The promise of Paradise is subject to the conditions being fulfilled and the obstacles being removed

The promise of Paradise is subject to the conditions being fulfilled and the obstacles being removed

I don't think that it's fair that some muslims can just mess around thier whole lives and then die in a certain way and still make to heaven. For example if you drown or are crushed  by a building then you are supposed to go to paridise. Lets say that someone memorized the 99 names of Allah and that person only prayed 1 or 2 prayers everyday. Is that person going to go to paridise? The prophet(saw) said that whoever commits the 99 names of Allah to memory is guarented paridise. Please commment.

 

Praise be to Allaah. 

According
to a saheeh hadeeth, “Allaah has ninety-nine names. Whoever counts them
will enter Paradise.” Counting them means memorizing them, understanding
their meanings, acting in accordance with their implications and calling
upon Allaah by them. Whoever does that and does not commit any major
sin, and upholds regular prayer, will have the hope of entering Paradise.
But the one who commits major sins has to repent, and he is still subject
to the will of Allaah – if Allaah wills He will forgive him and if He
wills He will punish him. But the person who dies by drowning or being
crushed by a falling building is a shaheed (martyr) if he is Muslim,
and there is the hope that all his evil deeds will be forgiven except
for debt. 

Shaykh
‘Abd al-Kareem al-Khudayr.

But
according to the most correct scholarly view the person who deliberately
neglects prayer altogether is a kaafir who has disbelieved in Allaah
Almighty, and his abode will be the Fire even if he was drowned or a
building collapsed on him.

The
proof for this is that the ahaadeeth which promise a specific reward
such as entering Paradise or being saved from Hell are subject to the
conditions being fulfilled and the obstacles being removed. One of the
obstacles to entering Paradise, for example, is neglecting prayer, and
one of the conditions for the reward of the shaheed who is killed in
battle is that his intention is to fight so that the word of Allaah
may be supreme, and so on.

We
also wish to point out to our brother that Muslim should not object
to the rulings of Allaah once they have been proven and their meanings
have been understood. If he finds something hard to understand, he should
question his own reasoning and understanding, not the texts of sharee’ah.

And Allaah is the
source of help.

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Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid