Refuting the Doubt That Abandoning Apparent Deeds Does Not Entail Declaring One a Disbeliever
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Question:
Some people say that one who abandons the total apparent deeds is not declared a disbeliever, and they insist on this by citing only the hadith of the one who did not do good and the hadith of the owner of the card. What is the response to this doubt?
Answer:
This is the method of the people of falsehood, because in the hadith there is one who abandons the hadiths and abandons the verses. The people of firmness in knowledge, the people of the firm, combine the evidence, combining the words of Allah and the words of His Messenger. So the witnesses are against them. Yes, but if he takes only the hadith of the card, or only the hadith of the one who did not do good, and leaves the other hadiths, this is misguidance. As for those in whose hearts is perversity, they follow what is ambiguous therein, and the ambiguous is referred to the Exalted. So we interpret the owner of the card and the one who did not do good as the one who came out of the Fire because he was not able to do the deeds; he spoke the testimony of faith and spoke "There is no god but Allah" from the heart and from faith, then he was killed or died and was not able to do the deeds. Or he was one to whom nothing of this religion had reached due to his distance from the lands of the Muslims, but he said "There is no god but Allah" sincerely, and did not do the deeds because he did not know the deeds; nothing of the deeds had reached him, it had not reached him. So we interpret this as applying to one who has an excuse. One who has an excuse for abandoning the deeds. As for the one who has no excuse for abandoning the deeds, who abandons them without an excuse, this one is not a believer. Therefore, from the verses and hadiths that indicate that faith must be accompanied by deeds.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Some people say that one who abandons the total apparent deeds is not declared a disbeliever, and they insist on this by citing only the hadith of the one who did not do good and the hadith of the owner of the card. What is the response to this doubt?
Answer:
This is the method of the people of falsehood, because in the hadith there is one who abandons the hadiths and abandons the verses. The people of firmness in knowledge, the people of the firm, combine the evidence, combining the words of Allah and the words of His Messenger. So the witnesses are against them. Yes, but if he takes only the hadith of the card, or only the hadith of the one who did not do good, and leaves the other hadiths, this is misguidance. As for those in whose hearts is perversity, they follow what is ambiguous therein, and the ambiguous is referred to the Exalted. So we interpret the owner of the card and the one who did not do good as the one who came out of the Fire because he was not able to do the deeds; he spoke the testimony of faith and spoke "There is no god but Allah" from the heart and from faith, then he was killed or died and was not able to do the deeds. Or he was one to whom nothing of this religion had reached due to his distance from the lands of the Muslims, but he said "There is no god but Allah" sincerely, and did not do the deeds because he did not know the deeds; nothing of the deeds had reached him, it had not reached him. So we interpret this as applying to one who has an excuse. One who has an excuse for abandoning the deeds. As for the one who has no excuse for abandoning the deeds, who abandons them without an excuse, this one is not a believer. Therefore, from the verses and hadiths that indicate that faith must be accompanied by deeds.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-071-عقيدة أهل السنة في الإيمان والتكفير|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:08:09)
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