Wednesday 21 June 2017

SURAH AL-BAQARAH: 285-286 - Part 8

It needs to be understood that this sentence "For him is what he has earned, and on him what he has incurred" means that initially one gets reward or punishment for what one does with one's own intention and volition. It is not contrary to later on earning reward or punishment for what was done without his direct intention. For example, several other verses of the Quran and many reports from ahadith say that if a person does something good which persuades others to act in a similar fashion, then the reward of that virtuous deed performed by the followers will keep reaching the original doer of the good deed for as long as the followers continue performing that good deed. In the same way, if a person sets up a new tradition of performing a sin, he will continue incurring the curse of that sin for as long as his followers keep engaging in that sin.

Similarly, narrations in Hadith prove that one can gift the reward of one's good deeds to any other person. It is clear that in all these situations, a person is receiving reward or punishment for acts done without his own intention and volition.

From Ma'ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi Rehmatullah Elaih

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