each one of us has a slate to worry about we have sins and dirty laundry with allah which we wish
to have cleaned and allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has made within the fabric of this religion
already mechanisms for us to be able to clean the slate and for us to be able to purify ourselves
of our sins by expiation you see my dear brother my dear sister allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us
a general principle within the quran which is a principle that each of us should know
and recognize and be proud of and recognize the mercy of allah through this principle he said that
good deeds and righteous deeds end up wiping away evil deeds so the more good
you do within your life the less evil that you had you have to worry about
meaning if you were to have evil deeds and we all do we're all sinful slaves of allah subhanahu wa
allah we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to mitigate our sins and to expiate our sins
and to increase our righteousness we all have that so the more good you do the more of that evil will
be naturally expiated allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala told us that hasanat they get rid of good deeds
they end up getting rid of evil deeds among the ways to be expiated is very powerfully
defined by the prophet sallallahu alaihi and very profoundly when he said us the five daily prayers
and one ramadan i either worship therein of course to another ramadan all of these end up expiating
everything that happens to be in the middle so long as the major sins a person has avoided
so by praying five daily prayers a person's sins are forgiven whatever sins happened
to be in the middle by also praying jumu'ah a person's sin between the weak are also forgiven
by fasting the month of ramadan and observing the worship that a person has to observe within
ramadan a person sinned till the next ramadan are all forgiven as well so long as the person avoids
the major sins why so because major sins require that you turn to allah wa ta'ala and you repent to
allah and sincerely seek forgiveness from allah subhanahu wa ta'ala by ensuring that you left
the sin by ensuring that you have remorse for the sins by ensuring that you have an intention that
you will never ever go back to the sin by doing so before you die and before the day of judgment
and by doing so with sincerity and by doing through so recognizing that it's only allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala who can forgive your sin my dear brother my dear sister the prophet saws he
gave us an example in a beautiful hadith recorded by a number of the muhaddithin and narrated by
he said
what do you think about this if a person was to have a river in front of
their house which is a really big river meaning it's a deep one it's not like a
shallow one he goes within that and he takes a shower every single day
five times a day will there be any dirt that will be left on his body they obviously say
said no messenger of allah if a person is taking five showers daily there will be no dirt to worry
about so the prophet sallam said just like that is the matter of the prayers the five daily prayers
through this allah azzawajal ends up wiping away the sins
and all so the mistakes that a person may have made i ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to wipe up our slates clean and leave only goodness within there to allow us to do good
so that our slates are clean when we meet allah izzati and to also allow us to make
dhaba to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for those sins which require a special taubah sallallahu you