QUESTION 2

QUESTION 2

The Holy Quran states that Allah punished Satan after a lot of worship, just because of the refusal of a prostration. Why Allah did not forgive him? Isn’t Allah the most merciful?

ANSWER

To answer the question, a few important points should be noted:

First, some people calculate their sins singly or according to the duration. For example, they say: “I committed this sin only once or ten times” or “The duration of my sin was one hour, why does it have such a heavy punishment?”

Allah does not calculate so. He sees the sin and its effects up to Doomsday and records all in doer’s deed book. Sūrah Yāsīn: verse 12: “…and We make a record of what they have sent ahead of them regarding their deeds and of what they have left behind, of the trace of their deeds…..”[1] 

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