‘Indeed a slave commits a sin and enters Paradise through committing it and he performs a good deed and enters the Hellfire through performing it.’
It was asked ‘How is this (possible)?
Ibnul
Qayyim رحمه
الله
answered:
‘A sin is committed and thus does not cease to be
before his eyes (causing him to be) fearful of it, concerned about it
frightened and weeping due to his regret of doing it. Feeling ashamed due to
this action before his Lord The Most High, with his head lowered between his
hands, and his heart broken and despondent due to it.
Therefore that sin will be more beneficial to him than
numerous acts of obedience could be. As a consequence these previously
mentioned matters are the cause for this slave of Allaah’s happiness and
success until that sin will be a reason for him to enter Paradise.
A slave of Allaah performs a good deed and he continues
to view it as if he has performed a favour for his Lord and is egotistic due to
that good deed, and he is conceited, vain and arrogant due to the sin. So he
says I did such and such action (boasting) causing to him to inherit the
characteristic of pride, haughtiness and adopting an overbearing attitude.
This becomes the reason for his destruction.
Thus if Allaah سُبحانه
وتعالى intends good for the needy slave He trials him with something
in order to bring him down and to lower his neck in humiliation and to decrease
his importance to himself. However if Allaah سُبحانه
وتعالى
intended
for him (the slave) anything other than good He (Allaah) would have left him
alone and his vanity and pride and this is the deception which necessitates his
destruction.’
[Taken from: ‘al-Waabil as-Sayyib min Kalim at-Tayyib’ By Ibnul-Qayyim page
15]
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