Additional clarification of the previous hadith.
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The questioner : Well, if a person entered Islam and sought forgiveness from Allah (Mighty and Majestic) for what he did in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and then he returned to his sin, where do we go with the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in which he says, in the long hadith: So this person became a Muslim, and then he sought forgiveness, but he returned to theft or to intoxicants or to such things. Allah has forgiven him, and then he sought forgiveness. Does he mean by this, and by the statement "and whoever does evil in Islam is taken to account for both the first and the last," that he died upon doing evil?
The Shaykh : It is not a condition.
The questioner : Please go ahead.
Al-Halabi : No, the hadith is not like that.
The Shaykh : How?
Al-Halabi : Read the hadith again.
The questioner :Sahih Muslim 120b This is a wording agreed upon as authentic.
Al-Halabi : Is this the wording of the hadith?Sahih Muslim 120b
The Shaykh : If he did evil in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance and did not turn away from his evil in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, your last question, my brother, does not go beyond reconciling the rule "Islam wipes out what came before it." That is a general rule, but this hadith specifies this rule by stating that if he does good in Islam, he is not held accountable for what he did in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. However, if after his Islam he does evil in Islam as he did evil in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, he is held accountable for two evils, whether in Islam or in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. And the hadith you mentioned regarding the servant who repents, that is also from the general texts, meaning those that come to mind as including the one who was a polytheist and became a Muslim, and including the one who was a Muslim from grandfather to father. Here, this hadith takes a particular detail from the details of the hadith of the servant you mentioned last, and gives us that if he was a polytheist and became a Muslim, and then did evil in his Islam as he did evil in his pre-Islamic age of ignorance, he is held accountable for both evils together. This is specification and generalization, and so on.
My servant committed a sin, and he knew that he has a Lord who forgives the sin, and ... from the sin, I have forgiven My servant.
أذنب عبدي ذنبا فعرف أنّ له ربّا يغفر الذّنب و ... عن الذّنب قد غفرت لعبديThe Shaykh : It is not a condition.
The questioner : Please go ahead.
Al-Halabi : No, the hadith is not like that.
And whoever does evil in Islam is taken to account for both the first and the last.
ومن أساء في الإسلام فقد أخذ بالأوّل و الآخرThe Shaykh : How?
Al-Halabi : Read the hadith again.
The questioner :
but he who committed evil (after having come within the fold of Islam) would be held responsible for his previous and later deeds.
ومن أساء في الإسلام أخذ بالأوّل و الآخرAl-Halabi : Is this the wording of the hadith?
but he who committed evil (after having come within the fold of Islam) would be held responsible for his previous and later deeds.
ومن أساء في الإسلام أخذ بالأوّل و الآخرThe Shaykh : If he did evil in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance and did not turn away from his evil in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, your last question, my brother, does not go beyond reconciling the rule "Islam wipes out what came before it." That is a general rule, but this hadith specifies this rule by stating that if he does good in Islam, he is not held accountable for what he did in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. However, if after his Islam he does evil in Islam as he did evil in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, he is held accountable for two evils, whether in Islam or in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. And the hadith you mentioned regarding the servant who repents, that is also from the general texts, meaning those that come to mind as including the one who was a polytheist and became a Muslim, and including the one who was a Muslim from grandfather to father. Here, this hadith takes a particular detail from the details of the hadith of the servant you mentioned last, and gives us that if he was a polytheist and became a Muslim, and then did evil in his Islam as he did evil in his pre-Islamic age of ignorance, he is held accountable for both evils together. This is specification and generalization, and so on.
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