{"id":11884,"date":"2015-11-16T04:50:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T04:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=11884"},"modified":"2015-11-16T04:50:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T04:50:42","slug":"hate-the-sin-not-the-sinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=11884","title":{"rendered":"Hate the Sin not the Sinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hazrat Abu Hurairah radiyallahu anhu narrates that Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam once said: \u201cThere were two men in the Bani Israeel who were close friends. One of them was a habitual sinner whilst the other exerted himself in acts of worship. The one exerting himself in worship would often see his friend involved in sin and would instruct him: \u201cRefrain from sin\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One day he found him engaged in some sin and thus again instructed him: \u201cRefrain from sin!\u201d so the sinner replied: \u201cLeave me to my Allah. Have you been appointed as a watchman over me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this the worshipper said: \u201cI swear by Allah, Allah will never forgive you and will never admit you into Jannat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then both passed away and were presented in front of the Lord of the worlds. Allah said to the one who strived hard in worship: \u201cDid you have any knowledge regarding me or do you have any control over what lies in my hands?\u201d Allah then said to the sinner: \u201cGo, enter into Jannat because of my mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding the worshipper Allah commanded: \u201cTake him into Jahannam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hazrat Abu Hurairah radiyallahu anhu, commenting on this hadith says: \u201cThat worshipper uttered such a statement which destroyed both his dunya as well as his aakhirat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abu Dawood, pg.329, vol.2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11885,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions\/11885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}