Forgiveness of Shirk and Other Sins; Threats and Divine Mercy
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- What is the key qualification to the ruling that shirk is not forgiven?
- How does the cited Ashʿarī position distinguish conceivability from occurrence?
- What is the principal objection to deriving one necessary punishment from divine wisdom?
- What distinguishes permitting a prohibited act from pardoning its penalty?
- What cannot be established simply from an offender not requesting pardon?
- What can fall within “mā dūna dhālik” in the cited verse?
- What is the correct implication of “li-man yashāʾ”?
- What disagreement about a non-shirk major sin is discussed?
- What objection is raised to restricting the verse’s pardon to repentance in every case?
- How can a general warning coexist with pardon for some persons?
- Why does a warning still require avoiding sin when pardon is possible?
- On what basis is the objection from “My word is not altered” answered?
- What is the primary guidance of “Do not despair of Allah’s mercy”?
- What technical distinction between waʿd and waʿīd is discussed?
- What does foreknowledge that a person will be pardoned not entail?
- What does “the possibility of punishment for a minor sin” mean?
- What qualification belongs to the possibility of pardon for a major sin?
- Which promise is linked to avoiding major sins in al-Nisāʾ 4:31?
- In one Muʿtazilī interpretation, punishment for minor sins is linked to what?
- What does “whoever does an atom’s weight of evil shall see it” directly establish?
- Why is “major sin” sometimes construed as unbelief in a particular argument?
- What answer is offered to the plural “al-kabāʾir” in the particular argument?
- What is the basic notion of takfīr of sins in this discussion?
- Which matters must be distinguished for a believing major sinner?
- What practical conclusion follows from the possibility of forgiveness?
- How should warnings of punishment and texts of forgiveness be read together?
- A person who repents of shirk and embraces Islam necessarily falls under the same ruling as someone who dies in shirk.
- Calling forgiveness of a non-shirk major sin possible does not mean every perpetrator is certainly pardoned.
- Accepting a valid qualification to a general warning necessarily means calling divine revelation false.
- A sin being minor does not by itself remove its religious prohibition.