The Effect of Committing a Major Sin on Faith
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Does committing a major sin take a person out of the circle of faith and into the circle of Islam?
Answer:
Committing a major sin diminishes faith, provided it does not reach the level of shirk (associating partners with Allah). If it is less than shirk, it diminishes faith. This is the position of the people of the Sunnah and the community: that it diminishes faith. For this reason, they said that faith increases with obedience and decreases with disobedience.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Does committing a major sin take a person out of the circle of faith and into the circle of Islam?
Answer:
Committing a major sin diminishes faith, provided it does not reach the level of shirk (associating partners with Allah). If it is less than shirk, it diminishes faith. This is the position of the people of the Sunnah and the community: that it diminishes faith. For this reason, they said that faith increases with obedience and decreases with disobedience.
Source
مقدمة ابن أبي زيد القيرواني في العقيدة 06-01-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (1:05:56)
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