AN
EXCEPTION, NOT A RULE
One must
remember that the story that has been narrated above is an exception, not a
rule. It doesn’t mean that from now on all of us stop praying Salah, stop
fasting, stop paying Zakah, stop abstaining from sins, and start believing that
I will start giving relaxation to other people like the person in the story
above, and I will be forgiven on the Day of Judgment. This is not correct. What
happened in the above incident was a manifestation of Allah’s kindness, and
Allah’s kindness is not bound by rules and regulations. He can forgive whomever
He likes. But the general law for all of us is that we have to perform the
Faraiz (compulsory acts of worship), we have to abstain from sins, and then we
will have better chances of being forgiven. If a person doesn’t carry out the
compulsory acts of worship, doesn’t abstain from sins, and just assumes that he
will be forgiven by giving relaxation to other people, he is taking a big risk.
Who knows with what sincerity the other person had forgiven other people, and
that earned him great kindness from Allah Ta’alah, and he was forgiven by Allah
Ta’alah. But we can’t assume the same will happen to all of us, otherwise there
would have been no need to declare all these acts of worship compulsory, or to
declare all the sins Hara’am (unlawful).
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