Explaining which is greater in number among the children of Adam: the believers or the disbelievers, with evidence, and what is the wisdom behind dividing people into disbelievers and believers, with evidence.

The Shaykh : And here is a question: which is greater in number, the believers or the disbelievers? How? Reflect: which is greater among the children of Adam, the believers or the disbelievers? Reflect, reflect, my brothers. Yes, this one says the Muslims. So we have found someone who contradicts the consensus. Yes, the disbelievers, my brother, are greater. The disbelievers among the children of Adam are far greater. In the authentic hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), he said: All of them are in the Fire from the children of Adam except one. One by what? One by what? One out of a thousand. Which is greater, nine hundred and ninety-nine or one out of a thousand? Clearly the first. There is no doubt. Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) said in his *Nuniyyah*:
"O merchandise of the Most Merciful" meaning Paradise.
"O merchandise of the Most Merciful, it is not attained *** by more than one in a thousand, not two".
O Allah, make us among its people, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, make us among its people. O Allah, make us among its people.
When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) narrated this hadith, it was a great burden on the Companions, and they said: One out of a thousand is in Paradise and the rest are in the Fire. Which one are we? He said to them: . And this is the custom of the Prophet (may the prayers and peace of Allah be upon him) to meet a person with good news when they are afraid. And when the Muslims among the Companions were in battle or other than battle, he would say, "Be glad." And thus the Muslim should follow the path of optimism and good opinion of his Lord (Mighty and Majestic). And Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) is according to the opinion of His servant of Him. He said to them: . Gog and Magog are from the children of Adam, from the humans, but they are a corrupt people, corrupters on the earth. One from you and a thousand from them. So the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) rejoiced and their nature was calmed, and he said: . So the important thing, my brothers, is that among the wisdom is that creation is divided into disbeliever and believer. It is not among the wisdom that all of creation be believers. And listen to the saying of Allah (Mighty and Majestic): . And were it not for disbelief, faith would not be known. Is that not so? If all people were believers, faith would not be known, because a thing is not known except by its opposite. And were it not for fullness, yes. And were it not for hunger, fullness would not be known. And were it not for poverty, wealth would not be known. And were it not for ugliness, beauty would not be known. And were it not for deformity, beauty would not be known, and so on. So it is necessary that there be a believer and a disbeliever. Were it not for disbelief, jihad would not be established. Were it not for open sinfulness, enjoining good and forbidding evil would not be established. And so on. So the wisdom, all the wisdom, is that creation is what? A believer and a disbeliever. And the hypocrite in this phrase is included in the disbeliever.