The Ruling on One Who Dies Having Abandoned Prayer
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Question:
We have heard before that there are two types of eternal abode in the Fire. So, is the one who abandons prayer out of negligence and laziness, while he performs the other pillars, eternally abiding in the Fire according to the view that he is a disbeliever, or does his abode in the Fire have another meaning?
Answer:
It was mentioned in a previous chapter that there are two types of eternal abode: the eternal abode of the disbelievers, which has no end, and is indeed an eternal abode, as Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:167] He said regarding them: [Al-Ma'idah 5:37] He said regarding them: "Every time it goes out, it will be replaced with a new one." [An-Naba 78:30]
And the second type of eternal abode is one that has an end, and the abode of some of the people of transgression, such as the one who kills himself, and the one who kills in relation to the right of the fornicator. Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nisa 4:30] The intentional one, his recompense is Hell. It was said, may Allah forgive him and curse him, and He made for him a great punishment.
Glorified and Exalted is He, and[Al-Furqan 25:68-69] with us. And it came in the authentic hadiths that the one who kills himself will abide in the Fire. This abiding is not like the abiding of the disbelievers, but it is an abiding that has an end, if its owner died upon the oneness of Allah (tawhid), and did not consider fornication permissible, and did not consider killing permissible, but he knew that it is a crime, he knew that it is a sin, yet he proceeded with it for his reasons, so he decided on that. And so it is with the causes of sins, like fornication; he did not consider it permissible, but rather he acted upon his desire, and he knew that it is forbidden (haram). So this person does not abide in the Fire, rather he is with the Sunnah and the community, contrary to the Khawarij and the innovators. As for the people of the Sunnah, they say that his abiding has an end, and that even if he is punished and it is prolonged, he must exit from the Fire to Paradise, because he died upon the oneness of Allah, faith, and Islam, so he does not abide forever and ever, but he has an end to which he reaches and he exits from the Fire to Paradise, as the mass-transmitted (mutawatir) reports from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) are authentic regarding this. Yes.
We have heard before that there are two types of eternal abode in the Fire. So, is the one who abandons prayer out of negligence and laziness, while he performs the other pillars, eternally abiding in the Fire according to the view that he is a disbeliever, or does his abode in the Fire have another meaning?
Answer:
It was mentioned in a previous chapter that there are two types of eternal abode: the eternal abode of the disbelievers, which has no end, and is indeed an eternal abode, as Allah the Exalted said:
Thus will Allah show them their deeds as regrets upon them. And they are never to emerge from the Fire.
كَذَٰلِكَ يُرِيهِمُ اللَّهُ أَعْمَالَهُمْ حَسَرَاتٍ عَلَيْهِمْ وَمَا هُم بِخَارِجِينَ مِنَ النَّارِThey will wish to get out of the Fire, but never are they to emerge therefrom, and for them is an enduring punishment.
يُرِيدُونَ أَن يَخْرُجُوا مِنَ النَّارِ وَمَا هُم بِخَارِجِينَ مِنْهَا وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ مُّقِيمٌ"So taste [the penalty], and never will We increase you except in torment."
فَذُوقُوا فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَذَابًاAnd the second type of eternal abode is one that has an end, and the abode of some of the people of transgression, such as the one who kills himself, and the one who kills in relation to the right of the fornicator. Allah the Exalted said:
And whoever does
وَمَن يَفْعَلْGlorified and Exalted is He, and
(68) And those who do not invoke with Allah another deity or kill the soul which Allah has forbidden [to be killed], except by right, and do not commit unlawful sexual intercourse. And whoever should do that will meet a penalty. (69) Multiplied for him is the punishment on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein humiliated -
لَا يَدْعُونَ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا آخَرَ وَلَا يَقْتُلُونَ النَّفْسَ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَلَا يَزْنُونَ وَمَن يَفْعَلْ ذَٰلِكَ يَلْقَ أَثَامًا يُضَاعَفْ لَهُ الْعَذَابُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَيَخْلُدْ فِيهِ
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 219 حكم من مات تاركا للصلاة للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com
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