Ten ways to expiate your sins:
“If a believer falls into sin, it’s punishment can be avoided through ten ways:
1) By repenting and Allah accepting his repentance, for the one who repents from a sin is as the one who never sinned.
2) By seeking forgiveness (istighfār), thereby being forgiven.
3) By performing good deeds that would erase his sins, for indeed good deeds erase sins.
4) By his brothers supplicating for his sins to be forgiven, both while he is alive and after his death.
5) By his brothers gifting the reward of their deeds to him so that Allah may benefit him through them.
6) By his prophet Muhammad interceding for him.
7) By Allah putting him through trials in the life of this world that would expiate his sins.
8) By Allah putting him through trials in the barzakh and the blast (of the Trumpet) that would expiate his sins.
9) By Allah putting him through the trials and horrors of the Day of Resurrection, that which would expiate his sins.
10) By the Most Merciful of the merciful having mercy on him.
Whoever allows these ten pass him, then let him blame none but himself, as Allah said in a ḥadīth narrated by His Messenger:
‘O My servants, they are only your own deeds, I take them into account for you, and then give [their reward or punishment] back to you. So whoever finds good then let him praise Allah, and whoever finds other than that then let him blame none but himself.’ [Muslim (2577)]”
1) By repenting and Allah accepting his repentance, for the one who repents from a sin is as the one who never sinned.
2) By seeking forgiveness (istighfār), thereby being forgiven.
3) By performing good deeds that would erase his sins, for indeed good deeds erase sins.
4) By his brothers supplicating for his sins to be forgiven, both while he is alive and after his death.
5) By his brothers gifting the reward of their deeds to him so that Allah may benefit him through them.
6) By his prophet Muhammad interceding for him.
7) By Allah putting him through trials in the life of this world that would expiate his sins.
8) By Allah putting him through trials in the barzakh and the blast (of the Trumpet) that would expiate his sins.
9) By Allah putting him through the trials and horrors of the Day of Resurrection, that which would expiate his sins.
10) By the Most Merciful of the merciful having mercy on him.
Whoever allows these ten pass him, then let him blame none but himself, as Allah said in a ḥadīth narrated by His Messenger:
‘O My servants, they are only your own deeds, I take them into account for you, and then give [their reward or punishment] back to you. So whoever finds good then let him praise Allah, and whoever finds other than that then let him blame none but himself.’ [Muslim (2577)]”
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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