Guidance on the Issue of the Extinction of the Fire

Question:
Many questions have come in regarding the verification or the authenticity of what is attributed to the Shaykh al-Islam and his student Ibn al-Qayyim concerning the issue of the extinction of the Fire, and they are occupied with this issue, and they are asking for your guidance.

Answer:
Our guidance is to leave this issue alone; leave it and forget it, and do not joke about it, because there is no benefit in it. They are the enemies of the Shaykh al-Islam; they have taken this issue and are disparaging it, and it is a minor error, and praise be to Allah.
They have among their beliefs disbelief, shirk (associating partners with Allah), and bid'ah (religious innovations), and they do not look at what they have. They disparage the Shaykh al-Islam for a minor, slight error. They disparage him and spread it, because they have a passion; they are people of passion.
The eye of contentment is blind to every defect, just as the eye of the gap between the teeth reveals the flaws. This is passion. Yes. That is to say, when the Shaykh al-Islam erred in this issue, his explanations of all his virtues, all his merits, and his jihad are with them shirk, disbelief, and bid'ah, and they do not look at these matters.
But passion blinds, and who is there whose traits are all prescribed? It is enough for a man to be noble if his faults are counted, and it is enough for a woman to be noble if her faults are counted. Yes.