Ibnul Qayyim al-Jawziyyah رحمه الله تعالى said:
‘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 تعالى 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 سبحانه و تعالى 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 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 رحمه الله تعالى pg. 15]
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