Is the respite granted to disbelievers in this world a mercy for them or a punishment?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, father, the questioner asks: Is the respite granted to disbelievers in this worldly life a mercy for them or a punishment?
Answer:
It is a luring of them into destruction[Ali 'Imran 3:178] Yes, this is a luring of them into destruction. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, father, the questioner asks: Is the respite granted to disbelievers in this worldly life a mercy for them or a punishment?
Answer:
It is a luring of them into destruction
And let not those who disbelieve ever think that [because] We extend their time [of enjoyment] it is better for them. We only extend it for them so that they may increase in sin
وَلَا يَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَنَّمَا نُمْلِي لَهُمْ خَيْرٌ لِّأَنفُسِهِمْ إِنَّمَا نُمْلِي لَهُمْ لِيَزْدَادُوا إِثْمًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1927- 4717] هل إمهال الكفار في الدنيا رحمة لهم أم عذاب؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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