If You Wronged Someone then Ask them to Forgive You but They Say No I Will See you on the Day of Judgement
April 18, 2025 § Leave a comment
Shaikh ʿUthaimīn, Allaah have mercy on him, said, “This ḥadīth confirms judgement on the Day of Resurrection, that it is true and that every wronged person will be given his due right. But there is an issue here where if a person goes to someone he had oppressed in the past by backbiting him and slandering him or something of the sort, and then asks him to forgive him after he has repented to Allah and has become regretful and thus says to the person he wronged, ‘Forgive me, I was wrong, and I seek forgiveness from Allaah now and turn to Him in repentance, forgive me,’ and he apologises but the person who was wronged doesn’t accept it. So here we say that if Allaah sees that he is sincere in his repentance [/that his repentance is sound by having fulfilled its conditions] then Allaah will take on the responsibility of fulfilling the rights of that person who refused to forgive him.
The same goes for [matters related] to money. If you had an argument with someone and denied him some money of his which you had, then later you repented to Allaah and admitted it and went to him and said, ‘I denied you your right but now I repent to Allaah and am remorseful, [please] take your money,’ but he replies by saying, ‘Between me and you is the Day of Judgement,’ so here we say that if Allaah knows that your intention is true in your repentance, then He will take on the responsibility of the sin—i.e., He will satisfy the person you wronged. But you give the money away in charity on behalf of that wronged person so that you free yourself from the obligation you have to him.
For example, if you owed him 100 riyāls and you came to him after having become remorseful and having sought Allaah’s Forgiveness and asked him to take the hundred riyāls but he refused and said, ‘No, I want them from your good deeds on the Day of Judgement,’ then here we say that if Allaah sees that you are truthful in your intention then you will not be held as sinful and the sin is removed from you—but give the 100 in charity on his behalf so as to free yourself from it.
Sharḥ Riyāḍ aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn, 6/659-660.
How to Stop Sinning by Ibn al-Qayyim Explained by al-Badr – Part Two: Love
May 30, 2024 § 1 Comment
“Imām Ibn al-Qayyim said, ‘No. 2. Loving Allaah ﷻ. So a person leaves sinning against Him out of love for Him, because ‘A lover obeys his beloved.’ And this is because the best [kind of] abstention is the type carried out by someone doing it out of love, just like the best [kind of] obedience is the type done out of love—for there lies a huge chasm between the abstention of a lover and his obedience and that of someone who does so out of fear of the punishment.’
Explaining the above, al-Badr said, ‘The second incentive: the love of Allaah ﷻ. As He said, ‘… but the ˹true˺ believers love Allah even more.’ [2:165]
So when a servant keeps his heart busy with Allaah’s Love it diverts him from falling into things that anger Him ﷻ, since acts of disobedience and sins cause a servant to miss out on his share and portion of Allaah’s Love for him in proportion to the sins and mistakes he falls into. And because true love of Allaah requires and demands obeying His Orders and keeping away from what angers Him, as He said, ‘Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “If you ˹sincerely˺ love Allaah, then follow me, Allaah will love you and forgive your sins.’ [3:31]
And that is why it was said:
You disobey the Lord while feigning his Love
How preposterous, [utterly] unprecedented an analogy
If your love were true you would have obeyed Him
For indeed a lover submits to his beloved.’”
Bawāʿith al-Khalāṣ minadh-Dhunūb, pp. 10-11.
Al-Badr Explaining Ibn al-Qayyim’s Words on How to Stop Sinning – Part One
May 27, 2024 § Leave a comment
Imām Ibn al-Qayyim ﵀ said, “Chapter: Strengthening One’s Incentives to [Practise] the Dīn is Done Through a Number of Ways.
To hold Allaah ﷻ in such veneration—knowing that He is watching and listening—that it stops you from sinning. And whoever’s heart bears witness to His Greatness will find that it will not [then] obey him in that [sin] at all.”
Explaining the above, Al-Badr said:
“The first incentive to leave sins: Venerating Allaah and regarding Him to be too Great.
And that is where a person witnesses Allaah’s Majesty and Greatness in his heart, as He said, “They have not shown Allaah His proper reverence—when on the Day of Judgment the ˹whole˺ earth will be in His Grip, and the heavens will be rolled up in His Right Hand. Glorified and Exalted is He above what they associate ˹with Him˺!” [39:67] and He said, “What is the matter with you that you are not in awe of the Majesty of Allaah? When He truly created you in stages ˹of development˺?” [71:13-14]
Explaining the āyah, Ibn ʿAbbās ﵁ said, “What is the matter with you that you do not exalt/glorify Him as He ought to be?”
Al-Qurṭubī ﵀ said about, “وقارا”, ‘i.e., stage after stage until creation was completed … so whoever did this and had the ability to do so deserves that you exalt and glorify Him.’
The effect that witnessing Allaah’s Majesty and Greatness in one’s heart has on a person can be seen in what happened to the noble Companion, Jubair ibn Muṭʿim ﵁, when he heard some of the verses that were talking about Allaah’s Greatness, that He is the Creator, the Provider, and the One who governs all creation—this all led him ﵁ to enter Islām. He said, ‘I heard the Prophet reciting [Sūrah] aṭ-Ṭūr in Maghrib, when he got to the verse that said, ‘Or were they created by nothing, or are they ˹their own˺ creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? In fact, they have no certainty. Or do they possess the treasuries of your Lord, or are they in control ˹of everything˺?’ [52:35-37] ‘It was as if my heart were about to take flight.’ [Bukhārī] And in another wording, ‘And that was when belief was first planted in my heart.’ [Bukhārī]
So when a person’s soul whispers to him to commit a sin he should use his heart to witness Allaah’s Greatness and Power and Might/Omnipotence, and that He is privy to all actions and statements. So when a servant feels or perceives that in his heart then it is inevitable that he will refrain from committing sins, with Allaah’s Help.
Bishr ibn al-Ḥārith al-Ḥāfī said, ‘If the people pondered over Allaah’s Greatness they wouldn’t disobey Him’”
Bawāʿith al-Khalāṣ minadh-Dhunūb, pp. 7-9.
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