How do we respond to those who cite the hadith of the card to argue that it is the scrolls that are weighed, not the deeds?

The questioner : Those who cited the hadith of the card, how do we respond to them?

The Shaykh : It is easy. The response to them is to say that this is either specific to the owner of the card, as we said regarding the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud, or it is said that some people's cards are weighed, but for the majority of people, it is their deeds. Yes.

The questioner : A question regarding the hadith of the card: Can we say in the hadith of the card that Allah the Exalted made the phrase a card?

The Shaykh : Yes, indeed. The apparent meaning of the hadith is the opposite of that. The apparent meaning of the hadith of the card is that the deed was not weighed, except by way of figurative interpretation, where we say that when the card was weighed and it contained "La ilaha illa Allah," it became as if the deed was weighed. But this negates the claim that it is the deed that is weighed. That is to say, if someone said that it is the scrolls of deeds that are weighed, but they become light or heavy according to the deeds contained in them, the matter returns to the fact that what is binding is the deed. However, the first view is more correct. Now, al-Bukhari has finished.