiations in our next session. May Allah forgive us our sins and guide us into Jannah. May He protect our scholars, may He have Mercy on our parents. May Allah bless our brother Muhammad Amin who has helped a lot in this jihad. May Allah grant him a pious spouse and all of us.

As-salamu Alaykum wa Rahmatu-Llah wa Barakatuhu