Declaring the minor sins forgiven by avoiding the major sins
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, and the questioner says: Honorable scholars, if a person dies and… Yes. The questioner says: If a person dies and… what is the ruling?
Answer:
The ruling is left to Allah the Mighty and Majestic. If he has good deeds and he guards the obligatory acts, then Allah will expiate his secret sins,[An-Nisa 4:31]. So if he guards the obligatory acts—the five daily prayers from Friday to Friday, and Ramadan to Ramadan—they are an expiation for what is between them, provided he avoids major sins. And He the Exalted said: [Hud 11:114] So minor sins are expiated by avoiding major sins and by guarding the obligatory acts. Yes. And Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad.
Honorable Shaykh, and the questioner says: Honorable scholars, if a person dies and… Yes. The questioner says: If a person dies and… what is the ruling?
Answer:
The ruling is left to Allah the Mighty and Majestic. If he has good deeds and he guards the obligatory acts, then Allah will expiate his secret sins,
If you avoid the major sins which you are forbidden, We will remove from you your lesser sins
إِن تَجْتَنِبُوا كَبَائِرَ مَا تُنْهَوْنَ عَنْهُ نُكَفِّرْ عَنكُمْ سَيِّئَاتِكُمْAnd 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
شرح العقيدة السفارينية [ صالح الفوزان ]، فصل في أشراط الساعة وعلاماتها الدالة على اقترابها ومجيئها — islamhouse.com (1:19:54)
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