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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is there a Fire that is for the people of disbelief, and a Fire for the people of tawhid (the oneness of Allah)?

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Question : The fourth research question: Is there a Fire for the people of kufur (disbelief) and a Fire for the people of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) who are punished in it and then come out?

Answer : Yes, some scholars have claimed that, saying that the Fire is two Fires: one for the people of kufur (disbelief) and one for the people of sins among the believers, and that there is a difference between them. But I do not know of any evidence for this, neither from the Qur'an nor from the Sunnah. What I know is that the Fire is one and does not differ, but its punishment differs. There is no doubt that it is not the same for the disobedient believers as it is for the disbelievers; without a doubt, it differs. And our saying that it is divided is based on our minds rejecting the idea that one Fire could have two different effects, because this rejection has no basis. First,
that Allah is over all things competentأَنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
[At-Talaq 65:12]
. And Allah the Exalted is able to make the one Fire a peace for one person and a punishment for another. Yes. And second, the conditions of the Hereafter are never measured by the conditions of this world, because of the great difference between them. So it is not permissible to measure the conditions of the Hereafter by the conditions of this world to deny what your mind cannot accommodate.
Rather, regarding the conditions of the Hereafter, you must submit, accept, and believe. Does not this sun approach the creatures by the distance of a mile on the Day of Resurrection? If the conditions of people on the Day of Resurrection were like their conditions in this world, it would have burned them. Because this sun is now at its peak; if it were to descend, even slightly, it would burn the earth, wiping it out completely. And we feel its heat now, even though there are great distances between us and it, and we feel its heat, especially in the days of summer when it is directly overhead. And yet, on the Day of Resurrection, it approaches the creatures by the distance of a mile, and they are not burned by it.
Likewise, on the Day of Resurrection, the people will be in one gathering. The believers will have light moving before them and to their right, while the disbelievers will be in darkness. But in this world, if a person next to you had light and there was light before him, would he benefit or not? He would benefit. In the Hereafter? No. In the Hereafter as well.
The sweat: people sweat, and the sweat differs greatly among them, and they are in one place. Some people's sweat reaches their ankles, and some reaches their knees. Get up and perform wudu' (the ablution for prayer), get up and perform wudu' (the ablution for prayer), because you slept. Some of them
some up to their. knees, Some up to the waist and some would have the bridle of perspirationمن يصل إلى كعبيه، ومنهم من يصل إلى ركبتيه، ومنهم من يصل إلى حقويه، ومنهم من يلجمه العرق
Sahih Muslim 2864
, and they are in one place. So the important thing is that it is not permissible for us to measure the conditions of the Hereafter by the conditions of this world, and then go and invent things that did not come in the Book and the Sunnah, such as dividing the Fire into what? Into two Fires: a Fire for the disobedient and a Fire for the disbelievers. What has reached us and what our knowledge has arrived at is that it is one Fire, but it differs, but it differs,
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 1460هل هناك نارانِ نارٌ لأهل الكُفر، ونارٌ لأهل التوحيد📔 الشرح الممتع على زاد المستقنع - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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