The Effects of Disobedience of Faith:
Disobedience is the opposite of obedience to Allaah, and the
term embraces both leaving a command and perpetrating that which is prohibited.
We have already learned that faith is slightly more than seventy branches, the highest
of which is the saving “None has the right to be worshipped but Allaah,” and
the lowest of which is removing something harmful from the path. So the
branches of faith are not of one level in terms of size and significance, and
the same can be said for disobedience. Some sins nullify faith itself, as in
the following verse:
“But
[Fir’awn (Pharaoh)] belied and disobeyed”[1]
Some sins are at a lower level: the perpetrator does not
exit from a state of faith, but his faith is definitely diminished by
committing those sins. When one commits a major sin, such as fornication,
drinking alcohol, or stealing, and when he at the same time doesn’t believe
that those actions…
You may finish reading it in lesson three “Happy Reading”
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