The Response to the Blessings Among the Disbelievers, Even Though Obedience Is the Cause of Blessings

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. You mentioned (may Allah preserve you) that obedience is the cause of blessings, and that sins are the cause of calamities. He asks: How do we respond to the blessings, comfortable living, and other matters that exist among the disbelievers?

Answer:
If blessings are accompanied by obedience, they are a good from Allah and assistance from Allah. If blessings are accompanied by sins and disbelief, they are a means of luring,

So when they forgot that by which they had been reminded, We opened to them the doors of every [good] thing until, when they rejoiced in that which they were given, We seized them suddenly, and they were [then] in despair.

فَلَمَّا نَسُوا مَا ذُكِّرُوا بِهِ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ أَبْوَابَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ حَتَّىٰ إِذَا فَرِحُوا بِمَا أُوتُوا أَخَذْنَاهُم بَغْتَةً فَإِذَا هُم مُّبْلِسُونَ

[Al-An'am 6:44]

, and in the other verse,

And if only the people of the cities had believed and feared Allah

وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْقُرَىٰ آمَنُوا وَاتَّقَوْا

[Al-A'raf 7:96]

We would have opened upon them blessings from the heaven and the earth

لَفَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِم بَرَكَاتٍ مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ

[Al-A'raf 7:96]

. So if blessings are accompanied by obedience, they are assistance from Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and if they are accompanied by sins, they are a means of luring. Yes.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 57 من 86 /شرح كتاب إغاثة اللهفان في مصائد الشيطان/غناء البغايا/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:07:24)

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