The fate of one who dies while severing family ties
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Question:
A questioner says: If a person dies while severing family ties, will he enter the Fire and remain in it forever?
Answer:
No one remains in it forever except through disbelief or shirk (associating partners with Allah). Severing family ties is a major sin among the major sins, but it does not entail disbelief.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
A questioner says: If a person dies while severing family ties, will he enter the Fire and remain in it forever?
Answer:
No one remains in it forever except through disbelief or shirk (associating partners with Allah). Severing family ties is a major sin among the major sins, but it does not entail disbelief.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب النهي عن الطلاق في الحيض وفي الطهر بعد أن يجامعها ما لم يبن حملها — islamhouse.com (1:04:17)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.