Part 78

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Hellfire - though it is shallow, his brain will still boil. But this view is uncertain, for it may be a ruling that is specific to Abu Taalib, because he supported the Prophet #%, Al-Qurtubee also based the said view on the saying of Allah 9:

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“And We shall set up balance of justice on the day of Resurrection, then none will be dealt unjustly in anything. And if there will be the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it, And Sufficient are We to take account,’U But this verse is general, with the disbelievers being excluded and exempted from its implications, The Messenger of Allah #% was asked about ‘Abdullah ibn Jad’aan; it was mentioned that he was generous to guests, that he joined ties of relations, that he freed slaves, and then it was asked, will that benefit him? The Prophet #¢ said, ’No, for indeed he never said on any day in time, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.” Allah 3 said:

“And We shall turn to whatever deeds they (disbelievers, polytheism, criminals, sinners) did, and We shall make such deeds as scattered floating particles of dust’?!

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“The parable of those who disbelieved in their works are as ashes, on which the wind blows furiously on a stormy day")

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“As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage ina desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water, until he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing; but he finds Allah % with him, Who will pay him his due (Hell). And Allah 8 is Swift in taking account’)

Al-Qurtubee and others have said, “He, whose good deeds outweigh his bad deeds by a single measurement of weight, enters Paradise. And he, whose bad deeds outweigh his good deeds by even a single measurement of weight, enters the Hellfire, unless Allah forgives (him). And he, whose good deeds and evil deeds are equal, is from the people of Al’ Aaraaf.” Something similar has been related from Ibn Mas’ood 4.

And that is attested to by the saying of Allah 36:

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small ant), but if there is any good (done), He doubles it, and gives from Him a great reward,"

Yet I do not know: Regarding he, whose good deeds outweigh his bad deeds by a single good or by many good deeds, does he enter Paradise and is he raised in rankings by virtue of all of his good deeds? So all his bad deeds that were in contrast to his good deeds are nullified and defeated. Or does he enter Paradise by virtue of the good deeds that remain for him, ie. the difference over his bad deeds? And in this sense, his good deeds (that were equal to the bad deeds, and not the additional amount) nullified his bad deeds,

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When Deeds Will Be Presented Before Allah 3%, When The Scrolls Will Be Scattered, And When The Lord % Calls His Slaves To The Accountability

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“Say (O Muhammad 8): “(Yes) verily, those of old, and those of later times. All will surely be gathered together for appointed

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“And truly you have come unto Us alone (without wealth, companions or any thing else) as We created you the first time. You have left behind you all that which We had bestowed on you. We see not with you your intercessors whom you claimed to be partners with Allah %. Now all relations between you and them have been cut off, and all you used to claim has vanished from you.)

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shall say to those who did set partners in worship with Us: “Stop at your place! You and your partners (whom you had worshipped in the worldly life). Then We shall separate them, and their (Allah's so-called) partners shall say: “It was not us you used to worship.” “So sufficient is Allah %% as a witness between us and you that we indeed knew nothing of your worship of us.” There! Every person will know (exactly) what he had earned before and they will be brought back to Allah %, their rightful Maula (Lord), and their invented false deities will vanish from them,"

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“And on the day when He will gather them (all) together (and say): “O you assembly of jinn! Many did you mislead of men,” And their Auliya (friends and helpers) amongst men will say: “Our Lord! We benefited one from the other, but now we have reached our appointed term which you did appoint for us.” He will say: “The Fire be your dwelling place, you will dwell therein forever, except as Allah 8% may will. Certainly your Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing,” And thus We do make the Zalimoon (polytheist and wrongdoers) Auliya (supporters and helpers) of one another (in committing crimes), because of that which they used to earn. O you assembly of jinn and mankind! “Did not there come to you Messengers from amongst you, reciting unto you My Verses and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours?” They will say: “We bear witness

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against ourselves.” It was the life of this world that deceived them. And they will bear witness against themselves that they were disbelievers. This is because your Lord would not destroy the (population of) towns for their wrongdoing (i.e. associating others in worship along with Allah %) while their people were unaware (so the Messengers were sent). For all there will be degrees (or ranks) according to what they did. And your Lord is not unaware of what they do,"") There are many other Verses that convey a similar meaning.

Abu Moosa Al-Ash’aree 4 related that the Messenger of Allah 2% said, “People will be presented three times ~ two presentations for argumentation and excuses; and one presentation for the scattering of the scrolls. Whosoever is given his book in his right, then his being called to account will be an easy taking of account, and he will enter Paradise. And whoever is given his book in his left, enters the Hellfire.” (Related by Abu Bakr ibn Abee Ad-Dunyaa)

In another narration, Abu Moosa Al-Ash’aree # related that the Messenger of Allah 2% said, “People will be presented three times on the Day of Resurrection — two times for argumentation and excuses; and as for the third, then the scrolls will fly to the hands ~ there will be he who takes with his right and he who takes with his left.” (Altmad)

Ibn Maajah related the same through a different chain. At-Tirmidhee related it from Abee Kuraib, from Wakee’, from ‘Alee ibn ‘Alee, from Al-Hasan, from Abu Hurairah 4s, What is strange is that AtTirmidhee then said, “This is not authentic because Al-Hasan did not directly hear from Abu Hurairah as.” However, Al-Bukhaaree related from Al-Hasan from Abu Hurairah #. And it is clearly mentioned in Musnad Ahmad that Al-Hasan did hear from Abu Hurairah -, and Allah knows best. Al-Baihaqee related the Hadeeih