The Ruling on Injustice and Its Types

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Question:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, the noble verses state that injustice is a cause for good being withheld from a person. May we touch upon this great meaning?

Answer:
Yes, the wrongdoers will not attain My covenant. The wrongdoer does not receive any good from Allah (Mighty and Majestic); rather, he receives the opposite of good, which is punishment, destruction, and ruin. This is the Sunnah of Allah regarding the wrongdoers.

And for how many a city did I prolong enjoyment while it was committing wrong. Then I seized it, and to Me is the [final] destination.

وَكَأَيِّن مِّن قَرْيَةٍ أَمْلَيْتُ لَهَا وَهِيَ ظَالِمَةٌ ثُمَّ أَخَذْتُهَا وَإِلَيَّ الْمَصِيرُ

[Al-Hajj 22:48]

So do not think that Allah

And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror].

وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ اللَّهَ غَافِلًا عَمَّا يَعْمَلُ الظَّالِمُونَ إِنَّمَا يُؤَخِّرُهُمْ لِيَوْمٍ تَشْخَصُ فِيهِ الْأَبْصَارُ

[Ibrahim 14:42]

The wrongdoer will never succeed. The wrongdoers will not attain My covenant. Oppression comes in types: oppression between the servant and his Lord, which is shirk (associating partners with Allah); oppression between the servant and people, which is encroaching upon their rights; and oppression between the servant and himself, which is disobedience. So oppression is of three types. The most severe is the oppression of shirk, and Allah does not forgive shirk except through repentance. Likewise, the rights of people are not forgiven by Allah unless their owners forgive them. As for the oppression of the servant to himself, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) forgives that. Yes.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 01 من 12/الحج في القرآن/وإذ ابتلى إبراهيم ربه/صالح الفوزان/الفقه/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (8:11)

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