The Meaning of the Preceding of the Book and the Ruling on Cursing the Disbeliever

The questioner : What enters this Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) — what is its meaning? It is that some people do the deeds of the people of Paradise until there is nothing between them and it but so much and so much, then the Book precedes them and they enter the Fire. Or some people do the deeds of the people of the Fire until there is nothing between them and it but so much and so much, then the Book precedes them and they enter Paradise.

The Shaykh : Yes. It means that a transgression nullified his deed.

The questioner : Yes, indeed. And this person performs his worship in a way that he approves of.

The Shaykh : All of it is necessary, if we say that deeds in general have a corrupter of the deed in them. Yes.

The questioner : He mentions it by observation.

The Shaykh : Okay, let us look at it. Yes.

The questioner : We said that he lacked the greatest pillar, which is humility and servitude. It may be difficult in the narration of Abu Hurayrah where he said (peace and blessings be upon him): "A man who worships, a worshipper who veils this man." And the meaning of servitude is the humility of the slave. "The slave of the path" means humility.

The Shaykh : But he is a worshipper according to what appears and is shown, and it is not so. Because if apostasy occurred for him, what would be the cause of the nullification of the deed? Just this statement? The apostasy is what necessitated the nullification.

The questioner : For example, if a person calls another person. He called him a lot and this one was ignoring him. He said, "Perhaps Allah will guide us, perhaps Allah will guide us." And he got angry one day, meaning he said, "In this way, I do not think Allah will guide you."

The Shaykh : No, it is not permissible.

The questioner : This is it.

The Shaykh : No, "I do not think" is not a definitive statement. This is definitive. He said, "By Allah, He will not forgive so-and-so." He swore by Allah. But even so, it is not permissible to say "I do not think," because this is a suspicion that contains a type of bad opinion of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Yes. So he says, "We ask Allah." If you say "May Allah guide me," we say, "Yes, may Allah guide you. But what prevented you from guidance? Allah has shown you the path. Please proceed."

The questioner : I say that this man has forgiveness from Allah. And we took previously that the supplication to Allah, the Exalted, is a supplication of worship and a supplication of asking. If we say that Allah, the Exalted, responds to a person when he does one of the two: either the supplication of worship or the supplication of asking Allah, the Exalted.

The Shaykh : Yes, the supplication of worship: the response of Allah to the one who supplicates in it is that He accepts it from him and rewards him for it. And the supplication of asking: that Allah, the Exalted, responds to his supplication. It is not necessary that if He responds to his supplication, He gives him what he asked for. It is not necessary. Allah may give him what he asked for, or He may give him what is better than it, storing for him on the Day of Resurrection what is better than it or like it. Or He may avert from him an evil that is like it.

The questioner : The supplication of worship is a condition between them, and the supplication of asking.

The Shaykh : The supplication of worship: every act of worship is a supplication, because the worshipper's state of being says, "O Lord, accept from me and reward me." As for the supplication of asking, it is clear.