Completion of the meaning of the hadith: (Whoever was in disbelief then embraced Islam and his Islam was good, what came before it of sins is wiped away)

The Shaykh : A man was a disbeliever and an associate of partners with Allah, and with his shirk (associating partners with Allah) his conduct was bad; he used to steal, he used to oppress, he used to drink intoxicants, and so on. Then he embraced Islam. Islam wipes away what came before it. However, this hadith serves as a specification for this phrase, for this general rule: So, the one who embraced Islam and was, for example, a thief, by his Islam it is as if he stopped from disbelief and stopped from stealing. So, he will be treated well in all the good deeds he does in his Islam, and he will not be held accountable for his sins in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. On the contrary, another man embraced Islam and was stealing, and with his Islam he continued to steal. So, based on the general rule that Islam wipes away what came before it, a person might imagine that he will not be held accountable for what he did in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance of stealing. But this hadith restricts this rule and says that this one who embraced Islam and did evil in Islam will be held accountable for this evil in his Islam and his evil in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance.