How to Make Up for Missed Good Deeds
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Question:
He says: I hope the Shaykh (may Allah preserve him) will guide me. I have been lax in my work for past years, and now that I have come to know the matters of the Shari'ah, I want to make up for it. How is that done, may you be rewarded?
Answer:
That is done by increasing in good deeds, along with repentance to Allah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Follow up a bad deed with a good one, and it will wipe it out.” Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said:[Hud 11:114] Yes.
He says: I hope the Shaykh (may Allah preserve him) will guide me. I have been lax in my work for past years, and now that I have come to know the matters of the Shari'ah, I want to make up for it. How is that done, may you be rewarded?
Answer:
That is done by increasing in good deeds, along with repentance to Allah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Follow up a bad deed with a good one, and it will wipe it out.” Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said:
And establish prayer at the two ends of the day and at the approach of the night. Indeed, good deeds do away with misdeeds
وَأَقِمِ الصَّلَاةَ طَرَفَيِ النَّهَارِ وَزُلَفًا مِّنَ اللَّيْلِ إِنَّ الْحَسَنَاتِ يُذْهِبْنَ السَّيِّئَاتِ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/211 — archive.org (9:39)
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