Defining the Good Deed and the Rank

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His Eminence the Shaykh: What is the difference between a good deed (hasanah) and a rank (darajah)? Is the rank like the good deed, multiplied tenfold, or not?
The good deed is in the action, and the rank is in the reward.Allah the Exalted said:

And for all are degrees from what they have done

وَلِكُلٍّ دَرَجَاتٌ مِمَّا عَمِلُوا

[Al-Haqqah: 19] And He said:

Whoever comes [on the Day of Judgement] with a good deed will have ten times the like thereof [to his credit]

مَنْ جَاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُ عَشْرُ أَمْثَالِهَا

[Al-An'am: 160] So the good deed is a description of the action, and the rank is a description of the reward. In Paradise, there are one hundred ranks that Allah the Exalted has prepared for those who strive in His path.

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