Know that the expiations were only prescribed to be a barrier between the servant and what he exposed himself to of calamities due to the transgressions he committed, whether he was commanded to do that act or forbade it. So if the avenger comes with the devastating calamity that this transgression requires, these deeds will be found to have covered him in the shadow of their wing, surrounded him, and become upon him. Paradise and protection, and the name Al-Ghaffar is the ruler of these expiations, but the affliction did not find an outlet, and the threat was not carried out due to the dominance of the authority of this work called expiation, and disbelief is concealment, and from it the sower is called infidel because he covers the seed in the ground and covers it with dirt. He referred to this, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, when he said regarding the adulterer that faith comes out of him. Until it becomes like a canopy over him, and when he quits, faith returns to hi