The author says: Whoever deviates from the path is perished. In another place, he said: He does not desire anything but good!

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: What is the meaning of the author’s statement here regarding the first type, the one who deviates from the path, that he is perished, while he also says that he does not desire anything but good?

Answer:
Yes, he desires good, but his path is a path of destruction. If you were walking on a clear road to a specific country and you went off the line or off the road onto a path where you do not know where it leads, you want to go, you want speed, you want to go well, you want speed, and you want, but the path you are traveling on is a path of destruction. It may lead you to a lion, to wild beasts, to thieves, to a land with no water, to deserts where you die. So it does not benefit you that you are intending [good], while others perish, they perish in the deserts. Yes.