Preserving Good Deeds and Their Variation in Righteous Action
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Question:
This questioner asks the Honorable Shaykh about the way to preserve good deeds, and whether good deeds vary in righteous action?
Answer:
The way to preserve good deeds is that when a Muslim performs a righteous deed, he hopes for its reward from Allah, has a good opinion of Allah that He will not let his reward be lost, and that nothing will enter into it to corrupt or invalidate it, such as shirk (associating partners with Allah) with Allah the Mighty and Majestic, or that he backbites people and invades their honor, or he curses. This causes his reward to vanish; the reward of his fasting vanishes, and it becomes merely hunger and thirst.Bulugh al-Maram 5:14. Yes.
This questioner asks the Honorable Shaykh about the way to preserve good deeds, and whether good deeds vary in righteous action?
Answer:
The way to preserve good deeds is that when a Muslim performs a righteous deed, he hopes for its reward from Allah, has a good opinion of Allah that He will not let his reward be lost, and that nothing will enter into it to corrupt or invalidate it, such as shirk (associating partners with Allah) with Allah the Mighty and Majestic, or that he backbites people and invades their honor, or he curses. This causes his reward to vanish; the reward of his fasting vanishes, and it becomes merely hunger and thirst.
Whoever does not give up forged speech and evil actions and does not abandon foolishness, Allah is not in need of his leaving food and drink
من لم يدع قول الزور والعمل به والجهل فليس لله حاجة في أن يدع طعامه وشرابه
Source
قناة «مؤسسة الدعوة الخيرية»، فتاوى على الهواء 25-12-1434هـ - الفوزان — youtube.com (54:44)
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