Continuation of the chapter: "Encouraging patience, especially for those afflicted in their person or wealth, and the virtue of affliction, illness, and fever, and what has been reported regarding those who have lost their sight" — Continuation of the explanation

The Shaykh : The sins that a person is afflicted with, even if this person feels that they are many, he should not despair of the mercy of Allah, for Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has bestowed a favor upon His servants by making for them righteous deeds and trials through which our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) expiates the sins of this person. So he says in this hadith: meaning that whatever affliction befalls a person, whether small or large, to the extent that he pricks himself with a thorn or gets pricked by a needle and says "Ouch," our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) considers this and records it for him as an expiation for one sin or many sins. And there is no doubt that this person, especially the Muslim in this life, is always afflicted, as we mentioned in previous hadiths from his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): So if the Muslim is afflicted with these misfortunes, they are expiations for his sins. From here, the impact of this verse is eased: because he will not be recompensed for every evil he has done, because these sins, as in these hadiths, are expiated by illnesses and calamities, because these sins are expiated by prayers, they are expiated by purity, the ablution, and the expiations are many and very many, and we have passed through, if Allah wills, many texts regarding that.