The ruling on declaring a specific person to be in the Fire
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, is it correct for the one who says that we do not declare a specific person to be in the Fire except for one to whom Allah and His Messenger have decreed it? Does this mean that if a Christian increases in disbelief, he cannot strive because he is in the Fire?
Answer:
Yes, because we do not know about his ending; we do not know what his end was. He may have believed before death; we do not know. But we treat him as a disbeliever: in terms of burial, in terms of inheritance, and in how we treat one who was upon disbelief, we treat him as a disbeliever in this world, in the matters of this world, and the rulings of this world. As for the matters of the Hereafter, we do not assert them; we refer them to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), because he may have repented and we do not know; he may have died upon repentance. Allah knows best., meaning that Islam is decreed for him at death, and may Allah protect us from that, or the opposite: Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2137Sahih (Darussalam). Deeds are by their endings, and we do not know the endings; only Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) knows them. As for the treatment in this world, in terms of burying him with the disbelievers, in terms of inheritance, and in terms of such and such, we apply the rulings of the disbelievers to him in the matters of this world. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, is it correct for the one who says that we do not declare a specific person to be in the Fire except for one to whom Allah and His Messenger have decreed it? Does this mean that if a Christian increases in disbelief, he cannot strive because he is in the Fire?
Answer:
Yes, because we do not know about his ending; we do not know what his end was. He may have believed before death; we do not know. But we treat him as a disbeliever: in terms of burial, in terms of inheritance, and in how we treat one who was upon disbelief, we treat him as a disbeliever in this world, in the matters of this world, and the rulings of this world. As for the matters of the Hereafter, we do not assert them; we refer them to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), because he may have repented and we do not know; he may have died upon repentance. Allah knows best.
One of you does not perform the deeds of the people of Paradise until there is only an arm's length between him and it, then the decree is left for him, so he performs the deeds of the people of the Fire and enters the Fire
إن أحدكم لا يعمل بعمل أهل الجنة حتى لا يكون بينه وبينها إلا ذراع، ثم يترك عليه الكتاب، فيعمل بعمل أهل النار فيدخل النارone of you will do deeds of the people of the Fire, until there is between him and it but a forearm span, then he is overcome by what is written for him, and he is sealed off with the deeds of the people of Paradise, so that he enters it
يعمل بعمل أهل النار حتى ما يكون بينه وبينها إلا ذراع ثم يسبق عليه الكتاب فيعمل بعمل أهل الجنة فيدخل الجنة
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