The state of one who relapsed after being guided and the effect of apostasy on deeds
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, I am a young man who has found the path of guidance, praise be to Allah, but the person through whom I was guided has relapsed. Whenever I remind him of Allah, he says to me, "I was the cause of your guidance, and I have a share of your reward, and that is enough for me." So what should I say to him, may Allah grant you success?
Answer:
First, a completion of the first question. Among the specific aspects of sending blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is the first tashahhud. Whoever wishes to look into the words of the scholars should refer to *Jala' al-Afham* by Ibn al-Qayyim, *Jala' al-Afham fi al-Salah wa al-Salam 'ala Khayr al-Anbiya* by Ibn al-Qayyim. As for the second question, which is that Allah guided you through a man who was upright, but then he abandoned uprightness, and when you advised him he said, "Allah guided you through me, that is enough for me," this is a fallacy. For a person, and may Allah protect us, if he commits apostasy, his deeds are invalidated. If a person commits apostasy, his deeds are invalidated and no deed remains for him. No reward for calling to Islam or anything else.
Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:217] [Yunus 10:27] So apostasy invalidates the deeds.
Unless he repents to Allah. The scholars have differed: if he repents to Allah, do the righteous deeds he performed before the apostasy return to him, or are they invalidated? There is disagreement among the scholars. This is if he repents. But if he persists in apostasy, no deed will benefit him, and he will be among the people of the Fire, abiding therein forever[Yunus 10:27]. Yes. If it is not rectified.
[Muhammad 47:25]. And He, the Blessed and Exalted, said: [An-Nisa 4:137], and other verses that indicate the invalidation of the deeds of the apostate, unless he repents to Allah, the Blessed and Exalted.
Honorable Shaykh, I am a young man who has found the path of guidance, praise be to Allah, but the person through whom I was guided has relapsed. Whenever I remind him of Allah, he says to me, "I was the cause of your guidance, and I have a share of your reward, and that is enough for me." So what should I say to him, may Allah grant you success?
Answer:
First, a completion of the first question. Among the specific aspects of sending blessings upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is the first tashahhud. Whoever wishes to look into the words of the scholars should refer to *Jala' al-Afham* by Ibn al-Qayyim, *Jala' al-Afham fi al-Salah wa al-Salam 'ala Khayr al-Anbiya* by Ibn al-Qayyim. As for the second question, which is that Allah guided you through a man who was upright, but then he abandoned uprightness, and when you advised him he said, "Allah guided you through me, that is enough for me," this is a fallacy. For a person, and may Allah protect us, if he commits apostasy, his deeds are invalidated. If a person commits apostasy, his deeds are invalidated and no deed remains for him. No reward for calling to Islam or anything else.
Allah the Exalted said:
And whoever of you reverts from his religion [to disbelief] and dies while he is a disbeliever - for those, their deeds have become worthless in this world and the Hereafter
وَمَن يَرْتَدِدْ مِنكُمْ عَن دِينِهِ فَيَمُتْ وَهُوَ كَافِرٌ فَأُولَٰئِكَ حَبِطَتْ أَعْمَالُهُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِThose are the companions of the Fire; they will abide therein eternally.
أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَUnless he repents to Allah. The scholars have differed: if he repents to Allah, do the righteous deeds he performed before the apostasy return to him, or are they invalidated? There is disagreement among the scholars. This is if he repents. But if he persists in apostasy, no deed will benefit him, and he will be among the people of the Fire, abiding therein forever
Those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide therein eternally.
أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَIndeed, those who reverted back [to disbelief] after guidance had become clear to them - Satan enticed them and prolonged hope for them.
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ ارْتَدُّوا عَلَىٰ أَدْبَارِهِم مِّن بَعْدِ مَا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الْهُدَى الشَّيْطَانُ سَوَّلَ لَهُمْ وَأَمْلَىٰ لَهُمْIndeed, those who have believed then disbelieved, then believed, then disbelieved, and then increased in disbelief - never will Allah forgive them, nor will He guide them to a way.
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ثُمَّ كَفَرُوا ثُمَّ آمَنُوا ثُمَّ كَفَرُوا ثُمَّ ازْدَادُوا كُفْرًا لَّمْ يَكُنِ اللَّهُ لِيَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ وَلَا لِيَهْدِيَهُمْ سَبِيلًا
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- أسئلة وأجوبة من دروس التوحيد - الفوزان - أسئلة وأجوبة - 04 — archive.org (8:47)
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