Salvation is moving from being a loser to being a winner...

Salvation is moving from being a loser to being a winner, and thus obtaining paradise in the end. And this salvation is accomplished by taking the concrete steps, provided by God, which insure that at the final judgement a human life will have more good deeds than bad when weighed in the balance.

Islam stresses that these steps are God's provision for human failure, so that while the immediate cause of salvation may be human actions, the possibility of that actions will lead to salvation comes from God's grace and mercy. 1.

Sin and its Remedies The Quran does not present a formal theory of sin ( krait's is the general quranic term), but recognizes a difference between faults ( dhanb ) and intentional sins ( ithm ) The Quran suggests that those who avoid intentional sins will find forgiveness in Allah (53:111), and also offers forgiveness to those who repent of such sins or infidelity.

Later Muslim theologians discussed extensively both the distinction between light ( sagha'dir ) and heavy ( kaba'ir ) sins, which acts belonged to each category, and how they could be remedied so as to avoid eternal punishment. One of the first divisions in Islam was the withdrawal of the Kharidjites, who insisted that not only shirk (making something or someone equal to God), but heavy sins rendered a person an infidel ( kafir ) and required repentance.

The Mutalizites also insisted that punishment for heavy sins on the last day could be avoided only through repentance. The controversy centered around the importance of personal deeds versus the importance of belief in both maintaining membership in the community, and in achieving paradise at the final judgement. The orthodox view, developed by the Murdji'ies , gave priority to belief for both membership in the community and attaining paradise.

They stressed that each person is responsible for his or her own sins, and that no person can pay the price for the sins of another. (4:111, 6:164) Yet they were equally forceful in asserting that God is merciful and forgiving, and that no one should despair because of their sin.

(12:87, 15:56, 39:53) A system of classification of sins then provided guidelines to specific remedies for sinful acts.[^13] In the orthodox view thoughts are not sins, or are the lightest of sins, unless they are put into action. They are not taken into account on the judgement day.