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The Ruling of Committing Suicide & not having Patience upon Trials

By

Shaykh,Allaama, Mufti Abdul Azeez bin Abdullaah Bin Baz

Translated by

Abbas Abu Yahya

Question:

If a person commits suicide due to the circumstances of life and what he experiences of hardships of livingand spending upon his family, would this mean that, that person will stay in Hell-fire?

The Shaykh -Rahimullaah- answered:

All praise be to Allaah, Sallatand Sallam be upon the Messenger of Allaah.

To proceed: Suicide is a great evil, and it is a sin from the major sins. It is not permissible for a

Muslim to commit Suicide.

AllaahAzza wa Jal- said:

And do not kill yourselves [or one another]. Indeed, Allah is to you ever Merciful. [ 4:29]

The Prophet -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallamsaid in an authentic hadeeth:

Whoever commits suicide using something then he will be punished using that thing on the Day of

Judgement.

What is obligatory upon a believer is that he forces himself to have patience and resilience if a catastrophe

befalls him and he endures difficulties in hisDunyaa matters. He should not be hasty in committing suicide,

rather he should be warned against that, and fear Allaah, and he should be patient and utilize the means to

keep away from committing suicide, and whoever fears Allaah then Allaah will make a way out for him.

If a person commits suicide then he risks the Anger of Allaah and His punishment, and that person is under

the Will of Allaah, this is because committing suicide is less than Shirk.

Allaah Subhanahusaid: Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, but He forgives

what is less than that for whom He wills.[4:48]

Therefore, whatever is less than Shirk then it is under the Will of Allaah, and committing suicide is less

then Shirk, likewise isZina (adultery & fornication), stealing and drinking alcohol. All of these things are

sins that are less than Shirk, and those who carry them out are under the Will of Allaah. If a person dies

while committing that sin then it is up to Allaah Subhanahu if He wants to forgive him due to righteous

actions and the Islaam which is with him, or if Allaah wants, He will punish him in the Hell-Fire according

to the amount of sins that he had committed.

Then after he is purified and cleared he will be taken out of the Fire, and according to theAhl-ul-Sunnah

wal-Jammahhe will not stay in the Hell-Fire for eternity. A sinner will not stay in the Fire for eternity, norwill a murderer, nor any other sinner, however if Allaah wants He will give him His punishment. Allaah

punishes whomsoever He wills in the Hell-Fire according to the amount of that persons sins, then Allaah

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takes him out of the Fire to a river, which is called, the river of life, and he is planted there just like a seed is

planted and grows on the sides of the banks of a torrential river. When that persons growth has been

completed, then Allaah enters him into Paradise due to his Islaam and hisEemaan upon which he dies. Only

the disbeliever will stay in the Fire for eternity, only the disbelieving Mushrikoon (polytheists) those

who disbelieve in Allaah and His Messenger, or those that belie Allaahs Messengers, or that reject

what Allaahs Messengers brought, or other things similar to these of disbelief.

As for the sinner, then according toAhl-ul-Sunnah wal-Jammah he will not stay in the Hell-Fire for eternity,

and this is in contrast to the position of the Khawarij and the Muatazilah.

Indeed groups from the Khawarij and Muatazilah and they are two misguided groupssay that a sinner

will stay in the Hell-Fire forever, if he enters it! And this is a grave mistake.

As for theAhl-ul-Sunnah wal-Jammah, and they are the Companions of the Prophet -sallAllaahu alayhi wasallam- and those who followed them in goodness, they say that the sinner does not stay in the Hell-Fire for

eternity as a long as he does not make something prohibited as permissible. However, if he dies knowing

that it is a sin, but the Shaytaan prompted him to commit the sin, then he does not stay in the Hell-Fire for

eternity, in fact he is under the Will of Allaah, if Allaah wants He will pardon him and enter him into

Paradise due to his Islaam andEemaan and if Allaah wants, He will punish him in the Hell-Fire according to

the amount of sin, then after he has been purified and cleared Allaah will take him out of the Hell-Fire to

Paradise.

There are many reoccurring Ahadeeth from the Messenger -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam- about this point,

namely that some people will enter the Fire due to their sins then Allaah will take them out of the Fire due to

the intercession of the intercessors, or with Allaahs mercy without anyones intercession, and all of this is

established from the Messenger of Allaah -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam.

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