10 Causes That Remove Punishment For A Sin

Imam Ibn Taymiyyah
Majmoo` al-Fatawa 1:45, 7:487

Shaykh ul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
“The punishment for a sin committed by a believer is removed in ten ways

1. He repents to Allah (taubah), so Allah accepts his repentance, for the one who repents from sin is like the one who has no sin.

2. He seeks forgiveness from Allah (istighfar), so Allah forgives him.

3. He does good deeds that erase his sin for good deeds erase bad ones.

4. His believing brethren pray for him or seek forgiveness for his sins during his life or death.

5. Or they [ask Allah] to bestow on him as gift from the reward for their deeds, with which Allah benefits him.

6. His Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam, intercedes for him.

7. Allah tests him with trials in this world which expiate his sin.

8. Allah tests him in al-Barzakh (the intermediate life in the grave, between the death and the Day of Judgment) which expiates his sin.

9. Allah tests him in the various stages of the Day of Judgment which expiates his sins.

10. Or the Most Merciful of those who have mercy has mercy on him.

Whoever, then, is missed by these ten cannot blame anyone but himself.”

The Guard who found Islam

By Dan Ephron - NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Mar 30, 2009

Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks had been a guard at Guantanamo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation with detainee 590, a Moroccan also known as “the General.” This was early 2004, about halfway through Holdbrooks’s stint at Guantanamo with the 463rd Military Police Company. Until then, he’d spent most of his day shifts just doing his duty. He’d escort prisoners to interrogations or walk up and down the cellblock making sure they weren’t passing notes. But the midnight shifts were slow. “The only thing you really had to do was mop the center floor,” he says. So Holdbrooks began spending part of the night sitting cross-legged on the ground, talking to detainees through the metal mesh of their cell doors.

He developed a strong relationship with the General, whose real name is Ahmed Errachidi. Their late-night conversations led Holdbrooks to be more skeptical about the prison, he says, and made him think harder about his own life. Soon, Holdbrooks was ordering books on Arabic and Islam. During an evening talk with Errachidi in early 2004, the conversation turned to the shahada, the one-line statement of faith that marks the single requirement for converting to Islam (“There is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet”). Holdbrooks pushed a pen and an index card through the mesh, and asked Errachidi to write out the shahada in English and transliterated Arabic. He then uttered the words aloud and, there on the floor of Guantanamo’s Camp Delta, became a Muslim.

"it is He Who created from a single person, and made his mate of like nature in order that he might dwell with her – in love"

Quran 7:189

"اَللّٰهُمَّ أَنْتَ حَسَّنْتَ خَلْقِيْ فَحَسِّنْ خُلُقِيْ - O Allah, just as You have made my external features beautiful, make my character beautiful as well."

Ibn e Habban

Treatment of Women in the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad SAW

‘I command you to be kind to women.’ - [Sahih Bukhari]

‘None but a noble man treats women in an honorable manner. And none but an ignoble treats women disgracefully’ - [Sunan At-Tirmidhi]

‘The most perfect believers are the best in conduct and the best of you are those who are best to their wives.’ - [Musnad Ahmad]

‘The believer should not harbor hatred towards his wife. If he dislikes something in her, then surely he will be pleased with another quality in her.’ - [Sahih Muslim]

‘All activities of a man in which there is no mention of Allah are frivolity, except for four things: A man enjoying time with his wife, training his horse, walking between two purposeful goals, and teaching another man to swim.’  - [Sunan An-Nasai, Mu’jam At-Tabarani]

Treatment of Women in the Qur’an

“Live with them (women) on a footing of kindness and equity.” - [4:19]

“And for women are rights over men similar to those of men over women.” - [2:226]

“They (your wives) are a garment for you as you are a garment for them.” - [2:187]

“And from amongst His Signs is this: That He created for you mates from amongst yourselves, so that you may find serenity and tranquility in them. And He has put between you love and mercy. Indeed, in this are signs for those who reflect.” - [30:21]  

"Speak the truth – Al Qur’an 3:17
Speak straight – Al Qur’an 33:70
Speak justice – Al Qur’an 6:152
Speak kindly – Al Qur’an 2:83
Speak politely – Al Qur’an 17:53
Speak fairly – Al Qur’an 17:28
Speak gently – Al Qur’an 20:44
Speak graciously – Al Qur’an 17:23
Speak not in vain – Al Qur’an 23:3
Speak no lie – Al Qur’an 22:30"

The Holy Quran

"A woman needs to be maintained financially, spiritually, morally, and above all intellectually because women are creatures of sound, and men are creatures of sight, and above all you must know the art of a relationship, is based upon communication"

Imam Malik

"Don’t wait until you die to be brought to Masjid."

Islamic Quotes