Compensation for sin

Hi Guys,

I was hoping someone can help me understand philosophically from an Islamic point of view the following scenario.

We all can agree it’s impossible for Allah to lie because it’s against his nature he is incapable of lying. From my understanding (please correct me if I am wrong) if a Muslim commits many sins and he says the minute before he dies with a sincere heart “There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet” that person is saved.

If this is so how can Allah cancel away all his sins without a demand for compensation? Allah’s integrity has been offended by a person’s sin, his integrity demands justice. Being a human being that person cannot compensate the damage that has been done because the eternal has been offended by someone who is finite. If a sacrifice of some kind has not been offered up to Allah for compensation then Allah would be lying to his own integrity.

I hope someone can help me out here

Hi Elm,

I understand what you’re saying; let me put it another way:

If I stole your watch then came back to my senses and said to you “brother Elm I’m sorry I stole your watch” would you still forgive me if I did not return your watch but only apologised? When we commit sin against Allah we offend his dignity in a manner of speaking we steal his dignity, his dignity would demand justice. I’m not saying Allah is not merciful; of course he is but he cannot lie to his own dignity at the same time.

Hence Jesus the second person of the holy Trinity Almighty God took flesh and dewlt among us and offered up his sacrafice to the Father in atonement for the sins of humanity thereby redemming us.

This sounds the most logical to me unless someone else can present to me a different view that would sound more logical...

That was the point of the sacrifice; offence was justified by punishment Jesus FREELY took upon himself for the remission of sins out of LOVE for us.

if a Muslim commits many sins and he says the minute before he dies with a sincere heart “There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet” that person is saved.

here u r talking about something called "good end", do u think any person deserve that kind of End?
it depend on what he lived in all his/her life, and (specially) the last moments or days in their life, cause deeds counted by ends. or like (all's well that ends well).. or maybe like in slang (he laughs best who laughs last)

Good End is something not controlled by ppl themselves, but only Allah choose who have the good end and who don't..
u can't live all ur life in sins then expect good end??
another thing, no one can know his end and how it will seem, he maybe a good man very good in his life, but at the end of his life he does something bad.. as the next Hadeeth explains:

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "By Him besides whom there is no god, one of you will act like the people of Paradise until between him and Paradise there remains but the distance of a cubit, when what is written overtakes him and he begins to act like the denizens of Hell and thus enters Hell.
And another amongst will act in the way of the denizens of Hell, until there remains between him and Hell a distance of a cubit, then what is written overtakes him and then he begins to act like the people of Paradise and enters Paradise." [Sahîh al-Bukhârî (3208) and Sahîh Muslim (2643)]

so, who would be able to prounce Shehada b4 his/her deah, then they must be very lucky, and having a great blessing from God, and who can't mention it, here one would feel worry.. it's not controlled as i mentioned b4