بسم
الله الرحمن
الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
How Sins will be
Destroyed according to the Quraan
by Irshad Mahmood - Director, Siraat-al-Mustaqeem Dawah Centre
This Question arose from
Christian’s thought. So first we need to understand the Bible
definition of Sins and Destruction of Sins.
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If I am not wrong, according to
Christian’s Thought, Sins exists in the world. BUT
if you believe in Jesus (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) same as do the Christians
then your sin
is destroyed, since the Jesus (Peace-Be-Upon-Him)
was Crucified to wash and destroy Christians sins
according to the Christian Believe.
Jesus
Christ was God in the flesh (John 1:1, 14).
When Jesus died on the cross, His death was an infinite
death because He
was God,
and therefore infinite and eternal. Jesus’ death was
sufficient to pay for all the sins that have ever been committed (2
Corinthians 5:21). All we must do is place our faith in
Him and our sins will be forgiven (John 3:16; Romans 10:9-10).
That is why Jesus had to die. His
death was the only way our sins could be forgiven.
Question: "Do Christians have to
keep asking for forgiveness for their sins?"
Answer:
Yes,
we should confess our sins to God as soon as we are aware that we have
sinned. However, we
do not always need to be asking God for forgiveness.
When a person places his faith in Jesus Christ for
salvation, all of his sins are forgiven.
That includes past, present and future, big or small. Believers do not have to
keep asking for forgiveness or repenting in order to have their sins
forgiven. Jesus
died to pay the penalty for all of our sins, and when they are
forgiven, they are all forgiven (Colossians 1:14; Acts 10:43). What we are to do is
confess our sins: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all
unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
Yes, Christians do sin (1 John 1:8),
but the Christian life is not to be identified by a life of sin. Believers are a new
creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). We
have the Holy Spirit in us producing good fruit (Galatians 5:22-23). A Christian life should be
a changed life. I
would have serious doubts about a person who claims to be a believer
yet lives a life that says otherwise. Christians are forgiven no
matter how many times they sin, but at the same
time Christians should live a progressively more holy life as they grow
closer to Christ.
Here the Question arises
that if the sins are destroyed then why are there so many Christians go
to the Jails. Even in Year 2004, in the news we came to know that Many
(not one and two) Christian Priests were charged on Adultery cases.
Also few years back, Mr. Bill Clinton (former President of the
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Yes, similar to the Christian
believe, the Sins will be destroyed and there will be no sins in the
Heaven, BUT
Allah (God) does not need any special act to destroy Sins, like
Crucifixion of
Jesus (Peace-Be-Upon-Him) to destroy the Sins etc. Several Times Origin
of Sins starts from Thought, which is Invisible.
It works so simple that when Allah says “Be! And it is”.
In the Heaven there
will be no Sins.
The Originator of the heavens
and the earth! When He decreeth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be! and it is.
For
further references, please see Al_Quraan_003:047, Al_Quraan_016:040,
Al_Quraan_019:035, Al_Quraan_036:082, Al_Quraan_040:068
In the
Heaven there will be no sins. Since Allah said that so we have to
believe on that.
On thrones decorated, Reclining
on them, facing one another. Round about them shall go youths never
altering in age, With goblets and ewers and a cup of pure drink; They
shall not be affected with headache thereby, nor shall they get
exhausted, And fruits such as they choose, And the flesh of fowl such
as they desire. And pure, beautiful ones, The like of the hidden
pearls: A reward for what they used to do. They will NOT hear therein vain or sinful
discourse, Except the word PEACE, PEACE.
Forgiveness:
And He it is Who
accepts repentance from His servants and forgives sins and He knows
what you do; (Al_Quraan_042.025)
If any of you did evil in
ignorance, and thereafter repented, and amend (his conduct), lo! He is
Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. (Al_Quraan_006.054)
(Asked Allah to
forgive you and never ever think to do the sin again, otherwise it will
be like a joke with Allah)