..10 METHODS BY WHICH THE PUNISHMENT FOR A SIN IS REMOVED..
1. You repent to Allah (taubah), so Allah accepts your repentance, for the one who repents from sin is like the one who has no sin.
1. You repent to Allah (taubah), so Allah accepts your repentance, for the one who repents from sin is like the one who has no sin.
2. You seeks forgiveness from Allah (istighfar), so Allah forgives you.
3. You do good deeds that erase your sin for good deeds erase bad ones.
4. Other believing brethren pray for you or seek forgiveness for your sins during your life or death.
5. Or they [ask Allah] to bestow on you a gift from the reward for their good deeds, with which Allah benefits you.
6. Prophet Muhammad (SalAllaahu Alaihi Wa'sallam), intercedes for you.
7. Allah tests you with trials in this world which expiate your sins.
8. Allah tests you in al-Barzakh (the intermediate life in the grave, between the death and the Day of Judgment) which expiates your sin.
9. Allah tests you in the various stages of the Day of Judgment which expiates your sins.
10. Or the Most Merciful of those who have mercy has mercy on you.
Whoever, then, is missed by these ten cannot blame anyone but themselves.
Whoever, then, is missed by these ten cannot blame anyone but themselves.
[Ibn Taymiyyah; Majmoo` al-Fatawa 1:45, 7:487]