Shadee Elmasry – Sins in Islam

Nobody should imagine that, oh, I have to

attain sinlessness

or else I haven't practiced Islam properly. That's

not practical. That's not right. The practical

approach is that we are a people who

fall into sins, but we repent right away.

And what we don't do is we don't

plan our sins.

We don't plan to commit sins and say,

I'm gonna repent later. That is a mockery

of religion. You always intend never to commit

sins.

But

when you fall into them, you repent right

away with humility,

and you never have this false approach that

in order for me to be doing Islam

properly, I must become a sinless person. We

hope that Allah preserves us from ever falling

into sin. That's possible.

Well, that you have another responsibility, which is

not to have arrogance. So I haven't fallen

into sins, but now you may become arrogant.

So every gift that Allah gives you is

actually a test.