The multiplication of sins in Makkah: Is it quantitative or qualitative?

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The questioner : Shaykh (may Allah preserve you): How are sins in Makkah? Are they multiplied to a thousand or a hundred thousand, like prayer?

The Shaykh : The multiplication in Makkah regarding sins is not a quantitative multiplication, but a qualitative one, meaning: the punishment is more severe and more painful. The evidence that it is not a quantitative multiplication is the saying of Allah the Exalted:

Whoever comes [on the Day of Judgement] with a good deed will have ten times the like thereof [to his credit], and whoever comes with an evil deed will not be recompensed except the like thereof; and they will not be wronged.

مَنْ جَاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُ عَشْرُ أَمْثَالِهَا وَمَنْ جَاءَ بِالسَّيِّئَةِ فَلا يُجْزَى إِلَّا مِثْلَهَا وَهُمْ لا يُظْلَمُونَ

[Al-An'am 6:160]

This verse is Makkan, because it is in Surat al-An'am, but as Allah the Exalted said:

We will make him taste of a painful punishment.

نُذِقْهُ مِنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ

[Al-Hajj 22:25]

meaning: the pain of the punishment in Makkah, or in committing a sin in Makkah, is more severe than the pain of the punishment if this sin is committed outside Makkah.

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