"Do you bid others to righteousness while you ignore your ownselves, although you keep reciting the book? Have you then no sense?" (Surah Al-Baqarah:44)
While this verse addressed the religious scholars of Jews of those times, in a larger sense it condemns all those who preach good deeds to others but do not practice what they preach, who ask others to have fear of Allah but show no such fear in their own behaviour. Ahadith (sayings of the Holy Prophet ﷺ) speak in detail of the dreadful punishments these people will have to face in the next life. The blessed Companion Hazrat Anas RAA has narrated that Rasool Allah SAW said that on the night of the Ascension (شبِ معراج) he passed by some people whose lips and tongues were being cut with scissors made of fire. When he asked Hazrat Jibra'il AS as to who they were he explained that they were certain preachers of the Ummah of Rasool Allah SAW who bade others to do good deeds but did not follow what they were preaching themselves. (Ibn Kathir)
According to a Hadith reported by Ibn Asakir certain people living in paradise will find some of their acquaintances in the fire of Hell, and ask them, "How is it that you are in hell, while we we have attained Paradise because of the good deeds you taught us?" Those in hell will reply, "We used to preach with our tongues, but never acted upon what we preached." (ibn Kathir)
From Ma'ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE
While this verse addressed the religious scholars of Jews of those times, in a larger sense it condemns all those who preach good deeds to others but do not practice what they preach, who ask others to have fear of Allah but show no such fear in their own behaviour. Ahadith (sayings of the Holy Prophet ﷺ) speak in detail of the dreadful punishments these people will have to face in the next life. The blessed Companion Hazrat Anas RAA has narrated that Rasool Allah SAW said that on the night of the Ascension (شبِ معراج) he passed by some people whose lips and tongues were being cut with scissors made of fire. When he asked Hazrat Jibra'il AS as to who they were he explained that they were certain preachers of the Ummah of Rasool Allah SAW who bade others to do good deeds but did not follow what they were preaching themselves. (Ibn Kathir)
According to a Hadith reported by Ibn Asakir certain people living in paradise will find some of their acquaintances in the fire of Hell, and ask them, "How is it that you are in hell, while we we have attained Paradise because of the good deeds you taught us?" Those in hell will reply, "We used to preach with our tongues, but never acted upon what we preached." (ibn Kathir)
From Ma'ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE
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